This is my site, this is how I work, and these are the rules. I want you to know what you can use, what you are agreeing to, and what happens if something goes wrong.
These terms cover using timlord.co.uk and its accounts. Commissioning me is a separate agreement: visiting the site or sending an enquiry does not sign you up to a project. My privacy policy and cookie policy explain how I handle information and browser storage.
Who you are dealing with
I am Tim Lord, a sole trader based in Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. You are dealing with me, not an anonymous agency. You can reach me at hello@timlord.co.uk.
Using the site
Read the articles, try the tools and share links to anything useful. Please do not spam people, harass them, impersonate someone else, overload the site or try to bypass its access controls. Keep your account details safe and tell me if you think someone else has access. I may restrict an account where that is reasonably necessary to protect the site or other people; any paid-service rights still apply.
Your comments and enquiries remain yours. Posting a public comment gives me permission to display it with your chosen name and moderate it under the site rules. Only send material you have the right to share, and do not put someone else’s private information in a public comment.
What you can use
My articles, music, images, tools and downloads belong to me unless I identify another owner or a separate licence. You are welcome to read, listen and use the tools as offered. Downloads are for your own use unless their licence says more. A link back is welcome; republishing a whole article, reselling a download or reusing artwork needs permission unless a licence or the law allows it.
I welcome fair quotation with credit and a link. Nothing here takes away lawful copyright exceptions. Respect third-party material and any open-source or other licence supplied with a tool. An embedded player connects to its named provider only under the site’s media-consent controls; that provider has its own terms.
Experiments are experiments
I share what I have made and learnt, including work in progress. An experimental tool is not a promise of a particular result, and an article is not professional advice tailored to your circumstances. Check important outputs, keep your own backups and get appropriate advice before relying on something consequential. Each tool explains what it does with your input. These practical limits do not remove any rights you have when buying a service or digital content.
Working with me
I make websites and other commissioned work, and help people figure out ideas, products and practical problems. The Work with me page explains the available routes and website prices. Before commissioned work proceeds, we must agree and accept the individual written proposal or contract. That is where we settle the scope, deliverables, price, deposit amount, payment stages, milestones and handover terms.
A deposit gets agreed work started; its amount and payment date belong in that contract, not in a blanket percentage here. I will make any ongoing costs, third-party charges and applicable taxes clear before acceptance. Extra pages, features, revisions or other work outside the agreed scope need an agreed change to the price and schedule before I do them.
I need the agreed materials, access, decisions and feedback from you, and you need the rights to any copy, images or other material you supply. Delivery dates depend on the agreed scope, payments and those dependencies being ready. If something changes or gets held up, I will explain the effect and agree a revised plan with you rather than leave you guessing.
Cancellation, handover and project ownership
If either of us needs to stop a project, the accepted contract sets out the cancellation process, payment for work done, any refund due and what can be handed over. A deposit is not automatically non-refundable. Those arrangements must respect your applicable rights, including consumer cancellation rights where they apply.
The contract also says which rights in the finished work transfer to you, when they transfer, and what source files, accounts or licences are included in handover. My existing tools and third-party materials may remain under their own licences. I will make those distinctions clear before you commit; paying for a project does not silently transfer rights I do not own.
The Workshop
The Workshop is the place for deeper material. Paid signup is not currently open. Creating an account does not start a subscription or a charge, and access I have granted separately does not become a paid subscription.
The planned options are £4.99 monthly or £49.99 yearly for the same Workshop access. When paid signup opens, checkout will show the actual price, billing period and renewal terms before you agree to pay. A paid subscription will renew until cancelled. I will not start billing an existing account without its owner’s agreement.
Workshop access and newsletter subscription are separate. Neither automatically signs you up to the other.
Cancelling a subscription and your consumer rights
When paid subscriptions are available, cancelling through your account will stop the next renewal. Access continues to the end of the period already paid for. A failed renewal does not create an unpaid grace period. If you cannot use the account controls or need to discuss a payment, contact me.
If you buy as a consumer rather than mainly for your business, additional rights apply. Distance contracts for services or digital content generally include a 14-day cancellation period, subject to the rules for that purchase. Starting a service early or supplying digital content can affect those rights only where the relevant legal conditions are met, including the required express request or consent and acknowledgement. Simply browsing, signing in or using the site does not waive them.
I will explain the applicable cancellation information before any paid agreement, including how to cancel and any lawful charge for services you expressly asked me to start early. Nothing in these terms removes rights to remedies for faulty digital content or services not supplied with reasonable care and skill. Business projects follow their agreed contract and the law that applies to them.
Liability
I take reasonable care with the site and my work, but I cannot promise uninterrupted access, error-free experiments or a particular commercial outcome. If something goes wrong, tell me so I can investigate and put it right where I am responsible.
I do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by my negligence, fraud, or anything the law does not allow me to exclude or limit. Your statutory rights remain intact. For commissioned business work, any agreed allocation or limit of liability belongs in the individual contract and must be lawful and reasonable.
Changes
I will update this page when the site or the way I work changes, with the date above showing the version. A new version does not rewrite an accepted project contract or take away existing rights. I will give appropriate notice of proposed changes to a paid service and explain any choices before they take effect.
Governing law
I work under the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales can deal with disputes, without taking away any mandatory protections or right you have as a consumer to use the courts where you live. Please contact me first if there is a problem: I would rather understand it and resolve it.