Terms of service

Version 2026-09-25

GetMyAuthorWebsite.com

Effective Date: September 25, 2026

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern the website-building and hosting service marketed as Get My Author Website, including GetMyAuthorWebsite.com, myauthorwebsite.net, related domains and pages, the author administration portal, design-request tools, and hosted author sites (together, the "Service"). Get My Author Website is a service of Author Services LLC, a South Carolina limited liability company. After this sentence, these Terms refer only to "Get My Author Website," "we," "us," or "our," except where the designated DMCA agent is identified by its legal name.

By checking the acceptance boxes, submitting an ISBN, placing an order, saving a payment method, clicking to agree, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. Checking those boxes is your electronic signature. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. What this Service is — and is not

Get My Author Website builds a website for one book. You start by entering the book's ISBN. We look up the cover, description, retail listings, and related information and build the site from that data. A designer on our team reviews the site, makes changes we consider necessary, and we present the site to you for acceptance. Our target is to present the site two to three (2-3) working days after you submit a complete order.

Each order is for a single book. The Service is not a general business-website builder and not a custom site for an author's entire company, ministry, store, or catalog. A second book is a second order at the then-current design fee, and produces a second site. One sign-in may cover all of an author's sites with us.

A completed single-book site typically includes a design built around that book; a book page; an author page; retailer links we can locate; a contact form that stores messages in your admin and does not display your email address; a blog; an events calendar; social links; hosting with SSL; and an administration portal. Features that can be switched off in admin may be turned off and turned back on by you.

The site sends readers to wherever the book is sold. It does not take payments for books. We do not provide email mailboxes at your domain.

2. How an order starts

Orders start online with the ISBN. Before you add a card, you must:

Accept these Terms by electronic signature;

Confirm that the ISBN identifies your work, or work you are authorized to represent, and that you have the right to share that work on a public website, including the cover, description, author name, and likeness associated with it; and

Review the Content Standards in Section 5 and Schedule A and confirm that the work aligns with those standards.

Those three confirmations are part of the contract. An electronic signature has the same effect as a handwritten signature to the extent the law allows.

3. Fees and when you are charged

You add a card to start the process. You are not billed until you accept the website. If you do not accept the website, you do not pay the design fee or hosting. If we decline the work under the Content Standards before you accept, you do not pay.

The price you pay is the price shown at checkout or in the order confirmation when you place the order, including any sale or promotional price. After you accept:

Design and setup is a one-time fee.

Website hosting is billed in advance, either yearly or monthly, at the plan you choose. Hosting begins when you accept the site.

A domain purchased through us is billed for the first year at the price shown at purchase, then billed each year to renew at the then-current domain price. That charge is separate from website hosting.

Connecting a domain you already own has no extra fee from us. You add the DNS records we show you.

By adding a card you authorize our processor (currently Stripe) to store the payment method and to charge it when you accept the site, and then for hosting and domain renewals as they come due. We do not see or store full card numbers.

After you accept, hosting and domain-renewal charges renew automatically until you cancel. Hosting already paid is not refunded or prorated if you cancel before the end of a paid period, except as Section 8 requires when we cancel hosting for our convenience.

We may change hosting or domain fees. We will notify you. A change takes effect on your next hosting or domain bill and does not change a period you have already paid.

4. Build, acceptance, and go-live

The 2-3 working day target runs from a complete order: ISBN submitted, confirmations given, and a valid payment method on file. It excludes weekends, U.S. federal holidays, and time we are waiting on you. It is a target, not a guaranteed delivery date.

We retrieve public and commercial data tied to the ISBN. That data is often incomplete or wrong. You must review the site before you accept and correct anything that is off. Designer review is a quality pass and a Content Standards screen. It is not a legal review and not a cover-to-cover reading of the book.

When the site is ready we give you access to review it. The site is not a paid, accepted site until you accept it. If you do not accept, you are not charged, and we may withdraw the preview.

If you do not accept or reject within seven (7) days after we notify you that the site is ready for review, we may cancel the pending order without charge and remove the preview. You may ask us for more time before that date.

Acceptance is your agreement that the design fee and the first hosting period may be charged, and that the site may remain public as a hosted site under these Terms.

5. Content Standards

We are a faith-based company. These standards are about the content of the work, not about who the author is. We do not refuse an author because of who they are. We will not build or host a site for a work that falls outside these standards.

The standards in this Section 5 and in Schedule A apply to the book identified by the ISBN, to materials we retrieve for the build, and to content you later add. They are adapted from the Mill City Press editorial content standards.

