Last updated: October 24, 2021
Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms", "Terms and Conditions") carefully before using the myjwillustration.com website (the "Service", the "Site", "us", "we", or "our"). Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.
The purpose of this website is to share with members of the Jehovah's Witnesses' congregations a collection of analogies or illustrations associated with the Bible.
The information and images presented on the Site are for reading, illustrative, and/or entertainment purposes only and are not recommendations of any particular course of action. We do not seek to provide advice, direction, counsel, therapy, or anything of the sort to you. Any decision or action taken in connection with the use of the Service in your self-directed account is solely your responsibility.
By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service. Certain features of the Site may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, or rules, which will be posted on the Site in connection with such features. All such additional terms, guidelines, and rules are incorporated by reference into these Terms.
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The Site may contain links to third-party websites and services, and/or display advertisements for third-parties. Such Third-Party Links & Ads are not under the control of Service, and Service assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any Third-Party Links & Ads. Service provides access to these Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you, and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads. You further acknowledge and agree that Service shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or services. You use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk, and should apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When you click on any of the Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s privacy and data gathering practices.
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To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall Service or our suppliers be liable to you or any third-party for any lost profits, lost data, costs of procurement of substitute products, or any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages arising from or relating to these terms or your use of, or incapability to use the Site even if Service has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Access to and use of the Site is at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your device or computer system, or loss of data resulting therefrom.
Unless otherwise indicated, Service does not claim intellectual property rights over most of the images and videos used on this website. You may find more media items in youtube.com, pixabay.com, pexels.com, search.creativecommons.org, and other sites offering free visual resources.
Service does not claim intellectual property rights over every single analogy on the Site since many of them are not the product of the originality of the Service. Notwithstanding, copyrights laws in many countries, including the United States, protect compilation and derivative works. Hence, the effort put forth to produce this website—including but not limited to gathering and arranging the data, writing, editing, proofreading, coding, designing, developing and deploying the Site along with its features—and the subsequent original work that resulted from it is indeed the intellectual property of the Service and is protected by copyright law.
Subject to these Terms, the Service grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to access the Site solely for your own personal, noncommercial use. You hereby agree to abide to our Acceptable Use Policy and Restrictions. For your own personal, noncommercial use you may: (a) view, download and print images from the Images section; (b) view and print the analogies and other content in text; (c) share links to view the illustrations' text and images on this Site, as well as sharing with Service your own illustrations whether in text or image' form; (d) share the analogies and images from the Images section with others by means of social networks like Facebook or Twitter; (e) make use of the content on the website during your personal Bible study and when teaching the Bible whether in Christian gatherings or in the field ministry.
Certain Restrictions. The rights approved to you in these Terms are subject to certain restrictions. You shall not do the following: (a) you shall not sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Site; (b) you shall not change, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Site; (c) you shall not access the Site in order to build a similar or competitive website; (d) you shall not create for distribution purposes, any software applications, program, tools, or techniques that are explicitly or implicitly made to collect, copy, download, extract, harvest, or scrape data, HTML, images, or text from the Site; and (e) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Site may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means unless otherwise indicated, any future release, update, or other addition to functionality of the Site shall be subject to these Terms. All copyright and other proprietary notices on the Site must be retained on all copies thereof.
Service reserves the right to change, suspend, or cease the Site with or without notice to you. You approved that Service will not be held liable to you or any third-party for any change, interruption, or termination of the Site or any part.
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Excluding any User Content that you may provide, you are aware that all the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, in the Site and its content are owned by Service or Service’s suppliers. Note that these Terms and access to the Site do not give you any rights, title or interest in or to any intellectual property rights. Service and its suppliers reserve all rights not granted in these Terms.
The following terms constitute our “Acceptable Use Policy”: You agree not to use the Site to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any content (i) that violates any third-party right or any intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) that is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another’s privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; (iii) that is in violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party.
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We reserve the right to review any User Content, and to investigate and/or take appropriate action against you in our sole discretion if you violate the Acceptable Use Policy or any other provision of these Terms or otherwise create liability for us or any other person. Such action may include removing or modifying your User Content, and/or reporting you to law enforcement authorities.
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Service respects the intellectual property of others and asks that users of our Site do the same. In connection with our Site, we have adopted and implemented a policy respecting copyright law that provides for the removal of any infringing materials and for the termination of users of our online Site who are repeated infringers of intellectual property rights, including copyrights. If you believe that information on our Site is unlawfully infringing the copyright(s) in a work, and wish to have the allegedly infringing material removed, the following information in the form of a written notification (pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) must be provided to our designated Copyright Agent:
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User Content. “User Content” means any and all information and content that a user submits to the Site. You are exclusively responsible for your User Content, including the illustrations and images you share with Service. You bear all risks associated with use of your User Content. You hereby certify that your User Content does not violate our Acceptable Use Policy. You are solely responsible for making your own backup copies of your User Content if you desire.
You hereby grant to Service an irreversible, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site. You hereby irreversibly waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content.
We may terminate or suspend access to our Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.
All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
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