Terms of Service

Briefed sends you one edited morning briefing. You give us read-only access to the accounts you want included, you pay for the service, and you do not abuse it. We keep the lights on, treat your data carefully, and tell you before anything material changes. The full terms below say the same thing in the language lawyers prefer.

By creating an account or reading a briefing we send you, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Briefed operates briefed.ink and the morning briefing service described on it. When these terms say "we," "us," or "Briefed," they mean Briefed. When they say "you," they mean the person who holds the account.

Briefed reads from the sources you connect and from public feeds like news, weather, sport, and market data, then writes you a single morning briefing and delivers it by email. An editorial layer powered by a large language model does the writing. It is software, not a person, and it can be wrong. Treat the briefing as a well-read summary, not as financial, medical, legal, or any other professional advice.

That warning is worth repeating for one section in particular. If you add stock tickers, the briefing will tell you what they did. It is a quotation, not a recommendation, and nothing in it is a solicitation to buy or sell anything. Market data arrives delayed and occasionally wrong. Decide with your own money accordingly, and take advice from someone licensed to give it.

Where the facts come from

The public half of your briefing draws on outside sources: the New York Times and the Guardian for news, Open-Meteo for weather, Finnhub for markets, and Football-Data for football. We summarise and attribute their reporting; we do not own it, and it stays theirs. We cannot promise any of them will be accurate, complete, or available on a given morning, and a source that changes its terms or disappears may vanish from your briefing without much warning. When that happens the edition arrives with one fewer section rather than not at all.

We may add, change, or retire parts of the service as it grows. If a change removes something you relied on, we will tell you.

You need an account to use Briefed. You are responsible for what happens under it, so keep your sign-in details to yourself. Sign-in is handled by Clerk; their handling of your credentials is covered in our Privacy Policy.

You must be 18 or older to hold an account. Briefed is not designed for children and is not directed to anyone under 13; if we learn we have taken an account from a child, we will close it and delete the data. Briefed is built for one reader at a time, not for shared or automated use.

The briefing is only as good as what you let it read. You can connect a calendar, a task list, and other sources. We ask for read-only access, we use it to build that morning's briefing, and we do not write anything back to those accounts. You can disconnect any source at any time from your settings, and the next briefing will simply do without it.

How we handle the data we fetch, and what we never keep, is set out in the Privacy Policy.

Paid plans are billed through Stripe. If you start on a trial, we will tell you when it ends and what happens next. Subscriptions renew until you cancel, and you can cancel at any time from your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. Except where the law requires otherwise, payments already made are not refundable.

If a payment fails, we will try again and let you know. If it keeps failing, we may pause your briefings until the balance is settled.

Prices can change. If yours does, we will tell you by email before it takes effect, and the new price applies from your next billing period rather than the one you have already paid for. If you do not want to pay it, cancel before that date and nothing further is charged.

Briefed is young, and parts of it are still labelled beta or early access. Those parts can change, break, or be withdrawn with less notice than the rest, and we do not offer an uptime commitment on them. A briefing may arrive late, or occasionally not at all, and we would rather say so here than have you find out on a Tuesday.

If something does go wrong, tell us. The whole point of an early audience is that we hear about it quickly.

Keep it simple. Do not:

• resell, redistribute, or republish your briefings as your own product;
• scrape, reverse-engineer, or hammer the service with automated requests;
• connect accounts you do not own or have permission to use;
• use Briefed to break the law or someone else's rights.

If you do any of this, we may suspend or close your account.

And if breaking one of those rules lands us with a third-party claim, a fine, or the legal bill that comes with either, that one is yours to cover. This is the standard clause every service carries, and it is aimed squarely at the person who connects an account they do not own or republishes a briefing as their own product. Use Briefed as intended and it will never come up.

Briefed owns the service, the brand, and the editorial system that writes your briefings. You own your own data and the accounts you connect. The briefing we generate for you is yours to read, keep, and forward; the underlying system that produced it stays ours.

Briefed is provided as it is. We work hard to make it accurate and reliable, but we cannot promise it will be uninterrupted, error free, or right about every headline. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim the implied warranties that would otherwise apply, and our liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. None of this limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be waived.

You can close your account whenever you like. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or stop offering the service, with reasonable notice where we can give it. When an account closes, we stop sending briefings and delete or anonymise your data on the schedule described in the Privacy Policy.

We may update these terms as the service changes or the law requires. When we make a material change, we will update the effective date above and tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect. Using Briefed after a change means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located there will hear any dispute, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it closer to home.

Every agreement carries a closing paragraph of machinery. Here is ours, in one place rather than scattered through the document.

• If one part fails. A clause a court will not enforce is struck out on its own. The rest of these terms carry on unaffected.
• Letting something slide once. If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not given it up, and we can still enforce it later.
• The whole agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us, and they replace anything said earlier on the same subjects.
• Handing it on. You cannot transfer your account to someone else. We may transfer this agreement if the business is sold or reorganised, and your rights come with it unchanged.
• Things outside anyone's control. We are not liable for failures caused by events we cannot reasonably control, such as an outage at a provider, a network failure, or a natural disaster.
• What outlives the account. The sections on ownership, acceptable use, liability, and governing law continue to apply after your account closes.
• How we reach each other. We give you notice by email at the address on your account, or in the app. You give us notice at the address in the last section. Keep your email address current, because it is the only way we have of finding you.

Questions about these terms go to hello@briefed.ink. A real person reads that inbox.