Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of terms

By accessing purpleorange.ai, subscribing to the newsletter, or submitting a contact request, you agree to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

2. About Purple Orange AI

Purple Orange AI is a production AI engineering practice operated by Max Markovtsev, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Contact: max@purpleorange.ai.

3. Scope of these terms

These terms govern:

• Your use of purpleorange.ai and any content we publish.
• The weekly newsletter you can subscribe to.
• Calls you book through our scheduling widget.

Paid engagements (Discovery Sprint, Buildout, Fractional Operator) are governed by a separately signed Statement of Work, Master Services Agreement, or equivalent engagement letter. Those documents take precedence over anything on this page for matters of delivery, pricing, IP, confidentiality, and warranties related to the engagement itself.

4. Content and intellectual property

Unless noted otherwise, everything published on this site — articles, guides, code snippets, diagrams, design system, and copy — is owned by Purple Orange AI or used with permission.

You may: quote short passages with attribution and a link back; share a link to any public page; use code snippets explicitly marked as examples in your own projects.

You may not: scrape or bulk-download content for commercial redistribution; republish whole articles without written permission; remove copyright or attribution notices; use our name, logo, or brand marks to imply endorsement.

AI crawlers listed in our robots.txt are welcome to index and cite content with attribution. That permission does not extend to training derivative commercial products that directly replace this site.

5. Your content

When you send us a message, subscribe to the newsletter, or book a call, you retain ownership of what you submit. You grant us a non-exclusive license to use that information to respond to you, operate the service, and communicate with you about your inquiry or subscription.

Please don't send us confidential information through the contact form or public channels. We'll put a mutual NDA in place before you share anything sensitive in an actual engagement.

6. Newsletter

• Subscribing grants us permission to send you the weekly dispatch and occasional administrative messages (e.g., policy updates).
• Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing is immediate; the last email may already be in flight at the moment you unsubscribe.
• We do not share subscriber lists with third parties.

7. Acceptable use

Don't use this site or its services to:

• Attempt to break, probe, or interfere with the site, our servers, or our infrastructure.
• Submit false, abusive, or automated spam content through any form.
• Violate any applicable law or third-party right.
• Reverse-engineer content for the purpose of building a substantially similar commercial directory or product.

We may restrict or block access at our discretion if we believe you are violating these rules.

8. Third-party services

This site embeds or links to third-party services including Calendly (scheduling), Beehiiv (newsletter), Google Analytics (measurement), and Google Fonts (typography). Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for their availability, content, or practices.

9. No professional advice

Content on purpleorange.ai is provided for informational purposes only. It is not legal, tax, financial, medical, or other professional advice. You should consult appropriate professionals before making decisions based on anything published here.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure against every conceivable attack.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Purple Orange AI, its operator, contractors, and service providers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of this site, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability for claims arising from your use of this site (excluding paid engagements, which are governed separately) will not exceed $100 USD.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or limitation of liability for consequential damages. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Purple Orange AI harmless from any claim, demand, loss, or damage (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your violation of these terms, your misuse of the site, or your violation of any third-party right.

13. Changes to the site or services

We may add, modify, or discontinue features of the site, newsletter, or scheduling at any time without notice. We're not liable to you or any third party for changes, suspension, or discontinuation.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms of Service. Material changes will be noted with an updated "Last updated" date. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the new terms. If you don't agree, please stop using the site and unsubscribe from the newsletter.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising from these terms or your use of the site shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

16. Severability

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in full force. The unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.

17. Entire agreement

These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any signed engagement documents, constitute the entire agreement between you and Purple Orange AI regarding your use of the site, newsletter, and scheduling. For paid engagements, the signed Statement of Work takes precedence.