About this site

Who publishes it

Vast Notion is published by artgrafika s.r.o., Na Vyhlídce 1060/4, 360 01 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, company registration 29163455. Correspondence of any kind goes to info@vastnotion.online, which is read by people working for that company.

Written material on this site is attributed to the artgrafika s.r.o. editorial team. We do not publish author profiles, photographs or job titles, because the course is a joint product and an invented byline would tell you nothing true.

How the course was structured

The five steps follow the order in which the questions actually arrive for someone new to the category. First, what is this kind of game and how does it make money. Second, will it run on the computer I already own. Third, what do the rating, the purchase information and the account terms say. Fourth, how do I install it and what should the first session tell me. Fifth, how do I keep my limits and how do I leave if I want to.

Each step was written to stand alone for a reader who already knows the earlier material, and each ends in a checklist because a step that cannot be acted on is only reading. The checklists were written first, in fact, and the prose was written to explain them.

The worked example running through the course — a household with a shared laptop — is invented. It has no name, no photograph and no outcome, and it makes no claim about any product. It exists to give abstract instructions something ordinary to attach to.

What the steps rely on

The course draws on three kinds of material, and tries to be clear about which is which.

• Published guidance from Australian bodies. Where a step touches classification, consumer rights, online safety, privacy or device security, it links to the relevant body — the Australian Classification Board, the ACCC and Scamwatch, the eSafety Commissioner, the OAIC and the Australian Cyber Security Centre — rather than paraphrasing a position that may have moved. We describe what each body is. We do not speak for any of them, and none of them has any involvement with this site.
• General, checkable description of how the category works. The vocabulary in Step 1, the hardware terms in Step 2 and the installation routine in Step 4 describe the genre and the operating systems generally, not the interface of any particular product.
• What a vendor states about itself. Where a specific title is named, the course repeats only what the affiliate program description says, and says so. Anything else — pricing, content, quality — is left to the publisher's own site, which Step 3 teaches you to read.

Where none of those three could support a claim, the claim is phrased as general guidance or left out. There are no statistics, test results, benchmarks or rankings anywhere on this site, because we have not produced any and would not ask you to take ours on trust.

How often it is reviewed

The five steps are reviewed as a set rather than individually, so that a change in one is carried through the others. A review checks that every external link still resolves to the body it names, that nothing describes a regulator's position in terms that have since changed, and that the checklists still match the prose.

The current review date appears in the footer of every page, including this one. If a step changes in a way that alters what you would do, the change is made in the step itself rather than noted in a separate update log, because a workbook with an errata list is a worse workbook.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

This site carries paid affiliate links. artgrafika s.r.o. has a commercial relationship with the affiliate network that operates the link to Raid: Shadow Legends, and may be paid a commission when a reader follows one of those links, registers on the page it opens and installs the game.

That is why Raid: Shadow Legends, rather than some other title, appears as the worked example of the category in Step 1 and Step 3. We would rather say that directly than let you assume the example was chosen on merit. We have not tested it, we do not rank it against anything, and the course does not tell you to install it.

What the commission does not decide is the content of the steps. The checklists were written before any link was placed, the Australian bodies linked throughout are linked because they publish the relevant material, and every step works unchanged if you ignore the paid links entirely. The affiliate disclosure page sets out the arrangement in full, including what does determine what appears here.

What this site does not do

It does not collect anything. There is no form, no newsletter, no account and no progress tracking, and the checklists deliberately do not remember your ticks. It sets no cookies and uses no browser storage, and it loads no fonts, scripts or images from any other server, so reading it generates no requests beyond this domain. The privacy policy and the cookie policy describe that in detail.

It is also not an official source for any product, not a news publication, not an investigation and not a personal blog. It is a workbook published by a company that is paid when some readers follow a link, and it is written so that it remains worth reading when they do not.