Beta Briefing — Terms of Use

Version: v1.0 Last updated: 2026-04-29

The short version

Beta Briefing is a personalized news briefing service, currently free during our beta period. We deliver briefings, and you're free to use what you read — personally or for your work, including feeding it into your own AI tools. What you can't do is repackage our briefings into a competing newsletter, podcast, or news product for outside audiences.

We treat your data with care. The companion Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the third-party services that help operate the Service.

If you want to do something not covered here, just ask — we can grant additional permissions in writing.

The rest of this document is the formal version.

1. Who we are

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Beta Briefing LLC, a California limited liability company ("Beta Briefing," "we," "us," or "our"). Beta Briefing operates the website, email briefings, audio briefings, podcast feeds, web archives, and related services (together, the "Service").

By using the Service or subscribing to a briefing, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

2. The Service

Beta Briefing provides AI-generated daily news briefings, along with periodic recaps, audio versions, web archives, and podcast feeds. Briefings can be personalized to you individually or published as public channels with their own identity and archive.

We may change, add, or remove features from time to time as the Service evolves.

3. Your account

To receive briefings, you'll create an account by providing your email and (typically) some information about your interests. You're responsible for keeping your account credentials and email inbox secure and for activity on your account. We use passwordless magic-link sign-in for the web portal — anyone with access to your email inbox can sign in to your portal account, so secure your email accordingly.

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service.

4. Beta status and future pricing

Beta Briefing is currently in a free beta period. That means:

• The Service is free to use, but it's also a work in progress. Features may change, break, or be removed, and briefings may occasionally fail to arrive or contain errors. We appreciate your patience and feedback.
• We may introduce paid plans, usage limits, or other commercial terms in the future. If we do, we'll give you notice by email or through the Service before any changes affect you, and we won't start charging your account without your explicit agreement to new terms.
• We may end the beta, change which features are free, or discontinue the Service at any time. We'll try to give reasonable notice when we do.

5. Your rights to use the content

We want Beta Briefing to be genuinely useful, so the license we grant you is intentionally broad.

You may:

• Read, save, print, and forward briefings for your personal use or for use within your organization
• Use the information, analysis, and insights in your own work, research, and decisions
• Feed briefing content into AI assistants, RAG systems, knowledge bases, or other tools you use for personal or internal-organization research, analysis, summarization, or reference
• Quote briefly from briefings in your own communications with attribution to Beta Briefing
• Share individual briefings with colleagues inside your organization as part of normal collaboration

You may not:

• Reproduce, republish, or syndicate briefings (in whole or in substantial part) to audiences outside your organization
• Build, publish, or operate a newsletter, podcast, briefing service, or other news product that is based on or substantially derived from Beta Briefing content
• Train or fine-tune AI or machine-learning models on briefing content for the purpose of creating a competing product or service
• Systematically scrape, crawl, or bulk-download content beyond normal consumption
• Remove attribution, branding, or source links from briefings you share or forward
• Resell, sublicense, or redistribute briefings in exchange for payment or other consideration

6. Additional permissions

We may grant rights beyond those described above through a separate written agreement or explicit written authorization (including by email) from Beta Briefing. Any such additional permissions apply only to the specific party, content, and uses described in the authorization, and do not modify these Terms for other users.

If you'd like to use our content in a way these Terms don't allow, ask us — we're generally willing to work something out.

7. Content you submit

When you sign up, edit your briefing, send a request through the portal, or otherwise communicate with the Service, you may submit content to us — for example, a written description of your interests, configuration changes via Smart Edit, a voice message on the Requests page, or freeform feedback.

You retain ownership of content you submit. You grant Beta Briefing a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, store, reproduce, modify, and process that content solely as needed to operate, maintain, personalize, and improve the Service for you, including by sending relevant portions to the third-party AI, search, and infrastructure providers described in our Privacy Policy.

You're responsible for the content you submit. Don't submit anything you don't have the right to share, anything confidential to a third party, or anything illegal.

8. Our content and intellectual property

The briefings, website design, branding, audio briefing recordings, and other materials we produce are owned by Beta Briefing and protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The license in Section 5 is the full extent of the rights we grant you in our content; all other rights are reserved.

Source material we link to (articles, reports, etc.) belongs to its original publishers. Briefings include short excerpts, summaries, and links under what we believe to be fair use; your use of those underlying sources is governed by their own terms.

9. Copyright complaints

If you believe content in the Service infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to act on behalf of, send a notice to [email protected] that includes:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
2. Identification of the allegedly infringing material on the Service, including a URL or other locator sufficient for us to find it
3. Your contact information (name, address, telephone number, and email)
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
5. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf
6. Your physical or electronic signature

We will respond to valid notices in a reasonable time. Knowing material misrepresentations may subject you to liability under applicable law (including 17 U.S.C. § 512(f)).

10. Third-party services and integrations

The Service relies on third-party providers for hosting, AI inference, search, article extraction, email delivery, audio generation, analytics, and optional integrations such as Telegram notifications. Our Privacy Policy lists the providers we use and what each receives.

If you opt into an optional integration (for example, linking a Telegram chat for notifications, or subscribing to a podcast feed in Apple Podcasts or Spotify), your use of that integration is also governed by the third party's own terms and privacy policy. We aren't responsible for how those third parties operate.

11. Acceptable use

Don't use the Service to break the law, harass others, interfere with the Service's operation, attempt to access other users' accounts, probe for vulnerabilities, or reverse-engineer our systems. We may suspend or terminate accounts that do.

12. AI-generated content and accuracy

Beta Briefing's briefings are produced with the help of AI systems that research, select, and write content based on publicly available sources. We work hard to make them accurate and useful, but:

• Briefings may contain errors, omissions, factual mistakes, mis-attributions, or outdated information
• Briefings are not professional advice (legal, financial, medical, or otherwise)
• You're responsible for verifying information before relying on it for important decisions

We don't guarantee that any particular story will be covered, that coverage will be complete or balanced, or that the Service will be available without interruption.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Beta Briefing will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or business opportunities, arising out of or related to your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim arising out of these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

14. Termination

You can stop using the Service at any time by unsubscribing from briefing emails or by emailing us at [email protected] to delete your account.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, if we're required to by law, or if we discontinue the Service.

Sections 5 (as to content already received), 7 (as to content already submitted), 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, and 18 survive termination.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll notify you by email or through the Service before they take effect, and we'll bump the Version at the top of this document. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms, except as provided in Section 4 (which requires your explicit agreement before we begin charging your account).

16. Assignment

Beta Briefing may assign these Terms and all associated rights and obligations to an affiliated entity, successor, or acquirer (for example, in connection with a sale, merger, or restructuring). Your rights under these Terms will not be diminished by such assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms without our written consent.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Orange County, California, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.

18. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any separate written agreements between you and Beta Briefing, are the entire agreement between us regarding the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

19. Contact

Questions, permission requests, or concerns?

• Email: [email protected]
• Mailing address: Beta Briefing LLC, 2108 N St, Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA