Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of citekit.com, the CiteKit tools and content on the site, the CiteKit WordPress plugins, and the CiteKit web app (together, the “Service”), operated by CiteKit (writerspress). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

The Service

CiteKit provides free citation, bibliography, and citation schema generators, along with style guides and reference materials about citation. CiteKit also offers WordPress plugins — CiteKit Reference Manager and Cite This Article — each available as a free edition through the WordPress.org plugin directory and as a paid premium license, plus paid CiteKit web plans.

The free plugins distributed on WordPress.org are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL v2 or later). Your use of citekit.com, the premium plugin features, and any paid plan is governed by these Terms.

Accounts

Some features, including paid licenses and the affiliate program, require an account. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your details accurate and your credentials secure.

Acceptable use

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes. You agree not to:

• Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law.
• Interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to compromise the security of the Service.
• Use automated means (bots, scrapers, crawlers) in ways that exceed reasonable use or place undue load on our infrastructure.
• Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code of the Service except where permitted by law.
• Use the Service to generate or distribute spam, malware, or fraudulent content.
• Resell or commercially redistribute the Service or its output as a standalone product without our written permission.

Purchases, billing, and renewals

Paid licenses and web plans are sold and processed by our reseller, Freemius, which acts as the merchant of record and handles payment, invoicing, and applicable taxes. Paid plans are subscriptions that renew automatically at the then-current price unless you cancel before the renewal date. You can manage or cancel your subscription from your Freemius customer portal. We may change prices for future terms.

Refunds

Paid purchases are covered by our money-back guarantee. The refund window, what’s eligible, and how to request a refund are set out in our Refund Policy.

Affiliate program

If you take part in the CiteKit Affiliate Program, our Affiliate Program Terms also apply to that participation.

Citation output

You retain full ownership of any citations you generate using the Service. Use them freely in your work — academic papers, blog posts, books, websites, or anywhere else citations belong. We make no claim of authorship or copyright over generated citations.

Accuracy

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

We take reasonable care to ensure that generated citations conform to the formatting rules of the styles they target (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, and others), but citation styles are complex and evolve over time. You are responsible for verifying the accuracy of any citation you use in your own work. We don’t guarantee that generated citations are free of errors, conform to the requirements of any specific publication or institution, or meet the standards of any particular style guide edition.

Intellectual property

All content and software on the Service — including text, graphics, logos, the free tools, and the premium plugin code — is owned by CiteKit or our licensors and is protected by Canadian and international copyright and trademark laws. Apart from the citation output you generate, and except for the free plugins used under their GPL license, no part of the Service may be copied, modified, or used commercially without our prior written permission.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, CiteKit shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, the Service.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of these Terms or your use of the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100).

Changes

We may modify or discontinue the Service at any time, with or without notice. We may also revise these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date above reflects the most recent changes. Continued use of the Service after revisions constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. Any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service shall be resolved in the courts located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us through the CiteKit support page.