Last Updated: June 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Mera News ("Mera," "Mera News," "we," "us," or "our"), a privacy-preserving news discovery assistant owned and operated by Mera Labs B.V., a company registered in the Netherlands.
Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing or using Mera News, creating an account, joining a beta, or otherwise using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Mera News.
Mera News is owned and operated by Mera Labs B.V., a company registered in the Netherlands. References to "we," "us," and "our" in these Terms mean Mera Labs B.V.
Mera News helps you discover news that may matter to you. It does this by using privacy-preserving personalization, local controls, and AI-assisted relevance signals.
What you should expect:
This overview is provided to make the service easier to understand. The full Terms below control if there is any inconsistency.
Mera News is a consumer news discovery assistant designed to help you find, organize, and receive relevant news while preserving your privacy.
Technically, Mera News is a personal RSS/Atom feed reader and a discovery platform for publishers: it reads publicly available feeds that publishers themselves publish, shows you headlines and links, and sends you to the publisher's own website to read the full article.
Mera News may provide:
Mera News is intended to help you manage information overload. It is not intended to replace publishers, professional advice, emergency services, or your own judgment.
Mera News is not:
We do not create, commission, edit, approve, endorse, fact-check, or control the underlying news articles published by third-party publishers.
Mera News is a personal RSS/Atom feed reader and a discovery platform for publishers. By using the Service, you authorize Mera, acting on your behalf, to fetch, process, and deliver to you content from the feeds listed in our public feed registry at github.com/Mera-News/mera-news-rss-feeds, for your personal, non-commercial use.
This authorization means you ask Mera to:
You may stop using the Service at any time, which ends this authorization.
Mera News may display headlines, source names, article links, images where available, metadata, relevance signals, and related article information.
Headlines are provided by or derived from third-party publishers and are shown verbatim as published where technically available. Mera News does not rewrite headlines to create its own editorial version of the news.
When you choose to read an article:
What happens on the publisher page or inside the publisher web view is between you and the publisher. Mera News has no role in resolving, arbitrating, mediating, or taking responsibility for disputes between you and a publisher, including disputes about:
If you have a problem with a publisher's website, article, subscription, payment, ad, account, or content, you should contact that publisher directly.
Mera News is currently an early-stage product and may be offered as a free beta.
This means:
Because the service is currently free and experimental, you should not rely on Mera News as your only source of important information.
Mera News uses artificial intelligence to help with personalization and relevance. AI may be used to:
Mera News does not use AI to generate news summaries for users. It displays news headlines from third-party publishers and directs users to publisher websites to read full articles.
AI-generated or AI-assisted relevance signals may be:
You should verify important information with the original publisher or other reliable sources before relying on it.
If translation is enabled, translations are produced using native on-device translation features provided by Android or iOS.
Mera News does not guarantee translation accuracy.
Translations may be:
The original publisher's text should be treated as authoritative. If the exact meaning matters, check the original article or another reliable translation source.
Your privacy is central to Mera News.
Our approach to privacy is described in the Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, what data stays on your device, how AI processing works, and how third-party services may be involved.
By using Mera News, you also agree that your use is subject to the Privacy Policy.
If there is a conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy regarding how personal data is processed, the Privacy Policy controls for that privacy-specific issue.
You may use Mera News only if:
If you are under 18, you should use Mera News only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian where required by law.
We do not knowingly provide Mera News to children under 16.
Some features may require an account.
You are responsible for:
We may suspend or restrict access if we reasonably believe your account has been compromised, misused, or used in violation of these Terms.
You agree not to misuse Mera News.
You must not:
We may suspend or terminate access if we believe you have violated these responsibilities.
You may provide preferences, feedback, reports, corrections, or other inputs to Mera News.
You are responsible for any information you choose to provide.
If you send us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, or ideas, you allow us to use them to improve Mera News without any obligation to compensate you. This does not give us ownership of your personal data.
