These terms govern your access to and use of CONCISE — the account you create, how you may use the stories and features we organize, and what we're each responsible for. They work alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your data specifically.
Last updated: August 15, 2026By accessing or using CONCISE — the website, and any related apps or features we offer (together, the "Service") — you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you don't agree to these Terms, don't use the Service.
If you're using CONCISE on behalf of an organization, you're agreeing to these Terms for that organization, and confirming you have the authority to do so.
CONCISE organizes publicly available news reporting from third-party publishers. We cluster related headlines into a single story, compare how different outlets frame the same event, surface political-perspective and information-versus-noise context, and — where you've signed in — personalize what you see based on your reading activity.
CONCISE does not write, edit, or publish original news content, and does not employ journalists to report the stories shown on the Service. Every card links back to the original publisher, and full articles are read on the publisher's own site.
You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, if higher) to use CONCISE. By using the Service, you represent that you meet this requirement.
Core browsing of The Latest doesn't require an account. Personalization features — such as a "For You" feed and saved preferences — require signing in with Google. You're responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Google account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your CONCISE account.
You agree to provide accurate account information and to notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account.
You agree not to, and not to help or permit anyone else to:
We may suspend or terminate access for violations of this section — see Section 12.
Headlines, summaries, images, and article content displayed on CONCISE remain the property of their respective publishers. We display limited excerpts — headlines, short summaries, and thumbnail images — together with clear source attribution and a direct link to the full article on the publisher's own site.
We do not claim ownership over third-party content, and nothing in these Terms transfers any publisher's rights to you or to us. Your use of any linked publisher site is governed by that publisher's own terms and privacy policy, not ours.
CONCISE does not independently verify the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of third-party reporting, and does not endorse the views expressed in any article we index or summarize. See Section 9.
The CONCISE name, logo, visual design, user interface, and the underlying software, clustering methodology, and ranking systems are owned by CONCISE (or our licensors) and protected by intellectual property law. These Terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service or our underlying software, or attempt to extract the source code, except where applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction.
When you're signed in, CONCISE uses your reading activity and stated preferences to personalize your feed. This is optional — you can browse the non-personalized Latest feed without an account, and can turn personalization off at any time from Settings. How this data is collected and used is described in detail in our Privacy Policy.
CONCISE respects the intellectual property rights of publishers and other third parties. If you're a rights holder and believe content on CONCISE misattributes, misrepresents, or improperly reproduces your work beyond a short excerpt and linked attribution, contact us with:
Send notices to connect@concise.plus. We will review and respond promptly, and remove or correct attribution where appropriate. Repeat or clearly invalid claims may be disregarded.
The Service, including all third-party content organized within it, is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of 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 story clustering, perspective comparison, political indicator, or information-versus-noise signal is accurate, complete, or current. These signals are computed automatically and are provided as contextual aids, not as fact-checked determinations.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, CONCISE and its officers, employees, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, revenue, or goodwill, arising from your use of — or inability to use — the Service, including reliance on any third-party content organized or summarized within it.
Where liability cannot be excluded under applicable law, our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of ₹5,000 (Indian Rupees) — or the equivalent in your local currency — or the amount, if any, you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.
You agree to indemnify and hold CONCISE harmless from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of any third party's rights.
You may stop using CONCISE and delete your account at any time from Settings, or by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, if we believe in good faith that you've violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure for us, or if we discontinue the Service or a feature of it.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Section 6, Section 9, Section 10, and Section 14 — will continue to apply.
We may modify or discontinue features of the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms as CONCISE evolves; if we make material changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and, where required by law, provide additional notice — such as an in-product banner or email — before the changes take effect. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
Any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of the Service will first be handled through good-faith negotiation between you and CONCISE. If it isn't resolved that way within a reasonable time, the dispute will be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, before a sole arbitrator appointed by mutual agreement of the parties. The seat and venue of arbitration will be New Delhi, India, and proceedings will be conducted in English. The arbitral award will be final and binding on both parties.
Subject to the arbitration agreement above, the courts at New Delhi, India will have exclusive jurisdiction over any matter not subject to arbitration — for example, an application for urgent interim relief.
If you're a consumer resident in the EU, UK, California, or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection or dispute-resolution rules that can't be displaced by agreement, nothing in this section limits any non-waivable rights or local dispute-resolution mechanisms available to you under your own law.
Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through your use of the Service — including Google Sign-In data, cookies, and the usage data behind personalization — and your rights over it under applicable law (including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and India's DPDP Act, 2023). It's incorporated into these Terms by reference; where these Terms address use of the Service generally and the Privacy Policy addresses your data specifically, both apply together.
Questions about these Terms, or copyright notices under Section 8, can be sent to:
Email: connect@concise.plus
Postal address: IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India.