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Last updated: 10 July 2026

These Terms & Conditions (Terms) govern your access to and use of Publish, a claim-provenance writing editor (the Service) operated by Peak State Global (we, us, our). By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Publish is currently offered as a private, invitation-only beta. Access may be limited, changed, or withdrawn at any time while the Service is in beta.

1. About the Service

Publish is a Markdown writing editor that tracks, sentence by sentence, what a piece of long-form writing asserts. It records each factual claim, its sources and provenance, and an evidence tier, and renders these as a toggleable colour overlay. It can analyse changed text with the assistance of artificial intelligence, probe the liveness of cited sources, build mind maps of a work's structure, and publish a finished work as an interactive read-only view with its references and per-claim discussion intact.

Your writing is stored as Markdown files together with structured sidecar files (claims, feedback, editorial notes) in a version-controlled repository that you connect. The Service reads from and writes to that repository on your behalf.

2. Not professional advice, verification, or clearance

Publish is a writing and organisation tool. It is not a substitute for professional fact-checking, editorial, defamation, or legal review, and nothing it produces is legal advice. Peak State Global is not a law practice and does not provide legal services.

Evidence tiers, claim assessments, provenance chains, adversarial “verdicts”, and reference-health signals are heuristic aids generated from your own content and the sources you supply. They are not a guarantee that a statement is true, original, lawful to publish, or cleared of third-party rights. A high tier does not mean a claim is correct, and a low tier does not mean it is wrong.

You remain solely responsible for what you write and publish — including its accuracy, and its compliance with the law of defamation, copyright, privacy, contempt, and any other applicable law. Where the correctness or lawfulness of your writing matters, obtain independent professional advice before you rely on it or make it public.

3. Accuracy of information and AI output

Output generated by artificial intelligence can be incorrect, incomplete, biased, or fabricated, and may present wrong information confidently. This includes AI-assisted claim analysis, tier assignments, suggested claims, mind-map suggestions, and any generated verdict or summary. Source-liveness probes and archived (Wayback) snapshots may be stale, wrong, or unavailable, and derived figures may be wrong as a result.

Always verify claims and citations against the underlying source records before relying on them or publishing. Do not treat the Service's output as a final check.

4. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If a workspace, tenant, or project shares content with other people you invite or grant access to, you are responsible for the access you grant and for their use of that access.

5. Your content and connected services

  • Your content. You retain ownership of the writing, claims, references, uploads, and other material you create or import (Your Content).
  • Warranty of rights.You warrant that you own or are authorised to submit, store, process, and publish Your Content and the sources you connect or upload, and that doing so does not infringe any third party's rights or any law.
  • Licence to operate the Service. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy, store, process, transmit, and display Your Content solely to the extent necessary to operate and provide the Service to you (including committing it to the repository you connect and rendering your published view). This licence ends when the relevant content is removed, except for copies retained in version history or backups, or as required by law.
  • Connected services. You are responsible for the repositories, sources, and accounts you connect. Third-party services you connect are governed by their own terms; disconnecting a service stops new processing but does not delete content already imported or committed.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • use the Service unlawfully, or to create, store, or publish unlawful content;
  • infringe intellectual property, privacy, or other rights, or publish defamatory content;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other users' content, or the underlying repositories or infrastructure;
  • interfere with, overload, reverse-engineer, or disrupt the Service or the third-party services it relies on; or
  • misrepresent the provenance or evidence status of a claim to deceive readers.

7. Intellectual property

We (and our licensors) own the Service, including its software, design, and trade marks. These Terms grant you no rights in them except the limited right to use the Service. Your Content remains yours, subject to the licence in clause 5.

8. Third-party services and links

The Service relies on third parties to function — including identity/authentication, repository hosting, application hosting, and AI processing providers. Your use of the Service through those providers is also subject to their terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services or for websites the Service links to.

9. Beta service — availability

The Service is provided during beta on an evolving basis. Features may change or be removed, interruptions and data loss can occur, and no availability or service level is promised. Keep your own copies of anything important (your content lives in a version-controlled repository you can clone).

10. Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) or any other applicable law (Non-excludable Rights). Where we are permitted to limit our liability for a failure to comply with a consumer guarantee, our liability is limited, at our option, to re-supplying the services or paying the cost of having them re-supplied.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

Subject to clause 10, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, and to the maximum extent permitted by law we exclude all warranties, representations, and guarantees, express or implied — including that the Service, its evidence assessments, or its AI output will be accurate, complete, reliable, error-free, or uninterrupted.

12. Limitation of liability

Subject to clause 10 and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, or opportunity, however arising, including any loss arising from a decision made in reliance on the Service, its evidence tiers, or its AI output; and
  • our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms is limited to the total amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the liability (if any).

13. Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you indemnify us against loss, liability, and costs we reasonably incur arising from your breach of these Terms, from Your Content, or from your use of the Service — except to the extent the loss was caused by us.

14. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. You may stop using the Service at any time. Clauses that by their nature should survive — including 2, 3, 5 (warranty and licence), 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 16 — survive termination.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws in force in Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms: contact@peakstate.global. See also our Privacy Policy.