Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding legal agreement between you and Headlinne (operated as a sole proprietorship by Archit Khandelwal) (“Headlinne,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). They govern your access to and use of the Headlinne website, applications, APIs, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

By creating an account, accessing, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, each incorporated here by reference.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

These Terms contain a binding arbitration provision, a class-action waiver, a jury-trial waiver, and limitations on our liability. Please read Sections 21 and 23 carefully. They affect your legal rights, including how claims between us are resolved.

2. Who We Are

The Service is operated by Headlinne (operated as a sole proprietorship by Archit Khandelwal). You can reach us at akwwogr3@gmail.com.

Headlinne is an independent product. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any news organization, publisher, or wire service whose material may appear on or be referenced by the Service.

3. Eligibility and Age Requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. The Service is not directed to, and we do not knowingly permit use by, children under 13.

If you are between 13 and 18 (or the age of legal majority where you live), you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to be bound by these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the Service.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information and terminate the account. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us information, contact us at akwwogr3@gmail.com and we will act promptly. See our Privacy Policy for details.

4. Your Account

Some features require an account. You may register with an email address and password, or through a third-party sign-in provider such as Google. If you sign in through a third party, that provider’s terms and privacy policy also apply to that sign-in.

You may close your account at any time by emailing akwwogr3@gmail.com. We will delete or anonymize your account data as described in the Privacy Policy.

5. What the Service Does

Headlinne aggregates news from third-party sources and applies automated and AI systems to organize, summarize, analyze, and personalize it. Features currently include or may include:

• A personalized, swipeable news feed and topic-based feeds
• AI-generated summaries, “Why It Matters” insights, topic tags, sentiment, and reading-difficulty estimates
• AI-generated political-bias categorizations and confidence scores
• A reading view that may display material retrieved from the original source
• AI Search, which answers questions using both Headlinne’s article corpus and live web search results
• Dive Deeper, an AI research feature that produces multi-source, cited research reports and visualizations
• Shareable article links, saved and read history, and engagement milestones
• Learn, our educational article library
• Sponsored placements, clearly labeled as such
• Organization “Enterprise” workspaces for business customers
• Ambassador and referral programs

Certain features are subject to usage quotas that vary by subscription tier. Quotas, tiers, and limits may change at any time.

We may modify, improve, limit, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service, temporarily or permanently, at any time and without liability to you. Where a change materially and adversely affects a paid feature you are currently paying for, we will provide reasonable advance notice and, where required, a pro-rated refund.

6. AI-Generated Content — Important Limitations

A substantial portion of what you see on Headlinne is generated by artificial intelligence and large language models, including summaries, “Why It Matters” insights, bias categorizations and reasoning, topic and entity extraction, sentiment labels, search answers, and Dive Deeper research reports and visualizations (collectively, “AI Output”).

AI Output is produced automatically, without human review before publication, and is frequently imperfect.

Bias ratings are opinion, not fact

Bias categorizations, confidence scores, and bias reasoning are automated editorial opinions generated by a statistical model. They are not statements of objective fact about any publisher, journalist, or organization, and they should not be understood or represented as such. Reasonable people and reasonable models disagree about media bias. A rating reflects one automated assessment of one piece of content at one moment in time.

Statements about real people and organizations

News concerns real people and real entities. AI Output may therefore contain assertions about identifiable persons or organizations that are inaccurate. We do not adopt, endorse, verify, or vouch for any factual assertion contained in AI Output. If you believe AI Output contains a false or damaging statement about you or an entity you represent, contact us at akwwogr3@gmail.com with the specifics. We will review and, where appropriate, correct or remove the material promptly. This is the fastest and most effective route to resolution, and we ask that you use it before pursuing other remedies.

Your responsibility

7. Not Professional Advice

Nothing on Headlinne is professional advice of any kind.

The Service and all AI Output are provided for general informational and educational purposes only. They do not constitute, and must not be relied upon as, investment, financial, tax, legal, medical, psychological, safety, immigration, employment, or any other form of professional advice. No fiduciary, advisory, professional, or confidential relationship is created by your use of the Service.

We are not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, law firm, medical provider, or licensed professional in any field. Coverage, summaries, sentiment scores, or analyses relating to companies, securities, cryptoassets, markets, elections, health, or legal developments are not recommendations to take or refrain from any action. Always consult a qualified professional licensed in your jurisdiction before making any decision with financial, legal, medical, or safety consequences.

8. Third-Party Content and Publishers

The Service surfaces, references, links to, and processes material originating from third-party publishers, news organizations, feeds, search engines, and websites (“Third-Party Content”). This includes headlines, descriptions, images and thumbnails, author and publication metadata, article material retrieved from publicly accessible pages, and web search results.

