Terms of Service

Terms of Service

Version: 1.0

Effective date: July 27, 2026

1. Agreement and operator

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern access to and use of EddieRod.com and its related websites, applications, content, membership features, community tools, media library, and services (collectively, the “Service”). The Service is operated by EddieRodLLC, doing business as EddieRod.com, at 3816 South Lamar Blvd, Building 22, Austin, Texas 78704, United States (“EddieRod.com,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By creating an account, starting a trial, purchasing a membership or license, submitting content, participating in referrals, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and the policies incorporated into them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Advertising purchases are also governed by the Advertising Terms, Sponsored Content Policy, and Advertising Measurement Methodology. Those documents control if they conflict with these Terms on an advertising matter.

2. Eligibility and minors

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a contract to create an account, purchase a membership or license, publish content, comment, access restricted or NSFW content, or participate in the referral program.

A person under 18 may browse ordinary public pages without an account. A person under 18 may not create or use an account, purchase, subscribe, comment, view comments, access restricted or NSFW content, or participate in referrals. We may use age-registration or age-verification measures and may deny or restrict access when age cannot be verified.

You may use the Service for a business only if you have authority to bind that business. You may not create an account for another person without authority or use the Service after suspension or termination.

3. Accounts, security, and community access

You must provide accurate information and keep it current. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for activity under your account. Notify us promptly at focus@eddierod.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

Two-factor authentication may be available. We may require verification to protect an account, complete a transaction, comply with law, or prevent abuse.

Comment access is not automatically available to every account. We may require mutual-interest connections, trust signals, account standing, or other community criteria before commenting is unlocked. Unlocking comments does not guarantee continued access; moderation and safety restrictions still apply.

4. What the Service provides

The Service may include:

• editorial articles and Bulletins;

• a personalized digest and content Feed;

• membership subscriptions and trials;

• the Vault, which provides media downloads and license grants;

• user-created Bulletins, riffs, comments when unlocked, and profile information;

• referrals and promotional membership days;

• email notices and subscriptions selected by the user;

• YouTube video embeds; and

• advertising products governed by separate advertising terms.

Member image uploads are not currently supported. If image or file uploads are later enabled, those submissions will be User Content under these Terms.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features. If we materially reduce a paid benefit during a prepaid period, we will provide a reasonable remedy, which may include continued access, substitute value, or a refund required by law.

Some editorial content is created with AI assistance. Our Editorial AI & Source Attribution Policy explains that process.

5. Memberships, trials, and recurring billing

5.1 Standard plan

The standard EddieRod.com membership costs $89.99 USD per month and ordinarily includes a 14-day free trial. A checkout may display a different promotional price or trial only when that different offer is clearly disclosed before enrollment.

5.2 Trial conversion and billing date

Unless you cancel before the trial ends, we charge the payment method on file $89.99 when the 14-day trial ends. After that first charge, the subscription renews monthly on the same calendar-day anniversary. If a later month does not contain that calendar day, the charge may occur on the final day of that month. We do not use a fixed third-of-the-month billing cycle and do not prorate the first or later monthly period.

Before enrollment, checkout will clearly disclose the price, trial length, timing of the first charge, recurring interval, renewal terms, and cancellation method. By affirmatively completing checkout, you authorize the disclosed recurring charges until cancellation.

5.3 Payment processing

Stripe processes membership payments. We do not store your full payment-card number. Stripe may collect payment, device, fraud-prevention, and transaction information under its own terms and privacy notice.

5.4 Renewal, notices, and price changes

The subscription renews automatically until canceled. We will provide any confirmation, trial-ending, renewal, or reminder notice required by applicable law. If we change the recurring price, we will provide advance notice and obtain any consent required before the new price applies.

5.5 Online cancellation

You may cancel through your account using the online cancellation method provided by the Service. Cancellation stops future renewals and ordinarily takes effect at the end of the current paid period. We will not require a more burdensome cancellation method than the method used to subscribe.

5.6 Membership refunds and proration

Completed membership charges are nonrefundable and are not prorated for a partial billing period, except where required by law or when we confirm a duplicate charge, billing error, or material service failure. Cancellation does not retroactively refund a completed period.

