Terms of Service

Effective date: September 8, 2026
Last updated: September 8, 2026

1. Agreement to these terms

This website (jasonvertucio.com, together with its subpages and the features described below, the "Site") is operated by The Bootstrap Paradox, LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company ("we", "us", "our").

By accessing or using the Site — including simply reading it, posting a comment, viewing a resume, or sending a message to one of the AI chat assistants — you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

These Terms incorporate our Privacy Policy by reference.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site, and at least 16 if you are in a jurisdiction where the GDPR applies. By using the Site you represent that you meet this requirement, that you are not barred from using it under any applicable law, and that if you are using it on behalf of an organization you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

3. What the Site offers

The Site is a personal portfolio and blog. It includes, at our discretion and subject to change or removal at any time:

  • articles and portfolio content;
  • a comment system on blog posts;
  • a resume viewer and document download, some parts of which require an account or a share code;
  • one or more AI chat assistants;
  • user accounts with passkey, password, and two-factor authentication.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time, for any reason, without notice and without liability to you.

4. Accounts and account security

Accounts are created at our discretion; the Site does not offer open public registration. If you have an account:

  • You are responsible for everything that happens under it.
  • You must keep your password, passkeys, authenticator device, and two-factor recovery codes secure, and must not share them.
  • You must give accurate information and keep it current.
  • You must notify us at [email protected] promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.

We may suspend or terminate any account at any time, with or without notice, including for a violation of these Terms.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  1. Post content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, obscene, or that infringes anyone's intellectual property or privacy rights.
  2. Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with one — including by posting a comment under someone else's name or email address.
  3. Post spam, chain messages, bulk promotional content, or automated submissions of any kind.
  4. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, any account, or any system or network connected to it.
  5. Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Site, or attempt to defeat any authentication, authorization, or rate-limiting measure. Be aware that the Site maintains decoy endpoints for well-known attack paths; requesting them is treated as hostile and results in your network address being blocked automatically and without warning.
  6. Use any robot, spider, scraper, or automated means to access the Site except for well-behaved search-engine crawlers that respect robots.txt. Systematic scraping of Site content — including for the purpose of training or fine-tuning a machine-learning model — is prohibited without our prior written permission.
  7. Interfere with the Site's operation, including by imposing an unreasonable load on it, or by circumventing rate limits.
  8. Use the Site to transmit malware or any other harmful code.
  9. Use the Site in violation of any applicable law or regulation.

We may investigate any suspected violation and take any action we consider appropriate, including removing content, blocking network addresses, terminating accounts, and cooperating with law enforcement.

6. Comments and other content you submit

6.1 Your content stays yours

You retain ownership of whatever you post. You are solely responsible for it, and for any consequences of posting it.

6.2 The license you give us

By submitting a comment or any other content to the Site, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt for formatting, and distribute that content in connection with operating and promoting the Site. This license survives termination of your account, because a comment thread that lost half its replies would be worthless to everyone else in it.

6.3 Your representations

You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to the content you post; that it does not infringe or violate anyone's rights; and that it does not violate section 5.

6.4 Moderation

Every comment is published immediately on submission. We have the right, but not the obligation, to review, moderate, edit, or remove any content, at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice. We may mark content as spam, which hides it from public view. We do not pre-screen content, and we are not responsible for content posted by users. Views expressed in comments are those of their authors and not ours.

Where a removed comment has visible replies, it may be shown as a placeholder so that the surrounding conversation keeps its structure.

6.5 Reporting content

To report content that infringes your rights or violates these Terms, email [email protected] with a link to the content and an explanation. For claimed copyright infringement, include the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): identification of the work, identification of the material, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized, a statement that your notice is accurate and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorized to act for the owner, and your signature. We may remove material and terminate repeat infringers.

7. AI chat assistants

The Site offers AI-powered chat assistants. By using one, you acknowledge and agree to the following.

