Terms of sale and use

What you are buying

The Man Who Won’t Talk is a digital book. It is a PDF file — nothing is printed and nothing is posted to you. When your payment goes through you are taken to a download page, and the same link is emailed to you, so you can fetch the file again if you close the tab too quickly.

You need a device that can open a PDF. Almost everything can: a phone, a tablet, a laptop, most e-readers. There is no app to install and no account to create.

Price and payment

The Man Who Won’t Talk costs $8.99, in US dollars. That is the whole price, and it is charged once.

There is no subscription, no trial that quietly turns into a charge, and nothing kept on file for a second payment later. Payment is handled by PayPal. Your card details never reach us — there is more on that in the privacy page.

Tax

The price is shown without local tax. Depending on where you live, your country may add VAT, GST or sales tax to a digital purchase. Where that applies, PayPal normally collects it at checkout and it appears on your receipt. Anything your own bank or country adds on top of that is yours to settle.

You need to be an adult

Buying this book means you are 18 or older, or over the age of majority where you live, whichever is higher. It is written for adults.

What you may do with the file

• Read it, on as many of your own devices as you like.
• Print a copy for yourself, or print a page of it and write on it.
• Keep it. The file is yours, it does not expire, and it does not check in with us.
• Quote a short passage in a review or a conversation, with the book named.

What you may not do

You are buying a copy to read, not the right to publish it. So please don’t:

• resell it, hand it out as a bonus, or bundle it with something you sell;
• upload it to a file host, a group chat, a course platform or a torrent, or pass the download link around;
• reprint it, translate it, or rewrite it as your own work;
• put it into a product, a dataset or a model you are building.

The writing and the design stay our copyright. What you have is an ordinary personal licence, and it ends if you break the list above.

What the book is, and what it is not

The Man Who Won’t Talk is educational writing. It is a book about what a partner’s silence is made of, how to tell one kind from another, what reaches through it, and how to keep your own voice while you wait.

It contains no method for making another person speak, and it does not claim one. What one adult chooses to say is theirs.

It is not therapy, counselling, medical advice, legal advice or a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for a qualified professional. Nothing in it diagnoses anybody, and where a description points at something that needs a professional, the book says so and stops. If you feel frightened of someone, or controlled by them, that belongs with a professional or a local support service rather than with a book.

Where our responsibility stops

We do what the law requires of us, and nothing on this page takes away a right you have by statute.

Beyond that: if something goes wrong on our side — the file won’t download, the file is faulty, the book is materially not what the page described — our job is to fix it or to give you your money back. The refund policy says how.

We are not responsible for what you decide after reading, for how another person responds, or for indirect losses such as lost time, lost income or distress. You read it, you weigh it, you choose. Our total liability for anything connected with this book will not come to more than the price you paid for it.

If the file won’t reach you

Write to us and we will send it again. That is usually the whole of the problem, and it takes minutes. The refund policy covers what happens if it isn’t.

Changes to these terms

We may update this page, either to fix something unclear or because the law has moved. The version in place on the day you buy is the one that governs your purchase; changes are not applied backwards. The date at the top tells you when this page last changed.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of India, and its courts have jurisdiction over any dispute about them. If one line here turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of the page still stands.

Reaching us

Write to Harshriddles@gmail.com. A person reads it, not a form.