Terms of Use

1. The service

1.1. FeedSink is a reader and manager of feeds and content: you subscribe to sources (RSS, YouTube, podcasts and others), and the service fetches, organises and displays the articles for your personal reading. It also stores the notes you write and the files that accompany them.

1.2. The service is offered in plans. The Pro plan is a paid subscription. The Free plan has lower limits, access to it is by invitation — joining the waiting list does not guarantee a date — and it may display advertising.

1.3. Features may change, be added or be removed over time.

2. Account

2.1. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for safeguarding your credentials. The account is personal and non-transferable.

2.2. The service is intended for persons aged 18 or over.

3. Acceptable use

3.1. You may not use FeedSink for unlawful activity, to infringe the rights of others, or to overload or circumvent the technical limits of the service — for example, automated bulk collection outside the official API, or attempts to bypass plan limits.

4. Plans, payment, withdrawal and cancellation

4.1. Paid plans are monthly or annual subscriptions, processed through the payment method identified on the plans page at the time of purchase. The current price is displayed before purchase, and the subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. Price changes are communicated before they take effect for your subscription.

4.2. Right of withdrawal. You have seven (7) days from purchase to withdraw from any paid plan and receive a full refund, with no need to give a reason. This period applies equally to monthly and annual plans. To exercise it, write to the contact address given at the end of these terms.

4.3. Cancellation. You may cancel at any time, with no lock-in and no penalty. Cancellation stops future charges and does not generate a pro-rata refund of the period already paid: access continues until the end of the purchased period — for the monthly plan, until the end of the current month; for the annual plan, until the end of the twelve (12) months already paid, even if you stop using the service before then. A full refund exists only under clause 4.2.

4.4. After the end of the purchased period, clause 13 governs what happens to your content.

5. Accounts pending payment

5.1. The account is created at the start of the purchase process and remains in pending status until payment is confirmed. While pending, the account does not enable access to the service: signing in redirects to the completion of payment.

5.2. If payment is not confirmed within seven (7) calendar days of creation, the pending account and the information entered in it are deleted, in line with the principles of necessity and purpose limitation. Deletion does not prevent a new purchase at any time.

6. Plan changes and dormant content

6.1. If you move to a plan with lower limits, your content is not deleted immediately. Whatever exceeds the new plan’s limit becomes dormant: it leaves lists, counters and searches, but remains stored, with folders, tags and read state intact.

6.2. You choose what stays active: the plan-change screen proposes a selection based on your usage, and you may change it freely. If you return to a plan that accommodates the full volume, dormant content is reactivated in full.

6.3. Dormant content is preserved for at least three (3) months from the plan change. After that period, if you have not returned to a plan that accommodates it or reduced the stored volume, dormant content may be permanently deleted, together with the corresponding backups, in the regular disposal cycle.

6.4. The deletion described in clause 6.3 reaches only dormant content — notes, files, saved pages and lists exceeding the current plan’s limit. Active content, within the plan’s limits, is not affected. Deletion is preceded by an e-mail notice fifteen (15) days in advance, stating what will be deleted and how to export it.

6.5. Once the subscription ends, clause 13 applies instead of this one.

7. Third-party content and removals

7.1. The articles displayed come from the sources you choose to subscribe to. Rights in that content belong to their authors and publishers. FeedSink fetches, stores and displays that content to enable your personal reading, and is not responsible for what the sources publish.

7.2. We do not promise completeness. Some sites do not permit display of the full text — for copyright reasons, technical blocking, or at the site’s own request — and in those cases the service shows what the source publishes in the feed, with a link to the original.

7.3. Nor do we promise perpetual retention of third-party content. An article may be withdrawn from the service without prior notice: at the request of a rights holder, because a source is blocked, by a moderation decision, or by legal obligation.

8. Curation, moderation and reporting

8.1. The screens that recommend content — monitoring, global search, catalogue and suggestions — are subject to source curation and a keyword filter. It protects what the service offers to people who did not ask for it; it does not restrict what you chose: a source you subscribe to directly is not filtered.

8.2. Every recommended result has a reporting channel. A report hides the content immediately for the person who reported it and opens our review. If confirmed, the content is withdrawn from the recommendation screens — those who subscribe to the source directly continue to see it — and, in serious cases, withdrawn for everyone.

8.3. Unlawful content, in particular child sexual abuse or exploitation material, is permanently removed from the entire platform and the source is banned. Of removed content we retain only the administrative record of the act, with no copy, save for the preservation duty in clause 12.

9. Your content

9.1. Your folders, lists and saved pages remain yours. You grant us only the licence necessary to operate the service — to store, process and display it to you.

9.2. Output feeds and clipping pages are published by your own decision and under your responsibility: the URL is the access key, and whoever receives it can see the content.

10. Your personal notes

10.1. The notes you write — including those created by turning an article into a note — form your personal archive. They are not deleted when the original content leaves the platform: a rights holder’s removal request, a blocked source, an article withdrawn by the publisher or a moderation decision do not reach your note.

