Terms

Effective Date: August 5, 2026

Last Updated: August 13, 2026

These Terms apply to the Parker Lee Creative website at parkerleecreative.com and related pages operated by Parker Lee Creative LLC, doing business as Parker Lee Creative (“Parker Lee Creative”). Some provisions provide notices or reserve rights whether or not a contract is formed. A binding agreement is formed only where applicable law recognizes valid assent.

When a website form presents a required checkbox that identifies these Terms, checking that box and submitting the form is your affirmative acceptance of the Terms in effect on the submission date. The form submission record may be used to document that acceptance. If you do not accept these conditions, do not check the box, submit information, or use the website's interactive features. Merely visiting or browsing a public page is not represented as acceptance of provisions that require a contract.

These Terms govern the website only. Creative services, deliverables, payment, ownership, confidentiality, portfolio rights, and other client matters are governed by the applicable signed proposal, statement of work, or client agreement. If a signed client agreement conflicts with these Terms, the signed client agreement controls for that engagement.

1. Website Purpose

This website provides information about Parker Lee Creative, creative services, professional experience, portfolio work, articles, and ways to make contact. Website content is general information, not legal, financial, employment, or other professional advice. Visiting the website, sending an inquiry, or receiving a reply does not by itself create a client relationship, fiduciary relationship, partnership, employment relationship, or confidentiality obligation.

Do not send trade secrets, regulated information, account credentials, highly sensitive personal information, or confidential material through a website form unless Parker Lee Creative has expressly agreed to receive it through an appropriate channel.

2. Portfolio Purpose and Blanket Third-Party Rights Notice

This website is a professional portfolio showcasing selected creative work, professional experience, and capabilities. It may include work created, directed, designed, produced, managed, adapted, or contributed to in direct-client, employment, agency, team, vendor, freelance, collaborative, or other professional contexts.

All third-party names, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, logos, photographs, illustrations, video, audio, copy, products, campaigns, designs, projects, brands, and other materials are and remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance is solely for identification, portfolio, commentary, historical, and illustrative purposes and does not imply ownership, sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, approval, partnership, agency, or a direct client relationship.

This site is a portfolio, not a complete authorship, ownership, credit, or rights registry. The absence of an individual credit, ownership label, contributor list, or relationship notation does not constitute a claim of sole authorship or ownership, a denial of another party's rights, or a waiver of any right. Nothing on this site transfers, limits, expands, or extinguishes any right of Parker Lee Creative or any third party.

3. Website Content, Search, AI, and Automated Use

Parker Lee Creative claims rights only in original content it created or lawfully owns or controls, including original website text, original graphics, brand elements, and any protectable selection and arrangement of website content. Squarespace platform elements and third-party materials remain subject to their respective rights.

You may view the website for personal, informational, and evaluation purposes, make temporary technical copies reasonably necessary for ordinary browsing, and link accurately to a public page.

For discovery only, Parker Lee Creative permits ordinary search engines and AI-assisted search or retrieval services to index, cache, retrieve, summarize, display limited excerpts from, link to, and cite public pages when consistent with published machine-readable directives. This limited permission applies only to content Parker Lee Creative owns or controls and grants no rights in third-party portfolio materials.

No access, crawl, index, cache, excerpt, summary, link, or display transfers ownership or grants an implied license beyond that limited discovery permission. Except where applicable law or express written permission from the applicable rights holder allows, no person or automated system is authorized to:

• republish, redistribute, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit website content;

• copy portfolio material into another portfolio, product, service, collection, dataset, or promotional work;

• train, fine-tune, develop, test, benchmark, or evaluate an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model using website content;

• create or enrich a training, evaluation, biometric, facial-recognition, or other dataset from website content;

• conduct systematic scraping, bulk extraction, bulk archiving, automated content compilation, data harvesting, surveillance, profiling, or automated claim or demand generation outside the limited discovery permission;

• harvest personal or contact information;

• remove or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, authorship, or rights-management information;

• impersonate Parker Lee Creative or falsely suggest sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, approval, or permission; or

• interfere with, circumvent, probe, overload, or disrupt the website, forms, security, availability, or access controls.

Any automated use exceeding the limited discovery permission is unauthorized to the fullest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms restricts lawful reporting, protected activity, valid legal process, or any right that cannot lawfully be waived.

