Terms of Service

1. Who may use Articlyst

You must be at least 13, or the minimum age of digital consent where you live if that is higher, and you must not be barred from using the service under applicable law.

If you are accepting these terms for an organisation, you are confirming that you can bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

2. Your account

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your credentials to yourself. Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access to it.

Give us an email address that reaches you. It is how we send password resets and how we would reach you about the service.

3. What the service does

Articlyst saves links you give it, fetches a readable copy of the article behind each one for you to read later, and tracks what you have read. It can also collect links from RSS feeds you subscribe to and, if you connect Gmail, from newsletters sent by senders you name.

The service is offered as it is and as it is available. We add, change and remove features, and we may impose reasonable limits — on how many pages we fetch, how large an article copy we store, or how often we poll a source — to keep the service running for everyone.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Articlyst to copy or redistribute material you have no right to copy, or to circumvent a paywall, licence or technical access control.
• Save or store material that is unlawful, or that infringes someone else’s intellectual property or privacy.
• Attempt to break, overload, probe or gain unauthorised access to the service or to anyone else’s account.
• Use the service to send unsolicited messages, or to scrape it in bulk with automated tools beyond the documented API.
• Resell, sublicense or present the service as your own.

5. Your content, and other people’s

Your links, notes, tags, ratings and the article copies saved to your account stay yours. You grant us only the licence we need to run the service for you: to fetch, store, process, index and display that material back to you, and to keep it in our backups.

Articlyst does not publish your library. Article copies are stored against your account and served only to you.

The articles themselves belong to whoever wrote and published them. Saving a copy for your own later reading does not transfer any rights in it, and you are responsible for having the right to make the copy you asked us to make. Nothing in these terms is legal advice about whether a particular copy is permitted where you live.

6. Copyright: notice and takedown

Articlyst stores material at the direction of its users. We respond to notices of claimed infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and to equivalent notices under other applicable law, and we remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice.

Send notices to our designated agent at dmca@articlyst.app, or by post to Articlyst (operating entity to be confirmed), [registered address to be confirmed], marked for the attention of the Copyright Agent.

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice must be a written communication that includes substantially all of the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, or of a person authorised to act for them.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if the notice covers several works at one site.
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and enough information to let us locate it — for a stored article copy, the exact source URL.
• Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the right allegedly infringed.

• dmca@articlyst.app

6.1 Misrepresentation, and counter-notification

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Do not send a notice about material you do not hold the rights to.

If we remove or disable material of yours in response to a notice, we will tell you and give you a copy of the notice. You may send a counter-notification, which must include your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared before removal, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, your name, address and telephone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address — or, if you are outside the United States, for any district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice.

On receiving a valid counter-notification we forward it to the complainant. Unless they tell us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days.

6.2 Repeat infringers

We maintain and act on a repeat-infringer policy, as § 512(i) requires.

• A valid notice that results in material being removed is recorded as a strike against the account that saved it. A notice we reject as invalid, and one you successfully counter-notify, are not.
• The first strike gets a warning. The second gets a warning and may suspend saving new links. On the third strike we terminate the account and delete its contents.
• We may terminate an account sooner, without waiting for a third strike, where the infringement is flagrant or where the account exists mainly to infringe.
• A terminated repeat infringer may not open a new account. Doing so is itself a breach of these terms.
• If you believe a strike was recorded in error, write to dmca@articlyst.app and we will review it.

7. Third-party services

Connecting Gmail, or signing in with Google, means your use of those services is also governed by Google’s own terms and privacy policy. We are not responsible for third-party services, for the sites we fetch on your behalf, or for what those sites do.

8. Ending the agreement

You can stop using Articlyst at any time, and you can delete your account from account settings on any platform. Deleting the account deletes your links, article copies, notes, subscriptions and connected integrations, permanently and immediately.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, that we are legally required to act on, or that creates a risk to the service or to other users. Where circumstances allow, we will give notice and a chance to put things right first.

Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12 survive the end of this agreement.

• How to delete your account

9. Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

We do not promise that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that an article will always be extractable, or that a stored copy will always be available. Articlyst is not a backup service or a system of record; keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising out of your use of the service.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or USD 100.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of these terms, from your misuse of the service, or from material you saved that you had no right to save.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by [governing law and venue to be confirmed], and disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, or of the right to bring proceedings there.

13. Changes to these terms

We update these terms as the service changes. The effective date at the top always reflects the current version, and we will give notice in the app or by email before a material change takes effect. Continuing to use Articlyst after that date means you accept the new version; if you do not, delete your account.

14. General

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the service. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision on one occasion is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it as part of a merger or sale of the business.

• Privacy Policy
• support@articlyst.app