Terms of Service

    Last updated: May 7, 2026

    Kolly is an AI college essay tool. You paste a draft and Kolly tells you whether it will land. If it won't, it tells you why, paragraph by paragraph, until it does.

    Kolly is operated by Dotter, Inc. ("Dotter," "we," "us"). These Terms cover your use of kolly.ai and any related apps or APIs (the "Service"). For what we collect and why, see our Privacy Policy.

    1. Using Kolly

    You need to be at least 13 to use Kolly. If you are under 18, read these Terms with a parent or guardian.

    Don't use Kolly to do anything illegal, abuse other users, scrape our reference essays in bulk, or break our systems. We can suspend or close your account if you do.

    2. Your account

    Keep your login safe. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. If you think someone else got access, email founders@kolly.ai and we'll lock it.

    3. Subscriptions and billing

    Some of Kolly is free. Some is paid. The Application Season Pass is a one-time charge that covers six months of full access and does not auto-renew. The monthly plan renews each month until you cancel. Cancel from Settings. Cancelling the monthly plan stops the next renewal; access continues through the end of the current period. The Pass simply expires at the end of its six-month window.

    Refunds: if Kolly doesn't work as described in the first 7 days of a fresh paid period, email founders@kolly.ai and we'll refund you. After 7 days, paid time is non-refundable. We may change prices for new periods. If we do, you'll see the new price before your next renewal and can cancel.

    4. What you write stays yours

    Your essays are yours. We don't claim ownership of anything you paste into Kolly. We need a limited license to read, store, score, and display your work back to you so the product can run. When you delete an essay, we delete it from active storage. Backups may persist for up to 30 days before they roll off.

    We will not sell your essays or use them to train third-party models. Aggregated, de-identified usage data (counts, percentile distributions, error rates) may be used to improve Kolly itself.

    5. What we provide

    Scores are honest reads, not guarantees. A high Kolly percentile does not guarantee admission. A low percentile does not guarantee rejection. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We make no warranty that the score is correct, that the Service will be uninterrupted, or that any specific outcome will follow.

    Don't paste anything you wouldn't be willing to show a teacher. Don't paste medical, legal, or financial information you need to keep private. Kolly is built for college essays, not for regulated data.

    6. Acceptable use

    You agree not to:

    • Submit content that isn't yours, or that you don't have permission to submit.
    • Try to extract our reference essays, prompts, or model outputs in bulk.
    • Use Kolly to generate content for someone else's application without their knowledge.
    • Send malware, attempt to break Kolly's auth, scrape at a rate that affects other users, or otherwise abuse the Service.

    7. Termination

    You can close your account at any time from Settings. We can close an account that violates these Terms. If we close your account for cause, paid time is not refunded.

    8. Liability

    To the maximum extent allowed by law, Dotter is not liable for indirect damages, lost admissions, lost scholarship, or lost opportunity arising from your use of Kolly. Our total liability for any claim related to the Service is capped at what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

    9. Changes to these Terms

    We may update these Terms. If we do, we'll change the date at the top of this page and, for material changes, send a notice to your account email. Continued use after a change means you accept it.

    10. Governing law

    These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes go to the state or federal courts located in Loudoun County, Virginia.

    11. Privacy

    How we handle your data is covered in our Privacy Policy.

    12. Contact

    Questions or notices: founders@kolly.ai. Mail: Dotter, Inc., 42822 Songbird Ct, Ashburn, VA.