TERMS OF SERVICE
Effective Date: August 7, 2026
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of ThirdAvenuePress.com, our online store, and the information, content, features, tools, digital products, downloadable materials, and other services made available through the website (collectively, the “Services”).
The Services are operated by Third Avenue Ventures, LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company, through its publishing imprint Third Avenue Press (“Third Avenue Press,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Our store is hosted by Shopify, which provides the ecommerce platform that enables us to offer the Services.
Please read these Terms carefully. They contain important provisions concerning intellectual property, digital-product licenses, disclaimers of warranties, and limitations of liability. By visiting, accessing, purchasing from, downloading from, or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy, available at https://thirdavenuepress.com/policies/privacy-policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
1. ELIGIBILITY AND ACCOUNTS
You must be at least 18 years old and the age of legal majority where you live to make a purchase or create an account. If you use the Services on behalf of a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms. In that case, “you” includes both you and the organization.
You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when placing an order or using the Services. If customer accounts are offered, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your account and for activity occurring through it. You may not transfer, sell, or provide your account or download credentials to another person.
2. OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Third Avenue Press publishes books and offers educational and professional resources related to information technology, mergers and acquisitions, integrations, separations, divestitures, and related business disciplines. Products may include books, ebooks, diagrams, templates, workbooks, checklists, models, guides, and other digital or downloadable materials.
We make reasonable efforts to describe products accurately. Product descriptions, previews, features, formats, file types, included materials, prices, and availability may change without notice. Images and previews are illustrative, and screen colors or formatting may vary by device or software. We may modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue any product or part of the Services at any time.
3. PROFESSIONAL-USE DISCLAIMER
The Services and all products are provided for general educational, informational, and professional-development purposes. They are not legal, tax, accounting, investment, cybersecurity, regulatory, human-resources, or other licensed professional advice. They do not constitute consulting services and do not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, consultant-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship.
M&A transactions differ materially in their facts, contracts, jurisdictions, industries, technology environments, risks, and regulatory requirements. Templates and examples must be reviewed, adapted, validated, and approved for the specific transaction and organization in which they are used. You are responsible for obtaining appropriate advice from qualified legal counsel and other professionals and for independently evaluating all decisions, assumptions, formulas, instructions, and work products.
We do not promise or guarantee any particular transaction result, financial outcome, cost savings, schedule, risk reduction, regulatory compliance, or business performance.
4. ORDERS AND ACCEPTANCE
Submitting an order is an offer to purchase. We may accept, reject, limit, or cancel an order in our reasonable discretion, including because of suspected fraud, payment problems, pricing or description errors, product unavailability, misuse of promotional offers, or apparent violation of these Terms. An order is accepted when payment is successfully processed and we send an order confirmation or make the purchased product available.
Please review your order and email address carefully before submitting it. Digital-product orders may be fulfilled immediately and may not be cancelable after fulfillment begins or a download link is issued.
We may limit quantities or refuse orders that appear intended for unauthorized redistribution, resale, sublicensing, or creation of competing products.
5. PRICES, PAYMENT, AND TAXES
Prices are stated in the currency displayed at checkout and may change without notice. The price charged will be the price shown when the order is submitted, subject to correction of an obvious pricing error. Unless otherwise stated, prices do not include applicable sales, use, value-added, or similar taxes. Taxes will be calculated and collected when required.
You represent that you are authorized to use the payment method submitted and that the billing information you provide is accurate. Payment information is processed by Shopify and its payment-service providers. We do not receive or store your complete payment-card number.
Promotions may be subject to additional terms. If promotional terms conflict with these Terms, the promotional terms control for that promotion.
6. DIGITAL DELIVERY AND DOWNLOAD ACCESS
Digital products are generally delivered through a download link displayed or emailed after successful payment. Delivery timing may be affected by payment review, email filtering, technical problems, or circumstances outside our control. You are responsible for providing a valid email address, checking spam or junk folders, downloading the files within any stated access period or download limit, and maintaining your own backup copies.
Download links and credentials are personal to the purchaser and may not be posted, forwarded, sold, shared publicly, or made available through a shared repository. We may impose reasonable download limits, deactivate links associated with suspected misuse, and request order verification before restoring access.
