Terms and Conditions

By using this website or otherwise accessing the materials made available on this website (collectively, the “Materials”), you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of use described herein (collectively, the “Terms”). If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not enter or use this website. If you are not yet eighteen years of age, a parent or guardian may agree to be bound by these Terms on your behalf.

1. Updates to the Terms
2. Intellectual Property Rights
3. Non-Commercial Use
4. Attribution
5. Disclaimer and Warranty
6. Linking
7. Copyright Complaints
8. Trademarks
9. Privacy
10. Feedback
11. Governing Law

Yale University (“Yale”) reserves the right to change or update, at any time, in its sole discretion, these Terms under which this website and the Materials are made available to you. Your continued use of this website and/or the Materials constitutes your agreement to be bound by and comply with all such Terms. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms on a regular basis.

Materials on this website are owned by the contributing author and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), the terms for which are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/, and which are fully incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof. Yale does not warrant that use of any content displayed through this website will not infringe the rights of third parties.

This website is made available to you for your personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-commercial purposes only. “Non-commercial purposes” means that you are not permitted to sell, profit from, or commercialize, in whole or in part, this website, the Materials, or any works derived from them. Yale considers use of any of the foregoing for the purpose of deriving profit or promoting a profit-based enterprise to be prohibited commercial use. For example, if you use this website and/or the Materials on your own website in connection with any of the following activities, we would view your use as a material breach and violation of these Terms:

• Premium Services
  If your website provides and/or promotes services for which the user is charged a fee.
  
  
• Advertising
  If your website accepts advertising of any kind (e.g., ad banners, contextual advertising, video overlays, text links, etc.), regardless of whether any advertising appears on any of the pages that contain any Materials from this Website.
  
  
• Marketing
  If your website collects email addresses for any purpose (e.g., newsletter distribution, log-in username, etc.), you may be in violation of these Terms if you require the user to enter an email address in order to view any Materials or if you sell or trade any email addresses you collect on your website to another party for any reason.
  Please note that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Inquiries about acceptable use of this website and the Materials may be sent to: Yale School of Public Health, Humanities, Arts and Public Health Practice at Yale (HAPPY) Initiative, at karen.deary@yale.edu. Please understand that, due to the volume of communications we receive, we may not be able to respond to all questions.

You must include attribution in the following format with respect to any authorized uses of this website, any Materials and/or works derived there from in accordance with these Terms:
[title of work, if any]. © 2020 [name of author].Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).Available on the website of the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanities, Arts and Public Health Practice at Yale (HAPPY) Initiative. All rights reserved.
In some cases, materials under copyright held by other parties may be subject to additional intellectual property notices, information or restrictions. You are solely responsible for identifying and complying with any such additional notices, information or restrictions.

Yale and its licensors makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to this website, its operation, and/or any Materials, in whole or in part; all of which are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Yale and its licensors hereby disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, accuracy, completeness, and the presence or absence of errors. Yale and its licensors will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from your use of or inability to use this website and/or any Materials. You expressly agree that your use of this website and/or the Materials is solely at your own risk. You also hereby agree to indemnify Yale, its directors, officers, employees, agents, representative, licensors, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to your use of this website, the Materials, and/or any works contained therein or derived from them, in whole or in part.

By using Materials from this website, you agree and warrant that your use will not violate the rights of Yale or any other person or entity.

This website and/or the Materials may provide links to other websites for the benefit or convenience of its users. Yale makes no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such other websites and does not control or take responsibility for the content on any such sites. The linking to such websites shall in no way constitute an endorsement by Yale of such sites.

Yale respects the intellectual property of others and requires that users of this website and/or the Materials do the same. With respect to any copyrighted material owned by third parties, Yale has obtained permission to use such content from the copyright owner or has proceeded with use in reliance on the doctrine of fair use provided under U.S. copyright law. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or that your intellectual property rights have otherwise been infringed upon, we urge you to submit notice to:

Chief Information Security Officer
Yale University
150 Munson Street (25 Science Park)
Room 132
New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: (203) 436-5872
Fax: (203) 436-8292
copyright@yale.edu

Please include the following information with your notice: (a) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (b) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing; and (c) your address, telephone number, and email address. We will promptly remove any material that is determined to be infringing upon the rights of others.

Yale University, Yale School of Public Health, Humanities, Arts and Public Health Practice at Yale (HAPPY) Initiative, and associated trademarks, service marks, logos, and design elements are owned by Yale University. All rights reserved. Nothing contained on this website nor in any Materials should be construed as granting you, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademarks, service marks, logos and/or design elements displayed therein (except to provide appropriate attribution as specifically set forth in these Terms), without the express written permission of Yale or the third-party owner of any such trademarks, service marks, logos and/or design elements, as applicable.

Yale is committed to protecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy describes the collection and use of information about you on Yale University websites. Please review these carefully as they form a part of these Terms and are fully incorporated herein.

By submitting you feedback, you hereby grant Yale an irrevocable license to use, disclose, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform and/or publicly display such feedback or comments for educational, research, promotional, and/or other purposes that support Yale’s mission.

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Connecticut, U.S.A. without regard to conflict of laws provisions. If any provision(s) of these terms shall be held to be invalid, illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with the law of any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, and shall remain in full force and effect.