This Policy is Schedule 1 to the Subscriber Terms and Conditions and forms part of your contract with Colibri Holdings Ltd. It is published separately so that it can be linked to and read on its own. If this page and Schedule 1 ever differ, Schedule 1 governs.
Why this exists, in one paragraph
The Wire's value is that somebody did the work: read the trades, matched the reports, tied each claim to the sentence it came from, and kept a register of nearly three thousand companies most of which have no Wikipedia page. That work is what a subscription pays for. This Policy exists to stop it being taken and resold, taken and fed to a model, or taken and shared with fifty people who have not paid — and to say plainly what "taken" means, so that nobody has to guess.
1. Your Seat
You must not:
1.1 share your sign-in link, session, or access credentials with anyone;
1.2 allow anyone else to use your Seat, whether or not you are present, and whether or not you are paid for it;
1.3 use a shared, role-based or group mailbox as your Account identity, so that access follows a mailbox rather than a person;
1.4 hold more than one Account in order to obtain more than one free trial or more than one period of invitation access.
Why we care, and why we say it this way. A shared credential cannot be withdrawn from one person without resetting everybody. From five people at one company, the Team plan is cheaper than five individual subscriptions and gives each person their own credential. If sharing is what you need, buy the thing that is designed for it.
2. Taking the Content
You must not:
2.1 scrape, crawl, spider, harvest or use any automated means to access, read or copy the Content, other than a search engine we have permitted through robots.txt;
2.2 download, export or reproduce the Content in bulk, or systematically extract insubstantial parts so as to amount in aggregate to a substantial part;
2.3 access any payload, endpoint or interface of the Wire other than through the published pages, or attempt to reach content your plan does not include;
2.4 circumvent, disable or interfere with any access control, gate, rate limit or authentication;
2.5 reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Wire, except to the extent that this restriction cannot lawfully be excluded.
3. What you do with it afterwards
You must not:
3.1 re-publish, redistribute, broadcast, syndicate, sell, licence, rent or otherwise make the Content available to anyone outside your organisation, whether or not for a charge;
3.2 circulate the Content routinely inside your organisation beyond the Seats you hold — occasional, incidental sharing of a single story or row with a colleague is fine, a standing internal distribution is not;
3.3 use the Content to create, populate, verify or enrich a database, register, dataset or product that is made available to anyone else;
3.4 use the Content to train, fine-tune, ground, retrieve into, prompt, evaluate or benchmark any machine learning model, large language model, or generative AI system;
3.5 use the Content to build, operate or improve a product or service that competes with the Wire or the AXIOM Global Entertainment Index;
3.6 remove, obscure or alter any attribution, source link, byline, correction record or copyright notice;
3.7 present the Content, or anything derived from it, as your own primary reporting or research;
3.8 use the Content in a way that would breach the terms on which we obtained the underlying third-party material — those terms are summarised in Sources and Third-Party Rights.
On 3.4. We reserve our rights against text and data mining expressly, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, and the reservation is machine-readable in our
robots.txt. Neither access to the Wire nor any technical means of retrieval grants a licence for those purposes.
4. Conduct
You must not:
4.1 use the Wire for any unlawful purpose, or in breach of any sanctions, export control or anti-bribery law;
4.2 submit anything defamatory, harassing, obscene, infringing, confidential to a third party, or knowingly false;
4.3 attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system, account or data, or probe, scan or test the security of our systems without our prior written permission. Responsible security research is welcome — the route for it is in Security Statement, and researchers who follow it will be thanked, not threatened;
4.4 introduce malware, or take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure;
4.5 impersonate any person, or misrepresent your affiliation.
5. What we do about breaches
5.1 We may suspend or end access immediately and without refund, revoke every session on the Account, and require you to delete any copies you have taken.
5.2 We may enforce our rights, including database right and copyright, and the indemnity in clause 17 of the Terms.
5.3 We monitor access patterns for signs of abuse of this Policy — request volumes, access from many places at once, extraction rates. The lawful basis for that is legitimate interests and it is described in the Privacy Policy. We do not read your taste profile; it never leaves your browser.
5.4 Where a breach looks like a misunderstanding rather than a deliberate act, we will ask you to stop before we do anything else. Almost every case is that case.
6. Reporting a breach by someone else
If you believe someone is redistributing the Wire, sharing a Seat, or scraping the Content, tell us at hello@axiom.vc. We would rather hear about it than find it.
End of Acceptable Use Policy.