Terms of Service
In short
iterate.guru is a research preview built by one person. You can use it for free, but it has no SLA, no warranty, and your data may be removed with notice. Don't upload anything illegal or anything you'd be unhappy losing. By using the service you agree to the terms below.
About the service
iterate.guru is a tool for publishing AI-generated drafts, sharing them with named reviewers, collecting structured feedback, and using AI to summarize that feedback into a clear next version. It is operated as a research preview by Maksym Haponenko, an individual based in Ukraine, reachable at gaponenko.mm@gmail.com.
Because this is a research preview, expect the following:
- The service may be unavailable, slow, or interrupted at any time.
- We may change, restrict, or remove features without notice.
- We may delete artifacts, comments, or accounts with reasonable notice if we need to. “Reasonable notice” means at least 14 days by email to the address on your account, except where the law requires us to act faster.
- We do not offer any service-level agreement, uptime guarantee, or paid support.
Who can use it
To use iterate.guru you need to:
- Have a Google account, since Google sign-in is currently the only way to publish or comment as a logged-in user.
- Agree to these terms and to our Privacy Notice.
If you're under 18, please use iterate.guru with a parent's or guardian's awareness — the service isn't designed for children, but we don't actively block younger users (school students using it for AI-assisted projects are welcome). If you're a parent or guardian and want a young person's account removed, email us and we'll delete it.
If you're using iterate.guru on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you're allowed to bind that organization to these terms.
Your account
We create your account when you first sign in with Google. You're responsible for what happens under your account, including anything reviewers do with share links you generate.
You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account → Delete account. When you do, we remove your profile, your artifacts, the files behind them, and the share links you created — immediately, not on a delay. Comments other reviewers left on your artifacts are deleted with the artifacts.
Comments you left on other people's artifacts are handled differently: we anonymize them rather than delete them. The comment text stays on the artifact so the owner doesn't lose feedback context, but your name and email are detached from it. After anonymization, the comment is no longer associated with you.
We may keep technical logs (errors, abuse signals) for a short period after deletion — see the Privacy Notice.
Your content
You keep ownership of every file, comment, and piece of metadata you upload to iterate.guru. We don't claim any rights to your content.
To run the service, you grant us a limited license to store, transmit, display, and process your content for the sole purpose of operating iterate.guru — including running it through an LLM (currently Anthropic Claude) to summarize feedback or extract metadata. We do not use your content to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.
You are responsible for what you upload. Don't upload content you don't have the right to share. Don't upload content that's illegal, infringes on someone else's rights, or that you'd be in trouble for if it leaked. If we get a credible complaint, we may remove the content and notify you.
Acceptable use
Don't use iterate.guru to:
- Upload illegal, infringing, defamatory, or harmful content (including malware, CSAM, or content that violates someone's privacy).
- Attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape at scale, or abuse the API or MCP server.
- Send spam or unsolicited invitations to people who haven't agreed to be reviewers.
- Circumvent rate limits or otherwise burden the service in a way that affects other users.
We may suspend or terminate your account if you do any of the above.
AI-generated outputs
Some features of iterate.guru run your content through an LLM — for example, the feedback summary that turns reviewer comments into a “what to change next” digest. These outputs are generated automatically and may contain mistakes, hallucinations, or misrepresentations of what reviewers actually said.
Treat AI-generated summaries as a starting point, not a verdict. The original comments are always available on the artifact page, and you should read them before making decisions that matter.
Changes to the service or these terms
We may update these terms when the service changes. If a change materially affects you, we'll notify you by email and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continuing to use iterate.guru after the effective date means you accept the new terms.
You can stop using the service at any time. We can terminate your access if you break these terms or if we decide to shut the service down — in the second case, we'll give you at least 14 days' notice and a way to export anything that's still useful.
No warranty
iterate.guru is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or uninterrupted operation. We do not warrant that the service will be error-free, secure, or available at any specific time.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator's total liability arising out of or related to your use of iterate.guru is limited to €100. We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.
Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law — including, for EU/EEA users, liability for death, personal injury, or intentional misconduct.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising under these terms may be brought before the competent courts of Ukraine.
If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, this clause does not deprive you of the protections of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings before the courts of your country of residence as required by EU consumer law.
Contact
Questions, complaints, or legal notices: gaponenko.mm@gmail.com.