Briefly Terms & Conditions

Effective Date: June 16, 2026

These Terms & Conditions govern your access to and use of the Briefly website and service available at brieflyemail.com.

Briefly is operated by TAG IP Reserve LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company. In these Terms, "Briefly," "we," "us," and "our" refer to TAG IP Reserve LLC. "You" and "your" refer to the person accessing or using Briefly.

By creating an account, starting a free trial, subscribing to Briefly, accessing the website, or using the service, you agree to these Terms.

1. Description of the Service

Briefly is a subscription-based news monitoring and summarization service. The service allows users to receive headlines, short summaries, and links to third-party source materials based on selected categories, default keywords, and user-customized keywords.

Briefly may provide default categories focused on tax, accounting, CPA-related topics, and other professional subject areas. However, users may configure categories and keywords more broadly, including topics outside tax and accounting.

Briefly summarizes and links to publicly available third-party web content. Briefly does not create, own, control, or endorse the underlying third-party source materials.

Briefly is intended to help users monitor topics of interest. Briefly does not guarantee that any summary, headline, category, keyword, email, or source link will be complete, timely, accurate, relevant, or suitable for your particular purpose.

We may modify, replace, add, remove, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service at any time, including categories, keyword templates, sources, summaries, formats, delivery methods, features, subscription plans, and pricing.

2. No Professional Advice

Briefly provides informational summaries only. Briefly does not provide tax, accounting, legal, investment, financial, medical, audit, regulatory, or other professional advice.

Use of Briefly does not create a professional-client, advisor-client, accountant-client, attorney-client, fiduciary, or similar relationship between you and Briefly.

You are responsible for reviewing original source materials and applying your own professional judgment before relying on any information identified, summarized, or delivered by Briefly. Briefly summaries should not be used as authority for tax filings, accounting conclusions, audit decisions, legal positions, investment decisions, medical decisions, regulatory compliance, or other professional or personal decisions.

3. Accuracy, Completeness, and Reliance Limitations

Briefly may use automated tools, algorithms, artificial intelligence, software, and other processes to identify, classify, summarize, rank, and deliver content.

Briefly summaries, headlines, and emails may contain errors, omissions, incomplete context, outdated information, irrelevant results, duplicate results, or inaccurate descriptions of third-party source materials. Source materials may also contain errors or may change after Briefly identifies or summarizes them.

Keyword-based results may miss relevant articles or include irrelevant articles. Your results may depend on the categories, keywords, settings, and preferences you select.

You are responsible for verifying important information against the original source materials and any applicable legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, professional, or other authority.

Briefly does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, relevance, availability, or usefulness of any content, summary, headline, link, category, keyword, email, or result.

4. Third-Party Content and Source Links

Briefly may summarize, reference, display, or link to third-party articles, websites, publications, webpages, and other source materials.

Third-party content is owned, controlled, and made available by the applicable third party. Briefly is not responsible for third-party content, websites, publications, authors, claims, opinions, errors, omissions, availability, legality, or accuracy.

Source links may change, break, redirect, require registration, require a subscription, become unavailable, or lead to content that differs from what was available when Briefly identified or summarized it.

Briefly's inclusion of a source, link, article, publication, author, website, or viewpoint does not mean that Briefly endorses it.

You are responsible for complying with any terms, conditions, restrictions, paywalls, permissions, or usage rules that apply to third-party sources.

5. Copyright and Content Use

Briefly respects intellectual property rights. Briefly is designed to help users discover and monitor publicly available third-party web content, not to replace third-party publishers or source materials.

Briefly owns or licenses the Briefly platform, website, software, interface, service design, workflows, category templates, default keyword lists, generated formats, branding, and related materials.

Third-party publishers and other third parties retain ownership of their articles, websites, publications, source materials, and other content.

