Privacy Policy

This is an educational, non-profit website. By using this website, the user agrees to the following conditions.

The material on this website, including historical photographs and maps, are republished with the permission of copyright owners, if any, for non-profit educational and research purposes. In order to honor copyright permissions, this website does not allow downloading historical photographs and maps. This website is not responsible for any manipulation contrary to terms of use, or for any use of historical photographs and maps for non-educational purposes.

The source of each historical photograph is listed in the caption underneath it. The source of each historical map is listed in the individual information page of each map. 

Published original material including essays, photographs, and artworks are attributed to its author(s).

All current laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of intellectual property rights apply to this website, as well as other laws that can protect it or prevent attacks on its information, databases, drawings, images, videos, sounds, logos, and ideas.  

The material contained in this website is protected by copyright law. Users may not copy, modify, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, transmit or broadcast all or part of the contents of this website in any way, including electronic or paper form, without the authorization of the website’s author.

This website is for general use except for the registration form where users insert private information (email address) that is handled confidentially.

This website is not responsible for the content of other websites that are mentioned or reachable by clicking links. Nor is it responsible for any material or moral damage that these websites may cause to the user.