Terms of Use
These terms govern your use of theballc.com, operated by Theba LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company (“Theba,” “we,” “us”). By using this website or contacting us through it, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.
1. What this website is
This website describes our editorial services and provides a way to contact us. Its content is general information, not professional, legal, financial, or theological advice, and it is not an offer to enter into a contract.
2. Inquiries are not engagements
Sending us a message, receiving a reply, or discussing a possible project does not create a client relationship. We are engaged only when both parties sign a written agreement or when we confirm a project in writing and you accept in writing. Until then, either side may walk away without obligation.
3. Quotes and estimates
Any price, turnaround time, or scope we discuss before a signed agreement is an estimate based on the information available at the time. Estimates are not binding and may change once we review the actual materials. Final terms — including fee, scope, deliverables, schedule, and payment — are set out in the written agreement for that project.
4. Scope of work and revisions
Each engagement covers the specific services, materials, and deliverables named in its written agreement. Work outside that scope — including substantially rewritten material submitted after work has begun, added word count, or a change in the type of edit requested — may require a revised fee and schedule, agreed in writing before we proceed.
Unless the project agreement says otherwise, editing engagements include one round of clarifying revisions on the delivered work, addressing our own edits rather than new material. Additional rounds are quoted separately.
5. Your responsibilities and warranties
By sending us materials, you represent and warrant that:
- you own the materials or hold all rights necessary to have them edited, translated, or reviewed;
- the materials do not infringe any copyright, trademark, or other right of a third party, and are not defamatory or unlawful;
- you have obtained any permissions required for quoted or reproduced content, including Scripture translations, hymns, song lyrics, and third-party excerpts; and
- you will keep your own backup copies of everything you send us.
You agree to indemnify and hold Theba LLC harmless from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from a breach of these warranties.
6. Confidentiality
We treat manuscripts, drafts, proposals, and other non-public materials you send us as confidential. We do not disclose, publish, quote, or distribute them, and we do not use them for any purpose other than performing your project. We do not submit client materials to third-party artificial intelligence or machine learning services, and we do not permit them to be used as training data. These obligations continue after the project ends, and do not apply to information that is already public, that we lawfully held before you sent it, or that we are legally compelled to disclose.
7. Rights in the work
You retain all copyright and ownership in the materials you send us and in the edited or translated work we deliver, subject to full payment of the agreed fee. Translations we produce are works made for hire to the extent permitted by law; where they are not, we assign to you all rights in the translated text upon full payment. We may describe the general category of work performed (for example, “copyediting for a Christian publisher”) but will not name you, quote your work, or identify a project publicly without your written permission.
8. Editorial judgment and final authority
Editing and translation involve professional judgment. We may raise questions of accuracy, clarity, consistency, doctrine, or attribution, but the author or publisher retains final authority over every editorial decision, including all theological content. You are responsible for reviewing and approving the delivered work before publication. We are not responsible for content you choose to publish, whether or not it reflects our recommendations.
9. No guarantee of outcomes
We do not guarantee that a manuscript will be accepted by a publisher or agent, that it will sell any number of copies, that it will receive any particular reception, or that any text will be free of every error. Proofreading and editing substantially reduce errors; they do not eliminate them. Nothing we say about the publishing market is a promise of a result.
10. Payment
Fees, deposits, invoicing schedule, and late-payment terms are set in each project agreement. Unless stated otherwise there, deposits are non-refundable once work has begun, and delivered work remains our property until paid in full.
11. Intellectual property in this website
The text, design, code, and marks on this website are owned by Theba LLC and protected by copyright and trademark law. You may view and print pages for your own reference. You may not copy, republish, or use our content commercially, scrape the site, or use it to train machine learning models without our written permission.
12. Acceptable use
You agree not to use this website to transmit unlawful, harassing, or malicious content; to attempt to gain unauthorized access to it; to interfere with its operation; or to send automated, bulk, or spam submissions through the contact form.
13. Disclaimer of warranties
This website is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Theba LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or reputational harm, arising from your use of this website or our services — even if we were advised such damages were possible.
Our total liability arising from any project will not exceed the amount you actually paid us for that project. For use of this website where no project exists, our total liability will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
15. Third-party links
Links to other websites are provided for convenience. We do not control or endorse them and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or practices.
16. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising from these terms or your use of this website will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Sheridan County, Wyoming, and you consent to their jurisdiction. Before filing, both parties agree to attempt to resolve the dispute in good faith by direct discussion for at least thirty days.
17. Severability and entire agreement
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, form the entire agreement regarding your use of this website. Where a signed project agreement conflicts with these terms, the project agreement controls for that project.
18. Changes to these terms
We may revise these terms at any time by posting an updated version here and changing the “Last updated” date. Continued use of the website after a change means you accept the revised terms.
19. Contact
Theba LLC
1309 Coffeen Ave, Ste 1200
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States
hello@theballc.com