Subject to these Terms and your subscription plan, you may use Briefly summaries for your own personal or internal business purposes. You may not copy, scrape, archive, reproduce, republish, resell, sublicense, externally distribute, commercially exploit, or create a competing product or service from Briefly summaries, Briefly outputs, Briefly templates, or third-party source content.

You may not use Briefly to bypass paywalls, access restrictions, publisher terms, third-party rights, or other limitations imposed by third-party sources.

You may not remove source attribution, present Briefly summaries as your own original reporting, or use Briefly to create a separate newsletter, alert service, database, content feed, or similar product or service.

If you believe content made available through Briefly infringes your copyright or other rights, you may contact us at [email protected].

6. User Keywords and Configuration Responsibility

You are responsible for the categories, keywords, settings, preferences, and other inputs you select, create, edit, or submit through Briefly.

Briefly may provide default categories and keyword templates. These are starting points only. They do not guarantee complete, accurate, timely, or relevant coverage.

Your results may vary based on your selected categories, keywords, settings, email frequency, and other configuration choices.

You may not use Briefly to monitor, collect, generate, summarize, or distribute content for unlawful, abusive, infringing, deceptive, privacy-invasive, harmful, harassing, discriminatory, or otherwise improper purposes.

Briefly may remove, restrict, suspend, or disable categories, keywords, settings, features, or account activity that we believe may violate these Terms, create legal risk, harm the service, interfere with others, or misuse Briefly.

7. Account Registration and Acceptable Use

To use Briefly, you may need to create an account and provide accurate account, contact, subscription, and billing information.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

Each account is for one individual user only. You may not share your login credentials or allow multiple people to use one account unless Briefly expressly allows that under a separate plan or written agreement.

You may not:
access, scrape, crawl, copy, harvest, or extract data from Briefly except through normal intended use;
reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying logic of the service;
interfere with, overload, disrupt, damage, or impair Briefly or related systems;
use bots, scripts, automated tools, or unauthorized methods to access the service;
use Briefly for unlawful, abusive, infringing, deceptive, privacy-invasive, or harmful purposes;
resell, sublicense, rent, lease, share, or commercially exploit Briefly except as expressly permitted;
use Briefly to build, train, support, or operate a competing product or service;
attempt to bypass usage limits, account restrictions, payment requirements, or security measures; or
violate any applicable law, regulation, third-party right, or third-party terms.

Briefly may suspend or terminate your account for misuse, nonpayment, security risk, legal compliance, suspected fraud, violation of these Terms, or other activity that may harm Briefly, users, third parties, or the service.

8. Subscriptions, Free Trials, Billing, Cancellation, and Refunds

Briefly offers subscription plans with fees, billing intervals, features, usage limits, trial terms, and renewal terms shown at checkout, in your account, or otherwise presented when you subscribe.

Briefly currently offers Basic and Pro subscription plans. Basic and Pro plan features may differ, including the number of categories available and the number of daily emails available. Current plan features and prices are displayed at checkout or in your account and may change over time.

Briefly may offer a 14-day free trial. If you start a free trial and provide a payment method, you authorize Briefly or its payment processor to charge your payment method when the trial ends unless you cancel before the end of the trial.

Subscriptions renew automatically on a monthly basis unless canceled. By subscribing, you authorize Briefly or its payment processor to charge your payment method for recurring subscription fees, applicable taxes, and other charges associated with your selected plan.

Payments may be processed by a third-party payment processor, such as Stripe. Your payment information may be subject to the payment processor's terms, policies, and data retention practices.

You may cancel your subscription through the cancellation section in your personal profile on the Briefly website.

Cancellation takes effect immediately. If you cancel, your access to the paid service ends immediately, even if time remains in your current billing period. Cancellation stops future renewal charges, but it does not refund prior charges.

Briefly does not provide refunds, prorated refunds, partial-period refunds, credits, or prorated credits unless Briefly expressly states otherwise.

Plan upgrades, downgrades, and changes are handled according to the billing terms displayed at checkout, in your account, or otherwise presented when you make the change. Briefly may change prices, plans, features, usage limits, trial terms, billing practices, or renewal terms with notice where required.

