Terms of Use

1. Overview

SmartBirdFeederGuide publishes editorial content about backyard bird feeders, including products sold by third-party retailers such as Amazon. We do not sell hardware directly unless we say otherwise.

2. Editorial content disclaimer

Articles, FAQ answers, summaries of product listings, and buying tips are informational. Features, warranties, subscriptions, firmware, pricing, availability, regulatory claims, IP ratings, and safety instructions can change without notice.

Always rely on manufacturer documentation, labeling, retailer checkout pages, and local laws before mounting equipment, powering devices outdoors, interacting with wildlife, or handling feeders near children or pets.

3. Affiliate relationships and FTC disclosure

SmartBirdFeederGuide may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through monetized outbound links such as shortened Amazon URLs (example affiliate storefront link). Amazon and other retailers independently determine attribution. Commissions generally do not change the checkout price paid by you.

Commission schedules, cookie windows, disclosures on retailer pages, and program rules evolve. Affiliate income helps fund editorial work; it does not guarantee that any specific SKU is stocked, warranted, lawful in your jurisdiction, or the best purchase for every reader.

4. Intellectual property

Except where credited, original summaries, FAQs, prose, diagrams, screenshots we originate, badges, markup, logos, plus branding motifs remain ours.

Manufacturer photography, storefront screenshots, typography streamed via CDN-hosted fonts, third-party JavaScript, relays that ingest newsletter payloads, telemetry pixels, OEM trademarks, packaging captions, firmware filenames, plus analogous retailer materials belong to whoever published them.

Brief storefront excerpts supporting factual comparisons may qualify nominative fair use where statutes allow absent deceptive affiliation, abusive scraping harming infrastructure uptime, framing that hides FTC affiliate disclosures impersonation implying sponsorship lacking contractual basis.

5. Third-party websites

Outbound links navigate toward merchants, nonprofits, CDN vendors, typography relays, form processors including FormSubmit relays after activation, storefront apps, forums, regulators, newsletters, miscellaneous destinations SmartBirdFeederGuide seldom operates twenty-four-seven.

Before exchanging payment instruments or credentials read each destination's notices about minors biometric claims tariff disclosures refunds FTC influencer guidance telemetry arbitration regimes affiliate cookies checkout workflows.

6. Disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SmartBirdFeederGuide provides the site and its content on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Where permitted, we disclaim implied warranties including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, uninterrupted availability, and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SmartBirdFeederGuide and its contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages. Our aggregate liability arising from these terms or your use of the site will not exceed the greater of fifty U.S. dollars or amounts you paid us directly for access to this site within the preceding twelve months (which is ordinarily zero).

Some jurisdictions prohibit certain limitations above. In those jurisdictions, liabilities are limited to the minimum extent required by law.

7. Corrections policy

Manufacturer and retailer descriptions change frequently. Contact us when you identify a materially incorrect statement anchored to an outdated PDP with a reproducible reference (such as screenshot plus URL plus date).

8. Newsletter and marketing

Optional signup posts through whatever endpoint appears inside site markup (for example FormSubmit after you authenticate an inbox).

Deliverability hinges on SMTP configuration, DKIM SPF alignment operated by whoever controls that inbox, suppression lists downstream spam mitigation inside mailbox vendors.

Include conspicuous unsubscribe avenues inside broadcasts once broadcasts begin honoring CAN-SPAM CASL GDPR-aligned expectations whichever regimes your deployment triggers.

9. Severability

If any portion of these terms is held unlawful or unenforceable, the remainder survives to the fullest extent permitted. Courts may revise an overbroad provision so it matches the closest lawful intent consistent with surviving sections.

10. Changes

Posting updates replaces earlier language prospectively unless statutes demand stronger advance notice modalities.

11. Contact

Legal privacy plus marketing escalation travel through staffed mailbox addresses deployments advertise publicly replacing FormSubmit placeholders referenced inside signup footers.