Terms for using Eldereese websites.

1. Acceptance of terms

By accessing a website operated or controlled by Eldereese LLC that links to these Terms of Use, you agree to these terms and any additional terms displayed for a particular service, transaction, or submission process. If you do not agree, do not use the applicable site.

2. Covered websites

These terms are intended to serve as a common baseline for Eldereese.com, DanElder.com, MilitaryResearchGroup.com, NCOHistory.com, NCOHistoricalSociety.com, NCOGuide.com, and other Eldereese-controlled properties that link to these terms. A particular site or transaction may have additional terms that control if they conflict with this general document.

3. Informational and historical content

Website content is provided for informational, educational, historical, and general-interest purposes unless expressly stated otherwise. Historical research may involve incomplete records, competing interpretations, later-discovered evidence, or corrections. Content may be revised without notice.

Nothing on these sites constitutes legal, medical, tax, investment, mental-health, or other licensed professional advice.

4. Intellectual property

Unless otherwise indicated, original website text, site design, branding, graphics, compilations, and other original material are owned by or licensed to Eldereese LLC or the identified brand, author, publisher, or rights holder. Third-party photographs, documents, quotations, trademarks, book covers, archival materials, and other content remain subject to the rights of their respective owners.

You may link to public pages and make ordinary personal, educational, or fair-use references to content. Republishing substantial original content, reproducing proprietary graphics, using brand marks commercially, or distributing complete copyrighted works requires permission unless otherwise permitted by law or an applicable license.

5. Trademarks and names

Eldereese, Military Research Group, NCO Historical Society, NCOHistory.com, NCOGuide.com, book titles, logos, and other marks or trade names may be protected by trademark, copyright, contract, or other law. Use of a name or logo on a site does not grant a license to use it.

6. External links, retailers, and third-party services

Our sites may link to third-party websites, retailers, publishers, archives, newsletter platforms, payment processors, social-media services, or other resources. We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their availability, content, security, pricing, fulfillment, privacy practices, or terms.

Some links may be affiliate or referral links. When disclosed on the applicable page, Eldereese or one of its brands may receive compensation from qualifying transactions without increasing the buyer's price.

7. Publishing and manuscript inquiries

Submitting a publishing inquiry, synopsis, proposal, or other material to an Eldereese publishing brand does not create a confidential, fiduciary, agent, author-publisher, or contractual relationship and does not obligate the recipient to review, publish, return, or retain material unless a separate written agreement states otherwise.

Do not send a complete manuscript, irreplaceable original document, classified information, confidential third-party material, or sensitive personal information unless specifically requested through an appropriate channel.

8. Purchases and paid services

If a brand offers books, subscriptions, services, digital products, or other paid transactions, the applicable checkout, retailer, payment provider, order page, proposal, contract, or supplemental terms will govern pricing, payment, delivery, refunds, taxes, and related transaction-specific matters.

9. Acceptable use

You may not misuse our sites, attempt unauthorized access, interfere with security features, submit malicious code, scrape the sites in a manner that materially disrupts service, impersonate another person, or use contact or submission forms for spam, harassment, unlawful content, or deceptive activity.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the sites and their content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that all content is error-free, complete, continuously available, or suitable for a particular purpose.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Eldereese LLC and its owners, brands, authors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from use of or inability to use the sites or reliance on site content. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for losses or claims arising from your unlawful misuse of the sites, infringement of third-party rights, or violation of these terms.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where mandatory consumer law in your jurisdiction provides otherwise.

14. Changes

We may update these terms as the portfolio, services, or legal requirements change. The effective date identifies the current version. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms may be submitted through our contact page or to support@eldereese.com.