Terms of Service

The short version: the course is free. Be reasonable with the site. The content here is ours; the work you build is yours. And as much as we're rooting for you, there are no guarantees.

Agreeing to these terms

Using Training Grounds means you accept these terms — that's the quiet deal every website makes, we're just saying it out loud. If you don't agree with them, don't use the site. While you're reading the fine print, the privacy policy is short too, and its summary is even shorter: we don't collect your personal information.

What Training Grounds is

Training Grounds is a free, open programming course and a set of articles — no account needed, nothing gated. Alongside the public course there are private, invite-only mentorship areas for mentees: people working through the material directly with a mentor.

Mentee access

If you're a mentee, your credentials and passphrase are personal. Keep them safe, don't share them, and don't redistribute decrypted mentee content anywhere. Meeting notes in particular are private to you and your mentor, and they stay that way.

Our content

The course content — lessons, articles, exercises — is © Capital Technologies LLC. It's free for personal, non-commercial learning; that's the entire point of the site. What it's not free for: republishing, reselling, scraping at scale, or presenting as your own work.

Your work

The projects you build while following this course are yours. Entirely. Your code, your copyright — put them in your portfolio, walk them into interviews, ship them, sell them. You never need our permission and you never owe us credit. Watching people build things they own is the best part of running this place.

Acceptable use

Don't attack, probe, or overload the site. Don't try to defeat the encryption protecting other users' content bundles. Don't bulk-download or scrape the site with automated tools. In short: use it like a learner, not a botnet.

Third-party links

Lessons link out constantly — MDN, official docs, tools worth knowing. Those sites aren't ours; we don't control them and aren't responsible for what they do or say.

No warranties

Everything here is provided "as is." Programming advice ages — what's best practice today can be a cautionary tale in three years — and we can't guarantee any particular outcome from studying here, including employment. We hope you get the job. We can't promise it.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we're not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the site. Our total liability is capped at everything you've ever paid us to use Training Grounds: $0.

Ending access

We can suspend or end mentee access for violating these terms. The public course doesn't work that way — it stays open to everyone.

Changes

These terms may change now and then. When they do, the date at the top changes with them, and continuing to use the site means you accept the update.

Contact

Questions about any of this? Email caleb.dre@gmail.com.