Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 3 September 2026

These Terms & Conditions (the “Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between you and Adsy Media (operated by Kairen Whittock), carrying on business as Adsy Media, in respect of the online technology and startups magazine published at adsy-media.com. Please read them carefully. Sections 12 and 13 limit our liability and require you to indemnify us, and section 20 determines the law and the courts that apply to any dispute.

1. Acceptance and capacity

By accessing, browsing, subscribing to, commenting on, submitting material to, linking to, or otherwise using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by the documents they incorporate by reference. If you do not agree, you must not use the Site.
You represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract in your jurisdiction and that you are at least the age of majority where you reside, or that you use the Site with the consent and under the supervision of a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms on your behalf.
If you use the Site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorised to bind that organization, and “you” includes that organization.
The following documents are incorporated into these Terms and apply to your use of the Site: our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Disclaimer, DMCA Policy and Affiliate Disclosure.

2. Definitions

“Company”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Adsy Media (operated by Kairen Whittock) carrying on business as Adsy Media, and its officers, directors, employees, editors, contractors and agents where the context permits.
“Site” means the website at adsy-media.com and each of its subdomains, feeds, application programming interfaces, newsletters and associated services.
“Content” means all material published on or through the Site by or for us, including articles, analysis, headlines, editing, photographs, illustrations, charts, data compilations, audio, video, layout, page design, source code, style sheets, trade-marks and logos.
“User Content” means anything you submit, post, upload or transmit to us or through the Site, including comments, tips, pitches, letters to the editor, corrections, guest contributions and attachments.
“Automated Means” means any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, headless browser, script, bulk downloader, data-extraction service, model-training pipeline, or other automated or systematic process.
“AI System” means any machine-learning model or system, including generative and foundation models, and any dataset assembled to train, fine-tune, evaluate, ground or retrieve for such a model or system.

3. Licence to use the Site

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to access the Site and to view, and make transient local copies of, the Content for your own personal, non-commercial reading and internal professional reference.
You may share a hyperlink to any page of the Site, and you may quote a short and reasonable extract of an article for the purposes of news reporting, review, criticism or comment, provided that you attribute Adsy Media by name and link to the original article.
All rights not expressly granted are reserved. This licence does not transfer any ownership interest in the Content.

4. Prohibited uses

You must not, and must not permit or assist any person to:

copy, republish, redistribute, syndicate, translate, adapt, frame, mirror or create derivative works from the Content, in whole or in substantial part, without our prior written permission;
access, index, harvest, scrape or download any part of the Site by Automated Means, except that a general-purpose search engine may crawl the Site to the extent expressly permitted by our robots.txt file and any machine-readable rights signals we publish;
use, reproduce or make available the Content, or any dataset derived from the Content, for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, evaluating, grounding, benchmarking or otherwise developing or improving any AI System, whether or not the output competes with us; we do not consent to text and data mining of the Content and we expressly reserve our rights, including any reservation of rights recognised under applicable copyright law;
sell, licence, rent or otherwise commercialise access to the Content, or use it to build a competing product, feed, newsletter, aggregator or archive;
circumvent, disable or interfere with any paywall, metering, access control, consent mechanism, rate limit, digital rights management or security feature of the Site, or use any means to conceal your identity or origin in order to do so;
conduct load testing, stress testing, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning or any other security research against the Site without our prior written authorisation;
introduce any virus, worm, malicious code, or launch any denial-of-service or credential-stuffing attack, or otherwise impair the operation, integrity or availability of the Site;
collect or extract the personal information of any other user, including commenters, by any means;
use the Site in a manner that infringes any intellectual property or privacy right, that is defamatory, harassing, hateful, obscene or fraudulent, or that violates any applicable law;
misrepresent an affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from Adsy Media, or use our name or marks in metadata, advertising keywords or domain names in a manner likely to cause confusion.

5. Intellectual property in the Content

The Content is owned by us or by our licensors and contributors and is protected by the Copyright Act (Canada), by the copyright and trade-mark laws of other countries, and by international treaty. Our compilation, selection, arrangement and editing of the Content are themselves protected.
Adsy Media, our logo and our other names, marks and taglines are our trade-marks, whether registered or not. Nothing in these Terms grants you a licence to use them.
Third-party names, marks and logos appearing in the Content are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification, reporting and commentary only. Their appearance does not indicate any affiliation with or endorsement by their owners.
Requests for reprint, syndication, licensing or academic use should be sent to [email protected].