If you paid for a digital product but cannot access the file, contact info@thirdavenuepress.com with your order number. We will make reasonable efforts to restore access or provide a replacement file.
A purchase provides access to the version of the product offered at the time of purchase. Unless the product description expressly states otherwise, the purchase does not include future editions, revisions, updates, support, customization, consulting, or implementation services.
7. LICENSE FOR PAID DIGITAL PRODUCTS
Paid digital products are licensed, not sold. Subject to payment and compliance with these Terms, we grant the purchaser a limited, nonexclusive, revocable, nontransferable license to download, use, copy, and modify the purchased product only as permitted in this Section and in any product-specific license displayed on the product page or included with the download. If product-specific license terms conflict with this Section, the product-specific terms control.
Unless a product page states otherwise:
(a) Individual or Organizational Use. A purchase by an individual grants that individual a license for the individual’s own professional use. A purchase made for an organization grants one legal entity an internal-use license. The purchaser may allow its employees and individual contractors or professional advisers working directly on its behalf to use the product solely for the purchaser’s authorized internal work, provided they are informed of the confidential and licensed nature of the material and do not retain or reuse the source files for another person or organization.
(b) Transaction Use. The purchaser may customize a template and use the resulting work product in connection with the purchaser’s own M&A transactions and related internal business activities. The purchaser may share customized outputs with counterparties, counsel, advisers, service providers, and other transaction participants when reasonably necessary for that authorized transaction. The purchaser may not distribute the original or substantially unmodified source template as a standalone resource.
(c) Consultant or Adviser Use. A consultant or adviser purchasing a product may use and customize it for one client engagement or transaction. The consultant or adviser may deliver customized, client-specific outputs, but may not give the client the original or substantially unmodified source files unless the product page expressly permits it. A separate purchase or an applicable multi-client, team, or enterprise license is required for each additional client engagement or transaction.
(d) Customer Content. You retain ownership of confidential information, transaction data, names, branding, and other original content you add to a product. Third Avenue Press retains all rights in the underlying product, including its structure, design, methodology, instructions, formulas, prompts, sample language, explanatory content, and other preexisting material. Customizing a product does not transfer ownership of the underlying product or create a right to distribute it outside the permitted license.
(e) Prohibited Uses. You may not, directly or indirectly:
• sell, resell, sublicense, rent, license, publish, post, distribute, gift, or otherwise provide a digital product or its source files to an unauthorized person;
• upload or store a digital product in a public website, public database, open shared drive, template marketplace, membership library, or other location accessible beyond authorized users;
• use a product to create, market, or sell a competing template, book, course, training program, database, subscription, or other substantially similar product;
• remove copyright, trademark, attribution, license, or proprietary notices;
• claim authorship or ownership of the underlying product;
• use a product as training data, fine-tuning data, a retrieval corpus, or a dataset for an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning system, or upload it to a public AI service in a manner that permits retention, training, redistribution, or generation of competing or substantially similar materials;
• circumvent download limits, access controls, watermarks, or other protective measures; or
• use a product for unlawful, fraudulent, misleading, or infringing purposes.
For broader use, including enterprise-wide deployment, repeated client use, redistribution rights, or incorporation into a commercial service, contact us to request a separate written license.
8. LICENSE FOR FREE RESOURCES AND BOOK DIAGRAMS
Unless otherwise stated, free downloads, book diagrams, excerpts, previews, and similar resources may be downloaded and used for personal study, internal business reference, and noncommercial educational purposes. You may include a reasonable excerpt or an unaltered diagram in an internal presentation or document if you identify Third Avenue Press as the source.
Free availability does not place a resource in the public domain or waive our intellectual-property rights. You may not sell, sublicense, publicly repost, republish, remove attribution from, materially alter, or use a free resource to create a competing commercial product without prior written permission.
9. REFUNDS AND ORDER PROBLEMS
Purchases are governed by our Refund Policy, available at https://thirdavenuepress.com/policies/refund-policy.
Because digital products are delivered or made accessible immediately and cannot meaningfully be returned, digital-product purchases are final and nonrefundable after a download link has been issued or access has otherwise been provided, except where required by law. We will, however, address duplicate charges, incorrect files, corrupted files, or material technical defects reported within 14 days after purchase. If we cannot provide a working copy of the product purchased, our remedy may be replacement, restored access, correction, store credit, or refund, as appropriate.
