Terms of use
The rules that govern your use of this site. We've tried to write them in plain English. If anything's unclear, write to us.
Who these terms are between
These terms are an agreement between you (the reader) and PixelStronghold Editorial Ltd. (us). By using this site or subscribing to the newsletter, you accept these terms. If you don't accept them, please don't use the site — and write to us, because we'd genuinely like to know what's off.
What you can do
You may read everything on the site for free, including the article archive. You may quote from our work, with attribution and a link, for any non-commercial purpose. You may share links to specific articles freely. You may translate short excerpts into another language for personal or educational use. We're a publication; we want to be read.
What you can't do without asking
- Republish full articles on another site, even with attribution. (Drop us a line — we frequently say yes.)
- Use our articles to train machine learning models without a written agreement.
- Use our text or visual identity to suggest we endorse a product, person, or organisation.
- Scrape the site at volumes that interfere with normal operation. A reasonable rate is fine; running thousands of requests per minute is not.
If you'd like to do any of the above, write to [email protected]. We're easier to deal with than this paragraph makes us sound.
Newsletter subscriptions
Free tier
Anyone can subscribe to the free tier of the Friday brief. We send one email a week. We don't send marketing emails for other products. You can unsubscribe at any time from the link in the footer of any newsletter, and we'll remove your email from the active list within 24 hours.
Paid tier
Paid subscriptions cost $6 per month or $60 per year, billed by our payment processor. Paid subscribers get the full newsletter on the day it goes out, full access to all archived articles, and the occasional bonus essay. We don't run founding-member tiers or scarcity-priced upgrades.
Cancellation and refunds
You can cancel a paid subscription at any time from your account dashboard or by writing to [email protected]. Monthly subscriptions are not refunded for the current month but won't be charged again. Annual subscriptions are refunded pro-rata. If you signed up by accident, just tell us and we'll refund in full.
Price changes
If we change the price, existing subscribers keep their current rate for at least twelve months. We email you at least thirty days before any change actually applies to your subscription.
Editorial content
Everything we publish reflects the views of the named writer at the time of publication. Our reviews are personal recommendations from the individual reviewer. Numerical scores, where they appear, are likewise personal. We make corrections publicly and dated.
User-submitted content
When you send us a letter to the editor, a news tip, a pitch, or any other message, you grant us a non-exclusive licence to quote from it in our coverage — unless you specifically tell us not to. We'll always check before publishing your name. News tips submitted to tips@ are handled under source confidentiality by default.
Liability
We try to make the site accurate, available and useful. We can't guarantee any of those things absolutely. The site is provided as-is; we're not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of it. Nothing in these terms limits any liability we can't legally limit in your jurisdiction (for example, for gross negligence or for statutory consumer rights).
Third-party links
We sometimes link to other sites — to source material, to a developer's storefront, to a community archive. We don't control those sites and we're not responsible for what they contain. If we link to something that turns out to be misleading or harmful, please tell us at corrections@ and we'll review the link.
Changes
If we change these terms, we update the "Last updated" date at the top and, for substantive changes, we let subscribers know in the next Friday brief. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Jurisdiction
These terms are governed by English law. Any disputes will be resolved in the courts of England and Wales, unless your local consumer law gives you the right to a local court — in which case it does.
Contact
Anything about these terms specifically: [email protected]. Anything else: see the Contact page.