If you use this website, you agree to follow these terms and conditions. If you don’t like them, you are free to visit other websites that offer similar things.

Please also read my Privacy Policy.

The Blue Bottle Tree Insiders

If you are purchasing a subscription to The Blue Bottle Tree Insiders, Insiders has its own Terms and Conditions, which apply in addition to these.

Who I Am

The Blue Bottle Tree is a trading name (a “DBA”) of Davis-Allman, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company. Wherever these terms say “I,” “me,” “The Blue Bottle Tree,” or “we,” they mean Davis-Allman, LLC.

The postal mailing address is

Davis-Allman, LLC 610-A E. Battlefield #102 Springfield, MO 65807

Some Definitions

This Site (also this website, our site, or our sites) means any web presence managed under The Blue Bottle Tree brand. This includes, but is not limited to, the following.

• thebluebottletree.com
• bluebottletree.com
• bluebottleinsiders.com
• clay.tips
• community.thebluebottletree.com
• learn.thebluebottletree.com
• gingerdavisallman.com

Safety Disclaimer

The Blue Bottle Tree provides information, advice, commentary, tutorials, and links about polymer clay, arts and crafts, and living a creative life. Craft and hobby activities carry potential hazards, including a risk of injury or death. Each person who takes part in them needs to understand the risks involved, get the necessary equipment, and take the needed precautions.

By using This Site, you recognize this, you assume all risks of property damage, personal injury, and death, and you agree to hold Davis-Allman, LLC harmless from any liability that results from your use of the information on This Site.

In plain English, you are responsible for your own safety.

Copyright

Except where explicitly stated otherwise, This Site and its content, including text and images, is Copyright © 2012 to present, Davis-Allman, LLC. All rights reserved.

General Terms of Use

You may use the content of This Site online for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may download or print a single copy of any portion of This Site for your own personal, non-commercial use, as long as you don’t remove any trademark, copyright, or other notice or identifying text or images.

Except where these terms say otherwise, you may not republish content from This Site on any website, intranet, or other online or offline publication, and you may not put it into any database, compilation, archive, cache, or similar collection. You may not distribute copies of my text or images to others, whether or not you are paid for it. You may not archive, modify, copy, frame, cache, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, or display any portion of This Site except as these terms allow.

Fair Use Guide

You may share short excerpts from This Site as long as you follow these rules.

• Attribution and link. Any excerpt or image taken from This Site must include a link back to the original post and a clear, human-readable credit saying it came from thebluebottletree.com.
• Limited republishing. You may not copy an entire post or page.
• Non-commercial use. You may not use my content for commercial gain without my permission.
• RSS feed. You may not republish my RSS feed in full on any site without my permission.

Scraping, Copying, and AI

You may not copy, scrape, crawl, download, or reproduce content from This Site for any commercial purpose without my written permission.

AI training is not permitted. You may not use any content from This Site to train, fine-tune, or develop artificial intelligence or machine learning models, or to build datasets for that purpose. This applies whether or not the content is reproduced, restyled, or credited to The Blue Bottle Tree, Ginger Davis Allman, or Davis-Allman, LLC.

AI search and answers are welcome, with credit. Search engines and AI search or answer tools may access This Site to answer a person’s question, and may quote short excerpts, as long as they credit The Blue Bottle Tree and link to the original page.

These restrictions also do not apply to

• search engines such as Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo,
• non-commercial internet archiving done for posterity, such as the Internet Archive, or
• tools that I or my authorized helpers use for site monitoring, security, and compliance checks.

In plain English, if you want to use my content in a way these terms don’t cover, please contact me first. Search engines and AI tools that send people back to me with credit are welcome. Training AI on my work is not.

Translations

This website is written in English. If you would like to republish my material in another language, please contact me. I may grant permission and a license case by case, with these conditions.