Before purchasing, you are responsible for reviewing the product description, format, software requirements, license scope, and included materials. Differences in personal preference, failure to use the product, or incompatibility not identified in the product description generally do not qualify for a refund.
Where applicable law provides a cancellation or withdrawal right for digital content, your request for immediate access may constitute consent to begin digital performance and acknowledgment that the right may be lost once delivery begins, but only to the extent permitted by law and supported by the checkout disclosures presented to you.
10. PHYSICAL BOOKS AND THIRD-PARTY RETAILERS
Our website may link to Amazon, Ingram-affiliated retailers, bookstores, distributors, or other independent sellers. A purchase completed on a third-party website is a transaction between you and that retailer and is governed by the retailer’s prices, availability, shipping terms, return policy, privacy policy, and terms of use. Third Avenue Press does not process payment for, control fulfillment of, or accept returns for purchases completed through third-party retailers.
If physical products are offered directly through our store in the future, the shipping, delivery, risk-of-loss, and return terms displayed at checkout or in the applicable store policy will apply.
11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Services and their contents—including the book and product content, templates, diagrams, frameworks, methodologies, text, graphics, images, video, audio, design, arrangement, trademarks, logos, product names, and other materials—are owned by or licensed to Third Avenue Ventures, LLC and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws.
Except for the limited licenses expressly granted in these Terms or applicable product-specific terms, no right, title, or interest is transferred to you. You may not reproduce, modify, distribute, display, perform, republish, scrape, download, store, transmit, or commercially exploit any part of the Services without prior written permission.
“Third Avenue Press,” “Third Avenue Ventures,” associated logos, book titles, product names, designs, and slogans may be trademarks or protected brand assets. You may not use them in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or ownership without written permission. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
12. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND LINKS
The Services may include links to, integrations with, or functionality provided by third parties. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party websites, services, content, security, availability, products, or business practices. Links are provided for convenience and do not necessarily constitute endorsement. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that party’s terms and policies, and you use it at your own risk.
13. RELATIONSHIP WITH SHOPIFY
Third Avenue Press is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you. However, any sales and purchases you make in our store are made directly with Third Avenue Press. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Shopify is not responsible for any aspect of any sales between you and Third Avenue Press, including any injury, damage, or loss resulting from purchased products and services. You hereby expressly release Shopify and its affiliates from all claims, damages, and liabilities arising from or related to your purchases and transactions with Third Avenue Press.
14. PRIVACY
Personal information collected through the Services is handled as described in our Privacy Policy at https://thirdavenuepress.com/policies/privacy-policy. Because Shopify hosts the store, Shopify also processes information relating to your access to and use of the Services. Shopify’s Consumer Privacy Policy is available at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/consumers.
15. FEEDBACK AND SUBMISSIONS
If you voluntarily provide a review, suggestion, comment, idea, or other feedback about the Services or products (“Feedback”), you grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, display, and distribute that Feedback for operating, improving, and promoting our business, without compensation or obligation to you.
You represent that you have the right to provide the Feedback and that it does not violate another person’s rights or any law. Do not submit confidential transaction information, proprietary client information, personal data concerning another person, or material you are not authorized to disclose. This license does not apply to confidential information or deal-specific content that we have expressly agreed in writing to receive under a separate confidentiality obligation.
16. PROHIBITED CONDUCT
You may use the Services only for lawful purposes. You may not:
• violate any applicable law or another person’s rights;
• infringe, misappropriate, or violate intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or contractual rights;
• provide false or misleading information, impersonate another person, or engage in fraud;
• transmit malware, harmful code, spam, or unauthorized advertising;
• interfere with the operation, integrity, or security of the Services;
• bypass security controls, access restrictions, download limits, or robot-exclusion measures;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, index, copy, or extract content through automated means except through standard search-engine indexing that complies with our technical instructions;
• use bots, agents, or automated systems to place orders, acquire downloads, or interact with the Services in a deceptive or abusive manner;
• collect or track personal information about other users;
• use the Services or products to harm, harass, defame, discriminate against, or exploit another person; or
• assist another person in doing any of the above.