Failed payments may result in suspension, downgrade, or termination of access. Subscription fees may be subject to applicable taxes.

9. Email Delivery and Communications

Briefly delivers summaries, account notices, billing notices, security notices, service updates, and other communications by email. By creating an account, starting a free trial, subscribing to Briefly, or using the service, you consent to receive emails from Briefly, including daily summaries, account notices, billing notices, security notices, service updates, transactional emails, and other service-related communications.

You are responsible for providing and maintaining a valid email address and for ensuring that Briefly emails are not blocked, filtered, or routed to spam.

Briefly does not guarantee that emails will always be delivered, received, opened, or received at a specific time. Emails may be delayed, blocked, filtered, misdirected, rejected, or unavailable due to email provider settings, spam filters, technical issues, third-party systems, or other reasons.

Daily Briefly summaries are part of the subscribed service and may continue unless you change your delivery settings or cancel your subscription.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails where required or available. Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, Briefly may still send transactional, service-related, billing, account, legal, or security communications.

10. Privacy, Tracking, Analytics, Marketing, and Data Use

Briefly's collection, use, sharing, retention, and protection of personal information are described in our Privacy Policy.

Briefly collects and retains user information to operate, analyze, improve, market, and grow the service. By using Briefly, you acknowledge that Briefly may collect, retain, analyze, and use information relating to your account, subscription, service usage, site activity, categories, keywords, email engagement, link clicks, and interactions with the website and service.

Briefly may collect account information, contact information, subscription information, billing-related information, category selections, keyword selections, user settings, email delivery activity, email engagement, link clicks, site activity, feature usage, traffic patterns, device information, browser information, approximate location information, referral information, and other usage data.

Briefly uses Google Analytics and may use other analytics, advertising, marketing, hosting, email, payment, security, support, and service providers. These providers may process information on Briefly's behalf or in accordance with their own terms and policies.

Briefly tracks and analyzes user behavior and activity across the site and service. This may include page visits, traffic patterns, feature usage, settings changes, category selections, keyword usage, link clicks, email engagement, subscription activity, plan activity, account activity, and other interactions.

Briefly may use this information for business, operational, marketing, analytics, and product-development purposes, including to:
operate and provide the service;
understand how users use the website and service;
identify which areas of the website and service receive traffic;
analyze how users select categories and keywords;
evaluate which features, categories, keywords, emails, and links users engage with;
improve category templates, keyword recommendations, email delivery, and product features;
personalize the user experience;
measure performance and usage trends;
market Briefly and communicate with current, former, and prospective users;
develop new features, plans, offerings, and services;
protect the service and prevent misuse; and
support billing, account administration, and customer communications.

Briefly may use aggregated, de-identified, anonymized, or analytics-derived data for any lawful business purpose, including analytics, marketing, benchmarking, product development, and service improvement.

Briefly may retain user data after cancellation, account inactivity, or termination for business, marketing, analytics, legal, compliance, operational, recordkeeping, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and service-improvement purposes, unless deletion is required by applicable law.

If you delete your Briefly account, your active Briefly account setup, categories, keywords, and settings may no longer be available to you. However, Briefly may retain account records, usage records, analytics data, marketing data, transaction records, communications, logs, and other information as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Payment, transaction, and subscription information may also be retained by Stripe or another payment processor according to its own legal, compliance, and data retention requirements.

You should not use Briefly if you do not want your account information, usage behavior, category selections, keyword selections, site activity, email engagement, link clicks, and related data to be tracked, analyzed, retained, and used as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

You should avoid entering sensitive personal information, confidential client information, regulated information, or other sensitive information into custom keywords, categories, or settings unless you are comfortable with that information being processed, retained, analyzed, and used by Briefly and its service providers.

11. AI and Automated Processing

Briefly may use AI, algorithms, automation, software tools, and other automated processes to search for, identify, classify, summarize, rank, format, and deliver content.

