Terms of Service

By using the Service, with or without an account, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

If you live in a place whose consumer protection laws give you rights that these terms can’t take away, those rights still apply. Nothing in these terms limits them.

You can search without an account. To create an account you must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live (18 in Ontario), you may only create an account with the permission and supervision of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms for you.

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly allow them to create accounts.

Lampsi is a free search engine. When you search, Lampsi asks free public sources (such as Bing’s public results feed, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and YouTube) for results and shows them to you.

The “Lampsi answer”, summaries, key points, people-also-ask answers, comparisons and replies to questions you ask are extractive: they are built by selecting and quoting sentences from the sources Lampsi retrieved, with links to those sources. They are not written by a paid AI model and are not reviewed by a person.

Because of this, results and answers can be incomplete, out of date, out of context or wrong, and they reflect what the sources say, not our views. Do not rely on Lampsi for medical, legal, financial, safety or other professional advice. Check the original sources, and talk to a qualified professional where it matters.

The Service is free. We don’t charge for it and don’t currently show ads.

When you open a result, Lampsi shows it in the Lampsi reader at an address on lampsi.app (for example lampsi.app/p/…). To do this, our server fetches the public page from the publisher’s website, extracts the main text and images, and shows them in a simpler layout, together with the publisher’s name, the web address the text came from, and a summary built from that text.

• The text, images, video and other material shown in the reader (“Third-Party Content”) belong to their publishers and authors, not to Lampsi. We do not claim ownership of it, and showing it does not mean we agree with it or have checked it.
• The reader may leave out parts of the original page, such as comments, ads, interactive features or paywalled sections, and may show it out of date. The publisher’s own page is the authoritative version.
• If a publisher’s site does not let us fetch a page, the reader shows a short notice and information from other sources instead of the page.
• Some Third-Party Content is offered under its own licence. For example, Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence, and the reader says so on those pages. You are responsible for following any licence or terms that apply if you reuse Third-Party Content.
• Third-party websites and services have their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for them or for their content.

• Give accurate information when you sign up and keep your email address current.
• Keep your password, recovery code and any 2-step verification backup codes private. You are responsible for activity on your account unless it happens because of our failure to take reasonable care.
• Tell us through the contact form if you think someone else has used your account.
• You can delete your account at any time from Your data.

You agree not to:

• use the Service to break any law or to infringe anyone’s rights, including copyright and privacy rights;
• scrape, crawl, mirror or resell the Service or its results, or send automated queries, except through the browser search features we provide (such as OpenSearch);
• overload, probe, test or interfere with the Service, its security or its providers, or try to get around any limit or protection;
• use the Lampsi reader to fetch addresses you aren’t allowed to access, or to try to reach private networks;
• try to access another person’s account or data;
• use the Service to harass, threaten or harm anyone, or to send spam through the contact form;
• use Lampsi’s name or design in a way that suggests we endorse you or your product.

We may limit, suspend or close access for anyone who breaks these rules.

Searches, saved pages, collections, profile details and messages you send through the Service are yours. You give us permission to store and process them only as needed to run the Service for you and as described in the Privacy Policy. This permission ends when you delete the item or your account, except for anything we must keep by law.

If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without owing you anything.

The Lampsi name, logo, design and our own code belong to Lampsi. These terms don’t give you any right to use them other than to use the Service.

Lampsi is built with open-source software, fonts and interface components that are used under their own licences. They are listed on our Credits page, and their licences apply to those parts.

Lampsi is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google, Microsoft (Bing), DuckDuckGo, the Wikimedia Foundation, YouTube, or any publisher, website, brand or company whose name, content or results appear on Lampsi. Names and trademarks that appear in results or in the reader belong to their owners and are shown only to identify them.

We respect the rights of publishers and creators. If you own content shown on Lampsi, including in the reader, and want it removed, or you believe something on Lampsi infringes your copyright, send us a message through the contact form choosing “Copyright or publisher request”. Please include the lampsi.app address, the original address, and your relationship to the content.

When a publisher asks, we will stop showing their pages in the reader and link to the original page instead. We also handle notices in line with Canada’s Copyright Act, including its notice-and-notice rules where they apply.

We may add, change or remove features, or stop the Service, at any time. If we plan to shut Lampsi down, we will try to give account holders reasonable notice on the site so they can download their data.

You can stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the Service or others at risk. Sections 7 to 10 and 12 to 14 continue to apply after your use ends.

To the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties or conditions of merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability or non-infringement. We don’t promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that results, answers or Third-Party Content are accurate, complete or current.

To the extent permitted by law:

• Lampsi is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from or related to the Service, Third-Party Content or these terms;
• Lampsi is not liable for decisions you make based on results, answers or Third-Party Content; and
• Lampsi’s total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100).

These limits apply whatever the legal theory and even if we were told the loss was possible. They do not limit liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your rights under consumer protection laws that apply to you.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. You and Lampsi agree that the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction over any dispute about the Service or these terms, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

Before starting a claim, please contact us so we can try to resolve the issue informally.

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date above. If a change is significant, we will also show a notice on the site. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms. If a part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce a part of these terms right away, we can still enforce it later.

Questions about these terms? Use the contact form.