Free Use Policy

The Ohio River Valley Institute wants to make it easy for you to use, share and distribute the Ohio River Valley Institute materials found on our Site, subject to this Free Use Policy and our Terms of Use (“Terms”). Unless otherwise defined in this Free Use Policy, terms used in this Free Use Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms, which incorporate by reference this Free Use Policy. The Ohio River Valley Institute and its licensors do not grant you any rights or licenses, by implication or otherwise, except for the rights and licenses expressly granted in this Free Use Policy and the Terms.

1. Permitted Uses
• Maps, charts and other graphics. Subject to your compliance with the Terms and this Free Use Policy, including the Attribution, No Modification and No Commercial Use requirements, Ohio River Valley Institute grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to access, view, download, print, reproduce, distribute, publicly display and publicly perform Ohio River Valley Institute’s maps, charts, tables and other graphics (“Graphics”) in print and electronic form, solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes.
• Books, reports, blog posts, articles and other text. Unless otherwise indicated on the Site, and subject to your compliance with the Terms and this Free Use Policy, including the Attribution, No Modification and No Commercial Use requirements, Ohio River Valley Institute grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to access, view and download Ohio River Valley Institute’s books, reports, articles, blog posts and other text and written works authored by Ohio River Valley Institute (“Text”), solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. You must obtain written or email permission from The Ohio River Valley Institute (email address t/k) to republish, post, print, distribute, publicly display or publicly perform the Text, in whole or in part, in electronic or print form.
• Photographs. Ohio River Valley Institute authorizes you to access and view all photographs found on the Site, solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. Please comply with any and all licenses and/or restrictions, including attribution requirements, applicable to the photo(s) and included on or near the photo(s) in the original posting or web page. You must obtain written or email permission (email address t/k) from Ohio River Valley Institute to reproduce, distribute, print or otherwise use, in any media, any photograph found on the Site.
2. Attribution. You must attribute all Graphics and Text authored by Ohio River Valley Institute by keeping intact our logo or copyright notice (if already affixed to the Content) or adding a text citation in the following format: “From <insert title of book, report, article, blog post, map, chart, graphic, or web page>, by <insert name of author or Ohio River Valley Institute>, Copyright <insert year Ohio River Valley Institute; used with permission.” If you are posting the work online, you must include a hyperlink to the web page where the Content is posted on the Site, or otherwise to [website url t/k]
3. No Modification. You may use only verbatim copies or excerpts of our Graphics, Text and other content, not modified, edited, revised or derivative versions of it without written or email permission (email address t/k) from Ohio River Valley Institute. You may not modify, alter, revise, transform, build upon or otherwise prepare derivative works of our Graphics and Text without written or email permission from Ohio River Valley Institute (email address t/k).
4. No Commercial Use. You may not use Ohio River Valley Institute’s Graphics, Text, photographs or other content for any commercial purposes without permission. You must obtain written or email permission from Ohio River Valley Institute (email address t/k) to use any Graphics, Text, photos or other content for commercial purposes (such as inclusion in a book, magazine, newspaper, fee-based website or any other for-profit or commercial venture).
5. How to Obtain Permission. To obtain permission from Ohio River Valley Institute to use Text, photos or other content free of charge, please send an email (email address t/k). We grant permission to use our works at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to revoke or deny permission to anyone at any time for any reason, and to remove content from the Site at any time, for any reason, without notice.