Last updated: 6 November 2026

About these Terms

These Terms govern your use of parazettel.com, the PARAZETTEL Platform at learn.parazettel.com, and the digital content, courses, live sessions and any community access provided by Theo Stowell trading as PARAZETTEL (“we”, “us” or “our”) in connection with purchases through the site. Contact us at [email protected], or [email protected] for help with an order. These Terms apply in addition to our Privacy Policy.

They cover the products offered on this site, including:

  • the Minimal Note-Taking book;
  • PARAZETTEL Foundations, a single payment for the ten-day Foundations program;
  • PARAZETTEL Premium, a subscription (currently billed every three months) that includes the Foundations program, the courses on the PARAZETTEL Platform, live sessions and their recordings; and
  • the earlier PARAZETTEL Foundations + Community and Lifetime plans, which continue for members who joined on them;

along with any bonus stated on the product page or at checkout. They do not replace the terms of a third-party service you use with our products, such as Stripe, Kit or Google Meet.

Orders, price and payment

The product description, price, currency, payment frequency, any free period and any applicable tax are shown before you place an order and confirmed during Stripe Checkout. Prices are shown in US dollars unless stated otherwise; your bank may apply its own conversion fees. By placing an order, you confirm that the information you provide is accurate and that you are authorised to use the payment method.

Checkout uses Stripe Managed Payments. For transactions using that service, Stripe, through Onelink, acts as merchant of record and handles the transaction, receipts, recurring billing, applicable indirect taxes and transaction support under its terms. We create and deliver the digital content, run the Platform and any community space, and provide product support. Check the seller and payment information shown during checkout for your particular order.

We may correct obvious pricing or product-description errors before accepting an order. If we cannot fulfil an accepted order, we will tell you and refund any amount paid for the unavailable part.

Discount codes, launch prices and limited-time options

Discount codes apply only to the products, prices and dates stated with the code, one code per order. They have no cash value, cannot be applied retrospectively and may be withdrawn for future orders at any time. Discount codes cannot be used on PARAZETTEL Premium. A launch or promotional price applies only to orders placed while it is shown; it does not change what you have already paid, and a later promotion does not entitle you to a partial refund.

Some purchase options, such as buying Foundations as a single payment, may be offered only for a limited period shown on the page. Once that period ends, the option may no longer be available. This does not affect anything you have already bought.

Delivery and access

Unless the relevant product page or checkout says otherwise, digital content is provided electronically. We need your current email address to provide access and help with your order.

  • The Minimal Note-Taking book is delivered by a separate email from Theo @ PARAZETTEL containing PDF and ePub download links after payment is confirmed. Your Stripe receipt is sent separately.
  • Foundations, Premium and the courses are hosted on the PARAZETTEL Platform at learn.parazettel.com. After payment is confirmed, sign in there with the email address used at checkout; we email you a sign-in link, so there is no password to set. Some material is released on a schedule (for example, one Foundations lesson per day), rather than all at once, unless the product page says otherwise.
  • Live sessions run on Google Meet. Recordings are added to the Platform afterwards, and your use of Google Meet is also subject to Google’s terms and privacy policy.

Keep your login, download links and access credentials secure. Access is personal to you. You may not share your account, or share, resell, redistribute, sublicense or make the paid content publicly available without our written permission.

PARAZETTEL Foundations (single payment)

Foundations bought as a single payment has no further charges. You keep access to the Foundations program on the PARAZETTEL Platform for as long as we provide the program, not the lifetime of the purchaser, including the improvements we make to it. It does not include the other courses, live sessions, bonuses or community access that come with Premium.

PARAZETTEL Premium membership

What’s included. Premium is a subscription to the Foundations program, the courses on the PARAZETTEL Platform, the live sessions and their recordings, and any other material or bonus described on the product page, while your membership is active.

When material unlocks. On a quarterly plan, everything included in Premium is available from the day you join. On a monthly plan, where one is offered, some material, such as live-session recordings and resources, unlocks over time while your membership continues.

Price and billing. Premium is currently $117 every three months (shown as $39 a month), as shown on the product page and at checkout. Any other plan or billing period is shown with its price at checkout. There is no enrolment fee. Your first payment is taken when you join and again on each renewal date until you cancel.

Your rate. We will not increase the price of your Premium membership while it continues without a break. If you cancel and later rejoin, the price available at that time applies.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time by using the subscription-management link in your Stripe or Link emails, or by emailing [email protected]. Cancellation stops future payments. You keep access until the end of the month or quarter you have already paid for. We do not refund part-periods, except where the law or the guarantee below says otherwise.

Foundations + Community membership (earlier plan)

This section applies if you joined on the earlier Foundations + Community plan.

Enrolment fee. When you join, you pay a one-off enrolment fee for the Foundations program. Once enrolled, you keep access to the Foundations program lessons for as long as we provide the program, even if your Community membership ends.

