Terms of Service
This site is run by Matt Mason, based in Michigan. Using the site means these terms apply to you. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use it.
Using the site
Read it, quote it with attribution, send it to someone. Don’t scrape it, republish it wholesale, resell it, or use it to build a competing product. Don’t try to break it, overload it, or reach parts of it that aren’t public. The site is meant for adults; if you’re under 18, please don’t submit anything through it.
What’s here isn’t advice
Everything on this site is general information. They are not financial, legal, tax, accounting or investment advice, no professional relationship is created by reading them, and they are not a substitute for someone who knows your particular situation. Reading this site does not make Matt your consultant.
About results
Nothing here promises a particular outcome for your business. Where a specific figure from past work is mentioned, it is what happened in that engagement, under those conditions — it is not an average, not a projection, and not what you should expect. What you do with any of it is your decision, and the outcome is your responsibility.
Paid work
Applying to work with Matt isn’t a booking, and no payment is taken through this site. Consulting engagements run on a separate written agreement covering fee, scope, scheduling and cancellation. Where that agreement and this page disagree, the agreement wins.
What you send
What you write into a form here stays yours. Sending it gives Matt permission to read it, evaluate it, and reply to you — nothing more. Your business’s own information is not published, quoted, or used in marketing unless you agree to it separately. Please don’t send confidential material through a web form; if something is genuinely sensitive, wait until there is an agreement in place.
Whose work is whose
The writing on this site belongs to Matt Mason.
The site comes as it is
This site and everything on it are provided as they are, with no warranty of any kind. No promise is made that it will be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, or fit for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, Matt Mason is not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising out of this site — including lost profit, lost revenue or lost data — and total liability for any claim connected to them is limited to one hundred dollars. None of this limits liability for fraud, for wilful misconduct, or for anything else the law does not permit to be limited. Paid engagements are not covered by this section; the written agreement governs those.
Links to other places
Where this site links somewhere else — a business, a tool, an article — that’s a pointer, not an endorsement, and what happens on the other end isn’t Matt’s to control.
Which law applies
These terms are governed by the law of the State of Michigan, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of this site shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Kent County, Michigan, and you agree those courts may hear it. If any part of this page turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.
Changes
These terms can change; the date at the top says when they last did. A material change gets a note on this page before it takes effect, and it won’t be applied backwards to something that already happened.
Getting in touch
Questions about any of this go through the contact page.