Without limiting Schedule A, we will not accept, complete, or continue to host a site for material that, in our judgment, includes:

Pornographic or explicit sexual content — of any kind — including explicit depictions of sexual acts, erotica, content that glamorize infidelity or promiscuity as a positive lifestyle, kink, fetish, taboo, or non-consensual sexual content, LGBTQ+ erotica or same-sex sexual scenes, and romance whose primary draw is explicit sex;

Hate speech or extremism, including content that promotes hate or violence against people because of race, religion, LGBTQ+ status, disability, or similar grounds;

Excessive graphic violence or gore, glamorized torture, or portrayals of abuse without a clear literary or educational purpose;

Defamation or invasion of privacy;

Fraudulent, scam, or dangerous how-to material;

How-to material that instructs on suicide or self-harm, or that glamorizes suicide;

Occult instructional material, real-life spells or rituals, or witchcraft or sorcery presented as a positive real-life spiritual path;

Provably false claims presented as fact in health, science, history, or current events, as we reasonably assess them;

Material that infringes copyright, trademark, publicity, or privacy rights; or

Anything we are legally prohibited from hosting.

Schedule A also describes gray areas and what mild, non-explicit treatment may be acceptable. We decide close questions. We may refuse work that is lawful but outside the mission and audience we serve. Our determination is final for whether we will build or host a site.

6. Refusal, rejection, and missed disclosure

6.1 We decline before you accept

If we determine the work falls outside the Content Standards before you accept, we will not complete or host the site. You will not be charged. We are not obligated to leave a preview or design files in place.

6.2 You do not accept the site

If you review the site and do not accept it, you will not be charged. We may remove the preview. That is the end of the order unless we both agree to try again.

6.3 The site was accepted because the nature of the content was not disclosed

You must not submit an ISBN or confirmation that conceals or understates content that would violate Section 5 or Schedule A.

If the website is completed and accepted because you did not disclose the nature of the content and the issue was missed during development, we may deliver the HTML files to you, offer no refund of amounts already charged, and stop hosting — immediately or on notice — and remove the site from our servers.

6.4 Changes after acceptance

If you add or reveal content that violates the Content Standards after acceptance, we may remove the material or the site and end hosting. Amounts already charged are not refunded.

7. Your admin portal, design requests, and other books

After acceptance you control the site from your admin portal. Changes you save to biography, photograph, book description, retailer links, blog posts, events, colors, heading fonts, and similar fields appear when you save. You are responsible for everything that appears after you have access.

Larger design changes are requested only on the Design page in admin. Design-page requests are limited to two (2) per calendar month. We aim to complete ordinary requests within a few hours; that is a target, not a guarantee. You may revert a design-page change where that control is offered. We may decline a request that would turn the site into a general business site, add features the product does not include, or violate the Content Standards.

Another book is another full-price order and another site.

8. Hosting, our right to cancel, and your right to cancel

After acceptance we host the site while hosting stays paid and these Terms are not breached.

You may cancel hosting at any time in Account & billing or by writing to support. Cancellation stops the next renewal. It does not refund or prorate the current paid period. Download your files before the paid period ends.

We may cancel hosting at any time, with or without cause, by giving you notice. If we cancel without cause, we will give at least thirty (30) days' notice where reasonably able to do so, and we will refund unused prepaid hosting for the period after hosting actually stops. If we cancel for cause — including a Content Standards problem, unpaid fees, abuse of the Service, or legal requirement — we may stop sooner, and prepaid hosting is not refunded except where the law requires it.

After hosting ends, the live site comes down. The HTML files you downloaded remain yours to use on another host.

9. Domains and file download

A domain you already own remains yours. A domain you buy through us is yours. You pay the first-year price shown at purchase and the renewal price then in effect each year after that. When hosting ends, a domain pointed at us will stop resolving to the live site.

You may download the site files at any time from Account & billing. The download is the HTML of the site, with the accompanying images and styling we package. You can open those files on your own device. Download is not hosting. If you download the files and close the account, the site is not on the public internet through us. To put it back online you must buy hosting somewhere else, load the files, and point your domain there. We do not transfer the hosting account, the admin account, or our platform.

10. Failed payment, holding page, and deletion

If a hosting payment fails after acceptance, we notify you and retry. The site stays online. If the failure is not cured:

For up to ten (10) days after the failed payment, the site remains online;

After ten (10) days, we may replace the site with a plain holding page. Content is not deleted at that point;

If the account remains unpaid, we may close it and delete the website thirty (30) days after the failed payment. We will say so before we delete.

Paying during the holding-page period restores the site as it was, if the files are still on our servers. Update the card in Account & billing. Export files before deletion.

11. Accounts and messages

Login is at the address we publish. You may ask us to add a second person with their own login. You are responsible for everyone you allow into admin. Contact-form messages are stored in your admin. Your email address is not shown on the public site through that form. A Privacy Policy will be posted on the Service.

