Terms of Service

1. The agreement

This website, whats-it-to-ya.com (the “Site”), is operated by Your Legal Name or Company, of Full postal address (“we”, “us”, “our”). By browsing the Site, creating access to purchased material, or completing a purchase, you agree to these Terms of Service (“Terms”). If you do not agree to them, please do not use the Site.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to make a purchase. If you are buying on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to bind that organisation to these Terms.

2. What is sold here

Everything on this Site is a digital product. Nothing is physically shipped. There are four categories, and the practical differences between them matter:

Product pages state the access level for each item: free, paid (a one-time purchase), or subscription (included with the All-Access Pass). Where a book offers a free preview, the number of preview pages is shown on the product page and is enforced by the server.

3. Access and receipts

The Site deliberately does not ask you to create a username and password. When you buy something, your purchase is tied to the email address you give our payment processor, and your browser is issued a signed access cookie so that your library unlocks immediately.

Two consequences follow from that design, and you should know both. First, the receipt email you receive after checkout is what restores your access on a new device, a new browser, or after you clear your cookies — keep it. Second, because access is not password-protected, anyone with access to your browser profile can read what you have bought. You are responsible for the security of your own devices and email account.

If you lose your receipt, contact us at [email protected] from the email address you used at checkout and we will restore your access.

4. Payment and pricing

Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not see, handle, or store your full card number; Stripe does. Your use of Stripe’s checkout is also subject to Stripe’s own terms and privacy policy.

Prices are shown in US dollars (USD) and are exclusive of any sales tax, VAT, or GST that applies where you live. Where we are required to collect such tax, it is calculated and displayed at checkout before you confirm payment. We may change prices at any time, but a change never affects a purchase you have already completed.

If a price or product description is published in error, we reserve the right to cancel the affected order and refund you in full rather than honour an obvious mistake.

5. The All-Access Pass

The All-Access Pass is a recurring subscription that unlocks every paid item on the Site, including items published while your pass is active. Its price and billing interval are shown on the Site at the time you subscribe.

It renews automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, yourself, through the customer portal linked from your library. Cancellation stops future charges and your access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not pro-rate part-used periods.

Access ends when the subscription ends. A pass is a rental of the whole catalogue, not a purchase of each item in it. If you want to keep a specific book or document permanently, buy that item outright.

If a renewal payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend access until payment succeeds.

6. What you may do — your licence

When you buy an item, you are not buying the copyright in it. You are buying a licence. That licence is personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and worldwide, and it lets you:

• read, watch, run, or use the item for your own personal or internal business purposes;
• keep a reasonable number of personal backup copies of any file you legitimately downloaded;
• print a document for your own reference; and
• use code samples and templates contained in an item inside your own projects, including commercial ones, subject to the License page.

A one-time purchase licence is perpetual — we cannot reach back and revoke it — but it does not oblige us to host the item forever. See section 9.

7. What you may not do

You agree not to:

• redistribute, resell, sublicense, publish, or share an item, in whole or in substantial part, whether or not for money;
• share your access cookie, receipt link, or download link with anyone else, or pool a single purchase across a team or group;
• circumvent, disable, or attempt to defeat the access controls on this Site, including the preview page limits in the book reader and the entitlement checks on the asset endpoint;
• scrape, crawl, batch-download, screen-record, or otherwise systematically extract the catalogue or the page images that make up a book;
• remove or obscure any copyright notice, watermark, or attribution;
• use an item, or any part of it, as training data for a machine-learning model, or to generate a substantially similar competing product;
• use the Site to break the law, infringe anyone’s rights, or distribute malware; or
• probe, load-test, or interfere with the Site’s infrastructure, or attempt to gain access to systems or data that are not yours.

Automated abuse of the download and reader endpoints — for example, requesting page images far faster than a human could read them — may be rate-limited or blocked without notice.

8. Our intellectual property

All content on the Site — the applications, source code, documents, videos, book text and artwork, the site design, the name “What’s it to ya?”, and the logo — is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of anything to you.

Any feedback, bug report, or feature suggestion you send us is given voluntarily, and we may use it without obligation, payment, or attribution.

If you believe material on this Site infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with enough detail to identify the work and the allegedly infringing material, and we will investigate promptly.

9. Availability and changes to the catalogue

We aim to keep the Site available continuously, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Hosting, maintenance, third-party outages, and the occasional mistake all happen.

We may add, change, update, or withdraw items at any time. If we permanently withdraw an item you have bought outright, we will make a reasonable effort to give you notice and an opportunity to download a copy where the item is downloadable. Because streamed video and reader-only books cannot be downloaded, you should assume that access to them depends on the Site continuing to operate. For beta items — clearly labelled as such — expect rough edges and breaking changes.

10. Third-party services

The Site relies on third parties to work: Cloudflare for hosting, storage, and network delivery; Stripe for payments; and, where a video is embedded, the relevant video platform. We are not responsible for those services’ own acts, omissions, or terms, and their handling of your data is described in our Privacy Policy.

11. Warranty disclaimer

Except where the law says otherwise, the Site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

In particular: the applications and documents are development tools and technical notes, not professional advice. Test anything you rely on. Keep your own backups. We do not warrant that an application is free of defects, that it will suit your project, or that following a document will produce any particular result.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any right you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or lost goodwill, arising out of or connected with your use of the Site or any item bought here — even if we were told such damages were possible.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD 50.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site, and cancel any licence granted to you, if you materially breach these Terms — in particular the restrictions in section 7. Where the breach is capable of being fixed and the circumstances allow, we will normally warn you first.

You may stop using the Site at any time, and may cancel a subscription at any time through the customer portal. Sections 8, 11, 12 and 14 survive termination.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of State / Country, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of State / Country have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except that either of us may seek injunctive relief in any competent court to protect intellectual property. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence.

Before starting formal proceedings, please email us first — nearly everything is quicker to fix informally.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the Site changes. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page, and for material changes we will post a notice on the Site and, for active subscribers, email the address on file at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Site after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms. Your existing one-time purchase licences are not retroactively narrowed by a later version.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms, a purchase, or your access:
Email: [email protected]
Trading name: What’s it to ya?
Legal entity: Your Legal Name or Company
Address: Full postal address

See also: Privacy Policy · Refund Policy · License