Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Terms of Service

By interacting with this website, logging in through social media, registering for a user or analyst account, or submitting material or comments, you certify that you have read and accept all terms.

All guidelines or rules contained in this website's pages are hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms of Service. You agree that you will not violate any local, state, federal, or international laws in using this website or accessing any material on this website.

Definitions/Terms

The term “this site,” “this website,” or “our site” refers to CPSY (aka CPSY.com, CelluloidPsych.com, CelluloidPsych), unless otherwise stated.

The term “we” or “our” refers to the CPSY owner and designated administrators and agents.

Changes to Terms of Service

CPSY may change or modify its terms of service at any time without notification. Such changes will be reflected in a revision number and revision date. You are encouraged to check this page for any changes to the Terms of Service.

Rules of Conduct

By using this site, you agree NOT to do any of the following:

• Upload files or post material that is protected by intellectual property laws, plagiarism guidelines, or by rights of privacy or confidentiality unless you own or control the rights or have received all necessary consents
• Submit comments or material unrelated to this site
• Commercially or in any way exploit material on this website
• Post material that is pornographic or in other ways obscene
• Cause, whether by manual or automated means, hits to any CPSY website pages for the purpose of increasing any page's hit count
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any other member's account or computer system
• Access, delete, or modify another user's account or posts
• Damage, disable, overburden, or impair the site or interfere with any other user's use and enjoyment of the site; or use any unauthorized means to modify, reroute, or gain access to the service or attempt to carry out these activities; or use any automated process or service to access or use the service; your further agree to reimburse CPSY for all costs associated with wrongful access
• Post email addresses, phones numbers, or hyperlinks in any page content, or post or transmit any private information of a third party
• Upload, transmit, or provide direction to any material that contains software viruses, trojans, worms, or other hidden computer code designed to destroy, interrupt, spy on, or damage any computer or software, or damage or spy on any person
• Use any page or feature on this website for junk mail, spam, chain letters, advertising, offers to sell goods or services, or for gathering a list of users' email addresses
• Defame, harm, threaten, harass, bully, or violate the privacy rights of analysts, users, CPSY administrators, Internet service provider, or other persons or organizations connected with CPSY

Users who abuse this policy may have their account deleted and be refused any and all current or future use of this website. CPSY reserves the right to delete any comment, analysis, or account for any reason.

Jurisdiction of Content

The CPSY website is stored on a server in the state of Missouri in the United Stated of America. CPSY is administered in the state of Arizona in the United States of America. This website is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Please refer to the laws in your own country regarding linking to information on this website or publishing information contained on this website.

Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. CPSY does not encourage the violation of any laws and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or republish the information contained herein.

Site Access

• CPSY reserves the right to prohibit, restrict, or discontinue your access to any or all pages within this website if you violate any terms of this agreement or if your IP address is linked to spam or misuse of this website, even if that misuse is not known to you. If you believe your access to this website has been inappropriately blocked, please send us a notice using our Contact Form. We will maintain any block until the user has cleared the IP address with other websites and parties who maintain that IP address in their spam database.
• You acknowledge and agree that CPSY does not guarantee that the use of this website will be error free or free of technology downtimes or unavailability.
• You acknowledge and agree that CPSY cannot and does not guarantee against viruses, worms, or other unauthorized users or hackers attempting to obtain access to this website or information transmitted to or from this site.
• CPSY reserves the right to temporarily or permanently discontinue this site, any page, or any functionality on this website at any time and without notice.

Losing User Access

CPSY enforces a policy that provides for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users who use this site inappropriately or who infringe intellectual property, commit plagiarism, including the rules on Non-Violation of Copyright and Intellectual Property. If you are not sure whether certain uses would infringe another person's copyright or other intellectual property, or would constitute plagiarism, please seek legal advice.

Restriction on Third Party Rights to use Content Posted on CPSY

All user-provided content is subject to copyright protection, which retains the author's copyright.

