Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of investalternative.com (the “Site”), the Invest Alternative newsletter (the “Letter”), the guides, reports, indexes, data and any other content we publish (together, the “Content”). By using the Site or subscribing to the Letter you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site or the Letter.

1. What Invest Alternative is

Invest Alternative is a publication. We report on and analyse alternative markets: fine art, wine, collector cars, trading cards, luxury goods, NFTs, precious metals, farmland, real estate, private credit, crypto and related markets. The Content is journalism and education. It is general in nature, is not tailored to any reader, and is not investment, financial, legal, tax or accounting advice. The Disclaimer forms part of these Terms.

2. No professional relationship

Invest Alternative is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner, and nothing on the Site or in the Letter creates an adviser-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship. Any decision to buy, sell, or hold any asset is yours alone, and you should consult a licensed professional who knows your circumstances before making one.

3. Using the Content

The Content is protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws and is owned by Invest Alternative or its licensors. You may read it, print single copies for personal use, forward an issue of the Letter to a friend, and quote short excerpts with attribution and a link. You may not republish, redistribute, scrape, or sell the Content, use it to train a machine-learning model, remove any notice or attribution, or present it as your own, without our written permission. The Invest Alternative name, the IA Composite, the index names, and the design of the Site and the Letter are our trademarks and trade dress.

4. Our data and indexes

The IA Composite and its sub-indexes, the sales tape, and the other figures we compute are produced from public sources, licensed feeds and our own collection, on the methodology published at /index/methodology. They are provided as published, may be provisional, may be revised without notice, and are not a benchmark for any financial product. Figures attributed to third parties belong to those parties and are subject to their terms.

5. Your account and your conduct

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6. Replies and submissions

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7. Third-party links, sponsors and affiliates

The Content links to auction houses, platforms, exchanges, funds, data providers and other third parties. We do not control them, do not endorse them by linking, and are not responsible for their content, products, or handling of your data. Where we are paid by a sponsor or earn a commission from a link, we say so in the piece. A sponsor never sees the editorial before it runs and never influences what we publish.

8. No warranties

The Site, the Letter and the Content are provided “as is” and “as available”. We work hard to be accurate and we source and date our figures, but markets move, sources err, and we make mistakes. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Invest Alternative and the people who write, edit and publish it will not be liable for any loss or damage of any kind, including lost profits, trading losses, or indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages, arising from your use of, or reliance on, the Site, the Letter, or the Content, even if we were told such loss was possible. If liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (for a free subscription, nothing) and one hundred US dollars.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Invest Alternative against any claim, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Content.

11. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and you consent to their jurisdiction. If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

12. Changes

We may revise these Terms; the effective date above will change when we do, and material changes will be noted in the Letter. Your continued use after a change means you accept the revised Terms.

13. Contact

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