Acceptable use of AI

1.What Biz is

Biz is an AI-powered study coach built into BizTeach. When you talk to Biz you are talking to a computer program powered by a large language model, not to a person and not to your teacher. This page explains that distinction; it is not a certification of compliance with the EU AI Act.

Biz is limited to the Leaving Certificate Business course. It explains topics, asks you questions to check understanding, walks you through the stages of the Business Alive Investigative Study, and gives feedback on work you wrote.

2.What Biz will and will not do

Biz will:

• explain a topic as many times as you need, in different ways and at the reading level you set;
• ask you questions and tell you what to revise;
• point you to the chapter and notes a topic belongs to;
• show where marks were earned and missed in an answer you wrote, using the published SEC marking scheme as a guide.

Biz will not:

Write your Investigative Study or any assessed work. Make your research decisions or draw your conclusions. Award you a grade or predict your result. Answer questions outside Leaving Cert Business. Pretend to be a person, or give medical, legal, financial or personal advice.

3.Academic integrity

Work you submit for assessment must be your own. The State Examinations Commission treats submitting work written by someone or something else as your own as a serious breach of its rules, and schools have their own policies too. Biz is designed to guide, not to ghostwrite: it will help you understand what a stage of Business Alive asks for and will pressure-test your ideas, but it will not produce the work for you.

Using Biz, or any AI, to generate assessed work and submit it as your own is a breach of our Terms of use and may lead to your account being closed.

4.Your responsibilities

• Check what Biz tells you. AI can be confidently wrong. Compare important points with your notes and ask your teacher if in doubt.
• Do not paste in other people's personal data, such as names, addresses or details about classmates, family or teachers.
• Do not try to make Biz act outside its purpose, break its rules, or produce harmful, hateful or explicit content.
• Use your own account. Where consent is required for an under-16 student's use of a feature, the applicable guardian approval must be in place. Follow the arrangements explained for your account.
• Tell us if something goes wrong. If Biz says something wrong, inappropriate or upsetting, report it (see below).

5.Our responsibilities

• Transparency: we tell you that Biz is AI, and this page explains how it works and what it cannot do.
• Human review: you can report an answer and ask for review. Authorised reviewers may need the reported question, reply and reason. Reviewer access, retention and the staffed escalation procedure still require confirmation; this is not continuous monitoring or an emergency response service.
• No advertising profiles or emotion recognition: study feedback and learning recommendations are separate from advertising or attempts to exploit a student's vulnerabilities.
• Training and retention: BizTeach does not train its own AI models on your work. The exact provider restrictions and service retention settings must be verified before making a broader no-training or zero-retention guarantee.
• Boundaries: Biz is built to decline off-topic, personal and unsafe requests, and to signpost support services if a student seems to be at risk. See our Safeguarding statement.
• Accuracy: we test Biz against the course and marking schemes and correct it when it gets things wrong. Its feedback remains study guidance, not an SEC grade.

6.Data and privacy

Relevant questions, pasted work, conversation context and learning material are processed through AWS model services to generate a reply. The active and fallback model configuration, processing locations and provider arrangements remain to be confirmed in the provider schedule. Text you paste may itself contain personal information, so do not include names, contact details or sensitive information about yourself or others.

Our Privacy notice explains consent where applicable, international processing, saved conversations, reported replies, backups and the retention periods still awaiting approval. Withdrawing consent for AI and requesting account erasure are separate actions. Biz's feedback is study guidance, not an official grade or a decision about access to education.

7.Teachers and schools

Biz is a study aid for students, not a marking tool for teachers. Its feedback is guidance for the student and should not be recorded as a grade. Schools can decide how, and whether, students use Biz alongside their own AI policies, and we will support any school that wants to talk it through.

8.Reporting a problem with an AI answer

If Biz gives an answer that is wrong, inappropriate or worrying, use the report control where available or email support@bizteach.ie. Share only the relevant reply and context; remove unnecessary personal information from screenshots. You can ask for human review, but do not rely on this channel for immediate safeguarding or emergency help. See our Safeguarding page for how to raise a safety concern.

9.Changes

We will update this page as Biz develops and as the AI Act's obligations come into force. The date at the top shows the latest version.