Terms And Conditions

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Copyright

This web site is generally built around factual and historic information, it is therefore important to understand how copyright may apply to its content.

Copyright protects only the expression - the combination of words and structure - of factual information, not the facts themselves, which cannot be copyright.

Detailed information regarding copyright assertion can be found on the The Creative Commons web site.

For content on this web site

Unless otherwise indicated, all original content on this web site (text and/or images) is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland

For internet use, this means you should:

  1. copy images to your own server or host
  2. acknowledge the source
  3. link back to the page the images were taken from

For content contributed to this web site

Unless otherwise indicated, all contributed content on this web site (text and/or images) becomes part of the original content and is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Contributors always retain copyright to their materials, and can later republish and relicense them in any way. However, they can never retract the version placed here.

Copyright violation

This web site does not wish to support copyright violation. Please report suspected violations to the Administrator using the Contact Form, citing evidence of the original and its copyright. Proven violations will be removed or permission for use sought as appropriate. Reports submitted without supporting evidence will be ignored.

Images that appear in SeSco may originate from the owners' collection, be kindly provided by others or mirrored from other sites of which an extended existence is doubtful. Images may also come from old books, magazines or photographic archives, where the original sources have become unknown over time. SeSco acknowledges that these images may be protected by copyright laws and warns others that any (commercial) reproduction is strictly forbidden without the written permission of the copyright owner or owners where such copyright is still in force. SeSco reproduces these images in a fair-use context, using small size, low resolution for screen use only, not printing, and without the purpose of commercial profit or gain.

Crown Copyright Extracts

Initial information for a number pages on this web site comes from historic databases protected by Crown Copyright. Re-use of Crown Copyright Extracts up to 250 words are permitted without application for licence provided the material is used accurately and acknowledged. Detailed information regarding copyright assertion can be found on the Office of Public Sector Information web site.

Links

All links from this web site are listed for information and convenience only. This site has no responsibility for their content or existence, and their inclusion does not imply any form of endorsement.

You may link freely to this site, including deep linking, without asking.

Accuracy

The information provided on this web site carries no guarantee of accuracy, completeness or correctness, and is not subject to update after creation. Users must verify the current status of any information prior to its use in any way.

Disclaimers

  • Much of the data that form the initial entries for this site are generally derived from reliable sources, named and linked if possible. However, by its very nature, a wiki may be edited, and later edits may not have sources, or be added by individuals , generously offering information they remember from their pas
  • No page within SeSco is ever considered complete or authoritative. Many are stubs, pages offering only an introduction to the subject they refer to.

Privacy

This web site does not ask for or collect any information on its visitors. Other than those required for registration within the Forum, no email addresses are recorded. Email links on the site are hidden or obscured to prevent their harvesting by spammers. It does record the IP addresses of visiting computers for the collection of statistics on traffic visiting and returning to the site. Contributing authors are obliged to sign their contributions with an Author Name in order to save it, and identify it as their work. This information is not disclosed to any third parties. There are no cookies other than for statistics collection and these can be disabled with no loss of site functionality. For guidance on cookie control, see AboutCookies.org, a guide to deleting and controlling cookies.

Accessibility

This web site design philosophy is that it should be accessible to anyone using any reasonably modern browser on any operating system on any computer. Development is carried out using Firefox, and checked using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Frames are not used. The site is powered by a PHP application PmWiki, and requires Javascript functionality to utilise the embedded Google Map API.

Rights and Responsibilities

Include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Content contributed to this web site must not be threatening, libelous, obscene, harassing, offensive or objectionable.
  • This web site reserves the right to amend or remove postings and content at any time.
  • This web site accepts no responsibility for the contents of any material contributed by the public.
  • This web site reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time.

Urban Exploration Ethics

With the seeking out of formerly secret or hidden places, and interest in Urban Exploration generally on the increase, respect of those places and their contents has become increasingly relevant and important. An unwritten code of ethics regarding how we behave once we've crossed the border between the normal world and our secret world exists, and protects our discoveries for those who follow.

The old Sierra Club's motto Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints very much applies to the Urban Exploration community.

Amongst urban explorers vandalism, theft and troublemaking are considered poor ethics. We don't break anything for any reason, we don't tag our names to prove we've 'been there', we don't litter and we don't steal. The sites we visit are largely unique, and generally irreplaceable once lost. The responsible explorer's desire is to leave them intact and 'as found', just as we would preserve and protect a precious area of fragile nature.

An interesting book written by the late Ninjalicious can be bought online. Entitled Access All Areas, it covers many topics related to Urban Exploration, and can guide you through many aspects of the hobby, such as the ethics of responsible exploration.

Two quotes from this book illustrate the principle:

About tagging and graffiti (by urban explorers):

If you have nothing to say beyond a messy scribble of your name or your group's name, don't say anything at all. If you really can't suppress your instinct to mark your territory, please just wait until you get home and then urinate on your furniture until you get that weird evolutionary misfire out of your system.

About taking stuff:

You don't need to take souvenirs to make both the experience and the site your own: you diminish your ownership of the place by defacing it or taking away a piece of it. Instead, adopt a zennish own-without-acquiring mindset (quote by Steven Wright): "I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered all over the beaches of the world... maybe you've seen it?"

Think about it.

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