Terms of Service

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your place of residence if that is higher, and able to form a binding contract. The Service is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed to children. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements.

You are responsible for complying with all laws that apply to you where you live. Divination content and services are restricted or regulated in some places; if the Service is unlawful where you are, do not use it.

Threshold lets you shuffle, cut, and lay out digital tarot cards, Elder Futhark runes, and Lenormand cards, and then presents written interpretations assembled from a fixed library of text. The draw is produced in your browser using your device’s cryptographic random number generator. The interpretations are generated by rule-based software from that library. No live person reads for you, and no artificial-intelligence model is consulted at the time of your reading.

The Service, and everything it produces, is provided solely for entertainment, reflection, and personal interest. It is offered on the understanding that we are not rendering professional advice or services of any kind.

Nothing on the Service is, or is a substitute for, professional advice in law, finance, investment, tax, business, accounting, medicine, mental health, psychology, psychiatry, relationships, safety, or any other field. Readings do not predict the future, diagnose or treat any condition, or state facts about any real person or event.

For any important decision, and for any question touching your health, safety, finances, or legal rights, consult a qualified licensed professional. If you may be in crisis or thinking about harming yourself or others, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line immediately; the Service cannot help you.

You are solely and entirely responsible for any choice you make or action you take or do not take, and for any interpretation you draw, in connection with the Service. You agree not to rely on the Service as a basis for any decision with legal, financial, medical, or safety consequences.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you assume all risk arising from your use of the Service and its output, and you release us from any claim, demand, or damages of every kind arising out of or connected to that use, including any claim based on the accuracy, usefulness, tone, or timing of a reading, or on another person’s use of a reading you shared with them.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial use. We reserve every right not expressly granted.

You agree not to, and not to help or permit anyone else to:

• use the Service for any unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or abusive purpose;
• present a reading as a professional consultation, a factual statement about a real person, or a prediction you represent as reliable, whether to another person or the public;
• use the Service to make or promote decisions affecting the health, safety, finances, or legal position of another person without their informed understanding that it is entertainment;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or its infrastructure, or breach or circumvent any security or access control;
• interfere with the Service, place an unreasonable load on it, or use any bot, scraper, or automated means to access it other than a standard search-engine crawler obeying our robots directives;
• copy, reproduce, republish, sell, licence, or create derivative works from the Service or its content except as these Terms allow or the law permits;
• remove or obscure any proprietary notice, or misrepresent your affiliation with us.

We may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate for a suspected violation, including limiting or ending your access, without notice or liability.

The Service and its contents - including the interpretation library, text, layout, visual design, card and rune artwork, logos, and software - are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. “Threshold” and our logo are our marks and may not be used without our prior written permission.

The names of the tarot, the Elder Futhark, and the Lenormand system, and the traditional meanings associated with them, are part of the public domain and cultural heritage; our particular expression of them is not.

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to the contact address in Section 16.

The Service may link to sites or resources we do not control. We provide those links for convenience only and do not endorse and are not responsible for their content, policies, or practices. Your dealings with any third party are solely between you and that third party.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We make no warranty and accept no responsibility that:

• the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free;
• any reading, interpretation, or other output will be accurate, complete, reliable, useful, or suited to any purpose;
• any defect will be corrected, or that the Service is free of harmful components.

Any material obtained through the Service is used at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any resulting damage.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we and our officers, owners, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or opportunity, arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us to use the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or ten U.S. dollars (US$10.00). The Service is currently provided free of charge, so for most users this amount is US$10.00.

These limitations are a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and us and apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so part of this Section may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the smallest amount permitted by law.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us and our officers, owners, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected to: (a) your use or misuse of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms or of any law or of the rights of any third party; or (c) any reliance on, or presentation to another person of, a reading or other output of the Service by you. We may assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you will cooperate with us.

Informal resolution first. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to contact us at the address in Section 16 and to try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

Binding individual arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved, you and we agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will be resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by a recognised arbitration provider under its consumer rules, before a single arbitrator, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court. The arbitration will be conducted in the English language and may take place by video or in the county where you reside.

Class-action and jury-trial waiver. You and we agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims. You and we waive any right to a jury trial.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this Section 12 by sending us written notice within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

Governing law and venue. These Terms and any dispute are governed by the law of the United States and of the state in which the operator of Threshold maintains its principal place of residence, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. To the extent a claim is not subject to arbitration, you and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located there, and you waive any objection to that venue. If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law guarantees you the protection of local mandatory consumer rules or the jurisdiction of your local courts, nothing here deprives you of that protection.

Time limit. Any claim relating to the Service must be filed within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, unless a longer period is required by law.

We may change, suspend, or discontinue the Service or any part of it at any time without notice or liability. We may also revise these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date above. Material changes take effect no sooner than the date posted. Your continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the Service.

These Terms remain in effect while you use the Service. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination - including Sections 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 15 - survive.

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and supersede any earlier understanding.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• No agency. These Terms do not create any partnership, employment, or agency relationship.
• Notices. We may give notice by posting on the Service; you may give notice at the contact address below.

Questions about these Terms, and any notice they require, may be sent to legal@divination.site.