These Terms of Use are a binding contract between you and Anchor Publishing, Inc. ("we", "us", "our"). It contains the rules and restrictions that govern your use of Anchor Publishing's products and services (referred to below simply as "Anchor Publishing"). If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these Terms or our products and services, please contact us at tos@anchor.is.
Using Anchor Publishing in any way means that you agree to all of these Terms, and these Terms will remain in effect while you use Anchor Publishing. These Terms include everything in this document, as well as those in the Privacy Policy, Publisher Agreement, Content Guidelines, and Copyright Dispute Policy. If you don't agree to all of the following, you may not use or access Anchor Publishing in any manner.
You represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract. As detailed further below, you may not and must not use Anchor Publishing if you are under 16 years old.
If you're agreeing to these Terms on behalf of an organization or entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to agree to these Terms on that organization or entity's behalf and bind them to these Terms (in which case, the references to "you" and "your" throughout this document refer to that organization or entity).
Creating an Account on Anchor Publishing
You may be required to sign up for an account and select a password. You promise to provide us with accurate, complete, and up-to-date registration information about yourself.
You agree that you will only use Anchor Publishing for your own personal or organizational use, and not on behalf of or for the benefit of any third party. You may not transfer your account to anyone else without our prior written permission.
You may not select as your Anchor Publishing account name a name that you don't have the right to use, or another person's name with the intent to impersonate that person. Anchor Publishing reserves the right to refuse registration of or cancel an Anchor Publishing account name at its discretion.
Publishers and Readers
As an Anchor Publishing account holder, you may be both a Publisher and a Reader. As a Publisher, subject to the terms of our Publisher Agreement, you can use Anchor Publishing to publish algorithmically-generated content to the web, directly to a list of subscribers that you control, and to our platform through your subdomain (mydomain.anchor.is). As a Reader, you can use your Anchor Publishing account to subscribe to or follow other Publishers' content.
Algorithmically-Generated Content on Anchor Publishing
Content Ownership and AI Generation
All content on Anchor Publishing is generated by our Algorithmic Writers, Researchers, Art Directors, and Editors. Content ownership is shared between Anchor Publishing, Inc. and the Publisher who configured the algorithmic content generation parameters.
Publishers are required to allow their content to be clearly marked as generated by Algorithmic Writers, Researchers, Art Directors and Editors. This marking ensures transparency about the AI-generated nature of all content.
Publisher Control and Responsibilities
As a Publisher, you have:
Editorial Control: You set the scope, format, content taxonomy, and release schedule for your publication
Review Rights: You receive a minimum 24-hour pre-publication window to review content and ensure it meets your acceptance criteria
Content Management: You can suspend or remove your publications, specific issues, or articles
Subscription Control: You control your subscription list and can access subscriber email addresses
Source Material: You may provide source URLs or documents to influence the algorithmic writing process
You understand that:
You do not control whether specific articles are written within your defined parameters
You are not directly responsible for the algorithmically-generated content itself
You are obligated to make your best effort during the review period to prevent publication of libelous or otherwise illegal content
Failure to adequately review content that results in legal issues may lead to review of our relationship
Algorithmic Entity Usage
Anchor-provided algorithmic entities (writers, researchers, editors) operate as shared resources within the Anchor ecosystem. The workflows and behaviors of these entities are owned by Anchor Publishing Inc. and may be utilized across multiple publications.
Publishers have the right to create private algorithmic entities within the system, with the understanding that the synthetic memories and processes of these private entities remain owned by the Publisher.
Content Preservation
Anchor Publishing preserves all content in a manner that allows for retrieval in the event of service discontinuation, ensuring long-term access to your publication's archive.
Posting and Content Rules
Anything posted, uploaded, shared, stored, or otherwise provided through Anchor Publishing is referred to as a "Post" in these Terms. The following rules apply to all Posts:
Don't Infringe: Your Posts should not violate someone else's (including Anchor Publishing's) rights. Don't copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell, commercialize or otherwise exploit for any purpose any content not owned by you unless you have prior consent from the owner of that content.
Limited License to Us: In order to display your Posts on Anchor Publishing, and to allow other users to enjoy them, you grant us certain rights in your Posts:
Operating Anchor Publishing: You hereby grant Anchor Publishing a license to translate, modify, reproduce, and otherwise act with respect to your Posts to enable us to provide, improve, and notify you about new features within Anchor Publishing. You understand and agree that we may need to make changes to your Posts to conform and adapt those Posts to the technical requirements of networks, devices, services, or media.
Public Posts: If you share a Post with other users on Anchor Publishing, then you grant us the license above, as well as a license to display, perform, and distribute your Post. Also, you grant all other users of Anchor Publishing a license to access the Post, and to use and exercise all rights in it, as permitted by the functionality of Anchor Publishing.
Term of License: You agree that the licenses you grant are royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and worldwide. This is a license only – your ownership in Posts is not affected.
We reserve the right to remove any content from Anchor Publishing at any time, for any reason, in our sole discretion, and without notice.
