Newsletter and Report Terms

1. Who we are

Beefshopper is run by Fable Software LLC (“we”, “us”). The Beef Report is published under the name Beefshopper Consumer Research Foundation. Questions about these terms, your subscription or your purchase: [email protected].

2. Who can subscribe or buy

You must be at least 18 and able to make a binding agreement. The printed Beef Report is mailed to addresses in the United States only.

3. Price and payment

• The newsletter is free.
• The Beef Report is a one-time purchase: $30 for six months or $45 for 12 months, in US dollars, plus any tax that applies where you live. Six months include one report and 12 months two (the reports are six months apart). You may have up to 5 written copies of each report; the price is the same however many.
• Payment: you pay once, up front, when you buy, by card through our payment processor, Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
• It doesn’t renew. When the time you bought runs out, the Beef Report stops and nothing more is charged. You can buy more time whenever you like; it’s added to the end of the time you have.
• Price changes apply only to purchases made after we post them.

4. Stopping, and refunds

Stop the newsletter any time: on your profile page (if you subscribed while signed in) or from the link in any of our emails. The Beef Report doesn’t renew, so there’s nothing to cancel. We don’t refund a purchase, or part of one, except where the law requires it. If you think you’ve been charged in error, write to [email protected].

5. What you get

• The newsletter, free, by email, every two months, once you confirm your email address.
• The Beef Report, if you buy it: printed and mailed twice a year, the first on February 15, 2027: laboratory tests of ribeyes from the 20 top-ranked purveyors on our board at the time. You receive each report printed during the time you’ve bought, at the US mailing address we have for you when it’s printed.
• Copies: up to 5 written copies of each report, as many as you ask for, all mailed to your address. You can change the number from the link in our emails before a report is printed.
• In writing only. There is no digital edition of the Beef Report: no PDF, web page or email copy. The sample on our site has its names and scores hidden.
• Delivery: we send each report by mail and can’t control postal delays. If one hasn’t arrived 30 days after its date, write to [email protected].
• We may change the newsletter’s format, length or schedule, or the tests in the Beef Report, provided we continue to publish both. If we stop publishing the Beef Report, we’ll tell you and refund the reports you’ve paid for and not received.

6. The Beef Report is for your own use

Each printed copy of the Beef Report, however many you receive, is licensed to you for your personal, non-commercial use. It remains ours. You may read it, keep it and talk about it as section 7 allows. You may not distribute the Beef Report or reproduce it in any way, in whole or in part, in any form or medium. That includes:

• photographing, scanning, photocopying or retyping any page or any part of a page;
• posting, uploading, emailing, messaging or otherwise sharing it or any copy of it, publicly or privately;
• selling, lending, renting or giving away the report or a copy, or letting anyone else copy it;
• publishing, quoting or summarising its results, scores, tiers or test values;
• putting it, or anything taken from it, into a database, a search tool or an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning system.

7. Talking about it, including on social media

You’re welcome to mention the Beef Report and Beefshopper, on social media or anywhere else, as long as you:

1. don’t reference actual results: no scores, tiers, rankings, colours, pass or fail marks, or test values, and nothing from which they can be worked out;
2. don’t name or identify any purveyor in connection with the report or its results, whether by name, logo, product, picture or description; and
3. credit beefshopper.com as the source whenever you discuss the report.

Fine: “The new Beef Report from beefshopper.com lab-tests ribeyes from 20 purveyors for 14 things, hormone residues included. Worth it.” Not fine: naming a purveyor and its tier, saying who “failed” a test, or a photo of any page.

8. If these terms are broken

If you break section 6 or 7, we may end your newsletter subscription and your Beef Report at once without a refund, ask you to remove what you’ve posted, and use any other remedy the law allows. We may also end either if it’s used for fraud or abuse.

9. What the results are, and aren’t

The Beef Report gives laboratory results for the samples we bought and had tested at the time, by the methods it names. Other packages, batches and later products from the same purveyor may differ, and purveyors change their practices. The report is information, not a guarantee about any purveyor or product, and not medical, dietary or legal advice. Beefshopper’s scores on the website are our opinions, worked out from the evidence shown with them.

10. Our content

The Beef Report, the newsletter and the content of beefshopper.com are protected by copyright and other laws and belong to us or our licensors. Except as these terms allow, you may not copy or use them. “Beefshopper” and “Beefshopper Consumer Research Foundation” are names we use; please don’t use them in a way that suggests we endorse you.

11. Warranties and liability

We work to make the newsletter and the Beef Report accurate and to deliver them on time, but they are provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we make no other promises about them, and our total liability to you for anything relating to your subscription is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under consumer law that can’t be limited.

12. Your information

We use your email, and your mailing address if you give it, to send the newsletter, mail the Beef Report you buy, take your payment through Stripe and answer you. We never sell it. The Privacy Policy says what we collect, who handles it for us and your choices. Your private link (in our emails) lets whoever holds it change your address or unsubscribe, so keep it to yourself.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters to you, we’ll email you at least 30 days before it applies; if you don’t agree, stop the newsletter before then. A Beef Report you’ve already bought stays under the terms you bought it under. Each version is dated at the top of this page.

14. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which Fable Software LLC is organized, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. There is no arbitration clause: you may bring a claim in the courts there, or in your local courts where your consumer law allows. If any part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies.

15. Contact

[email protected]. Privacy requests: [email protected].