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Last updated: February 09, 2017
Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society (“TCGHS”) recognizes and respects intellectual property rights and are committed to fulfilling our moral and legal obligations with respect to our use of our and others copyright-protected works.
Copyright
Except for material in the public domain under United States copyright law, all material on www.tcghs.org (“Website”) is copyright TCGHS unless otherwise indicated. Materials are only meant for the viewing, research, and personal non-commercial use of the user. Copying or redistribution for commercial gain without permission of TCGHS is prohibited.
The nature of historical archival collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult to determine. Whenever possible, TCGHS provides information about copyright owners and other restrictions in the catalog records, finding aids and donor records. TCGHS provides such information as a service to aid researchers in determining the appropriate use of an item, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the user.
Images, footage and other content reproduced from the collections of TCGHS are for viewing, research and personal non-commercial use only. Permission for commercial use or any publication, manipulation, display or distribution must be pre-approved by TCGHS.
All material contained on the Website (including all software and other code) is protected by the United States and foreign copyright laws. Except as otherwise expressly provided by this copyright policy, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, transcribe, publish, license, modify, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Website without the prior consent of the copyright owner.
None of the material contained on the Website may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo-reproduction, recordation, or otherwise) resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of TCGHS. Violation of this provision may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
You may make single copies of materials displayed on the Website for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided that source attribution is given to TCHGS and all copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Website. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from TCGHS or the copyright owner of the copied material. Requests to reproduce materials on the Website for distribution or other purposes should be mailed to:
Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society
PO Box 312
Pekin, IL 61555-0312
Telephone: (309) 477-3044
Email TCGHS
Linking
Unless you are subsequently advised otherwise by TCGHS, you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content on the Website, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes the content as it appears on the Website and is not in any portion reserved for “Members Only”.
TCGHS reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time.
Under no circumstances may you “frame” the Website or any of its content or copy portions of the Website to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider’s incidental caching of pages. Each page within the Website must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising, and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising, or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within the Website.
Trademarks
Trademarks appear on the Website with the permission from their respective owners. Your unauthorized use of trademarks appearing on the Website may constitute trademark infringement, which could subject you to substantial civil penalties.
Copyright Infringement
TCGHS will not tolerate copyright infringement of any kind. TCGHS does not, however, monitor user-submitted materials for copyright infringement. If you believe that any material on the Website infringes your copyright, you may seek to have the material removed by sending TCGHS notice that includes all of the following information:
- Your full name, address and telephone number
- Your e-mail address
- Identification of the copyrighted work(s) that you believe is being infringed
- Identification of the infringing material and information sufficient for TCGHS to locate the material
- Your statement of good faith belief that (a) the material infringes your copyright(s), (b) the information provided in the notice is accurate, and (c) under penalty of perjury, you are authorized to act for the copyright owner
- Your physical or electronic signature
Direct such notice to TCGHS:
Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society
PO Box 312
Pekin, IL 61555-0312
Telephone: (309) 477-3044
Email TCGHS
Upon receipt of notice complying with the above requirements, TCGHS will act to remove infringing materials and, if applicable, send notice to the user that posted such materials on the Website.
If TCGHS removes materials posted by you as a user due to alleged copyright infringement, you may seek to have the materials reinstated by notifying TCGHS in writing, including the following information:
- Your full name, address, and telephone number
- Your e-mail address
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, including its location before it was removed or disabled
- Your statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material
- Your statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois (where TCGHS may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notice of copyright infringement or from such person’s agent
- Your physical or electronic signature
Upon receipt of a notice meeting the above requirements, TCGHS will send a copy of the notice to the copyright owner who initially claimed copyright infringement. Within 14 days following receipt of the notice, TCGHS will replace or enable access to the removed material unless TCGHS receives notice from the copyright owner who submitted the first notification that it has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the user that posted the materials from engaging in infringing activity.
Please note that parties who misrepresent that materials are infringing or were removed by mistake or misidentification are subject to substantial civil liability to TCGHS and/or the copyright owner or website user.
Changes to the Copyright Policy
Although changes are anticipated to be rare, TCGHS reserves the right to update this copyright policy at any time.
We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the information we collect.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, our copyright policy, the Terms of Use of the website, or other comments for TCGHS, you may contact us at
Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society
PO Box 312
Pekin, IL 61555-0312
Telephone: (309) 477-3044
Email TCGHS
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site.
You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this copyright policy periodically and to become aware of modifications. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those modifications.
