3thought.
Terms and Conditions.
1Introduction
3thought is a digital publication operated by 3thought Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17130105, with its registered office at Suite RA01, 195-197 Wood Street, London, E17 3NU. The 3thought website is located at 3thought.net.
These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your subscription to and use of 3thought. Please read them carefully before subscribing. By subscribing to 3thought, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not subscribe.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Any updates will apply from the date they are published on our website. Where changes materially affect existing subscriptions, we will notify subscribers by email in advance.
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, set out the entire agreement between you and us relating to your subscription. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any liability for fraud, or for fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation.
2What 3thought is
3thought is a subscription-based digital publication. Subscribers receive a fixed sequence of 24 articles delivered electronically over a 12-month period, by email.
Articles are intended to provide reflective, educational and practical tools relating to thinking, communication, perspective and decision-making.
Delivery schedules are approximate and may occasionally vary. We aim to deliver articles in the sequence in which they are designed to be read.
If you subscribe after the publication’s initial launch, your sequence will begin from article one and run for 12 months from your subscription start date. You will not receive articles already delivered to earlier subscribers in advance of your subscription.
3Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old to subscribe. By subscribing, you confirm that you meet this requirement and that all information you provide is accurate and complete.
4Subscription tiers and pricing
3thought is available at the following tiers, as shown on our website at the time of purchase:
- Member — a rolling monthly subscription
- Founder — a one-year subscription at a fixed founder rate
Both tiers provide access to the same 24 articles. There is no recurring subscription beyond monthly, and no lifetime access tier. Subscription prices are confirmed at the checkout stage.
We may change subscription prices from time to time. Any price changes will apply only to future billing periods. We will give reasonable notice before any changes take effect and they will not affect confirmed fixed-term subscriptions already in place.
Despite our best efforts, pricing errors on our website may occasionally occur. If the correct price is lower than shown, we will charge the lower amount. If the correct price is higher, we will notify you and ask whether you wish to proceed.
5Payment
Payment is taken securely through our payment provider at the point of subscription. We accept payment by credit and debit card.
Member subscriptions renew automatically each month unless cancelled before the next renewal date. The Founder subscription is a one-off, fixed-term payment taken in full at the point of subscription, and does not auto-renew.
If payment cannot be collected on a monthly subscription, we may pause access to future content until payment is successfully received.
6Free trial, cancellation and refund policy
Free trial
A free trial is available on the Member plan. On subscribing to the Member plan, you will receive the first two articles without charge. A valid payment card must be provided at the point of subscription, and billing will begin automatically from article three unless you cancel before that point.
The Founder plan does not include a free trial. The Founder payment is taken in full at the point of subscription, and Founder subscribers receive immediate access to the publication.
The free trial exists to allow Member subscribers to assess 3thought before billing begins. We encourage you to use this period to decide whether the subscription is right for you.
Cancellation during the free trial
You may cancel at any time during the free trial period without charge and without providing a reason. No payment will be taken if you cancel before billing begins.
UK statutory cancellation rights
Under UK consumer law, you have the right to cancel a digital purchase within 14 days of subscribing. We do not ask you to waive this right. If you cancel within 14 days of subscribing, we will refund any payment taken from you during that period.
Member subscriptions — cancellation after the free trial
Member subscribers may cancel at any time after the free trial period. Cancellation will stop future monthly charges. No refund will be issued in respect of any monthly billing period already paid for.
Founder subscriptions — cancellation
Founder subscriptions are charged in full at the point of subscription. You keep your statutory 14-day cancellation right: if you cancel within 14 days of subscribing, we will refund your payment in full.
After the 14-day cancellation period, the Founder payment is non-refundable. If you cancel after that point, your access will continue until the end of your 12-month subscription period, and no refund will be issued in respect of any unused portion of the subscription, regardless of how much of the subscription period remains.
Force Majeure refunds
Notwithstanding the above, if a Force Majeure Event (as described in section 14) prevents us from delivering the service for more than 30 days, any unused portion of a paid Founder subscription will be refunded on a pro-rata basis in accordance with section 14.
Statutory rights
Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory consumer rights. Where mandatory consumer protection laws in your jurisdiction entitle you to a refund or cancellation right, those rights take precedence over these Terms to the extent required by law. Advice about your rights is available from Citizens Advice or your local Trading Standards office.
