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The NonDē Film Law Lab

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The standard terms behind every page, template, video, and email.

In these terms, “The NonDē Film Law Lab” (also “the Lab”) is the educational resource at nondefilmlawlab.com, including the Vault. “Rekola Studios, LLC” is the company that owns and operates The NonDē Film Law Lab, rekolastudios.com, NonDē TV and Faces of NonDē. It is the seller of the Vault and the licensor of the templates. “Michael P. Rekola” (also written “Mike Rekola” and “M.P. Rekola”) is the person who owns Rekola Studios, LLC.

Every protection in these terms applies to The NonDē Film Law Lab, Rekola Studios, LLC, and Michael P. Rekola, and to their successors and assigns.

Where these terms say “I” or “me”, that is Michael P. Rekola, writing for Rekola Studios, LLC.

Educational Purpose Only

The NonDē Film Law Lab is an educational resource and does not constitute legal advice. Nothing provided by The NonDē Film Law Lab, Rekola Studios, LLC, or Michael P. Rekola through this site, its emails, its videos or its templates is legal advice. All materials — including contract templates, video walkthroughs, Substack posts, and this website — are intended as drafting tools for independent filmmakers, not as a substitute for advice from your own attorney about your specific project.

No Attorney-Client Relationship

Accessing this site, watching videos, receiving email communications, subscribing to the Substack, joining the Vault, or downloading templates does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and The NonDē Film Law Lab, Rekola Studios, LLC, or Michael P. Rekola. You are not a client. Nobody becomes a client of The NonDē Film Law Lab, Rekola Studios, LLC, or Michael P. Rekola through the Lab, and no engagement agreement is offered or signed through it.

Jurisdiction & Local Counsel

These materials are drafted based on general principles of U.S. contract and entertainment law. Laws regarding copyright, contracts, securities, and production vary by state and country. Always consult qualified local counsel licensed in your jurisdiction before relying on any template for an actual production.

Not Investment or Securities Advice

Content touching on private placement memoranda, Regulation D offerings, or investor financing is provided for general educational purposes only. It is not investment advice, securities law advice, or an offer to sell securities. Whether a specific document or structure is right for your raise depends entirely on the facts of your offering and should be evaluated with qualified securities counsel.

Not Accounting or Financial Advice

Content touching on production budgeting, recoupment waterfalls, or financial structuring is educational only — not accounting, tax, or financial advice.

Use at Your Own Risk

By using any material from this site, you acknowledge that you are doing so at your own risk. To the fullest extent the law allows, The NonDē Film Law Lab, Rekola Studios, LLC, and Michael P. Rekola, and their successors and assigns, assume no liability for errors, omissions, or legal consequences arising from the use of any template, guide, or document found here.

“Lifetime” Access Defined

Wherever this site, its emails, or its social posts say “lifetime,” “yours for good,” “no renewal,” or anything similar about Vault access, it means this: access for the lifetime of Michael P. Rekola, beginning on your purchase date and ending on his death. It does not mean your lifetime, and it is not a perpetual license. It is a one-time payment: there is no annual fee, renewal, or re-purchase while access lasts.

Access may end sooner if you breach these terms or if the hosting platform becomes unavailable. When access ends, you are not owed a refund or credit for the unused time.

Lifetime access covers the Vault as it stands and every document I add while I run it. It is not a promise that I will keep adding documents or keep working on the Lab for life.

Prices from January 1, 2027

The Vault is sold by Rekola Studios, LLC.

  • Until December 31, 2026 (11:59 PM Eastern): pay what you can, $50, $99, $250 or $450, for lifetime access. Everyone who buys before then keeps exactly what they bought.
  • Lifetime: $450, one payment, no renewal.
  • Sale: $325 for lifetime access, offered only during the Lab's anniversary week (April 15–21), the first week of September (September 1–7) and the holidays (November 26–December 31). The rest of the year the lifetime price is $450.
  • Yearly: $250 a year through the Lab's Substack. Substack handles checkout and billing. It renews automatically every year at the yearly price shown at the time until you cancel. You can cancel anytime in your Substack account settings; you keep access until the end of the year you paid for, and there are no refunds for part of a year unless the law where you live requires one. You'll get a reminder email before each yearly renewal.
  • Hardship: $99 for lifetime access, for filmmakers who can't afford the full price right now. You first sign a short attestation on eSignatures.com saying so, then the $99 checkout opens for you. If an attestation turns out to be untrue, I may end that access without a refund. Start at nondefilmlawlab.com/hardship.

Refunds

Your access begins at checkout: the starter documents on your thank-you page right away, and your invite to the full Vault within 12 hours. Before checkout you ask for that access to start now, so every sale is final and there are no refunds, and you give up any 14-day right to cancel. Your welcome email confirms this. Nothing here limits a right that the law where you live gives you and doesn’t allow you to give up.

