Terms and Conditions
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Last updated: August 2026
Welcome to Nothing Required.
These Terms & Conditions are a contract between you and Nothing Required (referred to in these Terms & Conditions as "Nothing Required", "us", "we" or "our"), the provider of the Nothing Required website and the services accessible from the Nothing Required website (which are collectively referred to in these Terms & Conditions as the "Nothing Required Service").
You are agreeing to be bound by these Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms & Conditions, please do not use the Nothing Required Service. In these Terms & Conditions, "you" refers both to you as an individual and to the entity you represent. If you violate any of these Terms & Conditions, we reserve the right to cancel your account or block access to your account without notice.
Your Consent
We've updated our Terms & Conditions to provide you with complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it's being used. By using our website, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Terms & Conditions.
Our Offerings
Nothing Required provides contemplative audio experiences, written materials, shared spaces, and live online gatherings.
Our offerings are intended to provide space for reflection, contemplation, rest, and personal exploration.
Nothing Required does not promise or guarantee any particular emotional, physical, psychological, professional, or personal outcome.
Your experience will be your own.
The Pause
The Pause provides access to contemplative audio recordings and related materials.
Your purchase provides you with personal access to the offering for your own personal use.
You may listen to the recordings and use accompanying materials for your own personal purposes.
You may not share your account or access credentials with another person.
The Room
The Room is a shared online gathering offered at specific times and dates.
Your purchase provides you with a place in the specific Room experience you purchased.
The Zoom link and other participation information are intended for you only and should not be shared publicly or redistributed.
You are welcome to attend in whatever way feels appropriate to you. Participation in conversation, cameras, microphones, or other activities is not required unless specifically stated otherwise for a particular gathering.
Nothing Required reserves the right to change a gathering's date, time, format, or other details when reasonably necessary.
Cancellations and Refunds
All purchases are final.
Because The Pause provides immediate access to digital content and The Room reserves a place in a limited gathering, purchases are non-refundable.
For The Room, if are unable to attend one or more gatherings after purchasing, your purchase remains non-refundable. The Room is a shared experience offered on specific dates, and your purchase reserves your place within that experience.
Please take a moment to make sure the offering is right for you before purchasing.
If you have a question about an offering before you purchase, you're welcome to contact me at hello@nothingrequired.space.
Payments
Prices for our offerings are a one-time exchange and are displayed on the website at the time of purchase.
By submitting a purchase, you agree to pay the stated price using an available payment method.
Payments are processed through Stripe. Access their privacy policy here Privacy Policy.
Restrictions
You agree not to, and you will not permit others to:
License, sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute, transmit, host, outsource, disclose or otherwise commercially exploit the website or make the platform available to any third party.
Modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, decrypt, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the website.
Remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) of Nothing Required or its affiliates, partners, suppliers or the licensors of the website.
Intellectual Property
The website and its entire contents, features and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the design, selection and arrangement thereof), are owned by Nothing Required, its licensors or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. The material may not be copied, modified, reproduced, downloaded or distributed in any way, in whole or in part, without the express prior written permission of Nothing Required, unless and except as is expressly provided in these Terms & Conditions. Any unauthorized use of the material is prohibited.
All content provided through Nothing Required—including but not limited to audio recordings, written materials, journal materials, website copy, graphics, photographs, names, concepts, and other original creative work—is owned by or licensed to Nothing Required and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
Your purchase gives you permission to access, and use purchased materials for your own personal, non-commercial use.
You may not, without prior written permission:
Copy or reproduce the recordings or written materials
Download, redistribute, or publicly share materials except where expressly provided for personal use
Sell, sublicense, or otherwise commercially distribute any materials
Share your account or access credentials
Share the Zoom link for The Room with anyone who has not purchased a spot in the gathering.
Upload recordings or materials to another website, platform, file-sharing service, artificial-intelligence system, or other public or private repository
Use the materials to create or develop a competing product, program, course, or service
Present our original materials as your own work
If you would like permission to use any Nothing Required material beyond personal use, please contact us at hello@nothingrequired.space
Website Use
You agree to use this website lawfully and respectfully.
