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Digital Copyrights: Don’t steal someone else’s hard work unless they have given you permission. If you take something from someone withOUT permission, at least have the courtesy of attributing them their work or linking back to their site. Some very talented people struggle to earn an income on the internet and spend their precious time writing, creating or designing just to have you come along, snag their work and get credit for it….meantime, people are copying the image you stole and using it themselves and you don’t care because you stole it yourself! So then it gets into the public domain and now the author or artist is screwed out of any income making possibility just because you decided it might be “cute” on your website. So at least attribute! You never know; They may link you back just because you’d be offering them publicity! But at least give the owner of the image or text the credit. You dishonor yourself when you plagiarize, steal, or try to take credit for something that is not yours. The person you’ve stolen from may contact your ISP or your whomever and accuse you of copyright violation in mild cases, to the more severe cases in a cease and desist legal letter. If you think you’re clever and anonymous on the internet, then you’re an internet newbie or ignorant.

Stealing Bandwidth or Hotlinking from my site. Please don’t do it.

Hotlinking is when a person uses a code to render an image from my server to their website. It’s theft. I may replace the image you’re hot-linking with one that may be illegal for your website. I absolutely will replace it if I see that not even an attempt was made to try to give me credit or a link. Even with permission to use an image of mine with correct attribution doesn’t mean you may use my bandwidth too. It bogs my server down and that means I pay for it.

This is your only warning. If you hotlink an image of mine you WILL receive, instead, an image of my choosing. I do not do this to be mean but to protect my bandwidth.

Instead! If you want to use one of my images on your website [with correct attribution please] use a free image host like photobucket or image shack!

Accessing this site, registration & commenting.

Registration not necessary. You do not need to register with this site in order to comment. However, when you comment, an email address will be required that will not be published. It will also not be collected, harvested, sold, distributed or used to send you anything other than if you have decided to receive updates to the comments. In that case, it’s an automatic distribution to your email and not a personal notification.

Commenting. I have the right to not allow or delete your comments. I will not edit your comments so if you think you shouldn’t have written something you probably should take that part out because I will simply delete it if I find it questionable. I will delete comments that flame, harass, threaten or are otherwise vulgar or breaks any law that I know of. I am not responsible for the content of comments though I will do my best to keep this a safe place to respond. You may disagree with me; Add links to your comments; Make suggestions and so forth! I value your comments.

Blatant rudeness, trolling, inflammatory or commenting for the sake of spamming will be deleted without hesitation. Your IP may also be banned. Depending on the severity of your offense, your ISP may be notified.

Spam. I have two spam filters for comments in place. I may blacklist your IP. I may block your email. I may not let your comment through. I may report you to your ISP. I may report an open port to a hijacked server. I may track you down and report you criminally. So, don’t abuse my server. Thanks.

Links, Affiliates, and other off-site links.

I will do my best to make clear the links that lead offsite. I will do my best to never link something that is questionable, dishonorable, engaging in spyware, adware, tracking cookies and so forth. The policies in place to offsite links and other websites will be different than mine but be aware that if I ever gain knowledge that a website I have linked has turned over to the dark-side I will either de-link it, de-list it, or refuse sponsorship from it.

Sponsorships and paid advertisements.

Like above, I will do my level best to not accept paid advertisements for sites that I find questionable. I will block ads that I find offensive. I will disallow websites in exchange for money that I find questionable. I will do this so as to provide the best non-intrusive experience at Living Within Samsara possible. If you find something offensive or you have something to report or some concerns please contact me. I want to know your thoughts or your experience. If I have blocked you wrongly, please contact me about that too.

Content. The content at this site is influenced in no way shape or form by my sponsors or paid advertisements. If, however, I receive a donation with a request to write an article about something, that article will be clearly noted.

Site statistics, cookies, and tracking you.

This site collects non-personal aggregate data using various counters and trackers. I do this for advertising purposes, abuse prevention, and general information about where traffic is coming from and for performance. Your IP is recorded and logged. This information will not be made public in which to ever personally identify you or to invade your privacy unless it is needed for law enforcement due to inappropriate behavior on your part. Your information is safe here.

Contact Me.

If you email me, your email address is safe. I am not a company. I am a person and only one at that. If any of these policies concern you or you want to ask a question or make a comment or complaint, email me.