12. Ownership and licenses

Your words, photographs, and book remain yours. You grant us a non-exclusive license to copy, adapt for the web, host, cache, back up, transmit, and technically modify that material solely to operate the Service and, unless you opt out in writing, to show the site as an example of our work.

The platform, code, design system, tools, and our names and marks remain ours. Paying for a build purchases the assembled single-book site and a license to use it under these Terms.

13. Acceptable use

You may not attempt to break or overload the Service; access another customer's account; send unsolicited bulk messages through the Service; collect personal data unlawfully; interfere with security; or resell the Service as a white-label agency product without our written consent.

14. Third parties

Retailer buttons, fonts, analytics, Stripe, email delivery, and domain-registration partners are provided by others. Their terms apply. We are not responsible for changes those parties make to their products or listings. We do not promise search rankings, traffic, or book sales.

15. Availability

We use commercially reasonable care to keep hosted sites online, secured, and backed up. We do not warrant uninterrupted availability. Keep your own download of files you cannot afford to lose.

16. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT A PARTICULAR DESIGN BEFORE THE SITE IS BUILT, THAT LOOKED-UP ISBN DATA IS CORRECT, THAT REVIEW WILL DETECT EVERY CONTENT-STANDARDS ISSUE, THAT A DESIGN-PAGE REQUEST WILL BE FINISHED IN A STATED NUMBER OF HOURS, OR THAT THE SITE WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR COMMERCIAL RESULT.

17. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST ROYALTIES, LOST SALES, LOST DATA, REPLACEMENT HOSTING, OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF THE SERVICE, A SITE, OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNTS YOU ACTUALLY PAID US FOR THAT SITE'S DESIGN FEE AND HOSTING IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. That combined amount is the ceiling. It is not lost book sales, not reputation harm, and not a larger figure you later claim. If you have not yet paid because you did not accept the site, our liability for that order is zero.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THE CONTENT ON YOUR WEBSITE. After you accept the site, you are the publisher of it. We are not responsible for the words, images, links, claims, books, or other material on the site, including material we first retrieved from ISBN listings and material you later add or edit. Reviewing a site for design or Content Standards does not make us the author of the work or a guarantor of its content.

NOTHING HERE LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LEGALLY BE LIMITED.

18. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us and our members, managers, employees, and contractors against claims, damages, and reasonable legal fees arising from your book, your site and its content (including content we retrieved at your direction and content you add after acceptance), your breach of these Terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights, except to the extent caused by our willful misconduct.

19. Termination

You may stop using the Service and cancel future hosting at any time. We may refuse an order, withdraw a preview, unpublish a site, or close an account as these Terms allow. Sections 5, 6, 8 through 10, and 12 through 23 survive.

20. Changes

We may change these Terms at any time. The current version will be posted on the Service. For an existing hosting customer, we will give notice of a material change by email or in admin before that change applies, except where we must act faster for legal or security reasons.

If you continue to use the Service after the stated effective date of the updated Terms, that continued use is your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and cancel hosting before that date. Canceling hosting does not refund a period already paid, except as Section 8 requires when we cancel for our convenience.

21. Governing law; mediation and arbitration

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that a mandatory consumer-protection statute of your state of residence will apply to the extent it cannot be waived.

You and we will try to resolve a dispute informally by email for fifteen (15) days after one of us gives written notice of the dispute. If that does not resolve it, the dispute will be submitted to mediation under the Commercial Mediation Procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), or another mediator we both accept. Mediation will be conducted by video or telephone unless both sides agree otherwise.

If the dispute is not resolved in mediation, it will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not in court, except as stated below. Arbitration will be administered by the AAA under its Consumer Arbitration Rules if you are using the Service as an individual author, or under its Commercial Arbitration Rules otherwise. The arbitration may be conducted on the papers, by video, or in the county of our South Carolina registered office. The arbitrator may award the same damages and relief a court could award, subject to Sections 16 and 17. The arbitrator's award is final and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class, collective, or representative action. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity.

Either party may still go to a small-claims court if the claim belongs there. Either party may also go to court solely to seek temporary or permanent injunctive relief to protect the Service, our marks, Content Standards enforcement, or intellectual property. Those court actions do not waive the duty to mediate and arbitrate the rest of the dispute.

22. Copyright policy; designated DMCA agent

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect users of the Service to do the same. In appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, we may remove or disable access to material on the Service that may be infringing, and we may suspend or close the account of a user who infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others, including repeat infringers.

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512 (the "DMCA"), we will respond to claims of copyright infringement reported to our designated agent. For this Service, notices of claimed infringement should be sent to:

Author Services LLC

Attn: Copyright Manager, DMCA / Copyright Agent

6650 Rivers Ave, Ste 100

Charleston, South Carolina 29406

Phone: 866-302-4807

Email: support@authorservices.com

If you are a copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of one, and you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, send our designated agent a written notification that includes substantially the following:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by one notice, a representative list of those works;

Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it (a URL is best);

Your address, telephone number, and email address;

A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

We will investigate notices that substantially follow this procedure and take appropriate action under the DMCA, which may include removing or disabling the material and telling the author whose site is affected. Inquiries that do not substantially follow this procedure may not receive a response and may not be effective notices under the DMCA.

