PUBLISHER TERMS OF USE

Last updated: June 22, 2026 (revised: Texas-primary forum with cascading Florida fallback)

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY — THEY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. THEY CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, A CLASS-ACTION WAIVER, A JURY-TRIAL WAIVER, A ONE-YEAR LIMITATIONS PERIOD, A FORUM-SELECTION CLAUSE, AND A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, READING, VIEWING, RECEIVING, SUBSCRIBING TO, COMMENTING ON, DOWNLOADING FROM, OR OTHERWISE USING ANY OF THE SITES & CHANNELS — WHETHER OR NOT YOU CREATE AN ACCOUNT — YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, INCLUDING THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND JURY-TRIAL WAIVER IN SECTION 18. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT ACCESS, VIEW, OR USE THE SITES & CHANNELS AND LEAVE NOW.

1) Who we are & where these Terms apply

These Publisher Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of PAG Project’s online properties, including:

• Our Substack publication at pagproject.com and its subdomains, pages, posts, comments, chat, Notes, referrals, recommendations, and any paid tiers or memberships (the “Publication”);

• Our website(s) at pagproject.com (if any), related subdomains, newsletters, and emails; and

• Our social/community properties operated under @pagprojectHQ — including X (Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, Rumble, TikTok, Discord, LinkedIn — and our podcast

(collectively, the “Sites & Channels”).

The Sites & Channels are provided by PAG Project, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“PAG,” “we,” “us,” “our”). PAG operates under the brand names “Private Attorney General Project” and “PAG Project.”

How you agree (assent). These Terms form a binding contract between you and PAG. They are made available to you through a conspicuous link presented at or near each point of access and engagement (including the site footer, the about/welcome page, subscription prompts, and community channels). You manifest your agreement, and accept these Terms in full, by any of the following acts, each of which constitutes your knowing assent:

• (a) Access and use. Accessing, browsing, loading, reading, viewing, listening to, or receiving any page, post, email, podcast, video, or other content of the Sites & Channels. Your continued access or use after these Terms are made available to you by a conspicuous link constitutes acceptance.

• (b) Affirmative act. Checking a box, clicking a button, or completing any flow that references or links to these Terms.

• (c) Account, subscription, or purchase. Creating an account, entering your email or subscribing (free or paid), joining a community channel, or making any payment, tip, or donation.

• (d) Participation. Posting or submitting a comment, note, chat message, reply, review, tip, document, or other content.

The more affirmative your act of assent, the more fully these Terms bind you; but to the maximum extent permitted by law, any of the acts above manifests your agreement. If you use the Sites & Channels on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind it, and “you” includes that organization. If you do not agree to these Terms, your sole remedy is to not access or use the Sites & Channels.

Layered terms. Your use of Substack’s platform is also governed by Substack’s Terms of Use, Publisher Agreement, Content Guidelines, and Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Substack Terms”). These Terms are in addition to (not a replacement for) the Substack Terms and govern your relationship with PAG. If there is a direct conflict about Substack platform operations, the Substack Terms control as to those operations; in all other respects, including your relationship with us, these Terms control.

Contacts.

• General/legal notices: contact@pagproject.com

• Corrections / retraction demands / takedowns (preferred): Review@pagproject.com

• Mail: PAG Project, LLC — 5900 Balcones Drive, STE 100, Austin, TX 78731

2) Not a law firm; no professional advice; no special relationship

We are not a law firm and do not provide legal, financial, accounting, tax, medical, or investment advice. Our content is information, opinion, advocacy, criticism, petitioning, and journalism on matters of public concern. Nothing on the Sites & Channels creates an attorney-client, fiduciary, confidential, advisory, agency, partnership, employment, joint-venture, or other special relationship between you and PAG, and you agree that no such relationship exists. Statements characterized as opinion, analysis, belief, conclusion, characterization, or commentary are exactly that. Consult your own licensed professionals before acting on anything you read.

3) Eligibility; accounts

You must be 16 or older (and not under 13) to use the Sites & Channels. If you create an account (e.g., via Substack or Discord), you are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your account. We may refuse, reclaim, or remove usernames that violate rights or our rules.

4) Community rules (bright-line guardrails)

You may not, and you agree not to help or induce others to:

• Break the law or solicit, facilitate, or encourage illegal acts;

• Doxx, threaten, stalk, or harass; incite violence; or post targeted abuse;

• Post or link to illegal content, CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery, or instructions to commit crimes;

• Infringe intellectual-property, publicity, or privacy rights; impersonate others or misrepresent affiliation;

• Spam, scam, run pyramid schemes, or otherwise exploit the community;

• Interfere with the Sites & Channels (scraping at scale, automated access or rate abuse, reverse engineering, circumvention, or malware);

• Bypass paywalls or redistribute paid or subscriber-only content outside your account;

• Harvest, scrape, or use our content or user data to train AI models, build large language models, or create competing or derivative datasets without our prior written consent.

