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Terms of Service

Effective and last updated: May 18, 2026.

In plain English (not part of the contract). Iterator News is a free, AI-assisted news site operated as an Ontario sole proprietorship. Most posts and summaries are produced with the help of AI, and although they go through a thorough review process, they may still contain errors; they are not a substitute for primary sources or professional advice. The Service is provided as is, with no warranty. We may change the Service or close any account at our discretion. Disputes are decided under Ontario law in Ontario courts. The paragraph you are reading is a summary only and is not part of the binding agreement; the legal text follows below.

Who we are

  • We, us, and our mean Iterator News, a sole proprietorship registered in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
  • The Service is operated under the name Iterator News, at iterator.news (the Site).
  • You can reach us at [email protected]. The same address is our official channel for general contact, legal notices, and copyright or takedown complaints.

Definitions

In these Terms:

  • Service: the Iterator News website, including public posts, topic pages, account features, and email communications we send.
  • Site: the public pages of the Service published at iterator.news.
  • Account: a user account created on the Site to subscribe to topics and receive notification emails.
  • User, you: anyone using the Service, whether anonymously or signed in.
  • Content: text, layout, design, code, images, videos, interactive elements, brand elements, and any other material we publish on the Site.
  • Source Material: third-party documents and other publicly accessible materials we use to support post writing.
  • AI Output: any text, summary, or other material on the Site produced or assisted by an AI or large-language-model system, whether or not labelled as such.
  • Subscriptions: opt-in records that ask us to email you when new posts are published under topics you have chosen to follow.

These Terms govern the public-facing Service only. People who operate, contribute to, or otherwise help us run the Service are governed by separate written arrangements and not by these Terms.

Accepting these terms

  • By using the Site you accept these Terms. By creating an Account, you affirmatively accept them through the signup form.
  • You must be at least 14 years old to create an Account. If you are under 14, do not create an Account. We do not verify age, so this is your representation to us.
  • We may update these Terms at any time. For material changes we will provide reasonable notice (for example, a site banner or an email to registered Account holders). Continued use of the Service after the effective date of the updated Terms is acceptance of the update.

The Service and your account

What the Service is. A public, AI-assisted news site. Reading public posts, topic pages, and the home page is anonymous. Creating an Account lets you subscribe to topics and receive email notifications. There is no paid tier today.

Where we operate and language

The Service is operated from Ontario, Canada, in English only. We do not currently provide a French-language version of the Service or these Terms.

The Service is not directed at residents of the Province of Quebec. By creating an Account or subscribing to topic notifications, you represent that you do not reside in Quebec, and we ask Quebec residents not to create Accounts or subscribe. Anonymous reading of public posts, topic pages, and other public pages of the Site is open to anyone, anywhere, at the reader's own discretion; nothing in this section restricts who may read public Site content. We may suspend or close any Account we determine to be held by a resident of Quebec, consistent with the suspension and termination rights below. We may revisit this restriction if and when we publish a French-language version of the Service.

Users outside Canada and the United States

The Service is operated from Ontario, Canada and is intended primarily for users in Canada and the United States. The Service is not directed at residents of the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or other jurisdictions with comprehensive non-Canadian data-protection regimes (including the General Data Protection Regulation, the UK GDPR, and the Swiss FADP), and we make no representation that our collection, storage, or use of personal information complies with any of those regimes. Users in those regions are nonetheless welcome to read public Site content and to create Accounts, but do so at their own risk, and acknowledge that any personal information they provide will be processed in Canada under Canadian law. We may revisit this position if and when we are in a position to comply with those regimes.

Availability

The Service is provided on a best-effort basis with no uptime, retention, or feature commitments. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features at any time.

Future paid features and advertising

The Service is free today, but we may introduce paid features, advertising, sponsorships, or donations in the future. Those may be governed by additional terms presented at the time and may impose additional eligibility requirements. At a minimum, advertising-supported and paid features will require you to be at least 16 years old, and any paid purchase will additionally require you to be at or above the age of majority in your jurisdiction. We may restrict such features to specific countries.

Your responsibilities

  • Provide a real, working email address and confirm it when prompted.
  • Keep your password confidential.
  • Take responsibility for activity carried out under your Account.
  • Notify us promptly of any suspected unauthorized access.
  • Use one Account per person. Accounts are personal; do not share, transfer, or sell your Account.

When we close an Account

We may suspend, terminate, or cancel any Account at our discretion, with or without notice. We will exercise this right reasonably and in good faith, in a manner consistent with the purpose of this clause: protecting the Service, our users, third parties, and us from abuse, harm, fraud, security risk, legal exposure, and disproportionate cost. The reasons we may act on include, without limitation:

  • breach of these Terms, including the What you can't do and Automated access sections;
  • abuse of the signup, login, password-reset, or subscription flows;
  • attempts to bypass security measures, rate limits, captchas, or other access controls;
  • harassment of us or of other users;
  • suspected fraud or impersonation;
  • repeated low-quality or evasive signup attempts;
  • automated traffic that disrupts the Service or imposes disproportionate cost;
  • third-party complaints we consider credible;
  • refusal to comply with a correction we have requested;
  • legal or security reasons;
  • a decision by us to shut down a feature or the entire Service.

