Terms of service

Last updated November 2026

These terms cover the hosted PURSS that Program Sam runs for you. If you run the software on your own server, these terms don't apply: the software itself is licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0.

1. The plans

• Free, €0: up to 4 collections and 100 sources.
• Plus, €48 per year or €5 per month, including VAT: unlimited collections, up to 1,000 sources, and sharing baskets and collections as public pages.
• Pro, €96 per year or €10 per month, including VAT: everything in Plus, up to 5,000 sources, and Smart filters under fair use. If an account reaches the week's fair-use limit, its filters pause until the next week and new posts arrive unfiltered.

Every plan includes the full reader: every view, baskets, search, and export of everything. Saved links don't count as sources. To protect the service, each account also has a limit on the space it takes on our server; ordinary use stays well below it. If an account reaches it, new items and readable copies pause until we give it more; nothing is deleted.

2. Paying and cancelling

Plus and Pro are billed in advance, yearly or monthly, as you choose. You can cancel at any time. Your plan then runs to the end of the year or month you paid for, after which your account moves to the Free limits. We don't charge you again after you cancel. Deleting your account cancels its plan too.

If you live in the EU you have the right to withdraw from a new Plus or Pro subscription within 14 days. If you asked for it to start straight away, you pay only for the days you used and we refund the rest.

If we ever change the price, we tell you at least 30 days before it applies to you, and you can cancel before then.

3. Going over your limits

Nothing is deleted automatically to fit a plan. If your account is over its limits, for example after moving from Plus to Free, you can still read, organize and export everything. New items and new readable copies pause until you're back under the limits or choose a paid plan again. You decide what to clean up.

4. Your data

What you follow, keep and write in your PURSS is yours. You can export all of it at any time, on every plan, and import it into a PURSS on your own server. We don't sell your data, use it for advertising, or show you ads. While you share your sources for Discovery, they count without your name towards suggestions for others; you can switch that off in Settings at any time. The admin tools we use to run the service show health, jobs and storage use, not your items or reading history; the only content they show is a shared page you published that someone reported. For our own news posts they count how many PURSSes opened, kept or ignored each one, never whose. Our questions and answers explain more.

5. What a basket keeps

A basket keeps your copy of an item's details and summary, and its readable text if you asked for it. The original page, video or podcast belongs to its publisher and can change or go offline; a basket doesn't keep a copy of the video or audio. Videos and episodes play from where they are published, under that service's own terms. The phone app can download an episode to your device; that copy stays on your device only.

6. Fair use

Use PURSS for your own reading and for sharing what you're allowed to share. Don't use it to break the law, to overload or attack other sites, to reach private or internal networks (PURSS blocks such addresses), or to get at other people's accounts or data. If an account puts the service or others at risk, we may pause its sources or suspend it. Where it is safe to do so we tell you first, and you keep the chance to export.

7. Sharing baskets and collections

On Plus and Pro you can share a basket or a collection as a public page and feed: anyone with the link can read it without an account, and, if you choose, search engines can list it. It keeps showing what you add to that basket or what that collection gathers, until you pause it or stop sharing. You decide what to share, and you are responsible for it, including the public notes you write. If your account moves to the Free limits, your pages stop showing until you choose Plus again; nothing is deleted. Share only links and words you are allowed to share. Each item shows its title, link, a short summary, source name and date, never a copy of the article.

Anyone can report a public page, and reports come to us. If we find that a page breaks the law or these terms, we take it down: our server stops showing its page and feed at once (a browser or feed reader may show a copy it fetched in the minute before), you see our reason in PURSS, and you keep the basket or collection but can't share it again unless we restore it. Repeated or serious breaches can lead to suspension. Copies that visitors or feed readers fetched before a page was paused, unpublished or taken down can't be recalled.

8. The service

We work to keep the service running and to back it up, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of errors. Export your PURSS now and then, so you always have your own copy. If we ever close the hosted service, we give you notice well in advance and time to export everything or move to your own server.

9. Closing your account

You can delete your account yourself in Settings → Account. You confirm it's you, can export everything first, and type your name to confirm. The account is locked and signed out everywhere at once, and deleted for good after 7 days; sign in before then to keep it. After that, its data can't be recovered. The last administrator of an installation can't delete their account until someone else is an administrator.

10. Liability

We are responsible for running the service with reasonable care. As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect loss or for content published by others that you follow. Nothing in these terms limits the rights you have as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.

11. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we tell you in PURSS before the change applies. If you don't agree, you can export your data and close your account.