Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

Creating an account, subscribing to a newsletter, or using the service in any way means accepting these terms. If you do not agree with them, do not use the platform.

2. Your account

An account is personal. There is no password: access is by a code emailed to you, or by Google or Microsoft sign-in, which means the security of your account is the security of your inbox. Tell us if you suspect unauthorised access.

You are responsible for what happens under your account, and for what the collaborators you invite do on your blog.

3. The blog is yours

The content you publish is yours. We claim no ownership over it. The licence you grant us is strictly the one needed to run the service: to host, process, translate, email and display your content to your readers.

Your subscriber list is yours too. We do not use it for any purpose of our own, do not offer it to other authors, and send nothing to it in our own name.

As the owner of the blog you are the data controller for your subscribers. That carries duties which are yours and which we cannot discharge for you: mailing only those who consented, answering access and deletion requests, and answering for the content you send.

4. AI-generated content

The platform uses language models to research sources, draft articles, translate and generate images. That is not an implementation detail — it is the service.

Models get things wrong, invent facts and reproduce bias. The workflow requires human approval precisely for that reason, and editorial responsibility for what goes out under your name is yours — including accuracy, attribution of sources, and respect for the rights of others. Publishing without reviewing is your decision, and so is owning the result.

We do not warrant that generated text is original, nor that it is free of similarity to existing works.

5. Acceptable use

You may not use the platform to:

• Email anyone who did not ask to hear from you. Purchased lists, lists imported from third parties, and addresses collected without consent are prohibited, and this is the most common reason an account is closed.
• Publish unlawful or defamatory content, content inciting violence, or content infringing anyone’s rights.
• Impersonate another person or organisation.
• Attempt to work around plan limits, reach another customer’s data, or probe the infrastructure.
• Automate access in a way that degrades the service for others.

The sending domain is shared among the platform’s authors. A spam complaint against one blog damages deliverability for every other — which is why the rule about lists is enforced strictly rather than treated as a formality.

6. Plans and limits

Each plan sets how many articles a month, how many languages and how many subscribers a site supports. The limits are shown when you choose the plan and may be revised on prior notice.

The trial plan is free and exists for you to evaluate the service. It may be changed or discontinued at any time, on reasonable notice.

Exceeding your plan limit may suspend publishing and sending until the situation is resolved. Suspension does not delete content.

7. Termination

You may close your account whenever you want. Export what you want to take with you first — including your subscriber list.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, section 5 especially, or where the law requires. Where there is immediate risk to deliverability or to the security of other customers, suspension may be immediate; otherwise we give notice and a chance to put it right.

Once an account is closed we delete its content and associated data within a reasonable period, save for what the law requires us to retain.

8. Availability

The service is provided as is. We do not promise uninterrupted availability or freedom from faults, and we depend on third parties — email, hosting, language model providers — whose outages affect the service. Scheduled maintenance is announced where foreseeable.

Keep your own copies of what matters. We take backups, and they are not a substitute for yours.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost profits, lost data or indirect damages arising from use of the service. Our total liability is limited to what you paid in the twelve months preceding the event.

Nothing here displaces rights that Brazilian consumer law grants and does not allow to be waived.

10. For readers and subscribers

Subscribing is free and requires email confirmation: you start receiving only after clicking the link we send. Every message carries an unsubscribe link that works without signing in.

The content of newsletters and articles is the responsibility of the author who publishes it, not of the platform. Complaints about content should go to them; if something is unlawful, write to us.

11. Changes

We may change these terms. Material changes will be emailed to account holders with reasonable notice. Continuing to use the service afterwards means accepting them.

12. Governing law and contact

Brazilian law applies. The courts of Itatiba, State of São Paulo, Brazil are chosen for disputes arising from these terms, save for the jurisdiction the law assigns to a consumer's domicile.

Contact: contact@thealchemistletter.com. This English version is the reference one where translations diverge.