GSWC Terms of Use

The GSWC website is copyrighted. Materials available on the GSWC website are protected by the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. When you access the GSWC website, you agree to the following terms.
 
Terms of Use
  1. As a new GSWC member, you must create a personal password in order to prevent incidents that could cause a privacy or copyright violation. The initial password supplied to you is only temporary; it is insufficient to prevent unauthorized access to the website because it would be easy for others to guess.
  2. You may download and display the contents of the GSWC website for informational purposes only.
  3. You may save a local copy of individual items or print them (1) for your own personal use, (2) for limited educational use, or (3) for professional genealogical research. 
    1. You may not charge for such use.
    2. You may not copy any part of the GSWC website to post or publish on any non-GSWC website without explicit written permission from the GSWC. This includes any indexes compiled by GSWC volunteers or donated to the society and published on our website. 
    3. You may not copy the entire GSWC website to post or publish on any non-GSWC website.
  4. You must include the copyright notice in any copy that you make. 
  5. The copyright to any articles published in the GSWC journal, Family History Capers, is held by the Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Inc., unless otherwise specified.
  6. You may not change the materials found on the GSWC website without written permission from the GSWC.
  7. No portion or element of this website may be distributed, sold, displayed, or altered without express written permission in advance.
  8. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976, all other rights are reserved.
 
Requests for reproduction
 
You may request permission to use the copyrighted materials on our website by mail, email, or through our online form.
        
Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Inc.
P.O. Box 7155
Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7155  
info@washtenawgenealogy.org
 
Third party material
 
The permission to reproduce copyright protected material does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorization to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
 
Authors of articles to be published in the journal, Family History Capers, must specify at the time of submission if they wish to retain the copyright.
 
Linking to this site
 
Information from this site is not to be passed off as your own including copying or re-using parts of the website.
 
We encourage you to link to our site, and request that you link to higher level pages whenever possible. Lower level linking is permitted but can create a problem as the page to which you link may move or become unavailable.
 
Where appropriate to the context of the link, it is good practice to indicate the “Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County” to which the user will link.
 
Reporting a copyright violation
 
If you know of any unlawful material on our website, or any material or activity that breaches this notice, please let us know by mail, email, or through our online form.
        
Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Inc.
P.O. Box 7155
Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7155  
info@washtenawgenealogy.org
 
§  Acceptable use

You must not use our website in any way that is illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or that causes damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, or accessibility of the website.
 
You must not perform any automated data collection activities including scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting on our website without our express written consent.
 
§  Enforcement of copyright

We take the protection of our copyright very seriously. If we discover that you have used our copyrighted materials in violation of this notice, we may bring legal proceedings against you, seeking monetary damages or an injunction to stop using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.
 
This document was created in part using a template from SEQ Legal (https://www.seqlegal.com). GSWC Board approved Policy September 8, 2020 
mmcc 9/9/2020; 1/20/23 SLB; 7/25/24 jht