How does Viper use my essay/dissertation?

At ScanMyEssay.com, we're very transparent about how we run Viper.

What happens to your essay depends on if you perform a free or premium scan

When you scan your essay for free, we'll take your essay and add it to our database so that future scans that you or other people make can be compared to it. Nobody has access to this database, so if part of your essay matches another essay, other people cannot see your work - they only see a percentage match. Three months after your scan, we will automatically add your essay to our student database, where it will be published on one of our study sites to allow other students to use it as an example of how to write an essay. Most students don't mind helping other students by offering their work as an example - they're finished with the essay and it's of no value to them. Our free scanner is used by as many as 4,500 students every day with confidence.

When you scan your essay using a premium scan, your work will never be published on any of our study sites. You have complete control of your documents and can choose to delete them whenever you like.

Viper Free Plagiarism Checker

In exchange for free access to our scanner, we ask that you allow us to upload your essay onto one of our study sites so that other students may use it to help them write their own essays. We will not do this until 3 months after your scan. As you will already have submitted your work to your university, it's no longer of use to you - but you'll be really helping other students by allowing them to learn from your work as an example.

Free scans with Viper are packed with all the following benefits:

Will I be accused of plagiarism if my essay is found by my University?

No! Your essay doesn't get used for at least 3 months, which is a long time after your submission date.

Can Turnitin access the Viper Database?

No - nobody has access to our database except our engineers, and we won't ever allow it. We do not share data with any other plagiarism checkers, including Turnitin or WriteCheck.

What happens to my work?

Your work really helps other students to do better in their own studies. Your essay may be published on a site that allows students to search through thousands of essays, dissertations and pieces of coursework, looking for examples of how to write a good essay in their field. Your work will be added to this resource after at least 3 months have passed.

When we assess your essay as being particularly good, we sometimes allow students to access it from a range of other websites under strict guidelines. This is always at least 3 months after you scan your work. Examples include LawTeacher.net and UKDiss.com. These websites are all owned by a single company, Business Bliss Consultants FZE, which is a reputable, registered UAE company that offers student support services. On occasions, we may make access to such uploaded example essays subject to an access fee for the end user. We always maintain control over the publication of your work on those sites and can elect for it to be removed if necessary.

Do you have copyright to my work?

Absolutely not! Your work is still your own. You effectively give us a licence to use it in a particular way, which we have carefully outlined above. We don't have the right to do anything else with your work, and you will always own the copyright. Be very wary of other scanners and websites - when you upload work to them, you might be granting them an irrevocable licence to do whatever they want with that work. Read their terms! Some sites have a very wide licence which allows them to publish or resell your writing wherever they like, in any form they like, without giving any credit to you. We never remove author information from essays unless you want us to, as we don't 'edit' the essays you scan.

There are other free scanners that don't do this

Be cautious when using other scanners that claim to be "entirely free". Someone has to pay for the development costs, and that is often funded by taking the student's essay and doing something with it. This might happen as soon as you scan your work, meaning that if your University scans your work later, you'll be flagged for plagiarism.