Terms & Conditions
Terms and Conditions
Effective Date: October 20, 2026
Welcome to DrDonaldWard.com. This website is owned and operated by John and Susan Miller of Sugarcreek, Ohio, personal friends of Dr. Donald Ward.
By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms and Conditions. The purpose of this site is to make Dr. Ward’s teachings and resources widely available for biblical education, study, teaching, and personal growth.
Use of Website Resources
The resources available on this website may be used freely for personal, educational, ministry, church, nonprofit, commercial, or other purposes.
You may:
- Read, download, copy, share, or distribute materials
- Quote from Dr. Ward’s teachings
- Use materials in sermons, Bible studies, classes, presentations, or publications
- Reproduce resources in printed or digital form
- Share resources on websites or social media
- Translate, excerpt, summarize, adapt, or reorganize materials
- Incorporate ideas or teachings into other educational resources
- Use materials for commercial or noncommercial purposes
No additional permission from the website owners is required for these uses.
Attribution
While permission is freely granted to use the resources on this website, we appreciate appropriate credit being given to Dr. Donald Ward whenever his teachings or materials are used.
When practical, please use the following attribution:
Source: Dr. Donald Ward, drdonaldward.com
If materials are adapted, summarized, translated, or significantly edited, we encourage users to make clear that the material has been adapted from Dr. Ward’s teachings rather than presenting altered wording as a direct quotation from him.
Accuracy and Context
The resources on this website include teachings, writings, audio recordings, video recordings, transcripts, documents, summaries, and other archived materials associated with Dr. Donald Ward.
Some materials may have been transcribed, digitized, edited, summarized, or converted from older source material. As a result, there may occasionally be transcription errors, incomplete context, formatting issues, or other inaccuracies.
Users are encouraged to consult the original teaching, recording, document, or source material when exact wording or context is important.
Dr. Ward’s Virtual Assistant
The website includes a Virtual Assistant that allows visitors to ask questions about Dr. Ward’s teachings and archived materials.
The Virtual Assistant searches and draws from materials available in Dr. Ward’s teaching archive in an effort to provide helpful responses based on those resources.
Responses from the Virtual Assistant may summarize, combine, interpret, or organize information from multiple sources. They should not automatically be treated as direct quotations from Dr. Ward unless specifically identified as such.
While reasonable efforts are made to provide useful and accurate responses, the Virtual Assistant may occasionally produce incomplete, inaccurate, or misunderstood information.
Users should consult the original archived materials when accuracy, exact wording, or theological context is particularly important.
Biblical and Educational Purpose
The materials on this website are provided primarily for biblical education, spiritual study, historical study, and general informational purposes.
The website, its owners, Dr. Donald Ward, and anyone involved in operating or maintaining the site do not provide professional legal, medical, financial, mental-health, tax, investment, or other licensed professional advice through this website.
Nothing on this website should be relied upon as a substitute for advice from a qualified professional who understands your individual circumstances.
No Professional or Personal Liability
Use of this website, its resources, archived teachings, Virtual Assistant, or any information obtained through the site is entirely at the user’s own discretion and risk.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website owners, Dr. Donald Ward, contributors, administrators, developers, and others involved with the website are not responsible or liable for:
- Decisions made based on information found on the website
- Actions taken or not taken based on teachings or responses
- Financial loss
- Medical or health consequences
- Legal consequences
- Business decisions
- Personal or relational decisions
- Spiritual or theological disagreements
- Misinterpretation or misuse of the materials
- Errors or omissions in transcripts, archived materials, or Virtual Assistant responses
- Losses or damages resulting from reliance on information provided through the website
Users remain responsible for evaluating information and making their own decisions.
No Guarantee of Results
The website makes no guarantees regarding specific outcomes from applying teachings, principles, suggestions, or information found on this site.
Individual experiences and circumstances vary, and users are responsible for determining how information applies to their own situation.
Contact Form
Visitors may use the website’s contact form to communicate with Dr. Ward or those assisting with the website.
Submitting a message does not create a professional, advisory, counseling, fiduciary, or other formal relationship with Dr. Ward or the website owners.
There is no guarantee that every message will receive a response.
No User Accounts
This website does not currently provide public user accounts.
Visitors may interact with the website primarily by viewing resources, asking questions through the Virtual Assistant, and using the contact form.
Third-Party Links and Services
The website may contain links to third-party websites, media platforms, services, or other resources.
Those third parties operate independently, and DrDonaldWard.com is not responsible for their content, availability, security, privacy practices, or policies.
Use of third-party websites is subject to their own terms and conditions.
Website Availability
We may modify, update, remove, reorganize, or discontinue any part of the website or its resources at any time.
We do not guarantee that every resource will always remain available or that the website will always operate without interruption or technical problems.
Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
Any legal matter relating to the use of this website will be subject to applicable laws and jurisdiction in Ohio.
Changes to These Terms
These Terms and Conditions may be updated from time to time as the website develops or as legal, technical, or operational needs change.
The current version will be posted on this page along with the effective date.
Contact
Questions regarding these Terms and Conditions may be submitted through the contact form available on DrDonaldWard.com.