Terms of Use

References hereinafter to "the webmaster," "me," "I," "we," or "us" refer to Anthony Atkielski. "This Web site," "these Web pages," and "this site" refer to the Web site from which you retrieved this page. "Non-human visitors" refers to automated hardware or software devices that access this site without the direct and constant intervention of a human being and/or without displaying at least some part of retrieved text and graphic content from this site for immediate viewing by a human being; non-human visitors include, but are not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other computer programs designed to access, read, compile or gather content from this site automatically.

This Web site is provided to you subject to the following terms and conditions. By visiting this Web site you accept these terms and conditions. Please read them carefully. Any non-human visitors to this Web site shall be considered agents of the individual(s) who controls, authors or otherwise makes use of them. The access rights granted to you under these terms are non-transferable without the express written permission of the webmaster.

Special access rights apply to non-human visitors, as indicated hereinafter.

Except as otherwise noted below or on other pages, this entire web site is

This site is not intended for viewing by residents or citizens of France.

The terms and conditions on this page were last modified on August 20, 2023.

Trademarks, Service Marks, and Copyrights

Anthony’s Home Page, Atkielski, ATKIELSKI.COM, ATKIELSKI.NET, and ATKIELSKI.ORG are service marks of Anthony Atkielski.

All other trademarks and service marks appearing on this site are the property of their respective owners, and their appearance here does not represent endorsement or approval of this site by the owners of the marks.

Disclosure

The webmaster has no financial interest in any of the companies mentioned on this web site. Nothing on this site is intended as investment or other financial advice or counseling. Forward-looking statements and speculations that may be found on this site (excluding entries in the Guest Book, for which the webmaster declines all responsibility—see General Disclaimers, below) are opinions of the webmaster and are based exclusively on information publicly available at the time of their publication. This site is maintained at the sole expense of the webmaster and receives no funding, endorsement, or other support from any other organization or person. No payment is required of or solicited from visitors to the site, and this site contains no advertising.

Restrictions

Reproduction, storage or retrieval on a medium other than the visitor's own PC browser cache, translation, redistribution, archival, server caching in excess of 24 hours, publication, and retransmission of any content from this site are all prohibited without the written permission of the webmaster.

Direct linking into any page in this Web site except the home page obtained via the URL http://www.atkielski.com/ is discouraged without the written permission of the webmaster. Submission of a URL within this site to a search engine or any other organization in writing by the webmaster constitutes such permission for the specific organization and URL so referenced. Walking and indexing of this site by public, freely-accesible search engines are also permitted, provided that the search engine recognizes and respects either the META tag for robots standard or the Robot Exclusion Standard.

Notwithstanding the above, visitors are encouraged to point others to the home page of this site, at https://www.atkielski.com.

Special restrictions on a visitor's license to access this site apply to non-human visitors.

Electronic mail ("e-mail") addresses on this site are considered proprietary intellectual property. These addresses are provided for the use of human visitors alone. You acknowledge and agree that each email address the Website contains has a value not less than $US 50. You further agree that the compilation, storage, and/or distribution of these addresses substantially diminishes the value of these addresses. Intentional collection, harvesting, gathering, and/or storing this Website's email addresses is recognized as a violation of this agreement and is expressly prohibited.

Acknowledgements

I’d like to acknowledge (but not thank) the American legal profession, without which these seventeen pages of legal caveats, disclaimers, warnings, acknowledgements, disclosures, waivers, copyright notices, citations, and credits would scarcely be necessary.

General Disclaimers

All opinions expressed on this site (except those expressed by signers of my Guest Book) are those of the webmaster alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his past or present employers or clients, any companies hosting his web sites, the owners of trademarks or logos appearing on this site, or anyone else at all in the entire universe.

Although the webmaster endeavors to link only to carefully-selected external sites, he expressly declines all responsibility for the content of other sites to which this site is linked and over which he has no control.

Although the webmaster has made his best effort to ensure that information contained on these pages is timely and correct, he cannot be responsible for accidental errors and omissions.

