Terms
These terms cover reading Future Systems Review, subscribing to it and sponsoring its brief. They are written to be read. If anything is unclear, write to subscriptions@futuresystemsreview.com.
Who we are and other information South African law requires us to give you
Future Systems Review (futuresystemsreview.com) is published by Abraxas Technologies (Pty) Ltd. Our physical address is 50 Long St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa. Abraxas Technologies (Pty) Ltd is a private company registered in South Africa with registration number K2025597811. You can call us on +27 63 874 5569 or email subscriptions@futuresystemsreview.com. We are not a member of any self-regulatory or accreditation body. In these terms, “we” means Abraxas Technologies (Pty) Ltd and “you” means the reader, subscriber or sponsor.
Complaints
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What we publish is reporting and analysis. It is not investment, legal or tax advice, and it is never a recommendation to buy or sell anything. How we decide what counts as established, contested or asserted is set out on our method page; corrections are listed on our corrections page.
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Paid subscriptions
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- Price. The price is the one shown on the subscribe page when you subscribe, in US dollars, plus any sales tax or VAT that applies where you live.
- Renewal. Monthly plans renew every month and annual plans every year, on the same date, until you cancel. We email you 7 days before an annual plan renews.
- Your South African cooling-off right (ECTA). If you are a consumer under the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, you have the right to cancel this subscription within seven (7) days after you subscribe, without any reason and without penalty. However, because the service gives you immediate access to our content, you will lose this right if you start using the paid content during those seven days. If you wish to keep the cooling-off right, please do not access the paid content until after the seven days have passed. To cancel, email subscriptions@futuresystemsreview.com and we will refund all payments made.
- EU and UK consumer withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the law normally provides a 14-day right to withdraw from a distance contract. However, for digital content that is made available immediately, that right does not apply once you begin using it. By subscribing, you agree that we start supplying the digital content at once and you acknowledge that you lose the statutory withdrawal right. Despite this, as a customer-friendly measure, we give EU and UK consumers an additional cancellation right: you may cancel within 14 days of purchase and receive a refund for the unused portion of your subscription (calculated pro-rata).
- Our voluntary refund policy and cancelling. Outside the cooling-off and additional EU/UK rights above, we offer
the following refunds:
- Annual plans: if you cancel within the first 30 days, we refund the unused part. After 30 days, no refund is given.
- Monthly plans: we do not refund the month already started.
- Founding-price plans: the same rules apply.
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- Price changes. A new price applies only from your next renewal, and we tell you at least 30 days before.
Teams, institutions and licences
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Sponsoring the brief
- What you buy. One clearly labelled sponsor message in the free edition of the daily brief, Monday to Friday, for the weeks you book. Subscribers who pay for the full brief do not see sponsor messages. Each title opens to sponsors once its brief reaches 5,000 confirmed readers.
- Price. $70 for every thousand confirmed readers per morning, with a minimum of $1,500 per title per week, fixed when you book and shown on your invoice, plus any sales tax or VAT.
- Booking. Weeks start on a Monday, at least 14 days ahead and no more than 26 weeks ahead. Only one sponsor appears in a title’s brief in any week.
- Payment. Abraxas Technologies (Pty) Ltd invoices each booking. A booking is confirmed once it is paid. If it is still unpaid 3 days before its week begins, the week is released and the invoice is cancelled; nothing is then owed.
- Cancelling. You can cancel a booking at no charge from your sponsor page up to 14 days before its week starts. If you have already paid, the publisher reviews the refund and we tell you when it is made. Later cancellations are by request.
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- Editorial independence. Sponsors never see, shape or approve what we report, and are treated exactly like any other company in our coverage. If a story that morning is about you, your message is held back that day and we agree a replacement day with you. Companies that share our ownership cannot buy sponsorship.
- Public record. Every sponsorship that runs is listed, by company and week, on our ownership and interests page.
- Closing your account. You can close your sponsor account at any time from your sponsor page. Bookings that can still be cancelled are cancelled; bookings about to run still run.
Using what we publish
Our articles, evidence tables and brief are for your own reading. Quoting a short passage with a link to us is welcome. Republishing, reselling, bulk copying or using our content to train software needs a licence; ask subscriptions@futuresystemsreview.com.
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Our responsibility
We work hard to be accurate and we publish corrections when we are wrong, but we cannot promise that everything we publish is complete or free of error, and we are not responsible for decisions you make based on it. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the consumer law of the place you live.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa, and the courts of South Africa have jurisdiction over any dispute about them. If you are a consumer living in another country, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of that country, and you may also bring a claim in the courts where you live.
Changes and contact
If we change these terms we will post the new version here and, for subscribers and sponsors, tell you by email before it applies. Questions about subscriptions or sponsorship: subscriptions@futuresystemsreview.com. Corrections: corrections@futuresystemsreview.com. Letters to the editor: letters@futuresystemsreview.com. Abraxas Technologies (Pty) Ltd, 50 Long St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa.
Last updated 21 October 2026.