Free period, then monthly billing. The membership includes a free period of Community access (currently 30 days, as shown at checkout). Unless you cancel before the free period ends, your membership then continues automatically and you are charged the monthly price shown at checkout (currently $14 per month) on each monthly renewal date until you cancel.

Your rate. We will not increase the monthly price of your membership while it continues without a break. If you cancel and later rejoin, the price available at that time applies.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time by using the subscription-management link in your Stripe or Link emails, or by emailing [email protected]. Cancellation stops future monthly payments. If you cancel during the free period, you will not be charged the monthly price at all. Your Community access ends when the free period, or the month you have already paid for, runs out. We do not refund part-months, except where the law or our refund policy below says otherwise. Bonuses that unlock on a schedule are available only while your membership is active, unless they have already been delivered to you as a download.

Existing members. If you joined before Premium launched, the price and access you signed up for continue unchanged.

Lifetime membership

If you bought the Lifetime option, it is a single payment with no further charges for Foundations or the PARAZETTEL Platform. “Lifetime” means for as long as we operate the Platform and its courses, not the lifetime of the purchaser. It includes the material available when you join and any resources we add later.

If we ever decide to close the Platform permanently, we will give Lifetime members at least 60 days’ notice by email and, where practical, a way to keep a copy of the core course material for personal use. This does not limit any statutory rights you may have.

Cancellation and refunds

Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights. For digital content and services supplied immediately, Stripe Checkout may ask for your express consent to immediate supply and acknowledgement that you lose the usual cancellation right once supply begins. If it does not, your statutory cancellation rights continue to apply.

On top of your statutory rights, we offer the following money-back guarantees for purchases made through this site. They apply even after the content has been delivered or you have started the program:

  • The Minimal Note-Taking book: request a refund within two months of purchase.
  • PARAZETTEL Foundations (single payment): request a refund within 14 days of purchase and we will refund it in full, no questions asked.
  • PARAZETTEL Premium: request a refund within 14 days of joining and we will refund your first payment in full, no questions asked. Later payments are not covered by this guarantee, but you can cancel at any time to stop them.
  • Foundations + Community (earlier plan): request a refund within 14 days of enrolment and we will refund the enrolment fee in full, no questions asked. Monthly Community payments are not covered by this guarantee, but you can cancel at any time to stop them.
  • Lifetime: request a refund within 14 days of purchase and we will refund it in full, no questions asked.

To ask for a refund, email [email protected] or [email protected] from the email address you used at checkout. We will arrange the refund through the payment provider. When a Foundations, Premium or Lifetime refund is processed, your access to the program, Platform, Community and any bonuses ends, and any related subscription is cancelled.

Purchases made through a third-party platform are subject to that platform’s purchase terms and any separate refund policy shown there. If digital content or a service is faulty, not as described or not supplied with reasonable care and skill where applicable, you may have additional statutory remedies.

Community conduct

Where you have access to the PARAZETTEL Community or another community space, it is a place to learn and share work. Please be respectful, keep discussion relevant, and do not post spam, unsolicited promotion, unlawful or infringing material, or other members’ personal information. You are responsible for what you post, and you keep ownership of it, but you give us permission to display it within that community space.

We may remove posts that break these rules. If you seriously or repeatedly break them, we may suspend or remove your access. If we remove you for reasons other than your serious breach, we will refund any amount you have paid for access you will no longer receive.

Acceptable use and intellectual property

All site and product content, including text, video, templates, designs, course material and branding, belongs to us or our licensors. We grant you a personal, non-transferable licence to use purchased digital content for your own use, including adapting templates and vault files for your own notes. You may not copy, adapt for distribution, sell, sublicense or exploit it commercially without our prior written permission.

You must not misuse the site, interfere with its operation, attempt unauthorised access, or use the content in a way that infringes another person’s rights or breaks the law.

Educational content

Our courses, books, templates and community discussions are educational. They reflect our own methods and experience, and we cannot guarantee any particular result, since outcomes depend on how you apply them. Third-party apps mentioned in our material, such as Obsidian, are provided by others under their own terms.

Availability and changes

We aim to keep the site, the Platform, digital content and any community space available and accurate, but they may occasionally be unavailable or contain errors, including where a third-party service such as Stripe, Kit, Google Meet or our hosting provider is unavailable. We may update or improve content, provided that any material change does not reduce a paid product below what was agreed at purchase without an appropriate remedy.

Liability

We are responsible for loss or damage that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for losses that are not foreseeable, for losses caused by your misuse of the content, or for business losses where you buy as a consumer.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your statutory consumer rights.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for future use of the site or future purchases. The version that applied when you placed an order will continue to apply to that order, unless a change is required by law or is clearly in your favour. If we need to make a change that affects an ongoing membership, we will tell you by email in advance, and you can cancel before the change takes effect.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you may also have mandatory rights under the law of the country where you live. The courts of England and Wales will have jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer law provides otherwise.