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Updated 7/25/2024
Terms of Service
Please read these terms of service (“terms”, “terms of service”) carefully before using our website (the “service”) operated by Lesli Richardson (“us”, ‘we”, “our”).
NOTE: I am a human creator and do NOT use generative AI to create any of my products. Some tools I use (such as Adobe and other graphics software) may have AI-enabled tools or features that make the program or software operate.
Age
You must be eighteen years of age or older to purchase from us, subscribe to our newsletters or memberships, or otherwise utilize anything other than the publicly accessible portions of this website. By signing up for newsletters, updates, memberships, or otherwise utilizing the non-public portions of this website, or by purchasing anything from us in any form, you are affirming that you are at least eighteen years of age or older.
Conditions of Use
We will provide our services to you, which are subject to the conditions stated below in this document. Every time you visit this website, use its services or make a purchase, you accept the following conditions. This is why we urge you to read them carefully.
Privacy Policy
Before you continue using our website we advise you to read our privacy policy [Privacy Policy] regarding our user data collection.
Copyright
Content published on this website (digital downloads, images, texts, graphics, logos) is the property of Lesli Richardson and/or its content creators and protected by international copyright laws. All Rights Reserved. The entire compilation of the content found on this website is the exclusive property of Lesli Richardson, with copyright authorship for this compilation by Lesli Richardson.
License and Site Access
We grant you a limited license to access and make use of the services on this website. You are not allowed to download or modify any components unless you purchase a product or service from us that is a downloadable digital product or service that allows or is designated for downloading.
User Account
If you are the creator/user of an account on this website, you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your private user details (username and password). You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password.
We reserve all rights to terminate accounts, edit or remove content, and cancel orders at our sole discretion, including but not limited to suspected copyright or intellectual property infringement, file piracy, or account sharing to allow others to share your account.
You also agree you will not share your password or account credentials with any third party. If your password or credentials have somehow been breached, it is your responsibility to let us know and/or change your credentials to secure your account. We use software to help detect password sharing and it will automatically lock accounts where suspicious activity is flagged.
You will not download content from this site for the purpose of posting in other places, using in whole or in part in any other creation or website or other medium, and you will not share any content purchased or downloaded from this site for any purpose other than your personal consumption as a reader, or for the purpose of engaging in any digital service you have legally purchased from us (such as but not limited to book formatting, cover creation, or editing services). If at any time you no longer wish to have access to the content or services, you agree to delete it from all devices you have used it on and delete your account. Excluding any services you have contracted with us for, such as book formatting, cover art, or editing, you may not share, resell, upload, distribute, or in any other way currently or in the future available distribute or develop content you access on or download from this website. If you are found to be in breach of this, your account will be terminated immediately with no refunds for any outstanding remainder of membership terms or otherwise due product, subscription, or pro-rated amounts. Excluding purchased services such as book formatting, editing, cover creation, or finished items created from crochet or from other art patterns, or similar products or services, you may not modify the content in any way that you obtain from this site and use it in other works of any format. You may not feed this information into any AI engine or software or program or site to have it make any kind of manipulation to the information. There is no “fair use” clause where you use material from this site and change it a certain percentage to claim it as a new or derivative work.
For the purpose of review or promotions, you may quote reasonable and limited passages or share screenshots from reasonable and limited passages from books/writing on or obtained from this website EXCLUDING crochet and/or art patterns. If you publicly share any fiction passage in this way that is not suitable for all audiences, please obscure any words or phrases that may be found objectionable, such as sexually explicit scenes or swear words, before posting.
Crochet and Craft/Art Designs
If you purchase crochet or other craft/art designs from this site, you may make and sell the finished product made from those designs in any quantities with no restrictions. You may not sell, distribute, upload, share, or otherwise modify and sell the pattern to the finished products, or use the pattern in a class or video or other instructional manner. If you are an instructor who wishes to use our designs in classes or online, please contact us for licensing details.
AI Restrictions
No content on this site in any form may be indexed by any AI engine, software or device for use in AI training or other reasons. The owners of this website retain ALL rights to the material posted and reserve all rights accordingly.
Communications
The entire communication with us is electronic. Every time you send us an email or visit our website, you will be communicating with us. You hereby consent to receive communications from us. If you subscribe to the features on our website, or purchase products or memberships, you may receive regular emails from us. We will continue to communicate with you by posting news and notices on our website and by sending you emails. You also agree that all notices, disclosures, agreements, and other communications we provide to you electronically meet the legal requirements that such communications be in writing.
Applicable Law
By visiting this website, you agree that the laws of the the state of Florida, without regard to principles of conflict laws, will govern these terms of service, or any dispute of any sort that might come between Lesli Richardson, LLC and you, or its business partners and associates.
Disputes
Any dispute related in any way to your visit to this website or to products you purchase from us shall be arbitrated by state or federal court in Hillsborough County, Florida, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts.
Comments, Reviews, and Emails
Visitors may be allowed to post comments or content as long as it is not obscene, illegal, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy, or injurious in any other way to third parties. Content must be free of software viruses, political campaigns, and commercial solicitation. We reserve the right to delete any user-posted content at any time for any reason.
We reserve all rights (but not the obligation) to remove and/or edit such content. When you post your content, you grant this site non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right to use, reproduce, publish, modify such content throughout the world in any media.
You may NOT copy, share, screenshot, or in any other way disseminate any comment or posted information in the exclusive member-restricted sections of this website that originate with another user or account holder on this website without their express written permission first.
tl;dr – Don’t be a dick, don’t be a file pirate, don’t feed my writing to AI, and don’t steal. Be nice to other users on the site. This is my livelihood. I’m a writer and I pay my bills with my writing.