Terms, privacy & accessibility

This manual is offered free, as general education. In plain language: use it at your own risk, we collect nothing about you, and we try to make it usable by everyone. The details follow. Last updated October 18, 2026.

1. Terms of use and disclaimer

By using this site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

Educational content only

Everything here is general information, written for adults preparing for a media interview. It is not legal, medical, safety, financial or professional advice, and it is not a substitute for the judgment of a qualified professional for your specific situation. Outlets, employers, states and cases vary, and what an outlet does with your words is its decision. This manual does not teach public relations or how to get press coverage.

Personalized content

The "Your interview" boxes, the quick start, the sheets' starting rows and the calculators are generated automatically from what you type into the setup form, using general guidance. They are prompts, not decisions about your situation. Check every fact and number you plan to say against your own records or the published source.

Safety

• Assume that everything you say to a reporter, producer or podcast host can be quoted, including what you say before and after the interview. Terms such as "background" and "off the record" mean different things at different outlets, and they count only if the reporter agrees before you speak.
• If you speak for an employer or an organization, check its media policy and contact first. Whether a policy, a contract or labor law applies to you is a question for the organization or a lawyer.
• Recording laws vary by state, and some states require everyone's consent. If you record an interview, say so at the start. This manual does not give legal advice about recording.
• If a story involves a crime, an injury, an inspection, an investigation or a lawsuit, ask the investigator, the prosecutor's victim advocate or a lawyer before you speak. What you say to the media is public and permanent.
• You can decline an interview, decline a question, set conditions and stop at any time. Reporters often agree to reasonable conditions, but they do not have to.
• Get consent from both a child and their parent or guardian before a child is interviewed or pictured, and consider keeping young children out of interviews.
• Keep your home address and other private details out of what you tell reporters and out of anything you share from this manual's media kit.
• Do not guess or speculate. If you do not know, say so and say what you will do to find out.
• This manual does not give legal, medical, safety or financial advice, does not judge any study or estimate, and does not teach public relations or how to get press coverage.

Third-party links and products

The site links to guides, outlet policies, research and other resources we found useful. We do not control those sites, do not endorse or guarantee anything on them, receive no payment or commission from them, and are not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy or practices. Product and brand names mentioned belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify them.

No warranty; limitation of liability

The site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Field Assembly LLC, Reassembly and the people who made this site are not liable for any loss, injury or damage, direct or indirect, arising from your use of the site or reliance on its content. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of this may not apply to you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from the site or these terms will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

Changes and availability

We may change, pause or remove the site or any part of it at any time without notice. We have no obligation to keep it available or up to date.

2. Privacy

Short version: this site does not collect, store or sell any information about you. If you choose to email us, we receive your address and your message.

• No accounts, no sign-up. You never need to give us an email address to use the pages. There is nothing to join.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no cookies. The site sets no cookies and includes no third-party scripts, pixels or embedded content. Fonts are served from this site, not from a font service.
• Your setup stays on your device. What you type into the setup form, and the progress checkboxes, are saved only in your browser's local storage so the site can show them back to you. They are never transmitted to us. Clearing your browser data, or using the "Clear my setup" button, deletes them.
• Share links contain your setup. The "copy a link" feature encodes your answers into the web address itself so you can open them on another device or send them to a helper. Anyone who has that link can see those answers. Do not put anything in the setup form that you would not want in a link you share.
• If you email us, we use your address only to reply, and we do not add it to any list.
• Hosting logs. The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which, like any web host, processes technical request data (such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We do not use that data to identify or track visitors.
• Links to other sites take you to services with their own privacy practices.
• Children. The site is not directed at children under 13 and we knowingly collect no information from anyone.

3. Accessibility

We want this manual to be usable by everyone, including people who use screen readers, keyboards, magnification or high contrast. The site is built to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA. Specifically:

• Semantic HTML with headings, landmarks, lists and tables with header rows; a "skip to content" link; visible keyboard focus on every control.
• Every form field has a label; checkboxes and radio buttons are labeled; the menu button reports its state.
• Text and interface colors meet contrast minimums in both light and dark modes; information is never conveyed by color alone.
• Text resizes with browser settings; layouts reflow to narrow screens; no content flashes or moves on its own.
• Diagrams have text descriptions; icons in the navigation are decorative and accompanied by text.

Known limitations: wide reference tables scroll horizontally on small screens, and printable pages depend on your browser's print settings. If anything on this site is hard for you to use, please tell us through fieldassembly.net and we will try to fix it.

4. Copyright and sharing

© 2026 Field Assembly LLC. The text, structure and code of this manual are copyrighted. You are welcome to use the manual for your own interview, share the link freely, print pages for personal use, and quote short passages with attribution. Please do not republish the manual or substantial parts of it, sell it, or present it as your own. Linked third-party material belongs to its respective owners. The self-hosted fonts (Cormorant Garamond and Inter) are used under the SIL Open Font License.

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