PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. They include a binding individual arbitration provision and class-action waiver (see "Disputes"), a release of liability and assumption of risk, and references to the Content & Mental Health Warning that describes material risks of engaging with the protocols in our publications. By downloading, accessing, or using the Stan Taylor mobile app (the "App"), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
The App is operated by Hashtag Publishing LLC ("Company", "we", "us"), a Wyoming limited liability company. "Stan Taylor" is a pen name and brand name; references to Stan Taylor refer to the Company, its content, and its intellectual property. Contact: hello@stantaylor.com, 1021 E Lincolnway Suite #7583, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001, United States. These Terms apply to the App; use of stantaylor.com is governed by its own Terms of Service.
The App delivers books, audiobooks, and related materials published by the Company, including The Black Book of Power and The Little Dictator, together with resources, posts, and reading tools. Everything in the App is provided strictly for entertainment, educational, and informational purposes. Nothing in the App is professional advice of any kind — medical, psychological, psychiatric, therapeutic, legal, or financial — and no professional relationship (including therapist-client, doctor-patient, attorney-client, coach-client, or fiduciary) is created by your purchase, reading, listening, or application of any material. You alone decide whether and how to apply anything you read or hear, and you accept full responsibility for that decision.
The App is for adults. You must be at least 18 years old, able to form a binding contract, and — because certain publications contain psychologically demanding protocols — you represent that you possess the baseline psychological stability necessary to engage with the content safely, as described in the Content & Mental Health Warning.
Sign-in uses one-time email codes; there are no passwords. You agree to provide an accurate email address, to keep control of that inbox, and to notify us of any suspected unauthorized access. You can permanently delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account, which erases your account and synced data as described in the Privacy Policy.
When you buy a book (or redeem a valid claim code), you get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to read, listen to, and download that book within the App, on devices signed in to your account, forever. The books, audio, and all other content remain the property of the Company and its licensors, protected by U.S. and international copyright law. You may not:
• copy, print, export, record, screen-capture, or otherwise extract book text or audio, except features the App itself provides (such as watermarked quote cards);
• share, resell, lease, sublicense, or publicly perform any content, or share account access to circumvent purchases;
• reverse engineer the App, circumvent content protection, scrape content, or access it with automated tools;
• use the content to train, fine-tune, or ground any artificial-intelligence model or dataset.
Brief quotations for criticism, review, or scholarship remain permitted under fair use. Violations may result in immediate termination of your account and revocation of digital entitlements, in addition to the Company's other legal remedies.
Books purchased on stantaylor.com or included with hardcovers arrive as claim codes. Codes attach a book to exactly one account: signing in with your order email claims them automatically, or you can redeem a code manually. Every hardcover includes the ebook and audiobook; the audiobook always includes the ebook. Refunding an order revokes the digital entitlements it granted. Codes are entitlements, not money or gift cards, and have no cash value. Refunds for stantaylor.com orders follow the Refund Policy.
When in-app purchases become available, they are processed by Apple and billed to your Apple account at the price shown before you confirm. Refund requests for in-app purchases are handled by Apple under Apple's terms. The Company does not receive or store your payment card details.
This section contains a release. Read it carefully. Certain publications available in the App describe protocols and exercises designed to produce real psychological and neurological disruption — surfacing suppressed emotional material, interrupting embedded behavioral patterns, and dissolving identity structures. Engaging with them carries inherent risks, including psychological discomfort and emotional distress, described more fully in the Content & Mental Health Warning.
By using the App you acknowledge that your engagement is voluntary and informed, and you assume all associated risks. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release, waive, discharge, and covenant not to sue the Company, its owners, officers, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, successors, and assigns (the "Released Parties") from all liability, claims, demands, and causes of action arising out of or related to any loss, damage, injury, or harm — psychological, emotional, physical, financial, relational, reputational, or otherwise — sustained by you or any third party as a result of your engagement with, interpretation of, or application of any content in the App. You expressly waive the protections of California Civil Code Section 1542 and any similar law of any jurisdiction concerning claims unknown at the time of release, and you agree this release remains effective even if you later discover such claims.
