Last updated: July 5 2020

Lynn Blakley owns and operates https://lynnblakley.com (the “Site”).

This web page (together with the documents referred to on it) is a binding agreement and represents the Terms of Use for our Site.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Site.

This Site is intended for individuals who are 16 years of age or older.

By visiting and using this Site, you represent and warrant that you are of legal and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.

By visiting and using our Site, you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to fully comply and abide by them. If you disagree, please discontinue the use of this Site.

Content

All information on this Site, including any and all copyrights, trademarks, design rights and other intellectual property rights related to the content and work product on this Site, are owned by www.lynnblakley.com, with the exception content used with permission.

Copyright

This Site and all content created on this site are protected by international copyright law and may not be modified, compiled, combined with other content, copied, recorded, synchronized, transmitted, translated, formatted, distributed, publicly displayed, publicly performed, reproduced, given away, used to create derivative works and otherwise used or exploited (including for-profit) without my expressed permission.

We retain full copyrights to this site and its content. Protected content includes but is not limited to all posts, personal photos, and downloadable and digital products. The information on this site is restricted to your personal use only. It does not come with any other rights.

Any perceived slights of specific persons, peoples, or organizations are unintentional. Any product, website, and company names mentioned on this site and its content are the trademarks or copyright properties of their respective owners. Any photos not personally taken are used with within the guidelines of the sites they were obtained from and maintain the copyright protection from their sites.

We are not affiliated with those trademarks or copyrights. Nor does the referred product, website, and company sponsor, endorse, or approve this site and its content. 

Any companies or websites referenced or linked on this site is for informational purposes only. We do not assume any responsibility for the content on those sites or for any person associated with those sites or businesses. Should a link to my site appear on another business site or blog, it does not constitute my formal endorsement of them or their business.

Reliance on Content

We have made every reasonable effort to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this site and its content and to ensure that the information contain therein is free from errors, however, we assume no responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject matter herein and do not guarantee, warrant, or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of the subject matter.

Linking to Content

If you wish to share content or refer to content from this site, please credit www.lynnblakley.com by providing a link back to the original location of the content being shared/referenced. If you wish to use content on this site in a collaboration please email [email protected] for permission.

You may provide links to our Site as long as

  1. you clearly give credit to us as the author,
  2. include a hyperlink to our Site,
  3. you do not remove or obscure any portion of our Site by framing or otherwise,
  4. your website does not engage in illegal or pornographic activities, and
  5. provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not provide links in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our prior written consent.

You must not provide links from any website that is not owned by you.

You must cease providing links to our Site immediately upon our request.

Limitation of Liability

In no event will our company or its directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third person for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it.

Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms.

You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Site; damaging, disabling, or impairing or attempting to damage, disable or impair the Site; gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Site; interfering with or causing disruption in the operation of the Site; modifying, reverse-engineering, decompiling, disassembling, participating in the transfer or sale, creating derivative works or attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, in whole or in part, any of the content available on the Site.

Do not attempt to use this Site to submit unsolicited communications or to try to collect personal identifying information. 

You agree to use the Site for lawful purposes only and any violation of any provision contained in these Terms may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.

Comments

When you leave a comment on our Site, your comment will be publicly available to other visitors of this Site.

For spam detection purposes, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string in accordance to our Privacy Policy.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment on our Site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Your comment may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

This Site strives to create a positive and fun environment. We reserve the right to remove any comment that we determine to be unlawful, inappropriate, offensive or otherwise objectionable or in violation of intellectual property laws or these Terms. Any comment we determine to be derogatory, racist, abusive, demeaning or inappropriate will be deleted immediately. This Site is a political free zone. Comments supporting your political party or platform will be removed. 

Privacy Policy

While using this Site, you may provide certain personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address or IP address.

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Links to Other Sites

This Site may from time to time contain links to third-party sites.

We are not a representative of those websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content or practices of any third-party Sites or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

We encourage you to read and review the privacy policy and terms and conditions of those third-party sites. Once you leave our Site, you are no longer governed by our Terms of Use.

Embedded Content from Other Sites

Content on this Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.).

Embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

Use of Downloadable Digital Content/Course Content

When purchasing a digital product or course from our Site or downloading a free digital product in exchange for your email address from our Site, you are granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license of our materials for your personal or internal business use only.

You acknowledge and agree that under this license you have no right to:

– modify, copy, reproduce or sell the materials;

– use the materials for any commercial purpose;

– decompile or reverse engineer;

– remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials;

– transfer the materials to another person;

– create derivative works based upon the materials;

– offer any competing products based upon the materials.

Refund of Digital Products and Course Fees

Due to the nature of digital content, all purchases of digital products or courses from our Site are final unless a refund is required under relevant consumer protection laws.

Governing Law

These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising from or in connection with them shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the state of Texas and the United States.

Termination

We reserve the right to terminate your rights under these Terms without notice if you fail to comply with any of these Terms.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us and our partners, consultants, agents, officers, directors, employees, subcontractors, successors, service providers, and affiliates free from any liability, loss, claim, and expense, including reasonable attorney fees, related to your violation of these Terms, your use of our Site or your infringement, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.

Amendments

We reserve the right to revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page.

All updates will be posted on this page and you are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes.

If you do not agree with the changes to these Terms of Use, you can choose to discontinue the use of our Site.