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Disclaimer
Privacy Notice
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Web Site Guidelines
These guidelines are not intended to restrict the use of this Web site (including Dutch Perspective); they merely serve as a code of conduct, a few things about what users can expect from this Web site and what I expect from the users.
Raison d'être
A mission statement would not be fitting for this Web site; however, there is a purpose for the site’s existence, a purpose that mainly serves its author. The primary reason for this Web site’s being is to provide a platform for my résumé and portfolio; followed closely by my thoughts and opinions; and completed by other “bits and pieces” and writings on public relations and media, cultural affairs and advocacy, international affairs and travel.
Disce, vive et exhibe
This personal fundamental principle – in the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci and his assertion that inaction saps the vigor of the mind – might be the best description of what this Web site is about: learn, live and display.
Code of Conduct
Users shall:
- Identify themselves — name and, when relevant, role at a company;
- Make clear that they are speaking for themselves and not on behalf of a company;
- Try to add value and provide worthwhile information and perspective;
- Be the first to correct their own mistakes, and shall not alter previous posts without indicating that they have done so;
- Respect the audience.
Users shall not:
- Post confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information that has not been made public and is related to a company’s policy, inventions, strategy, financials, products, etc.;
- Post content that is illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable;
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Web site;
- Impersonate, or misrepresent their affiliation with any other person or entity;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems through the Web site;
- Engage in spamming or flooding.
If users submit content:
If users do post content or submit material, and unless I indicate otherwise, you grant me a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.
It is my policy to review all content or materials before publishing, partly to reduce the possibility of spam and partly to ensure content and materials are in line with the Web Site Policies as outlined here. I respect freedom of speech and I do reserve the right to edit, move or delete any content or materials at any time, for any reason.
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Disclaimer
Liability Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed on this Web site (including Dutch Perspective) are the opinions of their respective author(s) and do not represent the opinions of any other person, organization or entity unless noted otherwise.
For Web pages and documents available from this Web site (including Dutch Perspective), its respective author(s) do not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product disclosed.
Endorsement Disclaimer
Reference on this Web site (including Dutch Perspective) to any specific commercial products, process, service, manufacturer, or company does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by its respective author(s) unless noted otherwise.
Web pages (including Dutch Perspective) may provide links to other Web sites for the convenience of users. I am not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites, nor do I endorse, warrant, or guarantee the products, services, or information described or offered at these other Web sites. Users cannot assume that the external sites will abide by the same policies to which this Web site (including Dutch Perspective) adheres.
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Privacy Notice
Users of this Web site (including Dutch Perspective) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy. I use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Any or all visits to this Web site (including Dutch Perspective) are subject to the Web site policies.
We collect no personal information about you when you visit this Web site, except where otherwise stated, unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically:
- the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of the host from which you access the Internet (i.e. 123.456.789.012), whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP);
- the browser type and version you are using to access the site;
- the operating system and version you are running on your machine;
- the date and time you access our site;
- the pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page);
- and, the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.
I use the summary statistics to help me make this Web site more useful to visitors (such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors) and for other purposes such as determining the Web site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.
This information is not shared with anyone beyond the support staff for this Web site, except as required for site security purposes, to ensure that this Web site remains available to all users, and when required by law enforcement investigation. We use the information only as a source of anonymous statistical information, and no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
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Some Rights Reserved
Under this license, you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and to make derivative works under the condition that you attribute the work to the author or licensor and do not use this work for commercial purposes. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder and your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Please read the Legal Code (the full license).
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