Links to CPSY and Limited use of CPSY Content

By posting to CPSY, analysts agree to allow third-parties the following limited rights: Links to material on CPSY including limited excerpts, summaries, or a brief reference to the substance of the material. This limited right is allowed if the following are cited in the same space as the content: The analyst's name and affiliation, the article's title, the copyright designation, and a link or reference to the full article on CPSY. The link or reference must include the word “CPSY.com” or “CelluloidPsych.com,” and it must not be attached to an advertisement. If the web page is formatted for print, the page must include these citations and the web address to the article on CPSY. The article must not appear to have been created by another author or website. Therefore, a link to a page in CPSY must open in a new window and inside CPSY; the page may not be embedded in another website or appear to be part of another website. This limited right does not create or imply any contractual or extra-contractual liability on the part of CPSY, its owner, administrators, or registered or non-registered users. If you seek other rights to analyst material, you must contact the analyst who created the material.

Articles and other webpage material may be downloaded on any single computer for personal, noncommercial home or school use only, provided all copyright and other proprietary notices are retained. Any unauthorized use of CPSY content is strictly prohibited. If you obtain permission to reprint an article directly from a CPSY analyst that was first posted on CPSY, you must include a reference to CPSY.com or CellulodPsych.com.

Notwithstanding the above rights, analysts and CPSY retain the right to disallow any specific third-party site, print media, or any other media from redistribution of an excerpt or summary of material posted on CPSY. Rights to cite or reference material on CPSY will be revoked if CPSY or the author requests removal. Author requests should be forwarded to CPSY using our Contact Form. A CPSY administrator will verify the analyst and then contact the third party to request removal of the material.

CPSY is not responsible for any hyperlink from a third party website to a page in CPSY; hence, any hyperlinks to the CPSY website shall not constitute or be construed as any endorsement by CPSY of a third party website. CPSY is not liable for any loss or damage incurred or suffered by you or any third party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of any such links.

You shall indemnify CPSY and content contributors against any losses, expenses, costs, or damages incurred as a result of your breach of the terms of this agreement or your unauthorized use of the content and related rights.

User Content

Analyst Content

• Analysts retain the copyright to material they submit to this site. However, analysts may not allow their material, including copyrighted material, to be reposted in any media that directly competes or intends to compete with CPSY, either online or by other means. These terms must pass through to subsequent reposting or republishing of the material. Analysts retain the right to sell or republish their content or a substantive part of their content in any non-competing website so long as a link is provided back to the same content in CPSY. Analysts also retain the right to sell or republish their material in print media so long as the following reference is placed near the author's name and near the beginning or end of the article: “Originally published on CPSY.com” or “Originally published on CelluloidPsych.com.”
• CPSY content is submitted by analysts who have created accounts on CPSY. All analysts are required to use their real name and affiliation. The CPSY owner, administrators, and Internet service provider do not review, edit, or modify the contents of user contributions before they are posted, except for minor fixes to format. However, we do check that a post is not spam before it's posted to CPSY.
• CPSY may perform random verification of credentials but is not responsible for material posted by analysts who have falsified their credentials. We urge readers to contact CPSY should an analyst's credentials be questioned. If we become aware of such material, it will be removed from our website. CPSY is not responsible for the value, usefulness, or veracity of user content.
• All user-provided content is subject to copyright protection and may not violate any copyright or ideas of a third party without permission. CPSY and its administrator, or anyone else connected to this website, is not responsible for copyright, plagiarism, or similar violations but will remove such content that comes to our attention under DMCA, plagiarism, or intellectual property guidelines.
• The CPSY owner, administrators, and Internet service provider are not responsible or liable should someone illegally access the CPSY server and change, edit, modify, or remove any information that you may post on CPSY. If you seek further protection for your post, you should submit your material to your nation's copyright office before posting on CPSY. Please notify us as soon as possible using the contact form if you believe that your material has been inappropriately altered or removed.
• CPSY administrators retain the right to delete any material it deems inappropriate or unrelated to the site's purpose or for any other purpose as determined by CPSY. We also retain the right to delete any material submitted by an analyst if it is discovered that the analyst does not have the required credentials to submit to this site. We also retain the right to delete the account of any analyst or user who uses this site inappropriately.

You shall be solely responsible for your own content and the consequences of submitting and publishing your content on CPSY. You also agree to reimburse CPSY for any costs associated with violation of another person's intellectual property.

