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TERMS OF SERVICE

Last updated: July 9, 2026

AGREEMENT TO OUR LEGAL TERMS

We are makeabrief.com ("Company," "we," "us," "our").

We operate the website makeabrief.com, as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

You can contact us by email at admin@makeabrief.com.

These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and makeabrief.com, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Services from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Legal Terms at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last updated" date of these Legal Terms, and, for significant changes affecting pricing or how your data is used, by emailing the address associated with your account at least 30 days before the change becomes effective.

We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last updated" date of these Legal Terms, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Legal Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Legal Terms by your continued use of the Services after the date such revised Legal Terms are posted.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for the Services.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. OUR SERVICES
  2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
  3. USER REPRESENTATIONS
  4. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
  5. SUBSCRIPTIONS, PAYMENTS, AND BRIEF PURCHASES
  6. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT
  7. SERVICES MANAGEMENT
  8. TERM AND TERMINATION
  9. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS
  10. GOVERNING LAW
  11. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
  12. CORRECTIONS
  13. DISCLAIMER
  14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
  15. INDEMNIFICATION
  16. USER DATA
  17. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES
  18. MISCELLANEOUS
  19. CONTACT US

1. OUR SERVICES

makeabrief.com converts YouTube videos, podcast transcripts, and pasted text into formatted, print-ready "briefs" (newsletters, bulletins, handouts, and digests). The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation. Those who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our intellectual property

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Services themselves, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, templates, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics used to build and operate the Services (collectively, the "Platform Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks"). This does not include the briefs you generate using the Services — see "Your Briefs" below.

Our Platform Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) around the world. The Platform Content and Marks are provided "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose only.

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES" section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Services solely for your personal or internal business purpose. Except as set out in this section or in "Your Briefs" below, no part of the Services and no Platform Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Platform Content or Marks other than as set out in this section, please address your request to admin@makeabrief.com. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Platform Content, and Marks. Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of these Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

Your Briefs

"Your Briefs" means the formatted output (newsletters, bulletins, handouts, digests, or other documents) generated by the Services from source material you provide, such as YouTube videos, podcast transcripts, or pasted text.

Unlike the Platform Content described above, you own Your Briefs and may use, publish, distribute, and share them for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes — for example, sending a brief to your newsletter subscribers, publishing it on your own website, sharing it with clients, or including it in a paid product or service you offer. This license is granted subject to the following conditions: (a) you must have the necessary rights to the underlying source material you provide; (b) you may not claim that the Services themselves created the brief independently of your input; and (c) you may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any underlying templates, code, or software used to generate the brief. Beyond these conditions, you are free to use Your Briefs for any lawful purpose without restriction.

Your submissions and generated briefs

By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Services ("Submissions"), you agree to assign to us all intellectual property rights in such Submission, and you agree that we may use and disseminate such Submissions for any lawful purpose, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

You retain ownership of the source material you upload or paste into the Services (e.g., transcripts, text, links) and of the resulting brief generated for you, subject to our underlying rights in the Services' software, templates, and branding. You are solely responsible for the source material you submit and confirm that you have the necessary rights to submit it, and that it does not infringe any third party's rights or violate any law.

3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) you have the legal capacity and agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (2) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside; (3) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means except as expressly permitted under "Authorized Agent Use" in Section 4 below; (4) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (5) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services.

4. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

Authorized Agent Use

Notwithstanding the above, you may use an AI agent, assistant, or similar automated tool (an "Agent") to access and use the Services on your behalf, provided that: (a) the Agent is acting under your direction and control while logged into your own authenticated, paying account; (b) the Agent's use remains subject to the same usage limits, pricing, and restrictions that would apply to you if you accessed the Services directly (including free-trial limits and per-brief or subscription charges); (c) the Agent does not attempt to bypass any paywall, usage limit, or security measure; and (d) you accept full responsibility for any breach of these Legal Terms caused by the Agent's actions. Any Agent use that violates these conditions is a breach of these Legal Terms.

5. SUBSCRIPTIONS, PAYMENTS, AND BRIEF PURCHASES

The Services are offered on a free-trial basis followed by pay-per-brief and/or subscription pricing, as displayed on the Services at the time of purchase. All payments are processed through our third-party payment processor, Stripe. By making a purchase, you agree to Stripe's applicable terms in addition to these Legal Terms. We do not store your full payment card information; it is handled directly by Stripe.

All sales are final except as required by applicable law or as otherwise stated in this section or in any refund policy posted on the Services. Because the Services generate a brief based on your own submitted source material, dissatisfaction with subjective elements of the output — including but not limited to colors, layout, formatting style, tone, wording choices, or length — does not entitle you to a refund, as these reflect design and stylistic choices made by the underlying AI processing and are not considered a defect in the Services.

