Using the site

Read the comics, share them, send them to whoever you like. That is what they are for.

The artwork

The comics and the artwork belong to Guess This Is Life. You are welcome to share and post them with credit and a link back. You may not sell them, print them on things to sell, feed them to a model as training data, or pass them off as your own work.

Orders

Everything is made to order. An order is accepted once payment clears and you get a confirmation. Prices are in US dollars and can change, but never after you have paid. They exclude sales tax, which is added at checkout wherever we are required to collect it.

If something is priced wrong by mistake — a decimal in the wrong place, that sort of thing — we will cancel and refund rather than hold you to it or quietly charge you more.

Printing

Items are printed individually, so colour can vary slightly between one run and another, and a screen never matches ink exactly. Small variation is normal. Anything that is actually wrong is covered in Returns.

Sending cards

You need an account to send a card. Whoever receives it does not.

You are responsible for what you write. Do not use a card to harass, threaten or abuse anybody, to pretend to be somebody else, or to advertise. Messages cannot contain links — not as a judgement about you, but because a card is a straightforward way to send a stranger a link from a domain they trust, and removing the possibility is simpler than policing it.

There are limits on how many cards an account can send, and new accounts start low. This is not about you personally; it is the cheapest way to stop somebody sending ten thousand.

Anyone who receives a card can report it. We can take a card down, disable its link, and close the account that sent it. For anything clearly abusive we will do that first and discuss it afterwards.

Where we ship

Wherever the printer ships. Customs charges and import duty on international orders are the buyer's, because they are set by your country and we never see them.

Chargebacks

If something is wrong with an order, tell us before you tell your bank. A refund takes a day. A chargeback takes months, and costs us a fee whichever way it is decided.

We will never contest a legitimate one. But a chargeback raised instead of asking, on an order that arrived as described, is treated as fraud, and we may decline future orders from that account or address.

Everything here is entertainment

The comics, the games, the quizzes, the polls and Ask Gerald are for entertainment only. Nothing on this site is professional advice of any kind: not medical, mental health, legal, financial, tax, veterinary, safety or any other advice, and no professional relationship of any kind is created by using it. Don't rely on anything here to make decisions about your health, money, relationships, pets, safety or anything else that matters. If you need real help, talk to someone qualified. In an emergency, call your local emergency number. In the US, you can call or text 988 any time.

Ask Gerald

It is a comedy column. Ask Gerald is written in the voice of a cartoon chinchilla, for laughs. His answers are jokes with some ordinary common sense mixed in. They are not advice you should act on, and you use anything you read there entirely at your own risk. Some letters, and parts of the answers, are written by us with help from AI tools. Letters sent in by readers are marked as such.

Who can write in. You must be 18 or older to send a letter.

What you agree to when you send a letter. By ticking the box and sending your letter, you agree that:

• The letter is your own writing, it is true to the best of your knowledge, and it does not include anyone else's private information (real names, addresses, workplaces and so on). If it does, we will remove it.
• You give Guess This Is Life (High5ive LLC) a worldwide, permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use your letter: to edit, shorten, publish, reproduce, adapt, translate and distribute it, in whole or in part, in any format and any medium, now known or invented later, including this site, emails, social media, books, merchandise and anything else we make, and to let others do so on our behalf (a publisher or printer, for example).
• No payment, royalty or credit is owed for your letter, and this permission continues even if you delete your account or stop using the site.
• To the extent the law allows, you waive any right to be named as the author of your letter or to object to how it is edited or presented.
• We don't have to publish your letter, reply to it, or tell you whether it was picked.
• Once a letter is sent, it's sent. You can't withdraw it or ask for it to be taken down later, including after it has been published or included in a book. We may still remove a letter ourselves, at our own discretion.
• You won't send anything unlawful, threatening, hateful, sexual, or that identifies or harms a real person, and you will cover any costs we face because a letter you sent broke these rules.

What stays ours. Your letter stays yours to use however you like. But Gerald's answers, our edited versions of letters, the openers Gerald gives letter writers, and the column itself (the letters with their answers, as a collection) belong to Guess This Is Life. Nobody, including a letter's writer, may republish Gerald's answers or collect the column into a book, site, feed or anything else without our written permission. Quoting a single letter and its answer when sharing it, with credit and a link back, is fine.

Letters we won't publish. Anything about serious harm to yourself or others, anything cruel about a real person, anything identifying a real person, and anything illegal. Letters about serious things are never published, whatever they say.

Your privacy. Letters are published without your name or contact details. You don't sign your letter; Gerald decides what to call you, and we may mention your country, or the city or state you give us. The details we keep are described in the Privacy Policy.

What we are not liable for

The site and everything on it are provided as they are, without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or harm that comes from using the site or acting on anything in it, including Ask Gerald, the games, the quizzes and the polls. We are not liable for indirect losses, and in any case our total liability is limited to what you paid us for the order in question, or nothing if you didn't buy anything. Nothing here removes rights you have by law where you live.

Getting in touch

If something has gone wrong, say so before anything formal. It is one person reading the mail and most things are a five-minute fix: hello@guessthisislife.com.

Who you are dealing with

This site is operated by High5ive LLC, a limited liability company formed in Nevada, United States. The same company runs Conmigo, and High5ive’s general Terms of Service and Privacy Policy cover every service it operates, this site included.

Where those and this page describe the same thing, the more specific one governs: orders, printing, shipping and returns are set out here in more detail than a general policy can manage, so for anything bought on this site, this page and Returns are the ones that apply. Everything else, including how a dispute is resolved, follows High5ive’s terms. These terms are governed by the law of the State of Nevada.