Terms of Use
Welcome to The American Oil & Gas Reporter ("AOGR") Website (the "Site"), which is located at aogr.com. The following Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") contain the terms and conditions that govern your use of the Site. This Agreement describes your rights and responsibilities and what you can expect from the Site. Use of the Site constitutes acceptance of this agreement.
AOGR reserves the right to add, delete and/or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in its sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the Site. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to not use the Site. Your continued use of the Site following posting of new Agreement on the Site will constitute binding acceptance of the changes. Copyright.
The content, organization, graphics, design, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion and other matters related to the Site are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any such matters or any part of the Site, except what is allowed as outlined in the "Permitted Uses" section below, is strictly prohibited. You do not acquire ownership rights to any content, document or other materials viewed through the Site. The posting of information or materials on the Site does not constitute a waiver of any right in such information and materials. Some of the content on the site is the copyrighted work of third parties.
Service Marks.
"The American Oil & Gas Reporter"and "AOGR" are our service marks or registered service marks or trademarks. Other product and company names mentioned on the Site may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Permitted Uses.
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license (a) to access and use the Site strictly in accordance with this Agreement; (b) to use the Site solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes; and (c) to print out discrete information from the Site solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes and provided that you maintain all copyright and other policies contained therein. No print out or electronic version of any part of the Site or its contents may be used by you in any litigation or arbitration matter whatsoever under any circumstances.
Restrictions and Prohibitions on Use.
Your license for access and use of the Site and any information, materials or documents (collectively defined as “Content and Materials”) therein are subject to the following restrictions and prohibitions on use. You may not:
(a) copy, print (except for the express limited purpose expressed in the Permission Request section above), republish, display, distribute, transmit, sell, rent, lease, loan or otherwise make available in any form or by any means all or any portion of the Site or any Content and Materials retrieved therefrom;
(b) use the Site or any materials obtained from the Site to develop, of as a component of, any information, storage and retrieval system, database, information base, or similar resource (in any media now existing or hereafter developed), that is offered for commercial distribution of any kind, including through sale, license, lease, rental, subscription, or any other commercial distribution mechanism;
(c) create compilations or derivative works of any Content and Materials from the Site;
(d) use any Content and Materials from the Site in any manner that may infringe any copyright, intellectual property right, proprietary right, or property right of us or any third parties;
(e) remove, change or obscure any copyright notice or other proprietary notice or terms of use contained in the Site;
(f) make any portion of the Site available through any timesharing system, service bureau, the Internet or any other technology now existing or developed in the future;
(g) remove, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any Site software or use any network monitoring or discovery software to determine the Site architecture;
(h) use any automatic or manual process to harvest information from the Site;
(i) use the Site for the purpose of gathering information for or transmitting (1) unsolicited commercial email; (2) email that makes use of headers, invalid or nonexistent domain names, or other means of deceptive addressing; and (3) unsolicited telephone calls or facsimile transmissions;
(j) use the Site in a manner that violates any state or federal law regulating email, facsimile transmissions or telephone solicitations; and
(k) export or re-export the Site or any portion thereof, or any software available on or through the Site, in violation of the export control laws or regulations of the United States.
PERMISSION REQUESTS
It’s easy for academic institutions, businesses and individuals to secure permissions to reuse content.
Simply click "Get Permissions" and connect instantly to licensing services at www.copyright.com, where you can choose from a list of options regarding how you would like to reuse your desired content and complete the transaction.
AOGR allows academic content users to make print or electronic copies for redistribution to students as course materials. Business content users and individuals can print copies only. Interest in professional print or digital copies for the web can refer to Reprint Requests.
Copyright.com is operated by Copyright Clearance Center, a global rights broker that promotes the seamless sharing of knowledge by creating innovative licensing solutions that let academic institutions, businesses, and individuals quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials while compensating authors, publishers, and other content creators for the use of their works.
LINKING POLICY
We welcome links to our website, as long as you do not copy and paste article content from our site. You may link to our main internet address (https://www.aogr.com) or any page within our site. You may not frame, or in any other way incorporate our website within your site, blog, discussion boards, etc., nor claim credit for the website or the resources embedded within it.
Please feel free to use this sample method to link to AOGR website.
<a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/modeling-complexities-of-natural-fracturing-key-in-gas-shales" href="https://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/modeling-complexities-of-natural-fracturing-key-in-gas-shales">https://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/modeling-complexities-of-natural-fracturing-key-in-gas-shales</a>