You may not use the website or its content in a way that:
Violates applicable law
Attempts to gain unauthorized access to accounts or systems
Interferes with the operation or security of the website
Copies or exploits our content without permission
Harms or impersonates another person
Submissions and Privacy
In the event that you submit or post any ideas, creative suggestions, designs, photographs, information, advertisements, data or proposals, including ideas for new or improved products, services, features, technologies or promotions, you expressly agree that such submissions will automatically be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and will become the sole property of Nothing Required without any compensation or credit to you whatsoever. Nothing Required and its affiliates shall have no obligations with respect to such submissions or posts and may use the ideas contained in such submissions or posts for any purposes in any medium in perpetuity, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products and services using such ideas.
Not Medical or Mental Health Treatment
Nothing Required provides audio recordings, written material, and silent gatherings intended for reflective and educational purposes.
Nothing Required does not provide individualized medical or mental-health advice. These offerings are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical or psychological condition and is not a substitute for professional medical, mental health, or therapeutic care.
Participation in The Pause and The Room is entirely voluntary. Each participant is responsible for their own experience and wellbeing while engaging with these materials and during any live gatherings.
If you have a medical or mental-health concern, or if you are experiencing an emergency, please seek appropriate care from a qualified professional or emergency service.
You are responsible for determining whether participation in any offering is appropriate for you.
By accessing this site and participating in these offerings, you acknowledge and accept these terms.
Your Personal Responsibility
Nothing Required offers invitations and experiences for contemplation and personal exploration.
You remain responsible for your own choices, participation, and well-being.
You may pause, stop, or discontinue an experience at any time.
Disclaimer
Our offerings are provided for contemplative and informational purposes.
We make no guarantee regarding any particular result or outcome from using our website or participating in our offerings.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Nothing Required and Amanda (Mandy) Forsgren are not responsible for losses or damages arising from your use of the website or participation in an offering, except where such liability cannot legally be excluded or limited.
No Warranties
The website is provided to you "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, Nothing Required, on its own behalf and on behalf of its affiliates and its and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the website, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, Nothing Required provides no warranty or undertaking and makes no representation of any kind that the website will meet your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.
Without limiting the foregoing, neither Nothing Required nor any Nothing Required's provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability of the website, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the website will be uninterrupted or error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the website; or (iv) that the website, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of Nothing Required are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of or limitations on implied warranties or the limitations on the applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to you.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Nothing Required and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, partners and licensors (if any) harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, due to or arising out of your: (a) use of the website; (b) violation of this Agreement or any law or regulation; or (c) violation of any right of a third party.
Changes to These Terms
We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Copyright Infringement Notice
If you are a copyright owner or such owner’s agent and believe any material on our website constitutes an infringement on your copyright, please contact us setting forth the following information: (a) a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on his behalf; (b) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing; (c) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and an email; (d) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owners; and (e) the a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
Agreement to Arbitrate
This section applies to any dispute EXCEPT IT DOESN’T INCLUDE A DISPUTE RELATING TO CLAIMS FOR INJUNCTIVE OR EQUITABLE RELIEF REGARDING THE ENFORCEMENT OR VALIDITY OF YOUR OR Nothing Required."’s" INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. The term “dispute” means any dispute, action, or other controversy between you and Nothing Required concerning the Services or this agreement, whether in contract, warranty, tort, statute, regulation, ordinance, or any other legal or equitable basis. “Dispute” will be given the broadest possible meaning allowable under law.
Notice of Dispute
In the event of a dispute, you or Nothing Required must give the other a Notice of Dispute, which is a written statement that sets forth the name, address, and contact information of the party giving it, the facts giving rise to the dispute, and the relief requested. You must send any Notice of Dispute via email to: hello@nothingrequired.space. Nothing Required will send any Notice of Dispute to you by mail to your address if we have it, or otherwise to your email address. You and Nothing Required will attempt to resolve any dispute through informal negotiation within sixty (60) days from the date the Notice of Dispute is sent. After sixty (60) days, you or Nothing Required may commence arbitration.
Binding Arbitration
If you and Nothing Required don’t resolve any dispute by informal negotiation, any other effort to resolve the dispute will be conducted exclusively by binding arbitration as described in this section. You are giving up the right to litigate (or participate in as a party or class member) all disputes in court before a judge or jury. The dispute shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Either party may seek any interim or preliminary injunctive relief from any court of competent jurisdiction, as necessary to protect the party’s rights or property pending the completion of arbitration. Any and all legal, accounting, and other costs, fees, and expenses incurred by the prevailing party shall be borne by the non-prevailing party.
Contact
If you have questions about these Terms, please contact: