Terms and Conditions

1. Who we are, and what this document is

1.1 The AXIOM New Energy Wire (the Wire) is published by Colibri Holdings Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 09741137, whose registered office is at 71 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BE, United Kingdom. Our VAT registration number is GB271861001. In this document "we", "us" and "our" mean Colibri Holdings Ltd. Full details are in Schedule 4.

1.2 "AXIOM" is a brand, not a company. AXIOM, AXIOM Venture Capital and the AXIOM New Energy Wire are brand and product names under which Colibri Holdings Ltd publishes. They are not separate legal entities, they are not registered trading names, and no company of that name is a party to these Terms. Your agreement for use and provision of the Wire is with Colibri Holdings Ltd. For purchases through Stripe Managed Payments, Link is the merchant of record for the transaction, under the purchase terms shown at Checkout. Colibri remains the publisher and provides the Wire and reader support.

1.3 These Terms govern your use of the Wire. A verified free account opens the news wire, desk and calendar. Company and project research requires a paid subscription or an invitation that includes it. The front page, these Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Editorial Standards are open to everyone. By using any part of the Wire you agree to sections 1 to 9 and to Schedule 1.

1.4 Sections 10 to 14, and Schedules 2 and 3, apply to people who buy a Subscription. They were written before the Wire was sold, rather than at the moment money first changed hands, so that the basis of sale was visible in advance. A paid plan is offered; it is set out in Schedule 3, which is the only place a price may be stated. An invited reader who pays nothing is not a subscriber, and Part Two does not apply to them.

1.5 Please read section 7 (what we do not promise) and section 8 (limits on our liability). Those two change what you can expect and what you can claim.

2. Definitions

3. Using the Wire

3.1 You may read the Wire, search it, follow its links, and quote from it with attribution as fair dealing and ordinary practice allow.

3.2 You must not use the Wire in the ways set out in Schedule 1 (Acceptable Use). In particular you must not scrape it, republish it wholesale, or use it to train a model — see 4.4.

3.3 The Wire is provided for information. It is not advice of any kind. See clause 7.5.

4. The Content, and what you may do with it

4.1 The Wire's own writing, its register, and the selection and arrangement of what it publishes are ours or our licensors'. Where material originates with a source, the rights in it remain with that source and we link and attribute accordingly.

4.2 You may quote short extracts with attribution and a link. You may not reproduce the Wire substantially, or systematically extract its register or archive, whether by hand or by machine.

4.3 Where you send us feedback or a correction, you allow us to use it to improve the Wire. We do not claim ownership of what you send.

4.4 Text and data mining. We expressly reserve our rights under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and the corresponding UK provisions. The Wire may not be used to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning model, and no general-purpose crawl permission is granted by the absence of a technical block.

5. Source material and third-party rights

5.1 The Wire reports on what its sources publish and links to them. Part 3 of the Standards sets out the position, including the parts of it that are unresolved. We do not hide that.

5.2 What we take, and how much. A headline and a link is settled practice. A short summary of what a source reported is the step past that, and it is the step the Wire takes on every story — in the UK the question is whether a summary reproduces the source's expression or restates its facts; in the EU, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 gives press publishers a right with a carve-out only for very short extracts. What we do to keep it fair: summaries stay short, they are never a substitute for the source, we always link and attribute, and we honour takedowns quickly. Where a dataset or register carries licence conditions we carry the attribution it requires.

5.3 Takedown and right of reply. If you hold rights in material used on the Wire and object, write to hello@axiom.vc with the URL. We acknowledge within 2 working days and decide within 5, same day where the position is clear, and we would rather over-remove and discuss it than argue while the material stays up.

6. Corrections, complaints and editorial standards

6.1 Corrections. If something on the Wire is wrong, tell us at hello@axiom.vc and we will fix it. We aim to correct a clear factual error within one working day and to reply to every report within five working days. A correction is marked as one — the original claim is not silently overwritten, because a record that can be quietly rewritten is not a record. If we got something wrong about you or your organisation you may ask for your response to be recorded alongside it, and we will not unreasonably refuse.