We display attribution and a link to the original source, and we encourage you to read the original. When you follow an outbound link, you leave Headlinne and become subject to the destination site’s terms and privacy policy. We are not responsible for third-party sites, including their content, advertising, paywalls, or data practices.

We act as a neutral intermediary with respect to Third-Party Content. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we claim all protections available to intermediaries and service providers, including under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230), Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), and analogous laws in other jurisdictions.

9. Copyright Complaints and Takedown Requests

We respect intellectual property rights and respond expeditiously to valid notices of claimed infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and comparable laws.

Designated agent for notices

Send all notices of claimed copyright infringement to our designated agent:

What your notice must include

To be effective, a notice must be in writing and include substantially the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if multiple works are covered by a single notice
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it — a direct URL on headlinne.com is strongly preferred
• Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized 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 the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf

What we do on receipt

On receiving a valid notice, we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material and, where applicable, notify the party that submitted it. We may remove material in response to a good-faith complaint without any determination that infringement occurred, and doing so is not an admission of liability.

Counter-notification

If you believe material of yours was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same agent containing: your signature; identification of the removed material and its former location; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification; your name, address, and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you reside (or, if outside the United States, of New Castle County, Delaware), and that you will accept service of process from the party who filed the original notice.

Repeat infringers

We maintain and reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users and the ingestion of sources that are repeat infringers. We may also permanently exclude specific domains or sources from the Service.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees. Do not make claims you are not entitled to make.

10. Requests from Publishers and Rights Holders

Separately from the formal process in Section 9, we operate an open, no-formalities channel for publishers and rights holders.

email akwwogr3@gmail.com with the subject line “Publisher Request” and identify the domain or URLs concerned. We will honor the request. You do not need to assert a legal claim, retain counsel, or explain your reasoning, and we will not require you to do so as a condition of compliance. We aim to action publisher requests within five business days of receipt.

We also respect machine-readable exclusion signals, including robots.txt directives and standard no-index / no-AI-training preference signals, on a best-effort basis. If you believe we have failed to respect such a signal, tell us and we will correct it.

11. Content You Submit

“User Content” means anything you submit to the Service: profile details, usernames, avatars and bios, search queries and research prompts, follow-up questions, feedback and support messages, ambassador and job applications, sponsor campaign creative, organization configuration, and any other material you provide.

You keep ownership

You retain all rights you already have in your User Content. We claim no ownership of it.

License you grant us

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, process, transmit, and display your User Content solely as necessary to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Service to you and, where you have chosen to share something, to the recipients you have shared it with. This license ends when you delete the User Content or close your account, except for content you have shared publicly and copies retained in routine backups or as required by law, which will age out on our normal retention cycle.

Your warranties

We may remove User Content that violates these Terms, but we have no obligation to monitor, screen, or review User Content and we do not undertake to do so.

12. Sponsored Content and Advertising

The Service includes paid sponsored placements. Sponsored content is labeled as sponsored. This section applies to advertisers who purchase placements (“Sponsors”) and describes what all users should understand about sponsored material.

For all users

Sponsored placements are advertisements. We do not endorse, verify, or guarantee the claims, products, services, or offers made in them. Your dealings with a Sponsor are solely between you and that Sponsor. We are not a party to, and are not responsible for, any resulting transaction or dispute.

For Sponsors — content standards

You are solely responsible for your campaign creative, targeting choices, landing pages, and compliance with all applicable advertising, consumer protection, and disclosure law, including the U.S. FTC Act and FTC endorsement guidance and equivalent rules in your markets.

Review, rejection, and removal

All campaigns are subject to our review. We may approve, reject, pause, modify the placement of, or remove any campaign at any time, for any reason or no reason, including after approval and after payment. If we remove a campaign for reasons other than your breach of these Terms, we will refund the unspent portion of your budget. If we remove it because of your breach, no refund is due.

Performance estimates are not guarantees

Any impression, click, click-through-rate, or reach figures shown to you before purchase are non-binding, algorithmically generated estimates.

They are not commitments, forecasts, or warranties of any kind. Actual delivery depends on inventory, audience behavior, targeting, and factors outside our control, and may differ materially — including by being substantially lower. We do not guarantee any minimum number of impressions, clicks, conversions, reach, or return on spend. Reporting metrics are our own measurements and are provided as-is; where our measurement differs from yours or a third party’s, ours governs for billing purposes.

13. Payments, Billing, and Refunds

Some parts of the Service are paid, including subscription tiers with higher usage quotas and sponsor campaigns.

Payment processing

Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. We do not receive or store your full card number. By paying, you also agree to Stripe’s terms and authorize us and Stripe to charge your selected payment method for all amounts due, including applicable taxes. You represent that you are authorized to use the payment method you provide.

