Terms of Use

Acceptance and scope

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of mathew-lincoln.com, including the AI Product Tools ecosystem, MIF Explorer, AI Handoff, the cinematic film experiences, supporting pages, written content, visual design, AI-generated imagery, downloadable materials, and related interactive experiences published on this site.

By accessing or using the site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site.

These Terms apply equally whether the site is accessed by a person directly, through an automated agent, through an AI assistant acting on a person’s behalf, or through any software that requests, renders, reads, or processes site content.

Ownership and proprietary rights

Unless otherwise stated, the site implementation, tools, page layouts, interface systems, interaction patterns, scoring models, formulas, copy, visual treatments, graphics, exports, code, documentation, and branding are owned by Mathew Lincoln or used with permission.

This ownership expressly includes the original cinematic works published on the site: the scroll-driven film sequences, their frame assets and dissolve engineering, the commissioned AI-generated hero imagery in both night and daylight variants, the AI-generated illustrative artwork, and the art direction, prompting, and compositing decisions embodied in all of them. AI-assisted production does not diminish the proprietary claim in the resulting curated, selected, and arranged works as published here.

MIF Explorer, AI Product Tools, AI Handoff, and related names, logos, and tool branding are claimed as proprietary marks of Mathew Lincoln. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Limited site license

You may access and use the site and tools for your own review, education, internal planning, evaluation, and decision support while they are made available on the site.

This is a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to use the site as delivered. It does not transfer any ownership, license, or other intellectual property right in the site or tools, and it does not include any right to extract, reproduce, or re-host any part of the site’s implementation.

Restrictions and prohibited conduct

Without prior written permission, you may not copy, republish, reproduce, redistribute, sell, sublicense, white-label, scrape at scale, reverse engineer, decompile, create commercial derivatives from, or build competing tool experiences from the site or tools.

You also may not remove attribution or rights notices, use the site in a way that interferes with normal operation, probe or misuse public endpoints, or use the site to violate law or third-party rights.

• No cloning or commercial reuse of tool workflows, interface logic, scoring formulas, branded frameworks, exports, or implementation patterns.
• No resale, service wrapping, or derivative tool replication based on the site or its outputs without written permission.
• No automated harvesting of site content, code, prompts, imagery, or data beyond ordinary indexing or lawful browsing.
• No extraction, download, or reuse of the site’s commissioned imagery, film frames, video sequences, or persona portrait library outside the site experience.
• No misrepresentation of the tools, their outputs, or their branding as your own work or as affiliated with you.

No AI-assisted recreation, extraction, or cloning

The restrictions above apply with full force to AI-assisted methods. Without prior written permission, you may not use, direct, or permit any artificial intelligence system, large language model, coding assistant, autonomous or semi-autonomous agent, screenshot-to-code tool, design-capture tool, or similar technology to view, describe, transcribe, summarize for reconstruction, reverse engineer, re-implement, translate into another framework, or otherwise recreate the site or any tool, in whole or in part.

Prohibited AI-assisted conduct includes, without limitation: feeding the site’s pages, markup, styles, scripts, screenshots, recordings, or outputs to an AI system for the purpose of producing a copy, near-copy, functional equivalent, or competing derivative; instructing an AI agent to browse the site to map its features for replication; and using AI tools to regenerate, restyle, or launder the site’s imagery, film sequences, copy, formulas, or interface systems into a substantially similar work.

Ordinary, personal use of AI assistants to read or discuss the site’s public content, or to use the AI Handoff exports as intended, is not restricted by this section. The line is recreation, extraction, and competitive replication, not reading.

AI training, text-and-data mining, and automated access

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and as an express reservation of rights under any text-and-data-mining or similar exception that permits such reservation, the use of any part of this site, including its code, copy, imagery, film sequences, tool logic, prompts, and outputs, for training, fine-tuning, evaluating, grounding, or otherwise developing machine-learning or AI models or datasets is prohibited without prior written permission.

The site publishes machine-readable signals reflecting this reservation, including crawler directives for known AI training bots. Absence of a signal for any particular system does not constitute permission.