6.2 How the Wire is made. It reads 191 sources — trade publications, company newsrooms, government and regulator announcements, research publications — clusters what they report, and publishes a short account of each development with a link to the source. It does not break stories or conduct interviews. Every story links to its source; we never strip a byline or present another publication's reporting as our own.

6.3 Independence. Nothing on the Wire is paid for by the people it is about. No advertising, no sponsored content, no affiliate links, and no arrangement under which coverage is bought, traded or promised.

6.4 Complaints. Acknowledged within 2 working days, answered within 10, escalated to the director if you are not satisfied. We record what was complained about and what we did, and keep that for six years. We are not a member of an approved press regulator, by decision rather than oversight. Complaints are handled by us, as set out above, and your legal rights are unaffected.

6.5 Accessibility. The Wire is dense, text-first, semantic HTML that works with a keyboard and does not depend on colour alone. We claim no conformance level: no independent audit has been carried out, and an unverified claim would be worth less than saying nothing. Tell us about a barrier at hello@axiom.vc and we treat it as a defect, not a feature request.

6.6 Security. The site is served over HTTPS with a content security policy and strict transport security. There are no passwords and we hold no payment data. Signing in is a single-use link sent to your address, and what we keep is the hash of that link and of the session it becomes, never the credential itself — so a copy of our store is not a copy of anybody's access. Card details are typed on the payment processor's own page and never reach us. What we do hold about a subscriber is their email address, which plan they are on and when it renews; the Privacy Policy sets out the whole of it. Operator access is verified server-side. We hold no security certification. Report a problem to hello@axiom.vc; we acknowledge within 2 working days and will not threaten you for reporting one in good faith.

7. What we do not promise

7.1 The Wire is provided "as is". We do not warrant that it is complete, accurate, current, uninterrupted or error-free, and we do not warrant that any particular development will be covered.

7.2 We do not promise that the Wire will remain available, that any story or register entry will remain published, or that its structure will not change. We will not, however, quietly rewrite the published record: see Part 1 of the Standards.

7.3 Nothing here excludes a term the law does not allow us to exclude.

7.4 Machine-written, human-responsible. Parts of the Wire are drafted and checked by a large language model from published source material; the provider is DeepSeek. The model is not permitted to introduce a fact that is not in that material, and a claim that cannot be traced to a source does not publish. A person is responsible for all of it — "the model did it" is not a defence available to us and we do not offer one. What goes to the provider, and what never does, is in the Privacy Policy.

7.5 Not advice. Nothing on the Wire is investment, legal or regulatory advice. The energy sector runs on subsidy regimes, grid codes, sanctions and trade measures that differ by jurisdiction and change often; a description of a scheme here is a summary of what was reported, not a statement of your obligations. A capacity, price or date is what a source reported at the time — projects change, and a figure on the Wire is a record of a report, not a measurement we took.

8. Our liability

8.1 Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

8.2 Subject to 8.1, we are not liable for any decision you take on the basis of the Wire. The Wire reports what others have published; acting on it is your judgement, and section 7 and Part 5 of the Standards say why that matters here in particular.

8.3 Subject to 8.1, and where you are not a consumer, we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.

8.4 Subject to 8.1, our total liability to you arising out of your use of the Wire is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and (b) £100. Where the Wire is free to you, (b) applies.

9. Changes, law and general

9.1 Changes. We may change these Terms. The version and date at the top change with them. Where a change materially affects you, we will say so on the Wire rather than relying on you to re-read this page. Continuing to use the Wire after a change means you accept it; if you do not, stop using the Wire.

9.2 Law and jurisdiction. These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction — except that a consumer may bring proceedings in the courts of the country in which they live, and the mandatory consumer-protection law of that country continues to apply to them.

