Terms of use and subscription terms

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Use and Subscription Terms (“Terms”) govern access to and use of stratiuminsights.com and related services provided by STRATIUM POLICY LAB LTD (“STRATIUM”, “we”, “us” or “our”). The company postal address and registration details will be added when available.

The Service publishes news, research, investigations, analysis, commentary, reports and other editorial content produced by journalists, researchers, analysts, experts and contributors.

By using the website or creating an account, you agree to comply with these Terms. A paid subscription is not currently offered for purchase. If checkout is introduced, the specific plan, price and terms displayed before ordering, together with the then-current Terms, will govern the subscription.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted.

2. Operator and contacts

The service provider is STRATIUM POLICY LAB LTD. Its postal address and applicable registration or tax identifiers will be added when available.

Website: stratiuminsights.com. For legal notices, complaints, withdrawal requests and privacy matters, contact legal@stratiuminsights.com; for general enquiries, contact info@stratiuminsights.com; for account and subscription support, contact support@stratiuminsights.com. These mailboxes are monitored. Do not send passwords, access tokens or full payment-card credentials by email.

3. The Service

The Service may provide publicly accessible content and, if paid access is launched, content available only to registered or paid subscribers. Publications may be marked as open access, subscriber-only, news, analysis, investigation, report, commentary, opinion or another editorial category.

The availability, frequency, format and subject matter of publications may change over time. A subscription, if offered, will provide access to content made available under the selected plan; it will not transfer ownership of content or intellectual-property rights.

Subscriber-only labels and demo accounts or content do not establish that a paid subscription is active or that a payment has been made.

4. User accounts

Certain features require an account. You agree to provide accurate information, keep authentication credentials confidential and take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized access.

If an individual subscription is launched, it will be for the account holder unless STRATIUM expressly offers a multi-user, institutional or business plan. Users must not share credentials to let others avoid required access controls.

If you become aware of unauthorized use of your account, contact info@stratiuminsights.com. Never send your password or authentication token.

5. Technical requirements and security

Use of the Service generally requires an internet connection, a reasonably current web browser that supports common web technologies and HTTPS, and a valid email address where account registration or confirmation is needed.

Disabling cookies required for authentication may prevent account functions from working. Internet services involve ordinary risks including malicious software, phishing, credential attacks and communications outages. You are responsible for maintaining reasonable security on your own devices and for protecting your credentials.

24-hour trial and selected subscription plan

At registration, choose Reader monthly (EUR 5/month) or annual (EUR 50/year). The selected subscription starts with a 24-hour trial and no payment card is required to begin. If you add a payment card before the trial ends, the selected paid subscription continues and the displayed plan price will be charged; it then renews for the same period until cancelled. If no card is linked when the trial ends, the subscription is cancelled and no payment is taken. You can manage the subscription and payment methods in your account profile. Checkout and trial registration are available only when explicitly enabled and configured; before activation, no subscription payment is collected.

9. Cancelling a subscription

When paid subscriptions are launched, a subscriber will be able to cancel automatic renewal before the next renewal charge through account controls where available or by contacting info@stratiuminsights.com.

Cancellation is intended to stop future renewal charges. Unless applicable law requires otherwise or checkout states a more favorable rule, access is intended to continue until the end of the subscription period already paid for.

Cancelling renewal is separate from requesting deletion of an account. The cancellation workflow and timing will be described before purchase and in the account interface.

10. Prices and price changes

The approved planned standard prices are EUR 5 per month and EUR 50 per year. They are not currently charged because paid checkout is unavailable.

If prices change in the future, a change will apply prospectively and will not retroactively alter a period already paid for. Existing subscribers will receive advance notice before an increase applies to a renewal where required by law. A subscriber who does not accept an increase may cancel before the new price becomes effective.

The price and billing terms displayed immediately before a future purchase will form part of the subscription contract.

11. Payments and failed payments

No payment provider has been activated for paid checkout and no subscription payments are currently processed.

If payments are enabled, they may be handled by a selected third-party payment service. Payment will be treated as completed only when the provider confirms the applicable authorization or settlement. The provider’s identity and terms will be disclosed at checkout.

If a recurring payment fails after launch, STRATIUM may notify the subscriber and, subject to applicable law and the contract, temporarily suspend paid access until payment succeeds. STRATIUM does not intend to ask users to send full payment-card credentials directly by email.

12. Consumer right of withdrawal

Consumers entering into a distance contract may have a statutory right to withdraw within the applicable period, generally 14 days for online contracts, subject to statutory rules and exceptions for digital content and digital services.

If a future checkout offers immediate access before the end of a withdrawal period, it will obtain any separate express request, consent or acknowledgement required by applicable law. These disclosures will not be combined invisibly with acceptance of general Terms.

For digital content not supplied on a tangible medium, loss of a withdrawal right after supply begins may depend on all legal conditions being met, including prior express consent, acknowledgement of consequences and confirmation of the contract. For ongoing digital services, different rules may apply, including payment for performance already supplied.

Nothing in these Terms removes a withdrawal right or remedy required by applicable consumer law. The checkout flow and contract confirmation must be legally reviewed before paid access is activated. Contact info@stratiuminsights.com with a withdrawal request.

13. Refunds

When paid plans are launched, cancellation of automatic renewal is intended to stop future billing and does not by itself create a contractual right to a refund for an unused part of a paid period, except where checkout states otherwise.

This does not affect statutory withdrawal rights, remedies for non-conforming digital content or services, refunds required by law, duplicate or erroneous charges, or any refund STRATIUM expressly agrees to provide.

