Terms of service
Effective date: April 2026
Acceptance of terms
By accessing or using HearLore, you agree to be bound by these terms of service. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the service. Your continued use of HearLore after any changes to these terms constitutes your acceptance of those changes.
Description of service
HearLore provides audio summaries, topic pages, playlists, and related features derived from Wikipedia source material. All audio, text summaries, and topic connections are processed and produced by HearLore. The service is designed to help you discover and listen to stories about people, places, events, ideas, and cultural moments.
User accounts
You may create an account using an email address and password, or through Google or Apple sign-in. Account data is stored securely using Supabase. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.
Acceptable use
HearLore is intended for personal, non-commercial use. You may listen to audio summaries, browse topic pages, create playlists, and save entries to your library for your own personal enjoyment and learning. You may not use the service for any unlawful purpose or in any way that could damage, disable, or impair the service.
Prohibited use
The following activities are strictly prohibited without prior written permission from HearLore:
- Scraping, crawling, or using any automated means to access, collect, or download data from HearLore. This includes but is not limited to bots, spiders, scrapers, and any form of automated data extraction.
- Using any HearLore material, including text summaries, audio files, metadata, topic relationships, or graph data, to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise develop machine learning models or artificial intelligence systems of any kind.
- Reproducing, redistributing, publishing, or creating derivative works from HearLore audio recordings or text summaries without written consent from HearLore.
- Circumventing, disabling, or interfering with rate limits, bot detection, access controls, or any other security or technical measures implemented by HearLore.
Violation of these prohibitions may result in immediate account termination and may subject you to legal action.
Intellectual property
All audio summaries, text summaries, topic page compositions, graph data, and topic relationship mappings produced by HearLore are the intellectual property of HearLore. While the underlying factual information originates from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, the transformative works created by HearLore, including the written summaries, audio productions, and the structure of topic connections, are proprietary to HearLore.
User-generated organization
When you create playlists, save bookmarks, or organize entries in your library, you retain ownership of your organizational choices. By using the service, you grant HearLore a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, display, and transmit your playlists, bookmarks, and library organization as necessary to provide the service to you.
Termination
HearLore may suspend or terminate your account at any time if you violate these terms of service. Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases immediately. HearLore reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
Disclaimer of warranties
HearLore is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. HearLore does not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components. HearLore makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any information presented through the service.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, HearLore shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from your use of or inability to use the service.
Changes to these terms
HearLore may update these terms of service from time to time. When changes are made, the effective date at the top of this page will be updated. Your continued use of the service after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms.
Contact
If you have questions about these terms of service, please contact us at legal@hearlore.com.