Terms of use

About these terms

These terms apply when you use Marble (“we”, “us”), including the website, Today, accounts, follows and watchlists. By using Marble you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the service. Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal information.

What Marble is

Marble reads public news feeds from newsrooms and official sources, groups their reports into stories, and shows measurements about them: which newsrooms are covering a story, who had it first, how fast it spread, and which side of the political spectrum is covering it. How Marble works explains this in full.

We don’t report the news ourselves. Headlines, opening lines and photos belong to the newsrooms that published them, are credited to them, and link to their original articles.

Information, not advice

Everything on Marble is general information. Our labels and measurements describe coverage, not truth: a story reported by many newsrooms can still be wrong, and a story with one source can be right. Political lean ratings come from AllSides and reflect its assessment, not ours. Labels such as “emerging”, “blindspot” or “only on the left” describe how a story is being covered by newsrooms; they aren’t statements about the people or organisations in it. Trending calls about emerging stories and rising names are predictions, published with their track record.

Nothing on Marble is financial, legal, medical or other professional advice. Check the original reporting before relying on it.

Accounts and sign-in

• Accounts are paused for now. When they’re available, these terms apply to them.
• An account is tied to your email address. Use your own address, and keep access to it secure: anyone who can read your email can sign in as you.
• Sign-in links work once and expire after 30 minutes. Don’t forward them.
• You can stop using your account at any time, and ask us to delete it through the contact page.
• Following names and sections, Today and watchlists are free.

Acceptable use

Please don’t:

• sign up other people without their permission, or use addresses that aren’t yours;
• copy, scrape or download the site in bulk, or use automated tools that put unusual load on it, except well-behaved search engine crawlers;
• try to get around rate limits, access accounts or areas that aren’t yours, or interfere with how the service works;
• use the contact form or watchlists to send spam, abuse or unlawful content;
• present Marble’s pages, data or measurements as your own, or imply we endorse you.

We may suspend or close an account, or block access, if these terms are broken or to protect the service and its readers.

Other newsrooms’ content

Headlines, opening lines and photos shown on Marble remain the property of their publishers. We show them to point you to the original article, with credit and a link. Freely licensed photos are used under their licences and credited with the photographer and licence. Background text from Wikipedia is used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

We show other newsrooms’ headlines and opening lines as they published them, word for word, credited and linked. We don’t write, edit or adopt them, and showing a headline isn’t a statement by us that what it says is true. Name tags on a story are taken from its headlines.

If you’re a publisher or rights holder and want something changed or removed, contact us with the page and what you’d like done. We act on valid requests promptly.

Complaints about content

If you think something on Marble is wrong, unfair, defamatory, infringes your rights or shouldn’t be shown, contact us with the page address, what the problem is, and what you’d like done. We aim to reply within two business days, and we’ll remove or correct material while we look into a complaint where that’s the sensible thing to do.

Copyright notices, including notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act: tell us the work you own, where it appears on Marble, your contact details, and that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorised. We’ll remove the material and, where a reader supplied it, tell them.

Business enquiries and Pro

The business page and Marble Pro let you get in touch or hear first about things we may offer later. Nothing is for sale on Marble today, and enquiring doesn’t create any agreement. Any work for a business would be under a separate written agreement.

Our content

Marble’s own work, including its design, story groupings, measurements, rankings and written pages, belongs to us. You’re welcome to share links, and to quote short extracts or individual figures with credit to Marble and a link. For anything more, such as republishing our data, ask us first.

Links to other sites

Most links on Marble go to other newsrooms’ websites. We don’t control those sites and aren’t responsible for their content, paywalls, advertising or privacy practices.

Availability and changes

We work to keep Marble accurate and running, but feeds break, newsrooms change their sites, and our grouping rules make mistakes. We may change, pause or stop any part of the service, and we don’t promise it will always be available, complete or error-free. If you spot a mistake, tell us.

Our responsibility to you

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that can’t be excluded.

Subject to that, Marble is provided free and as it is, and to the extent the law allows we aren’t liable for any loss arising from your use of the service or reliance on it, including loss caused by errors in the content of other newsrooms or in our measurements. Where our liability can’t be excluded but can be limited, it is limited to supplying the service again.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed. If a change significantly affects people with an account, we’ll tell them by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Marble after a change means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we submit to the courts of that state.

Contact

Questions about these terms: contact us.