The terms for using Mainline.

1. Who we are

Mainline is a brand of WestEdge Advisors LLC, a limited liability company organised in the United States ("Mainline", "we"). We publish the Atlas, This Week in Rail and The Mainline Rail and Metro Brief at mainline-railway.com (the "platform"). Questions about these terms go to partners@mainline-railway.com.

By using the platform — including by reading any page of it without leaving an email — you agree to these terms. If you buy a paid edition for a company, you confirm that you may bind that company, and "you" includes it.

2. What the platform is

The platform compiles public record — tender documents, award notices, ministry releases, a company's own filings — into a structured, sourced and tier-graded reference for people who sell into railway and metro markets. Every datum carries its source and a tier grade on the page.

• It is a reference, not advice. Nothing on the platform is legal, financial, investment or procurement advice, and nothing is a recommendation to bid, invest or contract. Check the primary document before you act on a figure, a date or a status.
• It is compiled, not guaranteed. We work to a fixed editorial standard and correct errors fast and openly, but we do not warrant that the platform is complete, current or free of error. Sources change, portals lag, and a notice can be withdrawn after we read it.
• Some figures are ours, not the record's. Where we place a published value into a US dollar band, band a figure, or total a set of them, that number is Mainline analysis derived from the published one at a stated rate and date — the buyer did not publish it. The native value and its source line always sit beside it. Treat the derived figure as an indication of scale and the published figure as the fact.
• We use AI, and AI can make mistakes. Mainline uses artificial-intelligence tools alongside its editors to gather, read, classify, summarise and check the public record it publishes — for example to read a tender notice, extract a value or a deadline, match a notice to a buyer, or draft the editorial text around it. Every published item still carries its source line so you can go to the primary document, and we check and correct what the tools produce, but AI systems can misread a document, miss a change or state something that the source does not support. Treat anything on the platform as a lead to the primary record, not a substitute for it, and tell us at the address above when you find an error.
• Everything is as at a date. Every source line carries the date we last checked the document, and its publication date where the source publishes one — a standing page, such as a company profile or a procurement portal, often does not. A value, a status or a deadline is true as at that check, not necessarily today.
• Corrections and right of reply. If the record contradicts something on the platform, tell us at the address above and we will check it against the primary document. We aim to reply within five working days, to correct within two working days of accepting a correction, and to say on the page that we have. If you are named on the platform — as a buyer, a supplier or a winning bidder — and consider an entry inaccurate, write to the same address: we will re-read the source, correct what is wrong, and record your position where the record is genuinely unclear. We do not remove accurate public record.

3. The free surface and the free edition

The free surface — the map, every buyer, player, tender and relationship, every source line, search, filters and the events calendar — is open to anyone without an email.

The gated layer of each market edition (exact values and dates, published bidders, procurement structure and entry paths, incumbent positions and partner routes, procurement routes, and CSV export) opens per edition. When you leave a work email at the Atlas gate, you choose one market edition, free, for as long as the platform runs. The same email subscribes you to the Brief. One free edition per email address; the choice is made once.

For readers who sign up from 1 October 2026 the free edition attaches to the company — the domain of the work email — so colleagues share one free edition and a later colleague receives the edition already chosen; an address on a free-mail domain (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and the like) cannot open an edition; the gate asks for a company address. Readers who signed up before 1 October 2026 keep the edition they hold.

We may decline or withdraw a free edition where an address is not a working professional address, where one person uses several addresses to open several editions, or where the account breaches section 6. We do not charge for the free edition and may change what it includes.

4. Paid editions

The other editions are sold by subscription inside the Atlas. The price list at the time of writing, in US dollars, excluding tax:

• One market edition: US$590 a year, or US$59 a month.
• All editions: US$1,690 a year, or US$169 a month — every live edition, and every edition we add while your subscription runs.
• Team edition: US$2,900 a year, or US$290 a month — every live edition, and every edition we add while your subscription runs, for up to ten named readers. Readers are named by writing to partners@mainline-railway.com from the subscribing address; each address is attached to the subscription. Cancellation and refunds are as for the other editions.

