Effective date: August 5, 2026
1. Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using RolandKVoss.com, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the site. These terms apply to visitors, correspondents, media users, prospective licensees, and anyone who accesses site content or follows its external links.
2. Fictional Persona and Satirical Content
Roland K. Voss is a fictional satirical author persona. Biographical details, employers, institutions, credentials, awards, quotations, publications, frameworks, endorsements, testimonials, and leadership history associated with the persona may be invented or exaggerated for humor, parody, commentary, marketing, and entertainment.
The site has no affiliation with North Korea, its government or military, or with any government, military, intelligence service, political organization, certification body, publication, school, institute, corporation, or person that may be referenced or parodied unless an affiliation is expressly stated in clear, non-satirical language.
3. No Professional Advice
The site’s books, articles, Field Notes, posters, quotations, checklists, workshops, and other materials are not legal, medical, financial, employment, human-resources, compliance, security, political, military, or professional-management advice. Satirical material may intentionally describe unethical, ineffective, authoritarian, or unlawful conduct to criticize it.
You are responsible for obtaining qualified advice and exercising independent judgment before making business, employment, legal, financial, or other consequential decisions.
4. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the site’s text, graphics, logos, fictional biography, character elements, photographs, promotional images, poster designs, page design, downloadable materials, and other original content are owned by or licensed to the website’s owner and are protected by applicable copyright, trademark, publicity, unfair-competition, and other laws.
“Roland K. Voss,” associated branding, book titles, slogans, logos, fictional institutions, visual identity, and merchandise designs may function as source identifiers and may not be used in a way that falsely suggests authorization, endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or origin.
5. Permitted Personal and Editorial Use
You may view the site and share ordinary links to publicly accessible pages. Legitimate news, commentary, criticism, review, scholarship, and other uses permitted by law are not prohibited by these terms.
Approved press photographs made available on the Press & Media page may be cropped or resized for legitimate editorial coverage, provided they are not materially altered, resold, used as merchandise, used to train or promote an unrelated product, or presented in a way that implies a real-world endorsement. Retain the Roland K. Voss name with editorial use.
6. Prohibited Uses
You may not:
- Republish substantial portions of site content as your own
- Sell, sublicense, or merchandise site content without written permission
- Use photographs, quotations, branding, or fictional biography to imply endorsement or a real relationship
- Remove copyright, attribution, satire, fictional-persona, or disclosure notices
- Use the site to transmit malware, spam, automated abuse, unlawful material, or deceptive communications
- Attempt to bypass authentication, rate limits, security controls, build-mode restrictions, or administrative access controls
- Scrape or harvest personal information or contact submissions
- Interfere with the site, server, email system, database, or associated services
7. Contact Submissions
Information submitted through the Contact page must be accurate to the best of your knowledge and must not violate another person’s rights. Do not submit confidential, privileged, highly sensitive, unlawful, threatening, defamatory, infringing, or malicious material.
Submitting an inquiry does not create a confidential, fiduciary, professional, agency, employment, partnership, joint-venture, or contractual relationship. Not every inquiry will receive a response.
You retain ownership of original material in your submission. You grant the site operator a limited right to store, reproduce, transmit, and review the submission as reasonably necessary to evaluate it, respond, maintain records, protect the site, enforce these terms, and comply with law.
8. Books, Posters, Merchandise, and External Purchases
Books, posters, apparel, accessories, and other products may be sold by third-party marketplaces. Product availability, price, taxes, shipping, delivery, returns, refunds, payment processing, customer service, and marketplace data practices are governed by the third party’s terms and policies.
RolandKVoss.com does not currently process marketplace payments directly. Links and product information are provided for convenience and promotion and may become inaccurate as third-party listings change.
9. Affiliate and Commercial Disclosures
The site may receive royalties, licensing income, merchandise revenue, referral compensation, or affiliate commissions. Refer to the Affiliate Disclosure and any disclosure placed near a specific link or recommendation.
10. Third-Party Links
External links do not constitute a warranty or endorsement of every statement, product, service, policy, or practice on the linked site. RolandKVoss.com is not responsible for third-party content, security, availability, transactions, delivery, privacy practices, or terms.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, availability, security, or uninterrupted operation.
Satirical and fictional content is not represented as literal fact. Product descriptions, prices, availability, links, dates, and external information may change or contain errors.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website’s owner, licensors, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, business interruption, reputational harm, or losses arising from reliance on satirical content, use of the site, inability to access the site, external links, third-party transactions, or unauthorized conduct.
Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
13. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the website’s owner and service providers from claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the site, violation of these terms, infringement of another person’s rights, or misuse of site content.
14. Suspension and Enforcement
Access may be restricted or blocked when reasonably necessary to protect the site, users, intellectual property, systems, or service providers; investigate abuse; comply with law; or enforce these terms. Failure to enforce a provision once does not waive the right to enforce it later.
15. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought in a state or federal court with lawful jurisdiction in Virginia, unless applicable law provides another required forum.
16. Changes, Severability, and Entire Agreement
These terms may be revised as the site develops. Updated terms become effective when posted with a revised effective date. If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect. These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy, Affiliate Disclosure, and any transaction-specific terms, form the applicable agreement concerning use of the site.
17. Contact
Questions about permissions, licensing, these terms, or alleged infringement may be sent to office@rolandkvoss.com.