Legal

    Terms of Service

    Last updated: 29 July 2026

    1. Who These Terms Are With

    This website is operated by Wayne Visser, in a personal capacity. "We", "us" and "our" mean Wayne Visser. "You" means anyone who visits or uses the site.

    2. Acceptance and Changes

    By using this site you accept these terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept them, please stop using the site.

    We may change these terms to reflect a change in the law or regulatory guidance, a change in what the site offers, or a change in how the site works. The revised version will be posted here with a new "Last updated" date. Where a change materially reduces your rights, we will flag it on the page for at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the site after a change takes effect means you accept the revised terms.

    Nothing here affects rights you have under law that cannot be excluded or limited by agreement. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

    3. Permitted Use

    You may read and browse the site, and print or download extracts for your own non-commercial use or for internal use within your organisation, provided you keep any copyright notices intact.

    You agree not to:

    • attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site, its hosting or its database
    • probe, scan or test its security, or interfere with its normal operation
    • scrape, harvest or systematically extract content, by automated means or otherwise, except for indexing by a mainstream search engine
    • use the site to send spam or malware, or to do anything unlawful
    • use it in any way that damages or impairs its availability to others

    Honest criticism of Wayne's work is not a breach of these terms.

    4. Intellectual Property

    All content on this site, including text, poems, images, graphics, logos, audio, video and the underlying code, belongs to Wayne Visser or his licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. Book cover images and extracts appear with the permission of, or under licence from, the relevant publishers.

    Except as set out immediately below, or with our written permission, you may not reproduce, republish, distribute, adapt, translate or make derivative works from any of it.

    Research Papers

    Academic papers downloadable from this site are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You may copy and redistribute them in any medium or format, provided you credit Wayne Visser, link to the licence, indicate any changes, do not use them commercially, and do not distribute modified versions. Licence terms: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

    This applies to research papers only. Books, poetry, course materials, presentation slides and everything else on the site remain all rights reserved.

    5. Content You Send Us

    Anything you submit through the enquiry form or send by email must be lawful, accurate, and free of anyone else's confidential information or intellectual property.

    You keep ownership of what you send. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use it in order to respond to you, arrange any engagement you asked about, and keep a record of the exchange. We will not publish or quote your message without asking you first.

    6. Enquiries Are Not Bookings

    Submitting the enquiry form does not create a contract, hold a date, or oblige us to accept an engagement. A speaking, training or advisory booking exists only once it is confirmed in writing on separately agreed terms.

    7. Disclaimers and Liability

    The site and its content are general information. They are not professional, legal, financial, investment or business advice, and you should not act on them without advice suited to your own circumstances.

    We work to keep the site accurate and available, but we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that its content is complete or current.

    Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

    If you are a consumer. We are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable, and we are not responsible for business losses, because the site is provided for personal use. Your statutory rights are unaffected, and nothing in this section takes them away.

    If you are using the site for business purposes. To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential or special loss, for loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or anticipated savings, or for loss or corruption of data. Our total liability for all other claims connected with the site is limited to £100.

    8. Third-Party Links

    The site links to third-party websites, retailers and platforms including Amazon, Routledge, Lulu, LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack and BlueSky. We provide those links for convenience. We do not control those sites, do not endorse everything on them, and are not responsible for their content, their availability, or what happens when you buy something there. Your dealings with them are between you and them.

    9. Availability and Suspension

    We may change, suspend or withdraw the site or any part of it. We may restrict access to anyone who breaches these terms.

    10. General

    If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. If we do not enforce a right straight away, that is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours to a successor to the site or to the business it supports. These terms, with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the whole agreement between us about your use of the site.

    11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

    These terms, and any dispute arising out of them including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the law of England and Wales.

    If you are a consumer, the courts of England and Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction, you keep the protection of any mandatory consumer law of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts. We will bring any claim against a consumer only in the courts of the country where that consumer lives.

    If you are using the site for business purposes, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

    12. Contact

    General and booking enquiries, and legal or data protection matters, all reach us through our contact page.

    Need clarification?

    Send us a message and we'll be happy to help.