9.3 If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stands.

9.4 A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to enforce them.

PART TWO — SUBSCRIPTIONS

Sections 10 to 14 and Schedules 2 and 3 apply to subscribers. They take effect for a person when that person buys a Subscription, and Schedule 3 — which lists the plan — is the only place a plan or a price is a term of this contract. An invited reader who pays nothing is not a subscriber and Part Two does not apply to them.

10. Subscriptions

10.1 A Subscription is a right of access for one person, granted for the period paid for and renewing until cancelled. Keys and credentials are personal and may not be shared.

10.2 The plan, the price, the billing period, any trial and the notice periods are those stated in Schedule 3 at the time of purchase, and nowhere else. A price quoted anywhere but Schedule 3 is not a term of this contract.

10.3 Sales are to businesses. See Schedule 2, which sets out that condition, how it is confirmed, and what it does and does not do.

11. Payment

11.1 Prices exclude VAT unless stated. VAT is applied where it is due, worked out from where you are and whether you are buying as a business.

11.2 New paid subscriptions use Stripe Managed Payments, with Link as merchant of record. Link handles payment, applicable indirect tax, receipts and transaction support. Colibri provides the publication, access and content support. The Schedule 3 figures are GBP base prices before tax. Checkout may offer a local currency and shows the final currency, conversion and tax before you confirm; your Link receipt records the transaction. We do not see or store your full card details. You can manage the subscription through the Wire or Link. These arrangements do not remove your statutory rights.

11.3 If a payment fails we may suspend access until it succeeds, and may then end the Subscription.

12. Renewal and cancellation

12.1 A Subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the price then stated in Schedule 3, until cancelled.

12.2 We will send a reminder before a trial becomes a charge, at least 3 days ahead, and before each annual renewal, at least 30 days ahead. Each reminder will state the amount, the date and a route to cancel.

12.3 Cancelling will be one action in your account, or one email. We will never require a phone call, a chat session, or a reason.

12.4 A price rise takes effect only at a renewal and only on 30 days' notice, and you may cancel instead of accepting it.

13. Ending a Subscription

13.1 You may cancel at any time, effective at the end of the period you have paid for.

13.2 We may end a Subscription for a material breach of these Terms or of Schedule 1, or where 11.3 applies. Where we end it for any other reason, we refund the unused part of the period.

14. Our liability to subscribers

Section 8 applies. Where you have paid us, 8.4(a) will usually be the higher figure and is the cap that applies.

Schedule 1 — Acceptable Use

This Schedule applies to everyone who uses the Wire, paid or not.

1. You must not

• Scrape, crawl or systematically download the Wire, its register or its archive, by any automated means, beyond ordinary reading and ordinary search-engine indexing.
• Use the Wire, or anything taken from it, to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning model.
• Republish the Wire substantially, or present its writing as your own.
• Resell access, or share your access key or sign-in link with anyone. They are personal, and one is a credential to the whole Wire.
• Attempt to gain access to any part of the Wire, the relay or the repository that is not public, or to probe, scan or test their security without our written permission — other than a good-faith report under Part 8 of the Standards, which is welcome.
• Interfere with the Wire's availability, or impose an unreasonable load on it.
• Use the Wire unlawfully, or to infringe anyone's rights.
• Remove or obscure an attribution, a byline or a licence notice.

2. Reporting abuse

hello@axiom.vc.

3. If you breach this Schedule

We may block access, and where a Subscription exists, suspend or end it under section 13. Where a breach is inadvertent and stops when we ask, that is ordinarily the end of it.

Schedule 2 — Who the Wire is sold to, and what follows

This Schedule takes effect with these Terms, Schedule 3 having listed a plan. It was written before the Wire was sold so that the basis of sale was visible in advance.

1. Sold to businesses, not to consumers

1.1 If and when Subscriptions are offered, they will be offered and sold only to businesses — to people buying in the course of a trade, business, craft or profession, and to organisations. The Wire is not built or priced for personal use.

