Terms of Use

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

BlinkRead (the iOS app, its share extension and widgets, and the website blinkread.ai, together the "Service") is operated by SIETE OCHO NUEVE MX S.C., a company organized under the laws of Mexico ("BlinkRead", "we", "us").

By downloading, opening or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. What BlinkRead does

You share a link, pasted text or a screenshot with BlinkRead. We fetch or read that content, and an automated system returns a short answer to what the headline promised, a few key points and a Clickbait Score. Public web pages that users summarize may also appear, as short summaries with a link to the original, on public pages of blinkread.ai (for example answer pages and the Clickbait Score ranking).

3. Third-party content is not ours

• Articles, posts, headlines, images, names and trademarks shown or summarized in the Service belong to their respective authors and owners. We do not author, edit, verify or endorse third-party content, and its presence in the Service does not mean that the publisher is affiliated with, sponsors or approves of BlinkRead.
• We show only a short, transformative summary of the parts needed to answer the headline, together with a link to the original source, so readers can always go to the source.
• Statements made in third-party content are the responsibility of whoever published them. When our summary repeats a claim, it reports what the source says; it does not mean that we affirm that the claim is true.

4. Summaries are automated and can be wrong

• Answers, key points, "Ask the article" replies and scores are generated automatically by artificial intelligence models without human review. They may be incomplete, out of date, mistranslated or simply wrong, and they may not capture context, nuance, satire or later corrections of the original.
• The Service is for general information and convenience only. It is not medical, health, legal, financial, investment or other professional advice. Always read the original source, and consult a qualified professional before making decisions.
• Statements about focus, attention or ADHD in our marketing describe a reading convenience. BlinkRead is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or cure any condition.

5. The Clickbait Score is an automated opinion

• The Clickbait Score rates how a headline is written: how much it withholds information, how far the answer is buried and how many ad slots are on the page. It is calculated automatically with the formula and signals described on our methodology page.
• A score, label ("low", "medium", "high", "extreme") or ranking position is an opinion based on that disclosed method. It is not a statement of fact, and it does not say or suggest that any publisher, journalist or person is dishonest, acted unlawfully or in bad faith, published false information, or has any particular reputation.
• Site rankings reflect only the articles our users happened to summarize, which may not be representative of a publisher's work. Sites need a minimum number of summarized articles before they are ranked.
• Publishers can request a review, a correction or exclusion from the ranking. See Publishers & right of reply.

6. Your use of the Service

You may use BlinkRead for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree that you will not:

• submit content that you have no right to share, or that is unlawful, infringing, or that contains other people's private or sensitive personal information without their permission;
• use the Service to harass, defame or harm anyone, or present our summaries or scores as statements of fact about a person or organization;
• scrape, copy at scale, resell or build a competing product from the Service or its outputs, or use the outputs to train AI models;
• try to break, overload, reverse engineer or bypass the security, limits or payment features of the Service, or attempt to make it fetch private or internal network resources;
• use the Service in violation of any law or of the terms of the sites whose content you submit.

You are responsible for what you submit and share, including where you post answer cards or links you create with BlinkRead.

7. Public answer pages and sharing

When you summarize a public web link, the summary may be available on a public page of blinkread.ai so it can be shared and so other users get the same answer. Public pages never show who requested them. Pasted text and screenshots are never published. We may hide, edit or remove any public page at any time, including in response to a request from a publisher or a person mentioned.

8. Subscriptions and payments

• BlinkRead Pro is sold through Apple's App Store as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app before you buy.
• Payment, renewal, cancellation and refunds are handled by Apple under its terms. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period in your Apple ID settings. Free trials, when offered, convert to a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless cancelled.
• Free and Pro plans have usage limits that we describe in the app and may adjust. "Unlimited" plans are subject to fair use to prevent abuse.
• "Lifetime" means for as long as we operate the Service, not for the lifetime of the user.

9. Our intellectual property

The BlinkRead name, logo, app, website, design, software and methodology are owned by SIETE OCHO NUEVE MX S.C. or its licensors and are protected by law. We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, under these Terms and the App Store usage rules. You may share answer cards generated by the app for personal, non-commercial purposes.

10. Complaints, corrections and copyright notices

If you believe that something in the Service is inaccurate, unfair, defamatory, infringes your rights or should otherwise be removed, contact us at [email protected] as described on our Publishers & right of reply page. We review every request in good faith and may correct, hide or remove content, exclude a site from the ranking, or keep it, at our discretion. Copyright notices should follow the procedure on that page.

11. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all content, summaries and scores are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that any summary or score is accurate.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SIETE OCHO NUEVE MX S.C., its partners, employees and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill or reputation, arising from or related to the Service, its content, summaries or scores, or any third-party content, even if advised of the possibility. Our total liability for any claim related to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim or USD 50.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations; in that case they apply only to the extent permitted, and nothing in these Terms limits rights that consumer protection laws give you and that cannot be waived.

13. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend and indemnify SIETE OCHO NUEVE MX S.C. against claims, damages and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from content you submit or share, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of anyone's rights.

14. Suspension and termination

You can stop using BlinkRead at any time and ask us to delete your data (see the Privacy Notice). We may suspend or end access for anyone who violates these Terms or abuses the Service, and we may change or discontinue features, or the Service, at any time.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version here with a new effective date and, for material changes, notify you in the app. Continuing to use the Service after the change means you accept it.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the federal laws of the United Mexican States. Any dispute will be resolved by the competent courts of Mexico City, and you waive any other jurisdiction that might apply because of your present or future domicile, except where mandatory consumer protection law gives you the right to bring a claim where you live. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us at [email protected] and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. If there is any difference between the English and Spanish versions of these Terms, the Spanish version prevails.

17. Apple App Store terms

• These Terms are between you and SIETE OCHO NUEVE MX S.C., not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any; Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, consumer protection or intellectual property claims.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

18. Contact

SIETE OCHO NUEVE MX S.C.
General and legal: [email protected]
Publishers, corrections and takedowns: [email protected]
Privacy: [email protected]