Terms of Use

Last updated: 4 May 2026

By creating an ORBIT account you agree to these terms. They're short on purpose.

Your account

You're responsible for what happens under your account. Keep your password to yourself, and let us know if you think someone else has gotten in. You must be old enough in your jurisdiction to enter a binding agreement.

Your content

Anything you write inside ORBIT — notes, articles, concepts, questions — stays yours. By publishing a note or article and sharing its link, you grant ORBIT permission to display it to people who visit that link. You can unpublish at any time.

Acceptable use

Don't use ORBIT to host illegal content, harass other people, infringe copyright, or attack the service (scraping, abusing the paper APIs, brute-forcing logins, that kind of thing). We may suspend accounts that do.

Paper metadata

Discovery results come from public sources (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef). ORBIT links to those sources but doesn't host the papers. Read each paper at its source under whatever licence it ships with.

No warranty

ORBIT is provided as-is. Back up the work that matters to you — Settings → Data has a one-click JSON export.

Changes

If we change these terms in any meaningful way we'll update the "last updated" date and let you know in-app. Continued use after changes means you accept them.

Termination

You can delete your account whenever you like from Settings → Data. We can also close accounts that violate these terms. After deletion your content is removed, public links stop working, and we keep only what we're legally required to retain.