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These Terms of Use govern access to Friedrich Nietzsche Diary and its articles, guides, navigation tools, text files, and related pages. By using the website, you agree to follow these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site. These terms apply to ordinary visitors, researchers, automated systems, and anyone who accesses or reuses material from the publication.

The website is an independent educational resource. It does not require a visitor account for normal reading. No purchase is necessary to browse the current public library. Additional features or services may be introduced later, and specific terms may accompany them.

Educational scope

The material is provided for general education, criticism, commentary, and research orientation. It is not professional advice and does not create a confidential or fiduciary relationship. Philosophical interpretations can be contested, historical records can be incomplete, and translations can differ. You remain responsible for evaluating the material and checking important claims against primary texts and reliable scholarship.

The Disclaimer forms an important part of these terms. It explains the limits of medical, mental-health, legal, financial, academic, and other reliance. If your decision could affect health, safety, rights, finances, employment, or another substantial interest, consult an appropriately qualified professional rather than relying on a general article.

Permitted personal use

You may read, bookmark, link to, and print reasonable portions of the public website for personal, educational, and noncommercial study, subject to applicable law. Teachers and students may link to pages and quote limited passages with clear attribution when permitted by copyright, quotation, or fair-use rules in their jurisdiction.

Permission for ordinary reading does not transfer ownership of the site or its editorial content. It also does not grant a broad license to republish the article library, build a competing database from it, sell copies, strip attribution, or imply that Friedrich Nietzsche Diary endorses another product or viewpoint.

Intellectual property

The site's original selection, organization, explanatory prose, design, branding, graphics, and code are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Friedrich Nietzsche's historical works may have a different copyright status from modern translations, annotations, editions, photographs, or scholarship. Rights in quoted and referenced third-party material remain with their respective owners.

You must not reproduce a substantial part of the publication without prior permission unless applicable law clearly allows the use. Requests should identify the exact material, proposed format, audience, distribution method, and whether the use is commercial. Silence does not constitute permission.

The name Friedrich Nietzsche Diary, its visual identity, and associated branding may not be used in a way that suggests sponsorship, partnership, official status, or endorsement. Factual references and ordinary links are welcome when they do not create confusion.

Attribution and quotation

When you quote permitted portions, identify Friedrich Nietzsche Diary and link to the specific page when practical. Do not alter a passage in a way that reverses or materially distorts its meaning. Ellipses, excerpts, and summaries should preserve relevant qualifications. If you are quoting Nietzsche himself, cite the primary work and translation rather than treating this website as the original source.

Academic users must follow their institution's citation and integrity rules. The site does not authorize plagiarism, ghost submission, fabricated reading, or misrepresentation of authorship. A citation does not cure copying that exceeds what law or institutional policy permits.

Automated access and artificial intelligence

Automated systems may access publicly available pages only in a responsible manner consistent with these terms, technical directives, and applicable law. Operators must respect robots.txt, avoid excessive request rates, and refrain from bypassing security, access controls, or technical limits. Automated access must not degrade availability for human readers.

The /llms.txt file summarizes the site's subject, structure, and preferred primary routes. It is informational. It does not grant ownership, waive copyright, guarantee that every crawler will be permitted, or replace these terms. The absence of a route from that file does not make a prohibited use permissible.

You may not use automated means to impersonate the publication, generate misleading attribution, reproduce a substantial substitute for the site, or falsely claim that an output has been reviewed or endorsed by Friedrich Nietzsche Diary. If an automated system summarizes our work, its operator remains responsible for accuracy, attribution, and legal compliance.

Prohibited conduct

You agree not to use the site to break applicable law or infringe another person's rights. You must not attempt to disrupt, overload, damage, probe, or gain unauthorized access to the website, hosting infrastructure, source systems, or connected services. Security research must be conducted lawfully and should stop before accessing data or causing harm.

