Disclaimer

Comment Policy

We reserve the right to delete any comments we find offensive. We love our readers to comment and express their opinion, but inevitably, some posts on the site, and some threads in the bulletin board, will spiral off into negative sniping and offensive commentary. When this happens, we close the posts to further comments. If a commenter repeatedly abuses our comment policy, we delete all of their comments on every post on the site, and ban their IP address. The removal of any comment shall be solely at the discretion of Cherryflava Media.

In order to make our comments useful and interesting, the following guidelines have been established for comment users:

  1. Do not post threatening, racist, sexist, harassing, defamatory, or libelous material.
  2. Do not intentionally make false or misleading statements.
  3. Do not post material that infringes copyright.
  4. Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law.
  5. Keep your comments relevant to the post.
  6. Cherryflava Media do not accept responsibility for information posted in the Comments section.

If you have questions about this policy, about comments on specific posts, or about comments that have been deleted, please e-mail us.

Image Terms of Use

Cherryflava Media sites do display images as part of blog posts written by our editors. We respect the laws of photographers and other copyright holders. We do not steal, borrow or reuse protected images or other content without permision.
The types of images editors are authorized to use on our sites include:

  1. Images licensed from photographic archive vendors
  2. Images supplied to our editors or released into the public domain by public relations and marketing companies for press purposes
  3. Reader-submitted images, with the implied representation that the person submitting the image owns the copyright in the image and the right to give it to us for use on our site(s)
  4. Images published on Flickr or other public photo sites, with an implied license for use under the Creative Commons license associated with such sites
  5. Images commissioned by Cherryflava Media
  6. Thumbnail images of 150 x 150 pixels or less
  7. Images used to illustrate a newsworthy story under the Fair Use doctrine
  8. Images where the use is transformative, such as for satire
  9. Images so widely distributed on the internet that they are deemed to have become part of the public domain

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Cherryflava Media with the following information (”Notice”): (1) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest; (2) a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; (3) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; (4) your address, telephone number, and email address; (5) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (6) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.

Any Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement must be sent to cherryflava [at] gmail [dot] com

Fair-use Policy

Cherryflava media blogs may occasionally excerpt content or use thumbnails of protected images for the purposes of comment, criticism, or parody. In these cases, we always provide a link back to the original content that is the subject of the post. We evaluate all fair-use situations on a case-by-case basis. We do not believe fair-use allows us to use full-size images, images for the simple purpose of illustration, or images without proper source identification.

We rely on on public domain images, such as those provided by many government sites, Creative Commons licensed photoblogs and photo sites, and GPL stock sites.