  1. Output may be wrong. Responses are generated by a large language model. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, internally inconsistent, or entirely fabricated, and they may be stated with unwarranted confidence. Verify anything that matters before relying on it.
  2. It is not professional advice. Nothing an assistant produces is legal, financial, medical, tax, employment, or other professional advice, and no professional relationship is created by using it.
  3. Do not submit sensitive or confidential information. Do not enter passwords, financial account details, health information, government identifiers, trade secrets, another person's personal data, or anything subject to a confidentiality obligation.
  4. Your conversations leave our servers. Message content is transmitted to third-party model providers (which may include Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google) for processing, and is stored in our database. See the Privacy Policy, section 6.
  5. Conversations may be read. The site owner may review conversations to improve the assistants, diagnose faults, or investigate abuse.
  6. No misuse. Do not use an assistant to generate unlawful, harmful, harassing, or infringing content, to attempt to extract its instructions or underlying credentials, or to attempt to make it act outside its intended scope.
  7. Availability. Assistants may be rate-limited, restricted to authenticated users, or withdrawn entirely at any time.

We disclaim all liability arising from your use of, or reliance on, anything an AI assistant produces.

8. Resume access and share codes

Parts of the resume are available only to signed-in users or to visitors holding a valid share code.

  • A share code is personal to the recipient, non-transferable, and revocable at any time without notice.
  • You may not publish a share code, post it to a public forum, or pass it to anyone else.
  • Resume content and the downloadable document are provided for the recipient's own evaluation purposes only. You may not republish, redistribute, resell, or post them publicly, and you may not use them to create derivative documents or to populate a database or listing.
  • Views and downloads are logged, including network address, browser user-agent, the version accessed, and the share code used. See the Privacy Policy, section 3.

9. Intellectual property

All content on the Site that is not submitted by users — including text, articles, photographs, graphics, layout, design, source code, and the resume documents — is owned by The Bootstrap Paradox, LLC or Jason Vertucio, or used under license, and is protected by copyright and other laws.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the Site for your personal, non-commercial use. You may quote short excerpts of blog content with clear attribution and a link to the original. Everything else — copying, republishing, distributing, creating derivative works, or using Site content to train a machine-learning model — requires our prior written permission.

Third-party names, logos, and trademarks appearing on the Site belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only. Their appearance does not imply endorsement.

10. Third-party links and services

The Site links to and embeds third-party sites and services. We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, practices, availability, or terms. Your dealings with any third party are between you and that third party.

11. Privacy

Your use of the Site is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains what data we collect and why.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that any defect will be corrected; that the Site is free of viruses or other harmful components; or that any content on it — including anything produced by an AI assistant — is accurate, complete, or reliable. Any content you download or otherwise obtain is obtained at your own discretion and risk.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will The Bootstrap Paradox, LLC, its members, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to your use of or inability to use the Site, whether based in contract, tort, strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Site will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100.00).

These limits apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless The Bootstrap Paradox, LLC and its members, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: your use of the Site; content you submit; your violation of these Terms; or your violation of any law or of any third party's rights. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with that defense.

15. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site — including by blocking your network address or deleting your account and content — at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including a suspected violation of these Terms.

You may stop using the Site at any time, and may request deletion of your account by emailing [email protected].

Sections 6.2, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17 survive any termination.

16. Governing law and venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Site are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable federal law of the United States.

You and we agree that the exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer provisions of the law of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings there.

17. Disputes

Informal resolution first. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us at [email protected] with a description of the dispute and the relief you seek, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. Most disputes can be settled this way.

Time limit. Any claim arising out of or relating to the Site or these Terms must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, except where a longer period is required by law.

No class actions. To the extent permitted by law, you agree to bring claims only in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.

18. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site, and supersede any prior agreement on that subject.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if it cannot be, and the remaining provisions stay in full force.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights in anyone other than you and us.

Changes. We may revise these Terms at any time by posting the revised version with an updated "Last updated" date. For material changes we will take reasonable steps to give notice on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after a revision takes effect means you accept it. If you do not accept a revision, stop using the Site.

19. Contact

The Bootstrap Paradox, LLC
Email: [email protected]