Terms of Use

This site is provided for lawful, personal use.

You're welcome to browse it, read it, laugh at it, share links to it, send it to your friends, and question your dating history afterward.

You may not misuse it.

That includes attempting to hack or disrupt the site, gain unauthorized access, scrape or harvest data, flood forms with spam or automated submissions, impersonate someone else, harass people, or use the site for unlawful or abusive purposes.

Basically:

Don't be an asshole.

The books, excerpts, writing, original terminology, artwork, book covers, imagery, logos, Serena Phoenix name and branding, and other original content appearing on this site are owned by Serena Phoenix LLC or used with permission and may be protected by copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property laws.

You're welcome to share links to the site and quote brief excerpts with clear attribution.

You may not reproduce, republish, sell, distribute, substantially adapt, commercially exploit, or pass off this content as your own without written permission.

You also may not scrape or use site content, books, excerpts, artwork, or other protected material to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning systems without prior written permission.

Read it. Share it. Talk about it.

Just don't fucking steal it.

This site contains information about Serena Phoenix books, characters, excerpts, future projects, release plans, and other creative work.

Some material may come from works in progress and may change before publication. Titles, covers, excerpts, series plans, merchandise, release timing, and availability may also change.

Serena Phoenix books may blend lived experience and nonfiction commentary with composite characters, fictionalized scenes, altered identifying details, imagined scenarios, and dramatized dialogue.

Nothing on this site is intended as legal, medical, psychological, therapeutic, financial, or other professional advice.

Sometimes it's a book.

Let it be a fucking book.

If you submit information through this site, you confirm that the information is yours to provide and is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Please do not send confidential or highly sensitive information through the contact form or public-facing email.

And please do not send unsolicited manuscripts, book ideas, character concepts, story pitches, treatments, or other creative material.

I write for a living. Human beings occasionally come up with similar ideas independently, and I do not want either of us having a bizarre conversation three years from now because somebody emailed me a story idea I never asked to receive.

Information you intentionally submit is handled according to the Privacy Policy.

This site may link to bookstores, retailers, social-media platforms, payment processors, print-on-demand companies, or other third-party services.

I don't control those companies.

Their products, services, security, privacy practices, terms, shipping policies, return policies, and other assorted fine-print fuckery are their responsibility.

When you leave this website, their rules apply.

Books and merchandise may eventually be promoted or sold directly through this site or through third-party retailers and fulfillment providers.

When direct sales become available, additional information about pricing, ordering, payment, production, shipping, processing times, returns, refunds, and fulfillment will be provided where appropriate.

Some merchandise may be made to order through print-on-demand providers, which can affect production and delivery times.

Prices, designs, products, promotional periods, availability, retailers, and release timing may change.

I want the website to work.

The internet occasionally has other plans.

This site is provided “as is” and “as available” to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Serena Phoenix LLC does not guarantee that the site will always be uninterrupted, error-free, perfectly secure, or available forever.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Serena Phoenix LLC and its owners, representatives, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or similar damages arising from use of — or inability to use — this site or its content.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot legally be limited or excluded.

Your use of this site is also subject to the Privacy Policy.

And because apparently this needs its own reminder:

I don't sell your personal information.

Your information is not a community doobie, and your email address is not something I'm collecting so seventeen random companies can start crawling into your inbox.

The Privacy Policy explains what information is collected and how it is handled.

The website, books, merchandise, technology, and business may change over time.

These Terms may be updated when necessary. The Last updated date at the top will show when the current version took effect.

Your continued use of the site after updated Terms are posted means the updated Terms apply to your continued use.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [INSERT STATE WHERE SERENA PHOENIX LLC IS REGISTERED / GOVERNED], without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to:

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