Terms of Service

I.A Greeting and the Shape of These Terms

Welcome to the website of Accidental Monarchy LLC. These Terms of Service form the agreement between you, the visitor or patron, and the Company that runs this site and the design duties it describes. We have written these terms in open and plain English because a powerful text that no one can read is a poor foundation for a friendship, and a friendship is what we hope to begin.

Please read these pages with care before you use the site, send an enquiry, or commission any work. If a part of these terms is not to your liking, the simplest remedy is to stop using the site, for this is a voluntary door. By remaining upon the grounds, you accept what is written here.

II.Who We Are and Where We Sit

These Terms of Service are made with Accidental Monarchy LLC, whose postal seat is at the following address:

71 N 100 E APT 1, Smithfield - 84335-1538, United States (US).

The Company practises creative brand and story design of the kinds described on the services page, including brand identity design, storyworld and content design, merchandise and apparel lines, campaign art direction, packaging design, and community and fan programs. When these terms speak of the studio, they mean the people of the Company who carry its work forward, and when they speak of the site, they mean the pages gathered at the web address accmonarch.hair.

III.Your Acceptance of These Terms

You accept these terms the moment you begin to use the site. Merely arriving at a page, reading an article, or following a link counts as use, and so each visit renews your agreement. Should you prefer not to be bound, you may leave at any moment, and no door will be barred behind you.

For the bigger duties of the studio, such as a commissioned brand or a season of campaigns, these website terms work side by side with a separate charter that the studio will ask you to sign at the proper time. Where the two texts ever disagree, the signed charter governs the particular commission, while these terms continue to cover your general use of the site itself.

IV.The Right to Use the Site

We grant you a personal, limited, and revocable right to read and use this site for its intended purpose of learning about the studio and its work. You may not copy great portions of the site for your own commercial ends, nor may you scrape its content wholesale, nor rebuild it under another name, nor claim its pages as your own.

The Company keeps the right to close a page, to change a section, or to bar a visitor who misuses the grounds. No right you hold here is a sale of the underlying work; it is a permission freely given and freely kept.

Within the ordinary liberty of a visitor we include the freedom to share a link to a page, to mention the studio in an honest review, and to save a copy of these pages for quiet personal reference. What we do not allow is the rebuilding of our craft for a rival end, for the labour that fills this site is the very labour the studio sells, and a rival who carries it off without leave robs the house of its bread. When in doubt over whether a use is fair, a single short note to the studio will settle the matter gladly, for the house would rather say yes to a sincere request than chase a hidden trespasser.

V.Who May Visit and Deal With the Studio

The site is open to any person of any land who can lawfully agree to be bound by these terms. To commission paid work from the studio, you must be old enough to enter a valid contract where you live, and any company or group on whose behalf you act must be one you are properly entitled to speak for.

This site does not cater to children, and it does not gather their personal details. A full statement of the house rule on young visitors can be found in the Privacy Policy, which is a sibling of these terms and should be read beside them.

VI.Intellectual Property on This Site

Everything published on this site, whether it be a drawn crest, a written paragraph, a palette of colours, a photograph, a garment sketch, or the arrangement of a page, belongs to Accidental Monarchy LLC or to the lawful owners who have allowed the studio to show it. The Company name, the word Accidental Monarchy, and the marks the studio displays are protected as the identifying signs of the house.

Nothing on this site grants you a right to use those works or signs beyond the ordinary browsing that brought you here. To take a page, an image, or a name for your own use without leave would be to steal from the very craft the house lives by, and so it is forbidden.

We also ask that the polished look of these pages be respected as a piece of design in its own right. The balance of a layout, the choice of a palette, and the spirit of the heraldry that adorns the walls are all labours of the studio. A visitor who wishes to borrow a single small element for a private school project will find the house eager to grant that wish on request. A visitor who copies the whole manner of the site to raise a rival court will find the house far less generous. Between those two poles, the studio answers every request on its own honest merits, and a kind word costs nothing to ask.

VII.Ownership of Work the Studio Creates

Where Accidental Monarchy LLC creates original work for a patron, the transfer of ownership is set down plainly in the separate charter for that duty. As a rule, and unless the charter says otherwise, once the agreed full payment has been made, the final signed-off files pass to the patron for use in the patrons own business, while the studio keeps a modest right to show the finished work among its own past works.

Sketches, drafts, and intermediate shapes that never reached approval stay with the studio, and preliminary concepts that the patron does not choose may be offered to another house, exactly as any workshop would keep a spare design for a later patron.

VIII.Enquiries, Quotes, and Consultations

Sending an enquiry through the contact form or by email is not a commission; it is the raising of a hand across a crowded room. The studio will gladly answer, will listen to your hopes, and will then lay out a clear estimate of scope, schedule, and price. That estimate is an invitation to talk further, and it binds neither side until a proper charter is signed.

