Terms of Service

Effective date: November 27, 2023
Last updated: November 9, 2026

Welcome to The Ad Lawyer. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are the rules for using www.theadlawyer.com (the "Site"), our free resources, our newsletter, and the memberships and products we sell. I've kept them as plain as a lawyer responsibly can. Please read them — and if you only read one section, read Section 3.

1. Who we are and agreeing to these Terms

The Site is operated by Kendra Hudson, LLC ("The Ad Lawyer," "we," "us"), 1652 W Belmont Ave, Ste 1, c/o Cole Sadkin LLC, Chicago, IL 60657, USA. Contact: contact@theadlawyer.com.

By using the Site, downloading a Freebie, subscribing, or buying anything from us, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the Site.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to buy a membership or product. If you're 16 or older but under 18, you may use free content with a parent or guardian's permission. Our content isn't directed to children under 16.

3. Educational content — not legal advice

Everything we publish — posts, videos, newsletters, Freebies, templates, memberships, community discussions and products — is for general educational and informational purposes only. It is not legal advice, and using our content, emailing us, commenting, or buying a product does not create an attorney-client relationship. Laws vary by jurisdiction and change often, and our content may not reflect the most current law where you live. For advice about your specific situation, consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction. Please don't send confidential information through the Site or social media DMs; it won't be treated as privileged.

Wellness and "unplugged" tips are general lifestyle suggestions, not medical or mental-health advice.

4. Freebies and the newsletter

Freebies (checklists, guides, templates and other free downloads) are licensed to you for personal use under Section 9. We may change or retire Freebies at any time.

Newsletter: our newsletter is published on Substack. Your Substack subscription is also subject to Substack's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime using the link in any email. If a Freebie form asks whether you'd like the newsletter too, you'll only be subscribed if you opt in.

5. Accounts and memberships

Some content requires a member account (hosted on Squarespace) or a paid Substack subscription. You're responsible for keeping your login secure and for activity on your account. Memberships are personal and non-transferable — please don't share logins or member-only content. We may suspend or end access for sharing, abuse, or breach of these Terms.

6. Purchases, pricing and payments

  • Prices are shown in US dollars at checkout and may include or exclude applicable taxes (including VAT for EU/UK customers), as shown at checkout.
  • Payments are processed by Stripe or PayPal through Squarespace (or by Substack for paid newsletter subscriptions). We don't store your full card details. Your payment is also subject to the processor's terms.
  • We may change prices for future purchases. For existing recurring memberships, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice by email before a price change takes effect, and you can cancel before then.
  • We may correct obvious pricing errors and cancel affected orders with a full refund.

7. Recurring memberships, cancellation and refunds

Auto-renewal: paid memberships and subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period (monthly or annual, as shown at checkout) at the then-current price, charged to your payment method on file, until you cancel.

Cancelling: cancel anytime through your Squarespace member account (for memberships and products purchased on the Site) or your Substack subscription settings (for paid newsletter subscriptions), or by emailing contact@theadlawyer.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then. For annual plans, we'll email you a reminder before renewal.

Refunds: because digital products and member content are delivered instantly, all sales are final except where required by law, or where we determine, in our discretion, that the services purchased are impossible or impracticable to complete. If something you bought doesn't work or isn't as described, email us and we'll make it right.

EU and UK consumers — right of withdrawal: you normally have 14 days to withdraw from an online purchase. For digital content supplied immediately, at checkout you'll be asked to confirm:

"I want immediate access to this digital content, and I understand that I lose my 14-day right of withdrawal once access begins."

If you give that consent and access begins, the right of withdrawal no longer applies. Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights if digital content is faulty or not as described.

8. Our intellectual property

The Site and everything on it — text, videos, graphics, logos, templates, Freebies, courses, newsletters and the "The Ad Lawyer" name and branding — are owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. As a creator who teaches about IP theft, I take this one personally.

9. Your license to use our content

When you download a Freebie or buy a Product, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use it for your own personal (or, if stated on the product page, your own internal business) purposes.

You may: use templates for your own accounts and content; print copies for yourself; share a link to our public pages or posts.

