Peter Allen Mann

Terms of Use

Effective: 8/18/26

The short version

This is my personal site. You’re welcome here.

  • Read, quote, share, link, teach from it. You don’t need my permission for any of that.
  • Don’t republish whole pieces as your own, and don’t scrape the site to train AI models.
  • What I write here is my thinking, not professional advice nor legal, medical, clinical, or HR advice, and not a diagnosis of anyone.
  • If you send me an idea or a manuscript, I can’t treat it as confidential. Please read the submissions section before you send it.
  • If something goes wrong between us, email me first..

The rest is the detail.

1. Who you’re dealing with

This site, peterallenmann.com, is operated by Peter Allen Mann (“I,” “me,” “my”). By using it, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the site.

These terms cover this site only. ShieldPerception.com, my publisher’s sites, retailers, and any assessment tools hosted elsewhere have their own terms.

2. What you may do with what’s here

I write to be read. So, without asking me:

  • Quote it. Excerpts for review, commentary, criticism, teaching, scholarship, or reporting are fine, with attribution to me and a link to the source page where practical.
  • Share it. Link to any page, anywhere. Post excerpts on social platforms with attribution.
  • Teach with it. Use articles or frameworks in a classroom, workshop, or internal training session, with attribution. If you’re running a paid program built substantially on my material, get in touch. That’s usually a yes, and often a conversation worth having.

3. What you may not do

  • Republish substantial portions: a full article, chapter, or newsletter issue on another site, in a publication, or in a product, whether or not it’s attributed.
  • Present my work as yours, or strip attribution from it.
  • Sell it, or include it in a paid product, course, or compilation, without written permission.
  • Scrape, crawl, or harvest the site with automated tools beyond ordinary search-engine indexing.
  • Use any of it to train, fine-tune, or ground machine learning or AI systems. See section 4.
  • Interfere with the site: no attempts to breach security, overload the servers, inject code, or access anything not made public.
  • Misuse the contact forms for spam, bulk solicitation, harassment, or list-building.

4. Text and data mining, and AI training

I expressly reserve all rights to use of this site’s content for text and data mining, machine learning training, and the development or operation of artificial intelligence systems, including under Article 4(3) of EU Directive 2019/790 and equivalent provisions elsewhere.

No license to use this content for AI training is granted by making it publicly readable, by robots.txt configuration, or by any AI provider’s terms. If you want to license it for that purpose, email me — I’m not reflexively opposed, but it’s a conversation, not a default.

5. Ownership

Everything on this site: text, images, the design, the frameworks and terminology I’ve developed is owned by me or used with permission, and protected by copyright and trademark law.

Book titles, cover art, and excerpts from my published books appear here under arrangement with the publisher; rights in those works are held as set out in my publishing agreements. Excerpts posted here are for reading and quotation, not republication.

6. This is not professional advice

I write about how organizations perceive and mistreat people, and about how minds work differently. That’s analysis and argument. It is not:

  • Medical, psychological, or clinical advice. Nothing here diagnoses anyone or is a substitute for evaluation by a qualified professional. The SHIELD framework and any self-assessment I’ve published describe patterns of perception and information processing. They are not diagnostic instruments, they do not identify autism, ADHD, or any other condition, and they should not be used to screen, select, exclude, or make decisions about a specific individual.
  • Legal or HR advice. Employment law, accommodation obligations, and disclosure risk vary by jurisdiction and by situation. Talk to counsel before acting on anything I’ve written.
  • Financial or business advice. Case examples and outcomes are illustrative, not predictive of your results.

Acting on what you read here is your decision and your responsibility.

A specific request: please do not use my frameworks to categorize employees or job candidates. Everything I write argues against exactly that.

7. Sending me things

I read what comes in, and I’m glad when people write.

But: anything you send me through this site or by email is not confidential and creates no obligation on my part.Please assume it may be read by an assistant or publicist, and don’t send trade secrets or anything under NDA.

If you send me an idea, a story, a pitch, a manuscript, or a suggestion for something I should write:

  • You’re granting me a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use it, unless we’ve agreed otherwise in writing.
  • You’re not entitled to compensation, credit, or a share of anything I produce afterward.
  • I may already be working on something similar, or may develop something similar independently. Nothing here restricts my ability to do that.
  • You confirm the submission is yours to send and doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights or breach a confidence.

This isn’t coldness. Authors get sued over convergent ideas, and this clause is what allows me to keep reading unsolicited mail at all.

Personal stories: if you write to me about your own experience, I treat it as private correspondence. I don’t publish it, quote it, or use it in my books without your explicit written permission and if I ever ask, you’re free to say no.

8. The newsletter

Subscribing is voluntary and you can unsubscribe from any message. I may change the format, frequency, or subject matter, or stop publishing entirely. I may remove subscribers who abuse the reply channel. What’s in the newsletter is subject to these same terms.

9. Speaking, media, and other inquiries

Information about speaking, workshops, or advisory work on this site is descriptive, not an offer to contract. An engagement exists only when there’s a signed agreement or an explicit written confirmation of terms. Fees, availability, and scope are set case by case.

10. Links to other places

I link to booksellers, publishers, podcasts, research, and other sites. I don’t control them and I’m not responsible for their content, products, or privacy practices. A link isn’t an endorsement of everything on the far end of it.

11. The site is provided as-is

I keep this site accurate and available, but I can’t promise perfection. The site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. I don’t warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that any information here is complete or current. Research moves; some of what I’ve written will turn out to be wrong.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, I’m not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of this site or reliance on its content even if I’ve been advised such damages were possible.

Nothing here limits liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that can’t lawfully be limited. If you’re a consumer in the UK or EU, your statutory rights are unaffected.

13. Indemnity

If your use of this site or your breach of these terms, or your violation of someone else’s rights leads to a claim against me, you’ll cover the reasonable costs, including legal fees, of defending it.

14. Copyright complaints

If you believe something here infringes your copyright, email me with: the work you say is infringed, the URL of the material on this site, your contact details, a statement of good-faith belief that the use isn’t authorized, and a statement that your notice is accurate. I take these seriously and will remove infringing material promptly.

If your material has been removed in error, send a counter-notice to the same address.

15. Working things out

If you have a problem with something on this site, email me first. Most complaints such as a bad link, a misattributed quote, a passage you think is wrong, I can fix in an afternoon. I ask that you give me 30 days to resolve it informally before taking formal action.

If informal resolution fails, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Dutchess County, New York. If you’re a consumer in the UK or EU, you may still bring proceedings in your local courts and rely on your local mandatory consumer protections.

16. Housekeeping

  • Changes. I may update these terms; the date at the top will change. Continuing to use the site after an update means you accept the new version.
  • Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
  • No waiver. If I don’t enforce something immediately, I haven’t given up the right to enforce it later.
  • Entire agreement. These terms, plus the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us regarding this site.
  • No assignment. You can’t transfer your rights under these terms; I may transfer mine in connection with a sale or transfer of the site.

17. Accessibility

I want this site usable by everyone, and it would be a poor look if it weren’t. If any part of it doesn’t work with your assistive technology, or if these terms are hard to read, email me and tell me what’s breaking. I’ll fix what I can and get you the content another way in the meantime.