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Copyright Policy

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Privacy Policy

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In a few instances, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation asks visitors to submit personal information, such as email or postal addresses, in order to deliver requested information or materials. We do not share, sell, or otherwise willfully disclose this personal information to any third party.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation strives to protect the transmission of any information visitors submit, but no transmission of data is completely secure; submissions are at the visitor’s risk.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation shall not be liable under any circumstances for damages resulting from use or disclosure of information collected from visitors to the site.

Book Download Disclaimer

In addition to all other Terms of Use for this website, users who download books from this website agree to be bound by the following additional terms and conditions:

All books made available for download from this website are provided for informational purposes only, and are provided on an as-is basis. The owner of this website, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, takes no responsibility for, and accepts no liability for, the content, quality, safety, completeness, or accuracy of any of the downloads, whether as to the content itself or any technical issues arising from its being downloaded, nor any damage to your computer in connection with downloading the material.

To the best of its knowledge, and unless otherwise indicated, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation or its affiliated foundations – which include the Duke Farms Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Newport Restoration Foundation – own the copyright to the books offered for download on this website, either as a work made for hire or by assignment from the author or authors.

However, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has not conducted any search to clear the copyright to the book or any of its contents, and makes no representation or warranty as to non-infringement with respect to the book or any of its contents. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation shall not be responsible or liable to indemnify you, or any person or entity who obtains a copy of all or any part of the book from or through you, in the event of a claim that the downloading, reproduction, display, distribution, or other use of the book or any part of the book constitutes infringement of the rights of any party, whether such claim is merely alleged or is actually proved.

Books contained in this website that are owned by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation or its affiliated foundations may be used, downloaded, reproduced or reprinted for non-commercial or personal use only, provided that the following copyright notice appears in all copies:

If the book that is being downloaded in whole or in part only bears a copyright notice at the beginning of the book, the date or dates stated in that copyright notice is (or are) the year (or years) of publication.

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