Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using AlexanderWasson.dev ("this website") or by engaging or using my services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any part of these Terms, please do not use this website or my services.

2. About This Website

This website is a personal portfolio and informational website operated by Alexander Wasson, an individual based in the State of Maine. It is provided for general informational purposes, to showcase my work, and to facilitate contact and, where applicable, paid services including consulting, web development, and website hosting. The content on this website is not professional, legal, financial, medical, or other regulated advice.

3. Use of Website

I host this website across two locations. Depending on the subdomain, its hosting and traffic path may use Cloudflare, RackNerd, or both. RackNerd acts as a traffic proxy in this setup, and a dedicated IPv4 address may be used. You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes and not to:

• Use this website for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the website, its servers, or any connected systems or networks
• Interfere with or disrupt the proper functioning of the website
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or otherwise reproduce substantial portions of the website's content without prior written permission
• Upload, transmit, or distribute malicious code, malware, or any content that could damage the website or its users
• Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity

4. AI-Assisted Development and Content

Portions of this website, including some content, code, and design elements, may be created, drafted, reviewed, or enhanced with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. You acknowledge and agree that:

• Text and other content on this website may have been generated, summarized, or refined with the help of AI and is provided for informational purposes only
• AI-generated content may contain errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and should not be relied upon as definitive or authoritative
• I do not warrant the completeness, accuracy, or reliability of AI-assisted content
• You are solely responsible for verifying any information before acting on it

5. Services

I provide IT consulting, web development, technology support, and website hosting services as described on this website. Where paid services are offered, they are billed at the stated rate unless otherwise agreed in writing, and payment terms will be discussed and agreed upon before any work begins. My obligations for any paid service are limited to the scope set out in the relevant written agreement. Hosting services are provided on a best-efforts basis; I do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, and backups, maintenance windows, throughput, and uptime commitments are only those expressly stated in your hosting agreement.

6. Websites I Host for Others

I host websites for third parties ("clients") across two locations. Depending on a site's subdomain and configuration, its traffic may use Cloudflare, RackNerd, or both. RackNerd acts as a traffic proxy, and a dedicated IPv4 address may be used in that setup. It is important to distinguish two separate roles I may play with respect to a client's website:

• Hosting role. I operate the hosting for client websites across two locations. Depending on the subdomain and configuration, Cloudflare, RackNerd, or both may handle or proxy traffic; RackNerd acts as a traffic proxy, and a dedicated IPv4 address may be used. Simply providing hosting services does not make me the publisher or speaker of the client's content. To the extent permitted by applicable law, I do not assume responsibility for the content published by clients on websites I host, and I do not exercise editorial control over that content. Federal law (including 47 U.S.C. § 230) may provide protections to hosts depending on the circumstances, and nothing in these Terms guarantees or waives any such protection.
• Development role. Separately, clients sometimes hire me to build all or part of a website. When I do, I act as a developer or contractor performing work at the client's direction, rather than as a publisher of the content the client provides, approves, or later changes. Development work does not, by itself, make me responsible for a client's content, but it is also true that I will sometimes have built the very site at issue — those are two different facts with two different consequences.
• Level of involvement varies by project. My involvement with the websites I host is not the same for every project. For some websites I built or developed the entire site, for others I developed only parts of the site, and at least one website I host was fully built by a third party and has not been modified or contributed to by me at all. Regardless of how much (or how little) I built on a given site, hosting it does not make me responsible for the client's content.
• Client responsibility. Clients are solely responsible for the content on their websites, including content their visitors submit, for ensuring that content does not violate any law, and for complying with all applicable laws, including the privacy and data protection obligations that apply to their own website operations.
• No warranties on client sites. I do not warrant the accuracy, legality, availability, or security of any website I host on a client's behalf, and such websites are governed by that client's own terms, privacy policy, and agreements.
• Takedowns and legal process. I will cooperate with lawful takedown requests, including notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), court orders, and requests from law enforcement, as required by law, and I may suspend or remove access to any hosted website as described in Section 8.
• Client accounts and credentials. For hosted clients, I create and administer one or more accounts used to access the hosting service and any website administration tools, and I may hold the login credentials needed to operate and support the service. You are responsible for keeping your login information secure, for all activity that occurs under your accounts, and for promptly reporting any unauthorized access. I will revoke or delete accounts on termination as described in Section 8.

7. Acceptable Use Policy

These standards apply to visitors of this website and to clients and their visitors with respect to any website I host. You may not use this website or any hosted website to:

• Publish, store, or transmit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, or obscene
• Publish, store, or transmit child sexual abuse material (I will report such material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement)
• Distribute malware, viruses, worms, ransomware, or other malicious code
• Conduct phishing, fraud, scams, or deceptive schemes against individuals
• Send spam or bulk unsolicited communications through hosted systems
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, network, or data, or attack, overload, or disrupt any service
• Use resources (bandwidth, storage, or processing capacity) to such an extent that it materially degrades the performance or availability of my other services or clients
• Violate any law or regulation, or infringe the rights (including intellectual property and privacy rights) of any third party
• Impersonate any person or entity

I may remove or suspend access to content that violates these standards, consistent with Section 8.

