Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website located at rumors.fyi (the “Site”), together with any related services we make available (collectively, the “Service”). The Service is operated by the individuals and entity responsible for rumors.fyi (“we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing the Site, browsing content, or submitting any information through the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

The Service is a curated, read-only public tracker of unconfirmed rumors, tips, and informal reports concerning technology companies - including, without limitation, alleged layoffs, reorganizations, leadership changes, and compensation adjustments. Each entry has a public state: rumor (unverified by us, by definition), confirmed (the underlying outcome has occurred and we have linked an outcome source), or debunked (the underlying outcome did not occur and we have linked an outcome source). A state transition reflects only the linked outcome source; it does not constitute our independent verification.

Content on the Site is drawn from public reports, social-media posts, and tips submitted by visitors. The Service is not a news organization, is not engaged in journalism, and does not hold itself out as a source of verified, confirmed, or independently corroborated information. We are a passive curator and aggregator; we do not investigate, fact-check, or vouch for the accuracy of any item shown on the Site. We rely on the protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230, and analogous laws: we are not the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider, and we are immune from liability for good-faith moderation, removal, or restriction of access to any content under 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(2).

2. No Warranty; Speculative Content

You acknowledge and agree that:

• All content on the Site is provided strictly “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or quiet enjoyment.
• Items posted on the Site are rumors. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, misattributed, exaggerated, fabricated, taken out of context, or otherwise false or misleading. Some items may be later confirmed, debunked, or left in the rumor state indefinitely; we do not undertake to resolve, update, correct, retract, or annotate any item on any schedule.
• The Service is not journalism, not investment advice, not securities research, not career or employment advice, not legal advice, not human-resources advice, and not financial advice. Nothing on the Site should be relied upon for any decision of consequence, including without limitation decisions to buy, sell, or hold any security; to accept, decline, or leave employment; to enter into or terminate any business relationship; or to make any public statement.
• You are solely responsible for independently verifying any item before forming an opinion about it, repeating it, citing it, or acting on it. Where a source link is shown, we encourage you to consult the original source and to seek confirmation from primary sources before drawing conclusions.

You assume all risk arising from your use of the Service.

3. User Submissions

The Service permits visitors to submit information for potential inclusion on the Site, including without limitation company names, descriptions of alleged events, source links, and source- platform references (“Submissions”). You may also vote on a published item or open its source link. By making any such Submission or vote, you represent and warrant that:

1. You are at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction (and in any event at least 18 years of age);
2. You have the legal right to submit the Submission and to grant the license described below; the Submission does not violate any law, contract, fiduciary duty, court order, employer policy, non-disclosure agreement, confidentiality obligation, or third-party right;
3. The Submission is not, to your knowledge, false, defamatory, misleading, fraudulent, malicious, or submitted with intent to harm any person or entity;
4. The Submission does not contain personally identifying information about any individual other than yourself, does not constitute “doxxing,” harassment, threats, or hate speech, and does not name a non-executive natural person in a manner intended to harass, intimidate, or harm;
5. The Submission does not disclose trade secrets, confidential information of a company, or information you obtained in breach of a duty of trust or confidentiality;
6. The Submission does not contain or rely on material non-public information obtained in breach of a fiduciary, employment, contractual, or other duty owed to an issuer of publicly traded securities or to any person from whom such duty is owed, and does not constitute or further securities fraud, market manipulation, or tippee-trading violations;
7. The Submission does not infringe any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, privacy right, or other intellectual- property or proprietary right of any third party.

You grant us, our successors, and our assigns a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, translate, publish, display, distribute, and otherwise use the Submission, in whole or in part, in any media now known or later developed, for any purpose related to operating, promoting, or developing the Service. You waive any moral rights and any analogous rights in the Submission to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

We have no obligation to publish, retain, attribute, display, or restore any Submission. We have no obligation to investigate the truth or falsity of any Submission. We may, in our sole and absolute discretion and without prior notice and without liability, refuse, edit, condense, recategorize, decline, delay, remove, restore, or refuse to restore any Submission or any item already posted, for any reason or no reason. The display of any Submission does not constitute our endorsement, adoption, ratification, or verification of its content.

4. Securities Laws; Material Non-Public Information

Many entries on the Site concern publicly traded companies. You acknowledge and agree that:

• Submitting, repeating, or trading on material non-public information obtained in breach of a duty of confidentiality may violate the U.S. federal securities laws (including Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder), as well as state law and the laws of other jurisdictions. You are solely responsible for compliance with applicable law.
• The Service is not investment advice or securities research. Entries are unverified by us and frequently inaccurate. You must not rely on them for any trading or investment decision.
• We reserve the right to report apparent unlawful insider- trading misuse of the Service to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or other competent authorities and to cooperate with legal process, subpoenas, and good-faith law- enforcement inquiries.

5. Prohibited Content and Conduct

You may not submit, post, transmit, or otherwise make available through the Service any content that:

• is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, fraudulent, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or invasive of another's privacy;
• discloses confidential, proprietary, or trade-secret information of any company, including information protected by a non-disclosure agreement, employment agreement, or fiduciary duty;
• discloses or relies on material non-public information in violation of securities laws, or constitutes market manipulation, securities fraud, or tippee-trading violations;
• identifies, exposes, or targets specific non-executive individuals (including by name, title, or other identifying detail) in a manner intended to harass, intimidate, or harm;
• impersonates any person or entity, including any company or any employee, officer, or representative thereof, or misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity;
• infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right;
• contains software viruses, scraping mechanisms, or any other code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment;
• is submitted using automated means, including bots, scrapers, or scripts, without our prior written consent.