Subscriptions and automatic renewal

To cancel, email akwwogr3@gmail.com or use any cancellation control provided in the Service. We will confirm cancellation in writing.

Refunds

Except where a refund is required by law, or as expressly stated in these Terms, fees are non-refundable and there are no refunds or credits for partial periods, unused quota, or continued availability where you have simply chosen not to use the Service. We may issue refunds or credits at our discretion; doing so once does not obligate us to do so again.

Sponsor campaigns: if we reject a campaign before it begins delivering, you receive a full refund. If we pause or remove a campaign for reasons other than your breach, you receive a refund of the unspent budget.

Statutory rights are preserved. If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction with mandatory withdrawal or cooling-off rights, those rights apply and nothing in this section removes them.

Taxes, failed payments, and chargebacks

Prices exclude taxes unless stated. You are responsible for all sales, use, VAT, GST, and similar taxes, other than taxes on our income. If a payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend paid features until it clears. If you initiate a chargeback or payment dispute without first contacting us to resolve the issue, we may suspend or terminate your account and recover the disputed amount plus any fees we incur.

14. Organization and Enterprise Accounts

Headlinne offers organization workspaces (“Enterprise”) in which a business customer (“Customer”) provisions access for its personnel (“Authorized Users”). Where a separate written enterprise agreement or order form exists between us and the Customer, that agreement governs and controls over these Terms to the extent of any conflict.

Customer responsibilities

The Customer is liable for its Authorized Users’ acts and omissions as if they were its own.

Administrator visibility

Organization administrators can see aggregated, statistically suppressed workspace analytics. They cannot see an individual’s reading history, individual article-level activity, or identity-linked engagement records through the Service. Cohort figures representing fewer than five distinct people are suppressed. See the Privacy Policy for details of this design.

Data protection roles

For workspace data, the Customer is the data controller (or business) and we act as processor (or service provider) on its documented instructions. Where required by applicable data protection law, the parties will enter into a data processing agreement, which is incorporated into these Terms on execution.

Termination and data return

On termination of a workspace, we will make workspace data available for export for 30 days, after which we will delete or anonymize it in the ordinary course, subject to backup cycles and legal retention obligations.

15. Ambassador and Referral Programs

We operate optional promotional programs, including a student ambassador program and referral links. Participation is voluntary and these additional terms apply.

No employment relationship

Participation does not create an employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, franchise, or independent contractor relationship of any kind.

Ambassadors are not our employees or agents, are not authorized to make representations, commitments, or agreements on our behalf, may not hold themselves out as speaking for Headlinne, and are not entitled to wages, benefits, expense reimbursement, insurance, or any other employment entitlement. Ambassadors act on their own initiative and at their own risk.

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the age requirements in Section 3. If you are under 18, you must have your parent or guardian’s permission before applying or participating, and we may require confirmation of that permission. Do not submit a phone number or social media handle belonging to anyone other than yourself.

Benefits are discretionary

Any benefit offered in connection with these programs — including complimentary access to paid tiers, recognition, or features — is a revocable promotional courtesy, not compensation, consideration, or a contractual entitlement. It has no cash value, is not transferable or redeemable for cash, and may be changed, suspended, or withdrawn at any time. We may end either program in its entirety at any time.

Conduct and disclosure

We may withhold, reverse, or claw back any benefit, and remove you from the program, if we determine in our reasonable judgment that referrals were obtained through fraud, abuse, or breach of these Terms. Our determination of referral attribution is final.

16. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to permit or assist anyone else to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these Terms
• Scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, or otherwise systematically extract data or content from the Service by any automated means
• Use the Service, or any AI Output, to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or develop any machine learning model, or to build a competing or substantially similar product
• Resell, sublicense, syndicate, or commercially redistribute the Service or AI Output without our prior written permission
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent quotas, rate limits, paywalls, tier gating, authentication, or any other technical restriction
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service, or attempt to derive its source code, models, prompts, or algorithms, except to the extent this restriction is unenforceable under applicable law
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach or circumvent its security or authentication measures, without our prior written authorization
• Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure, including through denial-of-service attacks or excessive automated requests
• Upload or transmit malware, exploit code, or harmful content
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation
• Use the Service to harass, defame, threaten, stalk, or harm any person
• Attempt to identify individual users from aggregated or anonymized data
• Access another user’s account or data without authorization
• Manipulate AI features to generate unlawful content, or use prompt injection or similar techniques against our systems or third-party models
• Remove, obscure, or alter attribution, source links, or AI labels

We may investigate suspected violations and cooperate with law enforcement.

