Terms of service
Last updated: July 2026
Important caveat
Essay Atelier provides writing assistance upon request — drafted text, outlines, and related written materials produced to your brief, in the same way a freelance writer or editorial service produces drafts for a client. We do not encourage, assist, or participate in breaking institutional, academic, or legal rules.
You alone decide how to use any output. You are responsible for complying with your institution's policies, applicable law, and any rules that govern your work. If those rules prohibit submitting third-party writing as your own, you must not do so.
1. Service
Essay Atelier is a bespoke consultation service. Against a brief you submit, each quoted consultation applies research, drafting, and editorial judgment to produce defined document output (for example outlines, essays, chapters, articles, or statements), delivered through your dashboard.
Delivery follows a consultation model: quotation → Foundation activation fee → Foundation review → two to five quoted consultations. Each consultation includes prepared incremental document output (the final consultation delivers the consolidated final output). Each consultation follows booking → delivery → your review. The next consultation becomes bookable only after you accept the previous output. We do not submit work to your institution, sit assessments for you, or guarantee any grade or academic outcome.
2. Nature of the deliverable
Output is commissioned writing supplied for your use as you see fit within the law and your applicable rules — typically as a draft, model, reference, or study aid. We provide a consultation service whose outputs include commissioned writing; we do not provide a service of circumventing rules, concealing authorship where disclosure is required, or guaranteeing undetectability.
3. Your responsibilities
You confirm that:
- you will use our output only in ways that comply with your institution's academic integrity and assessment policies, and with applicable law;
- you alone decide what to do with the draft — including whether and how to adapt, cite, or refrain from using it;
- you will provide accurate brief information (criteria, constraints, deadlines); and
- you will not ask us to forge documents, impersonate you in assessments, or otherwise engage in fraud.
By submitting a brief and accepting these terms, you acknowledge the caveat above. If you cannot use third-party drafts under your rules, do not commission work for a prohibited purpose.
4. Delivery and acceptance
The Foundation and each consultation output are accepted when you approve them in the dashboard (or as otherwise recorded). A request for included corrections keeps the next consultation locked while we prepare a replacement output. The commission is delivered when the final consultation output has been delivered and accepted.
Agreed delivery dates assume timely payments, prompt review, and a complete brief. Delays you cause may extend timelines.
Documents uploaded before quotation are included only when listed by filename and cryptographic hash in the quote contract manifest. Documents uploaded after quotation are evidence or instructions, but do not amend scope unless we expressly accept them as a recorded contract addendum. The dashboard identifies that status.
5. Revisions
One compliance revision is included if the delivered draft materially fails to meet the agreed brief and approved outline. Scope changes after outline approval may incur an additional fee, quoted before work continues. Dislike of a grade, examiner feedback, or academic outcome is not a compliance failure.
6. Fees and refunds
Prices are fixed quotations for defined consultations. Each consultation fee unlocks the corresponding tranche of work. Other than the fixed Foundation activation fee, a consultation becomes bookable only after you review and accept the preceding output.
- Full refund if we miss an agreed delivery deadline without an agreed extension, or if after the included compliance revision the draft still materially fails the agreed brief and approved outline.
- No refund for change of mind after outline work has begun; for academic results (pass, fail, or grade); or for use (or misuse) of the draft contrary to your institutional rules.
- Partial refunds for work already completed at earlier consultations are assessed against value delivered, where a refund is otherwise due under these terms.
7. Disputes and chargebacks
Contact us at info@essayatelier.net before opening a card or bank dispute. We keep dashboard records (status, uploads, correspondence, and payment markers) as evidence of delivery. Filing a chargeback without first seeking resolution may delay or limit further service on open commissions.
8. Confidentiality and privacy
We treat briefs and client identity as confidential. Personal data is processed in accordance with the UK GDPR and EU GDPR — see our Privacy Policy and Cookie policy.
9. Limitation of liability
Essay Atelier is not liable for academic outcomes, institutional discipline, or indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of commissioned drafts. Our aggregate liability for a commission is limited to the fees you paid for that commission.
10. Contact
Questions: info@essayatelier.net