5.7 Failed payments

If a payment fails, we may retry it, notify you, suspend paid benefits, or cancel the subscription after repeated failures.

6. Vault transactions are licenses, not ownership transfers

Vault files remain owned by the applicable copyright owner. A Vault transaction grants only the rights stated in the Vault License Schedule and the frozen receipt snapshot created for that transaction.

The Vault License Schedule is incorporated into these Terms. If public license wording changes later, the frozen receipt for a completed transaction continues to control unless that receipt expressly says otherwise.

No Vault package, including a package labeled “Full Rights,” transfers copyright or ownership. No package permits resale, sublicensing, stock or marketplace re-upload, trademark or logo use, or AI training unless the frozen receipt expressly grants that specific right. EddieRod.com’s current policy is license-only; copyright ownership is not transferred through a Vault receipt.

7. Digital-license delivery and refunds

A digital license is treated as delivered when the licensed file becomes available for download, is downloaded, accessed, or used, whichever occurs first.

You may request cancellation and refund within seven days after purchase only if the file has not been downloaded, accessed, or used. After delivery, a purchase is final except for:

• a duplicate charge;

• an inaccessible or technically defective file that cannot reasonably be repaired or replaced;

• a material mismatch between the purchased package and delivered file;

• our lack or loss of authority to grant the purchased rights; or

• a refund right that cannot lawfully be waived.

Our first remedy may be correction, replacement, or delivery of a conforming file. If that is not reasonably possible, we will refund the affected price and revoke the license.

8. User Content

8.1 Ownership

You retain the rights you have in Bulletins, riffs, comments, profile information, and other material you submit or publish (“User Content”).

8.2 License to operate and promote the Service

You grant EddieRod.com a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, adapt for technical display, publish, display, distribute, transmit, moderate, and preserve User Content as necessary to operate, secure, and improve the Service. You also grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to feature public User Content in EddieRod.com promotional materials and official social accounts, with reasonable attribution to the displayed author identity when practical.

We may sublicense these rights only to service providers and distribution partners acting for those purposes.

8.3 Account deletion and published content

Closing an account removes or de-identifies the account information according to the Privacy Policy. Publicly published User Content may remain after account deletion with identifying account information removed. This is especially likely where other members’ riffs, links, discussions, legal records, or community context depend on the content. Valid copyright, privacy, safety, and legal removal requests remain available.

8.4 Riffs

By publishing a Bulletin in a context where riffs are allowed, you grant other users a limited, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to reference and adapt that Bulletin solely to create and display riffs through the Service. This does not authorize off-platform republication, commercial exploitation, sublicensing, or use of the original source file outside the riff feature.

A riff author owns only the original expression the author contributes and receives no ownership in the source Bulletin.

8.5 Your promises

You represent and warrant that you own or control the rights needed to submit and license User Content and that it does not violate law, these Terms, or another person’s intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights.

8.6 Moderation

We may review, reject, restrict distribution of, hide, suspend, remove, or preserve User Content when we reasonably believe it violates these Terms, presents legal or safety risk, is the subject of a valid complaint, or must be preserved for an investigation. We are not required to monitor all content and do not guarantee that every violation will be detected.

9. Acceptable use

You may not:

• violate law or another person’s rights;

• publish unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, threatening, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, or exploitative material;

• sexualize, exploit, or endanger minors;

• impersonate another person or misrepresent affiliation;

• upload malware or interfere with security or availability;

• scrape, crawl, bulk-download, or circumvent rate limits, access controls, watermarks, age gates, or download restrictions except through written permission;

• use Service content, User Content, or Vault files to train, fine-tune, benchmark, evaluate, or build an AI or machine-learning system unless a separate written license expressly permits it;

• resell, redistribute, sublicense, or expose source files except as an applicable license permits;

• create accounts or transactions to evade suspension, referral limits, payment controls, moderation, or fraud systems; or

• use the Service for unlawful surveillance, discrimination, manipulation, or deception.

We do not use member User Content to train AI models without separate express authorization.

10. Editorial content and AI

Editorial content may contain reporting, commentary, opinion, summaries, and AI-assisted drafting. It is provided for general information and is not legal, medical, financial, tax, or other professional advice.

