A free aid, with honest boundaries.

1. Using the site

By using Fewer Barriers, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site. The project is provided free of charge by Ciarán Paul Roche as an independent build-for-good project; it is not presented as a registered charity, public agency, healthcare provider, law firm, or financial adviser.

These terms govern this Fewer Barriers website and the Read at your pace, Keep the Thread, Step by Step, and Help Me Ask tools hosted here. Freedom From Clutter, Ben Franklin Close, and Ensnarled are separate Fewer Barriers project websites with their own terms, privacy notices, functions, and safety boundaries.

2. What the tools do

Read at your pace divides text into manageable views, changes visual formatting, supports optional speech and printing, and uses pattern matching to surface possible dates, times, amounts, phone numbers, and email addresses. It is a reading aid, not a document-analysis service.

Step by Step separates text into an on-screen checklist without intending to rewrite it. Keep the Thread organizes call notes and can assemble a confirmation message from entries you provide. Help Me Ask places your entries into a basic request template. None of these tools records a call, contacts another person, or evaluates the meaning or legal effect of the words.

3. Important decisions remain yours

A tool may miss, repeat, split, arrange, punctuate, or misidentify text and details. Always check the original source and read any output before using or sending it. Fewer Barriers does not provide medical, legal, financial, safety, benefits, immigration, or other professional advice. Seek a qualified person when the text affects rights, health, money, deadlines, safety, or another important decision.

4. Your text and lawful use

Only use text you are entitled to access and process. Do not use the site to break the law, infringe another person’s rights, introduce harmful code, overload the service, probe security, or interfere with anyone else’s use. You remain responsible for the text, notes, details, and for how you use any output.

5. Availability and third-party services

The site is provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not promise uninterrupted availability or that every browser, device, printer, or assistive technology will behave identically. Optional device speech and external links can involve services that Fewer Barriers does not operate or control.

6. No warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, no express or implied warranty is made about accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, or non-infringement. Nothing here limits a warranty or consumer right that the law does not allow us to exclude.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fewer Barriers and its creator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss arising from use of—or inability to use—the site. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

8. Content and intellectual property

The site’s original design, writing, and software remain protected by applicable intellectual-property law unless a separate open-source license says otherwise. You may link to the site and use the tools for lawful personal, educational, or organizational purposes. Your source words and notes remain yours.

9. Governing law and severability

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Mandatory rights that apply where you live are not displaced. If one part of these terms cannot be enforced, the remaining parts continue to apply. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.

10. Changes and problems

The tools and these terms may change as the project improves. The effective date will identify the current terms. If you believe something is wrong, contact CiaranPaulRoche@gmail.com so we can try to address it. Asking you to contact us does not take away any legal right.