Here's the important legal information

Everything on these pages is copyrighted under the laws of the United States of America and the International Copyright (Berne Convention) Treaty.

This is the first restriction

Please remember, there are images, music, links, code, and text belonging to others that I have received permission to use. I've marked them clearly (read the bottom of each page). I ask that you respect the originators' rights and restrictions and do not take or use their materials without getting your own permissions.

This is what you CAN have

I hereby grant you non-exclusive license to freely use any content from this web site which I personally developed (see restrictions above and below). This includes writing, photography, graphics, and background code, as long as you use the material for legal purposes under the laws of the United States and your own country, state, and community.

In other words, if you find something here, visible or source, that you like, please feel free to use it, borrow it, cut-and-paste into any new uses you might have—as long as you keep within the restraints of good taste and lawful behavior. Enjoy!

Here's how you "pay" me—if you DO use something from here, please email me with the link, so I can enjoy what you've done, too (and maybe put on a link to your site).

You are encouraged to link to any page on this web site. If the link is appropriate to your content, be my guest. Do occasionally check the link to make sure it is still active and working. If it's a framed page, view the source and then link to the parent frame (the one that never shows but calls the others) so you get the complete contents and things don't break.

You are also granted non-exclusive license to print as many copies as you like and distribute the printed copies (see restrictions above and below), as long as my copyright notice is visible and not tampered with. That way, you get credit for finding and sharing the work, and I get credit for creating it.

This is the second restriction

The license granted by this web site does NOT include, and therefore you are forbidden, distribution of anything from this web site for your gain or profit or the gain or profit of anyone supplied by you.

You are NOT allowed to incorporate these pages and materials into any work for sale, electronically (including CD-ROM, disk- or web-distributed archive, binary file, compilation, collection, or anthology) or printed (including book, anthology, magazine, brochure, newsletter, bulletin, flyer, or other format), without my written permission. In other words, don't sell any of these materials without asking first.

This is why

Basically, the Internet works by empowering everyone to copy (if you can see it in your browser, you've already copied it). By providing these pages, I have—by default—agreed to grant you the license to create one copy. Your browser copies the files from my web server to a cache on your hard disk and then displays your copy. Look in the folder Temporary Internet Files (usually in your Windows folder on a PC) and you will see listed the file names of the copies.

I'm not doing this web site for profit (though I am a professional webmaster and will gladly consult for you—my contact information is on every page). But this site contains a lot of time, effort, and research. I have provided it because I love the topics, the experience of creating the site, and the stimulation and challenge of the writing and design.

As you probably can tell, I consider myself Christian. Since the porno queens give away the content of their web sites, I can't in good conscience restrict my content in any way. I feel obligated to take the "high road," and make available quality material—counteract the bad that's often done in the letter of the First Amendment.. (By the way, I discovered this only by following a seriously-mislabeled link from what I thought was a respectable site.)

Michael Quin Heavener

425 885-0961
heavener@heavenr.com