The price shown at checkout is the price that applies. Tax is added at checkout where it applies; if you are buying for a business, enter its VAT or GST number there and the reverse charge applies where the law provides for it. Promotion codes may be entered at checkout. There is no free trial: the free edition is the trial.

A paid edition attaches to a verified email address — one proven by completing a checkout or by clicking a sign-in link we send to it. One subscription is for one named reader, except the team edition, which covers up to ten named readers. To open a paid edition on another device, ask the Atlas for a sign-in link. A paid subscription can be open on up to three devices per reader at a time; signing in on a further device signs out the device used least recently. The team edition allows three devices for each of its named readers.

5. Billing, renewal and refunds

• Stripe is the merchant of record. Paid editions are sold through Stripe's Managed Payments ("Sold through Link"): Stripe, through Link, takes the payment, calculates and remits the tax, issues the receipt and the tax invoice, and handles payment disputes. Your card statement reads LINK.COM* MAINLINE ATLAS. Link's terms of sale govern the payment itself; these terms govern your access to and use of the Atlas. We never see or store your card details.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period — monthly or yearly, as you chose — until you cancel. Receipts and invoices come from Link to the address you gave. Prices are set in US dollars; checkout may show the equivalent in your local currency.
• Cancel any time. Open "Manage billing" in your editions view, or manage the subscription in your Link account. Access runs to the end of the period you have paid for, and no further payment is taken.
• Refunds. A first annual purchase is refundable in full within 14 days of payment — write to partners@mainline-railway.com from the subscribing address. Monthly payments are not refundable. Renewals are not refundable. Where a law gives you a right we cannot exclude, that right stands; Link support can also act on such requests as merchant of record.
• Failed payments. If a renewal cannot be collected, Stripe retries and tells you; if it still fails, the paid edition closes and the free edition stays open.
• Price changes. We may change prices for future periods. A change to a running subscription takes effect at the next renewal, and we tell you at least 30 days before it does.
• Discontinued editions. If we withdraw an edition you have paid for, we refund the unused part of the current period pro rata.

6. Acceptable use

The platform is for your own professional use and, if you bought it for a company, for that company's internal use. You may not:

• share a sign-in link, a session or an exported file outside your company, or resell, sublicense or republish the gated layer;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the platform, or access the gated layer other than through the Atlas as we publish it;
• use the platform to build a competing database or feed;
• circumvent the gate, the session or the paid editions, or use several addresses to obtain several free editions.

Quoting a figure with attribution to Mainline and its source is welcome. The underlying facts are public record and remain so; what is ours is the compilation, the structure, the editorial text and the design of the platform.

7. Availability and changes

We add regions and markets as their record can be watched, and we may change the free/gated line, the features of an edition, or the platform itself. We aim to keep the platform available but do not promise uninterrupted service; section 5 covers what happens if we withdraw an edition you have paid for.

8. Liability

The platform is provided as is. To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude all warranties, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of a bid or contract, or loss arising from a decision taken on the basis of the platform. This applies equally to content gathered, drafted or checked with the help of AI tools (section 2). You are responsible for checking against the primary document any figure, date, status or name you act on, and you agree that you do not rely on the platform as the sole basis for a bid, an investment, a contract or any other decision. If you use the platform in breach of section 6, you will indemnify us against claims arising from that use. Our total liability to you for any claim connected with the platform is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that the law does not allow us to exclude.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, and disputes go to the courts there, except that if you are a consumer in a country whose law gives you a right to sue at home or to the protection of its mandatory rules, that right stands.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the date at the top changes when we do. A material change to the terms of a paid edition takes effect at your next renewal, and we tell you before it does. Continuing to use the platform after a change means you accept it.

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