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Terms of service

The rules of using EarlyWave: the website, the web app and the Android and iOS apps. Written to be read, not skimmed.

Last updated 30 September 2026

1. Who we are, what you accept

EarlyWave is published by DEVFI, SASU, a simplified single-shareholder company under French law, registered in Paris under number 987 710 027, with its registered office at 60 rue François Ier, 75008 Paris, France (“EarlyWave”, “we”). Full details are in the Legal notice.

These terms apply to the website earlywave.ai, the EarlyWave web application and the EarlyWave applications for Android and iOS (together, “the Service”). By creating an account, signing in or using the Service you accept these terms and the Privacy & cookies policy, including the analytics cookies it describes. If you use the Service on behalf of a company, you confirm you may bind it, and “you” means that company.

2. The Service

EarlyWave gathers the sources you follow (RSS feeds, newsletters received on your @earlywave.email address, pages you save) and sources EarlyWave already indexes, and shows them as articles, trends, topics and briefs. It summarises, translates and answers questions about them, in one conversation, with links to the articles it used. Some answers use web search and page reading beyond your sources.

Summaries, translations, trends and answers are produced by software, including artificial-intelligence models. They can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. They are information to help you read, not professional, legal, financial, medical or investment advice. Check the sources before you act on them.

You can also send a selection of sources to third-party assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). What leaves EarlyWave is shown to you first; those services are governed by their own terms, not ours.

3. Your account

  • You must be at least 16 years old to create an account, and 18 to buy a plan.
  • One account per person. Keep your sign-in method (Google account or email code) secure; you are responsible for what is done with it.
  • Give accurate information and keep your email address current: it is how we reach you about your plan, your routines and these terms.
  • Without a plan, an account can browse what EarlyWave already follows. Adding your own sources, the AI reading, the newsletter address, routines and the conversation require a plan.

4. Plans, payment, cancellation

Plans, prices and what each includes are shown on the Pricing page at the time you subscribe; prices include VAT. Payment on the web is processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number. Subscriptions bought inside the iOS or Android app are billed by Apple or Google under their own terms; you manage and cancel them in your App Store or Google Play account, and any refund follows their rules.

  • Renewal. Plans renew monthly until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your plan page or your app store; access continues to the end of the paid period and is not renewed.
  • Upgrades and downgrades. An upgrade applies immediately for the amount quoted before you confirm. A downgrade takes effect at the end of the current period.
  • Extra usage. Reserves of extra usage you buy are spent only after your plan’s meter and do not expire; they are not refundable once used, and require an active plan to be spent.
  • Right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the European Union, you have 14 days from the first subscription to withdraw. You agree that the Service starts immediately; if you withdraw, the price of the days already used is due and the rest is refunded.
  • Price changes. We may change prices for future periods with at least 30 days’ notice by email. If you do not agree, cancel before the new price applies.
  • Team plans are set out in a separate agreement with the team.

5. Usage and fair use

Each plan comes with a weekly allowance, shown as a percentage in the app. Reading never counts. Asking, following a topic and using the web move the meter in proportion to the work behind an answer, as described on How the meter works. Web search and page reading are included within daily fair-use limits; beyond them, they count on the meter. Boosts and extra usage are described on the same page.

We may apply reasonable technical limits (rates, sizes, concurrent runs) to keep the Service fast and fair for everyone, and we may lower a limit for an account whose use is abusive or automated beyond what the plan is for.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, harass, or spread malware;
  • scrape, copy or redistribute the Service’s data in bulk, or resell access to it, other than through the API and MCP features we offer and under their limits;
  • circumvent the meter, the fair-use limits, the plan gates or any security measure;
  • add sources you have no right to read, or use the newsletter address for anything other than subscribing to publications;
  • use the Service to build a competing dataset or to train models on its outputs at scale;
  • attempt to identify individuals from aggregated data, or to access another account.

7. Content and sources

Third-party articles belong to their publishers. EarlyWave shows titles, short excerpts, its own summaries and links, and never claims the articles as its own. Publishers who want a feed removed can write to us (Legal notice).

Your content (the sources you add, your questions, topics, notes, highlights and saved items, the newsletters you receive) stays yours. You grant us the licence needed to store it, process it, summarise it and show it back to you, and to the members of your team when you share it with them. We do not sell it and we do not use it to advertise to you.

Answers and summaries we produce for you may be used by you freely, with the sources they cite. They are generated automatically; you are responsible for how you use them.

8. Intellectual property

The Service, its software, design, trademarks and texts belong to DEVFI or its licensors. These terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for as long as you have an account and respect them. Nothing else is granted. Feedback you give us may be used to improve the Service without obligation.

9. Availability and changes

We work to keep the Service available at all times but cannot promise it: sources change, providers fail, and we maintain and improve the Service continuously, sometimes with features marked as beta or “soon”. We may add, change or withdraw features. If a change removes something essential from a plan you pay for, we tell you in advance and you may cancel with a pro-rata refund of the current period.

10. Suspension, termination, deletion

  • You can stop using the Service at any time, and delete your account from the app’s settings or by writing to us. Deleting the account ends your plan at the end of the paid period and removes your personal data as described in the Privacy policy.
  • We may suspend or end an account that breaks these terms, does not pay, or puts the Service or other users at risk, with notice when the law requires it and without notice when the risk is immediate.
  • Invoices and the records the law requires us to keep survive deletion, anonymised where possible.

11. Warranties and liability

The Service is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranty that it is error-free or uninterrupted, or that its summaries, trends and answers are accurate or complete. We are not liable for indirect losses, lost profits or decisions taken on the basis of the Service’s outputs. For paying customers, our total liability for a year is limited to the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for gross negligence, fraud, personal injury, or the mandatory rights of consumers.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For material changes we give at least 30 days’ notice by email or in the app before they apply; if you do not agree, cancel before that date. Continuing to use the Service after the date means you accept the new terms. The date at the top is the date of the current version.

13. Law, disputes, consumers

These terms are governed by French law. Consumers in the European Union keep the mandatory protections of their country of residence. If we cannot settle a dispute amicably, it comes before the competent courts of Paris, France, subject to the mandatory rules that apply to consumers. Consumers may also use a consumer mediator or the European Commission’s online dispute-resolution platform (ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr).

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@earlywave.ai, or by post to DEVFI, 60 rue François Ier, 75008 Paris, France.