Terms of Use

Scoops is a free service provided by the Scoops Software GmbH, Kinkstraße 40, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria, aimed at organizing and aggregating news streams for users. Scoops has to be accessed via a browser or specially developed applications for mobile devices.

Scoops core functionalities include:

• Importing news content from sources entered by the user.
• Organizing this content according to a specifically generated interest profile.
• Recommending content from other sources, if categorized as relevant.

Furthermore Scoops offers the following additional features:

• A control panel for personal information and connected sources of content that can be freely changed.
• A control panel for the generated interest profile, which content can be altered, changed or deleted.
• Complex analysis for each entity of content, as well as generated related content for each entity.

Scoops reserves the right to analyze content through an algorithm-powered software and to freely organize users news content according to this procedure. Since the portal is financed through advertising, Scoops also reserves the right to deliver content to users that was supplied by advertising partners, however, still following the above mentioned algorithmic procedure and within the news stream.

On a case-by-case basis, as a complement to our service only, Scoops takes the liberty to provide you, the user, with relevant information concerning our services or your personal news stream by email or, upon request by SMS.

Prior to the provision of any of our services, we require your consent to electronically process and store the information entered by you as well as information computed from our software about you and to use this information for the process of computing a personal relevance for entities of content in our news stream database.

Your personal data, including the information entered by you and the information computed by our software will never be shared with anyone but you. Scoops reserves the right to use this data however for marketing analyses and marketing processes in an anonymous way, so that personal information will never appear individually and will only be used to generate an aggregate analysis of a market.

Since the portal is aggregating content from sources not associated with Scoops, we cannot assume any liability for the content of these external sources.

As this service is offered free of charge, we can neither guarantee the functionality nor the permanent availability of the service and we cannot assume any liability for damage resulting from the use of the system.

We would like to point out that in your own interest you must keep passwords secret and notify us for instance by email (support@scoops.co), in the case of loss or suspected unauthorized use of a password.