We may investigate suspected violations and suspend or terminate access, deactivate download links, cancel orders, or take other reasonable protective action.
17. ERRORS AND CORRECTIONS
The Services may occasionally contain typographical errors, inaccuracies, omissions, broken links, or outdated information relating to product descriptions, pricing, availability, promotions, or other matters. We may correct or update information and may cancel an affected order. If we cancel a paid order because of our error and do not provide the purchased product, we will refund the amount paid for that order.
18. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES AND ALL PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THIRD AVENUE PRESS DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS; THAT FILES WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE INDEFINITELY; THAT PRODUCTS WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH EVERY DEVICE, APPLICATION, SOFTWARE VERSION, OR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; OR THAT ANY INFORMATION, TEMPLATE, FORMULA, EXAMPLE, OR RECOMMENDATION WILL BE COMPLETE, CURRENT, OR SUITABLE FOR A PARTICULAR TRANSACTION.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. ANY LEGALLY REQUIRED WARRANTY IS LIMITED TO THE SHORTEST PERIOD AND MINIMUM SCOPE PERMITTED BY LAW.
19. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THIRD AVENUE VENTURES, LLC, THIRD AVENUE PRESS, AND THEIR OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, SAVINGS, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, GOODWILL, OR DATA; BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; TRANSACTION DELAY OR FAILURE; OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES, A PRODUCT, OR THESE TERMS, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO A PRODUCT, THE SERVICES, OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO THIRD AVENUE PRESS FOR THE PRODUCT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).
THESE LIMITATIONS DO NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE LIMITED OR EXCLUDED, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR OTHER LIABILITY TO THE EXTENT EXCLUSION IS PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. YOUR RIGHTS UNDER APPLICABLE CONSUMER-PROTECTION LAW ARE NOT WAIVED.
20. INDEMNIFICATION
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Third Avenue Ventures, LLC, Third Avenue Press, and their owners, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, licensors, and service providers from third-party claims, damages, judgments, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from your unlawful or unauthorized use of the Services or products, your breach of these Terms or an applicable product license, your infringement or violation of another person’s rights, or content or data you add to or distribute through a product.
We will provide reasonable notice of a covered claim. We may control its defense and settlement, and you agree to provide reasonable cooperation. We will not agree to a settlement that imposes a nonmonetary obligation on you without your consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
21. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Services if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, misused a product or download link, infringed intellectual-property rights, engaged in fraud or harmful conduct, or created legal or security risk.
Termination does not eliminate payment obligations that arose before termination. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including those concerning licenses and restrictions, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, and dispute resolution—will survive.
22. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
You consent to receive order confirmations, download notices, policy notices, and other transactional communications electronically at the email address you provide. Electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that the communication be in writing, to the extent permitted by law. Marketing communications are governed by our Privacy Policy and applicable consent and unsubscribe requirements.
23. CHANGES TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS
We may update these Terms by posting a revised version on this page and changing the Effective Date. Changes apply prospectively from the stated effective date. If a change materially affects existing rights or obligations, we will provide notice when required by law. Your continued use of the Services after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
We may change, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Services, but changes to the Services will not alter the license already granted for a properly purchased and downloaded product unless necessary to address fraud, infringement, legal requirements, or a material breach of these Terms.
24. GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them, the Services, or products purchased directly from Third Avenue Press are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to any nonwaivable rights available under applicable consumer law, the state courts located in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin will have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.
Before filing a claim, you and Third Avenue Press agree to make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute informally by providing written notice describing the issue and requested resolution and allowing 30 days for a response. This requirement does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or filing a claim before an applicable limitations period expires.
25. GENERAL TERMS
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Refund Policy, applicable product-specific license terms, and other policies expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning the Services and supersede prior communications on that subject.
If a provision is held unlawful, void, or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and severed only to the extent necessary; the remaining provisions will remain effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or a product license without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law.
Headings are for convenience only. “Including” means “including without limitation.” No rule construing ambiguities against the drafter will apply. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived.
26. CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about these Terms, product licenses, or download access may be sent to:
Third Avenue Ventures, LLC
Publishing imprint: Third Avenue Press
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
Email: info@thirdavenuepress.com
Phone: +1 262-537-5378
