This User Agreement (the “Agreement”) sets out the terms for using kindagrainy.com and our newsletter and memberships (together, the “Service”). The Service is run by SANLEE LLC (“we,” “us,” “our”), which publishes kinda grainy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information and is part of this Agreement.

1. Agreeing to these terms

By using the Service, you agree to this Agreement. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

We may update this Agreement from time to time and will change the “Last updated” date when we do. If a change significantly affects members, we’ll email you at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Agreement. If you don’t accept a change, you can cancel your membership before it takes effect.

2. Using the site

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, and at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to buy a membership. You may use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use, which includes reading it in a feed reader via our RSS feed. You’re responsible for following the laws that apply to you when you use it.

3. Our stories and photographs

The stories, photographs, videos, design and other material on the Service belong to us, our writers and photographers, or others who have licensed them to us. They are protected by copyright and other laws. Photographs are credited to the photographer who owns them.

You’re welcome to share links to our stories and to quote short excerpts with credit and a link back to the original. Beyond that, you may not copy, republish, sell or create derivative works from our content, and you may not use our photographs anywhere (including on social media, other websites or in print) without written permission. To ask about licensing a photograph, contact us.

4. Accounts

Some features, such as memberships, require an account. Keep the information in your account accurate and your login details private. Your account is for you alone. Don’t share it or let others use it. You’re responsible for activity on your account. Tell us right away if you think someone has accessed it without your permission.

5. Memberships and payments

We may offer paid memberships that include extra content or other benefits. The price, billing period and benefits will be shown before you buy.

  • Automatic renewal. Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period (for example, monthly or yearly), and your payment method is charged the current price until you cancel. We’ll remind you before an annual membership renews.
  • Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from your account settings or by emailing hello@kindagrainy.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and you keep access until then.
  • Refunds. Payments aren’t refundable for partial billing periods, except where the law requires a refund. If you’re in the EEA or the UK, you agree that your membership starts immediately. Because members-only content becomes available right away, you lose your 14-day right of withdrawal once you start using it, to the extent the law allows.
  • Price changes. We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice by email before a price change affects your membership, so you can cancel first if you choose.
  • Payments. Payments are handled by our third-party payment processor. If a payment fails, we may pause your membership until it’s resolved. Prices may not include applicable taxes, which will be shown at checkout.
  • Changes to benefits. We may change what a membership includes, as long as the core benefit of supporting the site and accessing members-only content stays the same.

6. Newsletter

Our newsletter is free. You can unsubscribe at any time with the link in any email. We may change how often we send it or stop sending it.

7. What you may not do

When using the Service, you may not:

  • break the law or infringe anyone else’s rights;
  • copy, scrape, crawl or collect content from the Service with bots or other automated tools, except that search engines may index the site for search results;
  • use any content from the Service to train, fine-tune or ground (including through retrieval-augmented generation) artificial intelligence or machine learning models without our written permission;
  • get around paywalls or other access restrictions, or share members-only content publicly;
  • attack, overload, probe or interfere with the Service or its security;
  • upload or send viruses or other harmful code;
  • pretend to be someone else or falsely claim to be affiliated with us;
  • use the Service to send spam or unsolicited advertising.

8. Things you send us

If you send us photographs, story pitches or other material for possible publication, you keep ownership of it. We’ll agree the terms of publication, including credit and any payment, with you before we publish anything. You confirm that you have the rights to what you send us.

If you send us feedback or suggestions about the Service, we may use them without owing you anything.

9. Affiliate links and advertising

Some stories, especially gear stories, may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships don’t decide what we write about or recommend. We may also show advertising on the Service. Purchases you make from other sellers are between you and that seller.

10. Gear and technique information

Our stories reflect our writers’ own experience and opinions. Prices, specifications and availability of gear change, and we can’t guarantee they’re current or accurate. Some techniques we write about, such as developing film at home, involve chemicals or equipment. Follow the manufacturer’s safety instructions and use your own judgment. You’re responsible for how you use what you read here.

11. Other websites and embedded content

The Service links to, and embeds content from, other websites, such as Instagram. We don’t control those sites and aren’t responsible for their content or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

We respect other people’s work, especially photographers’ work. If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, email hello@kindagrainy.com with “Copyright complaint” in the subject line and include:

  • your physical or electronic signature;
  • the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed;
  • the material you believe is infringing, with its URL on the Service;
  • your name, address, phone number and email address;
  • a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn’t authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
  • a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.

We’ll review valid notices promptly and remove or disable access to infringing material where appropriate. We’ll end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. Knowingly making a false claim of infringement may make you liable for damages.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied. That includes warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don’t promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure. Nothing in this Agreement limits any rights you have under consumer protection laws that can’t be waived.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we won’t be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose and US $50. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you. Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that can’t legally be limited, such as liability for fraud or, where applicable, for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

15. Indemnification

If a claim is brought against us because you broke this Agreement or the law, or infringed someone else’s rights, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs, including reasonable legal fees, to the extent the law allows.

16. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or end your access to the Service if you seriously or repeatedly break this Agreement, or if we have to for legal reasons. If we end a paid membership for any reason other than your breach, we’ll refund the unused part of your current billing period. We may also change or stop offering any part of the Service. If we stop offering memberships, we’ll give members reasonable notice and a refund for any unused period. You can stop using the Service and close your account at any time.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination, such as sections 3, 13, 14, 15 and 17, will continue to apply.

17. Governing law and disputes

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Ohio, and you and we agree to those courts’ jurisdiction. If you live in the EEA or the UK, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your country, and you may bring claims in your local courts.

Before bringing a claim, please contact us at hello@kindagrainy.com so we can try to resolve the issue informally.

18. General

This Agreement and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce part of this Agreement right away, we haven’t waived our right to enforce it later. You may not transfer your rights under this Agreement without our consent. We may transfer ours if kinda grainy is sold or reorganized. We’re not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

19. Contact us

If you have questions about this Agreement, email us at hello@kindagrainy.com or write to us at:

SANLEE LLC
3664 Bluejay Ridge Dr.
Powell, OH 43065
United States

See also our Privacy Policy.