Automated outputs may contain errors, omissions, incomplete context, outdated information, irrelevant content, or inaccurate descriptions of source materials.

Briefly does not guarantee that AI-generated or automated summaries accurately reflect the full source article or all relevant context.

You are responsible for reviewing linked source materials before relying on any summary, headline, bullet point, or other output.

Automated outputs are informational only and should not be treated as professional advice, authority, verified guidance, or a substitute for reviewing original source materials.

Briefly may use user activity, category selections, keyword selections, settings, feedback, and engagement data to improve automated content selection, classification, summarization, and delivery.

12. Sensitive Topic Disclaimers

Briefly may allow users to create categories or keywords involving sensitive, regulated, technical, or professional topics.

Such topics may include tax, accounting, legal, medical, health, financial, investment, regulatory, employment, insurance, or other professional subject areas.

Briefly summaries are for informational monitoring only. Briefly does not provide professional advice in any sensitive, regulated, technical, or professional area.

You should not rely on Briefly summaries for tax filings, accounting conclusions, audit decisions, investment decisions, medical decisions, legal positions, compliance obligations, regulatory filings, or other professional judgments.

Briefly may restrict, remove, or refuse categories, keywords, configurations, or uses that we believe create legal, safety, privacy, compliance, or operational concerns.

13. Ownership of Briefly Content and User Inputs

Briefly owns or licenses the platform, website, software, interface, branding, trademarks, service design, workflows, category templates, default keyword lists, generated formats, and related materials.

You are responsible for the categories, keywords, settings, preferences, feedback, and other inputs you create, select, edit, or submit.

You grant Briefly the right to use your inputs, including category selections, custom keywords, settings, feedback, and usage activity, to operate, provide, personalize, analyze, secure, and improve the service.

Briefly may use aggregated, de-identified, or analytics-derived data to improve the service, develop new features, understand usage trends, and support business operations.

If you provide feedback, suggestions, ideas, or recommendations, Briefly may use them without restriction, compensation, or obligation to you.

You may not claim ownership of the Briefly platform, software, templates, formats, workflows, service logic, or other Briefly materials.

14. Internal Sharing and Redistribution

Subject to these Terms and your subscription plan, you may use Briefly summaries for your own personal or internal business purposes.

You may not publicly post, publish, republish, resell, sublicense, externally distribute, or commercially redistribute Briefly summaries, Briefly outputs, or third-party source content.

You may not use Briefly summaries or outputs to create, support, operate, or improve a competing product, newsletter, alert service, database, content feed, research tool, or similar service.

You may not remove source attribution or present Briefly summaries as your own original reporting.

You may not use Briefly to redistribute third-party source content in a way that violates publisher rights, third-party terms, or applicable law.

Each account is for one individual user only. Briefly does not currently offer team plans. Sharing within a company, firm, team, or organization is not permitted unless Briefly expressly allows it under a separate plan or written agreement.

15. Service Availability and Changes

Briefly may modify, suspend, discontinue, replace, limit, or change any part of the service at any time, including features, categories, keyword templates, source availability, summary formats, email frequency, delivery methods, subscription plans, pricing, and functionality.

Briefly does not guarantee that the service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, timely, or error-free.

Email delivery times may vary. Source availability may vary. Features available in a particular plan may change over time.

Briefly may perform maintenance, updates, testing, security work, or operational changes that affect availability or functionality.

Briefly may suspend, limit, or terminate access if needed for security, abuse prevention, nonpayment, legal compliance, technical stability, user protection, or operational reasons.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Briefly and its owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, lost-profit, lost-revenue, lost-data, business-interruption, reputational, or similar damages arising out of or relating to Briefly, these Terms, or your use of the service.

Briefly is not liable for decisions you make based on summaries, headlines, categories, keywords, links, emails, automated outputs, third-party content, or source materials.

