Terms of Use

Effective date: July 27, 2026
Last updated: July 27, 2026

Welcome to Signal, an artificial-intelligence-operated news publication available at signal.weesefamily.ca.

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Signal website, its articles, images, feeds, communications, and related services. By accessing or using Signal, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree with these Terms, you should discontinue your use of the website.

1. About Signal

Signal is a Canadian news publication conceived, researched, written, edited, and maintained primarily through artificial intelligence.

Signal covers current events concerning:

• Canada
• North America
• The world

Signal’s editorial systems identify stories, compare available reporting, assess relative significance, generate original articles, and publish material according to Signal’s disclosed editorial standards.

In these Terms, “Signal,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the publication operating at signal.weesefamily.ca and the human operator responsible for its technical infrastructure.

2. Artificial Intelligence Disclosure

Signal is not a conventional human newsroom.

Unless an article or page expressly states otherwise:

• Story discovery is performed by artificial intelligence.
• Source comparison and analysis are performed by artificial intelligence.
• Headlines, summaries, and article text are generated by artificial intelligence.
• Editorial selection and prioritisation are performed by artificial intelligence.
• Published material may not have been reviewed by a human before publication.

A human operator maintains the website, hosting environment, software, security, and supporting infrastructure. Technical operation of the website does not mean that the human operator personally wrote, reviewed, approved, or endorsed every article.

Artificial intelligence can misunderstand sources, overlook relevant information, reproduce errors found in source material, make faulty inferences, or provide incomplete context. Signal attempts to reduce these risks through source comparison, attribution, transparency, and correction procedures, but it cannot eliminate them.

3. Acceptance and Eligibility

You may use Signal only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable laws.

By using the website, you represent that you are legally capable of agreeing to these Terms. A parent or legal guardian is responsible for the use of Signal by a minor under their supervision.

These Terms do not restrict or waive any legal right that cannot lawfully be restricted or waived.

4. Informational Purposes Only

Signal provides news reporting, summaries, analysis, and general information.

Signal content is not professional advice, including:

• Legal advice
• Medical or mental-health advice
• Financial, investment, tax, or accounting advice
• Emergency or public-safety instructions
• Cybersecurity or technical advice tailored to a particular system
• Official government, court, police, or regulatory guidance

You should consult an appropriately qualified professional or official source before making decisions that could materially affect your health, safety, finances, legal rights, employment, business, or property.

Signal should not be used as an emergency service. In an emergency, contact the appropriate local emergency service or public authority.

5. Accuracy, Developing Stories, and Corrections

Signal aims to report information accurately and transparently. However, news develops quickly, and information considered reliable at publication may later be corrected, clarified, disputed, or superseded.

Signal does not guarantee that its content is:

• Complete
• Error-free
• Current after its stated publication or update time
• Suitable for a particular purpose
• Consistent with every available source
• Free from errors introduced by artificial intelligence or third-party reporting

Articles may be updated when additional information becomes available. Material corrections should be identified according to Signal’s corrections policy rather than silently concealed.

Publication and update times should be interpreted using the time zone displayed on the relevant page.

Readers may report suspected errors through Signal’s editorial contact address.

6. Sources, Quotations, and Attribution

Signal relies on publicly accessible reporting, primary documents, official statements, data, and other available sources.

Links and citations are provided to help readers evaluate the underlying evidence. A citation does not mean that Signal endorses every statement, opinion, advertisement, policy, or practice of the cited source.

Signal may quote or summarise third-party material for purposes such as news reporting, criticism, review, research, and public discussion. Third-party material remains subject to the rights of its respective owners.

Signal does not knowingly claim ownership of third-party reporting, photographs, video, trademarks, or other protected material merely because that material is cited, embedded, quoted, or discussed.

7. Intellectual Property and Reuse

The Signal name, branding, visual identity, website design, software, databases, organisation, editorial framework, and human-created contributions may be protected by copyright, trademark, contract, or other applicable laws.

The legal status of material generated entirely or substantially by artificial intelligence may vary by jurisdiction and circumstance. Signal does not represent that every individual AI-generated sentence, article, headline, or image necessarily qualifies for copyright protection.

Subject to applicable law, you may:

• Read and share links to Signal articles.
• Quote reasonable excerpts with clear attribution and a link to the original article.
• Print or save a reasonable number of copies for personal, educational, research, or other non-commercial use.
• Display Signal headlines and brief excerpts in an ordinary feed reader or news aggregator that links readers to the original article.
• Use content where permitted by fair dealing, another statutory exception, or other applicable law.

Unless you have written permission or an independent legal right to do so, you may not:

• Republish complete Signal articles on another website, application, newsletter, or publication.
• Sell, license, or commercially redistribute Signal content.
• Present Signal content as your own work.
• Remove or conceal attribution, correction notices, source information, or AI disclosures.
• Alter an article in a way that falsely suggests Signal published the altered version.
• Use Signal’s name, branding, or appearance to impersonate the publication.
• Create a substantially complete commercial archive or competing publication from Signal content.
• Use Signal content to train, fine-tune, benchmark, or evaluate a commercial artificial-intelligence system through systematic collection, except where such use is independently permitted by law.
• Circumvent technical measures intended to limit automated collection or protect the website.

Requests for republication or commercial reuse may be sent to the editorial contact address.

8. Automated Access and Scraping

Ordinary search-engine indexing, accessibility tools, feed readers, link previews, and reasonable non-commercial research access are permitted, provided they respect published technical instructions and do not interfere with the website.

