TERMS & CONDITIONS

This website is provided for personal, informational, and noncommercial use unless otherwise expressly authorized.

You may browse publicly available pages, share links to those pages, and make other uses permitted by applicable law.

You may not use this website in a manner that interferes with its operation, attempts to gain unauthorized access to the website or its systems, violates applicable law, infringes the rights of others, or falsely suggests an affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from K. A. Gritz.

Use of content appearing on this website is also subject to the Copyright Statement and any other notices or restrictions accompanying particular content.

We make reasonable efforts to keep information on this website accurate and current. However, we make no warranties or representations regarding the completeness, accuracy, reliability, availability, or suitability of website content.

Information and materials are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Content may be corrected, updated, modified, or removed at any time without prior notice.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, K. A. Gritz shall not be responsible for loss or damage resulting from reliance upon information provided on this website.

No permission or license is granted to use copyrightable website content for artificial-intelligence or machine-learning development, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, synthetic content generation, character or world simulation, or similar purposes except with prior written authorization or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Automated scraping, harvesting, extraction, or systematic collection of protected website content for commercial datasets or similar repositories is not authorized except with prior written permission or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Additional terms concerning artificial intelligence, machine learning, and use of website content are provided in our Copyright Statement.

Original human-authored literary content and other copyrightable material appearing on this website are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

This includes copyrightable material associated with the Guardians of Aeloria series and the fictional world of Aeloria, including original stories, excerpts, descriptions, character development, creature descriptions, fictional history, lore, worldbuilding, and other original written material.

Some visual materials on this website were created or developed with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence and may contain elements that are not independently eligible for copyright protection under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms is intended to claim exclusive rights in material that is not eligible for such protection.

Names, logos, series identifiers, and other branding appearing on this website may also be protected under applicable trademark and unfair-competition laws.

Except as permitted by applicable law or expressly authorized in writing, no license is granted to reproduce, distribute, publish, modify, adapt, commercially exploit, or create unauthorized derivative works from protected website content.

For additional information concerning intellectual property, artificial intelligence and machine learning, permitted uses, and licensing requests, please review our Copyright Statement.

Your use of this website is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which explains how personal information is collected, used, stored, and protected.

This website may use cookies and similar technologies to provide website functionality, understand website traffic, and improve the browsing experience.

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This website may contain links to third-party websites for convenience, reference, or informational purposes.

The inclusion of a third-party link does not necessarily constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by K. A. Gritz. We do not control and are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability, security, privacy practices, or policies of third-party websites.

Your use of third-party websites is subject to their respective terms, conditions, and privacy policies.

This website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we become aware that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected in circumstances requiring parental consent, we will take appropriate steps to delete the information in accordance with applicable law.

This website and its content are provided for general informational and entertainment purposes.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, K. A. Gritz disclaims liability for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or other damages arising from or relating to access to, use of, inability to use, or reliance upon this website or its content.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

These Terms & Conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee and applicable laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Subject to applicable law, disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or use of this website shall be brought in an appropriate state or federal court located in Tennessee.

We may update or modify these Terms & Conditions from time to time. Changes become effective when the revised Terms are posted on this website unless otherwise stated.

The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates when these Terms were most recently revised.

Your continued use of the website following the posting of revised Terms constitutes acceptance of those Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Questions concerning these Terms & Conditions, use of website content, or related policies may be submitted through the Contact page.