Authorized administrators, moderators, and editors may send third-party source excerpts and editorial instructions to OpenAI. Ordinary member content is not submitted to OpenAI through the editorial workflow.

At Phase 4, eligible AI-assisted articles may publish automatically to a public page and become Feed or RSS eligible without human review. Automated publication does not send email. AI-assisted and automatically published articles are handled under the Editorial AI & Source Attribution Policy.

11. Advertising and measurement

The Service may display contextual and cross-site behavioral advertising. Advertising partners may collect or receive pseudonymous identifiers, interests, content interactions, device or browser information, and campaign events and may recognize the same browser or device across unrelated sites or services.

EddieRod.com does not sell personal information for money and does not intentionally provide advertisers with a user’s name, email address, payment information, or private content. Some laws may nevertheless define cross-site advertising activity as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. The Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain opt-out and consent choices.

Advertising customers remain subject to the Advertising Terms, Sponsored Content Policy, and Advertising Measurement Methodology.

12. Referrals

Participation in the referral program is governed by the Referral Program Terms. Referral rewards are membership days with no cash value and may be denied, reversed, or removed for fraud, invalid activity, refunds, payment disputes, chargebacks, cancellation of a qualifying event, or other reasons stated there.

13. Copyright complaints

Our DMCA & Copyright Policy explains how to submit a copyright notice or counter-notice. We may remove or disable material when we receive a valid notice or otherwise become aware of apparent infringement. We may terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

14. Third-party services and links

The Service uses or may use Hostinger, Stripe, MailerSend, OpenAI, Cloudflare, MaxMind, LiteSpeed/QUIC.cloud, YouTube, advertising partners, and other providers described in the Privacy Policy. Third-party sites and services are controlled by their operators and may have separate terms and privacy practices. We are not responsible for third-party content or availability.

15. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access when you materially breach these Terms, create legal or security risk, fail to pay, abuse a program, or when suspension is required by law. When reasonably practical, we will provide notice and an opportunity to cure.

You may close your account at any time. Account closure does not cancel obligations already incurred, undo completed transactions, or transfer or terminate licenses except as the applicable license states.

16. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE, EDITORIAL CONTENT, COMMUNITY CONTENT, ADVERTISING, AND FILES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” EXCEPT FOR THE LIMITED AUTHORITY-TO-LICENSE PROMISE IN THE VAULT LICENSE SCHEDULE, WE DISCLAIM IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND UNINTERRUPTED AVAILABILITY.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so this language applies only to the extent permitted by law.

17. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EDDIEROD.COM AND ITS OWNERS, PERSONNEL, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION.

EXCEPT FOR LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE LIMITED, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO EDDIEROD.COM DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

For a claim that we lacked authority to grant a Vault license, the replacement-or-refund remedy and limit in the Vault License Schedule apply.

18. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless EddieRod.com and its owners, personnel, and service providers from third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your User Content, your breach of these Terms, your violation of law or another person’s rights, or your use of a Vault file outside the granted rights. We will promptly notify you and reasonably cooperate. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits our fault or imposes obligations on us without written consent.

19. Disputes, governing law, and venue

Before filing a lawsuit, the complaining party must send a written description of the dispute and requested resolution to focus@eddierod.com and 3816 South Lamar Blvd, Building 22, Austin, Texas 78704, United States and allow 30 days for informal resolution. This does not prevent urgent injunctive relief or an eligible small-claims filing.

Texas law governs these Terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute not resolved informally must be brought exclusively in the state courts located in Travis County, Texas, or the United States District Court serving Travis County. Each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

Nothing in these Terms waives a nonwaivable consumer right.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms. Material changes will be posted with a new version and effective date, and we will provide at least 30 days’ advance notice when reasonably practicable. We will obtain renewed acceptance when required by law or when a change materially affects existing contractual rights.

21. General

These Terms and incorporated policies are the entire agreement regarding the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets.

Provisions that by their nature should survive do survive, including payment obligations, licenses, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, dispute terms, and record-retention provisions.

22. Contact

Support and legal notices: focus@eddierod.com

Telephone: 512-387-0093

Mail: 3816 South Lamar Blvd, Building 22, Austin, Texas 78704, United States