Briefly is not liable for missed articles, inaccurate summaries, outdated information, incomplete context, broken links, unavailable sources, delayed emails, email delivery failures, service interruptions, third-party content, user configurations, or payment processor issues.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Briefly's total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to Briefly, these Terms, or the service will not exceed the amount you paid to Briefly for the service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

This limitation applies regardless of the legal theory, including contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, warranty, statute, or otherwise, even if Briefly has been advised of the possibility of damages.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply to you.

17. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Briefly and its owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors from and against any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to:
your use or misuse of Briefly;
your violation of these Terms;
your categories, keywords, settings, inputs, feedback, or other submissions;
your improper sharing, copying, scraping, redistribution, resale, or commercial exploitation of Briefly summaries, outputs, or third-party content;
your violation of any law, regulation, third-party right, publisher term, intellectual property right, privacy right, or professional obligation;
your use of Briefly for unlawful, abusive, infringing, deceptive, privacy-invasive, or harmful purposes; or
your use of Briefly to create, support, operate, or improve a competing product or service.

18. Termination, Suspension, and Data Retention

You may cancel your subscription through the cancellation section in your personal profile on the Briefly website.

Cancellation takes effect immediately and ends your access to the paid service immediately. Cancellation stops future renewal charges but does not create any right to a refund, prorated refund, credit, or prorated credit.

Briefly may suspend or terminate your account, subscription, access, categories, keywords, settings, or features at any time if we believe you have violated these Terms, failed to pay amounts due, misused the service, created legal risk, created security risk, interfered with the service, violated third-party rights, or otherwise harmed Briefly, users, third parties, or the service.

After cancellation, deletion, suspension, or termination, you may lose access to your account, saved categories, custom keywords, settings, historical summaries, and other account features.

Cancellation, account deletion, suspension, or termination does not require Briefly to delete all information associated with you or your use of the service. Briefly may retain information for business, marketing, analytics, legal, compliance, operational, recordkeeping, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and service-improvement purposes, unless deletion is required by applicable law.

Payment and transaction information may continue to be retained by Stripe or another payment processor according to its own legal, compliance, and data retention requirements.

Briefly may refuse future service to users who materially violate these Terms.

19. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Before initiating a formal dispute, you agree to contact Briefly at [email protected] and attempt to resolve the dispute informally. Briefly will also attempt to resolve disputes informally where practical.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or Briefly will be resolved on an individual basis. You and Briefly each waive the right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, representative action, private attorney general action, or similar collective proceeding.

Unless Briefly elects otherwise, disputes that cannot be resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, except that either party may bring a claim in small claims court if the claim qualifies and either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for intellectual property misuse, unauthorized access, scraping, reverse engineering, security abuse, or misuse of the service.

Any court proceeding permitted under these Terms must be brought in the state or federal courts located in North Carolina, and you consent to the jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

20. Related Policies and Order of Documents

Your use of Briefly may also be governed by other policies, notices, disclosures, or terms presented by Briefly, including:
the Privacy Policy;
any subscription, checkout, billing, cancellation, or refund disclosures;
any acceptable use rules;
any copyright or takedown procedures;
any cookie, tracking, analytics, or marketing disclosures; and
any plan-specific terms shown at checkout or in your account.

The Privacy Policy governs Briefly's collection, use, sharing, tracking, analytics, marketing, cookies, retention, and protection of personal information.

Checkout, account, subscription, and billing disclosures govern plan pricing, renewal terms, trial terms, cancellation mechanics, plan features, payment timing, and plan changes.

If there is a conflict between these Terms and another Briefly policy or disclosure, the more specific policy or disclosure will control for the subject it addresses, unless otherwise stated.

Briefly may update these Terms or related policies from time to time. Updated terms will be posted on the Briefly website or otherwise made available. Your continued use of Briefly after updated terms become effective means you accept the updated terms.

21. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact Briefly at:
TAG IP Reserve LLC
[email protected]
brieflyemail.com