Terms & conditions

These Terms govern your use of the Briefly mobile app and the website at getbriefly.co (the "Services"), provided by Briefly Apps Inc. ("Briefly", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Services, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the Services.

1. Who can use Briefly

You must be at least 13 years old to use Briefly, or 16 if you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or older if the law where you live requires it. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you confirm that a parent or guardian has agreed to these Terms. You can't use Briefly if we have previously banned you, or if the law prohibits you from using it.

2. Your account

You are responsible for your account and for keeping your sign-in details secure. Give us accurate information, keep your email address up to date, and tell us at support@briefa.net if you think someone else has accessed your account. One person, one account: don't share your account or create accounts by automated means.

You can delete your account at any time. See Delete your account.

3. Acceptable use

Briefly has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You agree not to:

• post or share content, including your name, handle, bio, profile photo or links, that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, violent, or that promotes self-harm or illegal activity;
• harass, bully, impersonate or intimidate anyone, or share someone's private information;
• spam, run scams, or mislead people about who you are;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
• scrape, copy or download Briefs or other content from the Services except through features we provide, or use the Services to build a competing product or train AI models;
• reverse engineer, disrupt, overload or try to get around the security or limits of the Services; or
• use the Services in any way that breaks the law.

Reporting and blocking. You can report a Brief or a user, and block or mute a user, from within the app, or email support@briefa.net. We review reports and act on them within 24 hours: we may remove content, restrict features, or suspend or ban the account responsible. A user you block can no longer interact with you.

4. Your content

You own the content you add to Briefly, such as your profile details, profile photo, bio, links and reposts ("Your Content"). You give Briefly a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute Your Content in order to operate, provide and promote the Services (for example, to show your profile to other users and on your shareable profile page). This licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for copies in routine backups for a limited time, or where others have already reshared it within the Services.

You confirm that you have the rights to Your Content and that it follows these Terms. We may remove Your Content if we believe it breaks these Terms or the law.

5. Podcast content

Briefs are short excerpts of podcast episodes published by their creators. The podcasts, their audio, artwork and names belong to their respective owners, not to Briefly or to you. Every Brief credits the show it comes from. Your use of podcast content through Briefly is for personal, non-commercial listening only.

Briefly's own software, design, logos and the Briefly name belong to Briefly Apps Inc. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for your own use under these Terms.

6. Copyright and takedown requests

We respect the rights of creators. If you own a podcast and don't want it on Briefly, or you believe content on Briefly infringes your copyright, email support@briefa.net with the subject "Copyright notice" and include:

1. your name, address, phone number and email address;
2. the work you believe is infringed (for example, the podcast or episode);
3. the content on Briefly you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it (such as a link to the Brief or the show page);
4. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law;
5. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner; and
6. your physical or electronic signature.

We remove or disable access to the content when a notice is valid, and we may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address.

7. AI-generated content

Briefly uses AI to select moments from episodes and to write headlines, summaries, tags and the narrator's spoken intros. The narrator is a stock synthetic voice, not the host. AI output can be incomplete or wrong, and it does not represent the views of the show, its hosts or Briefly. Don't rely on it as professional, medical, legal or financial advice. Our Privacy policy explains how we use AI.

8. Sponsored content

Briefly may show sponsor cards and sponsor audio reads. These are always labelled as sponsored. Sponsors are responsible for their own products and claims; we don't endorse them, and your dealings with a sponsor are between you and that sponsor.

9. Ending your use of Briefly

You can stop using Briefly and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access, or remove content, if you break these Terms, if we must do so by law, or to protect users, creators or Briefly. Where reasonable, we will tell you why. We may also change, pause or discontinue any part of the Services. Sections 4 (the licence for content already reshared), 5, 7, 10, 11 and 12 survive termination.

10. Disclaimers

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we don't promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free or that any particular podcast will be available.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Briefly and its officers, employees and partners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of the Services. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you, and nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under consumer protection law that can't be waived.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state and federal courts located in Delaware, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

13. App stores

If you downloaded Briefly from the Apple App Store or Google Play, these Terms are between you and Briefly, not Apple or Google, who have no responsibility for the app or its support. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms for users who downloaded the app from the App Store and may enforce them against you.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will change the "Last updated" date, and if a change is significant we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Briefly after the change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email support@briefa.net, or write to Briefly Apps Inc., 8 The Green, Ste B #26573, Dover, DE 19901-3618, United States.