Terms of Use

Age of User

By using the Website, you confirm you are at least 16 years of age or have received consent from your parent or guardian to do so. The Website and its content have not been designed for use by children. However, it is designed for anyone interested in learning and researching sign languages, which may include people of any age.

If you wish for a user's personal data to be deleted, then please first refer to our Privacy Policy. You may then contact us by email with the address listed Contact Us page.

Change of Terms

We reserve the right to make changes to the Terms. Any changes we may make to the Terms will be posted on this page. Certain provisions of the Terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website. The new version will become effective on the date it is posted, which will be listed at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Website after any changes constitutes your acceptance of such change.

Limitation of Liability

We are not liable for any damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary loss, special, incidental, or punitive damages, whether arising in an action of contract, negligence, tort, or any other action. The SLD makes no warranties or representations of any kind that the services provided by this Website will be uninterrupted and/or error-free, or that the Website or the server that hosts the Website are free from viruses or other forms of harmful computer code.

Indemnity

You agree to protect, indemnify, and hold harmless the Website against any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, actions, and causes of actions, including expenses, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising out of third-party claims and/or actions based on your use of the information, products, and/or services offered on the Website.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us, which is why we created a separate privacy policy to explain in detail how we protect your privacy. Our privacy policy is included under the scope of the Terms. By continued use of the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the Privacy Policy.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies on the Website and similar technologies in our app and other software. Our cookie policy is included under the scope of the Terms. By continued use of the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the Cookie Policy.

Service Access and Management

While we endeavor to ensure that the Website is available 24 hours a day, we shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance, or repair, or for reasons beyond our control.

Change of Use

The Website reserves the right, in our sole discretion and at any time, to change, modify, amend, alter, or remove (temporarily or permanently) the Website, its content, or any part of it without notice and you confirm that the Website shall not be liable to you for any such change or removal.

Third-Party Websites and Services

Links to third-party websites are provided by SLD in good faith and for informational purposes only. SLD disclaims any responsibility for the actions, content, materials, products, or services provided by another website linked on the Website. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating and we do not warrant the offerings of any third-party services (including the content of their websites, their website availability, or their product or service pricing). In addition, SLD does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, content, materials, products, or services of any third-party website.

Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owners of all intellectual property rights in the Website. All content on this Website and our products are protected by the United States intellectual property laws, including all copyright and trademark laws. All content and materials available on SLDictionary.org, including, but not limited, to videos, text, graphics, Website name, code, images, and logos are the intellectual property of SLDictionary.org, and are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law. By using the Website, you are agreeing not to violate our copy rights. The SLD, and/or any other names of products or services provided by the SLD and referred to on the Website are either trademarks or registered trademarks of the SLD.

Any commercial or for-profit use of the Website's content or materials, including but not limited to reproduction, distribution, display, or transmission, requires written authorization by the SLD.

Notwithstanding the foregoing and where applicable, copyright of each illustration that appears on the Website is owned by the rights holder(s) named in the caption for that illustration. All rights are reserved.

Dictionary Entries

The dictionary entries published on this Website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license requires the following:

• Attribution. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the SLD endorses you or your use.
• Non-Commercial. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• Share Alike. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
• No additional restrictions. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Full text of the legal code pertaining to this license can be read online at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en.)

Articles and Downloadable Content

Supplemental information is provided on the Website in the form of articles, which describe the conventions used in generating the Website and its content, and in the form of pdf files, which are available as downloadable content. These articles and files are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license requires the following:

• Attribution. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the SLD endorses you or your use.
• Non-Commercial. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• No Derivatives. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
• No additional restrictions. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Full text of the legal code pertaining to this license can be read online at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.en.)

Third-Party Content

The SLD includes some words that have or are asserted to have proprietary status as trademarks or otherwise. Their inclusion does not imply that they have acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance, nor any other judgement concerning their legal status. In cases where we have some evidence that a headword has proprietary status, this is indicated in the entry for that headword, but no judgement concerning the legal status of such words is made or implied thereby. Please read our Editorial Policy for a description of how words are chosen for entries in the SLD.

Please note that it is also the responsibility of the user to perform due diligence regarding the intellectual property rights of the content on third-party websites, as these may differ from those of the Website.

Permitted Activities

Under the Terms, users may only use the Website's content and materials for non-commercial use. Users wishing to copy, print, or save the text of entries may do so under the protection of the Fair Use doctrine. Users may access content on the Website and are permitted to:

• search, view, retrieve, and display content;
• electronically save content; and/or
• print out copies of content.

Prohibited Activities

You may not misuse the Website, including, without limitation, by hacking. In your use of the Website, you are prohibited from performing the following activities:

• Removal or alteration of the copyright notices or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear on the Website's content or materials.
• Permit anyone to access or use the Website's content or materials for profit.
• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of the Website's content or material for any purpose except as permitted by law or as authorized by SLD.
• Display or distribute any part of the Website's content or material on any public or private electronic network, including without limitation on the internet and the World Wide Web, for profit.
• Use any of the Website's content or materials for any commercial use.

You are also prohibited from posting or transmitting any material to or from the Website

• that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
• for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and/or approvals;
• that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or
• that is technically harmful, including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data, or other malicious software or harmful data.

Governing Law

You agree that the Terms shall be exclusively governed in accordance with the laws of and the courts in the United States of America. You also recognize the global nature of the internet and the Website and thus agree to comply with all applicable local laws in your jurisdiction when using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this legal notice will preclude SLD from applying to any court to bring an action for the infringement of its intellectual property rights.

Infringement Complaints

SLD respects and takes the protection of intellectual property rights seriously. If you believe that any content on this Website infringes your copyright and you wish it to be taken down, please send us a written notice by email that includes:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed or, if multiple copyrighted works from a single website are covered by a single notification, a list of such works on that website.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity that is sufficient to allow SLD to identify and locate said material.
4. Your address, telephone or videophone number, and an email address where you may be contacted.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please send this notice to our designated agent by email at:

sldictionary.org@gmail.com