Legal

Terms of Service

Last updated: 4 September 2026

These terms are a contract between you and the operator of Nouly (“Nouly”, “we”, “us”). They cover the Nouly bot on Telegram, the Nouly app that opens inside Telegram, and the website at nouly.app (together, “the service”). You accept them when you start the bot or finish setting up in the app — we tell you so on that screen — and by continuing to use the service afterwards. If you do not agree, do not use Nouly.

Nothing in these terms takes away rights that the law of the country you live in gives you as a consumer and does not let you waive. Where a clause here is narrower than such a right, the right wins for you and the clause applies to everyone else to the fullest extent allowed.

1. What Nouly is

Nouly delivers a daily digest of news on the country and topics you choose, lets you read stories with links to their sources, translates them into your language, answers questions about a story, and can draft social posts from one on request. It is free, offered as-is, and still evolving.

The stories are written by AI. Nouly’s automated systems read real reporting from third-party publishers and write a short version of it, translate it, and answer your questions about it. Every story links to the reporting it was written from. Nouly is not a newspaper, not a publisher of original journalism, and not an adviser of any kind. Section 5 says what that means for you.

Nouly is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Telegram, or by any of the publishers whose reporting it links to. Telegram’s own terms govern your use of Telegram, including Telegram Stars.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 16 years old, or older if your country sets a higher age for agreeing to terms like these online, and you must be allowed to use Telegram under Telegram’s terms. We do not verify age; by using Nouly you confirm you meet this requirement. If we learn that a user is under age we will delete the account.

Your Nouly account is your Telegram account. You are responsible for everything that happens through it with the bot, whether or not you did it yourself. If you think someone else is using it, secure your Telegram account first and then tell us.

3. Nouly Premium — payments, renewals, refunds

Premium is optional and paid. This section applies only if you buy it; the free service is not affected. There are two plans and they work differently: the monthly plan renews itself, the yearly plan does not.

Price. Premium is sold in Telegram Stars. The price is shown on the plan screen and again on Telegram’s payment sheet before you confirm. Nothing is charged until you confirm that sheet. Stars are bought from Telegram under Telegram’s terms; their price in your currency is set by Telegram and the app store you bought them through, not by us.
Payments go through Telegram. Telegram processes the payment and holds your Stars balance. We never see or store card or payment details; we receive only a confirmation that a charge succeeded, its Telegram identifier, and the amount.
Monthly plan. A subscription: it runs for 30 days and renews automatically for another 30 days, charging you again each time, until you cancel. Telegram performs the renewal charge.
Yearly plan. A single purchase, not a subscription. You pay once, you get 365 days of Premium, and nothing renews and nothing is charged again. There is no subscription to cancel; when the year is up Premium simply ends unless you buy again, and we tell you when it does.
Cancelling the monthly plan. Any time, from the menu in the Nouly app (Nouly Premium → Manage) or from Telegram’s own settings (Settings → My Stars). Cancelling stops future charges; Premium stays active until the end of the period you already paid for. Nothing is taken away early, and nothing already paid is refunded because you cancelled.
Access starts immediately, and the 14-day withdrawal right does not apply. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or UK you normally have 14 days to withdraw from an online purchase. Premium is digital content that is delivered the moment you pay. The plan screen and the payment sheet both tell you that access starts immediately and that by paying you agree to that and lose the right of withdrawal; by confirming the payment you give that agreement. This is what the law requires for the right to end, and it is why we ask.
Refunds we give anyway. Even so, send /help in the bot and choose Payment support if something went wrong with a charge from the last 14 days. We refund duplicate or mistaken charges, and any charge where Premium was not actually delivered. Refunds are returned as Stars through Telegram. Whether a charge qualifies is our decision, made in good faith; a refunded charge ends the Premium it paid for. Statutory rights that cannot be waived are not affected by this paragraph. Telegram may also refund a Stars charge under its own rules, independently of us.
Codes, gift links and free periods. We may issue discount codes, gift links, streak rewards or other free periods of Premium. They are promotional: they can be limited by person, number of uses and time, they have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for Stars or money, and can be withdrawn — including after being shared — if they are published, resold, automated or otherwise abused. A free period ends on its own; nothing renews and nothing is charged unless you buy.
Price changes. A new price applies from your next renewal, never to a period already paid. A yearly plan you have bought is never repriced. If we raise the monthly price we tell you before the renewal it applies to, and you can cancel before it.
What Premium includes can change. Premium features are listed on the plan screen at the time you buy. We may add, alter or replace features over time. If we remove something material you were paying for, you may cancel, and if the removal leaves the period you paid for substantially worse we refund the unused part.
If we stop selling Premium. We may withdraw Premium from sale at any time. Everything already paid for runs to the end of its period, you keep the ability to cancel and to ask for a refund, and we do not charge you again for something we have stopped offering.
Taxes. Any tax on a Stars purchase is handled by Telegram or the app store where you bought the Stars, under their terms.

