Terms of Service.

1. Who you're dealing with

This site is operated by Mystic Coders, LLC, a California limited liability company (“Mystic Coders,” “we,” “us”). These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of mysticcoders.com and any content, services, or features we make available through it (collectively, the “Site”).

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Site.

2. Everything here is ours

All content on the Site — including the copy, written articles, case studies, code samples, designs, layouts, logos, names, marks, photographs, illustrations, audio, video, animations, and the underlying source code — is owned by Mystic Coders or its licensors and is protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

“Mystic Coders,” the dragon mark, “We Code Fire,” and related names and designs are trademarks of Mystic Coders. Nothing on the Site grants you any license to use them.

3. What you can do

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and view the Site for your own non-commercial, informational purposes. That's it.

You may link to pages on the Site, quote reasonable excerpts with attribution for commentary or journalism, and share our public URLs. Everything beyond that requires our written permission.

4. What you can't do

Without our prior written consent, you may not:

• Copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, sublicense, or create derivative works from any part of the Site.
• Scrape, crawl, data-mine, or use automated tools to extract content in bulk.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source of any non-public code we run.
• Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
• Use the Site or its content in a way that violates any law, infringes anyone's rights, or interferes with the Site's operation.
• Impersonate Mystic Coders or imply endorsement, partnership, or affiliation that doesn't exist.

5. No training on our work

No part of the Site — including text, code, case studies, designs, images, or other media — may be used to train, fine-tune, pre-train, evaluate, benchmark, or otherwise develop machine-learning models, large language models, generative-AI systems, or any related datasets, without prior written permission from Mystic Coders.

This restriction applies to commercial and non-commercial use, to closed-weight and open-weight models, and to any derivative datasets or embeddings. It applies whether or not the Site is publicly accessible at the time of collection.

We're happy for AI assistants to read the Site to answer questions about who we are and what we do — that's what the llms.txt file is for. Reading is not training.

6. Third-party links and services

The Site links to third-party resources — our Substack, GitHub, LinkedIn, Amazon author pages, and others. We don't control those services and we're not responsible for their content, policies, or practices. Your use of third-party services is governed by their own terms.

7. Contacting us doesn't create an engagement

Using the chat, filling out a contact form, or emailing us starts a conversation. It doesn't form a consulting engagement, a contractor relationship, or any obligation on either side. Engagements exist only once we have a signed written agreement.

8. As-is, no warranty

The Site is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, Mystic Coders disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted availability. We make no guarantee that the Site will be error-free, secure, or continuously available.

Content on the Site is for general information. It is not legal, financial, medical, or other professional advice, and you shouldn't rely on it as such.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Mystic Coders and its members, employees, and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to your use of the Site — even if we've been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our aggregate liability for any claim related to the Site is limited to one hundred U.S. dollars (USD $100).

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Mystic Coders from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Site, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

11. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Site will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Orange County, California, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms at any time. When we do, we'll revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Site after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms, or requests for permission to use our content, go to info@mysticcoders.com.