4. Inquiries and Other Submissions

You may submit information through the website only if you have the right to provide it. You are responsible for the accuracy and lawfulness of what you submit. Do not submit unlawful, infringing, defamatory, deceptive, malicious, or technically harmful material.

You retain ownership of material you submit. You give Parker Lee Creative limited, nonexclusive permission to receive, store, review, and reproduce the submission internally as reasonably necessary to respond, evaluate a potential engagement, maintain appropriate business records, protect the website, comply with law, or perform services under a separate governing agreement. This permission does not authorize public portfolio use. Any public use must rest on a separate applicable right or permission.

5. Reviews and Results

Where testimonials and reviews appear, they reflect the individual experience and opinion of the person identified and must be presented accurately and in context. Any material relationship necessary to evaluate an endorsement will be disclosed with it. Testimonials do not guarantee that another client or project will receive the same result. Examples, metrics, and outcomes are contextual and should be read with any qualifications stated on the relevant page.

6. Links and Third-Party Services

The website may link to or use services operated by third parties, including Squarespace, Google, email providers, social platforms, and other external sites. Their services, availability, security, content, and privacy practices are controlled by them and may be subject to separate terms. A link does not by itself mean Parker Lee Creative endorses or controls the linked service.

7. Website Availability and Accuracy

Parker Lee Creative may correct, change, suspend, or remove website content or functionality at any time. Parker Lee Creative aims to keep the website useful and accurate but does not promise that every page will always be current, complete, uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or available.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website is provided as available and without implied warranties that may lawfully be disclaimed. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty, remedy, duty, or liability that cannot legally be excluded.

8. Limitation of Liability and Damages Cap

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Parker Lee Creative and Parker Lee will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, opportunities, business, or goodwill, arising solely from access to, reliance on, submission through, or inability to use this website or its interactive features, even if the possibility of such damages was known.

For a person who affirmatively accepted these Terms, the total aggregate liability of Parker Lee Creative and Parker Lee for all claims arising solely from this website, its interactive features, or these Terms will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount that person paid specifically for access to the website or use of its interactive features during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limitations do not govern obligations under a signed client agreement; claims by a third-party rights holder who did not affirmatively accept these Terms before the events giving rise to the claim; fraud or willful misconduct by Parker Lee Creative; gross negligence where liability cannot lawfully be limited; bodily injury or death caused by negligence; a remedy that applicable law makes nonwaivable; or a request for injunctive relief that cannot lawfully be limited.

9. Limited Indemnification

If you affirmatively accept these Terms, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Parker Lee Creative and Parker Lee from a third party's claim, loss, liability, damage, judgment, cost, or reasonable attorney fee, but only to the extent caused by material you submit, your unauthorized or unlawful use of the website, your material breach of these Terms, or your infringement or violation of another person's rights.

This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by Parker Lee Creative's negligence, fraud, willful misconduct, unlawful conduct, or material breach of a signed agreement. Parker Lee Creative may participate in the defense with counsel of its choice. You may not settle a covered claim in a way that admits fault by, imposes a nonmonetary obligation on, or restricts Parker Lee Creative or Parker Lee without prior written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld.

10. One-Year Contractual Claim Deadline

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, a contractual claim by a person who affirmatively accepted these Terms, arising solely from the website, its interactive features, or these Terms, must be filed within one year after the claim accrued. A covered claim not filed within that period is permanently barred.

This contractual deadline does not apply to a claim governed by a signed client agreement; a nonwaivable statutory right or remedy; a claim by a nonassenting third-party rights holder concerning copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, attribution, or ownership; bodily injury or death; fraud or willful misconduct; or a request for injunctive relief that cannot lawfully be time-limited.

11. Informal Resolution, Individual Arbitration, and Class-Action Waiver

This section applies only to a person who affirmatively accepted these Terms before the events giving rise to the dispute. It does not bind a person merely because that person visited the website, and it does not bind a nonassenting third-party rights holder. A signed client agreement controls any dispute within the scope of that agreement.

