Difference between revisions of "AquaPedia:General disclaimer"

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No formal peer review

Certain revisions are "Reviewed" and indicated to be "Stable" by administrators for glaring inaccuracy and major issues. However, this should not be construed as a peer review. Also, all "unnaproved" or "unstable" revisions are still publicly viewable, and are marked as "unreviewed."

All information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them. None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with AquaPedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

No contract; limited license

Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual AquaPedia contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of AquaPedia or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and AquaPedia regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA); neither is anyone at AquaPedia responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on AquaPedia or any of its associated projects.

Trademarks

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Personality rights

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Jurisdiction and legality of content

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