This website is provided by Richard Lewis McLane (the "Owner"). By accessing the Richard Lewis McLane website (specifically "richardlewismclane.com", the "Site"), you are indicating your acknowledgement and acceptance of these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change by the Owner at any time at his discretion. Your use of this Site after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of the changes.

All material included on this Site such as text, graphics, logos, and images (the "Content"), except for images credited in the section above, is the property of the Owner and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. Modification or use of the Content except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use violates the Owner's intellectual property rights.

The Content may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of the Owner, except that:
1. You may download, print, distribute and use pages from the Site for your own informational, non-commercial purposes, but not for commercial use or general distribution.
2. Any copies of documents or pages from the Site must not alter the original Site content and must include the copyright notice: © 2023-24 Richard Lewis McLane. All Rights Reserved.
3. You may link to this Site provided that the link does not falsely imply or suggest that the Owner has endorsed or is affiliated with the linked Site.

Users of the Site must not:
1. Monitor, gather or copy any Content on this Site by using any robot, "bot", spider, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool or any other automatic device, utility or manual process of any kind.
2. Frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark or other proprietary information (including, without limitation, any images, text or page layout).
3. Engage in any activities through or in connection with this Site that seek to attempt to harm minors or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, threatening, harassing, abusive or that violate any right of any third party.
4. Attempt to circumvent the security systems of the Site.
5. Attempt to use the Site for any purposes other than those intended by the Owner, as determined by the Owner in its sole discretion.
6. Engage in any activity that interferes with a user's access to this Site or the proper operation of this Site. You also agree that, in using this Site, you will not impersonate any person or entity.

The Content and the functionality of the Site may be updated or changed at any time without prior notice. In addition, if the Owner becomes aware that you are copying, modifying or distributing the Content of the Site other than for the permitted uses of the Site, the Owner reserves the right to revoke your right to these permitted uses.

If you wish to download and use any information contained in this Site other than for your individual review and individual educational purposes, send a request with your proposed use to webmaster@richardlewismclane.com so that the webmaster may evaluate your proposed use of the Owner's Site Content.

If the webmaster approves your request to use the Owner's Site Content, you are granted permission to view, use, reproduce, copy and distribute documents within the Owner's Site for the sole purposes specified in your Request form. You agree to all terms below:
1. Not to modify the documents, publications or graphics.
2. Not to quote materials out of context.
3. To retain and display the copyright notice of the Owner on such Content.

The Owner shall have the right to monitor use of this Site to determine compliance with these Terms of Use, revoke its consent at any time and you shall immediately cease any further use of the Site Content. The foregoing consent does not include permission to copy the design elements, look and feel or layout of the Site. Subject to the further terms set forth above, you assume all risks concerning the suitability and accuracy of the information within the Site which you propose to use, subject to the Owner's consent.

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only and should never be regarded as advice on a specific situation or issue. The views expressed on this website are the views of the writer and not those of any other person, organization, agency, etc. The Owner is solely responsible for the content on the Site and not any other organization or agency which he might be seen to represent. The intention of the Owner is to do no harm in the manner of injury to others, insult, or defamation and should not be construed in any other negative manner. The Owner received no compensation or favor from any party to generate the Content on the Site.

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