Approved refunds will normally be returned using the original payment method where technically possible. A final refund process will be published before checkout launches.

14. Digital service conformity and complaints

If paid digital content or services are introduced, STRATIUM will provide them in conformity with the contract to the extent required by applicable consumer law.

A user may submit a complaint to info@stratiuminsights.com. Where possible, include the account email, the affected feature or plan, a description of the problem and the remedy requested. Do not include passwords or card details.

Complaints will be handled within periods required by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms limits statutory remedies concerning a lack of conformity of digital content or services.

15. Editorial nature of the content

STRATIUM publishes journalism, research, investigations, analysis, commentary and expert contributions for informational and editorial purposes.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, content is not individualized legal, investment, financial, tax, medical or other regulated professional advice. Users remain responsible for evaluating information and making their own decisions.

Analysis, forecasts, scenarios, estimates and opinions involve uncertainty and may differ between contributors. Views in an individually attributed article may be those of its author and need not represent the institutional position of STRATIUM POLICY LAB LTD.

We seek to maintain appropriate editorial standards but do not guarantee that every item will remain complete, error-free or current indefinitely. Corrections or updates may be made as editorially appropriate.

16. Intellectual property

Unless expressly stated otherwise, the Service and its content—including articles, reports, investigations, research, text, graphics, illustrations, design, databases, logos and other materials—are owned by STRATIUM, contributors or licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

If a subscription is launched, it will grant a personal, limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to access the relevant content for lawful personal or internal professional use. It does not transfer ownership.

You may link to public pages and quote or use content to the extent permitted by mandatory copyright law, including applicable quotation exceptions and required attribution.

Unless authorized by STRATIUM or permitted by law, you may not reproduce substantial parts of subscriber-only content, republish or resell it, commercially redistribute it, make it available through another paid service or systematically copy the archive.

Automated scraping, systematic extraction, creation of unauthorized datasets, or use of content to train or develop AI or machine-learning systems is prohibited unless STRATIUM has given written permission or applicable law provides a non-excludable right. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

17. Prohibited use

You must not gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems or data; bypass subscription controls; share credentials to avoid required payment; interfere with security or availability; introduce malware; make abusive automated requests; scrape or systematically extract content contrary to these Terms; impersonate another person; use stolen payment information; or violate applicable law or third-party rights.

18. Availability and maintenance

We aim to keep the Service reasonably available but do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. Access may be temporarily unavailable because of maintenance, updates, security events, infrastructure failures or circumstances outside our reasonable control.

Where practicable, we will seek to minimize material disruption. Mandatory consumer remedies remain unaffected.

19. Suspension and termination

We may restrict or suspend an account where reasonably necessary because of suspected compromise, fraud, security abuse, material breach of these Terms, unlawful activity or unauthorized distribution of subscriber content.

Where appropriate and legally required, we will provide notice and a reasonable opportunity to remedy a breach before terminating paid access. Immediate restriction may be used where needed to protect users, content, payment systems or Service security.

Nothing in this clause permits arbitrary deprivation of mandatory consumer rights or paid services.

20. Changes to the Service or these Terms

We may make reasonable changes to the Service for editorial, legal, technical, security or operational reasons. Changes to these Terms apply prospectively.

If a change materially affects an existing paid subscription, we will give reasonable notice where required and respect any mandatory consumer right to terminate. Changes required immediately by law or to address serious security risks may take effect sooner where permitted.

21. Third-party content and links

The Service may refer to or link to third-party sources, websites, documents, video players or services. A link does not imply endorsement unless expressly stated. Independent third-party services are governed by their own terms and policies.

22. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law, or limits mandatory consumer rights.

To the extent permitted by law, STRATIUM is not responsible for decisions made solely in reliance on general editorial content where the Service did not expressly undertake to provide individualized professional advice. Any limitations applying to business users will apply only where permitted by law and agreed in applicable business terms.

23. Governing law

The report proposes Polish law as the governing law for future subscription terms. The responsible service provider and its place of establishment have not yet been confirmed, so this choice remains subject to verification before a paid contract is offered.

Any future choice of law will not deprive a consumer of mandatory protections available under applicable conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be brought before courts having jurisdiction under applicable law; consumers will not be required to sue in a court that lacks mandatory jurisdiction.

24. Complaints and alternative dispute resolution

We encourage users to contact info@stratiuminsights.com first so that a Service or subscription complaint can be reviewed directly.

Where applicable after an unresolved consumer complaint, information about available out-of-court dispute-resolution mechanisms and any participation requirement will be provided as required by law. We do not include references to the discontinued EU ODR platform.

25. Contact

For legal notices, complaints, withdrawal requests and privacy matters, contact legal@stratiuminsights.com; for general enquiries, contact info@stratiuminsights.com; for account and subscription support, contact support@stratiuminsights.com. These mailboxes are monitored. The company postal address and registration numbers will be added when available.

Optional author alerts

Following an author is a separate optional request for publication alerts. Alerts are sent to the verified address on your account in its selected email language. You can unfollow at any time in your account; this stops future alerts and cancels queued messages. Author alerts are separate from the newsletter.

Contact channels

General enquiries: info@stratiuminsights.com. Legal notices and privacy requests: legal@stratiuminsights.com. Account and service support: support@stratiuminsights.com. These mailboxes are monitored service contacts. Do not send passwords, authentication codes or full payment-card details by email. The service is identified on this website as STRATIUM POLICY LAB LTD; its postal address and registration numbers will be added when available.