Analyst License to CPSY

When you post to CPSY, you allow CPSY free use of and permission to retain all data in perpetuity, including the right to publish or republish the data on the CPSY website, the right to use your material in CPSY advertisements or marketing material, and the following publishing rights: a worldwide, royalty-free license (including sublicense of material for promotion of the CPSY website and contributors) to use, reproduce, distribute, and display the material in connection with the CPSY website and its successors' and affiliates' business; you also grant CPSY electronic rights, world English rights, translation rights, reprint rights, archival rights, audio rights, excerpt rights, and rights to any other form now known or later developed, and that you have the authority to grant these rights to CPSY. You also agree to permit other websites to copy excerpts or a brief reference to the substance of your article while citing your name and affiliation, your article's title, CPSY, and a link back to CPSY. You may submit articles that have been previously published if you have retained the right to do so.

Non-Violation of Copyright and Intellectual Property

We accept submissions only from the original author of an article or a third party retained by the copyright owner to submit material. By submission of your material to CPSY, you indicate your acceptance of the Terms of Service and certify the following:

1. You acknowledge that you are not violating any copyright or other intellectual property right. You warrant that your articles or opinions were originated by you, that you have not plagiarized material, that you have not included third party copyrighted material (or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights including derivative rights), and that you are not including or revealing another party's novel research, opinions, statements, ideas, theories, hypothesis, or other creative expression—even if that expression has not been in material form—and that you have received written permission from the third party for use of their property in your article; you must also attribute the third party in your article.
2. You agree to indemnify CPSY and its creators of any litigation arising from copyright infringement, plagiarism, or misuse including infringing another's creativity or claiming attribution due another.
3. You agree to defend, reimburse, and hold harmless CPSY and all persons acting under CPSY's permission or authority against any and all claims, damages, costs, or other expenses that arise out of your failure to meet the obligations of this policy.

Infringement of Material Posted on This Site

This notice is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, legal advice. If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been infringed for material you posted on this site, you should seek legal counsel and then forward any recommendation to the CPSY Designated Agent.

You may also file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice against the offending website or publication. See Filing a Claim of Copyright Infringement for details on how to file a DMCA notice. You must send the notice to the Designated Agent representing the infringing website or publication or to other publication contacts should no designated agent be provided. You should also send CPSY an email using the contact form in the Analyst Portal citing the material infringed, the name of the website or other media that has infringed your copyright, and details specifying where on the website or in other media to find the infringement.

The CPSY owner, administrators, and Internet Service Provider will not be responsible for cases of copyright infringement for material posted on this website. However, we retain the right to act on such infringement should we chose to do so. If we discover use of your material on another site or in another form, we may attempt to contact you to verify whether you permitted such use. If you confirm that you did not permit such use, we retain the right to send a DMCA notice or other notice on your and our behalf. This does not supersede your own responsibility to protect your intellectual property by submitting a DMCA notice to the infringing party.

We hope that all users will help prevent copyright infringement by reporting such infringement to the user whose material has been infringed and by sending us a notice using our Contact Form.

CPSY Copyright and Trademarks

The CPSY website is copyrighted under United States (U.S.) and International copyright law. Copyright extends to CPSY website text, logo, graphics, and computer code. The CPSY logo and graphics may not be used in connection with any product or service, or used in other websites or for any use other than promotion of CPSY, or used in a manner that would cause confusion as to origin or endorsement.

CPSY analysts own the copyrights to their own analyses and personal photos.

Images in CPSY analyses are either public domain or are allowed in limited numbers under Fair Use laws.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The owner of this website is committed to complying with all U.S. laws, U.S. copyright law, and international copyright law, including international trade law, and international trade practices.

Owners of copyrighted materials who believe their rights under U.S. copyright law have been infringed on the Internet are provided recourse under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 (Title 17 Section 512 of the U.S. Code). Upon receipt of a properly filed complaint under the DMCA, the owner or administrators of this website will block access to the allegedly infringing material.

Copyrighted Material Posted on CPSY

The below information is in reference to material appearing on this website that infringes another's copyright according to U.S. copyright law.

Filing a Claim of Copyright Infringement

Under Subsection 512(c) of the DMCA, the bona fide owner of copyrighted material who has a good faith belief that their copyright has been infringed by appearing on this website, may contact this website's designated agent to report alleged infringement of the protected work.

