Website Terms

Terms of Use

Last updated: July 26, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Sector Foundry, visitors agree to these Terms of Use. Visitors who do not agree should discontinue use of the site.

2. Informational Purpose

Sector Foundry provides independent research, commentary, educational materials, and general information concerning companies, industries, technologies, markets, and global value chains.

Content is not individualized and does not constitute investment, financial, legal, accounting, tax, or other professional advice.

3. No Investment Recommendation

Nothing published on Sector Foundry constitutes an offer, solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or instruction to buy, sell, hold, trade, or avoid any security, financial instrument, company, industry, product, or service.

Visitors remain solely responsible for their own research, decisions, and professional advice.

4. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, original articles, analytical frameworks, graphics, tables, diagrams, branding, and other original materials published by Sector Foundry are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Visitors may share links to public pages and quote brief excerpts for commentary, education, or reference, provided that clear attribution and a link to the original page are included.

Republishing complete articles, reproducing substantial portions, translating content for redistribution, removing attribution, scraping the site at scale, or using original materials commercially requires prior written permission.

5. Permitted Use

Visitors may use the site for lawful personal, educational, and professional reference purposes.

Visitors must not:

  • Interfere with the site’s security, operation, or availability
  • Attempt unauthorized access to accounts, systems, or data
  • Introduce malware, malicious code, or automated abuse
  • Misrepresent Sector Foundry content as another party’s work
  • Use the site in violation of applicable law or third-party rights
  • Systematically copy, scrape, or republish content without permission

6. Third-Party Information

Articles may refer or link to company disclosures, government statistics, research publications, data providers, news reports, and other third-party sources.

References to third-party material do not imply endorsement. Sector Foundry does not control the accuracy, availability, security, or continued accessibility of external content.

7. Accuracy and Availability

Sector Foundry seeks to provide accurate and useful analysis but does not guarantee that all content is complete, current, error-free, or suitable for a particular purpose.

Information may become outdated as markets, companies, regulations, estimates, and industry conditions change. The site may be modified, interrupted, suspended, or discontinued without notice.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

The site and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Sector Foundry and its editor will not be liable for losses, damages, costs, or claims arising from reliance on site content, inability to access the site, use of third-party links, or decisions made using information published on the site.

10. Changes to These Terms

These Terms may be revised when site functions, operating practices, or legal requirements change. Continued use of the site after publication of revised Terms constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

11. Governing Law

Unless mandatory law requires otherwise, these Terms and the use of Sector Foundry are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

12. Contact

Questions concerning these Terms may be submitted through the Contact page .