Terms of Service
Last updated: 3 July 2026
These terms are an agreement between you and Think Tank Consulting Limited, and they govern your use of Perceptive.News. Please read them carefully. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the service.
Who we are
Perceptive.News is provided by Think Tank Consulting Limited, a company incorporated in New Zealand (“we”, “us”, “our”). You can reach us at support@perceptive.news.
What Perceptive.News does
Perceptive.News gathers news articles from third-party sources and uses automated scoring to help you find the articles most relevant to the interests you tell us about. The articles themselves are created and owned by their respective publishers; we simply help you discover and prioritise them. We don’t control, endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of any third-party content.
Beta service, and our responsibility
Heads up — Perceptive.News is in beta. It’s a work in progress, so things can and sometimes will go wrong. We try hard to be useful, but we can’t promise the service will be accurate, complete, reliable, or available at any given time.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Think Tank Consulting Limited gives no warranties or guarantees of any kind and takes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, out-of-date or incorrect information, missed articles, AI-generated scores or summaries, downtime, or any loss or damage arising from your use of (or inability to use) the service. You use Perceptive.News at your own risk, and you are responsible for how you rely on anything you find here.
Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or Fair Trading Act 1986 that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you use the service for the purposes of a business, you agree that those Acts do not apply.
Your account
- You must provide accurate information and keep your account details up to date.
- You are responsible for activity that happens under your account and for keeping your credentials secure. Accounts are for a single person and shouldn’t be shared.
- Tell us promptly at support@perceptive.news if you think your account has been compromised.
Signing in with Google
You can choose to sign up or log in using your Google account. If you do, you also agree to Google’s applicable terms, and you authorise us to receive the limited profile information described in our Privacy Policy. We never receive your Google password.
Acceptable use
When using Perceptive.News, you agree not to:
- Break the law, infringe others’ rights, or use the service for anything harmful, abusive, or fraudulent.
- Attempt to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the service or its infrastructure.
- Scrape, harvest, resell, or systematically extract content or data from the service except as the service expressly allows.
- Attempt to reverse engineer or interfere with how the service works, except where the law permits it.
Content and intellectual property
News articles, summaries of third-party articles, and other source material remain the property of their respective owners and are subject to their own terms. The Perceptive.News name, design, and software are owned by Think Tank Consulting Limited. You keep ownership of the interests and other information you provide, and you grant us the permission needed to operate the service for you (for example, to score and display articles based on your interests).
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information and forms part of these terms.
Suspension and termination
You can stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these terms, or where we reasonably need to in order to protect the service or other users. We may also change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service — especially while it is in beta.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to let you know. Continuing to use the service after changes take effect means you accept the updated terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand, and the New Zealand courts have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to them or to the service.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Email us at support@perceptive.news.