Terms of Use

2. Who can use Weave

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to create an account. The Services are built for researchers and the people who work with them, and they are not directed at children.

3. Your account

Give us accurate information when you sign up and keep it current. Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account, so tell us straight away if you think someone else has used it.

One account works across the Weave products. If your institution provides your access, its administrators may be able to manage your account and the projects that belong to the institution.

4. Your content stays yours

"Your content" means the manuscripts, drafts, notes, references, figures, data and other material you upload to or create in the Services. You keep every right you have in your content. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of it to us.

To run the Services, we need your permission to handle your content. You give us a limited licence to host, store, copy, process and display your content only as needed to provide the Services to you and to the collaborators you choose. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from the short period it takes backups to cycle out.

We do not use your content to train AI models, and we do not sell it. The Privacy Policy sets out these commitments in full.

You are responsible for your content. Make sure you have the right to upload it, including the agreement of your co-authors where you need it, and the permissions and ethics approvals that apply to any data about research participants.

5. Working with co-authors

When you invite someone to a project, they can see and work on the content you share with them, within the role you give them. You decide who is invited. Anyone you share content with may keep copies of what they could access, even after you remove them.

6. AI features

Weave AI reads your manuscript to run the analysis you ask for. What it produces, including summaries, critiques, suggested wording and journal recommendations, is generated automatically. It can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and it may resemble what is produced for other users.

• Check AI output before you rely on it. You remain the author of your work and you are responsible for its accuracy, originality and integrity.
• Weave does not give medical, legal or other professional advice, and AI output is not a substitute for peer review or for your own judgement.
• Journals, funders and institutions have their own rules about AI assistance. Following them, including any disclosure they require, is up to you.
• We do not promise that a manuscript will be accepted, or that a journal Weave Atlas suggests is the right one for your paper.

As between you and Weave, the output generated from your content is yours to use.

7. Acceptable use

Please use the Services for research and writing, and do not:

• break the law, or infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
• upload content you have no right to use, or personal or health information about research participants that you are not permitted to share;
• fabricate or falsify research, run a paper mill, or otherwise use the Services for research misconduct;
• probe, scan or attack the Services, get around security or usage limits, or access another person's account or content without permission;
• scrape the Services, or use automated means to access them, except through interfaces we provide for that purpose;
• reverse engineer the Services or use them, or their output, to build a competing product or to train a competing model;
• resell or sublicense the Services without our written agreement; or
• upload malware or do anything that disrupts the Services for other people.

8. Third-party content and services

Weave Stream surfaces records from third-party sources such as PubMed. Those records, and the articles they point to, belong to their publishers and providers and are subject to their terms. We do not control them and cannot promise they are complete or correct.

Weave for Word runs inside Microsoft Word, and your use of Word is governed by your agreement with Microsoft. Links from the Services to other websites are there for convenience, and we are not responsible for those sites.

9. Beta features, plans and fees

Some products and features are offered as a beta or preview. They are still being built: they may change, be interrupted or be withdrawn, and they may be less reliable than a finished product. Keep your own copies of anything important.

The Services are free to use today. If we introduce paid plans, we will show you the price and the billing terms before you are charged anything, and you can choose not to subscribe. Plans for institutions may be covered by a separate written agreement, which takes priority over these terms where the two differ.

10. Our intellectual property

The Services, including the software, the models, the design and the Weave name and logos, belong to Weave and its licensors. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services under these terms. All other rights are reserved.

If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without restriction and without owing you anything.

11. Suspending and ending use

You can stop using the Services and delete your account at any time. You can take your work back out before you do.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, that puts the Services or other people at risk, or where the law requires it. Where we can, we will warn you first and give you a reasonable chance to export your content. The sections of these terms that by their nature should survive, including sections 4, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 16, continue after the agreement ends.

12. Disclaimers

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, Weave disclaims all warranties and conditions, express or implied, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure or error free, or that any output will be accurate.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Weave, its affiliates and their directors, employees and suppliers are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost research opportunities, or the rejection or delay of a publication, however caused.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Services in the twelve months before the claim arose and one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these limits, so parts of this section and of section 12 may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be limited by contract.

14. Indemnity

If someone brings a claim against Weave because of your content or because you broke these terms or the law, you agree to cover the reasonable losses and costs that result, including legal fees. This section does not apply to consumers where the law does not allow it.

15. Changes

We may update these terms as the Services develop. If a change is material, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the Services before it takes effect. If you do not agree with a change, you can close your account before it takes effect. If you keep using the Services afterwards, the updated terms apply.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict of laws rules. The courts of Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and you and Weave agree to bring disputes there. If you are a consumer, this does not take away any right you have under the mandatory laws of the place where you live, including the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

Please contact us first. Most problems can be sorted out faster by email than in court.

17. General

These terms, together with any plan-specific or institutional agreement you have with us, are the whole agreement between you and Weave about the Services. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a term, that is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer this agreement without our consent. We may transfer it to an affiliate, or to a successor as part of a merger, reorganization or sale of the business.