All communication must be in English. All notices to CPSY under this contract will be deemed given when sent by U.S. certified mail with return receipt requested or by a commercial courier with proof of delivery. Communication must be addressed to the following:

Copyright Manager
32531 N Scottsdale
Ste 105-562
Scottsdale, AZ 85266
Phone: (702) 706-8058

Or you may send us the below information using our contact form and confirming your digital signature.

To be effective under Subsection 512(c) of the DMCA, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent that includes substantially the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
5. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Once notice is received, the designated agent will forward a copy of the DMCA Takedown Notice to the email address registered by the alleged infringer.

If you seek to obtain a user's information that the user does not give freely, you must obtain a court order. Please see U.S. Copyright Law Title 17, Chapter 5, subsection 512(h) for information on how to submit a subpoena to identify the alleged infringer.

Filing a false or bad faith claim of infringement or a false or bad faith counter notification to claimed infringement

Please understand that under U.S. copyright law, Title 17, Chapter 5, subsection 512(f), you may be sued and held civilly liable for making a false claim of copyright infringement or a false counter-notice filed in response to a notice of copyright infringement. You should seek legal counsel before filing a claim of infringement or a counter-notice in response to a notice of copyright infringement. You should also seek legal counsel if you are not certain whether material posted on this website is protected by U.S. copyright law.

Counter notification to claimed copyright infringement

If you believe in good faith that your content was misidentified as infringing, you may submit a counter notice to this website's designated agent (see Designated Agent above for mailing and contact details). The purpose of this notice is to request the material be reinstated on this website. As noted in the section above, you may be held civilly liable for filing a false or bad faith counter notification.

For a counter-notification to be effective under Title 17, chapter 5, subsection 512(f) of U.S. Copyright Law, you must send written communication to this site's Designated Agent (see contact information above) and include the following information:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber (or a scanned signature).
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
4. The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber's address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

If the designated agent receives a valid counter notification, it will be forwarded to the party who submitted the initial claim of copyright infringement. When we forward the counter-notification, it includes your personal information. By submitting a counter-notification, you consent to having your information revealed in this way.

After the designated agent receives a counter-notification, the DMCA provides that the removed or blocked material will be restored in not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days. To prevent reinstatement of the alleged infringing material, the party who submitted the initial DMCA claim of copyright infringement must file an action seeking a court order to restrain the alleged infringer from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on this website. If the designated agent receives such notification, the material will not be restored until the case has been resolved legally.

Analyst Accounts and Account Obligations

By creating an analyst account on CPSY, you agree to keep your email address and other user information accurate and updated. If you do not keep this information current, any notice of copyright infringement or any counter-notice to copyright infringement may result in takedown of material posted on this website. It is the user's responsibility if they are harmed in any way by not keeping their email address or other data current.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if CPSY has reasonable grounds to suspect such, CPSY has the right to suspend or terminate your account and posts and refuse any and all past, current, or future use of this website. Suspension may be temporary if your information can be updated.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user password and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You are strongly advised to use a complex password and to change it regularly.

CPSY will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this agreement.

Disclaimers

No Contract

No formal relationship exists between CPSY and content contributors except that contributors may not allow their material, including copyrighted material, to be reposted in any media that directly competes or intends to compete with CPSY, either online or by other means. These terms must pass through to subsequent reposting/republishing of material.

Disclaimer Regarding Content

Articles and comments on CPSY are the analyses, opinions, statements, claims, and conclusions of the individuals who have submitted the articles or comments and are not to be construed as offering professional advice. Articles submitted to CPSY are not reviewed or approved CPSY except to check for spam before posting. CPSY makes no claims as to the quality, correctness, or value of the analyses, opinions, statements, claims, or conclusions in the articles or comments.

The information provided on CPSY, whether through an analysis or in the comment section after an article, is not to be construed as forming an advisor-patient, advisor-client, counselor-patient, counselor-client, doctor-patient, or doctor-client relationship. No article or comment on CPSY is designed to support or replace the relationship that exists between a patient and psychologist, psychiatrist, physician, counselor, or other professional. Analyses and comments are NOT substitutes for medical, psychiatric, counseling, or other advice. If you need specific advice (medical, psychiatric, or other advice), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

Psychology is a developing science.You are encouraged to educate yourself in the elements that lead to scientific reasoning and critical analysis.

