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Last updated 1 November 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Short2News Media Network Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India ("Short2News", "we"), for the Short2News Android app, the website short2news.com and the services they offer. By using them you accept these terms, the Privacy policy and the Community guidelines. If you do not accept them, please do not use the service.

1. Who can use Short2News

You must be 18 or older, or use the service with the consent of a parent or guardian who accepts these terms for you. To earn or withdraw coins or Shorts earnings you must be 18 or older and receive the payout into a UPI ID or Indian bank account in your own name.

2. Your account

  • You can read news without an account. Posting, saving, earning and some AI features need one.
  • One person, one account. Give accurate details and keep your phone and Google account secure; you are responsible for what happens under your account.
  • Do not use another person's identity, or a handle or brand name that misleads people about who you are.
  • You can delete your account at any time. See Delete your account.

3. News and summaries

Short2News shows short summaries of news reported by publishers, wire services and official sources, and links to the original story with the source named on every card. Many summaries, translations and narrations are written or read by software. We work to keep them accurate, but they can contain mistakes, and a summary is never a substitute for the full report. Check the original source before you rely on a story for anything important.

Nothing on Short2News is medical, legal, financial or investment advice. Horoscopes are for entertainment. Job and exam listings are summaries of public notifications; always confirm dates, eligibility and fees on the official notification before you apply or pay anything.

If you spot an error, write to editorial@short2news.com and we will correct it.

4. Shorty AI and AI Studio

  • AI answers and creations are generated automatically and may be wrong, incomplete or unexpected. Use your own judgement.
  • You are responsible for what you ask for and for how you use the result. Do not use AI features to create content that breaks the law or the Community guidelines, including sexual content, content involving children, or realistic images, video or voices of a real person without their consent.
  • Do not upload photos or recordings of other people unless you have their permission.
  • When you share AI-generated content publicly, do not present it as real footage or real news. We may label it as AI-generated.
  • Some AI features cost coins. Coins spent on a creation that fails are returned automatically.

5. What you post

You keep ownership of what you post. By posting it you give Short2News a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, reproduce, format, translate, narrate, display and distribute it in the app, on short2news.com and in our promotion of the service, and to let other users view and share it through the service's features. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other people have already shared, copies we must keep for legal reasons, and backups that are overwritten in the normal course.

You promise that you have the rights to everything you post, that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge, and that it does not break any law or anyone's rights. News tips and submissions may be edited for length, clarity and accuracy before they are published, and we may decline to publish them.

6. Rules

The Community guidelines are part of these terms. In particular, you must not post, share or create anything that:

  • belongs to someone else and you have no right to share;
  • is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, or invades another person's privacy, including their bodily privacy;
  • insults, harasses or targets anyone on the basis of gender, religion, caste, race, ethnicity or any other characteristic, or encourages money laundering or gambling;
  • is harmful to children;
  • infringes a patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary right;
  • knowingly deceives or misleads people about where a message came from, or spreads information that is patently false or misleading;
  • impersonates another person;
  • threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, its friendly relations with other countries, or public order, or incites an offence;
  • contains malware or code designed to interfere with any computer resource;
  • violates any law in force.

You also must not scrape, copy or resell the service, interfere with it or its security, open multiple accounts or use bots to collect coins, or try to get around a suspension.

7. Moderation, takedown and appeals

We may review, restrict, label or remove content, and warn, limit, suspend or close accounts, when content or behaviour breaks these terms or the law, or when a court or government order requires it. We act on unlawful content within the time the IT Rules, 2021 set. Where we remove your content we tell you why, unless the law prevents it, and you can ask us to look again by writing to the Grievance Officer. Copyright complaints follow the Copyright & takedown process.

8. Coins and earnings

Coins are reward points inside Short2News. The rules for earning, spending, withdrawing and refunds are in Coins & refunds, which is part of these terms. Coins are not a deposit, a currency or a payment instrument, cannot be transferred between accounts, and have no value except as that page describes. We may withhold or reverse coins and earnings obtained by fraud, bots, duplicate accounts or a breach of these terms. You are responsible for any tax due on what you receive, and we deduct tax at source where the law requires.

9. Ads and other services

The app shows ads, including in the feed and between Shorts. Some features rely on other companies' services, such as Google sign-in, embedded YouTube videos and links to publishers' sites. Their own terms apply to them, and we are not responsible for their content.

10. Our rights

The Short2News name, logo, app, website, design and software belong to us or our licensors. You may use the service for your own, non-commercial purposes; these terms do not give you any other right to them. Publishers' stories and images belong to their owners.

11. Availability and liability

We provide the service "as is" and may change, pause or stop features. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits or lost data, or for content posted by users or third parties. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits a right you have under Indian consumer protection law that cannot be excluded.

12. Ending your use

You can stop using Short2News and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, after a warning where the breach is not serious. Sections 5, 8, 10, 11 and 13 continue to apply after your account is closed.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top, and for significant changes we tell you in the app before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

14. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Please write to the Grievance Officer first; most problems are settled that way. Any dispute that is not resolved is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Hyderabad, Telangana.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: support@short2news.com. Complaints: grievance@short2news.com.