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Terms of Service

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Effective date: August 20, 2026


Agreement

These terms are the agreement between you and Piasa Studios LLC for your use of this website. Using this website means you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use this website.

Acceptable Use

Use this website lawfully. Specifically, do not:

  • Break the law with it
  • Try to break into it, or into anything connected to it
  • Send malicious code, spam, or bulk unsolicited messages through it
  • Copy, resell, or redistribute its content without our written permission
  • Scrape it with automated tools, except as our robots.txt allows
  • Use its content to train an AI model, or to build a dataset for training one, without our written permission

We can restrict or end your access to this website if you do any of that.

Accounts

Your Account

Some features require an account.

  • You must be at least 13 to create an account
  • You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure, and for activity under your account
  • Give us accurate information, and keep it current
  • You may close your account at any time
  • We may suspend or close an account that is being used to break these terms or the law

Subscriptions and Billing

Subscriptions, Renewal, and Cancellation

Paid subscriptions are billed through Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.

  • You must be 18 or older to start a paid subscription
  • Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price shown when you subscribed, until you cancel
  • You can cancel at any time from your account settings. Cancellation stops the next renewal
  • When you cancel, you keep access through the end of the period you already paid for
  • We will tell you before your price changes, and you can cancel before the new price takes effect
  • Payments already made are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise, or where we decide otherwise in a given case
  • If a payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend paid features until it clears
  • If we discontinue a paid feature or stop the service, we will refund the part of your current period you have paid for and not used
  • If we end your access for breaking these terms or the law, the rest of your paid period is not refunded
  • If you close your account, any paid subscription ends and the rest of the period is not refunded. If you want to keep access until the period ends, cancel instead of closing

Intellectual Property

The text, images, layout, and design on this website belong to Piasa Studios LLC or to whoever supplied them, and are protected by copyright and trademark law. You may read and use this website personally. You may not republish, redistribute, or build on its content without our written permission.

Third-Party Content and Links

This website links to other websites we do not control. We are not responsible for their content, their accuracy, or how they handle your data. Visiting them is your own risk.

Advertising

Some content on this website is paid advertising. We label it as such.

  • Advertisers are responsible for their own claims, offers, and pricing
  • An ad appearing here is not an endorsement by us
  • We measure ad views and clicks, but we do not build advertising profiles about you or sell your personal information

Disclaimer of Warranties

This website and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", with no warranty of any kind. In particular, we do not warrant that:

  • This website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free
  • The content is accurate, complete, or current
  • This website is fit for any particular purpose you have in mind

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Piasa Studios LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of this website, from anything you obtained through it, or from unauthorized access to your data. Our total liability for any claim is capped at what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $100 if you paid us nothing.

Indemnification

If someone brings a claim against Piasa Studios LLC because of how you used this website, because you broke these terms, or because you violated someone else's rights, you agree to cover the resulting costs, including reasonable legal fees.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from them will be brought in the state or federal courts serving Madison County, Illinois.

Severability

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

Transfers

We may transfer these terms to another company if this business is sold, merged or reorganized, including a change in the kind of company it is. You may not transfer your account or subscription to anyone else, or pass on any rate, price or benefit attached to them.

Changes to These Terms

We can change these terms. When we do, we post the new version here with a new effective date. Continuing to use this website after that means you accept the change.

Contact Us

Questions about these terms?

Piasa Studios LLC
Alton, IL
commons@piasastudios.com


Additional Terms — Features

The terms below come with particular features of this website. They combine with the general terms above: where a point disagrees, the one here governs, and everything else above stays in effect.

Services

Menu and Pricing

Menus are published for information, not as an offer:

  • Items, descriptions, and prices can change without notice
  • Photographs and descriptions are representative; the actual item may differ
  • No item is guaranteed to be available at a given time
  • Prices shown here may differ from prices charged at the business

If you have a food allergy or dietary restriction, contact the business directly. Do not rely on this website for that.

News and Articles

Articles are drawn from public sources, alongside original reporting:

  • Articles are attributed and linked to the original source wherever one exists
  • What a source publishes is not controlled here, and its accuracy is not guaranteed
  • Reporting can be wrong, incomplete, or overtaken by events; treat time-sensitive information accordingly
  • Nothing here is legal, financial, medical, or professional advice

Something look wrong, or published when it should not have been? Report it through the contact information in these terms, and it will be reviewed.


Additional Terms — Piasa Commons

The terms below are Piasa Commons's own. They combine with everything above: where a point disagrees, the one here governs, and everything else above stays in effect.

Services

The Business Directory

The directory is our own compilation of local businesses, assembled from public information and from what businesses tell us. What appears in it is our editorial decision.

  • A business may be listed here without having asked to be, and without any relationship to us
  • A listing is not an endorsement, a recommendation, or a guarantee of anything
  • Details go stale. Hours, phone numbers, and whether a place is still open can be wrong
  • Call ahead. Do not rely on this website for whether a business is open
  • If something in a listing is wrong, tell us and we will look at it
  • If a listing shows a home address or a personal phone number, tell us and we will take it down

River and Weather Conditions

The conditions we show — river stage, forecasts, and weather alerts — are relayed from government sources: the National Weather Service, NOAA's National Water Prediction Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey. We pass their data through. We do not produce it, correct it, or guarantee that what you see is current.

Do not use this website to make a safety decision. For flooding, severe weather, or river conditions, go to the official source or to local emergency services.