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Terms & Conditions

Last updated · 2026-05-19

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, trading as Brieflings, a company registered in Scotland under company number SC890006, whose registered office is at 2 Thorne Road, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland, EH54 7GL, United Kingdom. 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 Brieflings for any unlawful purpose, or to plan, carry out, or help anyone else carry out anything illegal — for example fraud, a scam, or phishing; harassment, stalking, or threats; money laundering or sanctions evasion; infringing someone's copyright or other intellectual property; or creating or sharing content that is illegal to produce or distribute;
  • 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;
  • rely on Brieflings as, or use it to provide to anyone else, advice or a service that is regulated and may lawfully be given only by an authorised or licensed person — in particular financial, investment, insurance, credit, legal, tax, accounting, medical or health, or immigration advice. Brieflings is a research and briefing tool, not a regulated adviser: in the UK, carrying on activities such as giving financial advice (under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) or immigration advice (under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999) without authorisation is a criminal offence. Treat every brief as a starting point for your own research, and consult an appropriately qualified, authorised professional before you act;
  • 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; by subscribing you authorise us to charge your saved payment method the then-current fee at the start of each billing period;
  • 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 from Settings — your cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, you keep access until then, and you are not charged again. You can downgrade whenever you like, and your topics are kept either way.

If you are a consumer you would normally have 14 days to cancel a new subscription for a refund. Because your briefs and the rest of the service begin immediately, by subscribing you ask us to start straight away and acknowledge that you lose this 14-day right to cancel once the service has begun — we confirm this when you subscribe. After that, a billing period that has already started is non-refundable, though you can still cancel to stop the next renewal. If you think a refund is warranted, email us at contact@brieflings.com and we will consider it.

Prices may change, and we will give you 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 advice — including financial, investment, legal, tax, medical or health, or immigration advice — and you must not rely on it as such, or use it to give such advice to others (see section 4). Verify anything important against primary sources, and take advice from an appropriately qualified, authorised professional, 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 we do not guarantee that it will always be available or uninterrupted. 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

We provide Brieflings with reasonable care and skill, but we cannot guarantee it. The service is built on large language model (AI) technology, which is inherently unpredictable and can produce information that is inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, and we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. You are responsible for verifying anything you rely on and for exercising your own judgement when using the service or anything it produces.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from the information supplied through the service or from your reliance on it, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Where we are liable to you, our total liability for all claims is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or £30.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud — and, if you are a consumer, this section does not affect your statutory rights, including the right to recover the price you paid.

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

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, are governed by the law of Scotland, and you and we agree that the courts of Scotland have jurisdiction.

14. Contact

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