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Terms of Use

These terms apply to your use of HelixNews (the "site"), operated by the operators of HelixNews. By using the site, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

What HelixNews is

HelixNews collects headlines and short descriptions from news publishers' public feeds and links to the original stories. We don't write, edit or endorse those stories. Headlines, images and descriptions belong to their publishers, and the full article is always on the publisher's own site.

AI features

Some features use artificial intelligence:

  • story sorting;
  • short summaries labeled "AI summary";
  • chat answers ("Chat with the news");
  • story chat ("Ask Helix about this story").

They are based only on headlines and descriptions we've collected and, for story chat, on the publishers' articles about that story. They can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. Check important facts in the linked original reporting. AI output is not professional advice of any kind.

Accounts

You need an account to buy credits or plans. You're responsible for keeping your password, recovery code and devices with passkeys secure, and your email account too if you added one. If you lose your password and your recovery code and haven't added an email, we may not be able to restore your account or its credits. You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

Credits and plans

  • Each chat message uses one free daily question or one credit. A message that fails to get an answer is refunded automatically.
  • Credit packs are one-time purchases. Credits don't expire while the service is offered and have no cash value. They can't be transferred or exchanged for money.
  • Monthly plans renew automatically and add credits each paid month until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from your account page; you keep credits already added.
  • Prices are shown before you pay, in the currency shown. Payments are processed by Stripe or PayPal.
  • Refunds: if something went wrong with a purchase, contact the contact address on our About page within 14 days and we'll make it right. If a payment is refunded or reversed, its unused credits are removed. This doesn't limit any rights you have under consumer law.
  • We may change prices or features in the future. Changes won't affect credits you've already bought. If we ever discontinue paid features, we'll refund unused purchased credits.

Acceptable use

Please don't:

  • scrape or bulk-download the site, or overload it;
  • get around limits such as free daily question allowances;
  • use the site or its AI features to break the law, or to harass or harm others;
  • try to probe, attack or break into the site's systems;
  • submit personal information about others in survey or question fields.

Advertising

The site shows a small number of clearly labeled sponsor messages. Advertisers are responsible for their ads, and showing an ad doesn't mean we endorse the product.

Content and copyright

Our own design, text and software are protected by copyright. Third-party headlines, images, descriptions and articles belong to their publishers. If you believe something on the site infringes your rights, contact the contact address on our About page and we'll respond promptly. That includes asking us to stop including your feed.

Story chat and publishers. To answer questions about a story, our server reads the publicly available articles about it, at most once per article, and keeps the text for 48 hours. The text is used only to write short, attributed answers that link to the original article. It is never republished or shown to readers. We honor robots.txt (our user agent token is "NewsHelix"), skip pages marked as paywalled, and skip pages with a "noai" robots directive (meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header). Publishers can also ask us to stop at the contact address on our About page.

Disclaimers

The site is provided "as is" and "as available". We don't guarantee it will be accurate, complete, uninterrupted or error-free. That includes headlines and descriptions from third parties and AI-generated content. We're not responsible for third-party websites we link to.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of the site. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or US$50 if you paid nothing. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

Changes

We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top of the page and may notify account holders by email of significant changes. Continuing to use the site after changes means you accept them.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the place where the site's operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Nothing here takes away consumer protections you have where you live.

Contact

Questions about these terms: the contact address on our About page.