If we remove or disable material in response to a DMCA notice, and you believe the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send our designated agent a written counter-notification that includes: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the material and where it appeared before it was removed; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; your name, address, and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district in which your address is located (or, if you are outside the United States, for the District of South Carolina), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or that person's agent. We may restore the material if the original complainant does not seek a court order within the time the DMCA allows.

23. General and contact

These Terms, the order confirmations, and Schedule A are the entire agreement for the Service. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. You may not assign the agreement without our consent, except to a successor that acquires the book rights. We may assign to an affiliate or successor. Notices to you may be sent to the email on the account. Questions and notices to us: support@myauthorwebsite.net, or the contact form on the Service. DMCA notices must go to the designated agent in Section 22, not to general support alone.

Schedule A — Content Standards

Adapted from the Mill City Press Editorial Content Policy. These rules are about the work, not the identity of the author. Close questions are decided by us. Where this Schedule and Section 5 differ, the stricter rule controls.

A. Unsuitable content — we will not build or host

Hate speech or extremism. Content that promotes hate or violence against protected groups (including race, religion, LGBTQ+ status, and disability); books that argue for ethnic cleansing, white supremacy, or genocide; works that slander or demonize individuals or entire groups with malicious falsehoods.

Pornographic or explicit sexual content, of any kind. Explicit depictions of sexual acts, erotic material, or content that promotes non-consensual activity; books that glamorize infidelity, promiscuity, or open relationships as a positive lifestyle; kinky, fetish, taboo, or non-consensual sexual content (including incest, step-relations, and dubious consent); LGBTQ+ erotica or same-sex sexual scenes; romance sub-genres that revolve around explicit sexual content as the primary draw (including dark romance).

Excessive graphic violence or gore. Gratuitous violent depictions intended to shock or disturb, glamorized torture, or portrayals of abuse without clear literary or educational purpose.

Defamation or invasion of privacy. Unverified accusations or statements that could damage reputations or violate personal privacy.

Fraudulent or dangerous how-to material. Instructions for illegal or unsafe activity; medical or financial advice without credible sourcing presented as fact; content that explicitly incites violence; pyramid-scheme or how-to-scam guides; unsubstantiated get-rich-quick blueprints with deceptive promises.

Suicide, self-harm, and dangerous how-tos. How-to books that instruct on suicide or self-harm; works that glamorize or romanticize suicide.

Occult presented as real-life practice. Real-life spells or rituals; witchcraft or sorcery depicted as a positive real-life spiritual path; material that promotes spirit summoning, demonology, or satanic practice as something to follow; books teaching real-life occult rituals.

Misinformation presented as fact. Provably false claims presented as fact, particularly in health, science, history, or current events, as we reasonably assess them.

Highly polarizing or insensitive memoirs. Memoirs that promote or excuse abusive or criminal behavior without accountability or remorse; books defending well-known convicted criminals without credible new evidence.

B. Gray areas — may be declined

True crime that is not factually careful or not respectful of victims; memoir or trauma narratives handled without care; controversial social issues presented without seriousness or grounding; mature themes in fiction that are gratuitous; fantasy that blurs into ritual magic or occult teaching presented as real-life practice; memoirs containing graphic sexual experience even if later framed as redemptive; romance that uses explicit detail or erotic language; horror with heavy demonic or satanic symbolism offered as invitation; excessive profanity.

C. Acceptable sexual content

Adult fiction: emotional connection and relationships with mild physical affection, but no explicit detail. A married or dating couple may be implied to have a sexual relationship; explicit acts are not shown. Think PG-13.

Young adult and coming-of-age: mild first crushes, dating, or emotional growth. No graphic descriptions, no explicit language, no steamy scenes. Think PG.

Marriage and intimacy books: values-based guides. Sexual topics may be discussed for educational purposes if tasteful and free of explicit detail or technique.

Testimony and memoir: past promiscuity, infidelity, or abuse may be referred to if handled with discretion, not described graphically, and not sensationalized.

Family and parenting: age-appropriate, factual discussion without explicit detail.

D. Acceptable fantasy and magical content

General fantasy that avoids explicit witchcraft, real-life Wicca, or occult worship; light magical realism; symbolic or dreamlike magic that is not ritualistic; mythology, folklore, and fairy tale that do not promote real-life occult practice; superhero or adventure stories with powers; fairy-tale retellings where magic is whimsical or symbolic.