Hearth Diaries publishes articles about decorating small apartments, rentals, and rooms that refuse to cooperate. The site is free to read, and most visitors will never need this page. It exists anyway, because a clear agreement protects both sides of the arrangement. What follows sets out the rules for using this website and the limits of what Hearth Diaries is responsible for.
Agreeing To These Terms
By accessing Hearth Diaries, reading its articles, leaving a comment, subscribing to the newsletter, or using any other feature of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and by all applicable laws and regulations in your own location.
If you do not accept any part of this agreement, you are asked to stop using the site. Continued access is treated as acceptance.
What This Website Is
Hearth Diaries is an editorial blog covering small space and apartment decorating. Its articles include furniture measurement guides, rental-safe decorating ideas, storage suggestions, lighting advice, and product recommendations aimed at readers living in compact homes.
The site is informational in nature. It is not a design consultancy, a contractor, a retailer, or a service provider, and nothing published here creates a professional relationship between Hearth Diaries and any reader.
Who May Use This Site
Hearth Diaries is intended for adults aged 18 and over. Visitors between the ages of 13 and 18 may use the site only with the knowledge and consent of a parent or legal guardian.
The site is not designed or intended for children under the age of 13, and use by anyone in that age group is prohibited. By using Hearth Diaries, you confirm that you meet the age requirements set out above and that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement.
How Your Information Is Handled
Your use of this website is also governed by the Hearth Diaries Privacy Policy, which explains what information is collected, how it is used, how long it is kept, and what rights you have over it. The Privacy Policy is published as a separate page on this site and forms part of your agreement with Hearth Diaries.
You are encouraged to read it. Using the site indicates acceptance of both documents together.
Permission To Use The Material Here
Hearth Diaries grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and view the content on this site for your own personal, non-commercial use.
This is a license, not a transfer of ownership. Title to the material remains with Hearth Diaries and its licensors at all times, and the license ends automatically if you breach any of the restrictions below.
What You May Not Do With The Content
The following are prohibited without prior written permission from Hearth Diaries:
- Copying, reproducing, republishing, or redistributing any material from the site
- Modifying, adapting, or creating derivative works from any content published here
- Using any material for commercial purposes, including resale, paid newsletters, or client work
- Attempting to decompile or reverse engineer any software used on this website
- Removing, obscuring, or altering any copyright, trademark, or attribution notice
- Transferring the material to another person or mirroring it on any other server
- Scraping, harvesting, or systematically extracting content, including for the purpose of training machine learning models
- Using bots, crawlers, spiders, or other automated tools to access the site outside of standard search engine indexing
- Framing or embedding Hearth Diaries pages within another website in a way that presents the content as belonging to someone else
Any breach of these restrictions terminates your license immediately and may be pursued through the appropriate legal channels.
Ownership Of Content And Branding
All material appearing on Hearth Diaries, including written articles, photographs, illustrations, graphics, page layout and design, the site name, the logo, and any underlying software, is the property of the site owner or of third parties who have licensed it for use here.
This material is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Nothing on this site should be read as granting any license or right to use any trademark, trade name, or protected work without the express written consent of Hearth Diaries or the relevant rights holder.
Brief quotation with clear attribution and a working link back to the original article is permitted, in line with ordinary editorial practice.
Expected Conduct
Comment sections work when people behave decently in them. When using any interactive feature of this site, you agree not to:
- Harass, threaten, defame, or abuse other readers or the site owner
- Post content that is unlawful, obscene, discriminatory, or deliberately misleading
- Submit spam, unsolicited commercial messages, or promotional links unrelated to the discussion
- Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any organization
- Upload viruses, malicious code, or anything designed to interfere with the site’s operation
- Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the site, its servers, or its network
- Use Hearth Diaries in the furtherance of any unlawful activity
Comments And Anything You Submit
When you post a comment, send a photograph of a room, or otherwise submit material to Hearth Diaries, you retain ownership of what you created. You also grant Hearth Diaries a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to use, reproduce, publish, display, adapt, and distribute that material in connection with the site and its promotion.