Enforcement. We may moderate, edit, remove, throttle, label, or ban content or accounts at our sole discretion, with or without notice and without liability. We have no duty to monitor but may review reported content. Substack and other platforms may also enforce their own terms independently.

5) Your content (UGC) & license to us

If you post, upload, record, submit, or transmit content (text, images, audio/video, links, metadata, or other material) to any Site or Channel (“UGC”):

• You grant PAG a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable, royalty-free license to host, store, cache, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, reproduce, publish, perform, display, translate, excerpt, and distribute your UGC in any media now known or later developed, to operate, promote, archive, defend, and moderate the Sites & Channels (including backups, compilations, excerpts, and translations).

• To the extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights (e.g., attribution and integrity) and consent to adaptations reasonable in context (formatting, moderation, excerpting, captioning).

• You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights necessary to grant this license and that your UGC complies with law and these Terms.

• You acknowledge that we may publish, quote, or describe your UGC — including in reporting and commentary — and you release us from claims arising from our good-faith publication or description of UGC you chose to submit.

• We may remove, refuse, or retain any UGC at any time.

6) Our content & your limited license

All materials we publish (text, graphics, logos, audio/video, code, documents, and compilations) are owned by PAG or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Sites & Channels for personal, non-commercial purposes only. Any other use — including scraping, bulk downloading, indexing for machine learning, resale or redistribution of paid content, or using our content to train or fine-tune AI models — requires our prior written consent. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

7) Platform & third-party services

We embed or link to third-party services (e.g., Substack, payment processors, video platforms, social networks, analytics). Their terms and privacy policies govern your use of those services. We are not responsible for third-party content, links, outages, acts, or omissions, and references or links are not endorsements.

8) Tips, donations, memberships, and purchases

We may offer tips, non-tax-deductible donations, memberships, or paid tiers (e.g., via Substack/Stripe or other providers). Unless we state otherwise in writing or as required by law:

• Contributions and subscription fees are non-refundable and not tax-deductible;

• You authorize our processor(s) to charge your payment method and agree to their terms;

• We may change, suspend, or discontinue any offering at any time;

• Paid benefits are personal to your account; sharing, reselling, or redistribution is prohibited.

For Substack-managed payments, Substack’s billing and refund rules apply in addition to these Terms.

9) Copyright & DMCA

We respect intellectual-property rights. To report alleged copyright infringement, send a notice compliant with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our DMCA Agent:

DMCA Agent — PAG Project, LLC, 5900 Balcones Drive, STE 100, Austin, TX 78731 • Review@pagproject.com

We may remove content and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. We accept compliant counter-notices. Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing (or was removed by mistake) may subject you to liability for damages, costs, and attorneys’ fees under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). We maintain (or will register) a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office to support safe-harbor eligibility.

10) Interactive computer service; user content immunity

With respect to UGC and other content provided by third parties, we operate as an interactive computer service and assert all protections available under 47 U.S.C. § 230 and other applicable law, including immunity for content created by others and for good-faith moderation, restriction, screening, or removal decisions. These protections concern third-party content and do not waive any defense as to content we create ourselves.

11) Pre-suit demand: corrections, clarifications & retractions (mandatory notice)

Mandatory pre-suit procedure. PAG Project is a medium of news and public comment. If you contend any statement we published is false, defamatory, or otherwise actionable, you must, before filing suit, send a written Request for Correction, Clarification, or Retraction to Review@pagproject.com (preferred) or by mail to the address above. This requirement is intended to invoke and operate alongside, at minimum: (a) Florida’s pre-suit notice statute, Fla. Stat. § 770.01, which requires written notice at least five (5) days before filing any civil action for libel or slander against a newspaper, periodical, or other medium, specifying the statements alleged to be false; (b) Florida’s retraction statute, Fla. Stat. § 770.02; and (c) the Texas Defamation Mitigation Act, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §§ 73.051–73.062.

Your request must: (1) be served within the applicable limitations and statutory notice periods; (2) identify the exact statements at issue and where they appear (URL, post title, and timestamp); (3) explain with particularity why each statement is false or defamatory; (4) state the alleged defamatory meaning; (5) provide the specific facts and documents you contend establish falsity; and (6) state the precise correction, clarification, or retraction sought.

Effect. Under the Texas Defamation Mitigation Act, a person who does not make a timely and sufficient request may not recover exemplary damages; under Florida law, failure to serve the required pre-suit notice may bar the action, and a good-faith correction or retraction may limit recovery to actual damages (Fla. Stat. § 770.02). We will review compliant requests in good faith. We may, in our sole editorial discretion, publish a correction, clarification, update, or your response (edited for length and clarity), or decline to do so. A correction or clarification is not, and shall not be construed as, an admission of liability, fault, or falsity. Requests that omit the required elements may be disregarded or returned for completion.

