Terms of Use

General

This website aims to be an environment that fosters and encourages the respectful and productive exchange of ideas. This site is not affil­iated to or bound to any movement, organi­zation or other external entity. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the content on the site and to partic­ipate in the discussion in a way that upholds the philosophy of this site and that is in line with the principle of humanity and common decency that is sometimes identified as the “golden rule”: conduct yourself towards others as you would have them behave towards you.

Privacy

This site does not share any personal infor­mation about visitors to the site with third parties, nor does the site owner store data collected during your visit to this site for any use other than to analyze content perfor­mance through the minimal use of trackers and/​or cookies. You can turn off the use of cookies on this and other sites at any time by modifying your internet browser’s settings.

The site owner is not respon­sible for the repub­lishing of the content found on this blog on other websites or media without our permission.

Intellectual Property

The materials used and displayed on this site—including but not limited to text, software, photographs, graphics, illus­tra­tions and artwork, video, music and sound, and names, logos, trade­marks and service marks—are the property of the site owner, unless otherwise specified, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Any such content may be used solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

Site users agree not to modify, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, dissem­inate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any such material without the prior written permission of the site owner. The site owner grants users a personal, non-exclusive, non-trans­ferable, revocable license to use the site and any materials on the site for non-commercial purposes, subject to these Terms of Use.

The site owner will make every effort to identify any material used on this site that is copyrighted elsewhere, and to provide links or refer­ences to the relevant intel­lectual property owners.

Comments

Comments are welcomed and encouraged on this site. There are, however, some instances where comments may be edited or deleted:

  1. Comments deemed to be spam or of a questionable nature will be deleted.
  2. It is permitted to include a link to relevant external content, but all comments should be relevant to the post topic.
  3. Comments including profanity, insults, vulgar language or other content that could be deemed offensive or irrel­evant, including commercial links, will be deleted.
  4. Comments that attack a person individ­ually will be edited or deleted.

The owner of this blog reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this blog without notice.

Disclaimer

The content presented on this blog is provided for infor­ma­tional purposes only, on an “as is” basis at the user’s sole risk. The owner of this blog makes no repre­sen­ta­tions as to the accuracy, quality or completeness of any infor­mation on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be respon­sible or liable for any errors, omissions or inaccu­racies in this infor­mation, nor for any user’s reliance on this infor­mation, nor for any losses, injuries or damages from the display or use of this infor­mation. The user is solely respon­sible for verifying the infor­mation as being appro­priate for his or her personal use.

Changes

All of the above Terms of Use are subject to change at any time. The site owner reserves the right, at his sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms of Use without notice.

If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please contact the site owner.

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This page was last updated on: 10 January 2020

Image credit: Anastasia Zhenina (source)