Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

We appreciate your interest in the Creativity Portal® ("CP") Web site and respect your right to privacy and personal information. Please review our Web site privacy, terms of use, and advertising policies on this page so you understand your responsibility towards using our Web site for informational purposes, for downloading our copyrighted printable items, and for clicking on any third-party link or advertising affiliate links displayed on our site.

• Our Privacy Policy
• General Information & Disclaimers
• Advertising and Privacy
• Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE, SPAM)
• Trademarks and Copyrights
• Terms of Use
• Using PDF Files (Free Printables) & Copyright Information

Our Privacy Policy

CP gives full respect to your privacy and confidential contact information. We do not give away, rent, or sell any information to third parties regarding your name, e-mail address, or other information you send us through inquiries, submitting URLs, or subscribing to our newsletter.

Third-party Web sites found on the CP (including advertisers) have their own privacy policies which you should become familiar with before submitting any information to them.

General Information & Disclaimers

Liability: The CP does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product represented on this site. Information presented on this site is for educational or entertainment purposes only. You are responsible for your own actions should you use any information found on this site.

No Implied Endorsement: The views of the authors that have submitted articles and projects to this site are owned by them and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CP publisher.

Advertising and Privacy

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

• CP does not endorse any third-party ad/site; is not responsible for the content or availability of any third-party ad/site; does not warrant or guarantee the information, services, or products found on any third-party ad/site; and does not recommend any product or service found on any third-party ad/site. Reviews of specific products published on the CP are for informational purposes only.
• Some third-party sites collect personal information about you and have their own privacy policies regarding the information they collect from you. Before you submit information to them, it is your responsibility to find, read, and understand their privacy policies, as the CP is not responsible for what those companies do with the personal information you submit to them. It is also your responsibility to discern the accuracy of any advertising claim before submitting your information to any third-party site.

Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE, SPAM)

The CP is anti-spam and will never send out unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). The CP complies with known opt-in e-mail list laws.

A common deceptive practice of spammers is to "spoof" an originating e-mail address to deceive recipients of its sender. Regretfully, like many popular Web sites, CP's name and e-mail addresses have been used in this manner by unscrupulous persons not affiliated with us, and we unfortunately have no control over the dishonest behavior of others. Please contact us if it appears that you are receiving e-mail spam from our address.

Trademarks and Copyrights

Creativity Portal® is a registered trademark. All other trademarks, service marks, logos, and business names used throughout the CP Web site are property of their respective owners and corporations. All companies or individuals contributing content (articles, projects, and other features) to the CP for publication retain full legal copyright to their own work and are credited accordingly, unless an alternative agreement between both parties exists.

Copyrighted images and works (including articles, photos, etc.) are used on the CP with permission from the appropriate copyright holders.

Terms of Use

CP is available to the general public on an as-is basis. The CP may not be held responsible for any consequences that may result in visiting, viewing, engaging in business transactions, downloading, saving, or printing any content available on the site or the Web sites it links to. The CP makes no warranty, express or implied, with the respect to the content, quality, reliability, or accuracy of information contained on the CP Web site or the sites it links to, including the dynamic, contextual ads appearing on the site. It is your responsibility to use your discretion and discernment when visiting, submitting information, engaging in business transactions, or purchasing merchandise from any Web site on the Internet.

All content on the CP is fully copyrighted and may not be reproduced in print or electronic form without written permission from its creators. If you find something on this site that you want to share with someone else, you may provide a link from your site to the content on ours. In no case do we allow you to directly link to the images on our site or embed or frame our HTML code on your site(s) (including discussion boards and blogs) as "free content" to attract visitors.

Using PDF Files (Free Printables)

All Adobe Acrobat® PDF files or other files for download on our Web sites have been created for personal or classroom non-commercial use only. These printables include, but are not limited to, activity sheets, puzzles, holiday cut-outs and patterns, coloring pages, greeting cards, bookmarks, gift tags, novelty items, calendars, and postcards.

By downloading, printing, and using any files from any of our Web sites you agree to these terms of use:

• You may download and print the files for personal or classroom non-commercial use only. You may not profit in any way from the use of the files, or use them for any other purpose than was intended by the copyright owner.
• You may not redistribute any of our files electronically, through another Web site, e-mail, or any storage retrieval system. You may link to the page you downloaded a file from on our Web site as a reference for others.
• All files and downloads are available on an as-is basis. CP (or other linked site) may not be held responsible for any consequences that may result in downloading, saving, printing, or using the files.

Additional Free Printables Copyright Information

• The term "free" means you may download the printable(s) (cards, calendars, coloring pages, seed packets, novelty items, etc.) from CP site for personal use without charge. The copyright notice and other information on the printable giving reference to the author and www.creativity-portal.com Web site must remain intact for use.
• The term "free" does not imply that you may take our printables and freely do anything you wish with them. They are not public domain.
• The printables may be used for personal or classroom non-commercial use only. This means for example, that you may print one of our greeting cards and write a note on it to a friend, but you may not mass-produce or sell our cards, or use them in your own projects intended for profit or general distribution. This principle extends to all printables available on the Creativity Portal and its sister sites.
• Permission is granted to educators to print enough copies of a printable to cover a classroom project.
• The printables may not be used for any business or marketing purpose on- or off-line without the author's knowledge and consent. It doesn't matter if the purpose is non- or not-for-profit, for charity, or other humanitarian cause.
• The printables may not be re-uploaded to the Internet, other Web sites, blogs, or social communities for distribution in any way, shape, or form.

Updated April 1, 2009