Terms and Conditions
Last updated: August 2026
1. Service provider
Cryterio is a service offered by Analytiko S.r.l. (formerly Fisit S.r.l.), registered office Corso Buonarroti 8, 38122 Trento (TN), VAT no. IT02602500221 · Share capital 50.000 € fully paid up (hereinafter “the Provider”). Contacts: [email protected] — PEC [email protected].
The Provider has changed its company name and registered office: it is the same legal entity, with the same VAT number. Contracts, subscriptions and orders entered into under the previous name remain fully valid and continue without any need for renewal or fresh acceptance.
2. Description and nature of the service
Cryterio provides automated real-time fact-checking of public broadcasts: transcription, extraction of factual claims and their verification against public sources, with an indication of the source.
Nature of the service and legal basis. Cryterio is a tool for the factual verification of statements made publicly by public figures and within public debate. The service operates in the exercise of the right to report and to criticise under art. 21 of the Italian Constitution and arts. 65 and 70 of Italian Law no. 633 of 22 April 1941, treating public statements as facts subject to verification. The service does not reproduce, does not retain in full and does not redistribute the editorial content of the sources, confining itself to checking the individual verified claims against primary information sources.
Non-redistributive nature. The service does not give users access to the original streams of the sources, nor does it make available, retain or distribute full copies of their content. Any instrumental processing carried out by the service is aimed exclusively at factual verification and does not constitute an autonomous editorial product, a press review, or a reproduction of third-party content.
Object and limits of the output. The verdicts made available consist of the individual claim being verified, together with the indication of the source and its temporal reference, and not of the full or substantial reproduction of the originating information stream. Reference to the verified statements is made within the limits of the quotation permitted by art. 70 of Italian Law no. 633 of 22 April 1941.
3. Nature of the verdicts and limitations
The verdicts are generated using automated systems and language models and are anchored to the source data (“source X reports…”): they relate to the cited data and do not constitute a judgement on individuals. Despite a cautious method (in the absence of sufficient evidence the verdict is “unverifiable”), the service may contain errors, delays, inaccuracies or omissions and does not guarantee completeness, accuracy, timeliness or fitness for a specific purpose. The verdicts are for purely informational purposes, do not constitute legal, journalistic, financial or professional advice and do not replace direct verification of the sources. The user is solely responsible for the decisions, publications and editorial uses they make on the basis of the verdicts.
The verdicts are produced by automated processing and have the nature of an informational check, not a definitive determination: they do not constitute evidence, an expert opinion or a determination in any forum, and may not be taken as definitive assertions of the truth or falsity of the verified content, always requiring the user's own critical assessment.
4. Invitation-only access phase and free access
The service is currently in an invitation-only access phase. Anyone who receives an invitation has access free of charge for the whole beta. Invitations are granted at the Provider's sole discretion, are personal and non-transferable, and may be revoked in the event of non-compliant use. Requesting an invitation does not confer any right of access.
5. Subscription, trial and payments
At the end of the beta phase, access to the reserved area requires a subscription, on a monthly or annual basis (the annual plan with a 15% discount compared to twelve monthly instalments). Current amounts (excluding VAT where applicable): Individuals (personal use) 99 € per month; Professional (professional use, with a licence to use the verifications) 349 € per month or 3.560 € per year; Firm up to 3 seats 890 € per month; Organisation up to 10 seats 2.490 € per month; beyond 10 seats on dedicated terms. Subscriptions include a 7-day trial, at the end of which automatic renewal takes effect unless cancelled. The payment method is entered upon activation, with no charge during the trial. Payments are handled by Revolut; the Provider neither processes nor stores card data. The Provider may change prices with reasonable notice, effective from the following renewal cycle.
6. Cancellation and withdrawal
You may cancel at any time from the Account page. In the event of cancellation during the trial, no amount is due; after activation, access remains available until the end of the billing cycle already paid for, and no refunds are provided for periods already billed, save as mandatorily provided by law. For consumers who request immediate provision of the digital service, starting to use it with express consent entails the loss of the right of withdrawal under the applicable legislation.
7. Eligibility and user obligations
The service is offered for two intended uses: the Individuals plans, for exclusively personal use, and the Professional, Studio and Organisation plans, aimed at a professional audience (journalists, newsrooms, press offices, organisations). The user declares that they have the capacity to enter into a contract, undertakes to provide truthful data, to safeguard their credentials and not to share the account. Use must comply with the law, with these terms and with the licence of the chosen plan (sec. 9).
