📜 Terms of Use
Every website needs a terms page, and most of them read like the phone book had a bad dream. These are Frank's terms: short, honest, and written to be read. By using Frank's Facts, you're agreeing to the following, and Frank thanks you for it.
1. The content is offered in good faith
Everything published on this site and in Frank's Five is researched carefully and checked against at least two reputable sources before it's filed. Frank stakes his name on that process — it's on the seal. But knowledge moves, sources get revised, and even careful people miss things. So the content is provided as-is, in good faith, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied.
In plainer terms: don't make medical, legal, financial, or wilderness-survival decisions based on a fun-facts almanac. Frank's Facts is here to make you the most interesting person at the table, not your attorney.
2. When Frank's wrong, Frank says so
Confirmed errors are corrected on the site promptly and announced at the top of the next issue, in bold, like a gentleman. If you spot one, the correction desk is open.
3. Copyright
The writing on this site — Frank's words, the way the stories are told, the layout, and the general Frankness of it all — is © Frank's Facts, all rights reserved. Please don't republish whole pages or whole issues as your own; Frank worked hard on those and will be quietly disappointed in you forever.
4. The facts themselves are free
Nobody owns the truth, least of all Frank. The facts themselves are free to share — at dinner parties, in classrooms, at trivia nights, on the backs of napkins. Share them far and wide; that's what they're for. If you share Frank's write-up of a fact, attribution to franksfacts.com is appreciated — not demanded, just appreciated, the way a tip of the hat is appreciated.
5. The newsletter
Frank's Five is free, arrives on Fridays, and you can leave any time via the unsubscribe link in every issue. Your email address is handled per the Privacy Policy, which is one page and worth the minute.
6. Sponsorships
Sponsor blurbs are clearly marked and held to the standards described on the sponsor page. A sponsorship is a notice in the almanac, not an endorsement-for-hire, and appearing as a sponsor doesn't mean Frank vouches for every claim a sponsor makes on their own premises.
7. Changes to these terms
If these terms ever change in a way that matters, the change will be noted here with a date, and announced in the newsletter. No silent switcheroos. That's not how this establishment operates.
8. Questions
Anything unclear? Write to frank@franksfacts.com. Frank answers his own mail and finds terms-page questions oddly refreshing.
These terms are shorter than most recipes. Frank considers that a feature. ★