6. User Content

Licence you grant. By submitting User Content, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, publish, edit for length, style and legality, translate, adapt, excerpt, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform and otherwise use the User Content in any medium now known or later developed, in connection with the Site and its promotion. You waive any moral rights in the User Content to the extent permitted by law, or agree not to assert them in a manner that would prevent our use as described.
Your representations. You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in the User Content; that it is not defamatory, obscene, hateful, harassing, or a breach of confidence, privacy, contract or court order; that it does not infringe any third-party intellectual property; that any factual assertion in it is one you honestly believe to be true; that it contains no malicious code; and that you have disclosed to us any material connection, payment, gift or other consideration you have received in relation to any product, company or person you discuss.
No confidentiality and no obligation to publish. Do not send us information you regard as confidential unless we have agreed in writing to receive it in confidence. We are under no obligation to publish, retain or continue publishing any User Content.
Moderation. We may, at our sole discretion and without notice or liability, refuse, edit, shorten, unpublish, delete or archive any User Content, close comments on any article, and suspend or block any user or IP address. We do not pre-screen all User Content, and any moderation we perform does not make us the author of, or responsible for, User Content submitted by others.
Corrections. If you believe published Content contains a factual error, please write to [email protected]. Our corrections practice is described in the Disclaimer.

7. Third-party links and no endorsement

The Site contains links to third-party websites, products, services, filings, datasets and social media accounts. We do not control them, we do not adopt or verify their content, and we make no representation about their accuracy, legality, safety or availability.
Your dealings with any third party you reach through the Site are solely between you and that third party, including the terms, prices, warranties and privacy practices that apply. We are not a party to those dealings and are not liable for them.

8. Advertising, sponsored content and affiliate links

The Site is supported by advertising, sponsorship and affiliate arrangements. Display advertising is served by third parties, including Google, and is not selected or endorsed by our editorial team.
Content that has been paid for or otherwise sponsored is labelled as sponsored, paid, partner or advertising content. Editorial articles that contain affiliate links are labelled or accompanied by a disclosure.
Our commercial practices, and the applicable Canadian and United States advertising-disclosure requirements, are described in our Affiliate Disclosure.
We do not sell favourable editorial coverage. An advertiser or affiliate relationship does not entitle any party to influence, approve or suppress editorial Content.

9. No professional advice

The Content is journalism and general information. It is not financial, investment, securities, legal, tax, accounting, engineering, cybersecurity or other professional advice, no professional relationship is created by your use of the Site, and nothing on the Site is an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security. Section 9 is qualified and expanded by our Disclaimer, which you should read in full and which forms part of these Terms.

10. Accuracy and availability

We take reasonable care to be accurate and to update or correct the Content when we learn it is wrong. We do not warrant that the Content is complete, current, error-free or suitable for any purpose. Figures, valuations, funding amounts, prices, product specifications, availability and regulatory positions change after publication.
We may add, change, suspend, withdraw or discontinue all or part of the Site, any article, feed or newsletter, at any time and without notice. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or secure access.

11. No warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Site, the Content and all related services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty, representation, condition or term of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or collateral, including any implied warranty or condition of merchantability, merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, durability, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy or non-infringement. Some jurisdictions, including certain Canadian provinces, do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties or statutory conditions; in those jurisdictions the exclusions in this section apply only to the extent the law allows, and nothing in these Terms limits any non-excludable consumer right you may have.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither we nor our officers, directors, employees, editors, contributors, contractors, licensors or suppliers will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, opportunity, anticipated saving, or data, arising out of or relating to the Site, the Content, any reliance on the Content, any investment or business decision, any interruption or unavailability, or any conduct of a third party, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.
Cap. Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Site, the Content and these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you have actually paid to us, if any, in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100).
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
You acknowledge that the allocation of risk in sections 11 and 12 is a fundamental element of the basis of the bargain between us, and that we would not make the Site available on these terms without it.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors, employees, editors, contributors, contractors and agents from and against any claim, demand, action, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, penalty, cost and expense, including reasonable legal fees on a full-indemnity basis, arising out of or relating to (a) your breach of these Terms or of any law; (b) your User Content, including any claim that it is infringing, defamatory, or a breach of privacy or confidence; (c) your use of the Site, including any use by Automated Means or for AI System development; and (d) any misrepresentation you make to us. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with us and will not settle without our written consent.

