Terms and Conditions

1. Identification of the Publisher

These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern the legal relationship between the Publisher and the Subscriber in connection with The Prague Briefing publication.

Publisher: Philip Staehelin
Self-employed person (osoba samostatně výdělečně činná, OSVČ)
Registered office: Křižíkova 710/30, 186 00 Praha 8–Karlín, Czech Republic
IČO: 07457120
Email: hello@briefings.eu
Website: briefings.eu

The Publisher is registered in the Czech Trade Register. The Publisher holds editorial responsibility for The Prague Briefing as publisher (vydavatel) within the meaning of Act No. 46/2000 Coll., the Press Act, to the extent that Act applies to the publication.

The Publisher is not a registered VAT payer (není plátcem DPH) within the meaning of Act No. 235/2004 Coll., on Value Added Tax. All prices stated in these Terms are final and include no value added tax.

2. Definitions

• "The Briefing" means the daily bilingual (English and Czech) news publication titled "The Prague Briefing", delivered as a PDF attachment by email and made available in selected web formats.
• "Subscriber" means a natural or legal person who has entered into a Subscription Agreement with the Publisher under these Terms.
• "Subscription" means a paid subscription to The Briefing for a defined billing period.
• "Subscription Agreement" means the contract between the Publisher and the Subscriber concluded electronically through the checkout process at briefings.eu, governed by these Terms.
• "Consumer" means a Subscriber who is a natural person not acting in the course of trade, business, craft, or profession, within the meaning of Section 419 of Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code.
• "Stripe" means Stripe Payments Europe, Limited, the payment processor through which all Subscription transactions are processed.

3. Subject Matter of the Agreement

3.1. The Publisher undertakes to publish The Briefing and to deliver each issue to the Subscriber by email at the address provided at registration, subject to the publication commitment in Section 6.

3.2. The Subscriber undertakes to pay the Subscription fee in accordance with the price list at briefings.eu and these Terms.

4. Conclusion of the Subscription Agreement

4.1. The Subscriber concludes the Subscription Agreement by completing the checkout process at briefings.eu, providing accurate registration data, and successfully paying the first Subscription period.

4.2. The Subscription Agreement is concluded at the moment Stripe confirms successful payment authorisation. The Publisher sends a confirmation email to the Subscriber's email address summarising the agreement, the price paid, the Subscriber's consent to early commencement of digital delivery, and the consequent effect on the right of withdrawal. This confirmation email constitutes the durable-medium record required by Section 1824a of the Civil Code and the receipt required by Section 1827 of the Civil Code.

4.3. The Subscriber confirms before completing the order that the Subscriber has read and accepts these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

5. Subscription, Payment, and Invoicing

5.1. Subscription tiers. Current tiers and prices are published at briefings.eu and form part of these Terms by reference. As of the effective date of these Terms:

Tier	Price	Billing	Seats
Monthly	790 Kč	every 30 days	1
Individual Annual	7,900 Kč	every 365 days	1
Team Annual	24,900 Kč	every 365 days	up to 10 named individuals within one legal entity
Enterprise	49,900 Kč	every 365 days	unlimited within one legal entity via distribution list

5.2. No VAT. The Publisher is not a registered VAT payer (není plátcem DPH). The prices above are final; no value added tax is added to any Subscription fee. The Publisher does not issue VAT tax documents (daňový doklad). For accounting purposes, the Publisher issues a non-tax invoice (faktura) identifying the Publisher as not registered for VAT.

5.3. Recurring billing. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled by the Subscriber through the Stripe Customer Portal at least one (1) day before the renewal date. The renewal price is the price published at briefings.eu on the renewal date.

5.4. Payment failure. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe will retry the charge in accordance with its standard retry schedule. If all retries fail, the Subscription is suspended and delivery of The Briefing stops at the end of the current billing period. The Subscriber may reactivate at any time by updating payment details in the Stripe Customer Portal.

5.5. Invoicing. Non-tax invoices are issued automatically and made available to the Subscriber by email and in the Stripe Customer Portal.

6. Publication Commitment

6.1. Daily delivery target. The Publisher aims to publish The Briefing every day, seven days a week, with delivery by email during the morning Prague time (CET/CEST) on the day of publication. This is a best-efforts target, not a guaranteed service level.

6.2. Permitted skips. The Publisher reserves the right to skip publication on any individual day for editorial, technical, or quality-assurance reasons. Where a skip occurs, the Publisher will notify Subscribers by email on the affected day.

6.3. First missed day per month. Up to one (1) missed publication in any rolling 30-day period is included as part of the normal service and gives rise to no compensation, extension, or refund.

6.4. Two-for-one subscription extension. From the second missed publication onwards in any rolling 30-day period, the Publisher will extend each affected Subscriber's subscription by two (2) days for every one (1) day missed. The extension is applied at or before the next renewal by extending the renewal date or by issuing an equivalent credit to the Subscriber's Stripe customer balance. Subscribers receive an email notification when an extension is applied.

