Copyrights and Restrictions

All information, written, coded and contained at and displayed, viewed and/or downloaded from the Internet sites which are operated by Ron Barbagallo and/or Animation Art Conservation, identified by the URL www.animationartconservation.com (animationartconservation.com), including all subdirectories and the documents contained within, is and shall remain copyrighted by Ron Barbagallo.

All written articles and other content written on this site, unless otherwise indicated is copyright © 1995-2003 by Ron Barbagallo. Reproduction, distribution, transmission, copying, republication, uploading, posting, compilation, recompiling, quoting or extrapolation by any means without the prior written permission of Ron Barbagallo is prohibited; there are absolutely no exceptions. All rights reserved.

The jpeg images of "before," "intermediary" and "after" treatments of damaged and repaired art and all other jpegs including the logo of "Animation Art Conservation" are © 2003 by Ron Barbagallo. Reproduction, distribution, transmission, copying, republication, uploading, posting, compilation, recompiling, quoting or extrapolation by any means without the prior written permission of Ron Barbagallo is prohibited; there are absolutely no exceptions. All rights reserved.

No copying, reproduction, republication, uploading, posting, transmission, compilation, recompiling, distribution, quoting or extrapolation in any manner from any images, jpegs, swfs, articles or written material published at www.animationartconservation.com can be done without the prior written permission of Ron Barbagallo. Copyright and other proprietary notices of all written material and articles written by Ron Barbagallo and published on www.animationartconservation.com is owned by Ron Barbagallo. All rights reserved.

Various characters, logos, names, and related indicia on said pages may be trademarks and/or copyrighted by other companies including, but not limited to: The Walt Disney Company, Time/Warner/AOL, Turner Entertainment, Inc., United Feature Syndicate, Inc., Cartoon Network, Twentieth Century Fox, MTV, Nickelodeon and various other studios, producers, creators or other such owners and/or copyright holders.

Any use of such characters, logos, names, and related indicia on this site is wholly without permission with the exception of permission of such characters, logos, names, and related indicia from the Walt Disney Company. The use of such characters, logos, names, and related indicia on this site is only used in the interest of fair use for scholarly and research purposes, as specified in 17 U.S.C. § 107; Ron Barbagallo and/or Animation Art Conservation makes no claim of ownership or control of any such artwork or characters. Any use on this site of copyrighted and/or trademarked material is used in a Nonprofit and Educational capacity to illustrate and expound on the facts regarding published material, and is only used in this capacity. You may only access and use the Materials presented on these sites for personal purposes. You may not modify or use the Materials for any other purpose without Ron Barbagallo and/or Animation Art Conservation's express written consent. You may not reproduce, republish, post, transmit or distribute any Materials on www.animationartconservation.com.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

By using this site, you signify your agreement to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, do not use the site. Access to and use of this site is revocable at any time for abuse of the system. Continued use of this web site acknowledges acceptance of these terms.

RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIAL

No written material from www.animationartconservation.com or any Web site owned, operated, licensed or controlled by Ron Barbagallo and/or Animation Art Conservation or any of its related, affiliated or subsidiary companies, may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, compiled or recompiled, or distributed in any way, without the prior written permission of Ron Barbagallo, except that you may download up to one copy of the materials on any single computer during the course of normal browsing for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices, or as otherwise specifically noted below.

Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of Ron Barbagallo and/or Animation Art Conservation's copyright and other proprietary rights. The user shall have no ownership rights in the material contained within this web site. The user shall have only the limited and revocable right to access and use the material contained within this Web site as set forth herein. Such right shall continue only as long as this Agreement remains in full force and effect, and the user is not in violation of any of the terms of this agreement. Ownership of said material and all intellectual property rights contained therein shall remain at all times with Ron Barbagallo and/or Animation Art Conservation.

This web site is a free web site and offers and provides it's services to any human browser at no cost. The site is a web site, specifically meaning it is designed to be browsed and viewed online, by online browsing software such as Netscape, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera, Lynx and similar programs. This site will not accept browsing by web accelerators, offline browsers or the like; they put an undue strain on the system, which may degrade the browsing experience for other users. Please disable, deactivate or otherwise remove any software acceleration or off-line browsing programs before entering this site. Any sort of web page harvesters or site download software by individuals is prohibited on this site; use of such device by a commercial entity will be charged a per-use fee. Use of any automated web harvesters are easily detected, and appropriate action taken.

As we present this web site for free, and this is a non-profit endeavor, we take a dim view of our works being used in any commercial way, and we would expect to be well compensated for such use. Any harvesting of the information from our web site for any commercial purpose (including, but not limited to data mining, resale, repackaging, compiling, recompiling, posting, publishing or digesting) by any commercial robot will be charged a per-page usage fee for their impact on our server, and their adverse effect on the intended users this site. We reserve the right to determine- at our sole discretion- what 'bots have an adverse effect, and to exempt 'bots which provide us a service in return for access to our site. (For example, 'bots that need to scan our pages for inclusion in search engines, and thus provide a direct benefit from their access to our site and to our users, may be exempt, provided they access at a rate no higher than one page per minute in any hour, and honor our robots.txt file.) If you have doubts as to whether a 'bot you plan to use on this web site is exempt or not, please contact us before you use it; once it has impacted our server, you may already be liable for any usage fees.

You may link to materials within Ron Barbagallo's web site - www.animationartconservation, provided you follow the rules we have set forth and described in our linking guide. Use of this site is revocable at any time at the digression of the site and/or it's web masters if these terms are abused or broken.

You may quote small subsets of data on non-commercial web sites, on message board systems, in magazine articles etc. However, we do require that you make reference to the source of the data via the phrase inclusive a live link to our web sites main page as such:"Information courtesy of Ron Barbagallo and www.animationartconservation.com. Used with permission."

Offline (print) references must include the attribution 'Information courtesy of Ron Barbagallo (http://www.animationartconservation.com/) Used with permission." In no case may images on www.animationartconservation.com be directly linked to or called from any other web site, and no permission will ever be given to the contrary. If you are unsure if your usage of content and images from www.animationartconservation.com falls within these exceptions, or if you wish to discuss other options or permissions, please contact us.

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES

Unless otherwise specified, the materials in the site are presented solely for the purpose of promoting animation art and other related products available in the United States, its territories, possessions, and protectorates. This site is controlled and operated by Ron Barbagallo from its offices within the State of California, United States of America. Ron Barbagallo makes no representation that materials in the site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. Software from this site is further subject to United States export controls. No software from this site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or reexported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Iran, Syria or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.

SITES THIS WEB SITE MAY LINK TO

The sites linked from Ron Barbagallo's web site www.animationartconservation.com are not under Ron Barbagallo's control, and Ron Barbagallo does not assume any responsibility or liability for any communications or materials available at such linked sites. Ron Barbagallo does not intend links on www.animationartconservation.com to be referrals or endorsements of the linked entities, and are provided for convenience only.

TERMINATION

This agreement is effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from www.animationartconservation.com and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice from Ron Barbagallo and/or www.animationartconservation.com if in Ron Barbagallo's sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from www.animationartconservation.com and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise.

DISCLAIMER

THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, Ron Barbagallo and www.animationartconservation.com DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. animationartconservation.com, DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. Ron Barbagallo and/or www.animationartconservation.com DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT Ron Barbagallo and/or www.animationartconservation.com) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Ron Barbagallo and/or www.animationartconservation.com be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, the improper use of,or the inability to use, the materials in this site, even if Ron Barbagallo and/or www.animationartconservation.com authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall Ron Barbagallo and/or www.animationartconservation.com's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence) or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

OTHER

This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified except in writing, signed by both parties.