Content Disclaimer

Content on this site, including but not limited to computer software, is provided “as-is” and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The webmaster does not warrant that the content will function as documented or be free of errors, does not provide any technical support for the software or correction of errors or defects therein, and does not warrant that the content or this site or server upon which it is hosted will be free of viruses or other potentially harmful software entities. The webmaster additionally does not warrant or make specific representations concerning the use of software contained on this site or the results that may be obtained therefrom, with respect to correctness, reliability, precision and accuracy, or anything else. By downloading and using the software contained on this site, you assume full responsibility for any maintenance, reconfiguration, or corrections made necessary thereby. Additionally, if you download images from this site for your own use with the implicit or explicit permission of the webmaster, you agree and accept that you assume full responsibility for any property or model releases, licenses, or other authorizations obtainable from third parties that may be necessary for your intended use of the images in your applicable jurisdiction, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the webmaster, his agents, and his assignees against any legal action instituted against you or them by third parties for any infringement or other tort or crime in intellectual property law.

E-Mail Disclaimer

When conducting business with us based on any contact originally established through this site (such as an e-mail address or form obtained from or used on this site), you accept and agree that e-mail sent to you by us is deemed sent for legal purposes at the time the last e-mail server under our direct control transmits or attempts to transmit the e-mail to any other server en route to you. You assume responsibility for any loss of e-mail due to any spamming or other filtering policy that your ISP or any system under your control or operating in such capacity at your request or on your behalf may enforce. You additionally agree that any obligation to us of which we notify you by e- mail is not eliminated by your failure to receive the e-mail because of said filtering or spamming policies. Finally, this disclaimer remains in effect irrespective of any bounce messages send by the aforementioned systems under your control or direction.

Privacy Policy

This site may collect information concerning visitors in either of two forms: (1) automated logging of all visits to the site for the purposes of collective statistical analysis and security auditing; and (2) collection of information volunteered by visitors in the form of feedback submitted via the Feedback page.

Logging of visitor activity is carried out automatically by the system and includes information concerning every access to the site by every visitor. The accumulated logs thus produced, which contain information on IP addresses, dates, times, pages visited, browser types, and URLs referenced, may be analyzed by the webmaster to prepare collective statistics on site usage and to audit for possible security problems; they are then discarded. No long-term record of site logs is kept. Information in the logs is not shared with any other party except where legally required. The logs in themselves do not permit direct identification of visitors to the site.

Feedback generates private e-mail that is sent directly to the webmaster. This e- mail is retained by the webmaster for a variable period, depending on the subject matter and the need for a response to the e-mail, if any. Information in feedback messages is not shared with any other party, except when legally required.

Use of the feedback function of the site is entirely voluntary and is not required of any visitor at any time as a condition of his visit. No part of this policy shall be construed to guarantee any retention of any information collected from visitors for any purpose or duration.

This site uses a technical cookie (a PHP session ID) to assist visitors' browsers in navigating the site. It contains no personal information.

Grant of License

By using this site and in consideration thereof, you agree to grant to the webmaster and his agents, representatives, and heirs a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, and fully-paid license for the contents of any e-mail you send to the webmaster using any address mentioned on this site, as well as for any content you submit voluntrily to the site. You accept that this grant remains in force no matter what text to the contrary you may include in the content. You additionally agree that this grant shall be and remain binding upon your agents, descendants, and heirs. You represent and warrant that you hold or are entitled to dispose of all rights in any of the content you send, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the webmaster from any action taken against him by anyone as a consequence of any failure on your part to secure unencumbered title or disposal authority over all rights inherent in the content you send.

Limitation of Liability

The webmaster shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages resulting from the use of, or the inability to use, software or any other information, files or data contained on this site, under any circumstances. This is true even if the webmaster and/or his agents and/or representatives have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the webmaster be liable to you for any damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort [including, but not limited to, negligence] or otherwise).

The above constitutes the entire agreement between you and the webmaster. It replaces and supersedes any previous agreement established by means of these Web pages. Any portion of the above that shall be unlawful, void, or unenforceable for any reason, shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and/or enforceability of any remaining portions of the above.

And if you’ve read this far… it must be a really slow day!