Before filing a covered claim, either party must give the other a written dispute notice and 30 days to try to resolve it informally. A notice to Parker Lee Creative must be emailed to Hello@ParkerLeeCreative.com with the subject Dispute Notice and must identify the sender, the relevant form submission or interaction, the facts, the legal basis, and the requested resolution. This requirement does not prevent either party from seeking temporary relief needed to prevent imminent and irreparable harm.

If a covered dispute is not resolved informally, it will be resolved only by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, except that either party may bring an eligible individual claim in small-claims court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this arbitration provision. The arbitrator may award any individual remedy available under applicable law, must apply applicable substantive law and valid contractual limitations, and may award attorney fees only when authorized by law or an applicable signed agreement. Hearings may be conducted by video, telephone, documents, or at a reasonably accessible location as the applicable rules permit. Fees will be allocated under the applicable AAA rules and governing law.

The parties waive a trial by judge or jury for a covered dispute and agree to proceed only in their individual capacities. Neither party may bring, join, or participate in a class, collective, consolidated, coordinated, mass, private-attorney-general, or representative action or arbitration concerning a covered dispute. The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual party seeking it and only to the extent necessary to resolve that party's individual claim.

Either party may ask a court of competent jurisdiction for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief concerning fraud, impersonation, website or account security, unauthorized access, or misuse of intellectual property while arbitration is pending. If a court determines that a particular claim or request for public injunctive relief cannot lawfully be arbitrated or waived, only that claim or request will proceed in court after all arbitrable matters are completed, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

You may opt out of this arbitration and class-action waiver by emailing Hello@ParkerLeeCreative.com within 30 days after your first affirmative acceptance of these Terms. Use the subject Arbitration Opt-Out and include your full name, the email address used in the form, the form submitted, and the submission date. Opting out of this section does not opt you out of the other Terms.

If the American Arbitration Association declines or is unable to administer a covered dispute after the required fees are paid and any curable provision is waived or corrected, either party may ask a court to appoint a neutral arbitrator under applicable law. If no arbitral forum can lawfully administer the dispute, the dispute may proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction, subject to the individual-action and class-waiver provisions to the fullest extent permitted by law.

12. Rights and Removal Concerns

If you believe material on the website infringes or misstates your copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, attribution, or other right, email Hello@ParkerLeeCreative.com with the subject Rights Concern and include:

• your name and contact information;

• the exact page URL and a clear description of the material;

• the right you believe is affected and your relationship to that right;

• the correction, credit, restriction, or removal you request; and

• information reasonably sufficient to evaluate the concern.

Parker Lee Creative may request additional information and may temporarily restrict or remove material while reviewing a concern. A review, correction, or removal is not an admission of liability. This is a general rights-concern process and is not a representation that Parker Lee Creative has designated an agent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

13. Privacy

The Privacy page describes how Parker Lee Creative handles personal information. It is provided as a privacy notice and is not incorporated as contractual consent to data processing.

14. Governing Law and Court Venue

Any binding agreement formed under these Terms is governed by Illinois law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, subject to the Federal Arbitration Act and any mandatory consumer-protection, jurisdictional, or other law that applies. For a dispute that is not subject to arbitration, a person who affirmatively accepted these Terms consents to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in the state courts located in Kendall County, Illinois, or the federal court with jurisdiction over that county, except where applicable law requires another forum. Nothing in these Terms requires a person to give up a right or forum that cannot lawfully be waived.

15. Changes, Severability, and No Waiver

Parker Lee Creative may revise these Terms prospectively by posting an updated version and changing the Last Updated date. Revised Terms apply from the date posted. If applicable law requires affirmative assent to a change, continued use alone will not substitute for that assent.

If a provision other than the individual-action or class-waiver provisions is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. If the individual-action or class-waiver provisions are found unenforceable for a particular covered dispute and applicable law does not permit severance, the arbitration requirement will not apply to that dispute. A delay in enforcing a provision is not a waiver of that provision.

16. Electronic Records and Entire Website Agreement

You agree that website-form records, checkbox selections, confirmation records, and electronic communications may be used to show notice, acceptance, and the parties' communications, subject to applicable evidentiary law. These Terms are the entire agreement concerning the website and its interactive features between Parker Lee Creative and a person who affirmatively accepts them. They do not replace a signed client agreement.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to Hello@ParkerLeeCreative.com with the subject Terms Question.