1.2 By subscribing, you confirm that you are buying for business purposes and accept these Terms. The Privacy Policy explains how we use your information. Checkout collects acceptance of the Terms on Stripe’s payment page. The Terms version presented and Stripe’s record of acceptance are retained. We do not ask for separate confirmations on the pricing page.

1.3 If you are not buying for business purposes, do not buy a Subscription. Write to hello@axiom.vc and we will tell you whether there is anything we can offer you.

1.4 If we learn that a Subscription was bought by a consumer, we may end it under section 13 and refund the unused part of the period. We would rather do that than hold someone to a contract that was not written for them.

2. If you are a consumer anyway, your rights are untouched

2.1 Whether someone is a consumer is decided by what they are actually buying for, not by what a contract calls them. Section 2(3) of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 defines a consumer as an individual acting wholly or mainly outside their trade, business, craft or profession, and no term of any contract can change that, including clause 1 of this Schedule.

2.2 So this is said plainly: if you are in fact a consumer, you keep every right the law gives you, in full, and nothing in these Terms removes or reduces any of them. That is true regardless of any business-purpose statement, and whether or not we knew. Accepting these Terms does not by itself waive your statutory cancellation rights.

2.3 In particular, and without limiting 2.2, if you are a consumer:

• the Wire must be of satisfactory quality, fit for a purpose you told us about before you bought, and as described. Clause 7 of these Terms does not apply to you to the extent it would exclude that;
• you have the right to cancel within 14 days of the contract being formed, without giving a reason. If you asked for access to begin at once and acknowledged what that costs, we may charge a proportionate amount for what you used, and the right is lost in respect of digital content already supplied;
• clause 8.3 does not apply to you;
• you may bring proceedings where you live, and use the dispute resolution routes available there. We are not a member of an alternative dispute resolution scheme and do not use one, which we are not required to be and tell you here because that is the requirement.

Guidance is available from Citizens Advice (citizensadvice.org.uk, 0808 223 1133).

3. Reminders and cancellation apply to everyone

Clauses 12.2 to 12.4 are not concessions to consumer law. They apply to every subscriber, business or not, because that is how we think a subscription should behave.

Schedule 3 — Plans and prices

In force with these Terms — see the date at the head of this document. This Schedule is the only place a plan or a price is a term of this contract. A figure quoted anywhere else — a page of the Wire, an email, a Stripe receipt — describes what is below; where they differ, this Schedule governs.

The plans

A Free account (£0) includes the news wire, desk and calendar, with no payment card required. It does not start a paid subscription.

The paid plan is New Energy Wire — one reader. It is a right of access for one person (clause 10.1) and it is sold to businesses (Schedule 2).

VAT is added where it is due, worked out from where you are and whether you are buying as a business (clause 11.1). A business outside the United Kingdom with a valid VAT number may enter it at checkout.

What the reminders say, and when

Under clause 12.2 you will be sent a reminder at least 3 days before the trial becomes a charge, and at least 30 days before each annual renewal. Each one states the amount, the date and how to cancel. A monthly subscription is not reminded before each monthly renewal: its period is shorter than that notice, and a reminder sent 30 days before a renewal one month away would arrive the day after the last payment.

Schedule 4 — Legal and company information

Who publishes the Wire

AXIOM is a brand of Colibri Holdings Ltd, not a company. See clause 1.2.

Regulatory position

We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and we do not provide regulated financial services. See Part 5 of the Standards.

We are not a member of an approved press regulator, by decision rather than oversight.

The other documents

• Privacy and Cookie Policy — what we do and do not collect

How to reach us

hello@axiom.vc reaches us for everything: corrections, complaints, rights in material, accessibility barriers, security reports and data protection requests. There is one address on purpose — a contact page that routes you into a queue is a way of not being reached.