Copyright of Submissions.

As an open-community website, Exploring Chán welcomes submissions of poetry, photographs, artwork, and other materials for consideration of publication on this site. All materials selected for publishing, received by email or other means, including but not limited to, pictures, drawings, photographs, original or creative materials or other information, are deemed non-confidential and are protected by copyright under the Berne Convention to the original authors/creators.

Limited Freedom to Copy Materials.

Website visitors may freely copy electronically, and print hard-copy excerpts of this Web site (and materials herein) only for non-commercial use, provided that the materials are not modified and any copyright or proprietary notices are retained and reference is made to the originating source of the material.

Any other use of the materials on this Web site – including any commercial use, reproduction for purposes other than described above, modification, or republication – without the prior written permission from the author, is prohibited.

No Guarantee of Validity.

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with Exploring Chán, in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for extended use of the information contained in, or linked from, these web pages.

No contract; limited license.

Information on this website is provided freely, and no agreement or contract is created between contributors of materials and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is hosted, the individual contributors, any project administrators or anyone else who may be connected with the subject or to claims against them directly. While visitors are granted a limited license to copy anything from this site, it does not create or imply any contractual or extra-contractual liability on the part of the Exploring Chán or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

Copyright Infringement by Postings.

By submitting items for posting to this site through any means, the submitter warrants to us (and we rely on this warranty) that such items are known by the submitter to be in the public domain, and he or she agrees to indemnify Exploring Chán against all claims, damages, or losses arising from an action alleging infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights in such work.

We undertake no duty to determine the validity of any claim of copyright. Upon receiving written notice that any item posted on this site is believed to infringe a copyright or other proprietary right, we will remove said work and will not permit its re-posting.

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