Hanami Web Copyright Policy

Terms of Use (Boring Legal Stuff, but please read anyway)

The contents of Hanami Web www.hanamiweb.com are published for information purposes only. Visitors to the site may download and print the material for personal, non-commercial use, without the right to resell, redistribute (that includes publishing on a personal web site) or copy the material whatsoever. Commercial usage is forbidden unless otherwise stated by legal written contract by the author.

Please note that hotlinking to images or any content in www.hanamiweb.com is strictly forbidden and such sites will get totally banned to our server.

If you wish to use the material in Hanami Web for educational use, please ask us first. Please remember that no part of Hanami Web may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher and copyright owner.

If you print the material, please keep the copyright statement in the printouts. (This copyright statement will only be visible in printouts) .

We cannot take any legal responsibility of your use of Hanami Web content or the provided Discussion Board or whatever damage it might cause you directly or indirectly. Using Hanami Web happens in user's own responsibility. We cannot protect the copyrights of the material our users write in forum.

In Human Language

You can use Hanami Web and Hanami Web Discussion board as you might use any other normal website. You can print it, copy and paste URLs, call to your friend via Skype and say "Hey look what this guy is writing..". Also you can copy and paste stuff in pages and send it to your friend via email, as long as it's non-commercial use and you mention the source url. Linking is always welcome, of course it would be cool if you send us note so that we can link back to you.

About hot-linking, the problem is that sites (like those ones from xanga, blogspace etc) often pick up the direct link to the image in the server and add the image to their site. This means that every time when THEIR OWN page loads, the image is downloaded from Hanami Web server. Then we have to pay the spent bandwidth. OK, the images are small usually. Lets say it is only 50kb size. Then this blogspace.my site gets gets 500 pageviews per day. This would consume 25 megabytes bandwidth everyday. Imagine 50 people doing the same thing, with the similar page view count and wasted bandwidth per day would be 1,2 gigabytes. So please, don't hotlink ok? Hotlinking is only allowed for few sponsor sites.

If you want to use the Hanami Web material in educational use, please ask us first. We are happy to help you in any way we can.

If you should happen to have epilepsy attack during watching our website, you cannot sue us. Or for example, if you read an article which says that Tokyo is safe place, and you get robbed - we cannot be held responsible of it. Ofcourse we do our best to make sure the information provided her is as accurate as possible - but even we do mistakes sometimes. Please use your own consideration with the material here.

About the discussion forum, although the Hanami Web Discussion Board is a very friendly and trusted place - sometimes malicious user might come. We do moderate the board (Which happens to be a very secure Yabb board) with our moderators and we make sure everyone is treated well. We will delete bad comments as soon as possible and ban malicious users.

Thanks for reading. We wish you happy surfing!

FAQ:

Q:May I link to your site?
A:Yes, yes, yes!! Please do so! Please send us your link so we can link back!

Q:I have reaaallly nice blog in blogspace or other site. I'd like to hotlink to your nice images in Hanami Web? Can I?
A:Sorry, but for two reasons you may not. Because of our bandwidth is ours to spend, and for second, the copyright reasons.

Q: May I use the material in educational use?
A: Usually we allow it. However some of the material here does not represent the official views of Hanami Web editors. Some material here is written by guest journalists or writers and are strictly editorial articles. Please ask us first, and state the nature of your education, and the content which you want to use. Then we will verify whether we allow or not the material to be used. Thanks for consideration.

Q: May I use the material in commercial use?
A: Sorry but the answer is no.

Q:May I copy the material from Hanami Web or Hanami Web Discussion Board to my own website? It's strictly personal homepage.
A: Sorry, but you may not. Instead, we suggest you to write your own material, just like we did here in Hanami Web.

Q:May I copy the material from Hanami Web to publish in Wikipedia?
A: Sorry, absolutely you may not. Besides, Wikipedia would notice that and they dont like it.

Q:May I hotlink to the images in your server?
A: Again, no way. Only to certain link partners, this is sometimes allowed, so we have not banned the hotlinking.