You also agree not to: (i) attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service; (ii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network; (iii) reverse engineer or decompile any portion of the Service; (iv) frame, mirror, or systematically extract content from the Site; (v) inflate, game, or manipulate any vote, view counter, or other engagement metric through automated, repeated, or coordinated means; or (vi) use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation.

6. Intellectual Property; Attribution

The Site's design, layout, code, compilation of items, branding, and other elements not constituting user Submissions are owned by us and protected by intellectual-property laws. Where an item on the Site references a third-party publication, social-media post, or other external source, credit and a link are provided for purposes of attribution and to permit independent verification; the underlying content remains the property of its respective owner, and inclusion of a source link does not imply endorsement by, or affiliation with, that source.

References to companies (including names, logos shown via a logo-CDN partner, and short descriptive text) are nominative, editorial uses identifying the subject of community discussion; they do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or authorization by the company referenced.

If you are the owner of source material and would prefer that we not link to it, contact us at legal@rumors.fyi and we will consider the request in good faith.

7. Notice and Takedown; Correction Requests; Subject Notice

We are a passive host and curator of third-party information and rely on the protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230, and analogous laws. We are not the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Notice of unlawful or inaccurate content. If you believe in good faith that content on the Site is unlawful - including because it is defamatory of you, discloses your private information, violates a court order, or otherwise injures your legal rights - or that it is materially inaccurate, please send a written notice to legal@rumors.fyi that includes: (a) your name and contact information; (b) a precise identification of the item complained of (URL and date if possible); (c) a specific explanation of why the item is unlawful or inaccurate, including identification of the false or actionable statements; (d) any evidence supporting your position; and (e) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that, if you are not the subject of the item, you are authorized to act on behalf of the subject. We will review timely notices and, in our sole discretion, may remove, modify, mark as debunked with a linked outcome source, or annotate the item. Our response to any notice does not constitute a waiver of any defense, immunity, or right, and is not an admission of liability.

Subject correction request. If you are a subject of an item or an authorized representative of a company named in an item and you believe the item is inaccurate, you may submit a request to mark the item as debunked with a linked outcome source you provide. We will evaluate such requests in good faith. Acceptance is not automatic; we may require additional information.

8. DMCA Copyright Policy

We respect the intellectual-property rights of others. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, copyright owners or their authorized agents may submit a notice of alleged infringement to our Designated Agent.

A valid DMCA notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works at a single site, a representative list);
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material (URL preferred);
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party (name, address, telephone, email);
5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate, and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right.

Designated Agent: legal@rumors.fyi

Upon receipt of a compliant notice, we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the material identified. We will terminate the privileges of any submitter who is the subject of repeat valid infringement notices (the “repeat-infringer policy”).

Counter-notice. If you believe material was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice to the same address containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g), including your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, the federal district court for the Northern District of California) and a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification.

Misrepresentations. Knowing material misrepresentation in a notice or counter-notice may subject the submitter to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

9. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, with all faults. We disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including without limitation all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error- free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components, or that any item on the Site is accurate, complete, or current.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will we, our affiliates, or our or their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, or licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, use, goodwill, reputation, business opportunity, or employment, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service, whether based on contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service, from all causes of action and under all theories of liability, will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100.00).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities, so portions of the foregoing may not apply to you; in such jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

11. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our affiliates, and our and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, proceedings, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your Submissions or votes; (b) your use of or access to the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any law or any right of any third party. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.

12. Governing Law

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California for any action not subject to the arbitration requirements of Section 13, including any action for injunctive or equitable relief. This choice of law and venue is intended to apply to the maximum extent permitted by law and is not intended to deprive you of any non-waivable protection of the law of your place of residence.

13. Dispute Resolution; Binding Arbitration; Class Waiver

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

a. Informal resolution. Before commencing any formal proceeding, you agree to first send a written notice describing the dispute to legal@rumors.fyi and to attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least sixty (60) days.

b. Binding arbitration. Except as set forth below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures then in effect. The seat of arbitration will be San Francisco County, California, or such other location as the parties agree. The arbitrator will have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute, including any claim that all or part of this agreement is unenforceable. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The JAMS Streamlined Rules are available at jamsadr.com.

c. Class-action waiver. You and we each agree that any proceeding will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this class-action waiver is held unenforceable, then the entirety of this Section 13 will be null and void, but the remainder of these Terms will remain in effect.

d. Exceptions.Either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court for disputes within the scope of that court's jurisdiction. Either party may also seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual-property rights or to stop unauthorized access to the Service.

e. Opt-out. You may opt out of the arbitration requirement and class-action waiver by sending a written notice to legal@rumors.fyi within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms, stating that you decline arbitration.

14. Modifications

We may modify these Terms at any time by posting a revised version on the Site and updating the “Last updated” date. Material changes will, where practicable, be highlighted. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of the revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of them. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, your sole remedy is to stop using the Service.

15. Termination; Suspension

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, including suspected violation of these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 2, 3, 4, 6, 7–11, 13, and 16) will survive.

16. Miscellaneous

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with any merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other notices we post on the Site, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings.

Contact. Questions about these Terms: legal@rumors.fyi.

This page was last updated on May 31, 2026. We recommend reviewing it periodically.