• The material must be translated by a person who speaks the second language. I will not permit republication of a machine translation.
• The translation must open with a clear explanation that the article was written by Ginger Davis Allman and is a republication from The Blue Bottle Tree. You may also credit the translator.
• My logo must appear near the beginning of the translated article and link to this website. I will provide a suitable logo with the license.
• All photos used in the article must link back to the original article on this website.
• My name and website address must appear again at the end of the translated article.
• I may revoke permission at any time.

Purchased Tutorials, Guides, and eBooks

Your license. When you buy a tutorial, guide, or eBook, you get a personal license to use it yourself. You may not share, resell, upload, or distribute the files, or any part of them, to anyone else. Please don’t send copies to friends or post them in groups. Each person who wants to use a tutorial needs their own copy.

Selling what you make. You are welcome to sell pieces that you make by hand using what you learned in my tutorials. Please keep it at a handmade, small-business scale. You may not mass-produce designs from my tutorials or have them manufactured by others.

Checkout. Tutorial purchases are processed by Payhip, which acts as the seller of record and handles payment and sales tax or VAT. Payhip’s own terms also apply to your purchase.

Refunds. Because digital files can’t be returned once they’ve been downloaded, all sales are final, except where the law gives you a right to withdraw. If you can’t download your file or you were charged twice, I’ll make it right. Just contact me with your order details. If you live in the EU or UK, you may have a legal right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days. To use it, please submit my withdrawal form within 14 days of your purchase.

Downloading your purchase. Each purchase made through Payhip can be downloaded up to 10 times using the link you receive by email. You’ll have access to your download link for one year from the date of purchase. After that, the link may stop working, and I may not be able to send the files again. Please save your PDF to your computer, cloud storage, or device as soon as you buy it. Once you’ve saved it, it’s yours to keep.

Earlier purchases. If you bought a tutorial from me before January 1, 2026, those older download pages are no longer online. Send me your order number through this form and I’ll send you the most recent version of the PDF for that tutorial. This offer stands for as long as This Site exists.

In plain English, what you buy is for you. Make things, sell your handmade work, just don’t share the files. Save your download right away. If you bought from me before, send me your order number and I’ll get you the current version.

Age Requirements

This Site is not intended for children under 13. You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, to make a purchase or post a comment. Teens between 13 and 18 may browse This Site with a parent or guardian’s involvement.

Third-Party Content on This Site

I work to make sure any third-party content on This Site is correctly credited and used within the owner’s terms. If I’ve gotten an attribution wrong or used something I shouldn’t have, please let me know right away through my contact page.

Copyright Complaints

If you believe something on This Site infringes your copyright, please send me a notice through my contact page. Include a description of the work, the page where the material appears, and your contact information. I’ll review it and remove the material if appropriate.

Trademark Information

All brands and product names belong to their respective owners. Any use of trademarked names, logos, or brands on This Site is informational only and is not an endorsement of that brand or company.

Affiliate Disclosure

Some links on this website are affiliate links. If you click one and make a purchase, The Blue Bottle Tree may earn a commission. This doesn’t change the price you pay.

If you’ve bought something through one of my affiliate links, thank you. You’re helping support my work at no extra cost to you.

I only use affiliate links when I have reasonable grounds, from my own research or experience, to believe a product may be useful to visitors. You should still make your own assessment of any product or service. I always disclose affiliate links on the same page where they appear, either next to the link itself or in a disclosure covering the whole post or page.

The Blue Bottle Tree is a member of the Amazon Associates program. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Advertising and Sponsorship

I don’t accept paid sponsorships, paid reviews, or paid topic placements. I do earn affiliate commissions as described above, and I sometimes accept free products, event tickets, travel, or similar compensation from companies. When I write about something I received this way, I’ll say so on that page. None of this decides what I write about or what I say.

The views and opinions on this website are my own. Please check any product claim, statistic, or other representation about a product or service with its maker or provider.

In plain English, nobody pays me for my opinions. When there’s a connection that might matter to you, I’ll tell you.

Reviews and Gifted Products

Manufacturers and suppliers sometimes send me products free of charge, for review or simply as a gift. Accepting them doesn’t obligate me to do anything. I may or may not review a product. I might use it in examples for other articles instead, such as using a gifted flower cane to demonstrate a cane slicer I’m reviewing.

