Terms of Use

gatheringwhatmatters.com Last updated: August 9, 2026

Gathering What Matters is published by Stellarus Press, an imprint of Stellarus Intelligence, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Stellarus,” “we,” “us”). These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of gatheringwhatmatters.com (the “site”) and the materials we offer through it.

We’ve written these Terms in plain English on purpose. They are still a binding agreement: by using the site, you accept them. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the site.

1. What our materials are — and what they are not

Our workbooks, free downloads, web pages, and related materials are organizational and educational tools. They exist to help you gather information, organize records, and describe your circumstances clearly — for yourself, and for the people and professionals you choose to share your work with. They help you gather and describe; they do not tell you what to decide.

Our materials are not legal advice, and buying or using them does not create an attorney-client relationship with Stellarus Intelligence, Inc., Stellarus Press, or anyone who wrote, reviewed, or is credited in them. Some of our workbooks are subtitled “An Attorney-Client Companion Workbook.” That subtitle describes how the workbook is designed to be used — as a companion to work you do with your own attorney — not a relationship with the publisher. No attorney or law firm named in our materials represents you unless you and they separately agree to that in writing.

Our materials are also not financial, tax, or medical advice. Laws, forms, and institutional practices vary by state and change over time. For advice about your own situation, please consult a licensed professional in your state.

2. Who the site is for

The site is operated from the United States and written for adults in the United States. To make a purchase, you must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live (18 in most states).

3. Free downloads

Some of our workbooks are available as free PDF downloads — no email address, no signup. When you download one, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to:

save the file on your own devices,
print pages for your own use, and
fill it in, on paper or on screen, for yourself and your household.

What we ask in return:

Please don’t redistribute the file. Share the link to this site instead — the downloads will be here, free, for the next person too.
Please don’t sell it or bundle it into any paid product, service, or collection.
Please don’t modify it and pass the modified version along, as ours or as yours.

What you write in a workbook is yours. Your filled-in pages — printed or digital — are your own records, and you may share those with anyone you choose.

If you are a professional, a library, or an organization that would like to share copies with the people you serve, reach out through our contact page. We’d like to hear about it.

4. Printed books

Our printed workbooks are sold on Amazon. When you follow a “Get the book” link from this site, Amazon is the seller: Amazon’s own terms, prices, shipping, and return policies apply to that purchase. We never see or handle your payment or shipping information for printed books.

5. Premium digital editions

Our premium digital editions — fillable PDF workbooks — are sold through Stripe-hosted checkout and delivered by download. They are governed by our Premium Digital License & Refund Policy, which is part of these Terms. The short version: all sales are final once your download is delivered, and each file is licensed to you personally.

6. Supporting this work

The site offers a pay-what-you-want way to support our publishing work, processed by Stripe. Stellarus Intelligence, Inc. is a for-profit company: a contribution is a voluntary payment in support of what we make. It is not a charitable donation, it is not tax-deductible, and it does not purchase goods or services. Contributions are final once made.

Separately, the site links to a page about Stellarus on catacap.org, a third-party platform we don’t operate. Anything you do there is between you and them, under their terms and policies.

7. Our intellectual property

The site and our materials — text, workbook designs, page layouts, artwork arrangements, and the Gathering What Matters name — are owned by Stellarus Intelligence, Inc. or used with permission, and are protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws. Except for the licenses we expressly grant (Sections 3 and 5), using the site transfers no rights to you. Please don’t scrape, republish, or systematically copy the site or its files.

Historical artwork reproduced in our books is in the public domain or used under license; our selections, croppings, and arrangements are our own.

8. Links to other sites

The site links to third parties — Amazon for printed books, Stripe for checkout, catacap.org, and occasionally others. We don’t control those sites and aren’t responsible for their content, terms, or privacy practices.

9. Things we may add later

We may add programs and services over time — for example, live online gathering sessions, or an email list for free materials. If we do, any additional terms will be presented when you sign up for them, and our Privacy Policy will be updated first if a new feature collects more information than the site does today.

10. What we don’t promise

We work to keep the site and our materials accurate, current, and useful, and we correct things when we learn they need correcting. Even so:

The site and our materials are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

In plain terms: we can’t promise the site will always be available or error-free, or that any workbook fits your particular circumstances. You are responsible for how you use what you gather.

11. Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Stellarus Intelligence, Inc. will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of the site or our materials. Our total liability for any claim will not exceed the amount you paid us for the material or service at issue, or $50 if you paid us nothing.

Some states don’t allow certain warranty disclaimers or damage limitations, so parts of Sections 10 and 11 may not apply to you; where that’s so, they apply to the fullest extent the law allows. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

13. If something goes wrong between us

Reach out to us first through our contact page. Most concerns are sorted out with a message, and we would much rather fix a problem than argue about it. Any dispute that can’t be resolved informally will be brought in the local or federal courts located in the District of Columbia, and both of us consent to venue there.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the current version, and changes apply from the time they’re posted. If a change is significant, we’ll make it noticeable on the site.

15. Contact

Stellarus Intelligence, Inc. (publishing as Stellarus Press) To reach us, please submit an inquiry through our contact page or write to [email protected].