Effective 15 September 2026
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and SOFX Inc. (“SOFX”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) governing your use of sofx.com, The SOFX Report, SOFX PRO, and the related services we provide through them (together, the “Services”). By accessing or using the Services, subscribing to the newsletter, posting a comment, or purchasing a membership, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
Other SOFX services, including SOFX Gear, SOFX.NET, and SOFX Recruiting, operate on their own domains and are governed by the terms published there. Where these Terms and those terms overlap, the terms published on the service’s own site govern your use of that service.
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to purchase a SOFX PRO membership, create an account, or post comments. By using the Services you represent that you meet this requirement and that you are not barred from using them under applicable law.
SOFX publishes reporting and analysis on armed conflict, defense and aerospace, security and statecraft, and related technology. The Services include the free daily newsletter (The SOFX Report), a paid membership edition (SOFX PRO), the sofx.com website and its reader comments, and the Job Board. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Services at any time. Where a change materially reduces what a paid membership includes, we will tell members in advance.
Some parts of the Services, such as commenting and SOFX PRO, require an account. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep your credentials secure, and to be responsible for all activity under your account. Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you believe your account has been used without your permission. We may refuse, suspend, or close accounts at our discretion, including accounts created with false information or used in breach of these Terms.
Authorization. By purchasing a membership you authorize SOFX and our payment processor, Stripe, to charge your payment method for the then-current fee and applicable taxes. Memberships are sold and managed through our newsletter platform, beehiiv, and its payment terms also apply.
Automatic renewal. Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period, monthly or annual, at the then-current price, until you cancel. By subscribing you give affirmative consent to automatic renewal and to the charges it involves.
Price changes. We may change membership prices. We will notify you before a change takes effect, and the new price applies from your next billing period. Continuing your membership after notice means you accept the new price.
Taxes. Prices exclude taxes unless stated. You are responsible for any sales, use, VAT, or similar taxes that apply.
Promotional offers. Trials, discounts, and founding-member offers are subject to the terms stated with the offer and may be withdrawn at any time. Unless the offer says otherwise, a trial converts to a paid membership at the standard price when it ends.
How to cancel. You may cancel at any time from the manage-subscription link in any PRO edition, from your account page on our newsletter platform, or by emailing [email protected]. Cancellation stops the next renewal.
Effect of cancellation. You keep access to SOFX PRO until the end of the period you have paid for, and you are not charged again.
Refunds. Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or stated in a specific offer. Cancellation stops future charges; it does not refund the current period.
State auto-renewal laws. If you live in a state with automatic-renewal legislation, including California, you have the cancellation rights those laws provide, and we honor them.
Our content. The Services and everything in them, including articles, newsletters, reports, analysis, images, graphics, audio, code, the SOFX name and logos, and the selection and arrangement of the content, are owned by SOFX or its licensors and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Third-party material that appears in our reporting remains the property of its owners and is used under license, with permission, or as permitted by law.
Your license. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and read our content for your own non-commercial use. You may forward individual editions of the newsletter to others for personal, non-commercial purposes, and share links to our articles. All other rights are reserved.
What you may not do. Except with our prior written permission, you may not: copy, republish, resell, or systematically redistribute our content; remove or alter attribution, notices, or labels; use our content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or prompt machine-learning or artificial-intelligence models; scrape, crawl, or use automated means to collect content or data from the Services, other than search engines indexing public pages in accordance with our robots directives; or use the SOFX name or marks in a way that suggests endorsement.
Licensing and reprints. Requests to license or reprint our content go to [email protected].
Comments on sofx.com are provided by readers and are their responsibility. By posting a comment you confirm that you have the right to post it and that it does not breach the rules below.
Rules. Do not post content that is unlawful, defamatory, threatening, harassing, or hateful; that discloses another person’s personal information; that infringes intellectual property; that contains malware, spam, or unsolicited promotion; that impersonates another person; or that reveals operational details which could endanger personnel or operations. Do not use comments to solicit or to post the same material repeatedly.
Moderation. Comments are not reviewed before they appear. We may remove or edit any comment, and restrict or close any account, at our discretion and without notice, including where a comment breaches these rules or our Editorial Policy. We are not obliged to monitor comments and do not endorse them.