You must not introduce malware, scrape at a rate that interferes with operation, bypass traffic controls, forge requests, conceal abusive activity, or use content to facilitate harassment, fraud, defamation, or unlawful discrimination. You must not present altered pages as authentic copies or register confusing domains and accounts intended to impersonate the publication.

We may restrict or block access that appears abusive, dangerous, unlawful, or technically harmful. A restriction does not create an obligation to provide advance notice where immediate action is reasonably needed to protect the service or others.

User communications

If you send feedback, a correction, or another message, you confirm that you have the right to send it and that it does not contain unlawful material, malicious files, or another person's confidential information. Do not send sensitive personal records. The Privacy Policy explains how correspondence may be handled.

You retain rights in original material you submit. By sending a correction or editorial suggestion, you permit us to review, quote internally, and use the substance of that contribution to evaluate and improve the publication. We are not required to publish, credit, compensate, or respond to unsolicited ideas. If attribution or confidentiality is important, obtain written agreement before sending the material.

Corrections and content changes

We may correct, update, expand, reorganize, or remove content at any time. A page can change after it has been quoted or indexed. We are not obligated to preserve a public archive of every revision. Researchers should record the page title, URL, access information required by their citation style, and the source materials underlying any important claim.

Good-faith correction requests are welcome. Identify the page, disputed statement, and supporting evidence. Disagreement alone does not establish an error, especially where an article clearly identifies an interpretive judgment. Final editorial decisions remain with the publication.

External links and services

The website may link to third-party sources and services. We do not control their operation, terms, privacy practices, pricing, security, or content. A link does not automatically endorse the entire destination. Use external services at your own discretion and review the terms that govern them.

Any transaction or dispute between you and a third party is between the relevant participants. Friedrich Nietzsche Diary is not responsible merely because a link helped you discover the service. We may remove or replace a link if it becomes misleading, unsafe, unavailable, or editorially unnecessary.

No warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site is provided without express or implied warranties. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free content, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility with every device, or that every external link is safe and current. We aim for high standards, but responsible publishing cannot promise perfection.

You are responsible for maintaining appropriate device security, backups, and independent records. Do not rely on the website as the sole storage location for information needed for a course, publication, legal matter, health decision, or other consequential purpose.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Friedrich Nietzsche Diary and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or similar damages connected with the website, its unavailability, its content, or an external resource. This includes losses arising from reliance on an interpretation, interruption of access, corrupted data, or third-party conduct.

Some jurisdictions restrict exclusions and limitations. In those locations, these provisions apply only to the maximum extent allowed. Nothing in the terms removes a right or responsibility that cannot lawfully be removed.

Indemnity

Where permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for claims, losses, or reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the website, infringement of another person's rights, breach of these terms, or misuse of the publication's name and content. This provision does not apply where responsibility cannot legally be shifted or where a claim results from conduct for which the publication is legally responsible.

Availability and termination

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the site. We may also restrict access associated with abusive automation, security threats, legal requirements, or repeated violations. The public availability of a page does not guarantee permanent access.

Provisions that logically continue after access ends remain effective, including intellectual-property protections, disclaimers, limitations, and responsibilities arising from earlier conduct.

Governing principles and disputes

Applicable law and jurisdiction can depend on where the operator and visitor are located and on mandatory consumer protections. These terms do not attempt to remove rights that apply regardless of contract language. Before escalating a concern, please contact us with a clear description so there is a reasonable opportunity to understand and resolve it informally.

Nothing in this section requires informal contact where urgent relief is necessary, where law provides a non-waivable process, or where contacting the publication would be inappropriate. If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions should continue to operate to the extent legally possible.

Changes to the terms

We may revise these terms when the website, law, technology, or editorial model changes. The version displayed on this page governs later use. Material changes should be written clearly. Your continued use after a revision indicates acceptance of the revised terms to the extent permitted by law.

These terms should be read with the Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Editorial Policy. Questions may be sent through the Contact page. These terms are provided for the operation of this publication and are not a template or legal recommendation for other websites.