Whenever I use or feature a product I was given, I will disclose that and name the company that provided it, usually with a link.

When I review a product, I’m reviewing the product, not the company that supplied it. To help readers who want to buy it, I may list several places it can be purchased, which can include the supplier’s competitors. Any company that provided the product will get clear, prominent credit and a link.

I don’t accept products with conditions attached. I won’t write anything I believe to be untrue. Everything I write about a product is my honest opinion and actual experience, to the best of my ability.

In plain English, if you send me something, I’ll write about it honestly or not at all. I will not lie about it, and I’ll always say where it came from.

Comments and Submissions

I welcome your comments and feedback. If you join the conversation, here are a few things to keep in mind.

If your comment includes a question, I’ll reply as soon as I can. I have a family and a full, busy life. I may not know the answer, but I may be able to point you toward someone who does. Sometimes time limits how much detail I can give, or I may save the topic for a future article.

Disrespectful and hostile comments are not acceptable. Period. Disagreement and different viewpoints are fine. Life would be boring if we all thought the same way. Feel free to discuss and disagree, but be respectful. This is a no-troll zone.

Please speak only for yourself. Don’t tell me what other commenters are thinking. Let them tell us themselves.

I may edit submissions for length or clarity, and I may remove any comment or submission that is spammy, abusive, illegal, or against these terms, without notice.

When you send me something. You keep ownership of any comments, photos, feedback, or other material you submit to This Site or send to me. By submitting it, you give Davis-Allman, LLC a free, worldwide, permanent license to use, reproduce, edit, and share it in connection with The Blue Bottle Tree, without needing to contact you first. Please don’t send me anything you’d want kept confidential.

In plain English, be nice. And if you share something with me, I can use it without having to track you down for permission later.

Links to Third-Party Sites

This Site links to websites controlled by other people, who may or may not be as nice as I am. I’m not responsible for those sites, and a link doesn’t mean I endorse them.

Warranties and Limitation of Liability

The information on This Site may be out of date or may contain omissions, inaccuracies, or other errors.

Except where a separate agreement between you and Davis-Allman, LLC says otherwise, all information on or through This Site is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind. Davis-Allman, LLC disclaims all warranties about this information, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, and fitness for a particular purpose.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Davis-Allman, LLC is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or use, suffered by you or anyone else, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, arising from your access to, use of, or reliance on This Site. If Davis-Allman, LLC is found liable for anything, its total liability is limited to the amount you paid me, if any, in the twelve months before the claim.

I may change, update, or correct information on This Site at any time without notice.

In plain English, the information and guidance I give could be wrong, might not fit your situation, or could be out of date. Take responsibility for your own choices. When in doubt, check the facts for yourself.

Email Policy

I don’t like spam, and I won’t send you unsolicited bulk email. Customers may occasionally get a specific email about something they bought, such as a tutorial update.

My email practices are simple.

• I only send email I hope will be valuable to you.
• I keep the number of mailings reasonable.
• I only add people to my lists through voluntary opt-in, from sign-up forms on my website, social media, or my email service, from the sign-up box at checkout, or when someone asks to be added.
• I don’t sell, rent, or share my mailing lists with anyone. My email service providers store and send mail on my behalf and may not use my lists for anything else.
• Every bulk mailing includes an unsubscribe link. Personal emails from me and transactional emails about a purchase don’t.

I keep separate lists for newsletter subscribers, customers, and Insiders members. If you think you’ve been added to the wrong list or are getting duplicate emails, please contact me.

In plain English, I will not spam you. If you’re getting my emails, at some point you signed up for them.

Changes to These Terms

I may update these terms from time to time. When I do, I’ll change the “last updated” date at the top of this page. Using This Site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, USA. Any dispute arising from these terms or your use of This Site will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Greene County, Missouri.

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

Questions?

Please contact me using the General Inquiries Form.

And Finally

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