Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture

Legal Statement

Notice and Terms of Use

Unless otherwise indicated, this Web Site (www.sephardicstudies.com AND/OR www.sephardicstudies.org) and its contents are the property of the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or partners. The site and its contents are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright and trademark laws. By accessing this Web Site, you agree to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree, you have no right or license to access this Web Site and you should not do so.

GENERAL TERMS

You may not modify, copy, distribute, republish, commercially exploit, or upload any of the material on this Web Site without the prior written consent of the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture. No intellectual property or other rights in and to this Web Site, other than the limited right to use set forth above, are transferred to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture and its employees, agents, suppliers, and contractors shall in no event be liable for any claims, charges, demands, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses of whatever nature and howsoever arising, including without limitation any compensatory, incidental, direct, indirect, special, punitive, or consequential damages, loss of use, loss of data, loss caused by a computer or electronic virus, loss of income or profit, loss of or damage to property, claims of third parties, or other losses of any kind or character, even if the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture has been advised of the possibility of such damages or losses, arising out of or in connection with the use of this Web Site or any Web Site with which it is linked. You assume total responsibility for establishing such procedures for data back up and virus checking as you consider necessary.

POSTINGS

To the extent that portions of this Web Site (such as "guest books" or "bulletin boards") provide users an opportunity to post and exchange information, ideas and opinions ("Postings"), BE ADVISED THAT Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture HAS NO OBLIGATION TO SCREEN, EDIT, OR REVIEW POSTINGS PRIOR TO THEIR APPEARANCE ON THIS WEB SITE, and Postings do not necessarily reflect the views of Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture shall in no event have any responsibility or liability for the Postings or for any claims, damages, or losses resulting from their use and/or appearance on this Site.

The Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture reserves the right to monitor all Postings and to remove any which it considers in its absolute discretion to be offensive or otherwise in breach of these terms and conditions.

You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to all Postings you provide and all material they contain; that your Postings shall not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties; that your Postings shall not contain any viruses or other contaminating or destructive devices or features; that your Postings shall not contain any defamatory, indecent, offensive, tortious, or otherwise unlawful material or content; and that your Postings shall not be used to carry out or solicit any unlawful activity and/or be sued to make commercial solicitations.

You hereby authorize the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture to use and/or authorize others to use all or part of your Postings in any manner, format, or medium that Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture or such other parties see fit. You shall have no claim or other recourse against Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture for infringement of any proprietary right in Postings.

INDEMNIFICATION

You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture from and against any and all claims, charges, demands, damages, liabilities, losses, expenses, and liabilities of whatever nature and howsoever arising (including but not limited to any legal or other professional fees and the costs of defending or prosecuting any claim and any loss of profit, goodwill, and any other direct or consequential loss) incurred or suffered by the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture directly or indirectly by reason of any act or omission which you commit in breach of these terms and conditions and the obligations and warranties contained in them.

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Additional Guidelines for Webmasters on Linking/Repurposing/Permissioning

We at the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture are very active participants in the Internet culture, and we appreciate and support its openness. However, please don't mistake our lack of password protection for leniency--we take copyright violations very seriously.

Repurposing our Source Code

All of the source code on this site is copyrighted, whether html, javascript, or otherwise. If you would like to use our source code for any reason, please send a request to questions @ sephardicstudies.com

Linking

Establishing standard hypertext links to our Websites is a welcome extension of Internet culture, and we invite links to our Websites. We require no formal notice that you've linked to our site, although you may email us to let us know you've done so. This will allow us to notify you in the event that the URL for a site changes, or if we remove content from our site.

Note: however that the current practice known as "framing" where a link is established in such a way as to display our content in some form other than it is displayed in full view by our server, or otherwise displaying our content only partially, or without our copyright notice, is definitely uninvited and unwelcome. Note that we are very willing participants in Internet culture (and we provide all of our content to the Internet community free of charge), but we do take copyright very seriously.

Repurposing Components of our Website

Removing pieces of our Website and incorporating them into your own Internet pages always requires formal permission in writing.

Permissions

To request permission to use any of our copyrighted content, please write us directly at questions @ sephardicstudies.com All requests will be treated on a case by case basis.