1. Agreement to these terms
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of slowmorningco.com (the “Site”). By browsing the Site you agree to them. If you do not agree, please stop using the Site.
These terms work alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information.
2. Who we are
The Site is owned and operated by Marin Kessler, trading as Slow Morning Co., a sole-proprietor copywriting studio based in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. “We”, “us” and “our” refer to that studio; “you” refers to the person using the Site.
3. What this site is — and is not
The Site describes our copywriting services and lets you contact us. That is all it does. It has no accounts to create, no forms to submit, nothing to buy and no files to download.
Nothing on the Site is an offer that can be accepted to form a contract, and nothing on it is legal, financial, tax or professional marketing advice. Descriptions of services are a summary of how we usually work, not a commitment to particular deliverables, prices or timelines. Those exist only in a written proposal signed for a specific project.
Sending us an email does not create a client relationship. A relationship begins only when we have both agreed a written scope for a named project.
4. No guarantee of results
Copywriting affects how clearly an offer is understood. It is one factor among many — pricing, product, timing, traffic, competition, market conditions and everything else you control and we do not.
We therefore make no promise of any particular outcome: no promised increase in sales, revenue, conversion rate, open rate, traffic, followers or rankings. Any example, opinion or general observation on this Site is illustrative and is not a prediction of what your business will achieve. Your results are your own.
5. Client work is governed separately
If you hire us, the project is governed by the proposal or agreement we sign for that project — scope, price, schedule, number of revision rounds, kill fee and rights. Where that document and these terms disagree, that document wins for that project.
Unless the project agreement says otherwise: copy we write for you becomes yours on receipt of final payment; until then we retain all rights in it. We keep the right to describe the work we did in general terms as part of our own portfolio, and we will ask you before publishing your name, logo or any confidential detail.
6. Our content
All text, photographs, layout, design and code on the Site are owned by Slow Morning Co. or used with permission, and are protected by copyright and trade-mark law. “Slow Morning Co.” is our trading name.
You may read, print and share pages for your own non-commercial use, and you may quote a short passage with a credit and a link back. You may not copy the Site or substantial parts of it, republish our text as your own, sell it, or use it to train a machine-learning model, without our written permission. Scraping the Site in bulk, by any automated means, is not permitted.
7. What you send us
You keep ownership of everything you send us — your brief, your drafts, your materials. By sending them you give us permission to read, store and use them for the sole purpose of replying to you and, if we work together, producing the work.
You confirm that you have the right to send us what you send, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. Please do not send confidential information you would not want held in an ordinary business email inbox, and never send passwords or payment card numbers by email.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Site for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any applicable regulation;
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, its server or any connected system;
- interfere with the Site's operation, including by introducing malware or by overloading it;
- harvest addresses from the Site, or use our email address to send unsolicited commercial messages;
- impersonate Slow Morning Co. or Marin Kessler, or present yourself as affiliated with us when you are not;
- copy the Site's design or text to pass off a competing service as ours.
We may block access to anyone who does these things, without notice.
9. Links and third-party platforms
The Site links to our profiles on third-party platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Those platforms are operated by Meta Platforms, Inc., not by us. We are not responsible for their content, their availability, their advertising or their terms, and a link is not an endorsement. When you use them you are also bound by their own terms and privacy policies.
10. Availability of the site
We aim to keep the Site available, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it, at any time, without notice, and we are not liable to you for doing so.
11. Disclaimer
The Site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the Site will be error-free, secure, or free of harmful components.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Slow Morning Co. and Marin Kessler will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of your use of the Site.
Our total liability for any claim relating to the Site is limited to one hundred US dollars (US$100). Liability for a paid project is limited as set out in that project's agreement. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Slow Morning Co. and Marin Kessler from any claim, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the Site, or material you send us that infringes someone else's rights.
14. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and you consent to that jurisdiction.
We would much rather sort things out directly — please write to us first.
15. Changes and severability
We may update these terms. The version in force is the one published here, with the date shown at the top; continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us regarding the Site.
16. Contact
Marin Kessler — Slow Morning Co.
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
hello@slowmorningco.com