Terms of Use | Sorrel & Salt

Last updated 2 November 2026

Version 2026-11-02. When these terms change, the version changes with them, and the site asks you to agree to the new version before you use it again.

These terms include two other pages, and agreeing to these terms is agreeing to them too. The Disclaimer says what the site's information is and is not. The Code of Ethics says what the site stands for: its section "What Everyone Agrees To" binds every account, and its sections for curators, admins, developers and the owner bind whoever holds that role.

The Short Version

The site carries no advertising and sells nothing about you.
What you write stays yours. The site shows it only to the people you chose to share it with, and never uses it to train anything.
Treat the people here, and the traditions their practice comes from, with respect.
The ingredient information here is a reference, not advice. Read the Disclaimer before you act on any of it.
The site may go down, change or end, and we will say so plainly when it does.

Using the Site

Who May Use the Site

Anyone may read the public compendium without an account. Signing in by any method gives you an account and a viewer's seat in the demo coven.

You must be at least thirteen years old. The site is run from the United States, whose Children's Online Privacy Protection Act treats anyone under thirteen as a child whose personal information an online service may not collect without a parent's consent, and the site does not ask for a parent's consent.^#1#2

Your account is yours alone. Keep your sign-in details to yourself, and tell us through the support form if you think someone else has used them without your permission.

What Is Yours

Everything you write in a coven stays yours: your ingredients, your stock, your spells, their steps and their workings. The site claims no ownership over any of it, and takes no right to use it beyond storing it and showing it to the people your coven settings allow. We promise that it is never sold, never used to train anything and never shown outside the coven it was written in.

A spell marked private is shown to you alone. Once a spell is complete and shared with your coven, it cannot be made private again, because the people who have seen it may already rely on it. To have a private version of a shared spell again, use Duplicate: it makes a private draft copy that only you can see and edit, and the shared spell stays as it was.

A coven's owner may delete the coven, and may remove any member from it. Any member may leave a coven at any time. The demo coven, where every account begins, cannot be deleted.

The Compendium

The compendium is written and checked by the site's admins and curators. Every entry records where its information came from, and an entry with no source stays on the curators' list of work to do. It is a reference for people who practise, and it is offered as one, as the Disclaimer sets out.

How to Treat Each Other

The Code of Ethics says what the site stands for. Its section "What Everyone Agrees To" binds every account, and agreeing to these terms is agreeing to it. In short: no bigotry, in any form, towards anyone.

The Code of Ethics goes on to ask more of the people who run the site. Its sections for curators, for admins and for the site's owner each add to the one before, and bind whoever holds that role for as long as they hold it.

The tools the site has today for keeping to this are small, and we name them rather than promise more. A coven's owner may remove a member from the coven. A site admin may stop a person sending support requests for a time, and may take away the right to create covens. Accounts are never closed. There is no way yet to pause one, so an admin who needs to stop an account does it by hand and says so.

What the Site Owes You

What the Site Promises, and What It Does Not

The site is offered as it is. The people who run it do their best to keep it up and to keep your data safe, and they describe plainly what it keeps in the Privacy Policy. They cannot promise that it will always be available, that it will never lose anything, or that every entry in the compendium is correct and complete.

You are responsible for how you use what you read here. The people who run the site are responsible for what the law says they are responsible for, and these terms do not try to take any right from you that the law gives you.

What the Site Is Not Liable For

This section limits what you could claim from the people who run the site. It is written to be read, not hidden, so here is what it does and what it does not do.

Not liable for: the site being unavailable, slow or changed; anything you lose because a page was wrong, incomplete or out of date; anything you do with what you read here, including with any ingredient; and anything other people write on the site, such as the ingredients and spells a coven's members add.
Up to what point: the most the people who run the site will owe you for any claim about it is what you paid them for it.
What this cannot remove: any liability the law does not let a site exclude, and any right the law gives you that it does not let you give up. Washington's Consumer Protection Act, for instance, declares unfair or deceptive acts in trade unlawful and lets a person injured by one sue; these terms do not take that away.^#3 Washington law also treats a limitation of damages as invalid where it is unconscionable, that is, so one-sided that a court will not enforce it, and this one is meant to be read as the narrow limit it says it is and no more.^#4

Disputes

Which Law Applies

The site is run from the State of Washington, in the United States, and these terms are governed by the law of that state. Nothing in them takes away a protection that the law of the place you live gives you and does not let you give up.

