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This page exists to provide you with information on these important topics:
Copyright Matters
Copyright notices, how you are permitted to use our content, and rights of authors who submit their work for publication here. |
Our Privacy Policy
Privacy when viewing our pages, when using public information areas, and when accessing content provided by others. |
Terms of Service
What you may access on this site and expectations about your conduct, linking to our site, and framing of our content. |
Copyright
All material at the Longwave Club of America site is ©1995-2008 by John Davis; or is copyright by authors who are identified on individual pages; or by others whose work is quoted briefly under provisions of fair use, whether copyright is explicitly asserted or not. (In some cases, multiple ownership may apply. Wherever one of our documents identifies its author by name, the text of the page and the author's original graphics the intellectual property of that author; while all aspects of the HTML implementation, including scripts, active controls, style sheets, Web page layout, and any graphics added by us, are property of John Davis and LWCA.) All rights are reserved by their respective owners.
Your privileges as a reader. You may use documents and files at this site without charge and without prior permission, only under the following terms:
1. Your own use. All material you can access from this site by legitimate means (see "Access," below) may be used for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. This explicitly does not extend to distributing our content on the Web or in other media, unless you are the original author or unless you have our permission.
2. Sharing with others. Single copies of most lwca.org documents or files may be distributed to other private individuals on a person-to-person basis at no charge (but not from a file server, peer sharing arrangement, BBS or other publicly accessible source, without permission). However, there are stricter requirements for particular pages. Where additional restrictions apply, such terms will be stated on each affected page, or will be linked therefrom. Please note that any content you access via links to other sites, not stored on the lwca.org server, is intellectual property of others and is subject to their terms of service.
Your rights as an author. If you submit an article or other content for publication at this Web site or in any Longwave Club of America print publication, such as The LOWDOWN, you retain copyright to your work and are free to adapt or publish it anywhere else that you like. We accept material on the basis of a non-exclusive perpetual license for the work as it exists at the time of its first publication by us, unless you and we mutually agree to some other terms in advance. Conversely, we retain all rights to our HTML code and any illustrations we may create to accompany your work; therefore, please ask before "borrowing" any of the lwca.org files used in the display of your article.
AMONG THE RIGHTS WE EXPLICITLY ASSERT AND RESERVE:
- Contents of this site MUST NOT be mirrored on another server or distributed in electronic form, without written consent of the LWCA Webmaster.
- Our material MUST NOT be framed on any other site. See additional discussion of links and frames below.
- Republishing material from this site in any non-electronic form requires both our permission and that of the individual author.
This should not be considered an all-inclusive list of the copyright rights we reserve! To obtain permission to redistribute, or to report possible intellectual property concerns with material at this site, please write to the webmaster at the address at the bottom of this page.
Privacy Policy
We value the privacy of both our member and non-member readers, and apply the same policies to both. We want you to enjoy our service, so we provide this information to help you avoid any unwanted surprises during your online visit. Issues which affect your privacy here can be broken down into three categories: Your general viewing of this site, your use of public information areas like the Message Board, and what happens when you leave this site.
1. General Access to This Site. We do not require you to register or provide any personal information to read ordinary, publicly available pages at this site. The lwca.org server does not place cookies on your computer when you read such a page, nor do we regularly track what pages any individual user visits. However:
• We do require registration for some specific services. We do not sell or share your e-mail address or any other information you give us as part of the registration process. We will direct your attention to any additional policies specific to these services at the point of registration.
• If you do register for specific LWCA services, these may employ cookies from time to time. Registration for e-mail groups, for example, may involve cookies that are used one time only during confirmation of your registration, and are never accessed again. If you sign up to post in the LWCA Longwave Community Center, and choose to be automatically "remembered" when you log in, a cookie will remain on your hard drive. It contains only enough information for the server to recognize you as a registered user, but no personal data about you.
