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IvyPanda Honor Code

Here at IvyPanda we undertake to operate our business according to applicable regulations and laws. The IvyPanda Honor Code provides guidelines for maintain trust and respect while using IvyPanda.com website. Every user and employee should always observe this Code.

Last updated: October 25, 2023

This Honor Code is designed to ensure that anyone using IvyPanda.com and signing up for its Services understands the implications of misuse and negligence and the necessity to follow ethical and academic standards when using the platform. For additional details, please refer to our Terms & Conditions. The Honor Code is a subset of these Terms & Conditions.

IvyPanda’s suite of Products and Services are designed to improve the educational outcomes and learning capabilities of students around the world. Their primary use is to provide guidance and serve as supplementary, but never the primary, sources of information on a particular topic, as well as showcase real-world examples, such as those in the Free Essays section. Misuse of our Products and Services constitutes an intolerable offence of this Honor Code and our Terms & Conditions.

Failure to comply with our rules and regulations will result in immediate account termination.

All of the policies, rules, and requirements under this Honor Code only apply to the parts of our website identified in the ‘Definitions’ section, under the term “Website” in our Terms & Conditions.

Student Integrity

Using the output of our Products and Services as direct academic aids or to cheat the academic system is strictly forbidden. You are not allowed to use any of the guidelines, samples, academic examples, homework help materials or any other content presented on this website or delivered as a product or service to cheat.

Some examples of such cases:

  • Submitting academic paper samples as your academic work

Academic Oversight

If you represent an academic institution that suspects its students of using our Products and Services inappropriately, we will cooperate with your investigation. However, such an investigation should be officially conducted, with all of the proper paperwork and the official inquiry coming from the institution’s management presented to IvyPanda.com. Please include any relevant information in the inquiry/ request. You can also mail Us directly at , , , , .

Academic Integrity

This Honor Code applies to IvyPanda.com employee, as well as third-party academic experts, who cooperate with IvyPanda.com to deliver various services and products offered by our platform. We cannot control the output of some of the services and tools at IvyPanda, so we rely on the integrity of third parties that we cooperate with.

They are responsible for maintaining this Honor Code and pledge not to violate it or facilitate its violation. Failure to maintain the Code will result in immediate termination of any professional relationship with these third parties, as well as termination of their account at IvyPanda.com, be that individuals or companies.

Their adherence to this Honor Code implies that:

  • They will not knowingly facilitate any forms of academic cheating
  • They will not assume the identity of a student by impersonating them to complete an academic assignment of any form
  • They will not commit plagiarism in order to deliver any of our products or services to users.
  • They will not facilitate or participate in activities that create circumstances for academic cheating in any form. Nor will they encourage such activities at any time.
  • They will not violate any corporate policies, or policies established by any higher education organization

IvyPanda.com fully complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and respects intellectual property (IP) in all of its shares and forms. We also have our internal Copyright Principles, which were designed to ensure that we diligently fulfill our copyright law compliance responsibilities.

Since we host a lot of user-generated content, we cannot control its DMCA compliance, but we are willing to accommodate any legitimate DMCA notices and takedown requests.

How it works:

  1. Notify IvyPanda of the violation via our DMCA request form or reach out to us with the details of the takedown request at [email protected]. Supply any specific evidence, with URLs of specific pages, where the violation takes place, as well as any other materials, such as screenshots.
  2. We will process your request within the next 2-3 business days.

If it is established that you are the legitimate copyright holder for the materials/ information, we will remove the content as soon as possible.