Eligibility and acceptable use
The site is meant for a general adult audience. You may read pages, print a reasonable number of copies for personal reference, and share links. You may not use automated means to access the site in a way that harms our servers, circumvents a technical limit, or scrapes a large part of the content for a competing product without a separate licence. You may not attempt to break authentication, place malware, or use the site to harass a person or a group. We may block traffic or a range of addresses if we have a good-faith reason to think abuse is under way, and we may work with a host or with law enforcement when the situation calls for it.
What the site is not
Text and graphics are for information and for reflection. They are not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional in health, law, tax, or any other field that depends on the facts of your life. Nothing on these pages is an offer to form a one-to-one professional relationship with you. If you are unsure whether something you read here applies, you need to get independent help from a person who can look at your situation directly.
Paid advertising and landing pages in the United States
If you reach this website from a paid advertisement (for example, on a search or display network), the advertiser who ran the ad is responsible for the text, images, and claims in that ad. This site’s own pages are limited to the informational and business disclosures we publish here; they are not an endorsement of any third-party ad copy. We do not claim that reading our articles will produce any specific result for your health, mood, or finances. Content is for a general audience in the U.S. and elsewhere and must not be read as a substitute for regulated professional services when those apply to you. For U.S. medical emergencies, call 911 or your local emergency services.
Messages and consent
When you use the form, you confirm that the details you type are, to the best of your knowledge, not misleading, that you have the right to share any third-party information you might mention, and that you have read the privacy policy enough to know how we will treat the data. We may use your message to write back, to improve the clarity of the site, and to keep a file when we are required to do so. We may decline to answer a message for any business reason, including limited time, a topic we do not cover, or language we consider unsafe in a public channel.
Accountability for links and embedded tools
When we point to an external service, a video, a map, or a social post, the terms and policies of that service apply in addition to ours, and you leave our direct control. We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or security of a third party’s site, even when we have chosen a link in good faith.
Intellectual property and feedback
Unless a credit line says another owner, the look of the site, the selection of type, the layout, the micro-copy, and the images we have rights to are owned by the studio or are used with permission. You may not sell or hand out large extracts or screenshots as a freestanding work without written consent. If you give us a suggestion, you agree we may use it without owing you a fee, unless we have a separate contract that says the opposite, and you confirm you are free to offer that idea.
Limits on our liability to you
To the fullest extent allowed by the law that applies, we are not liable for indirect loss, loss of data you did not back up, loss of profit, or any damage that is not a reasonably foreseeable result of a clear mistake on our part in hosting this site, except where a rule cannot be waived. In any dispute about this public site, your first step is to email us a clear description, so we can try to resolve the matter in good faith before either side incurs large costs. Some countries give consumers non-waivable rights; nothing here takes those away.
Law, courts, and changes
Unless a mandatory law of your own country says you must sue somewhere else, the courts in New York County, New York, United States, are a place where a matter about these terms for this online property can be heard, and the substantive law of the State of New York may help interpret them, while still giving effect to the consumer law of your home when it must apply. We may post an updated set of terms; the date in the header shows the calendar context for a reading, and a saved copy with a new posting date in the long text of the file may be the one that governs a future dispute, together with the notice we give of material updates.