Terms of service

Last updated 19 August 2026

These terms govern your use of The Parallaxer at theparallaxer.com. By using the site or creating an account you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

1. Who we are

The Parallaxer is a publication operated by Matas Roda in Ireland. You can reach us at contact@theparallaxer.com.

2. Accounts

You may read The Parallaxer without an account. To comment or to like an article you need one, which you can create with an email address and password or by signing in with Google.

You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity that happens under your account. You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. Tell us at contact@theparallaxer.com if you believe your account has been used without your permission.

Accounts carry a role. Readers may comment and like. Editors may additionally write and publish articles. Roles are assigned by us and may be changed or removed at any time.

3. Contributors and the masthead

Anyone may submit an article. Your first and second accepted pieces run as guest articles. Once 2 of your pieces have been published you may apply for a junior editorship, which we may grant or refuse at our discretion. Senior editorships are appointed by us and cannot be applied for.

A title describes your position here. It is not a contract of employment and carries no salary, fee or guarantee of continued publication. We may withdraw a title at any time, in which case your published articles remain on the site unless you ask otherwise.

4. Comments and conduct

You agree not to post content that:

is unlawful, defamatory or harassing;
attacks a person or group on the basis of who they are;
infringes anyone else’s copyright or other rights;
is advertising, spam or automated in origin;
discloses private information about another person.

We may hide, edit or delete any comment, and suspend or close any account, at our discretion. We are under no obligation to monitor comments and a comment appearing on the site is not an endorsement of it.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you post. By posting a comment you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store and display it as part of the site. You can withdraw this by deleting your comment, though copies may persist in backups for a period.

Articles are covered separately. You keep copyright in your article, you grant us the right to publish and keep publishing it here and you may republish it elsewhere two weeks after we run it, with an acknowledgement of first publication. See the submission page.

You confirm that anything you send us is your own work, that it has not been published elsewhere and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

6. Our content

Articles, the name The Parallaxer, and the design of the site belong to us or to our contributors. You may quote briefly with attribution and a link. You may not republish whole articles or use the material to train a machine learning model, without written permission.

7. Nothing here is advice

The Parallaxer publishes analysis and opinion. Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or professional advice and you should not treat it as a basis for a decision without taking advice of your own.

8. Availability and liability

The site is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available without interruption or free of error. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the site. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud.

If you are a consumer, these terms do not affect your statutory rights under Irish or EU consumer law.

9. Changes

We may update these terms. If a change is significant we will say so on the site. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of Ireland, and the courts of Ireland have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the EU, you keep the right to bring proceedings in your own country.