Privacy Policy - Fact Extract Desktop

1. License

You may use Fact Extract Desktop free of charge for viewing and working with data from FactExtract.Net or compatible data sources. You may share this software with others. You may not decompile, reverse engineer, or modify this software.

2. AI-Generated Content

This software may display AI-generated material such as OCR text data, summaries, and document groupings generated by https://factextract.net. It facilitates AI access to information via its Data Chat function. Data Chat, when provided permission, can edit notes and document groupings within Fact Extract Desktop. FactExtract.Net and Fact Extract Desktop are designed to optimize reliability and facilitate verification. However, AI can make mistakes. You are responsible for reviewing AI output before relying on it for important decisions.

3. Privacy

The Data Chat feature of Fact Extract Desktop allows you to connect your Fact Extract Desktop databases to Claude.ai via your own Claude.ai account, or to any MCP-compatible AI provider via AnythingLLM or other MCP-enabled AI interface. Consult the terms and conditions and privacy policy of whichever AI provider you connect.

Otherwise, Fact Extract Desktop is local software that does not transmit or process your data via third party. The makers of Fact Extract Desktop have no access to your copy of the software or its data.

4. No Warranty

This software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Fact Extract disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Open Schema

The database schema is open. You may build your own tools to work with Fact Extract-compatible data structures.

6. Disputes

If any dispute arises between you and the makers of Fact Extract Desktop concerning this software, you agree that you will first engage in a good faith interactive email exchange of at least two weeks to attempt to resolve any issues, directing email to the address provided at Fact Extract's website. No lawsuit may be filed prior to such good faith interactive communication. If you elect to file a lawsuit it may be filed only in Superior Court of California, County of Alameda. Your damages for any claim related to Fact Extract Desktop shall be limited to $150. You agree not to bring any claim in a representative or class action basis against the makers of Fact Extract Desktop related to this software. These dispute terms are material to the license provided to you, and are required to provide the software without cost.

Further, you agree that you will use Fact Extract Desktop only for lawful purposes. You release, indemnify, and hold harmless the makers of Fact Extract Desktop for any and all liability arising from your violation of these terms or misuse of the software.

The terms of this agreement shall be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of California.

If any provision in this license is deemed unlawful, it shall be stricken and the rest of the agreement shall remain.

7. Open Source Components

This software incorporates third-party open source libraries, including PySide6 (LGPL-3.0), pypdfium2 (BSD/Apache-2.0), pypdf (BSD-3), and others. A complete list of all third-party components, their licenses, and full license texts is provided in the file THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt, installed alongside this application. You may also view this information within the application via Help > About.

In particular, PySide6 and shiboken6 are used under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (LGPL-3.0). You may obtain the source code for these components at https://code.qt.io/cgit/pyside/pyside-setup.git/ and you may replace them with modified versions as described in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt.