Terms of service and use of this website and contents.
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Use of this site.
I’m glad you’re finding this site useful in some way! If you access or use this website or its contents, then you are agreeing to follow these terms. If you’d rather not follow these terms, then do not use this website or its contents. Please read these terms carefully.
So the rules of use are pretty simple:
Be nice to everyone. Why wouldn’t you?
If you are under 18, then don’t use this website. It’s not like we have any explicit content here—it’s just that we need you to be an adult in order to interact with our site and its contents.
Don’t break any laws while using this site or its contents. We live in South Dakota, U.S.A. so those laws supersede any others in regard to this website and its contents.
You may not ever collect anyone’s personal information or data for any reason. Just don’t.
There are more rules below. I know, but we still need them.
Now for some more lawyer stuff…
Disclaimer, exclusions, and limitations of liability.
We aren’t promising anything here. The site, services, content and any other materials are provided on an “as is” basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Truth is, we often don’t know what the hell we’re talking about.
We may change, restrict access to, or discontinue this site and/or any part of it at any time. Sorry.
Oh, and it is beyond our control who gains access to the site or uses the services; what effects the content may have on you or anyone else; how you may interpret or use the content; or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the content. So be smart, we’re not responsible for what you do. But we love you.
We mess up sometimes, so we make no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the site or services, and we cannot be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of any of the material contained in or accessed through the site or the services. Got it?
Intellectual property rights.
All of the stuff on this site belongs to us. We make a lot of material and content available for free, but even that still belongs to us. Everything—content, materials, tools, services, names, logo marks, and the site itself shall remain the property of Joseph Bartmann and/or joebart LLC and/or its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.
You agree and understand that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell , trade, resell, or exploit for any commercial purposes and portion of the site including its tools, services or any other content.
Whew. There, that’s out of the way. Now about your privacy…
Privacy policy.
You deserve as much privacy as you want, and a little more. We promise to never share your information or any data about you with anyone without your permission. Pretty simple.
We think spammers and scammers are major jerks.
What information do we collect?
When you use this website you can expect us to gather two types of information from you:
Personal information you choose to provide. When you register or pay for any of our products, services or newsletters you will provide us information about yourself. This may include your name, email, phone number, address, credit card info, or whatever else you choose to provide. If you choose to correspond with us via email we will archive those emails too. You know, nobody ever deletes Gmail. (Allegedly.)
Website use information that is collected automatically. Similar to most websites, our site uses cookies and other web server logs to track info like the date and time of your visit, the pages you viewed, time spent at our site, and the sites you visited just before and just after you came to our site. You can opt out of this tracking when you first arrive at our site. There’s a banner that appears until you either agree to or deny our use of cookies. I wish they were chocolate chip cookies, but we’re terrible at baking.
What do we do with your information?
Funny you asked. We do not share, sell, lend or lease any of the information that uniquely identifies a subscriber (such as email addresses or personal details) with anyone except to the extent it is necessary to process transactions or provide services that you have requested.
As you visit and browse our Web site, the site uses cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from having to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our clients. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to us in your cookies.
Your consent.
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. But we’re nice people, so it shouldn’t hurt.
Updating your personal information.
We can change the information we save about you any time. Just email Joe at joebart.com and I’ll fix it for you.