Steven C. Buttgereit.com is offered as a free public service and marketing vehicle for Steven C. Buttgereit. By using Steven C. Buttgereit.com (herein 'the Site') you agree to the following terms, conditions, and the Site's privacy policy as listed below.

1. Copyright: All content and intellectual property on the Site is under copyright with the copyrights held exclusively by Steven C. Buttgereit unless noted explicitly elsewhere on the Site.


1. Use of third party material on the Site and related disputes: The Site makes every effort to ensure that it has not violated the copyrights or intellectual property of others or terms of license for the use of material on the Site. The Site will, from time to time, use the intellectual property of others in manner consistent with so called 'Fair Use' as defined by United States law. If you are an intellectual property holder and believe that material to which you hold rights to is found on the Site without your permission and is used in a manner not consistent with 'Fair Use', please use the 'Contact Us' form on this website to notify the Site administrators, including a URL to the offending content on the Site; the Site administrators will review the material and remove it if it is found to be used in a non-permissible fashion.




2. User Submitted Content: Comments or other materials posted by users of the Site remain the intellectual property of the posting user. User grants a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to Steven C. Buttgereit to make use of any comments, for any purpose, that the user submits to the Site and implicitly agrees to grant such a license by the act of posting comments on the Site.


1. Right to Post Content: Users of the Site agree to post material that is their own original work, to which they have the right to sub-license to the Site according to the terms of this agreement or that the material to be posted and which is the intellectual property of a third party is posted in manner fully consistent with the 'Fair Use' laws of the United States. Any content found not to comply with this term will be removed by Site administrators once made aware of its presence.


2. Grant of License to Content: Users posting comments or other material grants a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to Steven C. Buttgereit to make use of any such content, for any purpose including sub-licensing to third parties, that the user submits to the Site and implicitly agrees to grant such a license by the act of posting comments or materials on the Site. Users, by posting material to the site, represent that they possess the right to sub-license material as described in these terms. No compensation or royalty will be due the user or other third party as the result of this grant of license or the exercise of rights hereunder. Nothing in this term shall be construed to convey an ownership, in full or part, of copyright of a user's comment or other posted material to the Site.


3. Responsibility for Submitted Content: The Site, insofar as it accepts unsolicited comments and other materials from site users is an unmonitored public forum. Users posting comments or other material to the Site are themselves solely responsible for its content. The Site, its administrators and its affiliates do not exercise regular editorial controls on nor explicitly monitor user submitted content for any purpose. Site management will remove user submitted comments or materials that is brought to its attention and is either offensive, illegal or otherwise contradictory to the purposes of the Site.


4. No Advertising: Users will not post unsolicited advertisements for or links to for products or services that have not received prior approval by the Site's management. Users may include URLs and product & service information if it is part of a signature to a posting and if the user's posting in directly pertinent to the conversation at hand. Site management reserves the right to remove, at its sole discretion, any posting that comes to its attention that it deems to be a unsolicited advertisement in violation of this term. The Site's operators will be entitled to receive payment for hosting of the advertisement in the amount of $100.00 USD per day or fair market value, whichever is greater.


1. No User Accounts for Automated Postings (No 'Bots'): User accounts are to be created for and used by actual persons. All postings resulting from processing by automated scripts or otherwise autonomous computer programs, often times called 'bots', of any kind will be considered unsolicited advertising for the purposes of this term of service.




3. License to Use Site's Content: The Site's operators grant you a non-exclusive license to make use of the Site's original material in published or derivative works, of any form, without compensation or royalty, on the following in this term's sub-points. The Site does make use of third party material with it's own copyright restrictions and the Site may not have the right to sub-license this material. If there is question about whether the material is the original work of the Site, it is strongly recommended that you contact the Site operators for clarification prior to making use of the material.


1. That the original material of the Site that is published or made into a derivative work includes an attribution of the material to the Site ('Steven C. Buttgereit.com') as it's source.


2. That the attribution includes a link to or publication of the site's primary URL (http://www.buttgereit.com) or the link to the Site where the material being incorporated is originally publish, such at that which would be found in a bibliographic reference.


3. That the copyright of the original material of the Site is indicated with ownership of copyright for the material belonging to 'Steven C. Buttgereit' and is used by permission.


4. That any sub-licensing of the publication or derivative work to third parties also include the attributions and copyright notices listed above.


4. Governing Law: This agreement is governed by the laws of the United States and the state of California. You agree that the courts of California are the sole courts of competent jurisdiction for any disputes that may arise related to your use of the Site.


5. Severability: If any term of this agreement or the attached Privacy Policy are found to be unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, all other terms of this agreement and the Privacy Policy shall survive and remain in full force. Any term or policy that is found unenforceable in part will continue to apply insofar as parts of the term or policy are legally enforceable.


6. Change Without Notice: These terms, conditions, and Privacy Policy of the Site may be changed at any time and for any reason by the Site's operators without prior notice. Site operators urge Site users to consult the Site Terms of Service and Privacy Policy as published on the site regularly.


7. Privacy Policy: All user accounts, activities, and postings on this Site are subject to our Privacy Policy, a copy of which is located below.


8. No Warranty: The Site offers no warranty of any kind, express or implied, for any material posted on this site. USE OF THE MATERIAL OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK, THE SITE MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OF THE ACCURACY OF CONTENTS, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE, OR ANY REPRESENTATION OF MERCHANTABILITY OF ANY CONTENT ON THE SITE.

The Privacy Policy of the site explains what information we collect about you, including personally identifiable information, and how we might use this data. Use of this site indicates your consent to these terms of service.

1. Information We Collect: The Site may collect and indefinitely retain information about your usage of the site, including access logs, postings, and user accounts, including personally identifiable information such as your IP address, your user account, name, location, or other identifying information that we might have access to through your use of the site.


2. How We Use This Information: We use this information primarily to gauge the effectiveness of our site in reaching its targeted audience and for ways to improve the Site's reach or other marketing efforts. If you set up a user account, we may use this information to contact you from time to time regarding the Site, or the products and services it was created to market; you may opt out of any such marketing related communication. We may also use user account information to communicate to you regarding the status of your account with us for administrative or account maintenance related purposes; you may only opt out of this type of communication by requesting the termination of your account with us.


3. Sharing of Information: The Site may share anonymous or 'anonymized' information, in detail or aggregate form, collected from your use of the site with third parties for any purpose. The Site will not share personally identifiable information, such as email addresses or phone numbers, with any third party without your prior consent ('opt in'). Posting material to the site for public viewing indicates your consent to be associated with that posting (no anonymous postings).

A number of photos on this site were taken and processed by third parties. These photos to the best of our knowledge are either in the public domain or are licensed to the site. Below are the attirbutions for photographs used on the site.