How to cancel
To cancel, please use the cancellation method provided on our website or contact us at the address in section 19. We will confirm your cancellation in writing.
7Intellectual property and licence to use
All content provided through 3thought, including articles, text, branding, graphics and other materials, is the intellectual property of 3thought Ltd unless otherwise stated. No ownership rights are transferred to you.
All intellectual property rights in and relating to 3thought, including copyright, database rights, trademarks, trade names, branding, goodwill, know-how, content, compilations, article structures, formats and all related proprietary rights, whether registered or unregistered, remain the exclusive property of 3thought Ltd or its licensors. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership rights to you.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use 3thought solely for your personal, non-commercial use during your subscription period.
You must not attempt to circumvent, disable, defeat or otherwise interfere with any technical measures, subscription controls, access restrictions or content-protection mechanisms used by 3thought.
Subscriptions are for personal, individual use only. You may not reproduce, republish, redistribute, commercially exploit, systematically share or otherwise use paid content without prior written permission. In particular, you may not:
- use any 3thought content, whether in whole or in part, to train, fine-tune, prompt, test, evaluate, develop, improve, populate, benchmark or support any artificial intelligence system, machine-learning model, large language model, chatbot, retrieval-augmented generation system, vector database, embedding system, synthetic data generation system, autonomous agent, internal knowledge tool, prompt library, database or similar technology, whether commercial or non-commercial;
- scrape, extract, harvest or systematically collect content or data from 3thought;
- reproduce or compile content into any database, archive or derivative publication; or
- use automated tools, bots or scripts to access or extract content.
You may not forward, circulate, upload, reproduce, publish or otherwise make 3thought content available to colleagues, employees, contractors, clients, teams, groups, organisations, internal platforms, intranets, shared drives, messaging channels, databases or knowledge-management systems without our prior written permission.
Reasonable quotation and sharing of brief extracts for non-commercial purposes, with appropriate attribution, is permitted.
We reserve the right to investigate any suspected breach of this section and may take reasonable steps to verify compliance with these Terms. Where we reasonably suspect unauthorised sharing, redistribution, automated extraction or other misuse of content, we may suspend access while investigating the matter.
You acknowledge that a breach of this section may cause harm to 3thought Ltd that cannot adequately be compensated by damages alone. Accordingly, we shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief, equitable relief or other appropriate remedies in addition to any other rights or remedies available at law.
Unauthorised redistribution or commercial use of paid content may result in immediate suspension or termination of your subscription and may lead to legal enforcement action where appropriate.
8Corporate subscriptions
Organisations wishing to subscribe on behalf of multiple individuals should contact us to discuss corporate subscription arrangements. Corporate access is subject to separate terms agreed in writing.
Individual subscriptions are for the personal use of a single named subscriber only. Subscription credentials, access rights and content may not be shared, transferred or made available to any other individual.
Any use of 3thought content within an organisation, team, workplace, client group, educational institution, internal learning environment, intranet, shared knowledge system or similar setting requires a separate corporate subscription or written licence from us.
Individual subscription credentials may not be shared across multiple users. Sharing of login details, subscription access or paid content beyond the individual subscriber constitutes a material breach of these Terms.
Where we reasonably believe that an individual subscription is being used by multiple individuals, or that content is being distributed within an organisation beyond the permitted scope of an individual subscription, we reserve the right to require the subscriber to migrate to an appropriate corporate subscription arrangement or to suspend access pending resolution.
Nothing in this section prevents reasonable personal use of the content by the subscriber in accordance with the licence granted under these Terms.
9Affiliate arrangements
3thought operates a referral programme through which subscribers may recommend 3thought to others and receive a commission on resulting subscriptions. Referral arrangements are tracked via our affiliate partner.
Where content promoting 3thought is published through the referral programme, this constitutes a commercial relationship and is disclosed in accordance with applicable advertising regulations.
Participation in the referral programme is voluntary and subject to separate terms provided at the point of enrolment.
10Educational content disclaimer
3thought is intended for educational, informational and reflective purposes only. It is not therapy, counselling, psychiatric treatment, medical advice or any form of healthcare service.
