Terms of Use
The agreement between us.
1. Who we are
The London Brief is published by Sarthak Gupta, a sole trader based in London, trading as OneRead.News. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean him. "You" means the person using the service.
Our address for formal notices and consumer correspondence is Flat 7, Wryneck Apartments, London NW9 7FN, United Kingdom.
You can reach us at contact@oneread.news.
2. What the service is
One brief each morning, at about 7 AM London time, with roughly ten stories. It is a summary of reporting published elsewhere, not original journalism.
We select stories from publicly available news sources, summarise them, and link each factual claim to the source it came from. The number of stories varies with the news. We aim to publish every day, and our commitment on how often we publish is set out in section 5.
We are not the original publisher of the underlying reporting. Where you want the full article, the original wording, or a correction to the original reporting, the link on each story takes you to the publisher who wrote it.
3. Your account
You need an account to read the brief. Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to it.
You must be at least 13 years old to hold an account. If you are under 18, please make sure a parent or guardian is happy for you to subscribe.
4. Your free days, and your subscription
Six days free, no card required. After that, a monthly subscription bought through the store you installed the app from. Cancel whenever you like, in that store.
New accounts get six days of full access at no cost. We do not ask for payment details during those six days, and nothing is charged when they end. If you want to carry on, you subscribe.
Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play), depending on where you installed the app, and not by us directly. The price shown in the app is the price for your store region and includes any applicable tax. The subscription renews monthly until you cancel it, and the store charges the renewal shortly before each period ends.
You cancel in that store, not through us: on iOS in your Apple account settings, on Android under Subscriptions in Google Play. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the period you have already paid for ends.
We may change the subscription price. If we do, you will be told before it takes effect and it will apply from a following billing period, never retrospectively. Both stores require you to confirm a price rise before it can be charged.
5. How often we publish, and refunds
We aim to publish every day. If we publish fewer than seven briefs in a calendar month, we will make it right. How the refund itself happens depends on which store you bought through, and we say exactly what we will do below.
Our service commitment is at least seven briefs in any calendar month in which you hold a paid subscription. In practice we intend to publish daily, and this floor exists so you have something concrete to hold us to rather than a vague promise.
Whichever store you bought through, the payment is theirs to hold and the refund is theirs to process. On the App Store, refunds are requested from Apple and granted at Apple's discretion; we cannot issue, refuse or reverse one. On Google Play, we can ask Google to refund an order on your behalf, within the limits Google sets.
Our commitment is the same either way: if we publish fewer than seven briefs in a calendar month, contact us and we will make good the value of that month, by refunding it where we are able to and by paying or crediting you directly where we are not.
Full details, and how to ask each store, are on our refunds page.
6. Your right to cancel
Under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 you normally have 14 days to cancel a contract made at a distance. For digital content supplied immediately, that right ends once supply has begun with your consent and you have acknowledged losing it. Because access starts as soon as you subscribe, that is the position here, and the store's purchase flow records your agreement to it.
This does not affect your statutory rights if the service is faulty, not as described, or not supplied with reasonable care and skill.
7. Accuracy, sources, and our use of AI
We summarise other people's reporting, with help from AI, and we check what we publish. We are not the original source, AI systems can get things wrong, and you should not treat the brief as professional advice.
Where the facts come from
Every brief is built from reporting published by third parties. We do not independently witness, investigate or verify the underlying events. Where a story summarises a publisher's reporting, the accuracy of that underlying reporting is the publisher's responsibility, and any complaint about it should be taken up with them. We link to the source on every story so you can do exactly that.
How we use artificial intelligence
We use AI language models to select stories, extract facts, write the short analysis, and check citations. You should understand what that means in practice: AI systems can produce output that is confident and wrong, including invented detail, misattributed statements, and links that do not support what they appear to support. This is a known property of the technology, not an occasional defect.
We take it seriously and we check. Our pipeline re-fetches and verifies the pages behind citations before they are shown as verified, rejects sources we do not trust, runs an automated fact-check over every brief, and applies a human editorial review before publication. Despite that, we cannot and do not guarantee that everything in a brief is accurate or complete.
What the brief is not
The brief is general information. It is not legal, financial, medical, investment or professional advice of any kind, and you should not rely on it when making a decision that matters. Take proper advice instead.
Corrections
If you think we have got something wrong, tell us through the report option on the story or at contact@oneread.news. Where we are wrong we correct it, and the correction is shown on the story itself. We would rather hear about it than not.
8. Using the service properly
You agree not to:
- copy, republish or redistribute briefs commercially, or systematically scrape them;
- share your account so other people can read without subscribing;
- post comments that are unlawful, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or deliberately misleading;
- attempt to break, overload or gain unauthorised access to the service;
- use the service to train a machine learning model without our written permission.
We moderate comments. We may remove a comment, warn an account, or close an account that repeatedly breaks these rules. Where we close a paid account for a serious or repeated breach, we will refund the unused part of the current period.
9. Who owns what
The brief as we publish it, including our selection, summaries, analysis and design, belongs to us. The underlying reporting, quotations and images belong to their original publishers and are used to identify and link to their work. Our name, our bird and our branding are ours.
You may read, save and share individual stories for your own personal, non-commercial use. If you believe we have used your work in a way we should not have, contact us at contact@oneread.news and we will deal with it promptly.
10. What we are responsible for
We do not limit our liability where the law says we cannot. Beyond that, our liability to you is capped at what you have paid us in the past twelve months.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected.
Subject to that: we provide the service with reasonable care and skill, but not on the basis that it will be uninterrupted, error free, or that every fact in it is correct. We are not liable for any loss arising from a decision you took in reliance on a brief, for the accuracy of reporting published by a third party, or for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you subscribed. Our total liability to you in connection with the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.
We do not exclude liability for losses caused by our own serious failure to do what we said we would do.
11. Ending the agreement
You can stop using the service at any time and delete your account from within the app, which removes your personal data as described in the privacy policy. We may suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or if we stop publishing the brief, in which case we will give you reasonable notice and refund the unused part of any period you have paid for.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and for a change to a subscription you already hold it will apply from your next billing period. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the updated terms.
13. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the UK you may bring proceedings in your own country's courts, and nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer law where you live.
If something has gone wrong, please contact us first at contact@oneread.news. We would much rather fix it.