Front Porch Press — Terms of Service

Last updated: Oct 8, 2026

Overview

Welcome to Front Porch Press. The terms "we," "us," and "our" refer to Front Porch Press LLC, a Texas limited liability company. We operate the store at shopfrontporchpress.com, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services (the "Services"). Our store is powered by Shopify.

These Terms of Service, together with the policies they reference (the "Terms"), describe your rights and responsibilities when you use the Services. They include important information about your legal rights, including warranty disclaimers and limits on our liability. Our Legal Notice & Disclaimer and Privacy Policy are part of these Terms.

By visiting or using the Services, or by placing an order, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

Section 1 — Access and Account

By agreeing to these Terms, you confirm that you are at least the age of majority in your state of residence. Our books are made for children, but our store is for adults. Children may enjoy our products, but only adults may place orders.

To place an order, you may be asked for information such as your name, email address, billing, payment, and shipping details. You confirm that the information you give us is correct, current, and complete, and that you have the right to provide it.

If you create an account, you are responsible for keeping your login details secure and for all activity on your account. You may not transfer, sell, or share your account with anyone else.

Section 2 — Our Products

We sell physical hardcover books, including What You Come From: Black History That Makes Them Proud. We work hard to show our products accurately. However, colors and appearance may look different on your screen depending on your device and settings.

Our books are researched from historical records, published sources, and, where available, U.S. patent records. Historical records are not perfect, and some entries are simplified so young children can understand them. Our Legal Notice & Disclaimer explains our approach to accuracy and sources in more detail.

Product descriptions, page counts, entry counts, and included items may change at any time without notice. We may discontinue a product, or limit the quantity anyone may buy, at our discretion.

Section 3 — Orders

When you place an order, you are making an offer to buy. We may accept or decline any order for any reason. Your order is not accepted until we confirm it and process your payment. Please review your order, especially your shipping address, before you submit it. Once an order is accepted, we may not be able to cancel or change it.

If we decline, change, or cancel an order, we will try to let you know using the email, billing address, or phone number you gave us.

You may buy our books for yourself, as gifts, or to donate to schools, churches, libraries, and community groups. You may not buy our books for commercial resale without our written permission.

Returns and refunds are handled only as described in Section 6 and in our Legal Notice & Disclaimer.

Section 4 — Prices and Billing

Prices, bundle offers, discounts, free-shipping thresholds, and promotional free gifts may change at any time without notice. The price you pay is the price in effect when you place your order, as shown in your order confirmation email. Unless stated otherwise, prices do not include shipping or applicable taxes.

We may run promotions from time to time. A promotion may have its own terms. If a promotion's terms conflict with these Terms, the promotion's terms apply to that promotion.

You agree to give us current, complete, and accurate payment information. You confirm that you are authorized to use the payment method you provide, that your charges will be honored, and that you will pay the posted prices, including shipping and any applicable taxes.

Section 5 — Shipping and Delivery

We ship only to addresses within the United States. Shipping costs are shown at checkout.

All delivery times are estimates and are not guaranteed. We are not responsible for delays caused by shipping carriers, weather, or other events outside our control. Once we hand your order to the carrier, title and risk of loss pass to you. If a package is lost, damaged, or marked delivered but not received, contact us as described in our Legal Notice & Disclaimer and we will help you work with the carrier.

We are not responsible for orders shipped to an incorrect address entered at checkout.

Section 6 — Returns and Refunds

We offer a 60-day money-back guarantee on our books, subject to these conditions:

• You must contact support@shopfrontporchpress.com within 60 days of the delivery date.
• You must send the book back to us. Please email us first so we can give you the return address.
• The book must be unused and in like-new condition, with no writing, marks, or damage of any kind.
• You pay the cost of return shipping.
• Refunds cover the book price only. Original shipping charges and return shipping costs are not refunded.
• Refunds go back to your original payment method.
• Promotional free gifts do not need to be returned and are not refunded separately.

If your book arrives damaged, misprinted, or missing pages, contact us within 7 days of delivery with your order number and a photo. We will replace the book or refund you, and you will not need to pay for return shipping.