You may not: resell, redistribute, sublicense, or share Products or member content (including posting them in groups or file-sharing sites); remove our copyright notices or branding; repackage our materials as your own course, product or freebie; or use our content to train, fine-tune, or build AI models or datasets, or scrape the Site with automated tools, without our written permission.

10. Your content and comments

If you post comments, questions, or other content in the newsletter, member areas, or elsewhere on our platforms ("Your Content"), you keep ownership of it. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, display, and reproduce Your Content in connection with operating and promoting The Ad Lawyer (for example, featuring a comment in a Q&A post). If we'd like to use your name or likeness in a testimonial, we'll ask first.

You're responsible for Your Content and confirm you have the right to share it. Don't post anything unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, infringing, spammy, or that shares someone else's private information. We may remove content that breaks these rules.

11. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

We respect creators' rights — it's literally part of our mission. If you believe content on our Site infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at contact@theadlawyer.com (subject: "DMCA Notice") including:

  • your physical or electronic signature;
  • identification of the copyrighted work;
  • the location (URL) of the allegedly infringing material;
  • your contact information;
  • a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorized; and
  • a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you're authorized to act for the owner.

We'll respond to valid notices and counter-notices as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512, and we terminate repeat infringers' access where appropriate.

12. Acceptable use

Don't use the Site to: break the law; interfere with the Site's security or operation; attempt to access accounts or areas you're not authorized to access; introduce malware; impersonate anyone; or harass other members.

13. Advertising, affiliate links and sponsorships

The Site displays ads served by Google AdSense, and some content may include affiliate links or sponsored content — we may earn a commission or payment if you click or buy, at no extra cost to you. We clearly label sponsored and affiliate content as required by the FTC, and we only recommend things we'd actually use. We're not responsible for third-party ads or products; your dealings with advertisers are between you and them.

14. Third-party links and platforms

The Site links to third-party sites and platforms we don't control. We're not responsible for their content, terms, or privacy practices.

15. Disclaimers

Except as stated in these Terms and to the extent permitted by law, the Site, content, and Products are provided "as is" and "as available." We don't guarantee particular results — fewer ads, better sleep, more followers, or anything else — because results depend on you and on platforms we don't control. We don't warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

16. Platforms we use (Squarespace and others)

The Site is hosted on Squarespace, our newsletter runs on Substack, and payments are processed by Stripe and PayPal. Your use of those services is also subject to their own terms and privacy policies, which govern platform-level matters such as site hosting and availability, checkout functionality, account infrastructure, and payment processing:

Where these Terms don't address a matter relating to the operation of one of those platforms, that platform's terms apply to the platform's services. If a platform's terms conflict with these Terms on a matter between you and The Ad Lawyer, these Terms control.

17. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we won't be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Site, content, or Products. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or (b) US $100.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that can't be excluded by law, including for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your mandatory rights as a consumer in your country of residence.

18. Indemnity

If you breach these Terms or infringe someone's rights through your use of the Site, you agree to cover the reasonable losses and legal costs we incur as a result. This section doesn't apply to EU/UK consumers to the extent local law doesn't allow it.

19. Ending access

You can stop using the Site anytime. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, with a pro-rata refund of prepaid membership fees if we end your membership without cause. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 3, 8, 9, 15, 17, 18 and 20) will survive termination.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing a claim, please email us so we can try to resolve it informally within 30 days — most things can be fixed that way. Any unresolved dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction.

If you're a consumer in the EU, UK or another country with mandatory consumer protections, you also benefit from those protections and may bring claims in the courts of your country of residence. Nothing in this section takes away those rights.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as our offerings or the law change. We'll post the new date at the top. For material changes affecting paid members, we'll email you at least 30 days in advance; if you don't agree, you can cancel before the change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

22. Everything else

These Terms (with our Privacy Policy and any product-specific terms shown at checkout) are the entire agreement between us about the Site. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a provision isn't a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor business.

23. Contact

Kendra Hudson, LLC
1652 W Belmont Ave, Ste 1
c/o Cole Sadkin LLC
Chicago, IL 60657 USA
Email: contact@theadlawyer.com