Terms of use
These terms apply to the website at interactivedemocracy.eu and to the Interactive Democracy platform. Both are run by Interactive Democracy. By using either, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use them. How information is handled is set out separately on the privacy page.
What the platform is
- The platform presents a short brief on a public question, shows you the strongest good-faith case against the view you hold, and lets you contribute your reasoning. Decision-makers see only the aggregate picture.
- Briefs and opposing cases are generated with the help of AI models under fixed rules about neutrality and tone. They are prepared with care, but they may contain errors, omissions or out-of-date information, and in the current version the sources cited in a brief are not yet independently verified. Treat a brief as an aid to understanding, not a statement of fact; check anything you intend to rely on. Nothing on the platform is legal, financial, medical or professional advice.
- The platform does not advocate for any policy, party or candidate, including any organisation associated with the people who built it. It reports what contributors conclude; it does not tell anyone what to conclude.
- Every scenario currently on the platform is a demonstration. Contributions to a demonstration are used to develop and evaluate the method; they are not responses to any statutory consultation and are not forwarded to any public body. When a scenario is run with a named host as a real decision, the scenario page will say so, will name the host, and will state what happens to contributions and when the host will respond. Demonstration dashboards may include clearly labelled synthetic contributions that show how the display reads; they are never counted as real.
Your contributions
- You keep ownership of what you write.
- You give Interactive Democracy a worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, analyse, anonymise and aggregate your contribution, to publish aggregate results, and to use anonymised contributions for research and for evaluating the method. This licence is what makes the aggregate picture possible.
- You confirm that a contribution is your own reasoning, in your own words; that it contains no personal information about other people; and that it is not unlawful, defamatory or infringing.
- Nothing is submitted without your explicit confirmation of the exact text. The current version of the platform does not write contributions for you: the guided path may offer wording based on what you have told it during the session, which you can edit or discard, and nothing is sent as a contribution until you press submit. If a future version offers an assistant that drafts on your behalf, it will do so only with your explicit approval of each final text, only after the strongest alternative to your view has been shown to you, and it will be announced as a separate, opt-in feature — never switched on silently.
Acceptable use
Do not use bots, scripts or multiple sessions to inflate or skew contributions; do not scrape the platform; do not probe, disrupt or interfere with its security or operation; do not use it to harass anyone or to post content you have no right to post. Contributions that breach these terms may be removed from the aggregate.
Intellectual property
- The text, design and software of the website and platform are © Interactive Democracy. All rights reserved unless a specific licence says otherwise.
- The method paper is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22141369. You may reuse it with attribution.
- "Interactive Democracy" and the i.D. mark are trade marks. Do not use them in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation without written permission.
Availability and liability
The website and platform are provided as they are and as available, without any warranty. They may change, pause or close at any time. To the fullest extent the law allows, Interactive Democracy is not liable for any loss arising from your use of them or reliance on their content. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Links
Links to other sites are provided for convenience. Their content and privacy practices are their own.
Changes and law
These terms may be updated; the date at the top shows the current version. They are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute.