Site Terms

TERMS OF SERVICE

Last Updated February 15, 2017

Welcome to SacredEcology.com, operated by SACRED ECOLOGY (“Sacred Ecology”). By using the services offered on www.SacredEcology.com (the “Sacred Ecology Website”, “Website”, or “Site”), and viewing the content published such as photography, films, artwork, design, writing, etc (“Content”), you are agreeing to the terms and conditions set forth below (the “Terms of Service”). We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Service at any time. You can always check out the most current version of these Terms of Service and when they were last updated here at the top of this page. If you do not understand and agree to these Terms of Service, please do not use the Sacred Ecology Website. If you have any questions or concerns regarding these Terms of Service, please let us know by contacting us. By using this web site you are agreeing to be bound by the current version of these Terms of Service.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

All portfolio Content created, published, and distributed on this Website is owned by Sacred Ecology or their respective copyright holders and protected under international copyright law. You may not copy, download, reproduce or distribute any of the Content on this website without the written permission of the copyright owner. If you want to share our Content, please feel free to do so by sharing links directly to our Website at anytime. If you are interested in purchasing or licensing the Content on this website for your own commercial or editorial use, please contact us. We would be happy to assist you. If you are interested in sharing our Content for educational or news purposes, please contact us and we will give you information about our fair use policies, such as providing artist credits and links to our Website. We reserve all our rights.

Our non-profit educational blog is dedicated to uplifting people and projects that are doing good work in this world. We love sharing the stories and projects of ecology experts, environmental activists, permaculture educators, indigenous elders, cultural leaders, filmmakers, artists and musicians that we admire from around the world. The blog portion of this Website contains copyrighted material the use of which has or has not yet been specifically authorized by the credited copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of environmental, spiritual, cultural, scientific, political, human rights, and social justice issues. It is believed that this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on the blog portion of this website is distributed without profit for research, discussion, and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this website for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. If you have any complaints or objections to Content posted on the Sacred Ecology Website because it was not properly credited or it was posted without permission and you are the copyright owner, please contact us with your contact info and a link to the Content. If your complaint is about a video embedded on our Website, please note that Sacred Ecology does not host any videos directly on our Website. All of the videos are embedded through sites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc, using their embed feature. If you are the copyright holder and wish the video to be removed from our Website, please let us know. However, to fix the issue at its source you will want to file a copyright claim with the video hosting site.

PRIVACY POLICY

Sacred Ecology is committed to the privacy of everyone who visits our Website. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you subscribe to our newsletter, make a donation, or add comments to our Website content. All supplied information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology on a secure server. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, unless required by law. The email address you provide for registering or subscribing to our newsletter will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to Sacred Ecology news and updates. If you make a donation to Sacred Ecology using Paypal, we only collect your name, email, the amount and date of the donation.

When you visit SacredEcology.com, our systems collect basic information about your computer, including: IP address (your computer’s unique signature), operating system (e.g., OSX, Windows), browser software (e.g., Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome), Internet Service Provider. We also collect information about what you view on the site. This information is used to understand website statistics and internet demographics.

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