4. Using Nouly responsibly

You may use Nouly for your own personal, non-commercial reading. You agree not to:

Use Nouly for anything unlawful, or to harass, threaten, defame, deceive or harm anyone.
Send the bot content that is illegal, abusive, sexual involving minors, or that you have no right to share.
Break, probe, overload, scrape, crawl, mirror, reverse-engineer or copy the service, its data or its stories, or access it by any means other than the interfaces Telegram and we provide.
Get around a limit, a cap, a paywall, a ban or a waiting list — including by using more than one Telegram account, sharing or automating codes, or feeding the bot content designed to manipulate its AI.
Resell, sublicense or commercially redistribute Nouly’s stories, drafts, translations or feed, or build a competing product on them.
Present something Nouly wrote as your own reporting, as a publisher’s words, or as fact you have verified when you have not.

Usage limits. Free and Premium tiers each have limits — on topics, keywords, daily AI drafts, extra fetches, questions to the assistant and how often you can call the bot. The current limits are shown in the app. We may change them, and may throttle or refuse use that is excessive, automated or costly, because every AI call Nouly makes costs money and a small number of accounts can otherwise consume what is meant for everyone.

Suspension and bans. We may restrict, suspend or permanently ban an account that breaks these terms, that we reasonably believe is abusive, fraudulent or automated, or where the law requires it, with or without notice. When we ban an account we send one notice with a single opportunity to appeal in the chat; our decision on the appeal is final. A banned account is not refunded except where section 3 or the law requires it. We may also report unlawful conduct to the authorities.

5. AI-generated content and what you may rely on

Nouly’s stories, translations, answers and drafts are produced by automated AI systems from third-party reporting, without a person reviewing each one. AI makes mistakes: it can misread a source, mistranslate, leave things out, invent details, present a claim with more confidence than the reporting supports, or be simply out of date. Treat everything Nouly writes as a lead, not as a fact, and read the linked source before you rely on it, repeat it, or act on it.

Nothing Nouly produces is professional advice of any kind — not financial, investment, legal, medical, tax, safety or political advice — and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell, vote, travel or do anything. Decisions you make on the basis of it are yours.

Drafts you publish are yours. When Nouly drafts a post for you and you publish it anywhere, you are its publisher: you are responsible for checking it, for the rights in it, for how it is labelled, and for the consequences. We are not. Nouly cannot tell whether a story is one that should be posted about at all — it will draft from a story about a death or a disaster as readily as from one about a match — so whether a draft is suitable, for its subject, its tone and your audience, is your judgement to make before you publish it.

The assistant is an AI, not a person, and it speaks in Nouly’s voice. Nothing it says is a promise by us, changes these terms, or is legal, financial or other advice.

Because Nouly is AI-written, the feed and the app say so, and we ask that you keep that label where it is if you share a story on.

6. News, sources and other people’s content

Headlines, reporting, images and the pages that Nouly links to belong to their publishers and are their responsibility. Nouly reads that reporting and writes its own short version; it does not reproduce articles, does not control the source sites, and does not endorse them. When you follow a link you leave Nouly and that site’s own terms and privacy policy apply. We are not responsible for what you find there, for a paywall, for a broken link, or for a source that has changed or been taken down.

Rights holders. If you own rights in reporting that a Nouly story is written from, or in anything else you believe the service reproduces beyond what the law allows, email [email protected] with the story, the original, and proof of your right. We take these notices seriously and act on a well-founded one promptly, including by removing a story from the service.

Coverage depends on what publishers make available. We do not promise that any story, topic, country, publisher or language will be covered, and we may drop, block or not surface sources or stories at our discretion — for example when a source is unreliable, when coverage would be unlawful, or when we simply cannot get the news that day.

The emoji artwork in Nouly is Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, licensed under MIT.

7. What is ours, what is yours

Ours. The Nouly name, logo, design, software, prompts, and the stories, translations, answers and drafts the service generates are owned by or licensed to us and are protected by intellectual-property law. We give you a personal, limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the service and read its output for your own purposes while these terms are in force. That is the only right you get in it; every other right is reserved. You may share a Nouly story or a draft it wrote for you in the ordinary way — a link, a post, a screenshot — as long as you keep the AI label and do not pass it off as a publisher’s or your own reporting.

Yours. The keywords, questions, feedback and other text you send the bot are yours. You give us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, process and use them to run, protect and improve the service — for instance to build your feed, answer your question, and understand which features work. We do not sell them and do not use them for advertising. If you send us an idea or suggestion, you agree we may use it without paying or crediting you; you are not obliged to send any.

