Agreement between User and rebeccawade.net

The rebeccawade.net website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages operated by Rebecca Wade. Rebeccawade.net is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of rebeccawade.net constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully and keep a copy for your reference.

Rebeccawade.net is a Social Networking Site. I am an author and artist. My website is where you can learn more about me, my novels, and my creative work.

Privacy

Your use of rebeccawade.net is subject to Rebecca Wade’s Privacy Policy. Please review the Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting rebeccawade.net or sending emails to Rebecca Wade constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications provided to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Your Account

If you use this Site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that Rebecca Wade is not responsible for third-party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. Rebecca Wade and her associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in her sole discretion.

Children’s Data

Rebecca Wade does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you may use rebeccawade.net only with the permission of a parent or guardian.

 Cancellation/Refund Policy

You are welcome to unsubscribe at any time.

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services

Rebeccawade.net may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Rebecca Wade. She is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including, without limitation, any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Rebecca Wade is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Rebecca Wade of the site or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via the Site are delivered by third-party sites and organisations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the Site, you hereby acknowledge and consent that Rebecca Wade may share such information and data with any third party with whom Rebecca Wade has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of Site users and customers. (For example, signing up for newsletters will share information gathered on the sign-up form with a third-party emailing platform, which is necessary to create and send newsletters.)

Rebecca Wade will never knowingly sell or share your information with third-party sites or organisations that send spam or share your data without your consent.

 No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use rebeccawade.net, strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Rebecca Wade that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Rebecca Wade or the Site’s 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, found on the Site. Rebecca Wade’s content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make unauthorised 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 personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Rebecca Wade 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 Rebecca Wade or our licensors except as expressly authorised by these Terms.

International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Rebecca Wade from Australia. If you access the Service from a location outside Australia, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the content accessed through rebeccawade.net in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Rebecca Wade, her associates, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Rebecca Wade reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Rebecca Wade in asserting any available defences.

Class Action Waiver

Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT A PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN EACH’S INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PUTATIVE CLASS, COLLECTIVE AND/ OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, SUCH AS IN THE FORM OF A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER. Further, unless both you and Rebecca Wade agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

Liability Disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. REBECCA WADE AND/OR HER SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.

REBECCA WADE AND/OR HER SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. REBECCA WADE AND/OR HER SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL REBECCA WADE AND/OR HER SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF REBECCA WADE OR ANY OF HER SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Termination/Access Restriction

Rebecca Wade reserves the right, in her sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. Use of the Site is unauthorised in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Rebecca Wade as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Rebecca Wade’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Rebecca Wade’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Rebecca Wade with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Rebecca Wade with respect to the Site, and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Rebecca Wade with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish of the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Changes to Terms

Rebecca Wade reserves the right, in her sole discretion, to change the Terms under which rebeccawade.net is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Rebecca Wade encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

Effective as of 10 September 2025