However, if you believe a brief you purchased is broken, garbled, incomplete, or otherwise failed to generate properly due to a technical error, please contact us at admin@makeabrief.com within seven (7) days of purchase with a description of the issue. We will review such reports in good faith and, at our sole discretion, may offer a regeneration of the brief or a refund of the amount paid for that specific brief. This section does not create any obligation on our part to issue refunds and does not limit any rights you may have under applicable consumer protection law.

We reserve the right to change our pricing at any time, with such changes taking effect for purchases made after the change is posted.

6. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Services may contain links to third-party websites and content, including but not limited to YouTube, our payment processor (Stripe), and other linked resources ("Third-Party Websites and Content"). We are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites and Content accessed through the Services, and we do not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations regarding such Third-Party Websites and Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use of any Third-Party Websites and Content does not imply approval or endorsement. If you decide to leave the Services and access Third-Party Websites and Content, you do so at your own risk.

7. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates the law or these Legal Terms; (3) refuse, restrict, or disable access to any content or account in our sole discretion; and (4) otherwise manage the Services to protect our rights and property and facilitate their proper functioning.

8. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, to deny access to and use of the Services to any person for any reason, including breach of any provision of these Legal Terms. We may terminate your account or access at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion.

If we terminate or suspend your account, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake name, or the name of any third party.

9. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion, without notice. We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times; we may experience hardware, software, or other issues, or need to perform maintenance, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services.

10. GOVERNING LAW

These Legal Terms shall be governed by and defined following the laws of the State of Washington, United States. Makeabrief.com and yourself irrevocably consent that the courts of Washington State shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any dispute which may arise in connection with these Legal Terms, except as otherwise set out in Section 11 below.

11. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Informal Negotiations

To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, controversy, or claim related to these Legal Terms (each a "Dispute" and collectively the "Disputes") brought by either you or us, the parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any Dispute (except those Disputes expressly excluded below) informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating arbitration. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice from one party to the other, sent to admin@makeabrief.com or to the email address associated with your account.

Binding Arbitration

If the parties are unable to resolve a Dispute through informal negotiations, the Dispute shall be finally resolved by binding arbitration administered by a recognized arbitration provider in accordance with its rules then in effect. The arbitration shall be conducted by one (1) arbitrator. The seat, or legal place, of arbitration shall be the State of Washington. The language of the proceedings shall be English. The governing law of these Legal Terms applied in the arbitration shall be the substantive law of the State of Washington.

We will pay all arbitration filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees that a court later determines to be excessive or that would otherwise prevent you from being able to bring your claim, so that the arbitration process remains fair and accessible to you.

Restrictions

The parties agree that any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the parties individually. To the full extent permitted by law: (a) no arbitration shall be joined with any other proceeding; (b) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or to utilize class action procedures; and (c) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons.

Exceptions to Informal Negotiations and Arbitration

The parties agree that the following Disputes are not subject to the above provisions concerning informal negotiations and binding arbitration: (a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, either party's intellectual property rights; (b) any Dispute related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and (c) any claim for injunctive relief. If any part of this provision is found to be illegal or unenforceable, the affected portion shall be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction as set out in Section 10, and the parties agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of that court.

Time Limit to Bring Claims

Regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to your use of the Services or these Legal Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose, or be forever barred.

12. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.

13. DISCLAIMER

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY BRIEF GENERATED THROUGH THE SERVICES OR OF ANY THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE SERVICES, AND WE WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (1) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT GENERATED BY THE AI PROCESSING USED TO CREATE YOUR BRIEF, (2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES, (3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY PERSONAL OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICES, OR (5) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY. AS WITH ANY AI-GENERATED CONTENT, YOU SHOULD REVIEW EACH BRIEF AND USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT BEFORE RELYING ON OR DISTRIBUTING IT.

14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE LESSER OF: (A) THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO US DURING THE ONE (1) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) USD. CERTAIN US STATE LAWS AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

15. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our affiliates and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (1) your use of the Services; (2) breach of these Legal Terms; (3) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; (4) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, arising from source material you upload or submit; or (5) any harmful act toward any other user of the Services. We reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claims.

16. USER DATA

We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. Although we perform routine backups where applicable, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of such data, and you waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption. For details on how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

17. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES.

18. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services.

19. CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:

makeabrief.com
Email: admin@makeabrief.com