Selection of sources by the user. Where the service allows the user to indicate or select the sources to be verified, the user warrants that they hold appropriate title to submit the indicated source and assumes all responsibility for the lawfulness of that selection. The user shall hold harmless and indemnify the Provider against any third-party claim arising from source selections made in breach of applicable rules or of the terms of use of those sources (cf. sec. 13).
8. Permitted use and prohibitions
The following are prohibited without the Provider's written authorisation: reselling, sublicensing or making the service or its verdicts available to third parties; carrying out scraping, mass extraction or systematic reuse of the contents; decompiling, decoding or attempting to derive the code, models, prompts or internal logic (reverse engineering); circumventing technical measures, usage limits or access controls; using the service for unlawful, defamatory purposes or purposes harmful to the rights of others; overloading or interfering with the infrastructure. The export function is permitted exclusively for the subscribing user's internal analysis and does not authorise the commercial redistribution of the verdicts.
9. Intellectual property and licences of use
The software, the interface, the Cryterio trademark, the source index, the organisation of the contents and every element of the service are owned by the Provider or its licensors and are protected by applicable laws. The user is granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use it, for the duration and within the limits of the subscription. No rights are assigned beyond what is expressly provided. The concrete scope of the licence depends on the plan subscribed to, as follows.
Individuals licence (personal use). It allows consultation of the service and of the verdicts exclusively for personal information. It does not allow the use of the verdicts in any work, professional or editorial activity, their republication or public sharing, nor the use of the working features (export, searchable archive).
Professional licence (Professional, Studio and Organisation plans). It additionally allows the use of the verdicts in the subscriber's professional activity: consultation for editorial purposes, export and the searchable archive, as well as the citation and republication of individual verdicts in articles, reports and editorial products, with attribution to Cryterio and indication of the cited primary source. In the Studio and Organisation plans the licence extends to the included seats (up to 3 and up to 10 respectively), assigned to people within the same organisation. The prohibitions of sec. 8 remain in force — resale, sub-licensing, systematic or massive redistribution, use of the verdicts to train models or build competing services — as does the user's editorial responsibility (sec. 3).
Certification of the licence. The current licence is evidenced by: acceptance of these terms upon activation; the order confirmation and the invoice, which state the subscribed plan and its holder; the Account page, which shows the licence type, status and expiry of the subscription. Upon written request, the Provider issues a certificate of the current licence in the subscriber's name.
10. Third-party content and sources
The verified broadcasts, videos and materials are owned by their respective owners; their viewing and embeddability depend on the settings and terms of those parties and of the platforms (e.g. YouTube), over which the Provider has no control. The cited sources belong to their respective owners and are referenced for the purposes of verifying and citing the data.
11. Availability of the service
The service is in beta and is provided “as is” and “as available”, without any guarantee of continuity, absence of errors or uninterrupted availability. The Provider may modify, suspend or discontinue, in whole or in part, features and contents, even without notice, for technical, maintenance, legal or security reasons.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Provider is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages or for loss of profit, loss of data, reputation or opportunities, nor for damages arising from the use of, reliance on the automated verdicts or the malfunction of the service. In any event, the Provider's total liability towards the user is limited to the amounts actually paid by the user in the twelve months preceding the event. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.
13. Indemnification
The user shall hold harmless and indemnify the Provider against claims, damages and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from any use of the service or the verdicts in breach of these terms or of the rights of third parties.
14. Suspension and termination
The Provider may suspend or terminate access in the event of breach of the terms, fraudulent use, non-payment or requests from the authorities. Upon termination, the licences granted lapse; clauses intended by their nature to survive remain in force (intellectual property, limitations, indemnification, applicable law).
15. Data protection
The processing of personal data is governed by the Privacy Policy, an integral part of these terms, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).
The processing of personal data relating to identifiable individuals contained in the verified statements is carried out for journalistic and reporting purposes, pursuant to art. 85 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the applicable national provisions on processing for journalistic purposes. The rights of data subjects remain unaffected, within the limits provided by the legislation in force for processing for journalistic purposes.
16. Changes to the terms
The Provider may update the service and these terms, giving notice via the site. Continued use after the publication of the changes constitutes acceptance of them.
17. Miscellaneous
The possible invalidity of one clause does not affect the remaining ones. Failure to exercise a right does not constitute a waiver. The Provider may assign the contract in the context of corporate transactions. These terms, together with the Privacy and Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between the parties.
18. Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by Italian law. For disputes, the court of the place of the Provider's registered office has jurisdiction, without prejudice to the mandatory courts protecting the consumer.
Document provided as a contractual basis; legal validation is recommended before commercial production use.