Addressing User Comments

CPSY analysts responding to a user comment are required to ensure that their responses are general in nature and do not pertain to an individual in a manner that may be construed as forming an advisor-patient, advisor-client, counselor-patient, counselor-client, doctor-patient, or doctor-client relationship. No treatment recommendation should be provided other than that the individual, if they are concerned, should seek professional advice outside of this website. Notwithstanding such precautions, no material on this site shall be construed as offering professional advice even if it appears to be professional advice.

Limitation of Liability

CPSY does not warrant or make any representations as to the quality of the content, the accuracy of analyses or comments, or the completeness of the information contained on this website. You expressly agree that your use of this website is at your sole risk.

You understand and agree that this website and material contained in it are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, and that CPSY, its owner, administrators, or Internet service provider assumes no responsibility for the use of, or the inability to use, this website and/or the materials contained on this website, including the timeliness, mis-delivery, deletion, or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.

You agree that CPSY shall not be liable for any claims or damages, whether direct or indirect, consequential, punitive, incidental or any special damages arising which may be suffered by users or contributors, including, but not limited to, losses or damages resulting from the loss of data, email data, delays, non-deliveries, service interruptions or loss (whether direct or indirect) of profits, business, revenue, anticipated savings, business interruption, personal or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to, contribution to, and use of this website.

You acknowledge and agree that CPSY and its Internet Service Provider do not guarantee that the use of this website will be error free or free of technology downtimes or unavailability.

You acknowledge that CPSY is not responsible or liable for any computer viruses or other contamination of your system, or any delays, inaccuracies, errors, or omissions arising out of your use of this website. We are not responsible or liable for the availability or practices of websites which link to or from this website. We are not responsible or liable for material contained on websites which link to this website or are links leading from this website to another website.

You acknowledge and agree that we cannot and do not guarantee against the potential for unauthorized users or hackers to obtain access to this website, user accounts, email address, user material, or information transmitted to or from this site.

You agree that any claim or dispute relating to the CPSY website or your use or reliance on this website shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions. The parties agree to be bound and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state, or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America.

You further acknowledge that you are legally responsible for any challenges made by a third party regarding copyright, plagiarism, or other intellectual property infringement for material you post on this site.

CPSY reserves the right to temporarily or permanently suspend or discontinue this site, any page, or any functionality on this website at any time and without notice. In the case of discontinuation of this website, all attempts will be made to notify analysts and users in advance of discontinuation.

No Warranties

Information and documents provided on this Web site are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

In no event will CPSY, its owner, administrators, consultants, or Internet service provider be liable to you or another party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including lost data or lost profits arising out of your use of or inability to use this website, or from material you read or post on this website, or from transactions entered between you and any other user or party, or from exploitation of any part of this website, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

In no event, unless required by applicable law, will a CPSY analyst, including through any material they post or any comment they post, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of your use of this website.

If a jurisdiction does not allow for the limitation or exclusion of any particular damages, the liability of the company parties and Internet service provider shall be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law. The sole and total remedy of either party to the other is limited to the termination of this agreement.

Indemnification

You agree that you shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CPSY and its owner, administrators, consultants, analysts, and Internet service provider from and against any claims, actions, proceedings, damages (including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages), losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) incurred and arising from or relating to your use of this website, or links to or from this website, or material or comments you post to this website; or from your violation of the Terms of Service, or the rights of any third party, or any applicable laws; or from transactions entered between you and any other user or third party.

Assignment

CPSY may assign this contract to a successor party or affiliate, which shall be bound by its terms and to the same extent as the original party.

If any provision of this contract is held invalid, the remainder shall continue in full force and effect.

The headings of this contract and of individual paragraphs are for ease of reference only and shall not be taken into account for the purpose of its construction, interpretation, or completeness. Each user is responsible for reading the Terms of Service and privacy Policy in full. CPSY reserves the right to seek all remedies available by law for breaches of any of the above terms and conditions.

Please also see our Privacy Policy.

By using this website, you accept these terms.

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