Who We Are

Kaitlin Schmidt Editing and Consulting or KSEC is a personal website run by Kaitlin Schmidt using Squarespace. My website address is: https://www.kaitlin-schmidt.com. At KSEC, I am committed to protecting your privacy regarding the information you provide. If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact me at kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com.

Terms

Use of the Website

To access or use the Website, you must be 18 years of age or older and have the requisite power and authority to enter into these Terms. Children under the age of 18 are prohibited from using the Website. Information provided on the Website and any resources provided on or available for download from the Website are subject to change. KSEC makes no representation or warranty that the information provided, regardless of its source, is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. KSEC disclaims all liability for any inaccuracy, error, or incompleteness in the information provided.

KSEC reserves the right to withdraw or amend this Website and any service or material provided on the Website in its sole discretion without notice. KSEC will not be liable if, for any reason, all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, KSEC may restrict access to some parts of the Website, or the entire Website, to users.

Lawful Purposes

You may use the Website for lawful purposes only. You agree to use the Website for legitimate, non-commercial purposes only. You shall not post or transmit through the Website any material that violates or infringes the rights of others, or that is threatening, abusive, defamatory, libelous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane, or otherwise objectionable, contains injurious formulas, recipes, or instructions, that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.

Material You Submit to this Website and kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com

When you post, upload, submit, inputt, provide, or otherwise make available any artwork, photos, written works, or other media, including feedback and suggestions (collectively, “Submissions”) to either this website or kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com, we claim no intellectual property rights over the Submissions you supply. You retain copyrights and any other rights you may rightfully hold in any Submissions that you submit through the Website or kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com.

Should KSEC reach out to you and request the use of one or more of your Submissions on our website and you agree, you are granting KSEC license to use your Submission(s) for promotional, business development, and marketing purposes including, without limitation, the right to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission. You further you grant us the right to use your Submission for the purpose of improving our Website, products or services (and for any other purpose we deem necessary or desirable) without being obliged to pay you any compensation for our use of your Submission. KSEC is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in KSEC’s sole discretion. If you do send us unsolicited ideas, such ideas will be deemed non-confidential, and we will not be required to provide any acknowledgement of their source. Again, you retain copyrights and any other rights you may rightfully hold in any Submissions that you submit through the Website or to kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com.

You shall not upload, post, submit, input or otherwise make available on the Website or to kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com any Submissions protected by copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right without the express written permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right, and the burden of determining that any Submissions are not so protected rests entirely with you. You shall be liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, or other proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a Submission.

For all Submissions submitted by you to the Website or kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com, you automatically represent or warrant that you own or otherwise control all the rights to your Submission described herein and that the use or display of the Submission as contemplated in this section will not violate any laws, rules, regulations, or rights of third parties. You agree to hold KSEC harmless from and against all claims, liabilities, and expenses arising out of any potential or actual copyright or trademark misappropriation or infringement claimed against you arising from Submissions you submit through the Website.

Our Intellectual Property

All content on this Website is protected by copyright laws. No content on this site can be used for commercial purposes by you or others.

The Website contains intellectual property owned by KSEC, including copyrights, proprietary information, and other intellectual property. We reserve all rights in and to our common law and registered trademarks, service marks, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights, including but not limited to text, graphics, photographs, video, design, and packages, belonging to KSEC (“IP”).  You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, distribute, display, reproduce or perform, or in any way exploit in any format whatsoever any of our IP in whole or in part, without our prior written consent. We reserve the right to immediately block your access to the Website if you are caught violating this intellectual property policy.

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Website and the resources available for download from the Website (the “Content”) strictly in accordance with these Terms of Use.

As a condition of your use of the Website, you warrant to KSEC that you will not use the Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Content in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Website.

All content included as part of the Content, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Website, is the property of KSEC or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part.

The Content is not for resale. Your use of the Content does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any Content. You will use protected content solely for your individual use and will make no other use of the Content without the express written permission of KSEC and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of KSEC or our website supplier, Squarespace, except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

The KSEC name, the KSEC logo, the KSEC slogans and descriptions, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, slogans, and descriptions are trademarks of KSEC or the website supplier, Squarespace. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of KSEC. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans on this Website are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Changed Terms

We may at any time amend these Terms, including our Privacy Policy and Disclaimers. The date of the last revision will be indicated by the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Such amendments are effective immediately upon notice to you by us posting the new Terms on this Website. We reserve the right to update any portion of our Website, including these Terms, at any time. If you continue to use our Website after we have made revisions, your continued use constitutes consent to the revised Terms and Privacy Policy.

