Platform & Academic Disclaimer

This Platform & Academic Disclaimer applies to all pages, research rooms, Live Rooms, published papers, Orbit AI outputs, Citation Reports, communities, comments, and exports on orbitsub.com, operated by OrbitSub, a sole proprietorship owned and operated by Karan in New Delhi, India, and registered as a micro enterprise under the Udyam (MSME) scheme of the Government of India ("OrbitSub", "we", "us", or "our"). It forms an integral part of our Terms of Service.

---

1. General Informational & Scholarly Purpose Only

All content available on or generated through OrbitSub — including user-authored research papers, drafts, outlines, literature reviews, community discussions, comments, Orbit AI completions, and automated Citation Reports — is provided strictly for academic, educational, research, and informational purposes. Nothing on the Service constitutes a binding representation, warranty, or professional certification by OrbitSub.

2. Not a Peer-Reviewed Publisher or Accredited Academic Institution

1. Collaborative research workspace: OrbitSub is an open, community-driven AI research workspace and publishing platform. OrbitSub is not an accredited university, degree-granting institution, or traditional peer-reviewed academic journal.
2. Publication status on OrbitSub: When an author marks a research room as "Published" on OrbitSub, or when readers and co-authors contribute suggestions or reviews in a Live Room, that status reflects publication and community review within the OrbitSub platform. Unless a paper explicitly states an external journal DOI and publication venue, publication on OrbitSub does not mean the work has undergone formal double-blind institutional peer review.
3. No guarantee of external acceptance or academic grade: We make no representation or guarantee that any manuscript drafted, cited, formatted, or verified using OrbitSub will be accepted by any external journal, conference, thesis committee, university, or grant-funding body, or achieve any particular academic grade or evaluation.

3. No Medical, Clinical, Legal, Financial, or Safety-Critical Advice

Research papers and AI-assisted drafts on OrbitSub frequently discuss medicine, pharmacology, biology, law, public policy, economics, finance, computer science, and engineering. Under no circumstances does any content on OrbitSub or any output of Orbit AI constitute:

1. Medical, clinical, or healthcare advice: Nothing on the Service is intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition, or to substitute for the clinical judgment of a licensed physician, pharmacist, or qualified healthcare professional. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment because of something you read or generated on OrbitSub.
2. Legal advice: Nothing on the Service creates a lawyer-client relationship or constitutes legal advice or a formal legal opinion. Always consult a qualified advocate or attorney licensed in your jurisdiction for legal matters.
3. Financial, investment, or tax advice: Nothing on the Service constitutes investment advice, a securities recommendation, financial planning, or tax advice.
4. Safety-critical engineering advice: Content and outputs on the Service must not be relied upon without independent professional verification in any high-risk or safety-critical environment (such as clinical patient care, structural engineering, aviation, nuclear, chemical processing, or critical infrastructure).

4. Orbit AI & Automated Citation Report Disclaimer

1. Probabilistic nature of AI: Orbit AI grounds its drafting, question-answering, paraphrasing, and review tools in real scholarly metadata and abstracts retrieved from open bibliographic registries and your uploaded Library PDFs. However, large language models are probabilistic systems and can still produce inaccurate statements, misinterpret a source's methodology or findings, omit key limitations, or generate flawed equations or code.
2. Scope and limits of the Citation Report: Our automated Citation Report checks sentence-by-sentence claims, verbatim quotes, and bibliography entries against open bibliographic metadata and abstracts (from OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, Europe PMC, DOAJ, Unpaywall, and CORE). While the Citation Report is a powerful verification aid, it inspects available metadata, abstracts, and open-access text — it cannot read behind third-party publisher paywalls unless you have uploaded the full-text PDF to your Library, and it does not replace human scholarly judgment.
3. Author's non-delegable duty to verify: As the author, you bear sole and complete responsibility for reading every primary source you cite, verifying the accuracy of every factual claim, quotation, statistical result, and bibliographic entry, and ensuring your final manuscript is accurate before publishing, exporting, or submitting it anywhere. See our Use of AI Policy for complete details.

5. Academic Integrity & Institutional Rules

Universities, laboratories, funding agencies, conferences, and academic publishers maintain their own policies governing the permissible use and mandatory disclosure of AI research and writing tools. It is your sole responsibility to check and comply with the rules of your institution, instructor, supervisor, or target venue. OrbitSub provides transparent provenance tracking (ResearchContribution, including AI_GENERATE and AI_EDIT records) and downloadable Citation Reports to help you document your workflow honestly, but OrbitSub is not responsible for any academic disciplinary action resulting from your breach of institutional policies.

6. User-Generated Content & Intermediary Status

1. Views of individual authors: Research papers, Live Room suggestions, comments, Community posts (o/<slug>), and profile statements on OrbitSub are created by independent users. They express the views and findings of their respective authors and contributors, and do not represent the views, endorsement, or verification of OrbitSub.
2. Safe-harbour intermediary status: With respect to user-generated content, OrbitSub operates as an intermediary under Section 79 of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (and analogous international frameworks). If you encounter content that violates our Community Guidelines or infringes your copyright, please report it using the in-app Report menu or follow our Content Moderation & Appeals Policy and Copyright & IP Policy.

7. Third-Party Links, Registries & External Tools

The Service links to and retrieves bibliographic metadata from external scholarly registries (such as Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, Europe PMC, DOAJ, Unpaywall, and CORE) and integrates with optional external services (such as Zotero, Mendeley, ORCID, Overleaf, KLIPY, Google Sign-In, and PayPal). OrbitSub does not control and is not responsible for the uptime, accuracy, completeness, or privacy practices of third-party websites or databases.

8. Statutory Carve-Out & Contact

Nothing in this Disclaimer excludes or restricts any warranty, right, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted under applicable law, including non-waivable consumer protections under the Indian Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

Questions regarding this Disclaimer may be addressed to Karan (Founder & Grievance Officer, OrbitSub, New Delhi, India) at team@orbitsub.com (effective date: 1 October 2026; last updated: 25 October 2026).