Section 7 — Intellectual Property

The Services and our products, including our books' text, entry layouts, blueprint-style illustrations, cover designs, website content, images, graphics, and the design, selection, and arrangement of all of these, are owned by Front Porch Press LLC or its licensors. They are protected by U.S. copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

These Terms allow you to use the Services for personal, non-commercial purposes only. You may read, gift, and donate the books you buy and quote brief passages for reviews, teaching, or commentary. Otherwise, you may not copy, scan, photograph and post, reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, publicly display, or republish any part of our books or the Services without our written permission.

Historical facts, such as names, dates, and patent numbers, are not owned by anyone. Our rights cover our original writing, illustrations, and design.

"Front Porch Press," our logo, our product names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of Front Porch Press LLC and may not be used without our written permission. Shopify's name and marks belong to Shopify. All other names and marks on the Services belong to their respective owners. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

Section 8 — Optional Tools

We may give you access to tools offered by third parties as part of the Services. We do not monitor or control these tools. They are provided "as is" and "as available," without any warranty or endorsement, and you use them at your own risk. We are not liable for anything arising from your use of third-party tools. New features we add to the Services are also covered by these Terms.

Section 9 — Third-Party Links

The Services may contain links to websites or content run by third parties. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of those sites, and we are not liable for any harm related to your use of them or anything you buy from them. Please review a third party's policies before doing business with them, and direct any questions about their products or services to them.

Section 10 — Relationship with Shopify

Front Porch 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 Front Porch Press LLC. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Shopify is not responsible for any aspect of any sales between you and Front Porch Press LLC, 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 Front Porch Press LLC.

Section 11 — Privacy

All personal information we collect through the Services is covered by our Privacy Policy. Some personal information may also be covered by Shopify's Privacy Policy. Because our store is hosted by Shopify, Shopify collects and processes information about your use of the Services, and information you submit may be shared with Shopify and other service providers, some of which may be located outside your state or country, in order to provide the Services to you.

Our store is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Section 12 — Feedback and Reviews

If you send us ideas, suggestions, reviews, photos, or other content ("Feedback"), you give us a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, and display that Feedback in any medium for any purpose, including in our marketing. We have no obligation to keep Feedback confidential, pay for it, or respond to it.

You confirm that you own or have the right to share your Feedback, that you have disclosed any payment or incentive you received for it, and that it does not violate anyone's rights, including copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights. Your Feedback must not be false, misleading, unlawful, abusive, obscene, or contain malware, and you may not use a false email address or pretend to be someone else.

If your review or photo shows a child, you confirm that you are that child's parent or guardian, or have the parent or guardian's permission to share it.

We may, but are not required to, monitor, edit, or remove Feedback we consider unlawful, offensive, or in violation of these Terms. You are responsible for the Feedback you submit.

Section 13 — Errors, Inaccuracies, and Omissions

The Services may sometimes contain typos, inaccuracies, or omissions in product descriptions, pricing, promotions, shipping charges, delivery times, or availability. We may correct any error, update information, or cancel orders if information is inaccurate, at any time and without prior notice, including after you have placed your order. If we cancel an order because of a pricing error, we will refund you in full.

Section 14 — Prohibited Uses

You may use the Services for lawful purposes only. You may not use the Services, directly or indirectly, to:

1. Do anything unlawful or malicious.
2. Violate any federal, state, or local law or regulation.
3. Infringe our intellectual property rights or anyone else's.
4. Harass, abuse, threaten, defame, or harm any of our staff or any other person.
5. Send false or misleading information.
6. Send or use material that does not comply with these Terms.
7. Send spam, junk mail, chain letters, or other unsolicited advertising.
8. Pretend to be another person or entity.
9. Do anything that limits anyone else's use of the Services, or that we decide may harm Front Porch Press, Shopify, or other users, or expose them to liability.

You also agree not to:

1. Upload or send viruses or other malicious code.
2. Copy, extract, sell, resell, or exploit any part of the Services.
3. Collect or track other people's personal information.
4. Spam, phish, or use false pretenses on the Services.
5. Use robots, spiders, scrapers, data-gathering tools, AI tools (including agentic AI), or other automated or manual means to access the Services, except as allowed in Section 15.
6. Bypass or interfere with any security features, access limits, or robot exclusion headers on the Services.

