Terms
Terms of use
ScrollSci gives you a feed of short, machine-written summaries of publicly published material. Using it means accepting the terms below — the important ones being that the summaries are informational rather than authoritative, and that your account is yours to close whenever you want.
1. What the service is
ScrollSci fetches items from public feeds and archives, and uses language models to produce a short summary, a “why it matters” line, and an illustration for each one. Cards are stored in a shared pool and filtered to the fields you select. The service is provided as it is, and features may change or be withdrawn.
2. Your account
You need an account to use the feed. Keep your password to yourself, use an address you actually control, and don't create accounts for other people or share one. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think it has been accessed by someone else, change the password and tell us.
3. How far you can rely on a summary
This is the part that matters most. Card summaries are generated by software from a single source document. They are written to stay inside that source, but they can still be incomplete, out of date, or wrong — and a summary that is perfectly faithful to a source that was itself mistaken is still mistaken.
Nothing on ScrollSci is professional advice of any kind — not medical, legal, financial, safety or academic. Do not make a decision that matters on the basis of a card. Where a card names a source, open the source and read it. Illustrations are generated decoration and never depict real people, apparatus or data.
4. Fair use of the service
Don't try to break, overload or gain unauthorised access to the service; don't scrape it in bulk or resell its output as your own; don't use it in a way that breaks the law or infringes anyone's rights; and don't abuse the flag feature to send junk to the review queue.
5. Content and rights
The underlying material stays with whoever holds rights to it — arXiv authors, NASA, Wikipedia contributors, Project Gutenberg and the people who post to Hacker News. Each card names its source so you can go to the original and check its licence before reusing anything. The ScrollSci name, design and site content belong to ScrollSci.
If you hold rights in something a card is based on and want it removed, email us and it will be taken down.
6. Payment, if it applies
ScrollSci is free to use at the time of writing. If a paid tier is introduced, its price and terms will be shown before you are asked to pay, payment will be handled by an outside payment provider, and you will be able to cancel from your account settings. Nothing here obliges you to pay for something you have not agreed to.
7. Ending it
Close your account whenever you like by emailing [email protected] from the address on the account. We may suspend or close an account that is being used in the ways described in section 4, and will say why where we reasonably can.
8. Liability
The service is provided without warranties beyond those that cannot lawfully be excluded. To the extent the law allows, ScrollSci is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for anything arising from relying on a card summary instead of its source. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited, and if you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.
9. Changes to these terms
These terms may change. The date below changes with them, and material changes will be described rather than slipped in. Continuing to use the service after a change means accepting it.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and its courts have jurisdiction over any dispute — without removing any protection you have under the mandatory law of the country you live in.
11. Contact
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