14. Copyright complaints

Procedures for notifying us of allegedly infringing material, for submitting a counter-notification, and our repeat-infringer policy are set out in our DMCA Policy, which also explains how Canada’s notice-and-notice regime under the Copyright Act interacts with that policy. Copyright notices should be sent to [email protected].

15. Privacy

Our collection and handling of personal information, and the rights available to readers in Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom and California, are described in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. By using the Site you acknowledge those documents.

16. Suspension and termination

We may suspend, restrict or terminate your access to all or part of the Site, and remove your User Content, immediately and without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms, that your use exposes us or others to legal risk or technical harm, or that suspension is required by law.
You may terminate this agreement at any time by ceasing to use the Site and unsubscribing from our newsletters.
Sections 4, 5, 6.1, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 and 21 survive termination, together with any other provision that by its nature should survive.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms at any time. The amended Terms take effect when posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date, except that material changes take effect no earlier than fourteen (14) days after posting, unless an earlier date is required by law. Your continued use of the Site after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept an amendment, you must stop using the Site.

18. Force majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by an event beyond our reasonable control, including act of God, flood, fire, storm, earthquake, epidemic or pandemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour dispute, act of government or regulator, change in law, failure of telecommunications, hosting, content delivery or power infrastructure, cyber-attack, or the act or omission of any third-party supplier.

19. General

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, it will be read down to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force.
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the documents incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site, and supersede all prior understandings and representations, except for any fraudulent misrepresentation.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, on notice, including in connection with a reorganization, merger or sale of assets.
Waiver. No failure or delay by us in exercising a right is a waiver of it, and no waiver is effective unless in writing.
No third-party beneficiaries. Except as expressly stated, these Terms confer no rights on any person who is not a party.
Notices. Notices to us must be sent to [email protected] or by post to Adsy Media (operated by Kairen Whittock), 2090 Lonsdale Cres, Abbotsford, British Columbia, V2T 1C4, Canada. We may give notice to you by posting on the Site or, if you have given us an email address, by email.
Language. The Site is published in English and the parties confirm their wish that these Terms and all related documents be drawn up in English. Les parties confirment leur volonté que ces conditions ainsi que tous les documents qui s’y rattachent soient rédigés en anglais.
Headings. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. “Including” means “including without limitation”.

20. Governing law and venue

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, the Site or the Content, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable in that Province, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.
You and we irrevocably attorn to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts sitting in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, in respect of any such dispute, and you waive any objection to venue or forum non conveniens in those courts.
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law gives you a non-waivable right to bring proceedings locally or to the benefit of local mandatory consumer protection, nothing in this section deprives you of that right.
Notwithstanding the above, we may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property, security or confidential information.

21. Dispute resolution

Informal resolution first. Before commencing any proceeding, you agree to give us written notice of the dispute at [email protected] setting out your name, the nature of the dispute, the relevant dates and the outcome you seek, and to negotiate in good faith for at least sixty (60) days from the date we receive that notice. We agree to do the same before commencing proceedings against you where we have a means of contacting you. This step is a condition precedent to litigation, except for a claim for injunctive relief or a claim within the monetary jurisdiction of a small-claims court.
Escalation. If the dispute is not resolved informally, the parties may, by mutual written agreement, refer it to a single mediator in the Province of British Columbia, sharing the mediator’s fees equally. Mediation is voluntary and neither party is obliged to agree to it.
Limitation period. Except where the applicable limitations statute provides otherwise and cannot be varied, any claim arising out of or relating to the Site or these Terms must be commenced within two (2) years after the claim arose.

22. Contact

General enquiries: [email protected]. Legal notices and disputes: [email protected]. Copyright notices: [email protected]. Privacy: [email protected]. Telephone: +1 604-850-8125. Post: Adsy Media (operated by Kairen Whittock), 2090 Lonsdale Cres, Abbotsford, British Columbia, V2T 1C4, Canada.