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Conditions of Use

Willow Valley Press provides its services to you subject to the conditions enumerated below. If you visit the Dandelion Through the Crack site, you accept these conditions.

There are no hidden surprises here. Nevertheless, please read the following carefully.

Copyrights

All content on this site (such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, and audio clips) is the property of Kiyo Sato and/or Willow Valley Press, except when noted otherwise. It is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

Exceptions

  1. Brief quotations are occasionally used under fair use rules, with no intention of exploitation or profit.
  2. The site may contain graphics and Java scripts whose use is widespread on the Internet (for example, rollover buttons). Our thanks to the original programmers.

Copyright Complaints

Willow Valley Press respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe we have used your work in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please inform us at copyrights@willowvalleypress.com.

Trademarks

Company names or product names mentioned on this site are trademarks or US registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Willow Valley Press and other marks which may from time to time appear are the trademarks or US registered trademarks of Willow Valley Press and Willow Valley Software in the United States and other countries.

Although we think it’s very unlikely to happen, we are obliged to say that Willow Valley Press’s text, graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, and scripts may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Willow Valley Press’s in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers.

License and Site Access

Willow Valley Press grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site.

This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents. You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, visit, or otherwise exploit this site for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of Willow Valley Press.

You may not use any meta tags or any other hidden text containing the names or trademarks of Willow Valley Press, Kiyo Sato, or Dandelion Through The Crack without our written consent. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Willow Valley Press.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to Dandelion Through the Crack’s home page. The link must not portray Kiyo Sato, Dandelion Thruough the Crack, or Willow Valley Press or our products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise offensive manner.

You may use any Willow Valley Press or Dandelion Through the Crack logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link, provided you have written permission from Willow Valley Press. Just drop us an e-mail at permissions@willowvalleypress.com.

Submissions

You may submit content for use on the site. Use of your content is at the sole discretion of Willow Valley Press.

If you do submit content, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Willow Valley Press a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any medium.

You grant Willow Valley Press the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if we choose. At your request, we will withhold the name, but you must supply a name. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content you submit; that the content is accurate; and that you will indemnify Willow Valley Press from any and all claims that may result from our use of content you supply.

Links to Other Sites

We may from time to time provide links to other sites, primarily for the purposes of promoting a diversity of views, sharing entertaining content, or adding dimension to your Internet experience.

We are not responsible for examining or evaluating these sites and we do not warrant the offerings of these sites. We just think they are interesting links.

Privacy Policy

Willow Valley Press knows that you care how information about you is used and shared. We follow this privacy policy:

  1. We do not collect any information about site visitors.
  2. We cannot therefore share what we do not collect.
  3. If you provide personal information, such as when ordering a book, we will not share that information without your permission.
  4. Personal information collected by third parties, such as Paypal, is governed by their privacy rules.
  5. We will not use your name on the website without your permission.
  6. Our site sets one cookie, which stores visitors’ preferred text size. No other personal information is tracked.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY WILLOW VALLEY PRESS ON AN AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE BASIS. WILLOW VALLEY PRESS MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, WILLOW VALLEY PRESS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WILLOW VALLEY PRESS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM WILLOW VALLEY PRESS ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WILLOW VALLEY PRESS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

Disputes

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the Willow Valley Press site shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Nevada City, California, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Willow Valley Press’s intellectual property rights, Willow Valley Press may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of California, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

Applicable Law

By visiting the Willow Valley Press site, you agree that the laws of the state of California, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Willow Valley Press.

Site Policies, Modification, and Severability

We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

Changes

Our business changes constantly. The details of this Conditions of Use page may change, but the principles will remain the same.

Our Address

Willow Valley Press
552 Brock Road
Nevada City, CA 95959-2908

Barry J. Schoenborn, President
(530) 265-4705
(800) 529-9907