This list is illustrative, not exhaustive. We are not obliged to enumerate every reason, to give you advance notice, to provide a cure period, or to offer a right of appeal. Termination does not entitle you to a refund (no fees are charged today) or to a copy of any retained data beyond what the Privacy Policy provides.

When you delete your Account

You can self-delete your Account at any time from the profile page. The Privacy Policy describes what we remove and what we keep.

AI content and accuracy

Please read this section carefully, it is the most important part of these Terms.

  • AI assistance. Posts and summaries on the Site are produced with the assistance of AI and large-language-model systems. The Service is not a substitute for primary reporting or professional editorial review.
  • No accuracy guarantee. AI Output may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, fabricated ("hallucinated") quotes or references, or misinterpretations of source material. Posts are best-effort summaries, not verified reporting.
  • Not professional advice. Nothing on the Site is legal, medical, financial, investment, tax, scientific, engineering, or other professional advice. Do not act on Site content without independent verification.
  • Use primary sources for important decisions. Where posts refer to source material, rely on the primary source and not on our summary for any decision of consequence. We do not promise to cite, link to, or attribute source material in any particular way; how and when posts cite sources is an editorial choice that may evolve.
  • Independent verification. You are responsible for independently verifying any information you rely on.
  • No reliance. We are not responsible for losses arising from your acting on AI Output or other Site content.

Source material and third-party content

  • No licence claim. We do not represent that our use of any third-party material is licensed by the rights holder, and these Terms do not grant you any rights in Source Material.
  • Third-party copyright. Any documents cited by the posts remain the property of their original rights holders. Where posts quote or paraphrase those sources, we conduct our use in good faith on a fair-dealing basis under the Copyright Act (Canada) (research, criticism, review, and news reporting), with attribution where appropriate.
  • Third-party links and sites. We are not responsible for the content, availability, accuracy, or practices of any linked third-party site.
  • Trademarks. Third-party names and marks appearing on the Site are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only.

Reporting a problem with content

If you believe a post on the Site is inaccurate, infringing, defamatory, privacy-invasive, or otherwise problematic, please write to us at [email protected]. This is a single voluntary intake channel that covers copyright, defamation, accuracy, and privacy complaints. Please include:

  • your name and any organization you represent;
  • a contact channel we can use to reply (at minimum, an email address);
  • your relationship to the matter (rights holder, authorized agent, person referred to, reader);
  • the URL of the Iterator page at issue, and the specific passage, image, or section being flagged;
  • the basis of the complaint in plain language: for copyright claims, identification of the original work and the rights holder;
  • the outcome you are asking for (removal, edit, correction note, right of reply, other);
  • a statement that the information in the notice is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

A standard US DMCA-style notice or a Canadian Copyright Act s. 41.25 notice is acceptable input. The Canadian statutory Notice-and-Notice regime applies to internet intermediaries rather than content publishers, so this clause does not invoke it; we have not designated a US DMCA agent.

The following response windows are targets, not contractual deadlines:

  • we aim to acknowledge complete notices within five business days;
  • we aim to provide a substantive response within thirty calendar days.

Clearer-cut cases may be acted on faster, and complex cases may take longer with notice to you. We may extend these windows where circumstances reasonably require. We may remove, edit, annotate, or decline to act on reported content at our sole discretion.

No abuse. Notices submitted in bad faith, containing knowingly false statements, or used to suppress lawful criticism, reporting, or fair dealing may be ignored, disclosed publicly, or pursued for damages.

Our intellectual property

  • Ownership. Content that is original to us (such as post text, layout, design, images, videos, code, brand, and logos) is owned by Iterator News, except for third-party material identified as such.
  • Limited licence to you. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and read the Site for personal, non-commercial use.
  • No implied licence. Nothing in these Terms grants any right to redistribute, modify, frame, mirror, or commercially exploit Site content.
  • Feedback. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation or compensation, and you waive any moral rights in that feedback.

What you can't do

You agree not to:

  • engage in unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or infringing activity;
  • attempt to gain unauthorized access to non-public parts of the Service, including any tooling or resources we have not publicly exposed, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service;
  • interfere with the operation of the Service, including denial-of-service or load attacks, abuse of the signup, login, password-reset, or subscription flows, or attempts to bypass any security measures, rate limits, captchas, or other technical controls;
  • misrepresent yourself, impersonate another person, or create accounts with disposable or invalid email addresses for abuse, fraud, or evasion of a prior suspension;
  • submit another person's email address to subscribe them to a topic without their consent;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract underlying source code;
  • misrepresent Iterator content as your own original reporting, or strip authorship, source attribution, or AI-assistance disclosures when redistributing.