Mera News, including its software, design, branding, systems, models, workflows, documentation, and related materials, is owned by Mera Labs B.V. or applicable licensors, unless otherwise stated.
These Terms do not transfer ownership of Mera News or its intellectual property to you.
You may use Mera News only as permitted by these Terms.
You must not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works based on Mera News unless we have given you written permission or the law allows it.
Third-party publisher content remains the property of the applicable publisher or rights holder. These Terms do not give you ownership of any third-party article, headline, image, logo, source page, or publisher content.
For how we use publisher content, the legal basis we rely on, and how publishers, rights holders, or their representatives can have their sources removed (by opening a GitHub issue on the feed registry or emailing publishersupport@mera.news), see our Content Policy.
Mera News may include or depend on open-source software, third-party APIs, AI providers, cloud infrastructure, analytics tools, operating-system translation tools, or other third-party services.
Those components may be subject to separate licenses, terms, or policies.
Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under any applicable open-source license.
Mera News is currently offered as a free beta unless we clearly state otherwise.
We may introduce paid features, subscriptions, usage limits, or other commercial terms in the future. If we do, we will provide the applicable pricing and payment terms before charging you.
You are not required to pay Mera News unless you knowingly choose a paid plan or paid feature after such terms are introduced.
If you are on a paid plan and your subscription ends (because you cancel, because we terminate your access, or because we discontinue the Service), we will cancel the subscription and handle any refund in accordance with your billing cycle.
Payments, subscriptions, or purchases made directly with third-party publishers are separate from Mera News. Mera News is not responsible for publisher subscriptions, refunds, billing issues, cancellations, account access, or payment disputes.
We may modify, improve, restrict, suspend, or discontinue all or part of Mera News at any time.
Where reasonable, we will try to give notice of material changes. However, we may make changes without prior notice where needed for security, legal compliance, technical stability, or beta-stage product development.
You may stop using Mera News at any time.
We may suspend or terminate your access if:
After termination, provisions that by their nature should continue will continue, including sections on intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limits, disputes, and governing law.
Mera News is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, especially during the beta stage.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we do not promise that:
Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot be excluded under applicable consumer law.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of data, loss of profits, loss of goodwill, service interruption, or reliance on inaccurate content.
We are not responsible for claims, losses, disputes, or damages arising from:
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Mera News accepts no liability for any damages arising from or relating to your use of the Service.
This limitation does not apply where liability cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for intentional misconduct, gross negligence, or mandatory consumer-protection rights.
If you use Mera News in violation of these Terms or applicable law, and that causes claims, damages, losses, liabilities, or expenses, you agree to be responsible for them to the extent permitted by law.
This section does not limit any rights you may have as a consumer under mandatory law.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands.
If a dispute arises between you and Mera News, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally. Most concerns can be resolved quickly by email.
If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, the courts of the Netherlands will have jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer rights you may have under the laws of your country of residence.
This dispute section applies only to disputes with Mera News. It does not make Mera News responsible for disputes between you and a third-party publisher. Publisher disputes must be handled directly with the relevant publisher under that publisher's own terms and support process.
Nothing in these Terms limits your right to contact a consumer-protection authority or other competent regulator where applicable.
We may update these Terms from time to time.
If we make material changes, we will try to notify you through the app, by email, or by another reasonable method.
The updated Terms will apply from the date stated in the updated version. If you continue using Mera News after the updated Terms take effect, you accept the updated Terms.
If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you should stop using Mera News.
For questions about these Terms, contact:
Mera Labs B.V.
Email: support@mera.news
For privacy questions, contact:
Email: privacy@mera.news
Mera News is a beta-stage, privacy-preserving news discovery assistant. It helps you discover potentially relevant news, shows publisher headlines, and sends you to the original publisher's website to read full articles. Mera News is not a publisher, does not provide article summaries, does not control publisher websites, and does not resolve disputes between you and publishers. You may use it if you are at least 16 and follow these Terms.