Terms, privacy & accessibility

1. Terms of use and disclaimer

By using this site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

What this site is

learnthings.online is the shelf for the LearnThings manuals. It holds three things: the catalog, which links each manual on its own domain; the routes, which name the chapters to read in order for one situation; and the books, which put chapters from several manuals into one continuous read on this site. Every manual states its own terms and privacy on its own site. These terms cover this site, the books included.

Educational content only

Everything here is general information, written for people teaching themselves. It is not professional, medical, legal, financial, engineering or safety advice, and it does not replace the judgment of a qualified professional who knows your situation. Homes, climates, materials, animals and people vary, so what you get will differ from what a chapter describes. Where a chapter states a figure, it names the source it came from; check that source against the conditions and the rules where you are.

Safety

• Hands-on work. Chapters here describe work with hand and power tools, chemicals, heat, ladders, wiring and heavy objects. Follow the instructions that came with anything you use, and stop and hire someone when a job is past what you can do safely.
• Food, children, animals and vehicles. Where a chapter covers food safety, a new baby, a pet or a car, the published guidance from the agency the chapter names governs, not our summary of it.
• Codes and rules. Local codes, permits, lease terms, venue rules and manufacturers’ warranties take precedence over anything on this site.

Books and routes

A book is an arrangement of chapters, not a new text. Its chapters are compiled from the manuals, and every page of a book names the manuals its chapters are drawn from and links each one. The manual stays the home of the prose: a correction made there reaches the book the next time it is compiled, and each book page points search engines at the chapter on its manual rather than at itself. The calculators, record sheets and reference pages a chapter mentions stay on their manual, and a link that leaves the book is marked, so you can see the crossing coming. The short bridge before each chapter is written for the book. A book has no setup form, so nothing in it is fitted to you.

A route is a reading order. Its steps link out to chapters on the manuals’ own sites, and it stores nothing on your device.

Third-party links

We link to agencies, standards bodies, extension services, suppliers, books and other resources we read while writing. We do not control those sites, do not endorse or guarantee what is on them, and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices. We take no payment, commission or referral fee from them or from anyone else, and no link here carries a tracking or referral parameter. These manuals don’t sell anything. Product and brand names belong to their owners and appear only to identify them.

No warranty; limitation of liability

This site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Field Assembly LLC and the people who made this site are not liable for any loss, injury or damage, direct or indirect, arising from your use of the site or your reliance on its content. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of this may not apply to you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from the site or these terms will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

Changes and availability

We may change, pause or remove this site or any part of it at any time without notice. We have no obligation to keep it available or up to date.

2. Privacy

Short version: this site does not collect, store or sell any information about you. There is nothing to sign up for, and what you do while reading stays in your browser.

• No accounts, no sign-up. Nothing here asks for your name, your email address or any other detail about you. There is no account to make and no list to join.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no cookies. This site sets no cookies and loads no third-party scripts, pixels, embeds or font services. Every script, stylesheet, font and image on these pages is served from learnthings.online.
• The catalog’s search box runs in your browser. What you type filters the list that is already on the page. It is not sent anywhere and it is not saved.
• Reading a book stays on your device. A book remembers your light or dark choice, your text size, the chapters you have checked off, whether you asked for the full chapter rather than the essentials, and any notes and highlights you make. All of it is kept in your browser’s local storage, under keys that begin with that book’s name. None of it is transmitted to us, and clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes it. A book has no setup form, so there is no share link that carries your answers in a web address.
• Hosting logs. This site is served by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, processes technical request data such as your IP address, your browser type and the pages requested in order to deliver the site and protect it from abuse, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We do not use that data to identify or track visitors.
• If you write to us through Field Assembly, we use your address only to reply, and we do not add it to any list.
• Links to other sites take you to services with their own privacy practices.
• Children. This site is not directed at children under 13, and we knowingly collect no information from anyone.

3. Accessibility

We want every page here to be usable by people who use screen readers, keyboards, magnification or high contrast. Field Assembly publishes one accessibility statement that covers this site and names learnthings.online among the sites it covers: Accessibility at Field Assembly. It states the target, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA, how the sites are tested, and how to report a problem.

On this site in particular:

• Pages are built from semantic HTML with headings, landmarks and lists; every page starts with a skip link to its content, and keyboard focus is visible on every link and control.
• The catalog’s search box has a visible label, and how many manuals match is announced as text rather than shown by color alone.
• Pages follow your system’s light or dark setting. In a book, the text size control makes the type larger on every page and saves that choice in that browser only.
• Text and interface colors meet contrast minimums in both light and dark, text resizes with your browser’s settings, and layouts reflow to a phone. Nothing flashes or moves on its own.

Known limitations: wide reference tables inside a book’s chapters scroll sideways on a narrow screen, and printing depends on your browser’s print settings. If anything here is hard for you to use, tell us through fieldassembly.net and we will try to fix it.

4. Copyright and sharing

© 2026 Field Assembly LLC. The text, structure and code of the manuals, the routes and the books are copyrighted. You are welcome to use them for your own purposes, share the links freely, print pages for your own use, and quote short passages with attribution. Please do not republish a manual or a book, or a substantial part of either, sell it, or present it as your own. Linked third-party material belongs to its owners. The self-hosted fonts, Newsreader and Inter, are used under the SIL Open Font License.

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