Terms of Service

1. The service and these terms

adly.news is operated by Gabardo Ventures in California, United States. In these terms, “we” and “us” refer to Gabardo Ventures. adly.news is a subscription research service for newsletter publishers and their sponsorship-sales teams. It helps you discover prospective advertisers, inspect observed ad placements and source issues, organize research, and access available business contacts. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms. Contact phil@adly.news with questions.

The research service does not broker, book, or guarantee sponsorships. You negotiate and contract directly with prospective advertisers. Research subscription fees are for access to the service, not a commission on sponsorship revenue. Existing marketplace transactions remain subject to the terms and agreements that governed those transactions.

2. Accounts and authorized use

You must be at least 18 and able to enter into an agreement. If you act for a newsletter or organization, you must have authority to do so. Provide accurate account information, protect your sign-in methods, and report suspected unauthorized access.

An account is for its registered user. You may use the service for your own publication or for organizations you are authorized to represent. Do not share login credentials or imply that a plan includes additional seats unless we explicitly provide them.

3. Free and Pro access

Free accounts have unlimited searches, subject to reasonable technical rate limits against abuse. The current Free plan includes three advertiser or newsletter profile unlocks per calendar month, one saved list, and five saved items. An unlock includes available creatives from the last 30 days and their source issues for that profile; related evidence does not consume additional unlocks.

Free unlocks remain available until the end of the calendar month. Monthly allowances reset on the first day of the month at 00:00 UTC and do not roll over. Pro includes unlimited profiles, full available placement history, collected contact information, and the list, watch, and export allowances stated on the pricing page. Coverage and contact availability vary.

Saved lists and watches are stored under your account. Downgrading does not automatically delete your lists; you may need to remove items to fall within the new plan’s limits before saving more. Access to paid features ends when your paid entitlement ends. You must not evade limits through multiple accounts, automated requests, or access to protected URLs.

4. Subscriptions, renewals, cancellation, and refunds

The price, currency, billing interval, and any applicable taxes are shown at checkout. Stripe processes payments. By completing a recurring subscription checkout, you authorize recurring charges at the disclosed interval until cancellation. A monthly or annual subscription renews automatically unless cancelled before renewal.

Use Account → Manage billing to manage your subscription or request cancellation, or contact phil@adly.news if you cannot access billing. The cancellation effective date is shown in the billing portal. For cancellation at the end of a paid period, access continues through that period unless otherwise suspended under these terms or required by law. Cancelling does not itself delete your account or research lists.

Failed or incomplete payments can prevent activation or interrupt Pro access. Subscription status is verified with Stripe; a checkout redirect alone is not proof of payment. Any plan change, proration, or new charge must be disclosed through the billing flow before you accept it.

Except where required by law or expressly agreed by us, cancelling does not provide a prorated refund for unused time in the current billing period. Contact us promptly about duplicate or incorrect charges or a material service failure. Nothing here limits mandatory cancellation, withdrawal, refund, or other consumer rights. We will give notice of material subscription price changes before they apply to a renewal.

5. Permitted commercial research and exports

During authorized access, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive right to use the service for internal business research and lawful sponsorship prospecting. This includes preparing pitches for your newsletter and using permitted exports in your internal sales workflow. Your commercial research use is permitted; this is not a personal-use-only licence.

You may not resell, publish, sublicense, or distribute the database or exports as a contact list, data feed, competing database, or other product. Do not scrape or systematically extract data beyond the features and allowances we provide, bypass access controls, or use the catalogue to train a general-purpose model. You remain responsible for lawful handling of exported data after download.

You may share limited research findings internally with people working on your authorized sponsorship effort, subject to confidentiality and applicable data-protection obligations. This does not authorize sharing an account, republishing source newsletters, or distributing contact datasets outside that effort.

6. Contact data and responsible outreach

A displayed name or email address is a research lead, not consent to contact that person. A prior sponsorship is not permission to send marketing, proof of available budget, or a promise of interest in your newsletter. Independently verify the recipient, relevance, and lawful basis or consent required for your outreach.

You are responsible for applicable privacy, electronic-marketing, and anti-spam laws, including sender identification and opt-out requirements. Respect objections and suppression requests. Do not use the service for harassment, deceptive messages, indiscriminate bulk outreach, sensitive personal profiling, or decisions about employment, credit, housing, or insurance.

If we notify you that supplied personal information must be corrected, suppressed, or removed, you must take appropriate action on your copies to the extent required by applicable law and these terms. You may keep a minimal suppression record where appropriate to avoid contacting someone who has opted out.

7. Research quality and third-party content

Our catalogue contains observed sponsorship evidence and automated or AI-assisted analysis. It may be incomplete, delayed, duplicated, or incorrect. Subscriber counts and other reported metrics may come from third parties. We do not guarantee that a company paid for a placement, is currently buying ads, has a particular budget, or will respond to your pitch.

Newsletter issues, logos, trademarks, images, and advertiser creatives remain the property of their respective rights holders. Access to a captured issue or creative supports contextual research; it does not transfer ownership or grant permission to republish, reuse, or impersonate the owner. Listing a company or newsletter does not imply endorsement or a partnership with adly.news.

Contact phil@adly.news to report an inaccurate record, privacy concern, or intellectual-property complaint. Include the affected URL or record, the issue, and enough information for us to evaluate your request. We may correct, restrict, or remove material while investigating.

8. Your research and privacy

You retain your rights in the list names and other material you provide. You grant us the limited rights needed to store, process, and display that material to operate your account and deliver requested features. We do not obtain ownership of your private research lists merely because you save them in the service.

Our Privacy Policy explains account data, professional contact data, service providers, external content, retention, and privacy requests. Privacy rights are independent of paid research-export limits. Do not upload confidential subscriber lists or sensitive personal information that the service does not request.

9. Availability, suspension, and termination

We may maintain, modify, or temporarily interrupt the service. Features and coverage may change; material changes to paid access will be communicated before they apply where practicable. We may suspend or restrict access for suspected abuse, security risks, nonpayment, or a material breach of these terms, with notice where appropriate.

You may stop using the service and request account deletion through phil@adly.news. Cancel a recurring subscription through Manage billing as well; simply signing out or ceasing use does not cancel it. On an account-deletion request, we will address any linked subscription with you and retain only records needed for applicable legal, security, billing, or dispute purposes.

If we permanently discontinue paid service during a prepaid period for reasons other than your breach, we will provide an appropriate refund or credit for undelivered service, subject to applicable law.

10. Disclaimers and responsibility

To the extent permitted by law, the service and research are provided as available without a guarantee of completeness, accuracy, uninterrupted availability, sponsor responses, or revenue. You are responsible for evaluating prospects and any agreements you enter into with them.

To the extent permitted by law, adly.news is not responsible for indirect or consequential losses arising from reliance on research, third-party content, or your outreach. Nothing in these terms excludes liability or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, including applicable protections concerning fraud, deliberate misconduct, or other mandatory liabilities.

11. Changes, disputes, and contact

We will give at least 30 days’ notice of material changes to these terms affecting paid use, except where a faster change is needed for security, legal compliance, or prevention of abuse. If you do not accept a change, you may stop using the service and cancel before it takes effect. Changes do not retroactively replace terms for completed transactions.

Please contact phil@adly.news first so we can try to resolve a dispute. California law governs these terms, subject to applicable federal law and any mandatory protections in your place of residence. These terms do not require mandatory arbitration or waive rights and remedies that cannot lawfully be waived. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.