Terms of Service

Agreement to these terms

These terms govern your use of budgyapp.com and any newsletter, alert or feed Budgy App publishes from it. By using the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, the remedy is simple and free: do not use the site. They are written in plain language on purpose.

Who we are

Budgy App is an independently owned and operated news publisher with an international, English-language readership and no home country. We cover world news, business, technology, science, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, auto and gaming. Our editorial policies and our ownership and funding are described on their own pages, which are a promise to readers rather than part of this legal agreement.

Using the site

You may read, link to and share our articles for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may quote short passages with attribution to Budgy App and a link to the original. You may not reproduce whole articles, systematically copy or scrape the site, or republish our content elsewhere without our written permission. Search engines indexing the site in the ordinary way are fine; bulk collection is not.

You agree not to interfere with the operation of the site, probe or breach its security, impersonate others or use the site for any unlawful purpose. We may block any source that we believe is abusing the site, without notice.

Our content and intellectual property

The articles, headlines, photographs, graphics, design and code of this site belong to Budgy App or to the licensors who have allowed us to use them. The name Budgy App and the site’s visual identity are ours, and using them to suggest we endorsed or produced something we did not is not permitted. Public documents we reproduce remain what they are; our presentation of them is ours.

What you send us

When you send us a tip, a letter, a document, a photograph or any other material, you keep the copyright in it. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to publish, edit, excerpt and archive it in connection with our journalism, in any format, with or without attribution as you and we agree. You confirm that you have the right to send it and that publishing it will not infringe anyone else’s rights.

We are not obliged to publish anything you send, and we do not accept submitted articles, so a draft sent to us will not be used as a story. Material sent in confidence is handled under the rules on our contact page, which take priority over this section where they conflict.

Comments and public contributions

If comments or other public contributions are enabled on the site, you are responsible for what you post. We may remove anything that is unlawful, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory, spam or simply off the subject, and we may bar people who repeatedly post such material. We do not pre-screen contributions and we are not their publisher.

Advertising

Advertisements on the site are labelled and are served through a third-party advertising network. We do not publish sponsored content, paid articles or paid links. We are not a party to any transaction between you and an advertiser, and we make no promises about advertisers’ products or services. The rules for what advertising we accept are on our advertise page.

Links to other sites

Our stories link to source documents, official sites, records and other material where it helps you check our work. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or privacy practices. A link is a citation, not an endorsement.

The limits of what we can promise

We work to be accurate and we correct errors quickly, as our corrections policy describes. But news is produced under time pressure, and prices, schedules, scores, laws and products all change after publication. Nothing on the site is financial, legal, medical, travel, purchasing or other professional advice, and nothing on it creates a professional relationship between you and us.

The site is provided as it is and as it is available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability. Our disclaimer page says more.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Budgy App and the people who work on it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything published on it, including lost profits, trading losses, lost data, missed travel or business interruption. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us to use the site, which is nothing. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, and in those places these limits apply only as far as the law permits.

Indemnity

If you send us material that infringes someone’s rights, or use the site in a way that breaks these terms and causes a claim against us, you agree to cover the costs and damages that result, including reasonable legal fees.

Copyright complaints

If you believe material on the site infringes your copyright, follow the process on our DMCA page. It sets out what a notice must contain and what happens next, and we apply it to valid notices under equivalent laws in any country.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the publisher of Budgy App is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes arising from them will be brought in the courts of that jurisdiction. We confirm which jurisdiction that is, together with our registered details, in writing to anyone with a legitimate need to know; write to support@budgyapp.com with LEGAL in the subject line. If you are a consumer in a place whose law gives you the right to bring a claim where you live, nothing here removes that right. Before filing anything, write to us; most disputes about a news site are corrections in disguise.

Changes, termination and general terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of the page changes when we do, and a material change is announced on the site before it takes effect. Continuing to use the site after that date means you accept the updated terms. We may suspend or end access to the site, or any part of it, at any time.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the privacy policy and cookie policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the site.

Last updated: September 2026