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These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and the operator of https://daam.io (“DAAM,” “we,” “us”). “Protected Parties” means DAAM, that operator, and its owners, authors, contributors, licensors, successors, and assigns. Protected Parties are intended third-party beneficiaries of every disclaimer, limitation, indemnity, release, and dispute clause here.

Accessing, browsing, linking to, scraping, or otherwise using the website, text, software, and on-device tools at this origin (the “Service”) is acceptance. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you bind that organization too.

The Service is a field manual: essays, quotations for commentary, reading lists, optional drills, and an optional practice log that runs in your browser. It is information and opinion. It is not coaching, counseling, medical care, therapy, legal advice, financial advice, or a fitness program tailored to you.

You assume all risk of acting on anything you read here — including injury, lost time, lost data, and disappointment. You are the one who has to do the work.

The Service is for individuals 18 or older. By using it you represent that you are 18+, have capacity to contract, and will comply with these Terms and with United States and California law.

We grant a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view the Service for personal, non-commercial use, and to keep a private log in your own browser. We may revoke that license at any time, for any reason or none.

You may not, and you may not assist anyone to:

• scrape, harvest, or bulk-copy the Service in a way that burdens it, or circumvent rate limits or technical measures;
• impersonate DAAM or a Protected Party, or suggest we endorse you;
• use the Service to build a competing product that copies our compilation, structure, or distinctive presentation;
• introduce malware, probe for vulnerabilities except as described in the Security annex, or attempt to interrupt the Service;
• harass, threaten, defame, dox, or flood a Protected Party with repetitive, abusive, or bad-faith messages, takedown notices, or legal process;
• misrepresent facts in a complaint, demand, or copyright notice;
• use the Service if we have told you not to.

The compilation, arrangement, original writing, design, and software of the Service are owned by us or our licensors. Quotes, book titles, cover copy, and films remain their authors’ and publishers’. We list short excerpts and bibliographic facts for education, commentary, and criticism.

If you believe material on the Service infringes a right you own, the exclusive remedy — to the fullest extent California and U.S. law allow — is to email contact@daam.io with (a) your name and contact, (b) the work claimed, (c) the exact URL and quote, and (d) a good-faith statement of ownership. We may remove, keep, or contextualize the material. You agree not to seek damages, statutory penalties, or an injunction shutting down the Service over listed commentary while that process is available. Knowingly false notices may create liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and California law.

Links to Amazon, YouTube, podcast hosts, and other sites are conveniences. We do not control them, do not endorse their goods, and are not liable for their content, privacy, pricing, or security. Your use of those sites is solely between you and them.

Practice checks, notes, and saved quotes live in your browser’s localStorage. We do not receive a copy. Loss, corruption, or disclosure of that data — by you, your browser, a shared device, or a backup you made — is your risk. Clearing it is irreversible from our side because there is no our side.

Email to contact@daam.io is the only channel. We have no duty to read, answer, or retain mail. We may ignore messages that are abusive, repetitive, automated, unintelligible, or that demand action without a good-faith factual basis. Silence is not agreement, waiver, or admission. We may keep correspondence as needed to protect Protected Parties, prevent abuse, or comply with law.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Service is accurate, complete, uninterrupted, secure, or free of defects, or that quoted material is correctly attributed. Some jurisdictions do not allow implied-warranty disclaimers; those limits apply only to the extent California law requires.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PROTECTED PARTIES ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST DEVICE CONTENTS, PERSONAL INJURY, OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, ARISING FROM THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE, AND WHETHER THE THEORY IS CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF ALL PROTECTED PARTIES FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS CAPPED AT THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM — WHICH IS ZERO — OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

These limits do not apply to liability that California Civil Code § 1668 or other mandatory California law does not allow us to limit, including our own fraud or willful injury to person or property. They do apply to the fullest remaining extent.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Protected Parties from any claim, demand, loss, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising out of: your use of the Service; your content or email; your violation of these Terms or of law; your infringement of someone else’s rights; or a dispute you start that a court finds was without reasonable basis, brought in bad faith, or brought to harass.

To the fullest extent allowed, you release Protected Parties from claims arising out of your use of the Service that you do not now know or suspect. You have read and waive California Civil Code § 1542, which states: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.”

Before filing a claim, you must email contact@daam.io with “NOTICE OF DISPUTE” in the subject, your name, a way to reply, and a good-faith description of the problem and the relief you want. You then wait thirty (30) days while we try to resolve it. Notices that omit those facts, or that are sent only to other addresses or social accounts, do not start this period and do not preserve your claim.

These Terms and any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to them or the Service — including tort, statute, and privacy claims — are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States of America, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where federal law exclusively controls.

Exclusive venue for any legal action, suit, or proceeding is the state courts of California or the United States federal courts sitting in California, USA. You consent to personal jurisdiction there. You waive objection on grounds of venue or inconvenient forum. You will not sue a Protected Party in any other country, state, or tribunal.

To the maximum extent permitted by California and federal law, you bring claims only in your individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, coordinated, or representative proceeding, and you waive any right to a jury trial. If a court holds this waiver unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim proceeds individually in the California venue above; the rest of these Terms still apply.

Except where California law forbids a shorter period, any claim relating to the Service must be filed within one (1) year after it accrues, or it is permanently barred.

If a Protected Party prevails in whole or in part, or if a claim is dismissed as frivolous, vexatious, or brought in bad faith, you will pay that party’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. We may also seek them under California Code of Civil Procedure §§ 128.5 and 128.7.

You agree that money is an adequate remedy for complaints about content or these Terms, and you will not seek an injunction that takes the Service offline or that restrains a Protected Party’s speech, except as a court in California may require after notice and a hearing. We may seek injunctive relief to stop scraping, impersonation, or other misuse, without a bond to the extent the law allows.

We may amend these Terms by posting a new version with a new date. Continued use after that date is acceptance. We may suspend or stop the Service at any time, without notice and without liability. You may stop using it at any time.

You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them, and they bind our successors. If a clause is held invalid, the rest remains in force and will be modified only as little as needed to be valid. A failure to enforce is not a waiver. These Terms are the entire agreement on the Service. Headings are for reading, not interpretation.

Legal notices: contact@daam.io. Related: Privacy and Security. Operated with California, USA as the place of the contract and of any action.