Legal Notice and Terms of Use
Effective Date: April 29, 2026
These Legal Notices and Terms of Use (“Notices and Terms”) are shorter and plainer than what I would draft for a corporate client. The site they govern is also smaller and plainer. Even so, please read them. By using this site, you agree to these Notices and Terms.
1. About this site and these terms
This is the personal author website of Kathryne M. Morris ("Kate," "I," or "me"). I use it to share information about my book, Not Built for You, and related writing. These Notices and Terms, together with the Privacy Notice posted on this site, govern your access to and use of the site. If you do not agree to them, please do not use the site.
I may update these Notices and Terms from time to time. The version posted here, with the date above, is the current one. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the updated Notices and Terms.
2. No legal advice and no lawyer-client relationship
I am a lawyer. This site is not a law firm website, and nothing on it is legal advice.
Reading anything on this site, including any chapter, edition, excerpt, blog post, newsletter, or other content, does not create a lawyer-client relationship between you and me. If you have a legal question, please consult a lawyer admitted in your jurisdiction. Do not send me confidential information about your legal matter through this site or by email; if you do, I cannot treat it as confidential, and sending it will not create a lawyer-client relationship.
The book itself is a work of legal and policy commentary. It exclusively expresses my own views. It is not legal advice, and it should not be relied on as legal advice in any specific situation.
3. Intellectual property
All content on this site — including the text of the book and any excerpts, chapter drafts, blog posts, newsletters, essays, photographs, graphics, and the layout and design of the site itself — is owned by me or used with permission, and is protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
You may:
read the content,
quote brief excerpts for non-commercial purposes such as review, commentary, criticism, scholarship, and teaching, with attribution, consistent with fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107, and
share links to pages on this site.
You may not, without my prior written permission:
reproduce, republish, distribute, or display substantial portions of the content,
create derivative works,
use the content for commercial purposes, or
remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
The book’s title, my name, and any associated logos are my trademarks or service marks. Use of them in a way that is likely to cause confusion as to source, sponsorship, or endorsement is not permitted.
4. AI training, scraping, and automated access
Given what the book is about, I will say this directly.
I do not consent to the use of any content on this site — including the text of the book, excerpts, blog posts, newsletters, the text of these Terms, or any other content — for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmenting, evaluating, or otherwise developing any third-party generative artificial intelligence or machine learning system. Reservation of rights is hereby asserted, including under Article 4(3) of the EU Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and any analogous provisions in other jurisdictions.
You also may not, without my prior written permission, use any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, or other automated means to access, copy, index, harvest, or aggregate content from this site, except for legitimate search-engine indexing that respects the site's robots.txt directives.
These restrictions apply regardless of whether the content is paywalled, gated, or freely accessible.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to use this site to:
violate any applicable law or regulation,
infringe any intellectual property or other right of mine or any third party,
transmit any virus, malware, or other harmful code,
interfere with or disrupt the site or the servers or networks that host it,
attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the site, or
impersonate me or any other person.
I host this site on Squarespace, and your use of the site is also subject to Squarespace's applicable terms.
6. Links to other sites
This site may link to third-party websites — for example, the footnotes of my book provide links to other websites. Those websites are not under my control, and I am not responsible for their content, their privacy practices, or anything that happens when you go there. A link is not an endorsement; it is a link.
7. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, I DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND UNINTERRUPTED AVAILABILITY.
I DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
8. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, I WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF, OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE, THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENT, REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY AND EVEN IF I HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
IN NO EVENT WILL MY TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00).
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN THAT CASE, MY LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
9. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold me harmless from any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your breach of these Notices and Terms, your misuse of the site, or your violation of any law or the rights of any third party in connection with your use of the site.
10. Governing law and disputes
These Notices and Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to your use of this site, are exclusively governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The exclusive forum for any such dispute is the state or federal courts located in Dallas County, Texas, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any right to a jury trial and any right to participate in a class action.
If any provision of these Notice and Terms is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
11. Contact
Questions about these Notice and Terms can be sent to:
Kathryne M. Morris at katesbook@proton.me
Thank you for reading. The book, when you get to it, is longer.