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The agreement for using Distill: your account, your content, the limits, and what the summaries can and cannot promise. Version 1.0, in effect from 7 November 2026.

Version 1.0In effect from 7 November 2026Privacy Policy

1.These terms

  1. 1.1

    These terms are an agreement between you and Distill. By creating an account or starting a guest session, you accept them.

  2. 1.2

    If you do not accept them, do not use Distill. The Privacy Policy explains what is kept about you.

2.The service

  1. 2.1

    Distill writes short summaries of text you paste, using Anthropic's Claude. Each point links to the sentences it came from, and the figures in a summary are checked against your text.

  2. 2.2

    Distill is a portfolio project, offered as it is and free of charge. It may change, pause or stop.

3.Accounts and guests

  1. 3.1

    You must be 18 or over. Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what happens in your account.

  2. 3.2

    Guest sessions need no account and have lower limits. A guest can turn the session into an account at any time and keep its summaries.

4.Acceptable use

  1. 4.1

    Use Distill lawfully. Do not paste content you have no right to process, and do not use it to harm others.

  2. 4.2

    Do not try to get around the limits, break into other accounts, overload the service or reach parts of it you are not given.

  3. 4.3

    Anthropic's own usage policy also applies to the text that is sent to Claude.

5.Your content

  1. 5.1

    What you paste and the summaries made from it are yours. You give Distill only the permission it needs to process them, store them in your account and show them to you.

  2. 5.2

    You can export or delete your content at any time, as the Privacy Policy describes.

6.Limits

  1. 6.1

    Accounts can make up to 10 summaries an hour and 30 a day; guests up to 5 an hour. A text can be up to 20,000 characters.

  2. 6.2

    The service has its own spend caps. When one is reached, new summaries pause until it resets, and the app says so.

  3. 6.3

    A summary that fails before it is finished does not count against your limit.

7.Summaries can be wrong

  1. 7.1

    Summaries are written by an AI model and can be incomplete or wrong. The links to the source and the figure checks are there so you can check, not a promise that nothing was missed.

  2. 7.2

    Do not rely on a summary alone for legal, medical, financial or other important decisions. Read the source.

8.Suspension and ending

  1. 8.1

    Accounts that break these terms can be suspended. Suspended accounts are signed out and cannot sign in or make summaries; their content is kept, not deleted.

  2. 8.2

    You can end the agreement at any time by deleting your account.

9.Intellectual property

  1. 9.1

    Distill's code, design and name belong to Jerome Badour. The source is published for viewing only; see the licence in the repository.

10.Disclaimers and liability

  1. 10.1

    Distill is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, as far as the law allows.

  2. 10.2

    As far as the law allows, Distill is not liable for losses that come from using it or from relying on a summary.

11.Changes and contact

  1. 11.1

    If these terms change, the new version and its date appear here before they apply.

  2. 11.2

    Questions: privacy@jeromebadour.com.