This is a draft for review. It is not legal advice, and it is not published. Prepared by the Copyright and Licensing desk (Isabelle Rousseau) and the FTC Disclosure desk (Rebecca Sinclair), for the CLO desk (Eleanor Whitfield), for JP's review with qualified counsel. Nothing here has been reviewed by a lawyer. Two sections carry particular risk and are marked in the text: limitation of liability and governing law. Those clauses are jurisdiction-sensitive, and parts of them are unenforceable in some places if drafted badly. They are the reason this document goes to counsel rather than straight to the site. Draft date: 6 August 2026 Status: unpublished draft, no version number assigned Placeholders: anything in[BRACKETS]is unresolved and is listed inREADME.md
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Nerds Like Nice Things ("NLNT", "we", "us") publishes the website at https://www.nerdslikenicethings.com and the email newsletter *The Tuesday Upgrade*.
[LEGAL ENTITY NAME][REGISTERED ADDRESS][GENERAL CONTACT EMAIL]By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.
NLNT is an independent publication about coffee, fragrance, watches, dining and artisan provisions. Everything on it is editorial: reporting, research, analysis and opinion.
Our articles describe how things are made, how they perform, and where in a category the price stops buying you more. That is journalism, not advice addressed to you personally.
Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal, medical, nutritional or safety advice. In particular:
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Decisions you make after reading us are your own.
We accept no payment for coverage. No link on this site earns us a commission. There is no advertising on the site, no sponsored content, and no affiliate programme.
That is a statement about how things stand, not a promise for all time. If NLNT ever takes sponsorship, joins an affiliate programme, or receives products or hospitality that could reasonably affect a reader's judgement of our independence, that fact will be disclosed clearly on the affected article, in a form a reader sees before the recommendation, in line with the FTC's Endorsement Guides. It will not be buried in these terms.
You may read the site, quote it under section 6, link to it, and share it.
You may not:
- break the site, or try to: no attacks, no attempts to get past authentication, no probing for vulnerabilities without our written permission, no interference with other readers' access; - use automated tools to scrape, harvest or bulk-download the site beyond what our robots.txt permits; - misrepresent yourself as NLNT, or use our name or brand in a way that suggests we endorse something we do not; - use the site for anything unlawful.
If you want to test our security, write to us first. [OPEN: whether to publish a security contact and a coordinated disclosure statement. Our recommendation is yes.]
The articles, the newsletter, the glossary, the site design, the layout, the NLNT name and the NLNT brand elements are ours. Copyright in our written work is reserved.
© 2026 Nerds Like Nice Things. All rights reserved.
[OPEN FOR COUNSEL: article artwork on this site is produced with an image generation tool. The copyright status of purely machine-generated images is unsettled and, in the United States, such images may not attract copyright at all. A blanket "all content is our copyright" claim may therefore overstate the position as to images. We have drafted section 6.2 as a contractual restriction on reuse, which does not depend on owning copyright, and we recommend counsel decide whether the notice above should be qualified.]
We want to be quoted. The terms are simple and generous:
- Quote us. Take a short extract for comment, criticism, review or reporting, credit "Nerds Like Nice Things", and link to the article you took it from. - Link to us. Freely, from anywhere, without asking. You do not need permission to link. - Do not republish whole articles. Reproducing an article in full, or so much of it that a reader has no reason to visit the original, needs our written permission. - Do not reuse our images. Article artwork and site imagery may not be copied, extracted or reused separately from the article they appear in, whether or not copyright subsists in a given image. - Do not present our work as yours, and do not remove attribution.
For syndication, licensing, or anything beyond the above, write to [GENERAL CONTACT EMAIL].
We expressly reserve our rights in relation to text and data mining, including for the training or fine-tuning of machine learning models, under Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any equivalent right elsewhere.
This reservation is also expressed in machine-readable form in our robots.txt, which carries content signals permitting search indexing, refusing use for AI training, and disallowing a named set of crawlers. Ignoring those signals does not make the use permitted.
We link out constantly, to sources, makers, retailers and archives. Those sites are not ours. We do not control them, we are not responsible for what they contain or do, and a link is not an endorsement of everything on the other end of it.
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We may change the newsletter's format, frequency or name, or stop publishing it.
How we handle your email address is set out in the Privacy Policy.
[OPEN: the newsletter's sending configuration currently carries no physical postal address in the email footer. Commercial email in the United States must include a valid physical postal address under the CAN-SPAM Act. This is a live gap, recorded in README.md, and it needs the entity address decided in order to fix it.]
Flagged for counsel. The wording and enforceability of this section vary by jurisdiction, and consumer protection law in several places limits how far a publisher can disclaim. Counsel should redraft to fit the entity's jurisdiction and its readership.
We put real work into being accurate. We research from primary sources, we check claims before publication, and when we get something wrong we correct it on the record rather than editing quietly.
Even so, the site is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of inaccuracy, and we do not warrant that any product, maker or vendor we write about will meet your expectations.
Where we are wrong, the remedy we offer is the one a publication can honestly offer: tell us and we will correct it. [OPEN: whether to link the corrections policy here once it is published.]
Flagged for counsel. Drafted deliberately short and neutral. This clause should not be finalised without advice, and an over-broad cap can be struck down in its entirety in some jurisdictions, leaving worse protection than a narrower one.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from your use of the site or from decisions you make based on what you read here.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
[OPEN FOR COUNSEL: whether to include a monetary cap, how to handle consumer readers in jurisdictions where such clauses are restricted, and whether an indemnity from readers is warranted at this scale. Our view is that at five subscribers and eleven articles, a narrow, plainly-worded clause is a better risk position than a maximal one.]
The governing law and the forum for disputes depend on where the operating entity is established and where NLNT is prepared to litigate. We do not know the entity yet (see section 1), so we will not state a jurisdiction here. Naming the wrong one is worse than naming none: it is a representation to readers that would have to be corrected later, and in some consumer contexts it would not bind them anyway.
Once the entity is settled, this section should state the governing law, the venue, and whether mandatory consumer protections in a reader's home country are preserved.
We may update these terms. The current version is the one on this page, and material changes will be dated.
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*End of draft. See README.md in this folder for what was verified, what was assumed, and the decisions needed before this can be published.*