17. Our Intellectual Property

The Service — including its software, source code, models and model configurations, prompts, ranking and recommendation systems, database structure, design, user interface, and the Headlinne name and logo — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use (or, for Enterprise Customers, for internal business use). All rights not expressly granted are reserved. This license does not permit you to copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service.

18. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or feature requests (“Feedback”), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it for any purpose without obligation, attribution, or compensation to you. Do not send us Feedback you consider confidential or that you are not free to share.

19. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access, in whole or in part, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or the law, if your use creates risk or legal exposure for us or other users, if your account is inactive for an extended period, or if we discontinue the Service. Where practical and lawful, we will give notice and, for material breaches capable of cure, an opportunity to cure.

On termination, your license to use the Service ends immediately. Sections 6–13, 17, and 20–27 survive termination, along with any other provision that by its nature should survive.

20. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” with all faults and without warranty of any kind.

No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from us or through the Service creates any warranty not expressly stated here.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Where the law grants you non-excludable statutory guarantees, nothing in these Terms limits them.

21. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

(d) These limitations apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose, and they are a fundamental basis of the bargain between us. We could not provide the Service on these commercial terms without them.

(e) Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

22. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Headlinne and its owner, operators, contractors, and licensors from and against all claims, demands, actions, damages, losses, liabilities, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to:

• Your use or misuse of the Service
• Your breach of these Terms or of any applicable law
• Your User Content, including any sponsor campaign creative and destination pages
• Your violation of any third party’s rights, including intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights
• Sources, domains, feeds, or watchlists you configure us to retrieve
• For Enterprise Customers: claims by your Authorized Users or personnel relating to workspace analytics, monitoring notice, or consent
• For program participants: your promotional activity, disclosures, and statements about Headlinne

We will notify you of any claim subject to indemnification and may participate in the defense with counsel of our choosing at our own expense. You may not settle any claim in a way that imposes obligation or admits fault on our part without our prior written consent.

23. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes between us are resolved and limits your ability to bring a lawsuit or class action.

(a) Informal resolution first

Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to contact us at akwwogr3@gmail.com with a written description of the dispute, the relief you seek, and your contact details, and to negotiate in good faith for 60 days. Most issues are resolved this way. This step is a condition precedent to arbitration, and the limitation period is tolled while it runs.

(b) Binding individual arbitration

If informal resolution fails, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitration will be conducted in the English language, and may proceed by written submission, telephone, or video unless the arbitrator determines an in-person hearing is necessary, in which case it will be held in New Castle County, Delaware or a mutually agreed location. The arbitrator’s award is final and binding and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section.

(c) Class action and jury trial waiver

You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and agree that claims may be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding.

The arbitrator may not consolidate claims of more than one person and may not preside over any form of representative proceeding. If this paragraph is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request must proceed in court and is severed from the arbitration, while all other claims remain in arbitration.

(d) Your right to opt out

(e) Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies, and either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property or confidential information.

(f) Consumers outside the United States

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose law does not permit pre-dispute arbitration agreements or class waivers against consumers, subsections (b) and (c) do not apply to you. You retain the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and to rely on the mandatory consumer protection provisions of your local law. EU consumers may also use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform.

24. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

For any claim not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, and waive any objection to that forum on grounds of inconvenience.

If you are a consumer, this section does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings in its courts where local law grants you that right.

25. Time Limit for Bringing Claims

To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought within one (1) year after the claim arose. Claims brought after that period are permanently barred. Where applicable law does not permit this limitation, it does not apply to you.

26. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above.

For material changes that reduce your rights or increase your obligations, we will provide at least 30 days’ notice before they take effect, by email to your account address or through a prominent in-Service notice. Material changes will not apply retroactively to disputes that arose before their effective date.

Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service and close your account before it takes effect.

27. General Provisions

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and any enterprise agreement or order form, are the entire agreement between us regarding the Service and supersede all prior understandings.

Severability

If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed, and the remaining provisions stay in full force.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it or of any other provision. A waiver is effective only if in writing and signed by us.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign them freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of upstream providers, network or infrastructure failures, changes in third-party APIs or model availability, natural disasters, or government action.

Notices

We may give you notice by email to your account address or by in-Service posting; such notice is deemed received when sent or posted. Send legal notices to us at akwwogr3@gmail.com.

No third-party beneficiaries

These Terms create no rights in any third party, except that our owners, operators, contractors, and licensors may enforce Sections 20 through 22.

Relationship

Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, or employment relationship between us.

Language

These Terms are drafted in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only, and the English version governs in the event of a conflict.

28. Contact

Questions, notices, complaints, publisher requests, and legal correspondence:

akwwogr3@gmail.com

Related: Privacy Policy  ·  Cookie Policy