Terms & Conditions
Last updated: Aug 27, 2026
These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) describe the conditions Merlot Marketing, Inc. (“Merlot Marketing,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) places on access to and use of MerlotMarketing.com and its content and features. Please read them before using the website. Do not use the website in a way that violates these Terms.
About This Website
The website provides general information about Merlot Marketing, our services, work, experience, perspectives, and opportunities to contact us. Website content is for general informational purposes and is not legal, financial, or other professional advice.
No Client Relationship
Visiting the website, sending an inquiry, or exchanging preliminary communications does not create a client, agency, fiduciary, employment, or other professional relationship. A relationship for paid services begins only through a separate written agreement signed by both parties. If a signed agreement conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement controls the services covered by it.
Permission to Use This Website
Subject to these Terms, Merlot Marketing gives you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable permission to access and use the website for lawful, personal, or internal business purposes. You may print or save reasonable portions for those purposes if you keep all copyright, trademark, and other notices.
Prohibited Use
You may not:
- Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent, misleading, harmful, or abusive activity.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, accounts, servers, networks, code, or data.
- Introduce malware, harmful code, excessive requests, or other activity that disrupts or burdens the website.
- Impersonate another person or business, misrepresent your affiliation, or submit information you do not have the right to provide.
- Copy, reproduce, republish, sell, license, modify, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit website content except with our prior written permission or as allowed by law.
- Remove ownership notices or use Merlot Marketing names, marks, work, or content in a way that suggests sponsorship or endorsement without permission.
- Use automated tools to scrape, harvest, index, train a model on, or extract substantial website content or personal information, except for ordinary search-engine indexing or as otherwise allowed by law or written permission.
- Try to bypass security, privacy, access, or usage controls.
Intellectual Property
The website and its design, text, graphics, photographs, video, audio, logos, service names, methods, downloads, and other content are owned by Merlot Marketing or used with permission and are protected by intellectual-property laws. No ownership rights are transferred to you by these Terms.
Client names, logos, trademarks, products, campaigns, and other third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance on the website does not give you permission to use them and does not necessarily mean the owner endorses every statement on the website.
Information You Submit
When you send information through the website or by email, you represent that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the right to provide it. You give us permission to receive, store, review, and use the submission as reasonably needed to respond, evaluate your request, protect the website, and comply with law.
Unless we have a separate written confidentiality agreement, website submissions are not treated as confidential. Please do not submit trade secrets, account credentials, Social Security numbers, financial account details, health information, or confidential client information through a public form.
Portfolio, Testimonials, and Results
Portfolio examples, case studies, awards, testimonials, statistics, and other descriptions of past work are provided for context. They may reflect a specific scope, timing, market, client, budget, or other conditions. They do not promise or guarantee that another project will achieve the same or similar results.
Third-Party Links and Services
The website may link to or display content from third parties, including social networks, video platforms, media outlets, newsletter providers, client websites, and other services. We do not control third-party content, availability, security, terms, or privacy practices. A link does not necessarily mean we endorse the third party. You use third-party services at your own risk and should review their terms and notices.
Employment Information
Job descriptions and other career information may be changed or withdrawn at any time. Nothing on the website is an offer or guarantee of employment. Any employment relationship is governed by separate documents and applicable law.
Privacy
Our Privacy Center and Cookie Policy explain how we handle personal information and website technologies. California residents can also review California Privacy Rights. Those notices are part of the website information you should review before submitting personal information.
Website Availability and Changes
We may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the website at any time. We do not promise that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, current, complete, or free from errors or harmful components.
Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. This includes implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement. Some laws do not allow certain exclusions, so part of this section may not apply to you.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Merlot Marketing and its owners, directors, officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising from or related to the website or these Terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising from or related to the website or these Terms will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars. These limits do not apply where the law does not allow them and do not limit rights that cannot legally be waived.
Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Merlot Marketing and its owners, directors, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful misuse of the website, your violation of these Terms, or information you submit without the right to do so.
Governing Law and Venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. To the extent a dispute may be brought in court, the parties consent to the state and federal courts located in Sacramento County, California. This section does not limit any consumer right or remedy that cannot be waived by contract.
Severability and Waiver
If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the remaining parts will remain in effect to the extent allowed by law. A delay or failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms when the website, our practices, or legal requirements change. We will post the revised Terms here and change the Last updated date. The posted version applies to future use to the extent permitted by law. Where affirmative agreement is required, we will request it.
Contact Us
Questions about these Terms may be sent to Merlot Marketing, Inc. at hello@merlotmarketing.com or (916) 285-9835. You may also use our Contact Page.