License. By posting a comment you grant SOFX a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to display, reproduce, and distribute it in connection with the Services, including in the newsletter. You may delete your comments, and you may ask us to remove them by writing to [email protected]. We may retain copies as required by law or for our records.
If you send us tips, replies, survey responses, feedback, or other material, you grant SOFX a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, and publish it in connection with the Services, and you confirm you have the right to share it. We may use feedback without obligation to you. Do not send us confidential or classified material.
Essays and accounts published in War Journals and other contributed formats are published under separate agreements with their authors. The views expressed in contributed writing are those of the authors and not of SOFX.
Listings on the sofx.com Job Board are provided by employers and third parties. SOFX does not verify listings, is not a party to any application or employment relationship, and does not guarantee that a listing is current, accurate, or genuine. Applying to a listing takes you to the employer’s own site, where its terms and privacy policy apply.
SOFX Recruiting is a separate service. Applications made through it, and any information you send to it, are governed by these Terms of Use and by our Privacy Policy until SOFX Recruiting publishes its own terms.
The Services include advertising and sponsored placements, which are labeled as described in our Editorial Policy. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for their own content and offers. SOFX does not endorse advertised products or services and is not a party to any transaction between you and an advertiser.
Our reporting links to and may embed material from other sites and platforms. We do not control those sites, are not responsible for their content or practices, and provide links for information only. A link is not an endorsement. Your use of third-party sites is at your own risk and subject to their terms.
We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe material on the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] with the subject line “Copyright notice” containing: a description of the copyrighted work; the URL of the material you believe infringes it; your name, address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We will respond in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including by removing material where appropriate and, where we determine an account has repeatedly infringed, by closing it.
Content on the Services, including financial intelligence, market coverage, special reports, and analysis, is provided for general information only. It is not financial, investment, legal, security, medical, or other professional advice, and it is not a recommendation to take or refrain from any action. You are responsible for your own decisions and should consult a qualified professional where appropriate. Reporting on conflict and security is based on the sources available at the time and may be updated as our Editorial Policy describes.
In addition to the restrictions above, you agree not to: use the Services for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any applicable law; interfere with or disrupt the Services, their infrastructure, or the networks connected to them; attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Services or to other users’ accounts; circumvent access controls, paywalls, or rate limits; introduce malware or harmful code; or use the Services to harass, threaten, or harm anyone.
By subscribing or creating an account you consent to receive communications from us electronically, including the newsletter you subscribed to, service messages about your account or membership, and notices required by law. You may unsubscribe from marketing email at any time; service messages may continue while you hold an account or membership.
The Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that any content will be accurate or complete at the time you read it. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, in which case the exclusions apply to the extent permitted.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, SOFX and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms, however caused and under any theory of liability. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid SOFX in the twelve months before the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation of certain liabilities, in which case the limitations apply to the extent permitted.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SOFX and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the Services, your content, or your breach of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.
You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Services at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including breach of these Terms. Termination does not affect fees already due. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including sections 7 through 9 and 13 through 22, survive.
Governing law. These Terms and any dispute arising from them or the Services are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.
Informal resolution first. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to write to [email protected] describing the dispute and to work with us in good faith to resolve it for at least thirty days.
Arbitration. Any dispute not resolved informally will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, on an individual basis, before a single arbitrator. The arbitration will take place in Charleston County, South Carolina, or by video or telephone if you prefer, and the Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
Class-action and jury waiver. You and SOFX each waive the right to a jury trial and the right to bring or take part in any class, collective, or representative action. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity.
Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing [email protected] with the subject line “Arbitration opt-out” within thirty days of first accepting these Terms. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.
Venue. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Charleston County, South Carolina.
We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated version with a new effective date and, where a change is material, notify subscribers in The SOFX Report or by email. Continued use of the Services after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Services and, if you are a PRO member, cancel your membership.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any terms stated with a specific offer, are the entire agreement between you and SOFX regarding the Services. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the extent permitted and the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, employment, or agency relationship. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
SOFX Inc.
997 Morrison Dr., Suite 200
Charleston, SC 29403, United States
Email: [email protected]