An early consultation may be offered free of charge or at a stated rate, and the studio will always make the price of any consultation known before you agree to it. You are never asked to pay for a first friendly conversation.

We would add that good questions are always free of charge, however many you may ask along the way. Whether you write in the hope of a full coronation or simply to understand how the studio works, you can expect the same patient ear and the same plain speech. There is no fine print that begins to bite the moment you inquire, and no member of the house will urge you into a duty you have not yet chosen. The road to a lasting commission is walked at a calm pace, with both parties stepping together and no one being hurried past a doubt they would sooner have settled.

IX.How a Commission Is Sealed

A commission begins only when both parties have signed a written charter that names the duties, the delivery dates, and the price, and when any opening deposit demanded by that charter has been received. Until those two things happen, there is no duty on either side, however warm the prior letters may have been.

Once the seal is set, the studio treats the dates in the charter as solemn promises. In return, the patron agrees to provide the material the work depends upon, such as a brand history, old files, and honest answers, with reasonable speed, for a court cannot paint a portrait of a monarch who will not sit.

X.Deliverables and Approval Rounds

Every charter names the finished pieces that will be handed over, whether they are identity systems, story documents, apparel drawings, campaign frames, package flats, or community plans. Along with final files, the studio provides a plain charter of the choices made, so that a future steward can defend the mark.

Each charter also names how many rounds of revision are folded into the price. Should a patron ask for more rounds than were agreed, or for work that steps beyond the original scope, the studio will quote that added labour fairly before it is begun, so that no bill arrives as a surprise.

XI.Fees, Payments, and Deposits

All prices are stated in plain figures before work begins. Larger commissions commonly open with a considered deposit, with the balance falling due at agreed milestones or on delivery. We find that a steady pace of payment keeps the lamp of the household lit and the work unhurried.

Where sales tax or similar duty applies to a commission, it is added to the price in whatever manner the law of the studio seat requires. Unless the charter says otherwise, the studio does not begin a later phase of work until the earlier phase has been settled in full.

XII.Cancellation, Pause, and Refunds

A patron may pause a commission by giving fair written notice, and the studio will stop the clocks and hold the work in safekeeping. A patron may also cancel a commission outright. In that case the deposit is not returned, because it has already paid for the early labour of hearing and planning; but any fee paid in advance for work not yet begun is returned in full.

The studio likewise values its own word. If, against every hope, the house cannot carry a duty to its end, it will return the share of any payment that has not been earned and release whatever finished work it can honestly hand over.

XIII.Feedback, Comments, and Submissions

The studio welcomes honest praise and honest correction, for no art improves in a room where every voice whispers yes. When you send comments or suggestions, you grant the studio the freedom to use them, though it will not pretend your idea was its own.

Do not send the studio ideas you believe are secret or that you wish to keep for yourself, because a workshop full of sketches and letters cannot promise that an idea sent to it has never been heard before. What is truly yours, you should protect before you share it.

XIV.Rules of Civil Conduct on the Site

This site is a civil hall, and every visitor is asked to behave as a guest would. You agree not to use the site to break the law, to send false or harmful messages, to interfere with the workings of the hall, to try to enter places you have not been invited to, or to gather information about other visitors without their leave.

The studio may remove a comment, refuse a message, or bar a visitor who breaks these quiet rules, and it owes no apology for keeping its own grounds tidy and safe for those who come in good faith.

XV.Third Party Content and Links

The site may point toward other gardens, whether to share a fellow maker or to show a tool we favour. Such links are offered as a courtesy and are not an endorsement of everything that grows there. When you step beyond our gate, you deal with that other owner under its own rules, and the Company holds no duty for what you find there.

Likewise, the site may carry content supplied by outside parties whose work we trust. We do not control every word they publish, but if a reader draws our attention to anything that has gone wrong, we will look into the matter and mend what is ours to mend.

XVI.Privacy and Your Information

The way the studio gathers and guards the details you share is set out fully in the Privacy Policy, which sits close beside these terms. We treat that policy as a binding promise, not a nice brochure. By using the site you also accept the Privacy Policy, and you are encouraged to read it.

Should these terms of service and the Privacy Policy ever brush against each other on a single point, the Privacy Policy governs how your personal information is handled, because that is the text written directly for that purpose.

XVII.Disclaimers of Warranty

The site is offered as it stands, without any promise that it will never falter, never pause, or never contain a small error. Findings of any kind conveyed through the site are offered for general interest, and no passage here is tailored to the particular fortunes of any one reader. Before a reader acts upon anything read here, they should seek the counsel their own circumstances deserve.

The one promise the studio always keeps is the promise it makes in a signed charter, for there the warranty is written to fit a particular duty. Beyond that text, no further assurance is given, and none should be read into an ordinary page of description.

XVIII.Limits on Our Liability

To the fullest degree the law allows, Accidental Monarchy LLC shall not be liable for any loss that arises in a way no careful studio could have foreseen, or for any lost profits, lost savings, or harm to goodwill that is only an indirect echo of a visit to this site.