The Content & Mental Health Warning is part of these Terms and you should read it before engaging with the protocols. In short: the App is not therapy and no author or moderator is a licensed clinician; certain exercises can activate traumatic material; and if you are in crisis — active suicidal ideation, psychosis, severe dissociation — stop and seek professional help immediately. In the United States, call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line); elsewhere, find local lines at findahelpline.com. Our email and community channels are not crisis services.
The frameworks in our publications are presented for education. They are not instructions or encouragement to engage in unlawful, harmful, or unethical conduct, and the Company expressly condemns using them to violate law, professional codes, or the dignity and autonomy of other people. You are solely responsible for ensuring your application of any concept complies with all applicable laws and, if you are a licensed professional, with the ethical standards of your profession. Nothing in the App overrides any legal obligation you hold, including mandatory reporting requirements.
Stan Taylor, The Black Book of Power, The Little Dictator, the App's design, and all logos and marks are trademarks or trade dress of the Company. All content is protected by copyright; all rights not expressly granted are reserved. If you believe content in the App infringes your copyright, send a notification meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent: Stan Taylor, hello@stantaylor.com. We may remove content and terminate repeat infringers.
Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback you send us are non-confidential and become the Company's property; we may use them for any purpose without compensation or attribution.
You agree not to: interfere with or overburden the App; probe, attack, or bypass its security or content protections; misrepresent your identity or affiliation with the Company; use another person's account; or use the App in violation of any law or these Terms.
These Terms are between you and the Company only — not Apple. Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for the App. If the App fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the App's purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. As between Apple and the Company, the Company is responsible for the App and its content, for addressing any claims relating to it (including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, and consumer protection), and for the investigation and resolution of any third-party intellectual-property claims. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You must comply with applicable third-party terms (for example, your wireless carrier's). Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
THE APP AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY PROTOCOL, TECHNIQUE, OR FRAMEWORK WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR RESULT — PSYCHOLOGICAL, RELATIONAL, FINANCIAL, OR OTHERWISE — OR THAT IT IS SAFE OR APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. INDIVIDUAL RESULTS DEPEND ENTIRELY ON YOUR EXECUTION, CIRCUMSTANCES, PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE, AND JUDGMENT. THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) THE RELEASED PARTIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF DATA, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL OR EMOTIONAL HARM, ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THESE TERMS OR THE APP; AND (B) THE RELEASED PARTIES' AGGREGATE LIABILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU ACTUALLY PAID THE COMPANY FOR THE SPECIFIC CONTENT OR SERVICE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. THESE LIMITATIONS ARE AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN AND APPLY EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Released Parties from all claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use or misuse of the App, your violation of these Terms or of any third party's rights, or your application of any material contained in the App.
Before filing any claim, you and the Company agree to notify each other in writing within 30 days of the dispute arising (to hello@stantaylor.com) and attempt in good faith to resolve it informally. If unresolved after 30 days, any dispute arising from these Terms or the App shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration before a single JAMS arbitrator in Laramie County, Wyoming, under the JAMS rules and the Federal Arbitration Act. You and the Company each waive the right to a jury trial and agree that disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis — no class actions, class arbitrations, or representative proceedings. Claims must be brought within one year of arising or are permanently barred, where the law allows. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, or seek injunctive relief in court for intellectual-property violations. You may opt out of arbitration entirely by emailing hello@stantaylor.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your full name and your intent to opt out.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to the arbitration provision, exclusive jurisdiction lies in the state and federal courts of Laramie County, Wyoming.
We may suspend or terminate your access for violation of these Terms, and you may stop using the App or delete your account at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive (including licenses' restrictions, the release, warranty disclaimers, liability limits, indemnification, and the dispute provisions) survive termination.
We may modify these Terms by posting an updated version with a new effective date; material changes will be notified in the App. Continued use after the effective date is acceptance. We may modify or discontinue features of the App; if we ever discontinue the App itself, we will make reasonable efforts to give owners notice and a path to their content.
If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Content & Mental Health Warning are the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the App. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.