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Terms of Use

By using DigInGuide you agree to the terms below. They are deliberately brief, and nothing in them is hidden in a subordinate clause.

Ownership

The gardening published here is ours, and it is offered for your personal use. Quote a paragraph with a link back if it is useful to you; republishing a whole page is not permitted.

Acceptable use

  • Personal reading, printing and linking need no permission.
  • Bulk or automated copying is not permitted, including collection for republication or for training a model that reproduces the text.
  • Passing our writing off as yours, in any language, is not permitted.
  • Interfering with the site’s operation or security is not permitted.

Changes to the site

Nothing here comes with a service guarantee. Pages may be down, revised or removed. We correct and rewrite as we learn more, and an article you read last year may no longer say what it said.

Other people’s marks

Product names, brands and logos mentioned in articles belong to their owners. They appear because a reader needs to know which product is meant, and their use here implies no endorsement in either direction.

How this fits with privacy

These terms sit next to the privacy policy and the cookie policy, which cover data and cookies respectively and are part of the same agreement.

Information, not advice

Nothing published here is professional advice. It is written from research and practice, and it cannot know your circumstances. Where a decision carries real consequences, ask someone qualified who can look at your specific case.

How reliable the numbers are

We verify before publishing and we still cannot certify that a value transfers to your setup unchanged. Read every number as a place to start.

Your contributions

If comments are open, what you write stays yours, and you grant us permission to display it alongside the article. We moderate: anything abusive, off-topic or promotional is removed without discussion, and repeat offenders are blocked.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for loss arising from your use of the site, including consequential loss. Where liability cannot be excluded by law, it is not excluded here either.

Links out

Where a source is worth reading we link to it. Those sites are run by other people and we answer for none of their content.

Advertising and links

Advertising and affiliate commission fund the site. The details, including what commission does not buy, are on the affiliate disclosure page.

Governing law

These terms are read under the law of the United States and the state in which the site is operated. If a court finds one clause unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. Nothing here removes a right you hold under consumer law that cannot be waived.

What is covered

Taken with the privacy and cookie policies, this page is the complete set of terms. Correspondence does not modify it, and neither does anything published on a social account.

If these terms change

If these terms are updated, the text on this page is the one in force from that moment. Using the site afterwards is taken as acceptance, and the date at the top tells you when the last revision happened.

Reaching us

Anything unclear? Use the contact page.