At the behest of our host, TypePad, we now present the one, the only, the amazing and incredible: PRIVACY POLICY AND FINE PRINT of 2GQ/New Oregon Arts & Letters! Wa-hoo!
AHEM. This site and the artists/writers who post on this site may use your email address for purposes of contacting you. We may send you newsletters or invitations to attend events. We might even, in one of our more somber moods, send you one of those online greeting cards with the little smiley faces and dancing frogs.
However, we will not give or sell your email address to others. If you'd like to be on said mailing list, send email to neworegonarts (at) gmail.com with the word "subscribe" in the subject header.
We will not harvest creepy information about your private life and sell
it to Facebook. We don't really care what you buy, or what you search
for on Google. Any data we might collect, accidentally or otherwise,
about your online browsing habits, is unrelated and unattached to your
identity. For example, if you visit our site from Korea, our general
logs might show that we had someone log in from Korea. We won't know
who was in Korea, their age, or whether they like to visit Smurf fan
sites in their spare time. If we ever get around to installing a search
function, we might look at the logs and see that someone searched on
the phrase "Martian performance artists" or "spider cannibal beachball
bingo." Again, we won't know which of our charmingly freakish readers
initiated the search. It's just raw information about who's hitting our
site.
FOR THOSE WHO'D RATHER BORROW OUR CONTENT THAN CREATE THEIR OWN...
Remember that contributors to this site own their own words, photos,
etcetera. You have the right to quote from these materials or otherwise
use them in the Fair Use legal sense. PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN USING THE WORK PUBLISHED HERE.
In many cases, our authors and photographers will graciously allow you
to use their materials gratis, free of charge. In other cases, they
will tell you to go frack yourself. Our site often uses materials
created by professionals. Their job is writing and making stuff. They
are kind enough to create stuff for free, for our site. Let us please
not take advantage of their kindness.
IF YOU END UP STEALING OUR STUFF ANYWAY...
please have the decency to credit the author/creator and link to the original source, e.g. this site.
YOU OWN YOUR OWN WORDS…
…but by posting here, you agree to give us permission to use and
publish those words, and any other content you provide for us such as
video, photography, animations, illustration, snippets of code, and
cherry pie.
WE ARE NICE…
… up to a point. If you are kind enough to provide edited content for
our site for little or no payment, we will do our best to accommodate
your needs over time. For example, if you wrote a dirty poem in 2003
and then decided to become a schoolteacher in 2009, you might ask us to
change the attribution of your poem. We would do our best to
accommodate you.
However, if you wrote a naughty book and we happened to review it, or interview you about it, we would not remove the review or interview in the future (yes, someone asked me to do this at an online magazine I edited years ago).
AND THAT STUFF YOU POST ON THE BLOGS…
Also, blog comments are not editable. Once you post 'em, they live in
"cyberspace" forever. Maybe you need to count to three before you post
anything too wild. We retain all non-exclusive publishing rights to all
blog posts here. In other words, you can do what you want with those
words, but so can we. We are not trying to jack you on this policy;
monitoring blog comments is not logistically possible for us.
THE FINE PRINT
Contributors to this site retain copyrights to their work unless
otherwise specified in writing. However, all contributors to this site
(including writers, commenters, photographers, videographers,
designers, and any other content developers, providers, creators,
engineers, illustrators, and coders) agree that by posting to this
site, or sending material for publication to this site's editor(s), the
contributors give to the purveyors of this website the non-exclusive
right to publish the contributors' work on this website or in archived
future iterations of this website's content, in perpetuity, on any
planet, forever. Rinse, lather, repeat. Amen.
THE GRATUITOUS IMAGES on this page have nothing to do with the privacy policy or with any of the written content contained herein. Their purpose is purely gratuitous, e.g., to provide "visual interest." These snapshots were taken by Ms. T. L. Brown of her cemetery artwork, of a piece she made out of dead seagulls on the beach, and of a Scrabble game.
Words spelled in the Scrabble game may have been written by other authors, such as Terror Bunny or Big J.D. Maybe even Frayn. Ms. Brown did not photograph the picture of herself and Guenevere at the latter's wedding on the high seas. Someone else must've taken that. We used it without permission, apparently. That's the kind of wacky Internet world we live in.