Where a duty is governed by a signed charter, the liability of the Company for that duty shall not rise above the total fee paid for that commission. This is a fair and common limit, and it is written here so that both sides may know the reach of the moat before the bridge is lowered. Nothing in these terms removes a right that law will not allow to be taken from you.

XIX.Your Duty to Hold Us Safe

You agree to hold Accidental Monarchy LLC free from harm for any claim, cost, or loss that grows out of your own misuse of the site or out of a breach of these terms on your side. This duty is the mirror of the care the studio owes you, for a fair court asks its subjects to answer for their own steps as well as its own.

Should a dispute between a patron and a third party owe its start to the patrons own handling of site content or studio work, the patron agrees to carry that dispute rather than lay it at the studio door.

XX.Farewell to Unavoidable Delays

Neither side shall answer for a failure to meet a date that is caused by an event no reasonable care could have prevented, such as a fire, a flood, a storm, a general failure of power or network, a law newly laid, or an act of war. When such a fate strikes, the clock is simply moved aside until the road is open again.

Each side shall tell the other promptly when it meets such a barrier, and both shall work to find a road around it as soon as may be. A good court bends before the weather and does not break.

XXI.The Law That Governs These Terms

These terms, and any separate commission charter that in time is sealed between you and the studio, shall be governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which the Company keeps its seat in Smithfield. That choice is a natural one, for the bench of the house is set there.

Where a law protects you more strongly by reason of where you live, and that law cannot be set aside by agreement, the stronger protection of your own land continues to apply to you even though the seat of the studio lies elsewhere.

XXII.How Disputes Are Settled

A difference, like a knot in a thread, is best teased out in patience before any sharp blade is drawn. If a dispute should arise under these terms, both sides agree to begin with a written notice setting out the grievance and to spend a fair period in honest conversation, seeking a settlement before any court is asked to interfere.

Should that quiet path fail, the dispute shall be taken to the courts proper to the seat of the Company, to the extent the law allows. Each side bears its own costs unless the deciding court rules otherwise, and this clause stands apart so that it survives even if the rest of the agreement should fall away.

XXIII.Changes to These Terms

The Company may revise these terms as its work and the laws around it change. When it does, the new date at the head of this page will be renewed so that a returning visitor may see at once that something has been altered.

Continued use of the site after a revision stands as acceptance of the new terms. Where a change bears real weight, we will draw attention to it in a reasonable fashion, and we will not slip a heavy new duty into the small print unseen. For duties already under a signed charter, the terms of that charter hold unless both parties agree in writing to a change.

XXIV.If a Part of These Terms Is Set Aside

Should a court decide that any single clause of these terms cannot stand, that clause is cut away and the rest of the agreement lives on unharmed. A few bad stitches should not unravel a whole garment.

Where the set-aside clause can be read fairly in a narrower shape, it will be read in that narrower shape so that the intention of the house, so far as the law will permit, is still served.

XXV.No Waiver and No Transfer

If the studio lets a single breach pass without protest, it does not by that silence surrender its right to raise its voice at a later breach. A kindness today is not a pardon for tomorrow, and no waiver of any term is effective unless it is written and signed.

Neither side may hand their part of this agreement to another without the written leave of the other side, save that the Company may pass its duties to a house that takes on its whole craft and keeps its promises.

XXVI.The Whole Agreement in One Place

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any separate charter actually signed for a particular duty, make up the whole agreement between you and the studio on the matters they cover. No earlier letter, offhand remark, or friendly promise that is not written into one of these documents shall carry the force of an agreement.

If ever a doubt arises about the meaning of a phrase in these terms, it shall be read in the light of the purpose of the document, which is to build a fair and durable friendship between the studio and those who visit it.

XXVII.A Note on Phone and Email Messages

Calls and written notes to the studio are part of the ordinary practice of this house. A message sent in the working hours named on the contact page is read in good time, and the studio answers as promptly as the day allows. Neither a telephone number nor an email address here is an invitation to endless or abusive traffic, and such messages may be turned away at the studio discretion.

The studio may record the bare fact of a call or the gist of an enquiry so that it may serve a returning patron without asking them to begin their tale again. Such small records are kept under the rules of the Privacy Policy.

XXVIII.How to Write to the Company

A question about these terms, or a request that arises from them, may be laid before the studio at any of the following:

Accidental Monarchy LLC
71 N 100 E APT 1, Smithfield - 84335-1538, United States (US)
Email: touch@accmonarch.hair
Telephone: +18147676745

We thank you for reading this far, for it speaks well of your care. Whether you come to ask a single question or to crown a whole kingdom, the studio is honoured to stand beside you, and the promise that ends this document is the same one that began it: a gentle reign outlasts a loud one, and kindness is the deepest strategy of all.