Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 18 Septmeber 2026
The full history of changes to these terms can be tracked here.

Terms of Service

Ownership of Site; Agreement to Terms of Use

These terms and conditions apply to this website, located at makc.co, as well as any and all subdomains hosted under this domain; including but not limited to w8.makc.co and vim2tor.makc.co. This site is the personal property of me (Mackenzie Criswell). By using this website, you are agreeing to the Terms of Use as outlined on this webpage; if you do not agree, do not use this site.

Description of Service(s) and Security

This website functions as a personal repository for essays, documentation, and downloads that I have made available for public consumption; as well as a mechanism by which to link to video and other content hosted on third-party services like YouTube. I (Mackenzie Criswell) do not provide the hosting myself, and do not guarantee any uptime or availability of this site or any services provided by it. This website is served only over HTTPS which provides encryption in transit via TLS. It is the user's responsibility to provide any additional security or privacy desired (Example: Using a VPN to hide traffic from an ISP). The website's full source code can be audited via the site's public GitHub repository.

Acceptable Use, Intellectual Property & Copyright

This website his hosted via Netlify and any use of this site should comply with Netlify's Terms of Service.

For my part however, I (Mackenzie Criswell) like the idea of my site being treated as the rhetorical equivalent of the grocery store parking lot where teenagers learn to drive. In any case that it does not violate the Terms of Use for any third-party services, any user may use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. Users may attempt to gain unauthorized access to this site by hacking, password "mining" or any other less-than-legitimate means. There are no unauthorized sections of this site.

The intellectual property hosted on this site is protected by the automatic copyright that applies to any creative work in the United States once it is fixed to a tangible medium. These protections extent to, but are not necessarily limited to website text, original photographs, illustrations, original CSS, HTML, and JavaScript elements, and any logos or artwork. I (Mackenzie Criswell) do however grant any users the right to modify and redistribute any content on this site. This website is a proud free and open source (FOSS) project.

© 2012- Mackenzie Criswell.

Warranty & Modification of Terms

This website is provided as a free service to all users. There is no warranty expressed or implied, as I collect no payment in order to use these services. I (Mackenzie Criswell) reserve the right to change these terms in the future. Any update to these terms will be made available on this webpage, and any changes can be easily tracked by my site's version control system.

Third Party Services

This site utilizes third party services in the construction and deployment of it's services. These services are regularly monitored and evaluated for compliance with reasonable ethical, security, and privacy standards to ensure user data is not being unduly collected. It should be noted however that I (Mackenzie Criswell), should not be held responsible for any content, policies or practices of these services, users who interact with any of the services listed below, do so at their own risk. All of that being said, I do have a vested interest in only using third-party services that are safe, as I also am a user of my own website. I welcome any criticism or recommendations for more secure, more private, or any free and open source alternatives for any of the services used. Any recommendations can be sent to me via any of the mechanisms detailed on this site's contact page.

Services Used in the Building and Deployment of this Site

*Note: I'm on the fence about removing Google Analytics. If anyone has any thoughts on this, or knows of good FOSS alternatives, please feel free to contact me.

External Services Linked to from this Site

Privacy Policy

This website is the personal property of me (Mackenzie Criswell). This policy applies to all users of this site. Use of this site constitutes agreeing to the policy; if you do not agree to the policy do not use this site.

Collection of Personal Data

I do not collect any person information from visitors of this site. I do not share any user data with any third party services, as I do not collect any data. Any user does however have the right to make a complaint about this site to any local regulatory body if they believe their privacy is being violated. The privacy documentation for any third-party services used in the deployment of this site, or linked to from this site can be viewed here.

Contact

Any questions or concerns can be directed to the webmaster and data protection officer, me (Mackenzie Criswell) via my email address: m@makc.co.