Settling a Dispute

If you and the site's owner have a dispute about these terms or the site, each of you first tries arbitration: a neutral person hears both sides and gives a decision. The arbitration is non-binding, which means the decision is advice, not an order, and either of you may reject it.^#5 Nobody gives up the right to go to court, or the right to bring a claim together with other people, by agreeing to these terms.

Whoever asks for the arbitration pays the arbitrator. The site's owner does not pay for an arbitration a member starts, and a member does not pay for one the owner starts.

A person who cannot afford that may skip arbitration and go straight to court. The test is the one Washington's courts use when they waive their own filing fees for people who cannot pay them, General Rule 34: you qualify if you receive help from a needs-based programme such as TANF, SSI, poverty-related veterans' benefits or food stamps; or your household income is at or below 125 per cent of the federal poverty guideline; or it is above that line but your recurring basic living expenses leave you unable to pay; or other compelling circumstances show you cannot pay.^#6 You check yourself against those guidelines; you need no order from anyone first. The court looks at the same question when you ask it to waive your filing fees.^#6 If the claim of hardship was false, the owner may raise that in the same case. The point of this is simple: a person with a real claim is never priced out of court.

If arbitration does not settle the dispute, either of you may take it to the state courts of Washington in Spokane County, where the Spokane County Superior Court sits, and you and the site's owner each agree to that court hearing it.^#7

If a dispute goes to court, the judge can make one side pay the other side's reasonable costs, including lawyer's fees. This happens only when the judge finds that side's claim or defence frivolous, meaning it had no real basis and was pursued without good reason.^#8 It works both ways: the judge can order it against the site's owner just as against you. Only the judge can order this, not the arbitrator.

This Agreement

Agreeing to These Terms

Right after you sign up, and again whenever the version you last agreed to is not the current one, the site sends you to its acceptance page before it shows you any other page that needs an account. There you read the terms and agree to them with a click, and the site records which version you agreed to and when. The public pages, this one included, need no agreement to read.

Updates to These Terms

These terms are refreshed from time to time, and only ever by a new version with a new date at the top, never quietly. When that happens, each account is asked to agree again at its next page that needs an account, on the same acceptance page. Anything an account does on the site after an update is bound by the updated terms. You can read the new version before you agree to it, and you can come back to this page at any time.

Leaving

You may stop using the site at any time. You can leave any coven from its page. To have your account or anything in it erased, ask through the support form, and the site's admin does it and tells you when it is done. What you delete yourself is marked deleted rather than erased, as the Privacy Policy explains.

Sources

United States. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6501 (Definitions). Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. Accessed 2 November 2026. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6501.
United States. Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, 16 C.F.R. part 312, §§ 312.1 and 312.2. Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. Accessed 2 November 2026. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/part-312.
Washington State Legislature. Revised Code of Washington, 19.86.020, "Unfair competition, practices, declared unlawful", and 19.86.090, "Civil action for damages". Accessed 2 November 2026. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.020, https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.090.
Washington State Legislature. Revised Code of Washington, 62A.2-719, "Contractual modification or limitation of remedy". Accessed 2 November 2026. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=62A.2-719.
Washington State Legislature. Revised Code of Washington, 7.04A.030, "When chapter applies", and 7.04A.060, "Validity of agreement to arbitrate" (Uniform Arbitration Act). Accessed 2 November 2026. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.04A.030, https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.04A.060.
Washington Courts. General Rule 34: Waiver of Court and Clerk's Fees and Charges in Civil Matters on the Basis of Indigency, (a)(3)–(4). Adopted 28 December 2010, amended 1 January 2023. Accessed 2 November 2026. https://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/pdf/GR/GA_GR_34_00_00.pdf.
Washington Courts. "Court Directory: Spokane County." Accessed 2 November 2026. https://www.courts.wa.gov/court_dir/orgs/291.html.
Washington State Legislature. Revised Code of Washington, 4.84.185, "Prevailing party to receive expenses for opposing frivolous action or defense". Accessed 2 November 2026. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.84.185.