AI Disclosure

The development, maintenance, and operation of this website may utilize software-assisted development tools, including AI-assisted coding and content workflow tools. These tools assist with technical implementation, infrastructure, and operational efficiency.

Website infrastructure and development is managed by SimpleOpSystems. The use of any AI-assisted development tools is at the professional discretion of SimpleOpSystems in its role as technology provider.

The creative works published on this website and associated with this author brand — including all books, stories, characters, worlds, lore, and autobiographical content — are the original creative work of Renaye Rutherford (Jessica Rutherford).

Renaye Rutherford is the sole creative author of:

• Crystal Chronicles (A Novan Trilogy) and all associated works
• Spirit Warriors and all associated short stories and characters
• Like a Phoenix, I Rise (autobiography)
• All fictional characters, worlds, storylines, and lore
• All personal narrative and biographical content

Artificial intelligence systems — including any tools used in the development or operation of this website — do not hold, claim, or possess any ownership, authorship, or intellectual property rights over any creative works associated with this brand.

This includes, without limitation:

• The books, stories, and manuscripts
• Characters and character development
• Fictional universes, worlds, and lore
• Story structures, themes, and narrative arcs
• Author voice, style, and personal narrative

All creative output associated with Renaye Rutherford is the result of her original creative thought, imagination, and personal experience.

Copyright ownership of all creative works associated with this author brand remains fully and exclusively with Renaye Rutherford (Jessica Rutherford) and/or SimpleOpSystems as applicable. No AI system, platform, or tool has any claim to copyright ownership over any content produced by or for this brand.

For the avoidance of doubt, the use of any software tool — AI-assisted or otherwise — in the process of website development or content workflow does not transfer, diminish, or otherwise affect the rights holder's exclusive ownership of all associated intellectual property.

As stated in our Copyright Notice, no content on this website may be used to train, fine-tune, or otherwise inform any artificial intelligence or machine learning system without the express written consent of the rights holders. This applies to all text, characters, stories, artwork, and any other material on this site.

We are committed to keeping this disclosure current as the technology landscape evolves. If the use of AI tools in creative production changes in a material way, this disclosure will be updated accordingly.

For questions regarding this disclosure, please contact: JRutherford0801@gmail.com