Plain-English guides to workflow automation, process management and open-source tools

Terms and Conditions

Terms & Conditions

What using Yawl System means

By reading yawl-system.com you accept that its articles on workflow automation, business process management and open source software are offered under these terms. They set out how you may use the pages and what you can reasonably expect from them. Questions can go to [email protected].

General information, not professional advice

These articles are explanations and the operator’s own views, not legal, compliance, financial or engineering advice. Every organisation has its own systems, data rules and risks, so test any automation in a safe environment before it touches live records, payments or customer data. Check licence terms yourself before adopting open source software in a product or a business, and make backups before changing a running workflow.

Ownership of the content

The writing, structure and original diagrams on this site belong to the operator or are used with permission. You may read it, quote a short passage with clear credit and share links to it. Republishing complete articles or using them commercially requires written permission. Open source projects mentioned here keep their own licences, which are unaffected by these terms.

Acceptable use

A site about automation tends to attract bots, so please do not scrape it aggressively, flood it with scripted requests, probe it for weaknesses or submit malicious code through any message. Do not use the site to harvest email addresses or for any unlawful purpose.

What you send us

When you send a correction, question or tool suggestion, you confirm that you are free to share it and that it does not reveal another company’s confidential information. Suggestions may shape future articles, though a reply or publication is never promised.

Ads, sponsorship and outside links

The site may in future carry advertising, sponsored material or affiliate links, and any such content would be labelled. Articles may point readers to workflow platforms, code repositories, documentation, standards bodies and vendor pages. Those destinations are outside our control, and their content, pricing and availability can change without notice.

Warranties and liability

Articles are offered in their current state, without a promise that they are complete, current or error free. To the extent the law allows, the operator is not liable for loss, downtime or data damage arising from acting on them. Rights you hold under law that cannot be waived stay intact, and so does any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Changes and severability

The operator can revise these terms or the site whenever needed, and the revised wording applies from the moment it is posted. If a court strikes out a single provision, the rest of the terms keeps working as written.

Contact

For anything about these terms, write to [email protected].