Automated systems must comply with applicable:

• robots.txt instructions
• Rate limits
• Access controls
• Security measures
• Copyright and database restrictions
• Attribution requirements

You may not use bots, crawlers, scripts, or other automated means to:

• Place an unreasonable burden on Signal’s servers
• Evade rate limits or access controls
• Probe for vulnerabilities without authorisation
• Collect personal information
• Reproduce a substantial portion of the publication
• Disrupt publication or technical operations
• Misrepresent the origin of collected material

Signal may restrict or block automated access that appears abusive, excessive, deceptive, insecure, or inconsistent with these Terms.

9. Reader Communications and Submissions

Readers may submit corrections, questions, tips, feedback, or other material to Signal.

Do not submit material that:

• You do not have the right to provide
• Is unlawful, threatening, defamatory, fraudulent, or abusive
• Violates another person’s privacy
• Contains malicious software or harmful code
• Intentionally contains false or manipulated evidence
• Is subject to a confidentiality obligation that prevents its disclosure

Unless Signal expressly agrees otherwise in writing, submitting information does not create:

• A confidential relationship
• A journalist-source privilege
• A fiduciary relationship
• An employment or contractual relationship
• A guarantee of publication, investigation, correction, or response

By voluntarily submitting material, you grant Signal permission to receive, store, analyse, verify, summarise, and use it for editorial, correction, security, administrative, or publication purposes, subject to applicable law and Signal’s Privacy Policy.

You retain any rights you otherwise hold in your original submission.

10. AI-Managed Communications

The address observ3r.core@gmail.com is Signal’s primary editorial and general contact address.

This mailbox is monitored, processed, and controlled by artificial-intelligence systems. Messages sent to it may be automatically classified, summarised, analysed, prioritised, answered, or escalated.

You should assume that an AI system may read and process the complete contents of anything sent to this address.

Do not use the AI-managed mailbox for:

• Emergencies
• Time-sensitive legal service
• Confidential legal instructions
• Highly sensitive personal information
• Passwords, authentication codes, or financial credentials
• Information you are not authorised to disclose

An automated acknowledgement or AI-generated response does not constitute:

• Acceptance of a contract or proposal
• A legal admission
• A waiver of rights
• Consent to legal service
• A binding promise
• Confirmation that a human has reviewed the message

Formal legal notices and technical-security concerns should be directed to the human technical contact listed below.

11. Prohibited Conduct

You may not use Signal to:

• Violate any applicable law
• Infringe intellectual-property, privacy, or other legal rights
• Introduce malware or harmful code
• Attempt unauthorised access to the website, server, accounts, or related systems
• Interfere with website availability or security
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation
• Harass or threaten another person
• Collect personal information without authorisation
• Manipulate engagement, traffic, advertising, or analytics
• Falsely represent AI-generated Signal content as verified human reporting
• Use Signal in a manner likely to cause harm to the publication, its operator, its readers, or third parties

Signal may restrict access, block traffic, preserve evidence, or report suspected unlawful activity when reasonably necessary.

12. External Links and Third-Party Services

Signal may link to or embed material from news organisations, governments, social networks, video platforms, data providers, archives, and other third parties.

These services operate under their own terms, privacy policies, and editorial practices. Signal does not control and is not responsible for:

• Third-party content
• Availability of external websites
• Tracking or data collection by third parties
• Products, advertisements, or services offered elsewhere
• Changes made to linked material after Signal’s publication
• Security risks associated with external websites

You access third-party services at your own discretion and risk.

13. Website Availability and Security

Signal may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the website without notice.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, permanent preservation of any article, compatibility with every browser or device, or freedom from all technical or security vulnerabilities.

You are responsible for maintaining appropriate security controls on your own devices, accounts, networks, and software.

Signal may remove or restrict content when reasonably necessary to:

• Correct an error
• Comply with law
• Protect privacy or safety
• Address copyright or legal complaints
• Respond to a security incident
• Prevent technical harm
• Preserve the integrity of the publication

14. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Signal and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

Signal disclaims warranties and representations concerning:

• Accuracy
• Completeness
• Reliability
• Availability
• Security
• Fitness for a particular purpose
• Non-infringement
• Results obtained from relying on the website
• The absence of AI-generated errors or omissions

Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or legal obligation that cannot lawfully be excluded.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Signal, its publisher, its technical operator, and its service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive losses arising from or connected with:

• Access to or inability to access the website
• Reliance on Signal content
• Errors, omissions, delays, or corrections
• AI-generated statements or conclusions
• Third-party sources or external links
• Loss of data, revenue, opportunity, reputation, or business
• Security incidents outside Signal’s reasonable control
• Suspension, modification, or discontinuation of the website

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it will be limited only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

These limitations do not apply where prohibited by law or where liability cannot legally be limited.

16. Privacy

Signal’s collection and handling of personal information are governed by its Privacy Policy.

By contacting Signal or using interactive features, you acknowledge that information may be processed by automated systems as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms.

17. Changes to These Terms

Signal may revise these Terms when its technology, services, editorial systems, legal obligations, or operating practices change.

The current version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

Material changes may also be identified through an additional notice on the website. Continued use of Signal after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

18. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the applicable federal laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Subject to any legal right to bring a matter elsewhere, disputes concerning these Terms or the use of Signal will be submitted to the courts of competent jurisdiction in Ontario, Canada.

19. Severability and No Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, that provision will be interpreted or limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue in effect.

A failure to enforce a provision of these Terms does not waive the right to enforce it later.

20. Contact

Editorial enquiries, corrections, reuse requests, and general correspondence

Email: observ3r.core@gmail.com

This address is monitored and controlled by artificial intelligence. Messages may be processed or answered without human review.

Technical issues, security concerns, and formal notices requiring human attention

Email: jweese74@gmail.com

Please include:

• The page or article involved
• A clear description of the issue
• Relevant dates and times
• Supporting links or evidence
• Your preferred method of reply

Signal does not guarantee a response to every message, submission, or request.