Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of npb.com (the "site"), the personal website of Neil Patrick Bostick ("I", "me"). By using the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use it. Section 9 requires most disputes to be resolved by individual binding arbitration and waives class actions.

1. What the site is

The site is a personal profile. It describes the businesses I have founded or run, equity investments I have made, books I have written, and offers a form for getting in touch. You must be at least 18 to use the contact form.

2. No professional or investment advice

Everything on the site is general information about me and my work. It is not M&A, financial, investment, legal, tax, valuation or medical advice, and it is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, business, domain name or other asset. Mentions of companies I have invested in are not recommendations to invest in them. Descriptions of past transactions, deal counts and results are illustrative; they may be rounded or summarised, they depend on facts specific to each deal, and they do not predict or guarantee any future outcome. Descriptions of my books are not health advice; talk to a qualified professional before acting on anything that affects your health, money or legal position.

3. Contacting me creates no relationship

Sending a message through the contact form does not make you a client of me or of any business I am connected with, and it creates no advisory, agency, brokerage or fiduciary relationship. Any engagement happens only under a separate written agreement signed by both sides. Please do not send confidential or sensitive information through the form; I cannot treat unsolicited information as confidential. Only send details that are accurate and yours to share.

4. Accuracy

I try to keep the site current, but details change and the site may contain errors or out of date information. I may change or remove anything on it at any time without notice.

5. Third-party sites

The site links to other websites, including the businesses I run, LinkedIn and Amazon, where my books are sold. Those sites have their own terms and privacy policies, and I am not responsible for their content, products or practices. Links to my books are ordinary links, not affiliate links.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• send spam, abusive, false or automated messages through the contact form, or submit someone else's details;
• interfere with the site, probe its security or try to bypass its protections;
• scrape the site or access it with automated tools at a rate that burdens it (search engines and similar crawlers that respect robots.txt are welcome);
• use the site to break any law or infringe anyone's rights.

7. Intellectual property

The text, photographs, design and code of the site belong to me or my licensors. You may quote short extracts with a link back. Company names, logos and book titles belong to their owners and are used only to identify them. If you believe something on the site infringes your copyright, send a notice through the contact form identifying the work, the material and where it appears, with your contact details and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised.

8. Disclaimers, limitation of liability and indemnity

The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement and uninterrupted operation, to the fullest extent the law allows.

To the fullest extent the law allows, I will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the site or anything on it, even if told they were possible. My total liability for any claim relating to the site is limited to the greater of the amount you paid me for use of the site in the 12 months before the claim (the site is free, so normally nothing) and one hundred US dollars (US$100). Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

You agree to indemnify and hold me harmless from claims, losses and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the site.

9. Disputes, arbitration and class action waiver

Please get in touch first; most concerns can be resolved informally within 60 days. If not, any dispute arising out of or relating to the site or these terms will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either party may seek an injunction for misuse of intellectual property. You and I each waive the right to a jury trial and to bring or join any class, collective or representative action. You may opt out of this section within 30 days of first using the site by sending your name and a statement that you opt out through the contact form.

10. Governing law and general terms

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York and the Federal Arbitration Act, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to section 9, the state and federal courts in New York County, New York have exclusive jurisdiction. I may change these terms by posting a new version with a new date; continued use after that means you accept it. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the site.

Contact

Questions about these terms: use the contact form.