The content of this website is designed to provide information on author JC Duarte and his books and stories. By accessing this website, you (as user) agree to the terms and conditions outlined in this Terms of Use document and the accompanying Privacy Policy statement. Please review the Privacy Policy outlined in a separate document on this website. The manager of this website reserves the right, at his sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use and the accompanying Privacy Policy at any time.

 

OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHTED

The material and content of this website is protected by copyright and may not be copied, reproduced, uploaded, republished, posted, transmitted, publicly displayed or distributed in any way without the expressed written consent of the copyright holder and/or his agents. You may download portions for your personal, non-commercial use. This website may contain material obtained from third-party websites. We do not have control or copyright of such material and any use of third-party material must adhere to their terms-of-use guidelines.

 

INFORMATION PROVIDED

If, by using this website, you provide information, such as name and e-mail address, or other content, you are giving permission for this website to store messages, e-mail and other data for the private use of this website and its manager. If you submit or upload any content to this website, you hereby understand that you will not receive any compensation and/or royalties for uploading the material to this website. You also understand that uploaded content will not be used in any form or displayed on this website without your permission. You hereby also guarantee that you have permission, necessary rights, licenses and/or permissions to upload or provide content to this website and that you are not in breach of or infringement of any copyrights, trademarks, proprietary rights or privacy and publicity rights. This website and/or its manager are not responsible for any unauthorized content, from third parties, found in any uploaded material.

 

IMPROPER USE

You may not upload any content that features abusive, advocating or discussing activities which could be considered or are illegal, bigoted, defamatory, harassing, hate-related, infringing of copyright or trademark, invasive of privacy, obscene, pornographic, sexually-explicit, violent and/or vulgar. This website reserves the right to edit, modify or outright remove any content at his sole discretion, that the manager deems not to conform to the website policies. You will not upload a virus, Trojan, worm, back-door device and/or time bomb, which could disable, erase or otherwise affect the operation of this website. You may not try to obtain material from this website through any means not readily made available through normal access to this website.

 

UNSOLICITED MATERIAL

We will not accept unsolicited manuscripts or other materials and will take no responsibility for any materials sent to the website.

 

PURCHASE POLICY

Purchased materials will be sent to the purchaser via the e-mail address provided at the time of purchase within 24 hours of confirmation of payment being received from PayPal.

 

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

VISITORS TO THIS WEBSITE DO SO AT THEIR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE, AND/OR ITS MANAGER, IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. WE MAKE NO ASSURANCES THAT THIS WEBSITE IS FREE OF ERRORS NOT THAT ANY ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED IN A TIMELY MANNER. FURTHERMORE, ANY MATERIAL YOU DOWNLOAD FROM THE SITE YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL NOT HOLD JC DUARTE, THIS WEBSITE OR ITS MANAGER IN ANY WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS YOU MAY INCUR IN DOWNLOADING MATERIAL FROM THIS WEBSITE. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND DEFEND THE WEBSITE, ITS OWNER AND MANAGER, AND THE HOLDERS OF ANY THIRD PARTY CONTENT FOUND ON THIS SITE HARMLESS FOR ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, COSTS AND EXPENSES. THE MANAGER OF THIS WEBSITE RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT HIS SOLE DISCRETION, TO TERMINATE OR SUSPEND ACCESS AND/OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY PART OF IT FOR ANY REASON AND AT ANY TIME WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. THE MANAGER MAY ALSO, AT ANY TIME, MODIFY, DISCONTINUE, TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY DISABLE THIS WEBSITE, OR ANY PART OF IT, WITH NO PRIOR NOTICE. THE TERMS OUTLINE IN THIS TERMS OF USE DOCUMENT CONSTITUTE AN AGREEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE WEBSITE, ITS OWNER AND MANAGER AND YOU, THE USER, AS TO THE USE OF THE WEBSITE AND SUPERCEDES ALL OTHER PROPOSALS AND/OR COMMUNICATIONS. EACH OF THE SECTION TITLES IN THESE TERMS OF USE HAS NO LEGAL OR CONTRACTUAL STANDING AND IS FOR CONVENIENCE ONLY.

 

COPYRIGHT

This website, its owner and manager respect the intellectual property of others and encourages visitor and/or users of this website to do likewise. If you believe any copyrighted works, yours or of others, has been used, on this website, in anyway breaches copyright law, please contact the manager of this website and provide the following information:

1. A description of the copyrighted work you believe has been printed on the website.

2. A description of where you believe the copyrighted material is located on the website, including a link if possible.

3. Your name, street address, phone number(s) and e-mail address.

4. A statement by you stating that you are making the claim in good faith that material used is not authorized by the copyright owner or his/her agent.

5. A signature, physical or electronic, of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

6. A sworn and/or notarized statement by you indicating that you are the copyright owner, his/her agent or person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner or his/her agent.

Notices of copyright infringement should be sent to: Winnie Chapman, Chappuccino Books at 767 Phillip Murray Avenue, Oshawa, ON L1J 1J2 Canada or, by e-mail at chappuccinobooks@gmail.com. Please write Copyright Agent in the subject line in e-mail communications.

 

EFFECTIVE DATE AND CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

The policies and procedures outlined above will remain in effect until or if changes are made. We reserve the right to make changes and updates to this website's Terms of Use document from time to time, as we deem necessary. We will not notify users or any changes made to our Terms of Use. When updates are made, we will simply show them by changing the date above.

The policy outlined above is in effect as of JANUARY 1, 2015.