8. Availability and changes

Nouly is provided on an “as available” basis. It is a small, still-evolving service that depends on Telegram, on third-party AI providers, on publishers and on hosting we do not control. We may change, pause, throttle or discontinue features, tiers, prices or the whole service at any time, and we may place new sign-ups on a waiting list. We try to warn you about material changes in the app or in the chat, but we cannot promise that the service will always be available, timely, complete or error-free, that a daily digest will arrive every day, or that data will never be lost.

If you stop opening your digest, Nouly sends occasional reminders that your news is waiting — daily for the first three days, then progressively less often, and at most once a month after that, for as long as your account exists. They stop as soon as you come back, and blocking or deleting the chat in Telegram stops them immediately.

9. No warranties

To the fullest extent the law allows, Nouly is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, timeliness or availability — and without any promise that the AI-written content is correct, that the service will meet your needs, or that errors will be fixed. Anything a member of our team or the assistant says does not create a warranty.

If you are a consumer, the law of your country may give you guarantees about digital services that cannot be excluded. This section does not limit them.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we — and anyone who works on Nouly with us — are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, reputation, data or opportunity, arising out of or connected with the service or these terms, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if we were told such damage was possible. In particular we are not liable for any loss that results from relying on, repeating, publishing or acting on content Nouly produced, from a source we link to, from Telegram or another third party, from interruption or discontinuation of the service, or from something you did in breach of these terms.

Our total liability to you for everything arising out of or connected with the service and these terms, in aggregate, is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose and €50. If you have paid nothing, that is €50.

What this section does not limit. Nothing here excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for wilful misconduct or gross negligence (dolo o colpa grave), or for anything else that the law applying to you does not allow to be excluded or limited. Where the law does not allow a limit at all, the limit does not apply; where it allows only a narrower one, this section is read as that narrower one.

11. Your responsibility to us (indemnity)

If a third party or an authority brings a claim, demand or proceeding against us because of (a) something you published, shared or did using content from Nouly, (b) your breach of these terms, (c) your breach of the law or of someone else’s rights, or (d) your use of the service through an account that was not yours to use, you agree to defend us, and to compensate us for the damages, costs and reasonable legal fees that result. We will tell you about such a claim promptly and let you handle its defence, with the right to take part at our own cost. This clause does not apply to a consumer to the extent the law of your country does not allow it; then you are liable to us under the general law.

12. Ending use

You can stop using Nouly at any time by blocking or deleting the chat in Telegram. That stops all messages. To have your data deleted as well, see the Privacy Policy. We may end or suspend your access as described in section 4, or end the service altogether as described in section 8.

When these terms end for you, the licence in section 7 ends, and sections 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 continue to apply to anything that happened before they ended.

13. Governing law and where disputes go

These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or with the service, are governed by the laws of Italy, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

If you are a consumer living in the European Union, the EEA or the United Kingdom, this choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim against us either in Italy or in the courts of that country. We will bring a claim against you only in the courts of the country where you live.

For everyone else, the courts of Italy have exclusive jurisdiction. To the extent the law where you live permits it, you and we agree that any claim will be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective or representative proceeding, and that any claim must be brought within one year of the day it arose, after which it is barred.

Talk to us first. Before going to court, please email [email protected] with what went wrong; most problems can be sorted out in a few messages. We are not obliged to, and do not, take part in any alternative dispute resolution scheme for consumers, though we will consider a request in good faith.

14. General

Whole agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the service, and replace any earlier understanding. Nothing said by the assistant, in the chat, in a support reply or on the website changes them.
Changes to these terms. We may change them. For a material change we will tell you in the app or the chat before it takes effect, and for a change that makes Premium worse for you, at least 30 days before your next renewal, so you can cancel. The date at the top of this page is the date of the current version; continuing to use Nouly after that date means you accept the current version. Otherwise, stop using the service.
Severability. If any part of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that part is applied to the fullest extent permitted and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. If we do not enforce something, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
Assignment. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these terms. We may transfer ours to a successor that runs the service — for example if Nouly becomes a company — and will tell you if we do.
Force majeure. We are not responsible for a failure or delay caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages of Telegram, hosting, network or AI providers, publisher changes, attacks, legal orders, strikes or natural events.
Nobody else. These terms give no rights to anyone but you and us.
Language. These terms are written in English. If we publish a translation, the English version prevails where they differ.
Sanctions and export. You may not use Nouly where the law prohibits it, or if you are a person we are prohibited from dealing with.

15. Who you are contracting with

Nouly is an independent project. Its operator is established in Italy and is the party to these terms; they will identify themselves on request through the contact routes below, and this section will name them once Nouly operates as a legal entity.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email [email protected], or message us on Telegram through the bot.