12) Investigative journalism, petitioning, opinion & whistleblower protections (reservation of defenses)

Our content includes investigative reporting, petitions to government, public-records analysis, criticism, and commentary on matters of public concern, much of it concerning public officials, public figures, government agencies, and issues of public interest. We expressly reserve and assert, and nothing in these Terms waives, all available privileges, immunities, and defenses, including but not limited to:

• the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, § 8 of the Texas Constitution, including the actual-malice standard applicable to public officials and public figures;

• the fair-report / official-proceedings privilege under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 73.002, covering fair, true, and impartial accounts of judicial, legislative, administrative, official, and other public proceedings — including the petitions, filings, and proceedings PAG initiates or reports upon;

• the privileges for statements of opinion, rhetorical hyperbole, fair comment, and substantial truth;

• the anti-SLAPP statutes of every jurisdiction in which a claim is brought, including the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ch. 27) and the Florida anti-SLAPP statute (Fla. Stat. § 768.295), including their motion-to-dismiss, stay, mandatory fee-shifting, sanctions, and expedited-appeal provisions;

• the Noerr-Pennington doctrine and the constitutional right to petition government, which immunize good-faith petitioning of legislative, executive, judicial, and administrative bodies; and

• all applicable federal and state whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections.

Our statements about matters of public concern are protected expression and, where they reflect our views, are offered as opinion based on disclosed or referenced facts. Nothing in these Terms limits any right or protection available to us, to whistleblowers, or to petitioners under any law.

13) Editorial standards & good-faith basis

We publish based on documents, records, on-the-record sources, official proceedings, and reasoned analysis, and we strive for accuracy on matters of public concern. We routinely link or cite to primary sources so readers may evaluate the basis for our statements and form their own conclusions. We update or correct the record when warranted. This section reflects our editorial practice and our good-faith, non-reckless approach to publication; it is not a warranty of accuracy and does not create any duty, contractual or otherwise, enforceable by any person.

14) Disclaimers

THE SITES & CHANNELS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ACCURACY. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION OR THAT CONTENT IS CURRENT OR COMPLETE.

15) Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PAG AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SITES & CHANNELS OR THESE TERMS. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) US$100. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO PORTIONS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

16) Assumption of risk; release by users

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you access and use the Sites & Channels at your own risk and assume responsibility for your own conduct, including any UGC you submit and any reliance you place on our content. You release PAG and its members, managers, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and affiliates from claims arising from another user’s conduct or UGC, or from your decision to submit materials, tips, or documents to us.

17) Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless PAG and our members, managers, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and affiliates from and against any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to your UGC, your use of the Sites & Channels, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

18) Dispute resolution — arbitration, anti-SLAPP carve-out, mass-arbitration controls

Scope of this Section. As used here, “Dispute” means any claim, dispute, or controversy — whether based in contract, tort, statute, equity, or otherwise, and expressly including defamation, libel, slander, business disparagement, false light, invasion of privacy, and similar claims — arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Sites & Channels, any content, or your access to or use of them.

Governing law & FAA. These Terms and every Dispute are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. The parties intend that Texas’s speech-protective laws — including the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ch. 27) — apply as substantive law to the maximum extent permitted in any forum. The Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., governs the interpretation and enforcement of the arbitration agreement.

Exclusive forum. To the fullest extent you are subject to these Terms, you agree that any Dispute not resolved in arbitration or small-claims court shall be brought and litigated solely and exclusively in the state district courts of Travis County, Texas, or the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, and you irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection based on venue, residence, or forum non conveniens.

Primary, fallback & reservation (cascade). The parties intend the Texas governing-law and Travis County forum provisions to apply to the maximum extent permitted by law. If a court of competent jurisdiction determines that (i) it cannot exercise jurisdiction consistent with the exclusive-forum provision, (ii) the forum or governing-law provision is unenforceable as to a particular claim or as to a particular person (including any person not bound by these Terms), or (iii) the law of another jurisdiction governs a Dispute, then, in descending order: (1) Texas substantive law (including the TCPA) shall continue to apply to the greatest extent permitted; (2) to the extent Texas law is held not to apply, the Dispute shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction having the most significant relationship to it, and PAG reserves and will assert all anti-SLAPP, pre-suit-notice, retraction, reporter’s-privilege, and other speech-protective laws and remedies available in that jurisdiction — expressly including, without limitation, the Florida anti-SLAPP statute (Fla. Stat. § 768.295) and Florida’s pre-suit-notice and retraction statutes (Fla. Stat. §§ 770.01–770.02) — together with applicable U.S. federal law. No waiver. Nothing in these Terms waives any protection, privilege, immunity, or remedy available under the law of any jurisdiction; all such protections are cumulative, and reservation or assertion of one is not a waiver of any other. This cascade is a reservation of protections and shall never be construed to waive any non-waivable right.

