Policies
The rules of Tillyard
Everything that governs this place. Each document shows its version and the day it took effect.
What you agree to when you join
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The master agreement between Tillyard and everyone who joins or uses it, covering who may join, what the service is, your content, The Record, conduct, safety actions, tips, liability and how disputes are resolved.
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How members are expected to treat each other and tell the truth in every part of Tillyard, with examples for each place and an outline of what can happen when a rule is broken.
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What Tillyard collects about members, visitors and other people, why, who can see it, how long it is kept, and the choices each person has.
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The technical and anti-abuse rules for using Tillyard, covering accounts, automation, scraping, member data, AI training, security, limits and capacity pauses, and what can happen when they are broken.
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An index of the questions people ask most about Tillyard, each with a short answer and the document and section where the full answer is written.
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The one list of words that have a set meaning across every Tillyard document, so that a member, a hold, a case, a record item and the rest mean the same thing wherever they appear.
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Who may be a member of Tillyard and why each rule exists, what the sign-up checks ask and keep, how a college email address is checked and re-checked, what happens at graduation, and what we do when an account turns out not to be eligible.
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What Tillyard screens, logs and keeps when members write to each other, when staff can read a conversation, what a report captures, and the limits on what is disclosed to anyone else.
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The exact wording of every box, button and standing line through which a person agrees to something on Tillyard, in one place, with the document each one points to and whether the product shows it yet.
If you publish, read, host or build
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What help from AI tools is allowed in a paper for Tillyard Research and how to declare it, what the writing desk records about drafting, what the editor may ask, and how decisions are made without any claim that AI-written text can be detected.
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The agreement between each author and Tillyard for a paper sent to Tillyard Research, under which the author keeps the copyright and gives a limited, non-exclusive licence to publish it.
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What Tillyard Research is, how a paper moves from submission to a decision, what the wording on a published paper means, and how corrections, retractions, Readers' Selection, misconduct, takedown requests and money are handled.
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For recruiters, hiring managers, admissions readers and anyone else checking a claim on a résumé, what a Tillyard record page says, exactly who confirmed it, how to check it, what it leaves out, and what you can ask of us.
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What hosting a scheduled table at Tillyard involves, what the Table Host title means and how it can lapse or be withdrawn, what hosts must not do, and the rule that anyone with a title, a perk or another tie to us says so when they post about us.
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Where each kind of item from Tillyard goes on a résumé and on LinkedIn, a truthful line for each, the words to avoid, how to keep the link or code beside the claim, and how to talk about it in an interview.
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One page for a person who is not a member and has been asked by a student to confirm something through a link, saying what they are asked, what is shown about them, what they agree to, and how to withdraw.
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The terms for registering a student organization's entry at Tillyard, confirming it, joining its roster and recording officer roles, including that an entry is a record of a real campus group and never a chapter of Tillyard, and how disputes, dormancy and closing work.
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The rules for projects and booths at Tillyard, covering who owns what a team makes, the narrow permission we need to display it, the ledger, how credit is confirmed and questioned, leaving a team, public project pages, words between collaborators, outside links, venture ideas and Help Wanted cards.
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What a member agrees to when they choose to read another member's unpublished paper for Tillyard Research, including that reading is voluntary and unrewarded, that the draft is confidential, and how to score it against the published rubric.
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A complete fill-in template for the official rules of any round in Pursuits, covering who may enter, free entry with no prize, the task, criteria, scoring by other entrants, anonymity, tie-breaks, conduct, own work and AI help, the licence to display entries, how results are worded on The Record, privacy, disputes and governing law.
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The terms for recording unpaid public-good service at Tillyard, covering what may be logged, that members arrange it themselves with a registered charity, a public body or an open project, that Tillyard only records what an outside party confirms, what an outside confirmer agrees to and how their details are used, advice limits, safety, international students, and how records are corrected or withdrawn.
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The agreement the people on a project accept among themselves before they take a seat at a booth, covering who owns what they make under one of two options, credit, decisions, leaving, unfinished work, money and disagreements.
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What each item on The Record states, who can approve or confirm it and in what words, how sharing, codes and lookups work, what each status means, and how a record is corrected, disputed or withdrawn.
How particular things are handled
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How to take a copy of your data from Tillyard and how to close your account, including the 14-day closing period, what is erased, what is left as a blank on public pages, what is kept and why, and what happens to shared work and to messages already sent.
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Tillyard is for adults only, never allows child sexual abuse material or the sexualization or solicitation of anyone under 18, and reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as the law requires.
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How to tell Tillyard that something on the site copies your work, what we do with a notice, how a member can answer one, and what members owe to other people's work.
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How long each kind of record at Tillyard is kept, what starts the clock, and what happens when the time is up.
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The one form anyone can use, with or without an account, to contest a payment, a record, a confirmation, a credit or a decision at Tillyard, what happens to each kind of dispute, and how corrections and withdrawn pages appear in public.
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Every kind of message Tillyard sends, which ones can be switched off and how, what our email never contains or asks for, and how to tell a genuine message from a forged one.
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How anyone, with or without an account, can ask Tillyard to remove an intimate image shared without consent, and what we do when a request arrives.
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How Tillyard handles demands for information about members from courts, law enforcement, lawyers, colleges, employers and anyone else, what kind of legal process each kind of information needs, and when we tell the member concerned.
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One screen that says who can ask Tillyard to remove an intimate image shared without consent, what a request needs, the three ways to send it, and that a valid request is acted on within 48 hours.