This list is illustrative, not exhaustive, and is paired with our discretionary right to close Accounts described above.

Automated access (crawlers, scrapers, AI training)

We do not flat-out prohibit automated access to public content. Many of our sources are themselves public information, and we do not want to take a more restrictive stance against bots than we ask of others.

  • Allowed by default. Well-behaved automated access to public pages, such as search-engine crawling, archiving, research, indexing, and the use of public posts as input to AI training or analysis, is allowed without prior permission.
  • Conditions. Respect robots.txt, any per-bot directives we publish, and standard rate-limit signals (HTTP 429, Retry-After). Behave reasonably: leave meaningful delays between requests, identify your user agent, and include contact information on the crawler.
  • Our discretion to throttle, block, or ban. Regardless of robots.txt, we may rate-limit, block, ban, or pursue any client whose behaviour disrupts the Service, degrades performance for human readers, imposes disproportionate bandwidth or compute cost, ignores published limits, hides its identity, attempts to evade blocks (rotating IPs or user agents, residential proxies for scraping), or otherwise causes us trouble. We make this determination at our sole discretion.
  • Heavy users. If you plan to access the Site at high volume, please get in touch first. We may be able to publish a feed, a dataset, or a dedicated endpoint instead.
  • No stability commitment. Page structure, URLs, and robots.txt rules may change without notice. We are not responsible for breakage in downstream tools.
  • Future API. If and when we open a public API to third parties, it will be governed by its own developer terms layered on top of these Terms.

Email and communications

We send two kinds of email.

Transactional email: Account creation, deletion, manager-initiated activation or deactivation, password reset, and other emails that we need to send as part of operating the Service. By creating an Account you consent to receive transactional email, and we send it regardless of email-verification status because it is required to operate the Service.

Topic-subscription notifications are commercial mail under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Subscribing to a topic is your explicit, opt-in express consent to receive notifications when new posts are published in that topic.

Email-verification gate. When you create an Account we send a one-time confirmation email to the registered address. We send topic-subscription notifications only after you have confirmed the address through the link in that email. You can request a fresh confirmation email from your profile page at any time. Subscriptions you create before confirming your address are kept and will start generating notifications automatically once the address is confirmed.

Sender identification and unsubscribe. Every commercial email includes our identity, contact information, and an unsubscribe mechanism. Unsubscribe requests are honoured within 10 business days. You can also manage your subscriptions from your profile page.

Other communications. We may contact you about material changes to these Terms or the Privacy Policy, security events affecting your Account, or service availability.

Privacy

How we collect and use personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

Disclaimers and risk

As is / as available. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

No warranty for AI Output. WITHOUT LIMITING THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY, OR FITNESS OF AI OUTPUT FOR ANY PURPOSE.

Limitation of liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY ONTARIO LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE IS CAPPED AT THE FEES YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, AND IN NO EVENT MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD $100).

Carve-outs required by law. Nothing in this section limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under Ontario law, including under the Consumer Protection Act, 2023 (Ontario). The severability clause below handles anything else.

Indemnification by you. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any third-party claims, losses, and reasonable legal fees arising out of your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service, including your use of AI Output or Site content. This indemnity is limited to third-party claims and does not run in the other direction.

Governing law and disputes

  • Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, excluding conflict-of-laws rules.
  • Forum. Each party irrevocably attorns to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario for any proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, subject only to (i) the territorial jurisdiction rules of the Small Claims Court and (ii) either party's right to seek a transfer between judicial regions under Rule 13.1.02 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure.
  • Talk to us first. Before filing a claim, please email us at [email protected] and give us 30 days to try to resolve the matter informally.
  • No mandatory arbitration; no class-action waiver. These Terms do not require pre-dispute arbitration, and nothing in these Terms purports to waive your right to commence or join a class proceeding. Nothing prevents the parties from agreeing to mediate or arbitrate a dispute after it has arisen.
  • Time limit on claims. Any claim arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service must be brought within one (1) year of the date the claim accrued, to the extent permitted by law.

General

  • Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the unenforceable provision is read down to the minimum extent necessary.
  • No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of that right.
  • Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign these Terms in connection with a sale, merger, or reorganization of the Service.
  • Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including network or hosting outages, third-party service failures, natural disasters, governmental actions, labour disturbances, or other events of force majeure.
  • Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any service-specific addenda we present to you, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.
  • Notices. Our official channel to you is the email address registered on your Account. Your official channel to us is [email protected].
  • Language. The Service and these Terms are provided in English only, and the English version controls. The parties have expressly required that these Terms and all related documents be drafted in the English language. / Les parties ont expressément exigé que les présentes Conditions et tous les documents connexes soient rédigés en anglais. If we ever publish a French version of these Terms, the English version still controls.
  • Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.