Terms of Service

Effective May 26, 2026 · Last updated May 26, 2026

Before the Legal Part

You’re on the website of Somantix. Right now, this site is mostly home to The Ledger — our weekly newsletter covering changes in AI platform terms of service, privacy policies, and the gap between what those policies promise and what AI tools actually deliver. Over time, the site may grow to include more.

These Terms explain how you and we agree to use the site. We’ve tried to write them plainly. Where we have to be more formal, we’ve kept it brief.

TL;DR

  • You can read The Ledger and browse the site without an account. You only give us an email if you want the newsletter delivered.
  • Our content is our content. You can quote, link, and share it with attribution. You can’t republish it wholesale, and you can’t use it to train AI models.
  • We don’t show ads right now. If we ever do, we’ll tell you first, in plain language, and you can leave before anything changes.
  • The Ledger is journalism and analysis, not legal advice. We quote primary documents and link to them so you can verify everything yourself.
  • You can unsubscribe anytime. You can also ask us to delete your data at any point.
  • We’re a small operation building trust infrastructure as a product. We try to live by the standards we report on.

The longer version is below.

1. Who We Are

This site is operated by Somantix Inc. (“Somantix,” “we,” “us,” “our”), the company behind both the Somantix software products and The Ledger newsletter.

Email: hello@somantix.ai

2. What These Terms Cover

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply when you:

  • Visit somantix.ai or any associated pages

  • Subscribe to The Ledger newsletter

  • Read archived issues, blog posts, or other content on the site

  • Send us a message through the site

By using the site or subscribing to the newsletter, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, that’s fine — you don’t have to use the site.

3. Who Can Use the Site

You need to be at least 16 to subscribe to the newsletter. If you’re subscribing on behalf of a company, you’re confirming you have authority to do so. Beyond that, anyone can read.

4. The Newsletter

To receive The Ledger, you give us an email address. You can optionally tell us your name and what you do.

  • You can unsubscribe anytime via the link at the bottom of every issue.

  • We don’t share your email with anyone outside our email delivery vendor, who is contractually limited to processing it on our behalf.

  • We don’t sell your email. Ever.

If we ever offer paid newsletter tiers or related services, we’ll update these Terms before that goes live and tell subscribers in advance.

5. Our Content

The Ledger and the rest of the site — articles, analysis, evaluation frameworks, graphics, the way we organize information — are ours (or licensed to us). Copyright and trademark laws protect them.

What you can do with our content:

  • Read it. Forward newsletter issues to colleagues. Share article links.

  • Quote brief excerpts in your own writing, posts, or commentary, with attribution and a link back to the original.

  • Cite us as a source.

What you can’t do without our written permission:

  • Republish whole issues, articles, or substantial portions on other sites or in other publications.

  • Scrape or systematically download the archive.

  • Use our content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI or machine learning models.

  • Strip our attribution or pass our work off as your own.

  • Create derivative works for commercial use.

We’re especially specific about the AI training restriction because we report on this exact issue every week. We can’t credibly write about training-data rights and let our own content be ingested without consent. If you’re a researcher with a legitimate non-commercial use case that involves our content, contact us — we may be able to work something out.

6. What You Quote From Us

If you’re a journalist, analyst, or commentator quoting The Ledger:

  • Brief quotation for commentary, criticism, or reporting is fine under fair use principles.

  • Attribute the quote to The Ledger and link to the original.

  • Don’t quote so much that your piece could substitute for reading ours.

We’re glad when our reporting gets picked up. We just like being cited.

7. Third-Party Content We Quote and Link To

The Ledger quotes from and links to platform terms of service, privacy policies, and other public documents in order to analyze them. Those third-party documents remain the property of their respective owners. Our use of them for commentary, criticism, and news reporting is fair use under applicable law.

Links from our site to third-party sites are provided for reference. We don’t control those sites and aren’t responsible for their content, practices, or what happens if you click through.

8. Acceptable Use

When you use the site:

  • Don’t try to break things. No probing, scanning, or attacking our infrastructure.

  • Don’t scrape the site, the newsletter archive, or anything else without permission.

  • Don’t impersonate someone else.

  • Don’t use the site to send spam, malware, or anything illegal.

  • Don’t try to access parts of the site you’re not authorized to access.

If you find a security vulnerability, please report it to us. We won’t take legal action against good-faith security researchers.

9. Future Advertising

Right now, the site and newsletter are ad-free.

If our readership grows to the point where we consider showing ads, our commitment is to handle that transition transparently. Specifically, before we show any ad on the site or in the newsletter:

  • We’ll notify subscribers at least 30 days in advance, in plain language, with specifics about what would change.

  • We’ll update this section and the Privacy Policy to describe exactly what ad-related data collection or sharing would happen.

  • We’ll never retroactively apply ad-tracking or behavioral profiling to data we collected under the current Privacy Policy.

  • We’ll never sell reader data to advertisers, and we won’t allow advertisers to build behavioral profiles of individual readers based on Ledger engagement.

  • You’ll be able to unsubscribe and ask for full data deletion before any change takes effect.

This is a commitment, not marketing copy. We report on advertising infrastructure changes every week, and we know what readers find acceptable and what they don’t.

10. Not Legal Advice

The Ledger analyzes legal documents and quotes from them. We’re not lawyers, and nothing on the site is legal advice. If you need to make a business or compliance decision based on a platform’s terms, read the original terms yourself, link to which we provide, and consult qualified legal counsel.

11. Disclaimers

The site is provided “as is.” We do our best, but:

  • We can’t guarantee the site will always be available or error-free.

  • We can’t guarantee our analysis is comprehensive — platforms change documents faster than any tracker can perfectly cover.

  • We can’t guarantee any specific outcome from acting on what we publish.

We make these caveats because they’re true, not to dodge accountability. If you spot a meaningful error in our reporting, tell us — we’d rather fix it.

12. Our Liability

We’re a small publication. Our total aggregate liability for any claim related to the site, the newsletter, or your use of either is limited to the greater of:

  • What you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (currently $0 for newsletter readers), or

  • $100.

We’re not liable for indirect, consequential, or incidental damages — lost profits, lost opportunities, downstream business consequences of acting on our reporting.

If you’re in a jurisdiction that doesn’t allow these limits to apply fully, they apply to the maximum extent the law allows.

13. Termination

You can stop using the site anytime. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter anytime via the unsubscribe link in any issue.

We can terminate access to the site or the newsletter for anyone who violates these Terms — but we’ll tell you why first when we can.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. When we do:

  • We’ll change the “Last Updated” date at the top.

  • For material changes, we’ll email active subscribers at least 14 days before the change takes effect.

  • We’ll keep prior versions accessible so you can see what changed and when.

We expect to publish a transparency log of our own policy changes, alongside the broader changelog we keep for the newsletter’s coverage of other platforms. We can’t credibly track other people’s quiet policy edits if we make our own quiet policy edits.

15. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Delaware, United States.

If you’re in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, Australia, or any other jurisdiction with mandatory consumer protection laws, nothing in these Terms limits the rights you have under those laws.

16. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, corrections, press inquiries, security reports: