Terms of Use: Agreements for Site Visitors

Last updated: October 10, 2024

These terms set out the ground rules for using Kathleen's site. They're written in plain language on purpose. If anything here reads as legal fog, that's a failing on our part, not yours, and the contact page is open for questions.

Acceptance of Terms

When you use this site, you accept these terms. That's the whole arrangement. Browsing a book page, reading the news, signing up for anything — each of those counts as agreement.

The terms apply to every visitor, whether you arrived here on purpose or stumbled in from a search result. There's no separate set of rules for casual readers versus regulars.

If you read through this and find you can't live with it, the honest answer is simple: please don't use the site. We'd rather you walk away clear-eyed than stay under terms you never accepted.

Acceptable Use

Most of this comes down to good faith. When you submit information — a contact form, a comment, anything with a field to fill, keep it accurate and honest. Fabricated or fraudulent details cause real problems downstream, and they're not welcome here.

Don't interfere with how the site runs. That means no attempts to break its security, overload its servers, or knock its availability for other readers. The technical guardrails exist so the next person gets the same working site you did.

Unlawful or abusive activity falls outside the line entirely. Harassment, attempts to mine data you weren't given, anything that would land in a court or an inbox marked urgent — none of that has a place on these pages.

Use License

You're welcome to read and enjoy the content here for personal, non-commercial use. Quote a line to a friend, bookmark a page, print an excerpt for your own shelf — that's the spirit of it.

Republishing is a different matter. Reposting articles, redistributing book material, or lifting content into another commercial project requires permission first. A short email usually settles it, and we say yes more often than not.

The intellectual property — the writing, the cover art, the structure of these pages, stays with the site or the people who licensed it to us. Reading something doesn't transfer ownership of it, and the license above is the full extent of what's granted.

No Warranties

The site and everything on it come to you on an “as available” basis. We build it carefully, but we don't promise it'll be flawless, uninterrupted, or free of the occasional error.

Accuracy is a goal, not a guarantee. Dates shift, links break, a detail about a forthcoming book changes after we've published the page. We correct what we catch, though we can't certify that every word is current at the moment you read it.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for damages that arise from your use of the site. If a page misled you, a download failed, or a link sent you somewhere unhelpful, the responsibility doesn't roll back to us in the form of a claim.

This covers indirect, incidental, and consequential loss in particular — the knock-on costs that ripple out from a problem rather than the problem itself. Lost time, lost data, lost opportunity: all sit outside what we take on.

None of this is meant to dodge accountability for things that genuinely deserve it. It's the standard boundary that keeps a small author's site from carrying open-ended risk, and it stops where the law says it must.

Applicable Law

These terms are read and interpreted under the laws of the jurisdiction where the site operates. If a disagreement ever reaches that stage, it falls to the competent local courts there.

Should any single clause turn out to be unenforceable, treat it as lifted out cleanly — the rest of the terms stay fully in force. One weak link doesn't unravel the whole chain.

Modifications

We revise these terms from time to time, usually because something on the site changed or the law nudged us to. When that happens, the revision date at the top of this page updates with it.

Continuing to use the site after a change signals that you accept the revised version. There's no separate notification ritual — the date is the record, and it's worth a glance if you're returning after a long gap.

Contact Information

Questions about any of this? That's exactly what the Contact page is for. Reach out with the details listed there, and we'll answer as plainly as we've tried to write here.

For a sense of how we handle the information you send us, the Privacy Policy sits alongside these terms and is worth reading in the same sitting.