Terms of Service

1. Who we are

These terms govern your use of this website, talkingscientistventures.com, and state the default license terms for our digital products. “We,” “us,” and “our” mean TalkingScientist Ventures LLC, a limited liability company registered in Arkansas, United States. You can reach us at support@talkingscientistventures.com.

By using this site, you agree to these terms as they apply to the site. If you don’t agree, please don’t use it. For products, the license text delivered with each product governs that product; section 3 below states the default license so you can read it before you buy.

2. What we sell, and who processes your payment

We make digital products — digital workbooks today, with software tools in development. We sell through third-party marketplaces and payment platforms; currently, that means our GritBench shop on Etsy.

This matters for two reasons:

• We don’t collect or store your payment card details. Payment is handled entirely by the platform you buy through; we operate no checkout of our own.
• Each sales channel’s own terms govern the transactions made there. When you buy on Etsy, Etsy’s terms govern the purchase — payment, delivery of the download, cancellation, and refunds. These terms of ours govern your use of this site and state the default license for our products; they don’t override the channel’s terms for the transaction itself.

3. Your license to our products

This section states our default product license. The license text included with each product at delivery is the license that governs that product; unless it says otherwise, it matches what follows.

When you buy one of our digital products, you get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it for your own business or personal purposes. Unless a product’s own listing or delivered license says otherwise, you may not:

• resell, redistribute, or share the product itself;
• claim our work as your own; or
• use the product to build a competing version of the same product for sale.

Anything you create with our products — your plans, your records, your store — is yours.

4. Our content

The content of this website and of our products — text, design, code, and graphics — belongs to TalkingScientist Ventures LLC and is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

5. What we promise, and what we don’t

We work to make our products accurate, reliable, and useful, and we support what we sell. Still, our products are provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. Our workbooks and tools are aids to your judgment, not professional advice — they are not legal, financial, engineering, or safety advice, and you remain responsible for decisions you make using them.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim connected to a product is limited to the amount you paid for that product. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

6. Refunds

Refunds are handled per sales channel, as described in our Refund Policy.

7. Acceptable use of this site

Don’t use this site to do anything unlawful, to interfere with its operation, or to attempt unauthorized access to it or to systems connected to it.

8. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Each revision is dated by the effective date at the top, and the current version always lives at this address. Changes apply prospectively: they govern use of the site from their effective date forward, and they don’t change the license delivered with a product you already bought. If a change would materially affect an existing product license, we’ll notify affected licensees before it applies to them.

9. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arkansas, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. A dispute arising under these terms — about your use of this site or a product license from us — that isn’t resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts of Arkansas.

Two limits on that clause:

• Disputes about a purchase transaction — payment, taxes, cancellation, or refunds — are governed by the terms of the sales channel you bought through (for example, Etsy), including that channel’s own dispute provisions. The Arkansas clause above doesn’t reach them.
• Nothing in these terms takes away consumer rights that the law of your place of residence doesn’t allow to be waived, or your right to bring a claim in a forum that mandatory consumer-protection law makes available to you.

10. Questions

Write to support@talkingscientistventures.com — a plain-language question gets a plain-language answer.