We may suspend or close your account at any time, without notice, if we decide you have violated these Terms.

Section 15 — Agents

This section applies if you use, allow, or cause an Agent to access or interact with the Services. An "Agent" is any software or service that takes autonomous or semi-autonomous action for, or at the instruction of, a person or entity without direct supervision.

An Agent may access the Services only if, at all times, it identifies itself and follows the rules below. An Agent may not access the Services if we have asked it not to. We may limit, including through technical measures, whether and how any Agent uses the Services.

Agents must:

1. Identify themselves in every HTTP/HTTPS request by including "Agent/[agent name]" in the request's user agent string.
2. Not hide or disguise that they are an Agent, including by imitating human behavior or by solving or getting around CAPTCHAs or other measures meant to tell computers and humans apart.
3. Answer truthfully when asked whether they are a human or a computer.
4. Not get around any measure meant to block, limit, or control Agent access to the Services.

Section 16 — Termination

We may end these Terms or your access to the Services, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice. You remain responsible for all amounts owed up to the date of termination.

These sections continue to apply after termination: Intellectual Property, Feedback and Reviews, Termination, Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Severability, Waiver and Entire Agreement, Assignment, Governing Law, Privacy, and any other terms that by their nature should continue.

Section 17 — Disclaimer of Warranties

Information on the Services is provided for general information only. We do not warrant that it is accurate, complete, or useful, and you rely on it at your own risk.

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED BY FRONT PORCH PRESS LLC, INCLUDING OUR 60-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE, THE SERVICES AND ALL PRODUCTS OFFERED THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, DURABILITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THIS DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Section 18 — Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FRONT PORCH PRESS LLC AND ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND LICENSORS, AND SHOPIFY AND ITS AFFILIATES, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST SAVINGS, LOSS OF DATA, OR REPLACEMENT COSTS, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY PRODUCT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATED TO AN ORDER WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THAT ORDER.

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR ANY CONSUMER RIGHTS THAT CANNOT BE WAIVED.

Section 19 — Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Front Porch Press LLC, Shopify, and our affiliates, partners, owners, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, and service providers from any losses, damages, liabilities, or claims, including reasonable attorneys' fees, owed to a third party because of (1) your breach of these Terms or the documents they reference, (2) your violation of any law or anyone's rights, or (3) your use of the Services.

We will notify you of any such claim. A delay in notifying you will not release you from these obligations unless the delay seriously harms your position. We may control the defense and settlement of the claim at your expense, but we will not settle a claim that requires you to do anything other than pay money without your consent, which you will not unreasonably withhold. You agree to cooperate in the defense, including by providing relevant documents.

Section 20 — Severability

If any part of these Terms is found unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will still be enforced to the fullest extent the law allows, and the rest is treated as removed. This does not affect the validity of the remaining Terms.

Section 21 — Waiver and Entire Agreement

If we do not enforce a right or term, that does not waive it.

These Terms, together with any policies we post on the Services, including our Legal Notice & Disclaimer and Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services. They replace any earlier agreements, communications, or versions of these Terms. Any unclear wording will not be interpreted against the party that wrote it.

Section 22 — Assignment

You may not transfer or assign these Terms, or any of your rights or obligations under them, without our written consent. Any attempt to do so is void. We may transfer or assign these Terms without your consent or notice.

Section 23 — Governing Law

These Terms, and any separate agreements under which we provide the Services, are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, except where the law of your state of residence requires otherwise. You and Front Porch Press LLC agree to the jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Texas.

Section 24 — Headings

Headings are for convenience only and do not limit or affect these Terms.

Section 25 — Changes to These Terms

You can review the current version of these Terms at any time on this page. We may update, change, or replace any part of these Terms by posting changes on our website, and it is your responsibility to check for updates. We will notify you of material changes as required by law, and those changes take effect on the date stated. Your continued use of the Services after changes are posted means you accept them. The Terms in effect when you place an order apply to that order.

Section 26 — Contact Information

Questions about these Terms can be sent to us at:

Front Porch Press LLC Email: support@shopfrontporchpress.com Phone: 440 568 3443 Website: shopfrontporchpress.com