Informal resolution. Before initiating arbitration or suit, a party must email a Notice of Dispute to contact@pagproject.com describing the claim and relief sought, and allow 30 days for good-faith resolution.

Individual arbitration; no class actions. Except for the Public-Participation Carve-Out below and claims that may be brought in small-claims court, all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Sites & Channels are resolved by individual, binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The seat is Austin, Texas, with participation by video or teleconference where permitted. No class, collective, consolidated, or representative actions or arbitrations are permitted. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court in Travis County, Texas, if it qualifies.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and class-action waiver by emailing contact@pagproject.com within 30 days after you first agree to these Terms, stating your name and intent to opt out.

Public-Participation Carve-Out (anti-SLAPP preserved). Notwithstanding the arbitration agreement, at our sole election any claim that arises from, targets, or relates to our news reporting, commentary, criticism, opinion, petitioning, or other communication or conduct in connection with matters of public concern will be litigated in court (and not arbitrated), with Travis County, Texas as our preferred forum, so that we may move to dismiss under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ch. 27) and/or Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a. Where such a claim is instead brought or required to proceed in another forum (including any Florida or federal court), we reserve and will assert all equivalent protections available there, including the Florida anti-SLAPP statute (Fla. Stat. § 768.295) and any other applicable anti-SLAPP or early-dismissal law, and will seek dismissal, fee-shifting, sanctions, a stay of discovery, and expedited or interlocutory appeal where available. This carve-out is in addition to, and does not waive, any other defense, privilege, or immunity.

Mass-arbitration management. If 25 or more substantially similar demands are filed by or with the same or coordinated counsel: (i) AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply; (ii) an initial random set of up to 20 cases proceeds; (iii) remaining cases are stayed; (iv) a process arbitrator may address administrative issues and order global mediation; and (v) fees follow AAA’s mass-arbitration protocols.

Jury-trial waiver. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FOR ANY PERMITTED COURT ACTION THE PARTIES KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.

Limitations period. To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Sites & Channels must be filed within one (1) year after it accrues, or it is permanently barred.

Severability & survival. If any forum-selection or governing-law provision is held unenforceable as to a claim or person, it is severed only as to that claim or person, the next applicable tier of the cascade governs, and all remaining provisions and all reserved protections remain in full force. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim shall proceed in court rather than in class arbitration. This section survives termination.

19) Bond for injunctive relief; opposition to prior restraint

Any party seeking a temporary restraining order, injunction, or other relief affecting our publication, reporting, or speech must, to the maximum extent permitted by law, post a bond or security adequate to secure our damages, costs, and attorneys’ fees if the relief is later dissolved or vacated. We oppose prior restraints on speech as presumptively unconstitutional and reserve all speech-protective defenses.

20) Legal-threat transparency; non-confidentiality of unsolicited demands

We may publish (with limited redactions for genuinely sensitive personal data) any legal notice, demand letter, or threat sent to us concerning our reporting or UGC, in order to promote public transparency about attempts to suppress speech, unless restricted by a valid court order. Sending us such a communication constitutes consent to its publication for these purposes. We do not accept and are not bound by any confidentiality, non-disclosure, or “without prejudice” obligation purportedly imposed by an unsolicited communication; only a separate written agreement signed by an authorized officer of PAG can impose such an obligation.

21) Source submissions / tipline terms

Unsolicited tips or documents you send (by email, form, or DM) are non-confidential unless we expressly agree otherwise in a signed writing. Do not send materials you are not legally permitted to share or that were illegally obtained. You represent that you have the right to share the materials and that your submission does not violate law, court orders, or third-party rights. We may publish, investigate, summarize, or decline to act on any submission. Where legally permitted, we may notify you of legal requests for your data; we require lawful process to disclose records and will assert reporter’s privilege and all other applicable defenses.

22) Changes

We may update these Terms at any time. The “Last updated” date reflects the current version. Material changes take effect when posted, and your continued use after posting constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Sites & Channels.

23) Termination

We may suspend or terminate access at any time, with or without notice or cause. On termination, your license to our content ends. Sections 5, 6, 9–21, and 24, and any provision that by its nature should survive, survive termination.

24) Miscellaneous

These Terms (together with the Substack Terms where applicable) are the entire agreement between you and PAG regarding the Sites & Channels and supersede prior understandings. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remainder stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. We may assign these Terms (including to a successor or affiliate); you may not assign without our prior written consent. Headings are for convenience only. These Terms are drafted in English, and the English version controls. Notices to PAG must be sent to the contacts above.