Nothing in 3thought should be treated as professional medical, psychological, financial or legal advice. If you require such support, please seek advice from an appropriately qualified professional.
We take reasonable care over the accuracy and quality of the articles, and nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer. Beyond those rights, the content is general reflective material rather than tailored advice, and you use it at your own discretion.
You remain solely responsible for your own decisions, actions and outcomes arising from your interpretation or application of any content provided through 3thought. We do not guarantee any particular personal, professional, emotional, financial or psychological outcome from use of the publication.
All views and opinions expressed in 3thought are those of the author alone and do not represent the views of any organisation, employer, client or affiliated body.
11Availability of the service
We aim to provide reliable and uninterrupted access to 3thought, but we do not guarantee that the service will always be available or error-free. We are not responsible for delivery failures caused by:
- spam or junk filters intercepting emails;
- incorrect email addresses provided by subscribers;
- internet service provider issues;
- third-party platform outages.
In the unlikely event that you are not satisfied with the service, please contact us as soon as reasonably possible. We will use every reasonable effort to address any problem promptly.
12Termination
We may suspend or terminate your subscription with immediate effect by written notice if:
- payment is not received when due;
- you materially breach these Terms and fail to remedy the breach within 14 days of written notice from us;
- we reasonably believe the service is being misused, including through unauthorised sharing, redistribution, scraping, attempts to circumvent payment or access controls, or other misuse of content.
You may cancel your subscription at any time in accordance with section 6 above.
You may also terminate with immediate effect by written notice if we materially breach these Terms and fail to remedy the breach within 14 days of written notice from you.
Termination of your subscription shall not affect any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities that have accrued prior to termination.
Sections 7 (Intellectual property and licence to use), 9 (Affiliate arrangements), 10 (Educational content disclaimer), 13 (Limitation of liability), 15 (Assignment and third parties) and 18 (Governing law), together with any provisions which by their nature are intended to survive termination, shall continue in force after termination or expiry of your subscription.
13Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
- death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
- any other liability that cannot legally be excluded under English law.
Subject to the above, we shall not be liable for indirect or consequential losses, loss of profits, loss of business opportunity, or loss arising from reliance on personal interpretations or applications of the content.
Our total liability to you arising from your subscription shall not exceed the total amount paid by you to us in the 12 months preceding the claim.
14Circumstances beyond our control
We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including internet or telecommunications failures, platform outages, natural disasters, industrial disputes, epidemic, pandemic, government action, or other major disruptions (“Force Majeure Events”).
If a Force Majeure Event affects our ability to perform, we will notify you as soon as reasonably practicable and our obligations will be suspended for the duration of the event.
If a Force Majeure Event continues for more than 30 days, either party may cancel the contract. Any unused portion of a paid Founder subscription will be refunded on a pro-rata basis in such circumstances. Member subscribers will not be charged for any period during which the service is suspended.
15Assignment and third parties
We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms to another person, for example in the event of a business sale or restructuring. We will notify you in writing if any such assignment takes place.
You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms to any other person without our prior written consent.
These Terms are between you and us only. No third party shall have any right to enforce any provision of these Terms.
16General
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be severed from the rest of these Terms, which will continue in full force and effect.
Our failure to enforce any right under these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right. Any waiver must be given in writing.
Notices to us should be sent by email or post to the address in section 19. Notices to you will be sent to the email address you provided on subscription.
17Privacy
Your use of 3thought is governed by our Privacy Policy, which can be found at 3thought.net/privacy. Please read it carefully.
18Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
19Contact
For questions about these Terms, cancellations, or any other matter relating to your subscription, please contact:
3thought Ltd
Suite RA01, 195-197 Wood Street, London, E17 3NU
Email: support@3thought.net
Website: 3thought.net
Appendix — Form of cancellation
Complete and return this form only if you wish to cancel your 3thought subscription.
To: 3thought Ltd, Suite RA01, 195-197 Wood Street, London, E17 3NU, support@3thought.net
I/We hereby give notice that I/we cancel my/our subscription to 3thought.
Subscription start date: _______________________________
Name: _______________________________
Address: _______________________________
Email address used to subscribe: _______________________________
Signature (if submitted on paper): _______________________________
Date: _______________________________