The small print

Terms of Service

These terms cover lotfancy.org. Using the site means reading its figures, holding them against your own house, and following its links. They are written for that use and no other.

What this site is

This is the LotFancy catalog: first aid and wound care, hot and cold therapy, blood pressure cuffs and monitors, furnace filters and vacuum bags, sanding and workshop supplies, home storage, kitchen and party goods, toys, and office and craft supplies, with the size, the count and the rating printed where you can read them before you decide. It is a reference, not a checkout. Our retail partner takes the payment, ships the parcel and handles any return, and the contract of sale is formed there, on their terms.

Not medical advice

Nothing on this site is medical advice, and none of it replaces a clinician. Three notes below say where our health-adjacent products end and the public guidance begins.

A gel pack is a tool, and the public guidance on using it is short: ice goes on an injury for 20 minutes at a time, four to eight times a day, always wrapped in a towel rather than laid on bare skin, and never longer than 20 minutes, because past that point cold stops being therapy and starts being a cold injury of its own. Heat has its place too, and it is not the first three days: federal guidance keeps heat away from a fresh injury for 72 hours, because early heat feeds the swelling it is supposed to soothe.

Electrode pads carry their own placement rules, and they are not ours: clinical guidance keeps pads off the front of the neck, away from the eyes and mouth, and off the line of the spinal cord. Skin under a pad gets checked for soreness, a pad that reddens the same spot gets moved slightly, and gel that has dried out means the pad is finished. Our pads are replacement consumables for a machine you already have; the machine’s own manual and the clinician who recommended it outrank anything printed here.

A home blood pressure figure is information for your next appointment, not a lever on your treatment. The American Heart Association recommends home monitoring for everyone diagnosed with high blood pressure, prefers an automatic upper-arm cuff over wrist and finger types, and is blunt about the boundary: home monitoring does not replace doctor visits, and nobody stops or changes medication off a home reading without talking to their clinician. A cuff also has to fit the arm it measures, which is why the cuff sizes on our cards are printed in inches.

All three notes are written out of public guidance rather than out of our own testing. Every source behind them is named, with the date it was read, on our updates page.

Figures and photographs

Sizes, counts, MERV ratings and grits come from our product data. Prices move; the figure at the till is the one that counts, and where the two disagree, the till wins. Photographs show the thing being sold rather than a styled substitute, and a frame that argues with its caption is pulled rather than captioned around.

Questions

About these terms: fancy@lotfancy.org.