Terms of use
Reading Propounded means accepting the terms below. They are deliberately narrow: the point of the archive is that you take the words and use them.
Last revised 22 August 2026.
What you may do with the messages
Copy any of the 1015 messages and send it in a card, an email, a chat, a speech, or a signature sheet. Edit it, shorten it, merge two of them, or use one as a starting point and end up somewhere else entirely. Do it at work or at home, once or a hundred times.
You do not need permission, you do not owe credit, and you do not need to say where the wording came from. A message you send is yours to have sent. That is what the archive is for.
The same applies inside an organization: an HR team, an office manager, or anyone assembling a card for a colleague may use these messages without asking.
What you may do with the images
Every message and every occasion page is also available as an image, in two shapes, which you can open at full size and save as a PNG or an SVG.
Treat an image exactly as you would treat the message on it. Download one and send it, print it, post it, or pin it. The share buttons exist for precisely that, and no credit is owed for using one the way it was meant to be used.
The boundary is the same one that applies to the words. Individual use is what the images are for; collecting them is not. Downloading the set in whole or in substantial part, redistributing it as a pack, gallery, or template library, or feeding it to another product as training or generation input all fall outside what is permitted here.
What you may not do with the archive
The individual messages are free to use. The archive as a collection — the writing, the classification by occasion, recipient, tone, and length, the editing that removed every near-duplicate, and the pages and images built from it — is not.
- Do not scrape or bulk-copy the collection to republish it, in whole or in substantial part, as another message site, app, dataset, prompt library, or download — in text or in image form.
- Do not reproduce the way the archive is organized, which is as much of the work as the messages themselves.
- Do not present the archive as your own work, or resell access to it.
- Do not attempt to interfere with the site or the people using it, including by automated request volume intended to degrade it, and do not work around measures that protect it.
The distinction is simple. Taking a message to send to a person is the intended use. Taking the collection to stand it up somewhere else is not.
What the archive is not
These are suggested wordings, nothing more. They are not legal, employment, HR, financial, medical, or professional advice, and they carry no view on your particular situation. Whether a given message is right for a given person is a judgement only you can make, and you make it.
The site is provided as it is, with no warranty that it will be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or suitable for any specific purpose. To the extent the law allows, no liability is accepted for any loss arising from using it or from anything you send after reading it. Nothing here excludes a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
The archive also moves. Messages are added, edited, reorganized, and occasionally removed, and a page that exists today may be renamed or retired tomorrow. Where a page moves its old address is redirected rather than broken, but no particular message, image, page, or count is promised to stay where it is.
Sharing somewhere else
The share buttons hand a page address or an image address to WhatsApp, Pinterest, your email client, or your clipboard. Those services are not run by Propounded and are not covered by these terms. What you post on them is governed by their rules and by your own judgement about what is appropriate to share and with whom.
Accessibility
This site aims to meet WCAG 2.2 at level AA. Contrast, target size, keyboard order, heading structure and reflow down to a 320-pixel screen are all checked before a release goes out, and the messages stay readable with scripting switched off.
If something here is difficult to use with a screen reader, a keyboard, or at a larger text size, that is a fault worth hearing about — a fault, not a feature request. Tell us and it gets fixed.
Changes to these terms
These terms can change. When they do, the date at the top of this page changes with them — it is read from the page's own revision history when the site is built, so it always reflects the text you are reading rather than the last time someone remembered to update a line.