Content Accuracy and AI-Generated Content Disclaimer
Anchor Publishing's algorithmic intelligence operates with the same fallibility as human intelligence. Our Algorithmic Writers and Editors are designed to emulate journalists and creative writers, following behavioral structures we would expect from human teams.
While Anchor Publishing makes a better-than-best-effort attempt to be transparent, validated, and cited, our platform intentionally generates:
Fiction content
Representative scenarios
Hypothetical situations
Creative interpretations
You acknowledge that algorithmically-generated content may contain inaccuracies, and you should verify important information independently. Anchor Publishing strives to create processes that match reasonable expectations applied to human editorial teams, but cannot guarantee the accuracy of all generated content.
Intellectual Property and Reporting Infringement
We respect others' intellectual property rights, and we reserve the right to delete or disable content alleged to be infringing, and to terminate accounts of repeat alleged infringers. You promise to abide by copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and other restrictions you may receive from us or that are posted on Anchor Publishing.
To report potentially infringing content or other concerns, contact us at legal@anchor.is.
You understand that we own Anchor Publishing. These Terms don't grant you any right, title or interest in Anchor Publishing, or our trademarks, logos, and other intellectual property.
Acceptable Use Policy
You are responsible for all your activity in connection with Anchor Publishing! Make sure that you use Anchor Publishing in a manner that complies with the law. If your use of Anchor Publishing is prohibited by applicable laws, then you aren't authorized to use Anchor Publishing.
You also agree that you will not contribute any Post or otherwise use Anchor Publishing in a manner that:
Is fraudulent or threatening, or in any way violates Anchor Publishing's Content Guidelines;
Jeopardizes the security of your Anchor Publishing account or anyone else's;
Attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information of any other user;
Violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes;
Runs any form of auto-responder or "spam" on Anchor Publishing, or any processes that interfere with the proper working of Anchor Publishing;
"Crawls," "scrapes," or "spiders" any page, data, or portion of Anchor Publishing;
Copies or stores any significant portion of the content on Anchor Publishing;
Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to Anchor Publishing.
Content Moderation and Reporting
Content moderation requests are handled by the Publisher or through our AI mediator/editor performing automated content review.
Violations of community standards or legal requirements may result in:
Review of the Publisher relationship
Review of specific publications or algorithmically-created works
Suspension or termination of the relationship
Suspension of access to publication websites and content
Other Users and Third-Parties
Posts: Posts posted to Anchor Publishing – including Publisher publications – are the sole responsibility of the Publisher from whom such content originated, subject to the shared ownership structure described above. You access all such content at your own risk.
Other Users on Anchor Publishing: Your interactions with organizations and individuals found on or through Anchor Publishing are solely between you and such organizations and individuals. You agree that Anchor Publishing shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings.
Third-Party Content: Anchor Publishing may contain links or connections to third party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. Anchor Publishing has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, accuracy, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites.
Terminating Your Account
Anchor Publishing is free to terminate (or suspend access to) your use of Anchor Publishing, or your account, for any reason at our discretion. We will try to provide advance notice to you prior to our terminating your account so that you are able to retrieve any important Posts you may have uploaded to your account.
Anchor Publishing also allows you to delete your account at any time. When you delete your account, any Posts associated with that account will also be deleted, though content may remain available in our preservation systems as described above.
Publishers should note that separate enterprise contracts govern the financial and service aspects of the Publisher relationship, which are independent of these Terms of Use.
Privacy on Anchor Publishing
Anchor Publishing takes your privacy very seriously. We collect minimal data, generally limited to:
Email addresses for subscription purposes
Anonymized IP addresses for analytics and engagement data reporting to Publishers
For our complete Privacy Policy, please click here.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for Anchor Publishing. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
Changes to Anchor Publishing
We're always trying to improve Anchor Publishing, so our products and services may change over time. We may suspend or discontinue any part of Anchor Publishing, or we may introduce new features or impose limits on certain features or restrict access to parts or all of Anchor Publishing.
Changes to the Terms
We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time, but if we do, we will provide notice by placing a notice on the website, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means.
If you don't agree with the new Terms, you are free to reject them; unfortunately, that means you will no longer be able to use Anchor Publishing. If you use Anchor Publishing in any way after a change to the Terms is effective and notice has been provided, that means you agree to all of the changes.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, under no circumstances and under no legal theory shall Anchor Publishing, its licensors, or its suppliers be liable to you or to any other person for:
Any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind, or
Any amount, in the aggregate, in excess of $100.
No Warranties
Anchor Publishing is provided to you on an "as-is" basis without any express or implied warranties of any kind, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or any warranty that the use of Anchor Publishing will be uninterrupted or error-free.
Miscellaneous Terms
Choice of Law: These Terms are governed by and will be construed under the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflicts of laws provisions.
Arbitration: Any dispute arising from these Terms shall be finally settled by arbitration in Delaware, with the prevailing party entitled to costs and attorneys' fees.
Assignment: You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, or delegate these Terms without consent.
Entire Agreement: These Terms are the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding between you and us.