FTC Disclosure & Testimonials

Michael P. Rekola owns Rekola Studios, LLC and is paid by it. Rekola Studios, LLC owns and operates The NonDē Film Law Lab, rekolastudios.com, NonDē TV and Faces of NonDē, and is paid for Vault sales, the Substack and NonDē TV sponsorships. Michael P. Rekola personally earns the book royalties.

Rekola Studios, LLC also develops film projects, which then move into separate companies. Veritas Films, LP owns Burying Doris. Rekola Studios, LLC is the general partner of Veritas Films, LP and manages it. Rekola Studios, LLC and Michael P. Rekola may be paid by Veritas Films, LP or from Burying Doris.

When this site, its emails, or its social posts recommend those products or film projects, that is promotion of work that Rekola Studios, LLC and Michael P. Rekola own, manage or are paid for. Any link or recommendation that earns a commission or free product is disclosed where it appears.

Reviews and testimonials come from real customers describing their own experiences. They are not guarantees. Your results will vary and depend on your project, your facts, and how you use these materials. Nothing here promises any legal, financing, distribution, or financial outcome.

Template License

Templates are licensed by Rekola Studios, LLC to you, the buyer (or your own production company), for your own productions and business use. You may send a filled-in or signed contract to the other people in that deal. You may not resell, redistribute, publish, or share the blank templates, the videos, or your Vault login with anyone else, or use them to prepare documents for paying clients. Copies you’ve already made for your own projects stay yours to use if your Vault access ends. Templates are provided “as is” and may be out of date: laws change, and no template fits every deal. Have a licensed attorney review any document before you sign it.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, and any dispute about them belongs in the state or federal courts in New York, except where the law where you live says otherwise.

Contributions Are Not Investments

Money given toward Burying Doris or any other film project on this site is a voluntary contribution, not an investment, loan, or purchase of securities. It carries no ownership, profit share, or expected return, and the project may change, be delayed, or not be completed.

Contributions toward Burying Doris are paid to Rekola Studios, LLC, which uses them for the film’s costs. They do not make the giver a partner in Veritas Films, LP or give any interest in it.

How the Templates Are Made (and Where AI Comes In)

Every template in the Vault starts from real documents I use in my own productions and business. I use AI tools while drafting, and every finished contract is run through AI to check for errors, gaps and typos before it goes live. Because of that, some documents may carry markers or watermarks from those tools. The clauses come from my real working documents; AI is a drafting and proofreading aid, not the source. As with everything here, have your own attorney review a document before you sign it.

Privacy Policy

This is how Rekola Studios, LLC, which owns and operates The NonDē Film Law Lab, collects, uses and protects your information across nondefilmlawlab.com (also reachable at nonde.purpleturret.com), the Vault, the help desk, the emails I send, and the submission and report forms on rekolastudios.com (NonDē TV and Faces of NonDē). Questions or requests: info@rekolastudios.com, or by mail to Rekola Studios, LLC, 60 Stetson Road, Brooklyn, CT 06234. Rekola Studios, LLC is responsible for your information (the “controller”).

What I collect

  • When you buy: checkout runs through Purpleturret and Stripe. I receive your email, the price you chose, and the country and state on your payment. I never see or store your card number.
  • When you tick the two boxes before checkout: the time, the exact wording you agreed to, the price you picked, your device type (phone, tablet or computer) and how you reached the site. This is my record that you agreed. It doesn't include your name or email until it's matched to your payment.
  • When you ask for help: your name, email, whether you said you're a member, your topic, your question, any link you share, and our messages back and forth. Each request gets a private page link; anyone with that link can see it, so don't share it.
  • When you sign the Lab release: eSignatures.com collects your name, email, mobile number (to text you a 6-digit code that confirms it's you), any company name it asks for, and your signature. I keep your name, email, mobile number and a link to the signed PDF.
  • When you give someone your Producer's Pass: your name and email and your guest's name and email, held as a request until you confirm it from the email I send you (unconfirmed requests are deleted after 30 days).
  • When someone names you as their Producer's Pass guest: the name and email they typed, and who named you. I use it only to send you that gift. Reply STOP to that email and I'll delete it.
  • When you join the free list or the Vault's Substack: Substack collects your email and handles those emails under its own policy. I add Vault buyers to the private Substack by hand.
  • When you comment a keyword or message @byrekola on Instagram: my auto-DM (Rekola DM, run on Cloudflare through Instagram's official API) receives your Instagram account ID, username, the comment or message that triggered it, and whether you tapped its button or opened its link. It uses these only to send the one link you asked for and, if you didn't open it, one reminder within 24 hours. Reply STOP and it never messages you again. It's deleted automatically after 30 days. To have it deleted sooner, email info@rekolastudios.com with your Instagram username.
  • When you send a film to NonDē TV or a photo to Faces of NonDē (on rekolastudios.com): your name, email, title, the link you send, the channel you pick, and the time and version of the submission terms you accepted. I use them to review it, credit you and contact you about it. They're kept while your work is shown and deleted when you ask.
  • When you ask about sponsoring a NonDē TV break: your name, email, company, any link you send and your note. I use them only to reply, set up your month and bill you.
  • When you report a video on NonDē TV: the video, the channel and what you wrote. No name or email. Reports are deleted once they're handled.
  • When you apply for hardship access: eSignatures.com collects your name, email and signature on the attestation. I keep your name, email, when you signed and a link to the signed PDF, as the record of your attestation.
  • When you visit: my own analytics, hosted on Cloudflare, count page views and taps. They record the page, the link or ad tag that sent you, your rough city and country, and your device type. To count visitors without cookies, your IP address and browser are turned into a code that changes every day; the IP address itself is never stored. I also use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and sends visit data to Google. I never send Google your name, your email or anything you type. On your first visit a prompt asks whether Google Analytics may use cookies. If you decline, it runs without them. You can change your answer with the Cookie choices link at the bottom of any page. The site keeps where you came from in your browser's session storage until you close the tab.
  • The “who just joined” list on the site: shows recent members by U.S. state or country and the day they joined. Never names, emails or the time.

