Terms of Use

These Terms of Use are a contract between Loreto Media LLC, doing business as Apologia Catholic (“Loreto”), and you. They govern your access to and use of the Apologia Catholic website at www.apologiacatholic.com and its articles, search, source materials, contact form, and related features (together, the “Site”). “We,” “us,” and “our” mean Loreto. By using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

The Site is currently free. It does not offer subscriptions or process payments. Do not submit payment-card information through the Site.

1. Eligibility

The Site is not directed to children under 13. You may browse public pages with a parent or guardian’s guidance, but you must be at least 13 to submit information, use an admin feature, or use the contact or access-request form. You must also have the legal capacity to enter a contract, or have an authorized parent, guardian, or organization do so for you. If applicable law sets a higher age, that law controls.

2. Educational reference

The Site provides Catholic apologetics and educational reference material. It is not an official publication of the Holy See, a diocese, a parish, or any other Catholic authority, and the Site does not itself grant or represent an imprimatur or canonical approval. It is not a substitute for pastoral care, a priest’s counsel, formal theological instruction, or the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.

3. No professional advice

Nothing on the Site is legal, medical, financial, psychological, or other professional advice. Do not rely on the Site for a decision that requires professional judgment. For matters of conscience, doctrine, or personal circumstances, consult a priest, spiritual director, or qualified professional.

4. Content and sources

We aim to present clear answers and identify the sources behind them. Content may still contain errors, omissions, disputed interpretations, broken links, or material that has become outdated. We may correct, change, remove, or reorganize content at any time. We do not promise that every page is complete, current, or free from error.

Scripture, the Catechism, quotations, images, and other third-party material remain subject to the rights of their respective owners. A citation or link does not transfer those rights to you.

5. Limited permission and intellectual property

Subject to these Terms and applicable copyright law, we give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to access, read, print, link to, and quote reasonable excerpts from the Site for personal, non-commercial educational use. When you quote or share material, keep the attribution and link to the original page.

Loreto or its licensors own the Site’s original text, software, design, branding, and graphics. You may not copy, republish, sell, publicly display substantial portions, create a competing dataset or service, scrape the Site, or use scripts to harvest its content without our prior written permission. This permission ends automatically if you breach these Terms.

Third-party text, Scripture, quotations, and images are not licensed by Loreto. Their source page and stated license control, including attribution, share-alike, and other conditions. A public-domain status may differ by country. Do not assume that a link or citation gives you permission to reuse third-party material.

6. Acceptable use

You may not:

• Use the Site for an unlawful purpose or in violation of another person’s rights;
• Probe, scan, attack, disrupt, reverse engineer, or bypass access or security controls;
• Upload malware, spam, or content that you do not have the right to share;
• Impersonate another person or claim that the Site speaks for a Catholic authority;
• Abuse the contact form, admin access, invitations, or any other Site feature; or
• Use scripts or automated requests to evade rate limits or collect personal information.

We do not promise to review every submission or monitor all use of the Site. We may remove or restrict material, suspend or revoke admin access, preserve records, or refer conduct to law enforcement when reasonably needed to protect the Site, a person, or our legal rights.

7. Admin access and submissions

Public reading does not require an account. Administrative features are private and are available only to people we authorize. Admin sign-in uses Google and Firebase. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in session and invitation link private, using only your own account, and promptly telling us if you suspect unauthorized access. We may suspend or revoke admin access when needed for security, misuse, legal compliance, or other legitimate operational reasons.

You keep the rights you already have in material you submit. For contact messages and access requests, Loreto may use the information only to receive, route, answer, secure, and keep records of the request. We will not publish those submissions. For editorial material submitted by an authorized editor, you grant Loreto a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, edit, transmit, display, publish, back up, and otherwise use the material as needed to operate, secure, maintain, and support the Site. That license continues while the material is needed for the Site and for legal, security, backup, or dispute records.

The contact form is not a confidential communications channel. Authorized team members and service providers may handle a contact message to route it, respond to it, secure the Site, and keep required records.

If you receive admin access or submit editorial material for the Site, you represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to provide it and that the material is accurate enough for its intended use. Uploaded files may contain metadata that remains in the file. Do not submit passwords, payment-card data, health information, sacramental information, or other sensitive data through the contact form or editorial tools unless we have specifically asked for it. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle information you provide.

8. Third-party services and links

The Site uses third-party services to host the Site, support authentication and private editorial data, send email, and measure site use. The Site also links to outside websites, media, documents, and image sources. We do not control those services or sites and are not responsible for their content, availability, security, or privacy practices. Your use of them is subject to their own terms and policies. The Site may be unavailable during maintenance, deployments, provider failures, security work, or events outside our control. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features or the Site, and we do not promise a particular uptime, response time, archive, backup, or restoration service.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without express or implied warranties, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, or security. We do not promise that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful code.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Loreto and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, licensors, and contributors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits, or goodwill, arising from or related to the Site or these Terms. If liability cannot be excluded, our total liability for a claim will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that applicable law does not allow us to exclude.

11. Claims caused by your misuse

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you must cover Loreto’s reasonable costs and losses from a third-party claim caused by your breach of these Terms, your editorial material, your misuse of the Site, or your violation of law or another person’s rights. This includes reasonable legal fees. We will give you notice of the claim when practical and will not settle a claim in a way that admits your fault or imposes a duty on you without your consent.

12. Governing law and venue

Wisconsin law governs these Terms, without regard to rules about which state’s law applies. Before filing a claim, you must send us a written notice through the contact channel below and give us at least thirty days to try to resolve it. Subject to mandatory law that says otherwise, the state and federal courts in Dane County, Wisconsin have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from the Site or these Terms, and you consent to those courts.

13. Changes to the Site or these Terms

We may change the Site and these Terms from time to time. The updated Terms become effective when posted, unless a later date is stated. The “Last updated” date shows when this page was last revised. If you keep using the Site after a change takes effect, you accept the revised Terms.

14. General terms

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the complete agreement between you and Apologia Catholic about your use of the Site. Neither party may assign this agreement without consent, except as part of a merger, reorganization, or sale of substantially all assets. Neither party is liable for delay caused by an event outside its reasonable control. If a court finds one part unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect. If we do not enforce a provision at one time, that does not waive our right to enforce it later.

15. Contact and copyright complaints

Questions about these Terms, reports of misuse, and privacy requests may be sent through the contact form or to support@loretosites.com. You may also write to Loreto Media LLC, 501 S Midvale Blvd, Madison, WI 53711, United States, or call (608) 285-2027. For a privacy request, put “Privacy request” in the subject line and do not include a password or other sensitive information.

Loreto Media LLC is the designated agent for copyright notices. Send a notice to support@loretosites.com or to the address above. A valid notice must include your physical or electronic signature, identification of the copyrighted work, the location of the material, your name and contact information, a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized, and an accuracy and authority statement under penalty of perjury. We may remove or disable access to reported material and may send a valid notice to the person who posted it.

If we remove material because of a copyright notice and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice with your signature, the material’s former location, your name, address, telephone number, and email address, a statement under penalty of perjury that the removal resulted from a mistake or misidentification, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address, or Dane County, Wisconsin if you live outside the United States, and will accept service from the complaining party. We may terminate repeat infringers’ admin access or other use of the Site when appropriate.

We may send account, invitation, security, contact-confirmation, and legal notices by email or through the Site. Where law allows, an electronic notice satisfies a writing requirement. You may opt out of nonessential messages, but necessary service, security, and legal notices may still be sent.

Terms version: 2026-08-18.