6.5. Material under-delivery. If The Briefing is not published on more than six (6) days in any rolling 30-day period (more than approximately 20%), the Subscriber is entitled to terminate the Subscription Agreement with immediate effect and receive a pro-rata refund of the unused portion of the current billing period in lieu of the extension under Section 6.4. The Subscriber must give written notice by email to hello@briefings.eu within thirty (30) days of the threshold being crossed.

7. AI-Assisted Editorial Process

7.1. The Briefing is produced with the assistance of large language models and other automated tools. The Publisher retains full editorial responsibility for each issue and reviews published content on a regular basis. Editorial responsibility for each issue rests with Philip Staehelin as Publisher.

7.2. The Publisher takes editorial responsibility for the content of The Briefing as publisher (vydavatel). The use of automated tools does not limit the Publisher's editorial liability.

7.3. The Subscriber acknowledges that AI-assisted reporting carries a residual risk of factual error. The Publisher commits to publishing corrections in subsequent issues where material errors are identified. Content in The Briefing is provided as journalism for informational purposes; it is not professional legal, financial, investment, or other specialist advice.

7.4. This Section constitutes disclosure for the purposes of Article 50(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act), which applies from 2 August 2026. The Publisher asserts the editorial exception under that provision on the basis that the Publisher, as a natural person, takes editorial responsibility for all published content and reviews it on a regular basis.

8. Right of Withdrawal and Voluntary Money-Back Guarantee

8.1. Statutory right of withdrawal for digital content. A Subscriber who is a Consumer has, in principle, a fourteen (14) day right to withdraw from a contract concluded at a distance pursuant to Section 1829(1) of the Civil Code.

8.2. Waiver of withdrawal right on commencement of delivery. Pursuant to Section 1837(l) of the Civil Code, the right of withdrawal does not apply to contracts for the supply of digital content not delivered on a tangible medium where supply has begun with the Consumer's prior express consent and with the Consumer's acknowledgement that the withdrawal right is thereby lost. By completing the checkout and paying the first Subscription fee, the Consumer Subscriber expressly consents to delivery of The Briefing commencing before the expiry of the fourteen-day withdrawal period, and confirms prior awareness that this consent extinguishes the right of withdrawal once delivery has commenced. The confirmation email required by Section 4.2 constitutes the durable-medium record of this consent.

8.3. Voluntary 30-day money-back guarantee. Separately from and in addition to any statutory right, the Publisher grants each Consumer Subscriber a voluntary contractual money-back guarantee for the first thirty (30) days from the date the Subscription Agreement is concluded. A Consumer Subscriber may request a full refund of the first billing period at any time within those thirty days by emailing hello@briefings.eu. The refund is processed through Stripe within fourteen (14) days of the request. Refunds under this Section are available for the first billing period only; they do not extend to renewal periods. This guarantee is a commercial commitment of the Publisher and exists independently of the Section 8.2 waiver.

8.4. Renewals. Section 8.3 applies only to the first billing period. Renewal periods are not refundable except under Section 6.5 (material under-delivery).

8.5. Non-Consumer Subscribers. Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 do not apply to Subscribers who are not Consumers. Business Subscribers may cancel renewals as set out in Section 5.3 but are not entitled to a refund of paid Subscription fees except under Section 6.5.

9. Subscriber Rights and Restrictions

9.1. Personal use licence. Subject to payment of the Subscription fee, the Publisher grants the Subscriber a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to receive, read, store, and print The Briefing for the Subscriber's own personal or internal business use during the Subscription period.

9.2. Team Annual and Enterprise tier scope. Under the Team Annual tier, the licence extends to up to ten (10) named individuals employed by, or acting under a comparable engagement for, the single legal entity identified at Subscription. Under the Enterprise tier, the licence extends to all natural persons within that legal entity reached via the designated distribution list registered with the Publisher at Subscription. In both cases, sharing The Briefing with persons outside that legal entity is not permitted.

9.3. Restrictions. Without the Publisher's prior written consent, the Subscriber may not: (a) redistribute, republish, or sell The Briefing or any substantial part of it to persons outside the scope of the licence in Section 9.1 or 9.2; (b) make The Briefing available on any public platform, website, or social media account; (c) extract content for use in training generative AI systems; or (d) circumvent any technical measures protecting the integrity of The Briefing.

9.4. Permitted excerpting. The Subscriber may quote individual short passages of The Briefing with attribution ("The Prague Briefing, [date]"), within the limits of fair quotation practice under Czech and EU copyright law.

10. Intellectual Property

10.1. The Briefing, including its layout, typography, brand identity, and editorial content, is the intellectual property of the Publisher. All rights not expressly granted to the Subscriber under these Terms are reserved.

