Our Copyright and Privacy Statement

PRIVACY AND TERMS OF USE

This Terms of Use and Privacy Policy/Statement is accessible via each and every page on the Siriusly Sirian web site; therefore, use and/or access of this web site by anyone and everyone implies agreement and compliance to this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy/Statement.

The Siriusly Sirian web site (SiriuslySirian.com) and any and everything on The Siriusly Sirian web site is copyrighted property belonging to the owner.

All essays, poetry, and books by anyone else will be identified with their own copyright data, and are considered personal, copyrighted property of the author and ARE NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN. Copying or using them without permission is prohibited by Copyright Law. By using anything on the Siriusly Sirian web site, you are agreeing to the Terms of Use.

Definitions:

Commercial Web Site: If you sell ANYTHING on your web site it is considered a commercial web site. Anything includes even raffle tickets, or services, or where it encourages people to contact you regarding purchasing anything.

Non-commercial web site: This is personal, educational (accredited school/college), 501(c)(3) Non profit corporation, and ministerial sites. The keywords here are personal and/or not for profit sites.

* If a web site has a ‘created by' logo/information on any page of its site, then you must obtain written permission to use any of the coyrighted information on that web site.

Rules for use:

1. You must abide by the terms as outlined by Copyright law (Library of Congress, www.loc.gov).

2. You may obtain permission for use, or buy any books, poetry or essays from the copyright owner by simply contacting the webmaster at webmasterss@SiriuslySirian.com and explaining what you are interested in.

3. If you use anything on this site, it requires a link back to SiriuslySirian.com. Use this link: http://www.SiriuslySirian.com

4. Bandwidth Theft: (the following is provided by www.BoogieJack.com)

Never link to an image file, sound file, or other file types on someone else's site unless you have permission - it's a crime - and it's easy to get caught! This is called hot-linking. It is bandwidth theft because the other person's server has to send data (bandwidth transference) to your site. This slows their site and yours down, and costs them money if they go over their bandwidth allowance. This is NOT the same as linking TO someone else's site to send visitor's there. Hot-linking is calling someone else's file to your server.

Many free graphics sites get tens of thousands of visitors each week. If 1/10th of the visitors that come here linked to just one graphic on my server, in just one year I'd be paying for bandwidth used on over 100,000 sites - for people that aren't even visiting my site!

If these sites only got ten visitors a day, that's 1,000,000 times per week my bandwidth is being stolen! You can see why sites shut down because of the high cost of popularity. People like me, who provide free things for everyone's enjoyment and benefit, end up paying money out of our pocket for illegal linking. That's just not fair, to me or my visitors - because illegal linking slows down the host site for the real visitors.

Graphic artists and designers do not deserve to lose their web sites because of this ever-increasing problem. Please be kind enough to allow us that give so freely to keep enjoying what we do. If not, the best graphics sites will disappear and you will have to pay for every graphic you use. No more freebies!!!

You Can Easily Be Caught!

People don't realize how easily they can be caught stealing bandwidth and images. Each time a file is called from the server, it is recorded in what is called a log file. If you link to a graphic on someone else's server, it records the web site that the file is called from, so if you link illegally to someone else's files, each time your page is accessed by anyone, that is recorded.

You may think if you signed up with a free host you can get away with it. Perhaps you used a fictitious name and address when you signed up, and even used a free email account. All that doesn't matter.

Every time you create, modify or add to a free web site, or just send an email from your computer or a free account, your IP address is logged. Your IP address can easily be tracked to your ISP, who has logs of which account has used which IP address on what date and time. You are never completely anonymous on the Internet. These are the same files the FBI uses to catch child pornographers, hackers, and other nefarious types.

What The Law Says

Log files are considered legal evidence and you can be sued for stealing bandwidth (or copyrighted property). At the time of this writing, damages can be awarded up to $100,000 plus proven costs. Proof of monetary loss isn't necessary for damages to be awarded.

My images are watermarked so copyright protection is intact even if you use screen capture software to obtain the image. I haven't had to sue anyone, but I have had offenders sites shut down and they've lost their ISP accounts. I'm very serious about protecting my original content, as are all quality sites. Keep in mind I've only done this with sites that were violating my copyrights and refused to cooperate with my cease and desist request. I'm not looking for a fight, only to protect what I've worked so hard to develop.

In Conclusion...
The long and short of it is, don't steal images or bandwidth. It could mess up your entire life if you were taken to court and forced to pay 6 figures in damages. It's just as easy to do things right. Think about it!

end of Boogie Jack's commentary

Any poetry, essays or books on this site cannot be used for commercial purposes whatsoever, nor can they be distributed for any reason other than personal enjoyment, unless otherwise noted. If you have any questions or wish to use said materials commercially then you must contact the appropriate copyright owner at webmasterss@SiriuslySirian.com. I have been known to give written permission for a commercial site to use my works without payment. Simply contact me, explain the circumstances and ask. I am not an unreasonable person. If in doubt at all, then contact me. It is better to be safe than sorry.

SiriuslySirian.com does not collect any personal information from those accessing this site.

Any advertising on this web site does not solicit information from us or you through us.

We do not sell e-mail addresses nor do we compile them for any purpose whatsoever. At no time is the personal information found on our Guest Book used in solicitation of any kind.

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SiriuslySirian.com is not responsible for and/or will not be held accountable for the content of any links within SiriuslySirian.com, and makes no guarantee of products, services, statements, pictures or graphics or points of view from any such sites, to include government sites.

SiriuslySirian.com will not link to, nor does it advocate, pornographic sites or material whatsoever.

SiriuslySirian.com is not responsible for the content or accuracy of articles, stories, accounts or statements, pictures or graphics, or points of view of any other web site or agency that we reference or link to.

SiriuslySirian.com reserves the right to remove any link or reference to any other web site or agency at our sole discretion without warning, notice, or other form of contact to any person or party. We also reserve the right to remove inappropriate comments from the Guest Book and/or Forums section.

By viewing this privacy policy/statement you agree to the usage of SiriuslySirian.com and all pages therein.

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FAIR USE NOTICE OF INFORMATION/MATERIAL THAT IS NOT EXPLICITLY UNDER THE COPYRIGHT OF SIRIUSLY SIRIAN: This site may contain copyrighted material which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in an effort to advance the understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 (US Copyright Law). In accordance with said reference to the copyright law, the material on this site that is not copyrighted by Siriusly Sirian, is distributed without profit to those who have expressed an interest in receiving said material, for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.

If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owners. The owners and publishers of these pages on SiriuslySirian.com states that the material presented herein is offered to the public so that it might encourage everyone to research more on their own. We do not encourage "devotee-ism" nor "True Belief." We DO encourage the seeking of Knowledge and Awareness in all fields of endeavor as the best way to be able to discern lies from truth. We constantly seek to validate and/or refine what we understand to be either possible or probable or both. We do this in the sincere hope that all of mankind will benefit.