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Understand maker ownership and responsibility

Separate what the maker supplies and controls from what DriftLess helps create and operate.

The maker controls supplied photographs, writing, product information, policies, and business decisions. DriftLess organizes those materials into website output and retains project information so the website can be improved. The maker remains responsible for rights, accuracy, customer promises, and legal obligations.

The maker is the seller

The maker named on the website is the seller of the products or services shown there. The maker must provide truthful identity and legal information, use photographs and other material they have the right to use, and keep prices, availability, delivery, returns, and other customer promises accurate.

What DriftLess does

DriftLess generates, edits, and hosts the website. DriftLess is not the seller or merchant of record, does not take the buyer’s money, does not charge a transaction fee on maker sales, and does not manage maker orders, payouts, refunds, disputes, or chargebacks. DriftLess may reject an obviously fictional entry, but it does not check an official company register, verify the maker as a business, or perform merchant identity checks (KYB). DriftLess does not guarantee delivery.

Payment and buyer support

For enquiry-only sales, you and the buyer agree payment outside DriftLess using the method you already use. The following payment-link explanation applies when the website sends a buyer to your provider link; enquiries do not require you to open that kind of account.

Payment is completed through the maker’s own payment-link account with Stripe, Inflow, PayPal, or another provider. That provider handles the payment account, merchant identity checks, payment and refund processing, payment records, disputes, chargebacks, and payouts under its own terms. The maker remains responsible to the buyer for the sale, fulfilment, delivery, returns, and any refund obligation. For an order, delivery, return, or refund problem, the buyer must contact the maker using the email shown on the website first. For a payment dispute, the buyer must also use the contact or dispute instructions on the payment-provider receipt. DriftLess support cannot issue a refund for a maker sale.

Reports and unpublishing

If DriftLess learns that a published site is fraudulent, impersonates another person or business, or contains illegal content, DriftLess may unpublish it. Unpublishing is a hosting and safety action; it does not cancel a payment, issue a refund, decide a dispute, or resolve the sale.

How to use this

  1. 1Use only materials you own or have permission to publish.
  2. 2Confirm every product, price, availability statement, policy, and customer promise.
  3. 3Remove information that is outdated or cannot be supported.
  4. 4Review the Terms for the contractual ownership and license details.

Keep in mind

  • DriftLess does not provide legal, tax, or regulatory advice.
  • The self-hosted path can hand the finished static website to a private GitHub repository on an eligible plan.
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Last reviewed: 2026-09-02