Terms of Use
These terms govern your access to and use of the website www.nicoletteshirley.com. By browsing the site or subscribing to the newsletter, you agree to them.
This is an author’s website with literary work, essays and a newsletter. It sells no goods or services, operates no online shop and processes no payments.
1. The nature of the content
The essays and other texts on this site are shared for literary and reading purposes. They are offered in good faith, but no warranty is given as to their accuracy or their suitability for any particular personal situation.
Nothing published here constitutes professional, financial, medical or legal advice.
2. Copyright
All texts, essays, photographs, graphics and other original content on this site are the intellectual property of the operator, published under the literary name Nicolette Shirley, and are protected by Slovak and international copyright law.
Readers are welcome to share short quotations, provided they attribute the work to Nicolette Shirley and include a working link to the original text on www.nicoletteshirley.com.
Copying, republishing, translating or adapting the content — in whole or in substantial part — without prior written permission is not permitted. This prohibition applies in full to automated data scraping and to the training of artificial intelligence models.
3. Comments
Where comments are enabled, readers are welcome to take part, provided the conversation remains constructive and respectful. Abusive, obscene, defamatory, discriminatory or promotional comments will be removed without notice. The operator reserves the right to restrict access for users who breach these rules.
4. Links to other sites
This site contains links to external platforms, such as Substack. The operator accepts no responsibility for the content or availability of third-party websites.
5. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the Slovak Republic and applicable European Union law.
They may be amended from time to time. The version published on this page is always the one in force.
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Effective from August 2026.
