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We cover the following subjects:

• Description of our site and information
• Understanding copyright
• Our material and how it may and may not be used
• Errors in transcriptions - deliberate or otherwise
• Statement for inclusion if material is passed on to others or copied onto floppy disk etc
• Others who have addressed this issue - and credits for help

The Andrews Pages are designed, written for and published on the internet by Ann and Andy Andrews, either together or individually.

• The web pages are based on our own creativity, research or transcripts. The site has taken a great deal of time to produce.
  
  
• From time to time we include material given to us by other people. This is clearly identified as such and permission has been sought before placing it on our web pages. The same 'Conditions of Use' apply to this additional material, as if the contributor were ourselves, or either one of us. At the bottom of each page is a statement attributing the copyright and recording the last update.
  
  
• All photographs that either we provide or have been provided by others have been prepared by and enhanced for the Internet by the web mistress.
  
  
• This site is non-commercial.
  
  
• All rights reserved.
  
  
• Pages are checked in more than one web browser before they are put on line. We have mainly been using Mozilla Firefox and Windows Internet Explorer but if there is something that doesn't really work in your favourite browser, please get in touch and we can include that browser in our checklist.
  
  

Everything on these pages is copyright whether this is stated specifically or not.

Copyright extends to all the material within this site including that from old books, pictures, postcards, photographs, parish registers, census material, old directories and any other lists that appear. Even if a book is now out of print and / or out of copyright, it does not mean that a transcript of it is out of copyright. Copyright applies to exactly this kind of material, whether it is on the Internet or in other methods of publication.

If it is held in a database, as our material is, it is also protected by database right.

Non commercial use

• Those interested in family and / or local history are, generally speaking, very welcome to use the material on our pages. That is why we have taken the time to put it on to the Internet, providing it for personal use only and we hope it is informative, interesting and useful.
  • You may use it for your own family or local history research with pleasure.
  • Links to individual pages from your own web site are welcomed.
  • Please do not copy material for your web site, web space or blog. Nor should you link to individual images to make it look as if they are part of your own web page. As we have just said, links to our web pages are welcomed, copying isn't.
    
    
• If you are writing a school or student project you are, of course, very welcome to use this material, but please do not copy it willy nilly in large chunks and always state your source - teachers and examiners use the Internet too.
  
  
• If you are considering writing a newspaper article or a book, you are also asked to respect our conditions and one requirement is to publish details of our web site, but get in touch first.
  
  
• All material on the web site, with the either the URL's beginning with www.andrewspages or www.matlockweb or containing dial.pipex or dspace/ is held in a database by us and is also protected by database right. We operate under United Kingdom and English Law.
  
  
• Photographs, postcards and other images are provided to enhance The Andrews Pages and no other web site. If we find someone has copied our images and are using them on their web site we will ask for their removal.
  
  
• Please do not copy material published on this site and pass it onto another web site as your own work. It isn't.
  

Our material may not be used for commercial purposes

• We are not asking for any form of payment, so the conditions we place upon use are that no-one else should be able to profit from it either. We feel very strongly that work we have done should not be used someone else's commercial gain. This covers all types of transmission - electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise. Selling copies on a CD ROM, on a floppy disk, on a microfiche, or making copies available on a commercial World Wide Web site, or being printed or sold in any form whatsoever is not permitted.
  
  
• Many blog sites contain adverts, so links only permitted.
  
  
• Images may not be reproduced in family trees on other web sites - links only permitted.
  

Attributing the source.

• Experienced researchers, of course, already know that it is essential to always state the source of information. If you are less experienced in these matters, perhaps just starting out, we ask that you respect the same convention and clearly state where you have found your data. "I didn't realise I had to" is not an excuse.
  
  
• For ordinary private and personal research purposes it is sufficient to quote the URL and our name(s). If private research is shared, your information source needs to be passed on, together with the conditions which apply.
  
  
• If you download material from our site and place it onto a CD, DVD, floppy disk, print it out or give it to others in any format whatsoever please ensure that the recipient is aware (a) of the source of the data and (b) of the conditions that apply to what you have copied from this web site (see below for what to include.)
  
  
  • Sadly, there have been cases of material being returned to the individual who prepared it in the first place - and even being sold back to them by someone who has made a commercial gain. The moral is that, while the Internet makes it easy for people to download and pirate other people's work, the Internet also makes the world smaller and it is becoming easier for dishonest people to be found out.
    
    
• If you aren't careful in noting your source or think it doesn't really matter, we'd ask you to just think about it in reverse for a moment. How would you like to come across something you know full well you wrote and had probably spent a good deal of time researching, yet there is absolutely nothing mentioned about your contribution?
  
  

The issue of copyright and 'Conditions of use for transcribed and other material' has also been dealt with by Colin Hinson and Rosemary Lockie on their GENUKI and personal web sites. We have based our own statement on theirs and gratefully acknowledge this.

If you have any comments or queries on the conditions of use, please write to us. We have several contact addresses:

Ann & Andy Andrews - please use only if you want to contact both of us

Andy Andrews } contact us individually, but note that Andy has no interest in either Matlock or Derbyshire
Ann Andrews }

Ann Andrews (Matlock email) - to be used if writing about Matlock

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