garnix Terms and Conditions

This repository contains garnix's Terms and Conditions. We make them available here to:

a) facilitate comparison of any updates to our terms. You can simply check the diff betweent the two relevant commits b) allow for questions and contributions. Open an issue or submit a PR. c) make it easy for other people to keep their terms simple. You can either fork this repo, or import it as a nix project, or use it as a vale style.

Note: None of the content here is legal advice, or legally binding. Even the terms.html themselves are not to be preferred over what you find on our website.

Branches

The HEAD of the main branch constitutes the current terms. upcoming is where upcoming changes go.

Style

We strive to make the terms short and easy to understand. This includes avoiding legalese where possible.

There is a lot of literature on "plain English" legal writing. A good starting point is Bryan A. Garner's "Legal Writing in Plain English" or Kenneth Adams' "A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting".

We use vale to encode and enforce style guidelines for simple legal writing.

Inspiration

Some

Contributing

If anything is unclear, open an issue!

If you have an improvement to suggest, do open a pull request. Note however that often legal writing has specific reasons for being written that way, and that reviews are not always done by lawyers, so where possible link to reputable sources providing arguments for the change.

For example, if you are suggesting a change from "represents and warrants" to "states", you might link to this article.

Always send pull requests to the upcoming branch. Since users must be notified of changes to the terms, and it's annoying to receive these emails, we bundle a number of these changes together in the upcoming branch. We then send out an email about the changes, and merge upcoming into main.