10.2. The only exception is unlawful content. In that case removal reaches the whole platform, including notes derived from that content, located through the origin record the note stores, and the account holder is notified. A note written entirely by you is never reached by that sweep.

11. Your archive: files and synchronisation with your devices

11.1. FeedSink provides space for you to store your notes and the files that accompany them, including by synchronisation with your devices. The content is yours: you remain its owner, and we do not use it for any purpose beyond providing the service — we do not train models on it, we do not sell it and we do not show it to third parties.

11.2. The space is private to each account: there is no public listing, no public link and no sharing of these files. Our team does not browse your content; technical access occurs only where indispensable to operating the service — for example, to handle a support request you opened, to run a storage migration or to investigate a fault — and is logged.

11.3. You may not use the space to store or transmit unlawful content, in particular child sexual abuse or exploitation material, content that infringes the rights of others, or malicious files.

11.4. What we do upon becoming aware. When we are informed — by a competent authority, by a court order, by a report, or by observation in the course of operating the service — that there is unlawful content in your account, we remove it, we may suspend the account, and we comply with applicable legal obligations, including preservation and notification to the authorities. We do not carry out active or general monitoring of your content; we act on what is brought to our attention.

11.5. Content removed by legal order or for a serious violation is not restored. We retain only the administrative record of the act — what was removed, when, and on what basis — together with whatever clause 12 requires us to preserve.

11.6. Synchronisation is not a backup. Synchronisation mirrors the state of both ends: deleting on one side deletes on the other. The service provides a safety net — a scope warning before a synchronised folder is deleted, a thirty (30) day recovery area, and an automatic stop when a pass would remove a large volume of files at once — which does not replace your own backup.

11.7. Technical limits on total space and on the size of each file and each note are shown in your account and may change on notice. Synchronisation depends on your equipment and your connection.

12. Preservation required by law

12.1. Where a competent authority requires the preservation of content or records, we comply: the material is held in a separate environment and under confidentiality, for the period required, and is not disclosed to third parties without the legal authorisation required.

12.2. Preservation prevails over the deletion periods in clause 13. While it is in force, the material is not deleted, even if the subscription has ended and even if the data subject requests deletion. You are informed of this whenever the law permits us to inform you.

12.3. Access logs are retained for the period stated in the applicable Annex, under confidentiality and in a controlled environment. That period runs regardless of the end of the subscription and of the deletion of your content.

13. End of subscription and deletion of content

13.1. A distinction. Your account data — name, e-mail address and payment history — and your content — notes, files, folders and lists — serve different purposes and therefore have different retention periods. This clause deals with each separately.

13.2. Deletion of content. Once the subscription ends, whether by cancellation, non-payment or closure of the account, your content is retained for thirty (30) days and then permanently deleted, together with the corresponding backups, in the regular disposal cycle. During those thirty days you may export it in full or reactivate the subscription and recover it. We send an e-mail at the start of the period and again seven (7) days before deletion.

13.3. Why there is a period. Storage is a recurring cost, and sustaining it depends on the corresponding subscription. Nor is it appropriate to hold indefinitely a private archive belonging to an inactive account, whose content we do not know and over which we have no means to act.

13.4. Early deletion. You may request immediate deletion of your content at any time, without waiting for the period in clause 13.2, from your account or through the contact address. If you delete the account, the period in clause 13.2 runs from the date of deletion.

13.5. Suspension for violation. We may suspend access for a violation of these terms. On suspension, content is not deleted immediately and remains available for export, unless the law or an order from an authority prevents it. In cases of serious violation, notably unlawful content, access is terminated, the unlawful content is placed beyond your reach immediately and, where a preservation duty exists, it is held under clause 12 and destroyed at the end of the legal period.

13.6. Account data. Account data and payment records are retained, after deletion of the content, for as long as necessary to comply with legal, accounting and tax obligations and to exercise rights in legal proceedings, and are then erased. Outside those cases, your rights under the applicable data protection law apply in full, including the right to erasure.

13.7. Prohibition. We do not sell, assign or repurpose the content of a closed account, before or after the deletion period.

14. Availability and warranties

14.1. FeedSink is provided as is, without warranty of uninterrupted availability. We take regular backups; even so, we recommend that you export whatever is critical to you. Neither synchronisation nor our backups replace your own backup.

14.2. The service applies technical limits per file and per note, in addition to the total space included in the plan. Current values are published in the documentation and shown on screen when reached; they may be adjusted to protect the platform, with prior notice where the change is restrictive. Reaching a limit does not delete, archive or hide what is already stored: it only prevents new writes until space is available.

15. Liability

15.1. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, FeedSink’s liability is limited to direct damages arising from a proven failure of the service. Nothing in these terms excludes rights that the law of your country grants you and does not allow to be excluded.

16. Governing law and venue

16.1. Governing law and venue are those stated in the Annex applicable to you.

17. Changes to these terms

17.1. These terms may be updated; the date shown at the beginning identifies the version in force. Material changes are announced in the product and, where required, by e-mail.

17.2. A change that shortens a retention period for your content takes effect only after notice given at least thirty (30) days in advance.