DISCLAIMER / LEGAL NOTICES / PRIVACY POLICY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) PURPOSE, USE, AND LIMITATIONS;

  1. The Rally Group B Shrine (rallygroupbshrine.org), henceforth referred to as “This Website”, was created for historical preservation and educational purposes by its owner, main author and chief editor, Jay Auger – henceforth referred to as “The Owner”;
  2. This Website, including all of its content, is for your private use only. Any form of duplication methods (including but not limited to copy/paste of text or screen capture) is strictly forbidden. However, sharing hyperlinks to the site on social media is permitted as long as it is for the sole purpose of study, research, criticism or review, and it is obligatory that you publicly acknowledge the article-specific author and This Website as the source – All Rights Reserved;
  3. Honest attempts are made to provide the most factual and correct information possible which mainly comes from various respected journalistic sources and/or publications. In case of information disparity or conflict between sources, the Chief Editor has no choice but to make an “educated guess” based on his decades of experience and vast topical knowledge. As such, some of the written information contained in This Website may be based off The Owner’s or the article-specific author’s personal opinion, which is shown as but not limited to italic text, and therefore should not be taken as actual or irrefutable fact. Any published work that the particular author may have consulted (but not illegally reproduced) are listed in the specific article’s “REFERENCES” section – however this does not constitute an endorsement or partnership between all parties;
  4. In no way shall This Website and The Owner be held responsible or liable for your use or misuse of the material and media contained within this Website;
  5. This Website inherently does not contain harmful spyware or viruses. However, This Website and owner shall not be responsible or liable for any damage caused to or any loss suffered by users of This Website resulting from any viruses or other items of a destructive nature that may infect computer equipment or other property as a result of its use;
  6. Any submitted or contributed information or media by a third party to This Website are not monetarily rewarded by The Owner and are used at the editor’s or article-specific author’s discretion. Use of such material on The Website does not constitute an endorsement or partnership between all parties;
  7. Users of This Website are solely responsible for their comments, interpretations of the information found within and do not necessarily represent the views or values of This Website, The Owner or any team members such as expert contributors and article-specific authors;
  8. The Owner reserves the right to permanently reject, edit, or delete any comment and material posted on this website without prior notice and without prejudice.
  9. In no instance shall you attempt to impersonate being a team member, The Owner, or being associated with This Website as to gain favours, monetary compensation or to collect data from other people or organisations;
  10. In no instance shall you attempt to use This Website’s content to harm, discredit, or alienate The Owner or its team members.

2) USE OF COPYRIGHT;

  1. It is strictly forbidden to use the written content and media found within This Website for the purpose of your financial gain. Private use, including sharing hyperlinks to the site on social media, is otherwise permitted as long as it is for the sole purpose of study, research, criticism or review. However, it is obligatory that you publicly acknowledge the article-specific author and This Website as the source – All Rights Reserved;
  2. Any form of duplication methods of This Website’s content, including but not limited to copy/paste of text and screen capture, is strictly forbidden. However, special permission, such as for an article sale, can be given on a case-to-case basis. Please contact This Website’s Owner via this CONTACT form. Imagery found in the WALLPAPERS section is exempt for your single, private use as computer background images only;
  3. This Website has been made without any prior approval or license from other parties and may contain third party-sourced text, articles, videos, pictures, images and trademarks. The outside material is normally used on This Website either under permission, with attribution to its respective owner, source, or used under “fair dealing” which includes; education (general knowledge), historical preservation and identification purposes, with no intent made to alienate the respective Intellectual Property / Copyright Owners or to provide financial gain for This Website’s Owner. Use of such material on This Website does not constitute an endorsement or partnership between the parties;
  4. This Website and The Owner are not responsible or liable for any breach of copyright pertaining to third party media (pictures or videos) hosted on other websites or online services including but not limited to YouTube (cited as example) which are linked back or embedded in This Website; the media is used under the assumption that the operators of these sites have full license to display such content or are their actual Intellectual Property Owners;
  5. The operators of any embedded content and linked sites are solely responsible and liable for the content of their sites. Use of such links on This Website does not constitute an endorsement or partnership between all parties. Please click HERE for more information about the Privacy Policy of such content;
  6. All brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Their use on This Website is limited to identification purposes and does not constitute an endorsement or partnership between all parties;
  7. It is This Website’s intent not to redistribute third party material – premium copy protection features have been added to This Website towards that goal. However this does not expressly guarantee possible misuse of the material by other parties or electronic systems;
  8. All reasonable efforts are made by This Website’s and The Owner to prevent unauthorised use of copyrighted material (such as copy protection cited above). However, due to the great quantity of content found within This Website, omissions are possible without express intent of infringement. If you are a copyright owner of material found within This Website and have questions, objections, or wish attribution to be present, about the use of your property, please contact This Website’s Owner via this CONTACT form before taking legal action. All efforts shall be made towards a peaceful and fair resolution;
  9. This Website has a Facebook page, but is otherwise not found on Twitter, Reddit, or other social media platforms. If you find any website, blog, forum, and/or person attempting to impersonate This Website, The Owner or any of its team members and authors, then please use this CONTACT form to report it;
  10. NOTE CONCERNING PUBLISHING DATES: Most of This Website’s articles were previously written and hosted on The Owner’s personal blog (reccerallysport.com – now defunct) in the 2014-2015 time-frame. All then current articles were transferred to This Website in January & February 2016. As such, the original publishing dates were lost after the transfer but The Owner reserves copyright as from January 1st, 2014 on all articles unless a post-February 2016 date is shown in the article’s header;

3) CONTRIBUTOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  1. A “Contributor” is a person or corporate entity that has chosen to freely submit information or material, either in textual or media form. Texts (words), pictures, other static imagery, audio and/or video submitted by the Contributor to this Website are henceforth referred to as a “Contribution”;
  2. The Contributor’s full legal name shall be freely given to This Website when submitting a Contribution. The Contributor shall allow This Website to publish its, his or her name. Anonymity or discretion can however be granted on certain conditions, such as to the owner of a Group B car who may fear theft or unwanted public attention;
  3. The Contributor warrants to This Website and The Owner that The Contributor owns or controls the Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright) of any Contribution and/or that it does not infringe on any existing copyright or any other rights of any person or entity;
  4. The Contributor hereby indemnifies and shall keep This Website and The Owner fully and effectually indemnified against all actions, claims, demands, proceedings, costs and damages (including any damages or compensation paid by This Website and The Owner on the advice of its legal advisers to compromise or settle any claim) and all legal costs or other expenses and losses, including (but not limited to) losses of profits, arising out of any breach or alleged breach of any of the above warranties or out of any claim by a third party based on any facts which, if substantiated, would constitute such a breach;
  5. Unless expressly agreed with The Owner in writing, the Contributor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives, in respect of any Contribution and any updates or revisions to such Contribution made by This Website, all rights to be identified as the author of such Contribution and all rights to object to derogatory treatment of such Contribution to which the Contributor may now or at any future time be entitled under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended from time to time and under all similar legislation from time to time in force anywhere in the world. However, it is This Website’s policy to fully credit authors and/or the original Intellectual Property Owners with a clear mention to their name;
  6. Any Contribution shall be made upon the Contributor’s own free will and is without monetary recompense or reward by This Website or The Owner. All other arrangements shall be kept private by all parties;
  7. Publication of the Contributor’s material on This Website shall in no way constitute an endorsement or partnership between the parties;
  8. The Contributor is deemed to have read and accepted all of these Terms and Conditions when submitting a Contribution to This Website.

4) ADVERTISEMENT;

  1. This Website may feature and/or allow the WordAds or AWIN programs for monetising advertisement. If such advertisements are present, This Website’s and The Owner are not responsible or liable for the content, nature, or actions of the ad(s) and the advertiser(s) that operate them;
  2. If a hyperlink, logo, or image contained within this Website (other than WordAds or AWIN) redirects to a commercial website or third party webpage, it is a courtesy given to that company, organisation, or person by The Owner. These specific logos, slogans, or imagery are therefore agreed as used under permission;
  3. This Website does not contain endorsements: the operators of any ad-linked sites are solely responsible and liable for the content of their sites and share no personal or direct commercial relation to This Website, The Owner or to any of its team members and article-specific authors;
  4. Honorary team members, also known shown as “expert contributors”, on the MEET THE TEAM page were not monetarily compensated for their assistance and do not necessarily endorse This Website, The Owner or any of its other team members and article-specific authors;
  5. All advertisement revenue is used as compensation for The Owner’s effort, time and fees associated (past, present or future) of setting up and managing This Website.

5) AFFILIATES BOOK & VIDEO STORES;

  1. All commercial items linked through This Website’s “stores” or at the end of an article page are the sole responsibility of the affiliated operators of the sites they redirect to. This Website and The Owner are not responsible or liable for the items, their pricing or their appearance in the stores;
  2. Affiliations with the operators of these sites is only for the goal of spreading knowledge through these publications or products. Their display on This Website does not constitute an endorsement between all parties and in no event shall This Website and The Owner be responsible or liable for your actions and purchases in the stores;
  3. All affiliations revenue is used as compensation for The Owner’s effort, time and fees associated (past, present or future) of setting up and managing This Website.

6) DONATIONS;

  1. All donations given shall strictly be a consideration for The Website’s Owner effort, time and fees associated (past, present or future) of setting up, managing This Website and associated projects. As such, all donations are a personal gift to This Website’s Owner and can in no way be claimed or considered for any other purpose by all parties;
  2. Donations cannot be returned, refunded, claimed as tax credit, or used as a means to coerce, harm or alienate This Website, The Owner, its team members or article-specific authors;
  3. All donations shall be kept anonymous and private by all parties;
  4. By donating you agree to all of the Terms listed in this section (6).

7) PRIVACY POLICY;

  1. By using This Website (RallyGroupBShrine.org), we collect the data that you enter in the comments and/or contact forms, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection;
  2. The information that you enter in the contact form is automatically saved to be able to have the pertinent means to contact you back. It can also be archived indefinitely for future communication or revision but is not shared with any outside party;
  3. This Website uses Automattic to collect analytics data such as but not limited to IP address mainly to determine the country of origin of visitors and the webpage(s) that they have viewed. This information is not shared with any outside party by This Website. Automattic also uses Cookies on this Website for a variety of reasons and we invite you to read up on their Privacy Policy (click);
  4. Articles on This Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

8) NOTICE;

  1. All of the Terms and Conditions contained on this Web page may be amended or modified without prior notice;
  2. By accessing This Website you agree to all of the Terms and Conditions listed above;
  3. If any disparity between other language versions of this Disclaimer, Legal Notices and Privacy Policy page exist on This Website, not limited to possible errors of translation or different nomenclature, then this current page shall be considered as correct and superseding the others.

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