You confirm that anything you submit is your own work, or that you hold the rights to share it, and that publishing it will not infringe anyone else’s rights.
Hearth Diaries reserves the right, but accepts no obligation, to moderate, edit, or remove any user submission at its own discretion and without notice. Removal of a comment is not a judgment on the person who wrote it.
Affiliate Links And Paid Relationships
Hearth Diaries takes part in affiliate advertising programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. Some links on this site are affiliate links, meaning that a qualifying purchase made through them may earn the site a commission.
This comes at no additional cost to you, and the price you pay is unaffected. Sponsored posts and paid placements, where they appear, are labeled as such. A separate Affiliate Disclosure page sets out these relationships in full.
Links To Other Websites
Articles on this site link out to retailers, manufacturers, reference material, and other publications. Hearth Diaries has no control over those websites and does not review, endorse, or accept responsibility for their content, products, privacy practices, or availability.
Following an external link is done at your own risk, and any dealings you have with a third-party site are strictly between you and that site.
Errors, Changes, And Currency Of Information
Material published on Hearth Diaries may contain technical mistakes, typographical errors, or photographic inaccuracies. Product dimensions change, retailers discontinue items, and prices move.
Hearth Diaries makes no warranty that any material on the site is accurate, complete, or current, and may alter or remove content at any time without notice. There is no obligation to update any published article, though older posts are revised as a matter of editorial practice.
General Information Only
Content on Hearth Diaries is published for general informational purposes. Every home is different, and results will vary depending on your space, your lease, your budget, and your circumstances.
Decisions taken on the basis of anything you read here are yours to make. Where an article describes a project involving tools, hardware, wall fixings, electrical fittings, or alterations to a rented property, please use your own judgment, follow product instructions, check the terms of your tenancy agreement, and bring in a qualified tradesperson where the work calls for one.
Material Provided As Is
All content on this website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.
Hearth Diaries specifically disclaims all implied warranties, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. No representation is made that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of harmful components, or that any recommendation published here will produce a particular outcome in your home.
Limits On Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Hearth Diaries, its owner, contributors, and agents shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages arising out of or connected to your use of, or inability to use, this website.
This includes, without limitation, loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption, property damage, or injury, and applies even where Hearth Diaries has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Certain jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation of liability for consequential damages. Where that is the case, some of the limitations above may not apply to you, and liability is limited to the minimum extent the law allows.
Your Responsibility For Claims
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Hearth Diaries, its owner, contributors, affiliates, and agents from and against any claim, demand, liability, loss, damage, cost, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the site, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of the rights of any third party.
Events Beyond Reasonable Control
Hearth Diaries is not liable for any delay or failure in performance caused by circumstances outside its reasonable control. These include natural disasters, fire, flood, acts of war or terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, epidemic or pandemic conditions, power failures, internet or hosting outages, cyberattacks, and acts of any government or regulatory authority.
Ending Access
Hearth Diaries reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate any visitor’s access to the site at any time, without notice and without liability, for any reason. That includes breach of these Terms or conduct considered harmful to the site or its readers.
When access ends, your right to use the site ceases immediately. The provisions covering intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, and governing law survive termination.
Changes To This Agreement
These Terms may be revised at any time and without prior notice. The current version is always the one published on this page, with the effective date shown at the top.
Continuing to use Hearth Diaries after a revision means you accept the updated Terms. Checking this page from time to time is your responsibility, as individual notice of changes will not be sent.
Applicable Law
Any claim or dispute relating to this website or to these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the website owner is established, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
By using Hearth Diaries, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that location for the resolution of any such dispute.
If Part Of This Agreement Fails
Should any provision of these Terms be held invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be severed or limited to the smallest degree necessary. Every remaining provision stays in full force and effect.
The Complete Agreement
These Terms of Service, together with the Privacy Policy, the Affiliate Disclosure, and any other notices published on this site, form the entire agreement between you and Hearth Diaries regarding your use of the website. They replace any prior understanding or communication on the subject.
A failure to enforce any right or provision under these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right.
Questions
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