8. Termination and Suspension

I may suspend or terminate this website's services to you, or access to any website I host for you, in whole or in part, at any time, for reasons including but not limited to:

• Failure to pay amounts due on time
• Breach of these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or the applicable hosting agreement
• Illegal activity, or reasonable suspicion of illegal activity, involving your website, content, or account
• Abuse of services, including excessive resource usage that affects other clients or my operations
• Repeated failure to cooperate with support, or repeated abusive or threatening conduct toward me
• Security threats to my systems, my other clients, or the public
• Circumstances outside my reasonable control (including provider outages, force majeure, or actions by Cloudflare or other vendors)
• Abandonment, such as prolonged non-payment or unresponsiveness to reasonable contact attempts
• Your request to cancel the service
• Compliance with law, legal process, or government request

Where reasonably practicable, I will give you notice before suspension or termination; however, I may act immediately where required by law, for security reasons, or where continued operation presents a risk of harm. After termination, your right to use the hosted service ends. You remain responsible for all fees accrued through termination, and access to or recovery of your content is subject to Section 9 (Backups and Data Responsibility).

9. Backups and Data Responsibility

You are responsible for your own website content and for all data submitted through your website by visitors, including form submissions, user accounts, uploaded files, and application data. Unless you have expressly purchased a backup or data-retention service, I do not guarantee that website files, databases, uploaded files, form submissions, application data, email, or logs can be recovered after any data loss. I may also delete your data after termination or suspension as described in Section 8. You should maintain your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

10. Intellectual Property

All content on this website, including text, images, photographs, code, graphics, and design, is owned by Alexander Wasson or used with permission unless otherwise noted. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, display, or create derivative works from any content without prior written permission. If you submit feedback or suggestions, you grant me a perpetual, royalty-free license to use them to improve the website and services.

With respect to websites I create for clients: clients retain ownership of their content (text, images, and business information). The underlying code, design, and technical work that I create for a client may be owned by me, by the client, or shared, as set out in the applicable written agreement. For any website I host but did not develop — including the site I host that has not been contributed to by me at all — I claim no authorship or ownership of that site's code or content, which belong to the site's own developers and owner.

Third-party software, libraries, fonts, frameworks, themes, and other components used in any website I build or host remain subject to their respective licenses and remain the property of their respective owners.

11. Third-Party Services

I operate this website and the websites I host across two locations. Depending on the subdomain, the hosting and traffic path may use Cloudflare, RackNerd, or both. RackNerd acts as a traffic proxy in this setup, and a dedicated IPv4 address may be used. Cloudflare may provide proxy, content-delivery, or security services where enabled. Your interactions with these providers are subject to their own terms and privacy policies. I am not responsible for the practices, content, or policies of Cloudflare, RackNerd, other third-party services, or external websites linked from this website or from websites I host.

12. Disclaimers of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, this website and all content, information, and materials available through it are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or availability. I do not warrant that this website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components, and I make no warranty regarding the availability, security, or content of any website I host for a client. Hosting and other paid services are provided with the warranties, if any, expressly stated in the applicable written agreement.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, I shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or in connection with your use of this website, its content, your use of websites I host, or my services, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. For any claim arising out of or relating to a paid service, my total aggregate liability shall not exceed the amount you actually paid for that specific service. For any claim arising out of or relating to your use of this website, or to any website I host for a client, my total aggregate liability shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00). Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability to the extent, and only to the extent, that applicable law prohibits such limitation or exclusion, and nothing in these Terms purports to waive liability that legally cannot be waived.

Notwithstanding the limitations above, nothing in these Terms limits my liability for a security failure caused by my own negligence, willful misconduct, or breach of these Terms. Where I am responsible for such a failure, I will handle and address it myself, including responding to the affected party as required by applicable law, rather than relying on the limitations of this section.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Alexander Wasson and, where applicable, his agents and service providers, from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to the extent they arise out of or relate to: (a) content published on a website I host for you, including content submitted by your visitors; (b) your breach of these Terms or the applicable hosting agreement; or (c) your violation of applicable law or the rights of any third party. Your obligations under this section do not apply to the extent a claim is caused by my own negligence, willful misconduct, or breach of these Terms.

15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maine, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, this website, any website I host, or my services shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Maine, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

16. Entire Agreement and Amendments

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any written service or hosting agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and me regarding your use of this website and my services, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings. Where a written service or hosting agreement exists, that agreement controls over these Terms to the extent of any conflict with respect to that engagement. These documents may be amended only by a written agreement signed by both parties, including an email exchange in which both parties explicitly confirm the change; informal statements made in email, messages, or conversation do not amend these documents unless confirmed in writing by both parties.

17. Severability and Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. My failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of that right or provision.

18. Changes to Terms

I reserve the right to update these Terms of Service at any time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Continued use of the website or my services after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. For material changes affecting existing paid services, I will notify affected clients by email at least thirty (30) days before the changes take effect, and such changes will apply to existing services at the end of that notice period unless you cancel the affected service beforehand. This advance-notice obligation does not apply where a change is required by law or for security or legal compliance reasons; in those cases I will notify you as soon as practicable.

19. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact me.