• Advertisers with banners on our pages, or third parties who may at various times serve content to our pages, are not bound by our internal policies. If you are concerned about them having access to cookies on your computer, many modern browsers provide a setting to let you block third-party cookies.
• Be aware that our server does record certain basic log files that are common to all Web sites. These contain no personal information, and we normally use these logs only to determine popularity of our various pages or identify problems users may have in accessing pages. Because information in these log files also relates to the operational integrity of the site, we do not make some services available if your browser or security software refuses to transmit all customary types of header information with your request to the server! For example, if you attempt to post to the Longwave Message Board, blocking information about your browser version or the URL of the page from which you are posting will result in your request not being processed. Make this a Trusted Site in your Internet Explorer and/or other security settings if you wish to post on the Message Board or use the beacon updater tools.
2. Public Information Areas of This Site. If you use the Longwave Message Board; if you send a listing for a LowFER, MedFER, or HiFER beacon; if you submit an article, picture, sound clip or other content for publication; or if you use any other service we may in future provide for the express purpose of exchanging information with other readers; then whatever information you voluntarily provide to be viewed by the public is stored on our server. Since we cannot prevent so-called robots and webcrawlers from gleaning information you choose to post in public information areas, you should always exercise discretion regarding how much personal information you divulge online. It's much the same principle as an office bulletin board. Be selective...don't post anything in a public area that you wouldn't want others to see.
• Emails to the Webmaster are considered the same as letters to the editor, and may be published online and/or in print. If you ask that some or all of a message to the Webmaster not be published, we will try our best to honor that request.
3. Linked Content From Elsewhere. Our pages contain links to other Web sites to which you may jump directly, and may sometimes incorporate content fed to our site by other providers. Any time you follow a link which takes you to a page not residing on the lwca.org server, our own privacy policies no longer apply. You should therefore review those other sites' privacy policies when you visit them.
Note: Notwithstanding any provisions of the LWCA Privacy Policy, our hosting provider reserves the right to investigate and deal with attempts to compromise the server's integrity, and may assist authorities investigating violations of law.
Other Terms of Service
Access. This site contains many documents and other files intended for public use, and others which are for internal use, or which exist solely for benefit of LWCA members or other groups.
- You may view the contents of any file which is not hidden or password protected.
- You may access password protected content if you have been given the password by authorized LWCA staff. It is a violation of these Terms of Service to otherwise: attempt to list or view any hidden or password protected content on this server; attempt to modify any content of this site in any way whatsoever; or, attempt to issue commands to be processed by the server.
- Some of our content areas are subject to additional rules of conduct, such as the LW Message Board and e-mail group posting policies. Such rules are available through links on the affected pages.
Links. Anyone with a Web page is welcome to link to our home page, and to most other pages of our site, under these conditions:
- You may NOT imply the LWCA's endorsement of any product, nor of your site. (We consider frames to be such an impermissible implication.)
- You may NOT link to any page on our site that requires a username or password to access.
- You may NOT link to the LW Lobby page, nor any page containing a form to search the contents of this site.
- If you link to any part of our site other than the home page, please DO check the link(s) periodically, to ensure that your readers will not be disappointed if we move the page elsewhere or discontinue it.
Frames. You shall NOT place our pages in frames, ever, under any circumstance! This is a practice for which we previously gave permission on a case-by-case basis, but it has continued to be abused and the requirement for permission has been blatantly disregarded. Therefore, all permission for frames was revoked early in 2007 per our previously reserved right to do so. If your site has any of our content framed, you are expected to remove it promptly. (Optionally, you may replace the frame with a link to our site that opens in a new browser window or tab.) Failure to comply with the no-frames requirement may result in public identification of your site as an infringer of intellectual property rights, and will result in prosecution under international law wherever practical.
Questions/comments about this site? E-mail: mb@lwca.org
Unless you request otherwise, your message may also be included in our online Message Area, and/or printed in The LOWDOWN at the editors' discretion.
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