Terms of Use
Plain-English terms governing your use of this reference site.
Acceptance
By accessing and using this site, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.
What the site is
Gardenerdy is a free, ad-free gardening reference site. We maintain it as an organized online library of practical guides. We're not a news outlet, not a research institution, not a regulatory body.
Use of content
You may read, share links to, and quote our articles for personal, educational, and journalistic use under standard fair-use conventions. Specifically:
- Permitted: reading the site, linking to it from anywhere, quoting short passages with attribution, including the URL in citations, teaching from the material, archiving for research.
- Not permitted: wholesale republication of articles without permission, removing attribution, training commercial AI systems on the corpus without permission, automated bulk-scraping of the site (use the sitemap instead).
Accuracy
Articles published before the current year reflect the science and context available at the time of writing. Specific statistics, projections, and references to "current" events should be read in that historical context. If you spot an error, please let us know.
Nothing on this site constitutes professional, legal, medical, scientific, or financial advice. Use the source citations within articles to consult primary sources where the topic matters to a decision you're making.
Third-party content
Articles link to external sources (government bodies, journals, news organizations, academic papers). We don't control those sites and aren't responsible for their content or availability.
Limitation of liability
The site is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We make no guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or current. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim liability for any damages arising from your use of the site.
Changes to these terms
If we update these terms, the "last updated" date above will change. Continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
Contact
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