10.2. Source materials referenced in The Briefing remain the intellectual property of their respective owners. The Publisher's use of source materials operates under the news-reporting and quotation provisions of Czech and EU copyright law.

11. Liability

11.1. The Publisher takes editorial responsibility for The Briefing as set out in Section 7. The Subscriber acknowledges that the content of The Briefing is provided as journalism and not as professional advice; the Subscriber must not rely on it as a substitute for legal, financial, tax, investment, or other professional advice.

11.2. The Publisher excludes all liability for indirect, consequential, or economic loss arising from the use of or inability to access The Briefing, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Czech law.

11.3. The Publisher's aggregate liability for direct loss arising in connection with the Subscription Agreement is limited to the Subscription fees paid by the Subscriber during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

11.4. Nothing in these Terms limits the Publisher's liability for harm caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for damage to natural rights of personality, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under Czech mandatory law.

12. Personal Data

12.1. The Publisher processes personal data of the Subscriber as set out in the Privacy Policy at briefings.eu/privacy, which forms part of these Terms by reference.

13. Changes to These Terms

13.1. The Publisher may amend these Terms with at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice by email to the Subscriber. The amended Terms apply from the start of the next billing period after the notice period expires.

13.2. If the Subscriber does not agree with the amended Terms, the Subscriber may terminate the Subscription Agreement before the amended Terms take effect by cancelling renewal in the Stripe Customer Portal.

13.3. For the avoidance of doubt, price increases, reductions to the publication commitment, and any change that materially reduces the rights or increases the obligations of the Subscriber are subject to the notice procedure and the right of refusal-via-cancellation set out in this Section.

14. Termination of Subscription

14.1. The Subscriber may cancel the Subscription at any time through the Stripe Customer Portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; The Briefing continues to be delivered until that date. No refund is due on cancellation, except under Section 8.3 (30-day money-back guarantee) or Section 6.5 (material under-delivery).

14.2. The Publisher may terminate the Subscription Agreement with immediate effect for material breach by the Subscriber, including unauthorised redistribution under Section 9, payment fraud, or other conduct giving rise to legal risk for the Publisher. In such a case the Subscriber is not entitled to a refund of the current billing period.

15. Stopping Email Delivery

15.1. Independently of cancellation under Section 14, every Subscriber has the right at any time to request that the Publisher stop sending email deliveries of The Briefing. This right arises under Act No. 480/2004 Coll., Section 7. The Subscriber exercises it by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any issue.

15.2. The unsubscribe link opens a confirmation page at briefings.eu/unsubscribe where the Subscriber confirms the request before email delivery stops. Where the Subscriber's email client provides a native one-click unsubscribe button using the RFC 8058 protocol, that client-side mechanism satisfies the confirmation requirement without the on-site step. In both cases, the Publisher acts on the request within forty-eight (48) hours.

15.3. Stopping email delivery is not a cancellation of the Subscription. The Subscription and any recurring renewal continue unless the Subscriber separately cancels under Section 14. No refund is due on a request to stop email delivery alone.

15.4. A Subscriber who has stopped email delivery may resume by emailing hello@briefings.eu from the registered email address. Where the Subscription is still active, delivery resumes from the next issue.

15.5. A request to stop email delivery does not trigger deletion of the Subscriber's personal data. Erasure requests are handled separately under the Privacy Policy at briefings.eu/privacy.

16. Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Consumer Dispute Resolution

16.1. These Terms are governed by Czech law, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules. Mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the Subscriber's country of habitual residence that give the Subscriber greater protection than Czech law remain applicable to Consumer Subscribers.

16.2. Disputes arising from or in connection with the Subscription Agreement shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the Czech courts. The District Court for Prague 8 (Obvodní soud pro Prahu 8) is the court of first instance for disputes arising in the Czech Republic, subject to mandatory rules of consumer jurisdiction that may apply where the Subscriber is domiciled elsewhere in the EU.

16.3. Out-of-court dispute resolution for Consumers. Before commencing court proceedings, the Publisher invites Subscribers to seek a resolution by emailing hello@briefings.eu. A Consumer Subscriber who is not satisfied with the outcome may seek out-of-court dispute resolution through:

• the Czech Trade Inspection Authority (Česká obchodní inspekce, ČOI), online ADR platform at adr.coi.cz; or
• the European Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

Use of these mechanisms is voluntary and does not affect the Subscriber's right to bring court proceedings.

17. Final Provisions

17.1. Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.

17.2. Language. These Terms are made available in English and in Czech. Both versions are equally authentic. For Subscribers habitually resident in the Czech Republic, in the event of any inconsistency between the two versions, the Czech text prevails. For all other Subscribers, the English text prevails.

17.3. Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the price list at briefings.eu, constitute the entire agreement between the Publisher and the Subscriber and supersede all prior communications or representations relating to the subject matter.

17.4. Effective date. These Terms are effective from 11 May 2026.