Terms of Service

The Daily Dispatch is free to download, and every new account starts with 500 free tokens. Tokens are the credits used to generate your briefing editions. Once your free tokens are used up, you can keep generating editions by subscribing to a monthly plan or buying a one-time top-up.

Monthly subscriptions:

• Curious Explorer: 500 tokens per month for US$6.99 a month.
• Trailblazer: 1,200 tokens per month for US$14.99 a month.
• Grand Dispatcher: 2,400 tokens per month for US$29.99 a month.

One-time top-ups (a single purchase that does not renew):

• Top-Up 100: 100 tokens for US$1.99.
• Top-Up 500: 500 tokens for US$7.99.
• Top-Up 1,000: 1,000 tokens for US$14.99.

Prices are shown in your local currency and may vary by region and change over time. The current price is always shown in the App Store before you confirm a purchase.

When you buy a monthly subscription:

• Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically at the same price each month unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the current month ends.
• Your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current month ends.
• You can manage the subscription or turn off auto-renewal at any time in your Apple Account settings, under Subscriptions.

How tokens work. Your tokens do not expire. Each month, your new subscription tokens are added to whatever you already have, so anything left over carries into the next month, and anything left when a subscription ends stays yours to use. Top-ups work the same way and stay in your balance until you use them. Your first edition for each new briefing is always free and does not use any tokens.

Subscriptions are managed and cancelled through Apple, and deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store terms (see the “Refund Decisions & Consumption Data” section below). Your use of the Application also remains subject to the Apple Standard EULA referenced above.

When you request a refund for a purchase made via Apple's App Store, Apple may ask us for information about how you used the purchased content to help decide whether to grant the refund. By using The Daily Dispatch, you consent to us sharing the following with Apple as part of that decision:

• An anonymous account identifier (a UUID we assign, not your email or any personally identifying information).
• How long you've had an account with us, expressed in broad buckets (e.g. less than 3 days, more than 6 months).
• How much of the purchased content (tokens) you consumed before requesting the refund.
• Whether the content was delivered successfully or our service had errors during the relevant period.
• Your total spend with us across all purchases, in broad buckets (e.g. $50–99, $500–999).
• The total amount of refunds you have previously received from us, in broad buckets.
• An estimate of your in-app activity, in broad buckets (e.g. less than 5 minutes, more than 4 days).
• Our preference for the refund outcome, based on the data above and our operational logic.

We only share this data when Apple specifically requests it as part of a refund-decisioning notification, and only in relation to the purchase you are requesting a refund for. We do not share this data with anyone else. Apple's full refund policy is governed by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

If you do not consent to this sharing, please contact us before requesting a refund and we will respond to Apple's request without providing consumption data. Please note that doing so may affect how Apple decides your refund.

The Owner holds and reserves all intellectual property rights in the Application, including its software, design, branding, and AI-generated outputs. Users may not use such content in any way that is not necessary or implicit in the proper use of the service.

In particular, Users may not copy, reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, modify, translate, transform, publish, transmit, sell, sublicense, edit, transfer or assign to third parties, or create derivative works from the content available on this Application, nor allow any third party to do so.

Briefings are generated by AI (Google Gemini) from publicly available sources. The Owner does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any content delivered through the Application. AI-generated summaries may contain hallucinations, factual errors, outdated information, misattribution, or misleading interpretations.

Do not rely on briefings for financial, medical, legal, professional, or safety-critical decisions. Always verify important information from primary sources before acting on it. The Daily Dispatch is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We are not responsible for the content of any third-party sources referenced in your briefings.

You may delete your account and all associated data at any time from the Profile screen in the app. Deletion is permanent and removes all briefings, issues, device tokens, feedback, and your user profile (see the Privacy Policy for retention details).

The Owner reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, including without limitation accounts engaged in abuse, harassment, illegal activity, or attempts to compromise the service.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you have a 14-day right of withdrawal from any paid contract concluded online, in accordance with EU consumer protection law (e.g., German Fernabsatzgesetz / §§ 355 ff. BGB).

For digital content delivered immediately upon download or use, this right of withdrawal expires once the service has begun, provided that you have given prior express consent and acknowledged the loss of the withdrawal right. By starting to use the Application, you give such consent.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Owner shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Application, including loss of profits, data, or other intangible losses.

For users resident in Germany or the EU/EEA: nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for damages arising from intent (Vorsatz), gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit), injury to life, body, or health, or any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable mandatory consumer protection law (including § 309 BGB and the German Product Liability Act).

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms is Berlin, Germany, provided that, for users who are consumers, this choice of jurisdiction does not deprive them of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which they have their habitual residence (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation).

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged or willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).