Terms

Updated 9 November 2021

Witches of Massachusetts Bay (a.k.a. WitchesMassBay, https://www.witchesmassbay.com) provides content about 17th-century witch hunts in Massachusetts Bay, including roadtrip suggestions, event notices, research, news, blog posts, and more.

Your use of the WitchesMassBay site constitutes your agreement to the terms, conditions, and notices stated below.

Privacy Policy

Please read our privacy policy regarding our user data collection.

Copyright, Use, and Intellectual Property

Content published on this website (digital downloads, images, texts, graphics, logos) is the property of WitchesMassBay and/or its content creators and protected by international copyright laws and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. The entire compilation of the content found on this website is the exclusive property of WitchesMassBay, with copyright authorship for this compilation by WitchesMassBay. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends, or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes to it.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the site. WitchesMassBay content is not for resale. Your use of the site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of WitchesMassBay and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, expressed or implied, to the intellectual property of WitchesMassBay or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these terms.

You are not allowed to publish the information contained on this website in any media (including but not limited to print and electronic formats).

Use of the Term “Witch”

In 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony, accused witches were not practicing witches but innocent victims. Use of the term “witch” throughout this website, on related social media pages, and in e-newsletters is not intended to denigrate accused witches or offend their descendants or relatives.

Witch hunts remind us how important it is to be tolerant of one another and to accept that someone’s beliefs, etc., may be different from your own. It does not mean you have to agree with them. Use respect, always.

It is important to honor the sacrifices of the victims of the witch hunts and their lives by remembering them. Not all victims were hanged or jailed.

Communication Services

The site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “communication services”). You agree to use the communication services only to post, send, and receive messages and materials that are proper and related to the particular communication service.

For example, but not as a limitation, you agree that when using a communication service you will not:

1. defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others
2. publish, post, upload, distribute, or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful topic, name, materials, or information
3. upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer
4. advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such communication service specifically allows such messages
5. restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the communication services
6. violate any code of conduct or other guidelines that may be applicable for any particular communication service
7. harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses and any other personally identifying information, without their consent
8. violate any applicable laws and regulations

WitchesMassBay is under no obligation to monitor the communication services. However, we reserve the right to review materials posted to a communication service and to remove any materials at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to terminate your access to any or all of the communication services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

WitchesMassBay reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, at our sole discretion.

Please use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any communication service. WitchesMassBay does not control or endorse the content, messages, or information found in any communication service and, therefore, specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the communication services and any actions resulting from your participation in any communication service.

Materials uploaded to a communication service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction, and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.

Comments, Reviews, Social Media, Emails

Every time you visit our website or send us an email, you are communicating with us electronically.

You may post content as long as it is not obscene, illegal, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy, or injurious in any other way to third parties. Content must be free of software viruses, political campaign messages, and commercial solicitation.

We reserve all rights (but not the obligation) to remove and/or edit such content. When you post your content, you grant WitchesMassBay non-exclusive, royalty-free, and irrevocable right to use, reproduce, publish, and/or modify such content throughout the world in any media.

WitchesMassBay is active on social media. You can follow, unfollow, like, and whatnot on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. We reserve all rights (but not the obligation) to remove and/or edit content we deem inappropriate that appears on our feeds.

If you subscribe to our website’s email newsletter and/or receive notices when a new blog article is posted, you will receive occasional emails from us. We will continue to communicate with you by posting news and notices on our website and by sending you emails. If you wish to stop receiving emails from us, click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of a WitchesMassBay email you’ve received. You also can change your user preferences using a link at the bottom of a WitchesMassBay email. If you need help, please contact us.

Links to Third-Party Sites

WitchesMassBay contains links to other websites (“linked sites”). These linked sites are not under the control of WitchesMassBay and we are not responsible for the content of any linked site, including without limitation any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to a linked site. WitchesMassBay is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by WitchesMassBay or any association with its operators.

WitchesMassBay contains some affiliate links. For details, please refer to the Privacy Policy.

Liability Disclaimer

WitchesMassBay is not responsible for incorrect data on its web pages, calendar, social media accounts, emails, etc., in relation to places, events, and/or materials. Contact historical societies, libraries, museums, businesses, and attractions directly for hours, schedules, events, fees, materials, exhibits, and other details.

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information.

WitchesMassBay makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services, and related graphics contained on the site for any purpose. All are provided “as is” and without warranty or condition of any kind.

Your Account

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer (or other electronic device you use to access this site), and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You acknowledge that WitchesMassBay is not responsible for third-party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. WitchesMassBay reserves the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content at our sole discretion.

License and Site Access

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use WitchesMassBay strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of this site, you warrant that you will not use the site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms. You may not use this site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair this site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through this site.

We reserve all rights to edit or remove content, terminate accounts or email communications, and cancel orders at our sole discretion.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our terms.

Changes to Our Terms

If we decide to change our terms, we will post those changes on this page.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding these terms, please contact us.