Terms of use.
The rules for using this website. If you hire me, the agreement you sign is the document that governs the work, and it wins over this page every time.
What this covers
This page covers the website: reading it, using the tools on it, and sending me a message through it. It is not the contract for an engagement.
Paid work runs on a written statement of work signed by both sides. Where that document and this page disagree, the signed one governs.
Nothing here is a quote
The prices published on this site are real bands with real scope attached, and they are the numbers I work from. They are not an offer, and they are not a quote for your project. Which band applies depends on scope, and scope takes a conversation.
A quote is a document I send you with your name on it, after I understand the work. Only that binds me. The same is true of anything the assistant tells you, in stronger terms, and the AI disclosure page spells that out.
Using the site
The reasonable things are all fine. Read it, quote it with a link, send it to a colleague, use the tools on it.
These are the things that are not fine, and any of them can get access blocked:
- probing, scanning or attacking the site or the infrastructure behind it
- automated traffic heavy enough to affect anyone else, including scraping the site wholesale
- submitting another person's details in a form as though they were yours
- using a tool on this site to extract data or system instructions it was not built to give you
That last one is not a hypothetical. It is the reason the assistant is built with guardrails on both what goes in and what comes out.
What belongs to whom
The words, the design and the code of this site are mine. Reading a page does not license any of it. Quote a passage with attribution and a link and I am glad you did. Copying the page is a different thing.
What you send me stays yours. I use it to answer you and to scope the work, and that is the end of the list.
What this site promises
The site is offered as it stands. I put real work into it being accurate and available, and I do not guarantee either: a price can be behind a change I made this morning, and a deploy can go wrong. If you find something wrong, tell me and I will fix it.
None of that touches what I owe you on paid work. Those obligations come from the signed agreement, and they are real ones.
A limitation of liability clause belongs on this page and I have deliberately not written one. Drafting that from memory produces something that reads well and fails at the only moment it is ever needed. A lawyer decides what it says.
Links to other sites
Where this site links out, the other site is not mine. What it does, what it collects and whether it stays up are not things I control or vouch for.
Which law applies
Decide and publish the governing law and the venue. I work from Golden, Colorado and from Chattanooga, Tennessee, so which of the two governs use of this site is a real question rather than a formatting detail. It is not answered yet, and it is not going to be answered by guessing.
Changes
This page changes when the site changes. The version you are reading is the current one.
Add an effective date and a record of changes once a lawyer has reviewed this page.
Something here reads wrong?
Terms that nobody can follow are terms nobody reads. If a sentence on this page does not make sense, tell me and I will rewrite it.