1. Terms of Use
“As-Is” Provision
Everything shared on this website, including but not limited to hardware schematics, Gerber files, source code, interactive HTML/JavaScript tools, and blog text, is provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties, express or implied, regarding accuracy, completeness, suitability, safety, or fitness for any particular purpose are explicitly disclaimed.
Limitation of Liability
This website is a personal repository of hobbyist projects. By interacting with any software programs, blog posts, or hardware design files from this site, you accept all risks associated with doing so.
Nothing in this disclaimer shall exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence, or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under Scots law. Subject to that restriction, under no circumstances shall the site operator be liable in contract, delict (including negligence), or otherwise for any direct, indirect, or consequential loss or damage. This includes, but is not limited to: damage to vintage computer hardware, modern electronic components, testing equipment, or loss of data resulting from the use, misuse, reliance upon, or inability to use the materials and calculators provided. If you modify hardware, solder components, or build physical devices using files or calculations from this site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
Governing Law & Jurisdiction
This website is operated from Scotland as a hobbyist resource and is provided entirely free of charge. Your use of this website and any files downloaded from it is on a purely voluntary basis; there is no intention to create legal relations, and no contract, formal warranty, or binding unilateral obligation is created between us. If any legal dispute arises regarding this site or its contents, it will be governed exclusively by Scots law and handled solely by the Scottish courts
2. Intellectual Property & Licensing
The original text, images, custom calculators, software programs, site logo and layout designs on this site are the intellectual property of PickledLightProjects.
Hardware Production Files
Unless explicitly stated otherwise within a specific project directory, original physical hardware schematics, Gerber files, or production data designed by the site operator are released under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same licence. Commercial mass-production or retail sale of these hardware designs without prior consultation is strictly prohibited.
3. Content Delivery & Online Safety
This website operates strictly as a static, editorial, broadcast-only repository.
Online Safety Act Compliance
This site does not host user-to-user features, public message boards, user profiles, comment sections, or facilities for visitors to upload, generate, or share content. Accordingly, the service falls entirely outside the scope of regulatory safety duties applied to user-to-user platforms or search engines under the UK Online Safety Act 2023.
Content Standards
All hosted material consists of original hobbyist articles, mathematical tools, and historical computer reference documentation curated directly by the site operator. No illegal content or harmful materials are permitted on this infrastructure.
4. Privacy Notice & Cookies
This website is built to respect user privacy and minimise data collection.
Data Collection & Lawful Basis
This site does not feature user registration, newsletter sign-ups, or contact forms. We do not collect direct personal identifiers such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses. However, like almost all web servers, our infrastructure automatically processes network identifiers (specifically IP addresses ). Our lawful basis for processing this data is our legitimate interests (under UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) in securing our website and understanding high-level traffic trends.
Analytics & Performance Tracking
This site does not deploy marketing tracking pixels or intrusive tracking scripts. General, aggregated traffic trends (such as anonymous page hit counters or regional traffic volume) are viewed solely as high-level statistical metrics via Google Search Console and the Cloudflare dashboard. No individual visitor can be identified by the site operator through this data.
Cookies
This site does not utilise analytical, tracking, or advertising cookies.
Third-Party Embedded Content: Some articles on this website contain embedded video content hosted by third-party platforms (specifically YouTube). If you interact with or play these videos, the third-party provider may place tracking cookies or process your technical data (such as your IP address) outside of the control of this website operator. Where possible, we utilize privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com) to prevent cookie deployment until playback is initiated.
Note on Infrastructure Security: Because this website sits behind a proxy network layer for performance optimisation and server security, certain strictly necessary, anonymous tokens or security cookies (such as those utilised for bot management, rate-limiting, and threat mitigation) are handled automatically at the network border by Cloudflare. These do not track personal behaviour, do not store identifying data, and are essential to protect the underlying server infrastructure from malicious automated traffic.
5. Contact Information
For inquiries regarding the licensing of materials, technical clarifications, or intellectual property concerns, you can establish direct contact here.