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How to report something at Tillyard, what a report captures and who learns of it, how holds and decisions work, what can happen to content, records and accounts, how the single appeal runs, and when anyone outside Tillyard may be told.
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How members, hosts, student organizations, the press and others may refer to Tillyard, how to describe a Record item truthfully, how college names and other people's names and marks are used here, and how to report misuse.
The site and the company
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The accessibility standard Tillyard builds to, how it is checked, what does not work well yet, and how to report a barrier or get something done another way.
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The few first-party cookies and browser storage items Tillyard uses, what each is for, how long it lasts and how to clear it.
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Telephone numbers and sites for someone who is in danger or distress, or who is worried about another person, with a statement that Tillyard is not an emergency or crisis service.
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A short explanation for a dean's office, a conduct office, a career centre, a registrar, campus counsel or campus police, saying that Tillyard is not affiliated with any college, how to raise a concern about a name or an organization entry, and what we share about a student.
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Who runs Tillyard, the nonprofit corporation behind it, where to send post, court papers, copyright notices and every other kind of message, the documents that govern the site, the notices owed to other people's software and marks, and the statement that the site is not affiliated with any college or other body.
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What Tillyard does to protect accounts, what members can do to protect their own, and how to report a security problem, including what testing is allowed, what is not, and what we commit to in return.
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Who may sponsor something at Tillyard and who may not, the one thing a sponsor receives, how sponsored things are labelled and disclosed, and how money of every kind is kept apart from decisions.
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The exact contents of the security contact file that Tillyard serves at /.well-known/security.txt, what each line means, and how the file is kept current.
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What a tip to Tillyard is, who receives it, how paying on Stripe's pages works, what we can see, how refunds and bank disputes are handled, and how larger tips are arranged in writing.
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How Tillyard differs from the things it is sometimes taken for, such as a school, an employer, an internship, a journal or a background check, with what is true in each case.
Common questions, and where the answer is written
- Who can join?
- Terms of Use, section 3
- What is a "recent graduate"?
- Eligibility and Verification Policy, section 6.3
- I am 17 and already in college. Can I join?
- Eligibility and Verification Policy, section 4.1
- What does it cost?
- Terms of Use, section 23.1
- What exactly do I agree to when I join?
- The Words on the Screen: Consent Register
- Do you check my age or my enrolment?
- Privacy Notice, section 5
- What happens when I graduate?
- Eligibility and Verification Policy, section 10
- How do I close my account?
- Account Deletion and Data Export Policy, section 5
- Can I take a copy of my data?
- Account Deletion and Data Export Policy, section 3.5
- Can I ask someone out?
- Community Guidelines, section 3.4
- Can I give or ask for a phone number?
- Community Guidelines, section 3.17
- Can I use an AI tool on my paper?
- AI-Use Policy, section 4
- Can I post an opening for paid work?
- Community Guidelines, section 3.14
- Can I ask members for money?
- Community Guidelines, section 3.13
- Can I have a second account?
- Terms of Use, section 3.6
- Someone is bothering me.
- Community Guidelines, section 6
- What happens if I break a rule?
- Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy, section 9
- Will you tell my college?
- Terms of Use, section 19.9
- Are my notes private?
- Messaging and Monitoring Notice, section 2
- Can staff read my notes?
- Messaging and Monitoring Notice, section 6.2
- Who else can get my messages?
- Terms of Use, section 17.9
- How long do you keep things?
- Data Retention Schedule
- What is public about me?
- Privacy Notice, section 6
- Do you sell my information or train AI on what I write?
- Terms of Use
- Are there cookies or trackers?
- Cookie and Storage Statement
- Does software decide what happens to my account?
- Privacy Notice, section 8
- What does a record page say?
- The Record and Verification Policy, section 2
- Where do I put this on a résumé?
- How to list this on a résumé, section 3
- Is the research library a scholarly journal?
- Editorial Policy of Tillyard Research, section 2
- Who owns my paper?
- Author Agreement and Licence, section 3
- Who owns what my team makes?
- Standard Team Agreement
- Do I have to read other people's work?
- Terms of Use, section 10.1
- What is hosting a table?
- Hosting Terms and Disclosure Policy, section 3
- I host tables. What must I say when I post about you?
- Hosting Terms and Disclosure Policy, section 16
- Something on a page about me is wrong.
- Disputes and Corrections Policy, section 2
- What is a tip?
- Tips and Larger Payments Terms, section 2
- Does a tip go to the student whose paper I read?
- Tips and Larger Payments Terms, section 2.3
- Does tipping help me?
- Tips and Larger Payments Terms, section 3
- Can I have a tip back?
- Tips and Larger Payments Terms, section 7
- Who are your sponsors?
- Sponsorship and Independence Policy
- I am a recruiter. How do I read a record?
- For employers: how to read a record
- A student asked me to confirm their volunteering.
- Notice for Outside Confirmers
- I work at a college. Are you connected with us?
- For colleges and campus offices
- An intimate image of me was shared here.
- Removing an Intimate Image: Short Notice
- My work was copied here.
- Copyright Policy, section 5
- I have a subpoena or a preservation request.
- Law Enforcement and Legal Requests Policy
- I found a security problem.
- Security and Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, section 7
- Someone is in danger.
- Crisis and help
- Need to send us something formal? See where to send what.
- What we hold, and for how long
- Reports and removals, in numbers