Privacy policy
 
Whilst on line at Gravelroots, you may wish to send an e-mail to submit your site to the links pages, classified or comments etc. Some websites will sell your name, phone number or e-mail address to other companies, resulting in you being bombarded with unsolicited advertising. Gravelroots do not do that. All personal details, unless requested otherwise by the sender, will remain completely confidential to us. Gravelroots reserves the right to contact you so that we can confirm your submission, or regarding content in Gravelroots submitted by you. Further to this, please always state in any communications containing material to be placed on Gravelroots, what degree of anonominity, if any, you require. We will always endeavour to uphold this. We DO NOT collect and store any personal information other than contact details.
If you suspect any breach of this policy please contact us immediately.

Original images and web designs are copyright of Gravelroots. Other materials in this site are copyright by their respective owners and may not be reproduced without permission from the original owner.
 
Private individuals are welcome to download most material they wish for private, non commercial, non website, use. Please be aware that the downloaded material would still contain security tags which would become visible if uploaded at a later date.
 
Any non-commercial, Educational or commercial site is welcome to most material on the Gravelroots site, whilst retaining any credits and accompanied with hyperlink(s) to Gravelroots and obtaining permission. All permissions are recorded. Please note that some content has been specified by the owners as to be only used on our site.
 
Most images, and some text, are 'tagged', ie: a jpeg code [or invisible electronic watermarking ] is installed in the image or deliberate 'flow coding' is added to some text. Regular searches are made for the tags, by a third party, automated Bot, and Gravelroots will act on unauthorised use by any websites. Note that even copied, resized, images still carry the tag and even re-written text will transfer the tag when you upload. see below.
 
In November 2008 at Brighton County Court, 'Gravelroots Websites' successfully completed an action against 'Hyperdirectories, South Coast' over copyright issues. As a result 'Gravelroots Websites' was awarded a 'backdated fee' and obtained compensation for the same. Substantial costs were also ordered by the court. 'Hyperdirectories, South Coast' has now ceased trading.

Photo & image info:
Technology is available from The Digimarc Corporation which enables an invisible digital watermark [tag] to be embedded into the image, this company has a robot that scans the Web looking for images with such a watermark. It then notifies the registered owner of the image and the URL address where it was found.
We also use a similar method called 'flow texting' which tags text. see Digimarc.com
 
 
It is obviously easier, to apply by the usage. We invariably agree to the use of most material, freely, on our terms, but usage of 'donated materials' must have the permission of the donator as they have only given permission for their material to be used within the Gravelroots sites. This may be applied for through Gravelroots who will contact the owner on your behalf.

Gravelroots websites shall not be liable to any person for any loss or damage, which may arise from the use of any of the information contained in any of the materials on this web site.
 
Certain (hypertext) links in this Site will lead to web sites, which are not under the control of Gravelroots websites . When you activate any of these you will leave the Gravelroots web site. We have no control over and will accept no responsibility or liability for the material on any web site which is not under our direct control. We do inspect all sites prior to linking for content and will not approve any which may offend.
 
In order to prevent improper use of email addresses by third parties we will not display contributors' email addresses on the boards unless asked to do so. If you need to contact a contributor without an email address then email Gravelroots and we shall pass your message on.
 
Whilst we have made every effort to preserve copyright on any material used in these pages, it may be possible some has been used without consent as some of the content may have been trawled from the internet when contributed by readers.
If this is the case, please contact us so that, if correct, we may alter the layout of this site to the satisfaction of all concerned
All contributed material is checked for 'tags' and copyright watermarking.
By uploading an image to www.gravelroots.net you declare that you are the copyright owner, or have permission from the copyright owner to publish the image on this site. Your email address and-or computers IP address may be logged to prevent abuse and to help resolve any infringement issues that may arise.
 
Furthermore it remains the duty of the contributor to assess copyright. If any doubt occurs Gravelroots will install a possible source and/or hyperlink with the material and attempt to contact the possible owner.
 
Gravelroots websites attempts to contact everyone listed within the directories etc. on this site at least once a year. However, we cannot take responsibility for those organisations or individuals who do not respond and who do not update their information.
 
Gravelroots websites reserves the right to remove, or ammend, at any time, without notification or reason, any text, links, images or information at our sole discretion.
Gravelroots websites also reserves the right to ammend, at any time, without notification or reason, the above policies.