Legal Info and Terms of Use
Unfortunately, because this site is on the public internet, there are certain things that must be said or done to protect not only ourselves, but also those visiting here.
As such, as much as I hate to do it, I find myself in the position of having to formalise certain aspects of this site. It bothers me that things such as this must be done in our times, but that is the nature of the modern legal system. Especially when this website spans across both American and New Zealand laws.
Copyright Notice
Copyright © 2005-2009 by Stephen Cropp. All Rights Reserved.
Content on stevesramblings.com is owned by Stephen K Cropp of Auckland, New Zealand.
All content is considered to be copyrighted at the time of publishing.
All rights are reserved. At no time may you reproduce any content owned by Stephen K Cropp, in whole or in part, without getting written permission from Stephen K Cropp. Fair use is welcomed, but you are asked to ensure there is obvious credit given and a link back to the original source provided. At no time may you pass off the content of this site as your own.
Content on this site from other sources is clearly marked and links back to the original source are in place where ever possible. All content from other sources has been used under the “Fair Use” doctrine of copyright law or with licensed permission of the original copyright holder. Reproduction of such work by persons other than Stephen K Cropp must be obtained from the original rights holder, or used in compliance with the Fair Use clauses of appropriate copyright law.
Terms of Use
Features and functions are provided on this site that allow for third party interaction with the site via comments or directly posting content. Using any of these features is considered to be an agreement of the following terms.
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You agree that all content posted to this site, whether in comments or via other methods, is your own, or you are the copyright holder for said content. You warrant that the downloading, copying and use of the content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
You warrant that you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the content;
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By putting content onto this site in any form or via any method, you provide Stephen K Cropp with an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty free, and assignable license to use, reproduce and have reproduced, modify and have modified, publically perform and publicly display the the content and distribute reproduced and modified copies thereof in any means he deems fit. Stephen K Cropp may also incorporate the content or any concepts described in it in any other sites or products, regardless of medium, without accountability or liability;
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Posting of unsolicited commercial content, in any form, is not accepted nor tolerated. You agree not to place any such content on this website. This includes, but is not limited to, content manually generated by a person, randomly generated, or machine generated, and automatically or manually submitted to this site.
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Posting any content that breaks the laws of the United States of America or New Zealand is strictly prohibited and will not be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to
- unlicensed copyrighted content of any kind (such as software, music, movies, TV shows)
- Hate speech, racial or ethically objectionable statements,
- Libellous or defamatory statements,
- Obscene, pornographic or otherwise objectionable material
- Non public, suppressed, or censured, information about any legal proceedings before any lawful legal court within the United States of America or New Zealand.
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You warrant that any content posted to this site does not violate the privacy of any person or entity.
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Stephen K Cropp remains the owner of this site and as such reserves the right to remove or delete any content, for any reason. This includes, but is not limited to, user comments or any content submitted by any 3rd parties.
The decision of Stephen K Cropp is final.
Privacy Statement
At no time will any information collected by Stephen K Cropp about users or members of this site be shared, sold or otherwise deliberately disclosed with any third party without a legally compelling court order.
At any time when using this website, our server logs publicly available information your browser provides. This information can include, but may not be limited to :
- The date and time of your visit
- Your IP address
- Your browser software and version
- The operating system and possibly version of operating system running on your computer
- The screen resolution of your monitor at the time of your visit
- Whether your browser supports or has enabled Javascript
- The web address of the site or web page that referred you to this site
On its own, none of this information contains anything that would allow anyone to personally identify you or any information about you. All this information is made available by your web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) when you are using the internet.
Posting content to this site, including comments, requires that you do identify yourself with a name and email address. It is at this point that, when combined with the above information, it is possible to individually track a persons usage on this website, but with a high degree of error if the computer is shared between multiple people.
When you post content to this site, to make it more convenient for you in the future, some of the information you provide is placed in a cookie that is stored by your browser. On subsequent visits to this site, that cookie is read by the software running on this site. Please consult the documentation of your browser for information on deleting and blocking cookies if you do not wish to have cookies from this site stored by your browser.
Third Party Services
StevesRamblings.com makes use of third party services and products on this site. Please consult the privacy policy of those third parties for more detail about what information is collected by those third party services and applications.
Currently, the third party services on this site are: