Terms of Use

Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of jillianladage.com and any service offered through it. By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

The site is operated by Jillian LaDage, trading as Tarith Cote, 1102 River Drive, Moorhead, MN 56560, United States. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean that business; "you" means the person using the site.

Additional terms apply to specific activities: the Shipping & Returns Policy governs orders of physical and digital goods, and a separate written agreement governs commissions, licensing and lessons. Where those conflict with this page, the more specific document prevails for that activity.

Permitted use of the site

You may read, print and share the pages of this site for personal, non-commercial purposes, and you may link to any page. We like being linked to.

You may not:

• copy, republish or redistribute substantial parts of the written content, the essays in the journal included, without written permission;
• use any content to train a machine-learning model or to build a dataset, whether commercially or otherwise;
• scrape, crawl or systematically download the site beyond ordinary, polite indexing by search engines that respect robots.txt;
• frame or mirror the site so that it appears to be your own;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site or its hosting;
• use the contact form to send unsolicited commercial messages, or to send anything unlawful, threatening or abusive;
• misrepresent yourself, or imply an endorsement, association or partnership that does not exist.

Intellectual property

All content on this site — recordings, compositions, lyrics, essays, photographs, artwork, design, code and the arrangement of all of it — is owned by Jillian LaDage or Tarith Cote, or is used under licence, and is protected by copyright and related rights.

Music

All musical works and sound recordings are © and ℗ Jillian LaDage / Tarith Cote. Both the master rights and the publishing rights are held by the artist-owned label, which is why a licence can be granted from a single point of contact. Nothing on this site grants you any right to reproduce, perform publicly, synchronise to picture, broadcast, sample or make available any recording or composition. To obtain such a right, see Licensing.

Written content

The journal essays are original work. You may quote up to 200 words with a clear attribution and a link back to the page. Reproduction of a whole essay, or translation of one, requires written permission, which is usually given for non-commercial purposes and is usually given quickly.

Photographs and artwork

The artist photographs on this site are the property of the artist or of the photographers who made them and may not be reused. Some illustrative photographs elsewhere on the site are licensed from third-party stock sources under their own terms and may not be extracted from these pages for reuse.

Reporting infringement

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, write to [email protected] with: identification of the work, identification of the material you say infringes it and where it appears, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised, and a statement that your notice is accurate. Valid notices are acted on promptly.

Enquiries, quotations and orders

Nothing on this site is a binding offer. Prices shown for services are indicative starting points, not quotations. A contract comes into being only when a written quotation has been accepted in writing by both parties, or, for shop items, when an order has been confirmed by email.

We reserve the right to decline any enquiry or order without giving a reason, and to correct an obvious pricing error before an order is confirmed. Where an error is corrected after payment, you will be offered the choice between paying the corrected price and receiving a full refund.

User submissions

If you send us a message, a demo, a recording or any other material, you confirm that you own it or have the right to send it, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights.

We do not claim ownership of what you send. But because we write and record continuously, and because similar ideas arise independently all the time, we cannot accept unsolicited creative material on a confidential basis. If you send us a song, a lyric or a concept without a prior written agreement, you agree that we are free to develop similar material independently and that no obligation of confidence arises. If you need confidentiality, ask first and we will put an agreement in place before you send anything.

Third-party links and embedded media

This site links to third-party sites and embeds video from a third-party host. Those links are provided for convenience and do not imply endorsement. We have no control over the content, policies or availability of third-party sites and accept no responsibility for them.

Video embeds on this site are loaded only after you press play, and use the host's privacy-enhanced domain. Once you press play, that host's own terms and privacy policy apply to the interaction.

Availability and changes

We try to keep the site available and accurate, but we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful components. The site may be suspended, withdrawn or changed at any time without notice.

Content is provided for general information. Historical and musical statements in the journal represent the author's reading of the sources at the time of writing; corrections are welcome and are made when justified. Nothing on this site is legal, medical or financial advice, and the vocal-technique material in particular is general guidance, not individual instruction — if singing causes you pain or persistent hoarseness, stop and consult a qualified medical professional.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, nor for loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill, arising out of your use of the site. Our total aggregate liability arising from or connected with your use of the site — other than in connection with goods or services you have paid for, which are governed by the relevant contract — is limited to one hundred United States dollars.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, you have statutory rights that these terms do not affect.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against any claim, loss or reasonable cost arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the site, or your infringement of a third party's rights through material you send us. This clause does not apply to consumers acting outside the course of a business.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and the applicable federal laws of the United States, and the courts of Minnesota have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection rules, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory rules of your country of residence, nor of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before starting proceedings, please raise the matter with us directly. Most disagreements are resolved by an email and a little patience.

General

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remainder continues in force. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with any document they refer to, form the entire agreement between us in relation to the site.

These terms may be updated; the current version is always the one on this page, with the date shown at the top. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms. Questions to [email protected].

This page is written in plain English and is intended to be read, not merely accepted. It is provided for information and does not constitute legal advice; where a matter is genuinely important to you, take advice from a qualified lawyer in your own jurisdiction.