Terms of service

Plain terms for a plain-dealing publication.

These terms govern your use of Drift Brief (the “service”), operated by DLAXON. By creating an account or subscribing, you agree to them. If anything here is unclear, email support@driftbrief.com before relying on it.

1. What the service is — and is not

Drift Brief is a publication: it surfaces and explains changes in public SEC filings, with citations to the source. It is not investment advice, not a broker, not a fiduciary, and not a registered investment adviser. Nothing on the service — findings, severity labels, chat responses, precedent statistics, emails — is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Our full editorial posture is documented on the compliance page, which is part of these terms.

2. Your account

  • You need a working email address — sign-in is by magic link. Keep access to that inbox secure; anyone who controls it controls your account. Optional two-factor authentication is available in Settings.
  • You must be 18 or older.
  • US only. The service is offered to users in the United States. It is not directed at, or intended for, people in the EU/EEA, UK, or other regions, and you shouldn’t use it from outside the US.
  • One account per person. You’re responsible for activity under your account.

3. Subscriptions and billing

  • Paid tiers are billed through Stripe on a recurring basis at the price shown on the pricing page when you subscribe.
  • Cancel anytime from Settings or the Stripe billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period; you keep access until then. No cancellation fees, no guilt-trip flows.
  • Refunds. Fees for the current billing period are non-refundable once it starts — cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep full access through the period you paid for. Exceptions: where consumer law requires a refund, or where we terminate your account without cause (§8).
  • If we change a price, existing subscribers get advance notice by email before it applies to them.
  • Tier limits (e.g. monthly chat quota, watchlist size) are part of the product definition and may be tuned; material reductions to a paid tier come with notice.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Resell, redistribute, or republish the service’s content at scale (sharing an excerpt or screenshot with attribution is fine; mirroring the product is not).
  • Scrape, bulk-download, or programmatically extract content or data beyond any interfaces we provide for it.
  • Probe, overload, or attempt to bypass security or rate limits, or attempt to manipulate the chat into producing advisory output that the service is designed not to give.
  • Use the service for anything unlawful.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules; where practical we’ll warn first.

5. Content and ownership

  • SEC filings are public records. Our analysis, summaries, severity labels, precedent statistics, and presentation are Drift Brief’s editorial work, licensed to you for personal, non-commercial research use.
  • Your content stays yours. Journal entries, annotations, and watchlists belong to you; you grant us only the license needed to store and display them back to you. We don’t share or aggregate them — see the privacy policy.

6. Accuracy and disclaimers

We work hard to be accurate and we publish corrections (corrections@driftbrief.com), but the service is provided “as is”: filings parsing, automated detection, statistics, and AI-generated chat responses can contain errors or omissions, and SEC source data itself can be wrong or late. Past disclosure outcomes are history, not predictions. You are responsible for verifying anything you rely on against the cited source filing — that’s why we cite it.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, DLAXON’s total liability for any claim arising out of the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, or for investment losses — the service does not give investment advice, and no output of it is a basis for liability as such.

8. Termination

You can delete your account at any time in Settings (see the privacy policy for what deletion removes). We can terminate or suspend accounts for violating these terms, and will refund the unused remainder of a paid period if we terminate without cause.

9. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms materially, we’ll update the date below and notify account holders by email before the changes take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Courts located in Colorado have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these terms or the service, and each party consents to that venue — except that either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property or confidentiality breaches in any court of competent jurisdiction.

11. Contact

Questions: support@driftbrief.com. Compliance concerns: compliance@driftbrief.com. Privacy: privacy@driftbrief.com.