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InspectAPedia.com Policy on Use of Website Content & Photos

MAKING ELECTRONIC COPIES OF our WEBSITE CONTENTS (such as copying our pages, content from our pages, or our graphics to another website or into email) IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED - this website is © protected material, all rights reserved.

Making electronic copies (soft copies) of the contents of this website is expressly prohibited. Soft copies or electronic copies refers to acts such as copying our pages, content from our pages, or our graphics to another website or into email. This articles at this website are © protected material, all rights reserved. InspectAPedia^® is a Registered U.S. Trademark.

Making printed copies (hard copies) of Articles for Non-Commercial Use is welcomed. We would be pleased for readers to pass on to others links to articles or to use printed copies of articles or photos from InspectAPedia.com or if appropriate, to make and give away printed copies of our web page material in a class or professional presentation, printed text, printed article, or printed book, or in a classroom presentation, (such as power point slides that are not elsewhere reproduced electronically), provided you agree to respect these simple provisions: (Contact Us)

1. No electronic or website duplication: Our website content is not going to be reproduced electronically nor, for example, copied or mirrorred online at a website or sent by email. Printed or “hard copy” versions of our web pages can be made and distributed without cost or restriction provided you leave the content un-changed and its source is identified.
2. Inform us of intended use: You tell us specifically what content, article, or photo(s) you want to use in printed form or in a classroom presentation (such as power point). If you can describe other items or topics of interest, we almost always can provide higher resolution versions. In addition, with a library of nearly 100,000 photos, we can often provide additional examples of things you need to illustrate.
3. Credit the material source: Printed or class room photographs, text, content of (or online web page links to) our articles must clearly cite either our website home page InspectAPedia.com or alternatively, the specific URL address of the specific website page and article from which the material was copied.
4. Changes or corrections: If you find that you want to make changes or corrections to our material let us know. It is important that corrections are also made to the original – an action for which we are happy to give full credit, citation, links, etc. to our critics and contributors. (Contact Us)
   
   You can find the file name of any photo you’ve seen at our website by using your mouse to “right-click” the image, then click on “properties” and you’ll see the file name displayed. Just copy that into your reply. Of course you can “save” these © protected images to your disk with the same method, but we would be glad to provide better quality versions for the purposes you’ve suggested, and it avoids an accidental appearance of improper use later on.
   

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