Effective date: November 13, 2026
Plain-English summary: Use this site lawfully and thoughtfully. Our articles and templates are educational starting points, not promises that a tool will work for your business or permission to put confidential data into an AI system.
1. Agreement and scope
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Grant System Notes at grantsystemnotes.com, including the pages /page/about, /page/contact, /page/privacy-policy, and /page/terms. , together with articles, guides, templates, diagrams, downloads, and contact features that link to these Terms.
By using the site, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the site. These Terms are between you and the operator of Grant System Notes, not any AI provider, software vendor, affiliate partner, or company mentioned in an article.
2. Educational purpose, not professional advice
Grant System Notes explains AI tools, APIs, workflows, automation, open-source models, deployment choices, privacy considerations, and troubleshooting practices. The material is general education. It is not legal, tax, financial, medical, employment, cybersecurity, compliance, engineering, or individualized business advice.
A workflow that worked in a test environment may fail with your documents, permissions, plan limits, model version, regional settings, hardware, integrations, or organizational requirements. Verify current provider pricing, terms, retention settings, security documentation, and technical behavior before relying on a product. Keep a human reviewer where the consequences of an error matter.
3. Responsible use
You may use the site for lawful personal, educational, professional, and internal business purposes. You agree not to:
violate applicable law, regulation, contract, intellectual-property rights, privacy rights, or another person’s rights;
use site content to facilitate fraud, credential theft, malware, harassment, discrimination, surveillance abuse, or unauthorized access;
submit passwords, API keys, authentication tokens, private customer records, confidential source code, or data you are not authorized to share;
interfere with site operation, bypass reasonable access controls, scrape at a disruptive rate, introduce malicious code, or probe systems without authorization;
misrepresent Grant System Notes, Grant Sloane, Rowan Sloane, a vendor relationship, an editorial conclusion, or the source of a template;
use a template as a guarantee that a workflow is safe, accurate, compliant, secure, or suitable for production.
4. Articles, templates, and limited license
Unless a page states otherwise, the text, structure, graphics, checklists, and original templates on this site are owned by Grant System Notes or used with permission. Subject to these Terms, you may read, download, print, and adapt ordinary editorial resources for personal learning and internal business use.
You may not republish a substantial portion, sell an unmodified resource, present our work as your own, remove attribution or disclosures, build a competing content archive from automated copying, or redistribute a download in a way that suggests endorsement. Small quotations are allowed with clear attribution and a link to the relevant page. If a resource includes third-party code, documentation, or a provider trademark, that material remains subject to its own license or terms.
Adapted templates are your responsibility. Inspect every field, permission, prompt instruction, API call, and data destination before using one. “Copy and paste” is not a security review.
5. Accuracy, testing, and changes
We aim to be accurate and transparent, including about test conditions, limitations, failures, affiliate relationships, gifted access, sponsorships, subscriptions, and consulting relationships. We do not promise that every article is complete, current, error-free, or suitable for your particular situation. AI products and their interfaces change quickly. A page may describe a test performed on a particular date, plan, model version, device, or configuration.
We may correct, revise, remove, archive, or reorganize content without notice. A correction does not guarantee that every copy, search result, quote, or cached version will update. If you spot a problem, use /page/contact with the page and a reproducible explanation.
6. Third-party products and links
The site may review, compare, recommend, or link to third-party products and services. We are independent of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, automation platforms, hosting companies, repositories, and other vendors unless a relationship is expressly disclosed. A mention is not an endorsement, warranty, security certification, or promise of future compatibility.
Third-party services have their own terms, prices, licenses, privacy practices, usage limits, and outage risks. You are responsible for evaluating them and for obtaining required organizational approval. Affiliate links may generate compensation without changing our editorial standards; relevant disclosures appear on the applicable page.
7. Contact submissions
If you send a correction, test report, question, or partnership proposal, you grant us permission to review it for editorial and operational purposes. You retain ownership of original material you submit. Do not send confidential material. We may remove identifying information, ask for clarification, publish a sanitized observation, route a security issue to the relevant vendor, or decline to use the submission. Submission does not guarantee a response, credit, publication, payment, or confidentiality agreement.
8. Disclaimers
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9. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GRANT SYSTEM NOTES AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, REVENUE, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR REPUTATION ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE, CONTENT, TEMPLATE, THIRD-PARTY SERVICE, OR WORKFLOW. WHERE LIABILITY CANNOT BE EXCLUDED, IT WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID DIRECTLY TO USE THE SITE DURING THE RELEVANT PERIOD, IF ANY.
10. Changes, suspension, and governing law
We may update these Terms when the site or applicable requirements change. The revised version will show a new effective date. We may suspend access, remove content, or restrict a submission if necessary to protect the site, readers, vendors, or legal rights.
Unless applicable law requires otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws applicable in the United States and the state where the site operator is based, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute should first be raised through the contact page so the parties have a reasonable chance to clarify the issue.
11. Questions
Questions about these Terms, content permissions, corrections, or responsible use should be submitted through /page/contact. Please do not place credentials or confidential records in the message.
11. No account or support promise
Some resources may be available without an account. If the site later introduces a membership, newsletter, download gate, or paid feature, that feature may have additional terms presented at the point of use. Access to a free article does not create a support obligation, service-level agreement, consulting engagement, or promise that the same resource will remain available forever.
12. Intellectual property questions
If you believe content on the site has been used without permission, use the contact page with the page address, a description of the material, evidence of your rights, and the action you are requesting. Do not post private legal documents in a public comment or attach confidential material to a general editorial message. We may remove content temporarily while a good-faith concern is reviewed, but a notice does not automatically establish infringement.
13. Severability and complete agreement
If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to the extent permitted. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any page-specific license or disclosure, describe the current agreement for ordinary use of the site. They do not create a partnership, agency, employment, fiduciary, or client relationship between you and Grant System Notes.
14. A practical reminder
Before you connect an AI tool to a mailbox, drive, CRM, code repository, or customer database, pause. Identify the data, permissions, retention behavior, reviewer, failure mode, cost ceiling, and off switch. Test with synthetic data first. The fact that an integration is easy to activate does not mean it is appropriate to activate.
15. Read before connecting anything
The most consequential use of an AI tool is often not the prompt itself but the connection around it. A connector may expose files, messages, contacts, or internal instructions. A scheduled automation may keep running after the original builder forgets it exists. A model update may change output without changing the workflow label. Treat integrations as software systems: document their purpose, minimize access, test changes, monitor results, and keep an off switch. These Terms do not transfer that responsibility to Grant System Notes.