Advertising and the Meta Pixel

I run ads on Instagram and Facebook. Purpleturret, which hosts this site and its checkout, runs the Meta Pixel on these pages. The Pixel uses cookies and similar technology to tell Meta that you visited or bought, so I can measure my ads and show them to people likely to care. Meta handles that data under its own policy. You can limit it in your Facebook and Instagram ad settings (Accounts Center, then Ad preferences), with your browser's cookie settings, or with your phone's “limit ad tracking” setting. At checkout, Purpleturret also sends Meta your purchase and a scrambled (hashed) copy of your email through Meta’s Conversions API, so I can tell which ads led to sales.

How I use it

  • To deliver what you bought, add you to the Vault's Substack, and send your welcome email.
  • To answer your help questions, and to send you my replies.
  • To keep records of purchases, agreements and signed releases.
  • To understand which pages, posts and ads bring people in, and to improve the site.

I don't sell your personal information, and I don't use your personal information to train AI. I may use AI tools to help draft or proofread my answers to help requests; when I do, I leave out your name and contact details.

Who else handles it

  • Cloudflare — hosts the Lab's server, database and analytics.
  • Purpleturret — hosts the website and checkout, runs the Meta Pixel, and loads Google’s web font service on each page.
  • Stripe — processes payments.
  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram) — ad measurement through the Pixel.
  • Resend — sends the Lab's emails (welcome emails, help replies, guest gifts).
  • eSignatures.com — the Lab release, including the text-message check.
  • Substack — the free list and the Vault's private newsletter.
  • Loom, YouTube and Vimeo — videos embedded on pages and in help answers. NonDē TV plays from YouTube, which handles that viewing under its own policy.
  • Senja — the reviews shown on the site.
  • The Internet Archive — the concert recording player on one essay page.
  • Google — the web fonts Purpleturret loads, and Google Analytics.

Each of these providers handles data under its own privacy policy. Most of them are in the United States, so your information is processed there. For visitors from the UK and EU, these transfers rely on the safeguards those providers offer, such as standard contractual clauses or the EU–US and UK–US Data Privacy Framework.

How long I keep it

  • Help requests: deleted automatically two years after they're closed.
  • Visit analytics: my own are deleted automatically after about 13 months (400 days); Google Analytics keeps its data for the period set in my Google Analytics account.
  • Purchases and agreement records: kept for as long as your Vault access lasts, plus as long as tax and accounting rules require. Agreement records are kept with the purchase they belong to, as proof of what was agreed.
  • Short-link click counts: deleted automatically after 400 days.
  • Signed releases: kept as the legal record of your agreement.
  • Producer's Pass guest details: kept while the guest has Vault access, or deleted sooner if you reply STOP.

Your choices and rights

You can ask me to show you, correct, or delete the information I hold about you. The easiest way is the help desk: pick “Delete my data” (you won't be asked to sign anything for that). Or email info@rekolastudios.com. When I delete your data, I remove your help requests and contact details. I keep the bare purchase record (amount, date and place) that tax rules require, and any signed release, because that's the legal record of what you agreed to. To leave Substack, use the unsubscribe link in any of its emails.

Depending on where you live, including the UK, the EU and some U.S. states, you may have additional rights: to get a copy of your data in a portable format, to object to certain uses, to withdraw consent you gave, and to complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).

Why I’m allowed to use it: to deliver what you bought (contract); to keep tax and agreement records (legal obligation); to run, secure and improve the Lab and count visits without cookies (legitimate interests); and, where the law requires it, your consent for advertising and analytics cookies.

Security

The Lab's backend is private and protected by a sign-in that pauses after repeated wrong attempts. Help request pages use long private links. No method of storing data online is perfect, but I keep what I collect to what the Lab needs.

Children

The Lab is for working filmmakers and isn't directed to children. I don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. If you think a child has sent me information, contact me and I'll delete it.

Changes to These Terms

This page may be updated at any time. The version posted here when you use the site or buy is the one that applies to that use or purchase.

Last updated: November 13, 2026

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