Thank you for visiting Our Fourpence Worth. In order to ensure that all users (including ourselves) are able to enjoy this site, we have outlined a few policies in regards to use of this website. Your use of this site indicates your agreement to these terms. If you have any questions in regards to these terms or anything else related to this website, please feel free to contact us.

Disclaimer

We are not professionals in the fields to which our content relates. All information and suggestions contained in this site reflect our opinions based on personal experiences and research done for personal purposes, and are provided here for your information only with no guarantees. We suggest consulting a professional and/or other sources of information before making any important financial decisions.

Links to 3rd Party Sites

Links to 3rd party sites, whether commercial or informational, are for your information only and do not constitute a warranty or guarantee of information, services or products offered therein. It is recommended that you refer to each site’s terms of use and privacy policies.

Comments Policy

Due to the high number of spam comments, comments are moderated before being published. We reserve the right to disapprove any comments that we feel are inappropriate. These include comments that we feel are irrelevant to the topic or disrespectful to us and/or other users of this site. We reserve the right to edit any comment submissions (for typographical, spelling, format, etc.) if we feel it necessary, and also website links to commercial sites.

Spam of any kind is not tolerated. We utilize a filter which catches spam comments of all sorts including trackback spam, so please do not waste your time or ours as your comments will be automatically filtered and bulk-deleted.

Due to the spam filter and high number of spam comments, legitimate comments are sometimes inadvertently marked and deleted as spam. If you have left a legitimate comment that has not be approved within a couple of days, it is possible that this has happened to your comment. Please try leaving your comment again and contact us to let us know.

When filling out the comment form:

• Please use your name or nickname and not your website name or a promotional tagline. This may result in your entire comment being deleted or the name being changed to “Anonymous.”
• Please use a valid e-mail address.
• We reserve the right to remove links to commercial sites

Privacy

Comments and Subscriptions

Your email address (required for submitting comments, link exchanges or contact forms) will not be shared with anyone, and will only be used to contact you if necessary regarding your submissions. If you subscribe to our email feed (managed by FeedBurner), you have the choice to opt-out at any time.

Cookies

Cookies are used to retain your comment information. If you do not with to have your visits logged by cookies, you may disable or block them in your browser preferences.

Sites we link to or display advertising for may use cookies and other methods to collect your visit statistics. Please refer to the privacy policies of other sites you visit for more information.

Click here for our Privacy Policy with regards to cookies and information collection.

Intellectual Property and Copyright

First of all, a note about copyright and why we have a copyright policy:

Each article or original image represents up to several hours’ worth of effort before being presented here for your enjoyment or benefit. We therefore ask that you respect our efforts and comply with our policies.

Content

If you wish to share our content with others, please link to our articles instead of copying the content. We do allow trackbacks to our posts (so long as they are relevant and legitimate) which will include a link back to your site in the comments section at the end of each post.

No part of the any of the written content of this site is to be copied, distributed, reproduced, printed or published elsewhere, online or offline, without our written consent save for the following exception:

You may quote up to 4 sentences of a given article so long as you acknowledge the source with a link back to the cited content. We would appreciate it if you would the following in your citation: Article title (link – Trackback O.K.), author name and website title (link): Our Fourpence Worth.

Images

Original Graphics

All original graphics are the property of Our Fourpence Worth and may not be copied, distributed or displayed elsewhere. The majority of our graphics were created by Madoline Hatter (sometimes tagged as “by E.S.M.” in the image properties) and the rest by Penelope Pince (sometimes tagged as “by Aubrey”). Those not labeled with a creator’s name are still original graphics by one of us.

Most of our original graphics are available for purchase on merchandise from Our Fourpence Worth/Pecuniarities Store. Readers who have enjoyed or benefited from our content can help support the continued running of this site by purchasing these products for themselves or as gifts. To read more about our store, please refer to this post: Announcement: Our Fourpence Worth Store.

Logos, Trademarks and Branding

Logos, banners, trademarks, branding, etc. of companies whose links and advertisements are displayed on this site are the property of the respective companies. Use (copying, altering, distribution and displaying) of such items is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the company’s terms of use if you wish to use their logos, etc.

Public Domain Illustrations

All illustrations other than graphics created by us have been released to the public domain due to expired copyright and are labeled with the description and creator’s name in the image alt tag. Many are obtained from Wikipedia and other public domain sources such as Project Gutenberg. To view the image alt tag (alternate text), mouseover the image if using Internet Explorer, or right-click and select Properties to view the alternate text.

If you wish to use any of these images, please search for them on the Internet using the keywords from our alt tag (author name and/or description) and observe any copyright and usage policies before using them.

Public Domain Photographs

All photographs (with the exception of those tagged “Photo by Petr Kratochvil”) are the property of Our Fourpence Worth. Photos tagged “Photo by Petr Kratochvil” in the alternate text of the image properties have been released into the public domain by Mr. Kratochvil and can be obtained from http://publicdomainpictures.net which contains an impressive collection of high-caliber photographs that he has generously released to the public.

Hotlinking

Hotlinking (linking to an image from our domain) on your own or any other site is prohibited. If you wish to use any of the public domain images displayed on our site, please search them out on the Internet using the description from our alternate text, and once you have verified that your intended use for that image is permissible, upload it to and link to it from your own server or image sharing account.

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Thank you again for visiting Our Fourpence Worth. We hope you enjoy your visit and come back again soon. And please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.