Warranties 

While we make every effort to ensure that the content on this Website is free from errors, we do not give any warranty or other assurance as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or fitness for any particular purpose of the content and materials on this site beyond reasonable efforts to maintain the site. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide our website and related information and services on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any warranties, representations, or guarantees of any kind (whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise) including but not limited to warranties of non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR RESOURCES AVAILABE THROUGH THE WEBSITE.

ADDITIONALLY, KSEC IS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH (I) ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, DENIAL OF SERVICE, ATTACK, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE; (II) LOSS OF REVENUE, ANTICIPATED PROFITS, BUSINESS, SAVINGS, GOODWILL OR DATA; AND (III) THIRD PARTY THEFT OF, DESTRUCTION OF, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION OR PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF OUR NEGLIGENCE, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, FAILURE OF AN ESSENTIAL PURPOSE AND WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY ARISES IN NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LEGAL LIABILITY, EVEN IF KSEC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE DAMAGES.

IN THOSE STATES THAT DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR THE DAMAGES, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN NO EVENT SHALL KSEC’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU EXCEED THE TOTAL PURCHASE PRICE OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES YOU HAVE PURCHASED FROM KSEC.

Availability

Your use of the Website and any associated services may sometimes be subject to interruption or delay. Due to the nature of the Internet and electronic communications, we and our service providers do not make any warranty that our Website or any associated resources or services will be error-free, without interruption or delay, or free from defects in design. We will not be liable to you should our Website or the resources or services supplied through our Website become unavailable, interrupted or delayed for any reason.

Malicious Code

Although we endeavor to prevent the introduction of viruses or other malicious code (“malicious code”) to our Website, we do not guarantee or warrant that our Website, or any data available on the Website, does not contain malicious code. We will not be liable for any damages or harm attributable to malicious code. You are responsible for ensuring that the process you employ for accessing our Website does not expose your computer system to the risk of interference or damage from malicious code.

Security 

The security of your contact information is of utmost importance to us.  However, you acknowledge the risk of unauthorized access to, or alteration of, your data. We do not accept responsibility or liability of any nature for any losses you may sustain as a result of such unauthorized access or alteration.  All information transmitted to or from you is transmitted at your own risk, and you assume all responsibility and risks arising in relation to your use of this Website and the internet. We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your computer system that may arise in connection with your access of this Website or any outbound hyperlinks.

Indemnification

You shall indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, settlements, liabilities, costs, charges, assessments, and expenses, as well as third party claims and causes of action, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, arising out of your breach of any of these Terms, your use of the Website, its content, and any product or service purchased from KSEC. You shall provide us with such assistance, without charge, as we may request in connection with any such defense, including, without limitation, providing us with such information, documents, records, and reasonable access to you, as we deem necessary. You shall not settle any third-party claim or waive any defense without our prior written consent.

Effect of Headings; Severability

The subject headings of the paragraphs and subparagraphs of this Agreement are included for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of any of its provisions. If any portion of these Terms are held to be unenforceable or contrary to law, such portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law so as to best accomplish the objectives of the original provision to the fullest extent allowed by law, and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement; Waiver

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and KSEC pertaining to the Website and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, representations, and understandings between us. Any waiver by us of a breach of or right under these Terms will not constitute a waiver of any other or subsequent breach or right. No waiver shall be binding unless executed in writing by KSEC.

Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Mediation

These Terms, including with the Privacy Policy, shall be construed in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the State of Washington, United States, and the courts of Washington shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute arising in relation to these Terms.  You agree that any proceeding relating to use of this site must be filed exclusively in the appropriate courts located in Washington and you submit to the jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection based on an inconvenient forum or other reasons.

The parties agree to attempt to resolve any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms by mediation. The parties further agree that their respective good faith participation in mediation is a condition precedent to pursuing any other available legal or equitable remedy, including litigation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution procedures.

All Rights Reserved

All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by us. If you do not see a usage scenario here that applies to your intended usage contact us at kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com.

Contact Information

The owner of this website is Kaitlin Schmidt Editing and Consulting. You may contact us by email at kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com.

Copyright Infringement

All content on this site is protected by copyright laws. No content on this site can be used for commercial purposes by you or others.

To report copyright infringement, a party may seek to protect their copyrights against unauthorized use by filing a civil lawsuit in federal district court. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed, consult an attorney. In cases of willful infringement for profit, the U.S. Attorney may initiate a criminal investigation.

Testimonials

At various places on this Website, you may find testimonials from clients and customers of the products and services offered on this Website or by KSEC. The testimonials are actual statements made by clients and/or customers and have been truthfully conveyed on this Website.

Although these testimonials are truthful statements about results obtained by these clients and/or customers, the results obtained by these clients and/or customers are not necessarily typical. You specifically recognize and agree that the testimonials are not a guarantee of results that you or anyone else will obtain by using any products or services offered on this Website or by KSEC.