Terms of Use for nonhumanminds.com
Last Updated: August 8, 2026
Welcome to nonhumanminds.com (the “Site”). This Site is owned and operated by Marc Hanson (“I,” “me,” “my,” or “the Operator”).
By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (“Terms”). If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must immediately cease all access to and use of the Site.
1. Age Restriction and Content Advisory
The Site contains personal memoirs, creative works, and analytical reflections that may include explicit adult themes, strong language, and graphic descriptions (designated as mature/NC-17 content). The content is intended exclusively for mature audiences.
Age Requirement: You must be at least 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is older) to access or view the material on this Site.
Geographic Availability: The Operator makes no representation that the content on this Site is appropriate, legal, or available for use in all locations or jurisdictions.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
a. Ownership: All content, design, code, graphics, text, images, visual assets, and audio/video elements on the Site are the exclusive intellectual property of the Operator or its licensors, protected under United States and international copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.
b. Limited License: Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you are granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and view the content solely for private, non-commercial purposes.
c. General Restrictions: Except as expressly authorized under Section 2(d) or Section 11, you may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any material from the Site without prior written consent from the Operator.
d. Permissible Attribution: Brief excerpts may be shared for non-commercial commentary, reviews, or academic discussion, provided full credit is given to “nonhumanminds.com” alongside a direct hyperlink to the source material.
3. User Conduct and Acceptable Use
You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You expressly agree not to:
Use the Site in any way that violates applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.
Post or transmit any defamatory material, harassing, abusive, threatening, or infringing upon third-party rights.
Engage in any conduct that disables, overburdens, damages, or impairs the proper working of the Site or interferes with any other party’s use of the Site.
Deploy automated mechanisms (e.g., spiders, robots, scrapers, crawlers) to access or harvest data from the Site for any purpose without explicit written authorization.
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Site, the server on which the Site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Site.
4. Comments and User Submissions
If the Site enables user comments, feedback, or submissions (“Submissions”):
a. Ownership & License: Any non-personal information, comments, or submissions you communicate to the Operator become the property of the Operator. You grant the Operator a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, and display such Submissions in connection with the Site.
b. User Warranty: You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to your Submissions, and that your Submissions do not violate the rights of any third party or applicable law. The Operator reserves the right to remove or moderate any Submission at any time without prior notice.
5. Content Warnings and Informed Consent
Certain articles, essays, or data streams containing intense or sensitive themes are preceded by a System Notice: Content Advisory.
User Agency: Content advisories provide specific notice regarding mature themes. By interacting with the “Proceed” or activation control, you confirm that you have been adequately warned and elect to consume the material voluntarily.
Interface Standards: Content warnings strive to adhere to established digital accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA benchmarks) by providing clear visual contrast and a clear option to exit or abort navigation before exposure.
Assumption of Responsibility: Content advisories are provided as a courtesy. You maintain full responsibility for your choice to view content and for your own psychological well-being.
Content Categorization: The Operator reserves sole discretion over the classification, gating, or exclusion of materials on this platform.
6. No-Derivatives, AI Restrictions, and Data Sovereignty
a. Strict No-Derivatives (ND) Policy: All works, literary text, and visual assets on this platform are provided under a strict No-Derivatives standard. You are prohibited from altering, transforming, remixing, or building upon this content. This prohibition includes creating unauthorized fan works, continuations, or secondary media.
b. Prohibition on AI Ingestion and Machine Learning: Express permission is denied for any entity or automated system to scrape, extract, copy, parse, or ingest any content from this Site for training, fine-tuning, testing, or validating Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, Large Language Models (LLMs), machine learning algorithms, or data analytics software.
c. Private Access Standard: Content is made available solely for private, personal reading. Mass redistribution, mirror hosting, re-uploading, or public broadcasting of raw text, transcriptions, or screenshots to public third-party platforms or social media without authorization violates these Terms.
d. Enforcement: Unauthorized automated extraction, scraping, or breach of these restrictions may result in immediate access revocation, IP blocking, and potential legal remedies to protect the integrity of the material.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIALS, AND SERVICES PROVIDED THEREON ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, THE OPERATOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Subjective Recollections: Content published as memoirs, personal logs, or narratives constitutes subjective recollections as remembered by the Operator and may not be independently verified.
Technical Warranties: The Operator does not warrant that the Site will operate uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components.
8. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPERATOR, AFFILIATES, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF USE, OR GOODWILL) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR ITS CONTENT, REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY AND EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
9. External Links
The Site may contain links to third-party websites or external services. These links are provided solely for convenience. The Operator has no control over the content, security, or privacy policies of third-party sites and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage arising from your use of them.
10. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Policy
The Operator respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material on the Site infringes upon a copyright you own or control, please submit a formal notification to the Operator via the contact information provided below. Your notification must include:
A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized representative.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate the material on the Site.
Your contact information (address, telephone number, and email).
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
11. Privacy and Data Collection
Your use of the Site is also subject to our Privacy practices. The Site does not actively monetize or trade personal visitor data. Any analytical data, technical cookies, or server logs collected during your visit are used solely for site operation, maintenance, and security enforcement.
12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or related to them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, United States, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision.
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of these Terms or the Site shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located in the State of New York.
13. Modifications to Terms
The Operator reserves the right to revise and update these Terms at any time in sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when posted. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of revised Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes.
14. Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or legal notices regarding these Terms, please get in touch with the Operator via the direct message feature on our Contact Page or by emailing the Operator directly through the dedicated portal at nonhumanminds.com.