Terms of use
wisst is an app for short articles, one idea each, and the discussions readers open by writing an insight. These terms are the agreement between you and wisst when you read or write on it.
About these terms
wisst is an independent project based in Israel, without a revenue model, run by Ronen Hayun as an individual. In these terms, “wisst” means the app, wisst.app and the person who runs them. By using wisst, as a guest or with an account, you agree to these terms, including the content rules below.
The privacy policy at wisst.app/privacy says what wisst keeps about you and why.
Who can use wisst
- You need to be 16 or older.
- People under 16 may not use wisst, even with a parent’s or guardian’s agreement.
- An account suspended until it’s lifted can’t be replaced with a new one.
Reading as a guest, writing with an account
- Anyone can read without signing in. The app makes a guest account for you, and wisst learns from what you read to choose your feed.
- Writing an insight, a reply or an article, following a writer and adding a photo need an account: Apple, Google or an email code, whichever are available. Signing in keeps what you read as a guest.
- You are responsible for what is done from your account and for keeping your sign-in secure: keep access to your email and your Apple or Google account to yourself.
- A guest account unused for 90 days is deleted.
- Your name shows on what you write. It can’t be the name of a widely known person, pose as wisst or its team, or advertise. Names don’t have to be unique.
What you may not post
There is no room on wisst for objectionable content or for people who abuse others. These are the content rules, for articles, insights, replies, names and photos. Nothing you post may:
- Attack people for who they are: origin, religion, gender, sexuality, disability.
- Target a private person. Criticizing what public figures do in public is not harassment.
- Publish someone’s address, phone number, documents or other private details.
- Threaten, incite or praise violence against particular people or groups. Describing and discussing violence is fine.
- Be sexually explicit, or sexualize minors in any way, with no exceptions. Sex education and health are fine.
- Give instructions that could get someone hurt: weapons, drugs, self-harm. Writing about these subjects is fine.
- Advertise or promote a product, service or offer.
- Be written as if by a real person other than you.
After a report, a person can also take down an article that is misleading or false, or text copied from someone else.
Not against the rules: opinions, disagreement, strong words about ideas, criticism of public figures, history and reporting, satire that says it is satire, and topics that are merely uncomfortable.
You also may not post anything illegal or anything you don’t have the right to share, get around a removal or a suspension, flood wisst with posts, or interfere with how wisst works.
Reports and blocking
- You can report an article, an insight, a reply or a person from the app. A report never hides anything by itself: someone on the wisst team reads it and decides against the content rules, usually within 24 hours.
- The team also reviews what the language model flags, and acts on what breaks the rules whether or not anyone reported it.
- You can block anyone. You stop seeing their articles, insights and replies, and they can’t reply to yours. They aren’t told.
- To report something illegal, or something that infringes your rights, you can also write to support@wisst.app, which is also where rights holders and authorities send notices. Say what it is, where it is (its link) and why; wisst reviews it and acts under these terms and the law.
Removals and suspensions
When something breaks the rules, someone on the team removes it, and wisst tells you which rule it broke, in Activity and by a notification. Each removal counts against the account for 90 days, and the next step follows from the removals before it:
- None in the last 90 days: a warning.
- One: suspended for 7 days.
- Two: suspended for 30 days.
- Three or more: suspended until someone on the team lifts it.
Threats or incitement, someone’s private details and sexual content lead straight to a suspension until it’s lifted. Attacks on people for who they are start one step higher. A person always confirms the step.
A suspended account can still read, follow, save drafts and download its data, but can’t publish, edit what is published, write insights or replies, report or add photos. Your page says until when and why.
Within 30 days of a removal you can ask for another look, once, from its notice, and someone on the team looks at it again. If they reverse it, an article comes back, the suspension it caused is lifted and the removal no longer counts. A removed insight or reply doesn’t come back, but you can write it again.
For illegal content or a serious risk to others, wisst may also close an account at once, without these steps.
What you write stays yours
You own what you write and the photos you add. Posting them on wisst doesn’t hand them over to wisst.
So that wisst can work, you give wisst a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, show, translate and share what you post, and to adapt it for display (fitting it to screens, link previews and share pictures), within wisst and on wisst.app. wisst’s service providers may process it under this licence only to run wisst. That means:
- Showing your articles in readers’ feeds, and your insights and replies to the readers who can see the discussion.
- Translating your articles and insights for readers of other languages, with the original always there.
- A page on wisst.app for each published article, which anyone with its link can open, and a preview picture of it for when the link is shared.
- Showing your name, photo and articles on your author page.
- Checking it with a language model, as below.
wisst doesn’t sell what you write and doesn’t use it to train language models.
The licence lasts while what you posted is in wisst. It ends when you delete it, or your account, except for copies others already shared, and backups until they expire. Insights other readers wrote on your articles are theirs, and stay in their journals.
Post only what you have the right to share: your own words and photos, or other people’s with their permission or as the law allows, with a source for what you quote.
The language model
wisst uses a language model to check articles, insights, replies, names and photos against the content rules, to give writers advice before they publish, to put a recorded article into its parts and to translate.
- It never judges whether a claim is true, or whether text was copied. Those come in through reports, and a person decides.
- An article it flags is held until a person looks at it, and a person decides whether it comes down.
- An insight, a reply, a name or a photo that clearly breaks a rule isn’t posted; you can change it and try again. When it isn’t sure, it lets things through.
- Its advice never stops you from publishing.
- Its translations can be wrong. The original is always there.
- A recording is put into the article’s parts in your own words, and the check lists any word you didn’t say. You read it before anything is published.
Your feed
wisst chooses which articles to show to whom, from the topics readers pick and what they read. No article is promised a number of readers.
Deleting your account
- Settings → Your account → Delete your account deletes it at once, with your articles, insights, replies, photos, drafts and settings. Download your data first if you want a copy.
- Insights other readers wrote on your articles stay in their journals.
- Reports about you are deleted; reports you filed stay, without your name.
- An article you delete can be restored for 30 days, then it is deleted with its photos.
- You can stop using wisst at any time.
wisst itself
- wisst is free and shows no ads. It may add paid features later, and will tell you before it does.
- wisst may change the service, or close it. Before it closes, wisst tells you at least 30 days ahead where it can, and you can download your data.
- Articles, insights and replies are their writers’ words, not wisst’s, and wisst doesn’t check whether they are true. An article shares an idea; it isn’t professional, medical, legal or financial advice.
- wisst is provided as is, without warranties of any kind: it may have mistakes and interruptions, and there is no promise that it will always be available or suit a particular purpose.
- As far as the law allows, wisst’s liability is limited: it isn’t responsible for losses that come from using wisst, from wisst being unavailable, or from what other people post on it.
- Nothing in these terms limits rights you have by law as a consumer that can’t be waived.
Changes
When these terms change, this page and its date change. wisst announces a change on wisst.app, and in the app for people who already use it, before it applies: at least 14 days before for a material change, except a change the law requires or one needed for safety, which can apply sooner.
If you keep using wisst after a change applies, you accept the new terms. If you don’t accept them, you can delete your account.
Law and disputes
- These terms are governed by the laws of Israel, and the competent courts in Tel Aviv hear disputes about them.
- If you use wisst as a consumer, this doesn’t take away protections the law of your own country gives you that can’t be waived, or your right to go to its courts where that law gives it to you.
Contact
wisst is run by Ronen Hayun and is reached by email. Questions about these terms, and anything else: support@wisst.app. About your data, or deleting your account: privacy@wisst.app.