Automated access is permitted only for ordinary search-engine indexing of public pages, for the AI Handoff and export endpoints as designed, and for agents acting on behalf of an individual user within the limited site license above.

AI-generated media, film sequences, and persona portraits

The cinematic imagery on this site, including tool hero scenes in night and daylight variants, film sequences, and illustrative artwork, was produced with generative AI systems under the direction, selection, and art direction of Mathew Lincoln, and is published as part of the site’s protected visual identity.

Persona portraits shown in the Persona Card Builder are synthetic, AI-generated depictions of people who do not exist. They are labeled as such in the interface. They are not photographs of real individuals, no real person’s likeness is intended, and any resemblance to a real person is coincidental. Portraits may not be extracted from the site or used to represent, impersonate, or depict any real individual.

Site media may not be downloaded, re-hosted, used as reference input to generative systems, or incorporated into other works without prior written permission, except for ordinary in-browser display while using the site.

AI features: generation, autofill, and agent handoff

Certain tools offer AI-assisted features, such as one-tap autofill that composes example content, in-tool generation that processes your inputs through a hosted endpoint and a third-party model provider, and AI Handoff exports that package tool state into prompts, JSON, Markdown, or agent-ready formats.

These features are provided as a convenience, as-is. Generated content may be imperfect, generic, or unsuitable for your context, and you are responsible for reviewing anything you carry forward. Availability, providers, formats, and endpoints may change or be withdrawn at any time.

AI Handoff exports are licensed for your own use in your own workflows and agent systems. The underlying prompt structures, endpoint designs, and export formats remain part of the site’s implementation and may not be re-hosted, resold, or repackaged as a separate product or service.

You may not abuse AI endpoints, including through excessive automated requests, attempts to extract system prompts or configuration, or use of the endpoints for content unrelated to the tools.

Tool outputs, estimates, and no transfer of rights

You may use the on-site outputs generated for your own internal planning, evaluation, or discussion. That permission does not grant any right to reuse the underlying tools, implementation, prompt structures, branded frameworks, visual system, or site copy outside the site.

The calculators and scorecards, including ROI figures, debt pressure scores, complexity costs, accessibility scores, and health-check results, produce directional estimates from simplified models and the assumptions you provide. They are planning aids, not measurements, audits, certifications, financial projections, or professional advice of any kind.

If you use tool output for compensation, governance, staffing, legal, compliance, financial, accessibility-conformance, or employment decisions, you are responsible for reviewing and validating that use independently with qualified professionals.

Third-party materials and references

This site may reference public frameworks, benchmarks, standards, or third-party materials for context, comparison, or inspiration. Those references do not transfer any ownership or license in this site’s implementation.

All legal rights in third-party content remain with the applicable third-party owner. Rights in this site’s specific implementation remain with Mathew Lincoln except where third-party rights apply.

No warranties

The site and tools are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability.

The site does not warrant that outputs, AI-generated content, or estimates will be complete, error-free, suitable for any specific decision, or available at all times.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Mathew Lincoln is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, revenue, opportunity, business value, or goodwill arising from or related to your use of the site, tools, AI features, or outputs.

If liability cannot be excluded entirely, it is limited to the minimum amount required by applicable law.

Enforcement

Violations of these Terms, including cloning, AI-assisted recreation, scraping for training, or re-hosting of site media, may result in any or all of: revocation of the site license, technical countermeasures, takedown requests to hosts and platforms (including notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and equivalent regimes), and pursuit of injunctive relief and damages.

Failure to enforce any provision in one instance is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later or against others.

Suspension or termination

Access to the site or any tool may be modified, suspended, or revoked at any time, including if misuse, scraping, cloning, AI-assisted recreation, resale, endpoint abuse, or other prohibited conduct is detected or reasonably suspected.

Changes to these Terms

These Terms may be updated as the site and tools evolve, including as new tools, AI features, or media are added. The date at the top of this page reflects the current version. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Governing law and permissions contact

Unless applicable law requires otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Unless required otherwise by law, disputes relating to these Terms may be brought in the state or federal courts serving Dallas County, Texas.

For permissions, licensing, or legal requests, contact me@mathew-lincoln.com.