Painted Pinkies is a blog about doing your nails at home: French tips, builder gel, short nail designs, press-on sets, and the small techniques that make them turn out well. These Terms and Conditions set the ground rules for using Painted Pinkies at https://paintedpinkies.com. They are written in plain language on purpose, because rules nobody can read do not help anyone.
Agreeing to These Terms
By opening or using Painted Pinkies, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and by any laws that apply where you live. If you do not agree with any part of them, please stop using the site. Reading an article, leaving a comment, or joining the email list all count as using the site.
What Painted Pinkies Offers
Painted Pinkies publishes nail tutorials, design ideas, product guides, and comparisons for people who do their nails at home. Content is provided for reading and learning. Painted Pinkies is a blog, not a shop, a salon, or a training school, and nothing on the site creates a professional relationship between you and the people behind it.
Who May Use This Site
Painted Pinkies is intended for users who are 18 years of age or older. If you are between 13 and 17, you may use the site only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. Users under the age of 13 may not use the site. By using Painted Pinkies, you confirm that you meet this age requirement.
Your License to View Our Content
Painted Pinkies grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view and read the material on this site for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may print or save a single copy of a page for your own reference. This license is permission to look, not a transfer of title. Ownership of everything on the site stays with Painted Pinkies and its licensors, and the license ends automatically if you break any of these Terms.
What You May Not Do
The following uses of Painted Pinkies content and systems are not allowed:
- Modify, copy, or reproduce the articles, images, or other materials
- Use any material for commercial purposes, including republishing it on another site
- Scrape, harvest, or bulk download content by hand or with automated tools
- Use bots, crawlers, or other automated means to access the site beyond ordinary search engine indexing
- Remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or ownership notice
- Transfer the materials to another person, or mirror them on any other server or website
- Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or interfere with any software or system connected to the site
- Frame the site, or any page of it, inside another website without written permission
How Visitors Must Behave
Everyone using Painted Pinkies is expected to behave lawfully and with basic respect for other readers. You must not harass, threaten, or abuse other users. You must not post anything unlawful, defamatory, obscene, or misleading, and you must not post content that belongs to someone else without their permission. You must not send spam or unsolicited commercial messages through the site, try to disrupt or damage the site, or use Painted Pinkies to break any law.
Ownership of Content and Trademarks
Everything published on Painted Pinkies is protected by copyright and trademark law. That includes the articles, tutorials, photographs and graphics, the Painted Pinkies name and logo, the page design, and any software behind the site. This material belongs to the owner of Painted Pinkies or to the licensors who allowed its use. None of it may be reproduced, republished, or distributed without express written consent. Short quotations with a clear credit and a link back to the original page are fine.
Comments and Things You Submit
If you post a comment or send material to Painted Pinkies, you keep ownership of what you wrote, but you grant Painted Pinkies a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute that content in connection with the site. You are responsible for what you submit and for having the right to submit it. Painted Pinkies may moderate, edit, or remove any comment or submission at its own discretion, including anything that breaks the conduct rules above.
Links to Other Websites
Painted Pinkies links to outside websites, such as product pages, brand stores, and reference material. We do not control those sites and we do not endorse everything on them. Painted Pinkies is not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of any linked website. If you follow a link and use a third-party site, you do so at your own risk, and that site’s own terms will apply.
Affiliate Links and Commissions
Painted Pinkies takes part in affiliate programs, including the Amazon Associates Program. Some product links on the site are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you buy through them. The commission comes out of the retailer’s side of the sale, so it costs you nothing extra. A full explanation of how affiliate links work on this site is published on our separate Affiliate Disclosure page.
Our Privacy Policy
Your use of Painted Pinkies is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains what information the site collects and how it is used. By using the site, you accept the practices described there as well as these Terms. If anything in these Terms conflicts with the Privacy Policy on a privacy matter, the Privacy Policy wording controls.
Content Provided As Is
All material on Painted Pinkies is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. Painted Pinkies makes no promise that the content is accurate, complete, or reliable, and gives no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. Nail products change, techniques vary, and your results with any tutorial will depend on your own nails, tools, and practice.
A Note on Tutorials and Results
The tutorials and guides on Painted Pinkies are general information for home use, shared so you can try nail techniques at your discretion. They are not professional advice, and results will vary from person to person. If you have a nail condition, an allergy, or any health concern, speak to a qualified professional rather than relying on a blog post.
Limits on Our Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, the owner of Painted Pinkies and anyone working with the site will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages that arise from using the site or from being unable to use it. That includes lost profits, lost data, and damage connected to products or techniques mentioned here, even if Painted Pinkies was advised that such damage was possible. Some jurisdictions do not allow limits like these, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
Your Promise to Cover Claims
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the owner of Painted Pinkies and its affiliates, contributors, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, that arise from your use of the site, from anything you submit, from your violation of these Terms, or from your violation of anyone else’s rights.
Mistakes, Updates, and Changes to Content
Material on Painted Pinkies may contain technical, typographical, or photographic errors. We do not warrant that any article or image is accurate, complete, or current. Painted Pinkies may change, correct, or remove material at any time without notice, and it is under no obligation to update older content, though we revise guides when products or methods change.
When Access Can End
Painted Pinkies may restrict or end any user’s access to the site at any time, without notice, for any reason, including breaking these Terms. If your access ends, your right to use the site and its content stops at once. The parts of these Terms that by their nature should continue after access ends, such as ownership, liability limits, and indemnification, will continue to apply.
Changing These Terms
Painted Pinkies may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time, without prior notice. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new date. If you keep using the site after a revision is posted, that counts as accepting the revised Terms, so it is worth checking this page from time to time.
Events Outside Our Control
Painted Pinkies will not be liable for any failure or delay in running the site when the cause is beyond its reasonable control. That includes acts of God, war, terrorism, natural disasters, internet or hosting outages, and actions by governments or regulators.
The Law That Governs These Terms
Any claim connected to Painted Pinkies will be governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the website owner is established, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. By using the site, you accept that disputes will be handled under those laws.
If One Clause Fails
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, that provision will be limited or removed only as far as needed, and the remaining provisions stay in full force and effect.
The Whole Agreement
These Terms and Conditions, together with the Privacy Policy and any other legal notices published on Painted Pinkies, form the entire agreement between you and Painted Pinkies about using the site. They replace any earlier agreements or understandings about the site, whether written or spoken.
Effective Date and Questions
Effective date: November 3, 2026. Last updated: November 3, 2026.
If you have a question about these Terms and Conditions, contact Painted Pinkies at contact@paintedpinkies.com and we will be glad to explain.