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Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions govern your use of Brieflings — the topic-monitoring and briefing service at this website. Please read them alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal data.

1. Who we are, and your agreement

Brieflings is operated by Kirkton Labs LTD, 2 Thorne Road, Livingston, Scotland, EH54 7GL. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use Brieflings.

2. The service

Brieflings lets you choose topics to follow and prepares regular briefs on them. For each topic, your editor researches sources on your behalf, compares what it finds, and assembles a brief — a finite edition with a cover, findings, and a sign-off — on the cadence you choose. You can chat with your editor about a brief or your topics, and receive briefs and alerts by email. The depth and frequency available to you depend on your plan.

3. Eligibility and your account

Brieflings is not directed at children, and you must be old enough under the law of your country to enter into a binding agreement. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information on your account and for keeping your password secure; tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access. You may close your account at any time from Settings.

4. Acceptable use

When you use Brieflings you agree not to:

  • use the service to research, profile, or monitor identifiable individuals in a way that breaches data-protection law, or that harasses, intimidates, or endangers anyone;
  • choose topics, or submit content, that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or abusive;
  • attempt to bypass, disable, or interfere with the service's rate limits, safety controls, or other technical protections;
  • probe, scan, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service or the systems it runs on;
  • scrape, republish, resell, or redistribute briefs or other content from the service, except where the service expressly allows it;
  • use the service to build a competing product, or in any way that places an unreasonable load on it.

We may remove content, or suspend or close an account, for breach of this section.

5. Subscriptions, billing, and payment

Brieflings offers a free plan and paid plans, as described on our pricing page. Where you take a paid plan:

  • it is billed in advance on a recurring basis and renews automatically until you cancel;
  • it is sold by Brieflings and card payments are handled by our payment provider; we add any applicable taxes (such as UK VAT) where required;
  • you can cancel at any time and downgrade whenever you like — your topics are kept either way.

If you are a consumer in the UK or EU you may have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days of subscribing. Prices may change, and we will give reasonable notice of any change before it affects you. .

6. Intellectual property

Brieflings — including its software, design, and brand — belongs to us or our licensors. We grant you a personal, non-transferable right to use the service and to read the briefs prepared for you. Briefs quote and link to third-party sources; those sources remain the property of their owners. You keep all rights in the material you provide — your topic names, messages, and preferences — and you grant us the licence we need to store and process that material to operate the service. The open-source software the service is built on is acknowledged on our open-source notices page.

7. AI-generated content and accuracy

Briefs and chat replies are produced by automated, AI-generated research. They draw on sources that may themselves be incomplete or wrong, and the automated summarising and writing can make mistakes — a brief may be inaccurate, out of date, or miss important context. Briefs are a starting point for your own judgement, not a substitute for it. Brieflings does not provide professional, legal, financial, medical, or other regulated advice, and you should not rely on it as such. Verify anything important against primary sources before acting on it.

8. Third-party links

Briefs link to third-party websites and sources. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or availability, and a link is not an endorsement.

9. Availability

We work to keep Brieflings available and dependable, but the service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may carry out maintenance that interrupts the service.

10. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close your account if you breach these Terms — in particular the acceptable-use section — or where we are required to by law. You may close your account at any time from Settings; doing so deletes your data as described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brieflings is provided without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss arising from your reliance on a brief. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud — and, if you are a consumer, your statutory rights are not affected.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change we will update the date shown above and, where appropriate, tell you directly. Continuing to use Brieflings after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

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14. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at contact@brieflings.com .