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Introduction

We want your use of dowse to be as beneficial to you as possible. It's not a perfect world, though, and as with any web site on the world wide web the possibility always exists that you may inadvertently reach material unknown to us and which you may find offensive. While we take every effort to avoid a route from here via other web sites to such material, we clearly cannot be held responsible for links at other sites, over which we have no control. Please inform us at once of any sites reached which contain links to offensive sites and we will remove them from dowse if appropriate. How to contact us.   Please note that the databases (and hence contents) of search engine facilities on this site (e.g. Search Kanoodle, Google) are outside our control - this is the case with any search engine as users continuously submit sites to its database. All links at dowse are provided for users' information and entertainment, and inclusion of a link does not constitute an endorsement from dowse.

Complaints

Complaints of any kind about anything at dowse should be sent to the webmaster and we will always do our best to put things right.

For dowse contact addresses, privacy policy, aims, sponsorship, contributors, etc. please go to About Dowse

Terms of Use, Details:

By accessing and using this site, the user of this site agrees to the following:

Links from this site to other sites are provided for visitors' information and entertainment purposes only and the user specifically acknowledges that neither dowse.com nor its webmaster nor its contributors are liable for the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of other users, links, or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with the user.

Further, links from dowse.com and its web site to other web sites on the World Wide Web do not constitute an endorsement from dowse.com . It is the responsibility of the internet user to evaluate the content and usefulness of information obtained from other sites.

Dowse.com and its webmaster and contributors cannot be held responsible for any transactions or agreements entered into by visitors to this site with companies or organisations reached from this site via links (including hypertext links). This applies to links on all pages of dowse.com (whether designated as said pages or not) as well as to purpose-specific links pages).

No warranty expressed or implied is made regarding accuracy, adequacy, completeness, legality, reliability or usefulness of any information at dowse.com or obtained via links at said pages/web sites. This disclaimer applies to both isolated and aggregate uses of the information. Dowse.com and its web sites provide this information on an "as is" basis. All warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, freedom from contamination by computer viruses and non-infringement of proprietary rights are disclaimed.

Neither dowse.com nor its webmaster nor its contributors shall be held liable in any way for any improper or incorrect use of the services, contents, materials or information described, detailed and/or contained herein and/or on this site and neither shall dowse.com assume any responsibility whatsoever for anyone's use of the services, contents or information. In no event shall dowse.com and its webmaster and its contributors be liable in any manner, shape or form for any direct, indirect, incidental, exemplary, or consequential damages however caused and on any platform pertaining to the theory of liability, whether in binding contract, strict liability, or tort (including potential negligence or otherwise) arising or stemming from, in any way out of the use of any resources, contents, or services one may obtain through dowse.com web site even if advised of the possibility of such damage potentially occurring. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages, including but not limited to those caused by any failure of interpretation, performance, error, omission, linking suitable content of other sites, defect of information, opinionative, delay in operation, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence or under any other cause of action.

Privacy

Dowse.com does not collect email addresses or personally identifiable information from its visitors and users. Exceptions may be if you email us first (for example making an enquiry or requesting a link exchange) in which case we may keep your name and email address in our records for future reference or use regarding the reasons for your contacting us.

We do not send out unsolicited email.

It is possible that we may from time to time email the webmasters of relevant and related sites for business or administrative purposes, for example to discuss exchanging links.

We use Google, as a third party advertising company, to serve ads on dowse.com. Google uses cookies when serving these ads. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visit to dowse and to other sites on the Internet. Visitors may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Terms of use for Dowse.com free email service [This service now discontinued]

In what follows, visitors signing up for an email account will be referred to as "users", and the free email service @dowse.com will be referred to as "the service" or as "dowse email accounts".

In signing up for free email at Dowse.com i.e. the service, the user and/or users agrees to the following:

a) We do not usually allow users to have more than one email account and extra accounts will be deleted. If you have a legitimate reason for wanting more than one account please email us.

b) We do not sanction or allow dowse email accounts to be used for mass mailings (spam) nor for any other anti-social activities. Such accounts will be deleted.

c) User names for email (e.g. username@dowse.com) may not be used if they may give the impression that the sender of the email is part of the Dowse management or organisation, if this is not the case. Examples of addresses which would not be acceptable under this criterion: webdesign@dowse.com, accounts@dowse.com. However, Peteswebdesign@dowse.com would be acceptable.

d) We retain at our sole discretion the right to cancel any dowse email accounts at any time without explanation.

e) As dowse email accounts are powered by Everyone.net, Dowse.com, its owner, webmaster and contributors cannot be held responsible for loss of or interruptions to the service, these factors being outside our control.

f) Everyone.net and Dowse.com have the right to place advertisments on web pages associated with the service.

g) Dowse.com, its owner, its webmaster and its contributors cannot be held responsible for the content of any messages transmitted through the service.

h) The service (e.g. you@dowse.com) is powered by Everyone.net. User of our dowse email accounts agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless, dowse.com and its owner, webmaster and its contributors or any entity jointly created by them and their respective affiliates against any claims, liabilities, losses, costs, damages or all expenses (including attorney's fees) arising from the user's use of or participation in the service or the information contained thereon. User should also reference the terms and conditions of Everyone.net

i) These terms and conditions should not be regarded as exclusive of other terms and conditions pertaining to the service. We have the right to change the terms and conditions posted here at any time and it is the responsibility of users to check back here in order to acquaint themselves of updates.

Graphics appearing on dowse.com

The dowse.gif logo and other dowse.com logos are copyright © 2000, 2001 dowse.com on behalf of their creators and may not be copied or reused, either for personal or public use without permission. Exception: exemption is granted in the case of webmasters/webmistresses linking to this site from their site. Provided that dowse.com is not presented in a derogatory light, webmasters may copy and reproduce the dowse.com logo on their website, provided that said logo is linked to the dowse.com site. The technodowse.gif, designed by Mark Roberts, may not be reproduced elsewhere without permission.

Other logos and banners are copyright owned by the organisations to which they relate.

Other images have been obtained in good faith from www.barrysclipart.com, www.free-clip-images.com, www.uselessgraphics.com and similar copyright-free sources and are believed to be public domain images which as far as dowse.com understands have the status of no copyright restrictions and use by anyone. If a user of this site should discover an exception to this or wishes to contact this site for any legitimate purpose of this kind, then email should be sent to webmaster @ dowse.com   Note: we do not tolerate spam, so if you wish to contact us for a purpose which is not legitimate (for example, if you wish to contact us in order to try to sell us something), then don't waste your time.

Javascripts used on this site have usually been obtained from www.a1javascripts.com and are believed free for use by any webmaster or webmistress. Please contact us about any copyright violations and we will remove the offending script.

All information on this site is believed to be correct at the time of publication.

For dowse contact addresses, privacy policy, aims, sponsorship, contributors, etc. please go to About Dowse


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