Legal Notices

Read our Permissions, Copyright, Privacy Statement, Disclaimers, Accessibility Statement

Permissions

ARTSEDGE resources exist for the benefit of teachers of all disciplines, and we encourage you to use them in your classrooms and adapt them as necessary. Student materials are available for public use, and may be reproduced in quantity, provided they are used for educational, nonprofit purposes and appropriately credited to ARTSEDGE. It is also acceptable to link to an ARTSEDGE resource from your own or your school's Web site without express permission.

Images contained in this site are not to be downloaded or otherwise reproduced without direct permission of the owner or copyright holder.

Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, ARTSEDGE and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hold the copyright to all content on the site. ARTSEDGE resources are designed for individual classroom and nonprofit educational use. To request permission to use, modify, distribute or publish curriculum, articles, reports or other original material outside these parameters, contact ARTSEDGE at dbx@kennedy-center.org.

Privacy Statement

ARTSEDGE does not sell, rent, swap or otherwise disclose any personal information about its users. For more information, please read the Kennedy Center's Full Privacy Statement.

ARTSEDGE links to other Web sites whose privacy policies we don't control. Once you leave our servers use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you are unable to locate the site's privacy policy, you should contact the site directly for more information. The Kennedy Center and ARTSEDGE are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Concerns regarding links from ARTSEDGE to independent sites should be sent to us via email.

Disclaimers

The information provided on the ARTSEDGE site is for educational purposes only. References to commercial products or trade names are made with the understanding that no discrimination is intended, nor is there endorsement by any of the agencies involved.

While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of information provided by ARTSEDGE, it is subject to change without notice and cannot be guaranteed to be current. Furthermore, the administrators of the ARTSEDGE World Wide Web server do not have editorial oversight for all documents referenced here and cannot be held responsible for their content.

Under no circumstances shall the Kennedy Center, its employees or its contractors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages that may result in any way from your use or inability to use the information provided on this or any other Web site supported or maintained by the Kennedy Center, or from your reliance on or use of information, services or merchandise provided on or through the Web site or that result from mistakes, errors, omissions, interruptions, defects, deletion of files, delays in operation or transmission or any failure of performance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided on this Web site, or with any of the practices of the Kennedy Center in the operation of this Web site, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Web site.

The U.S. Department of Education supports approximately one-third of the budget for the Kennedy Center Education Department. The contents of this Web site do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

Accessibility Statement

ARTSEDGE is dedicated to creating a site that is easy to use for visitors of all abilities. The site was designed to comply with the recommendations of the W3C and other organizations concerned with accessibility on the Web. The current site was developed to avoid use of elements that are difficult for those using screen-readers or other user agents. Updates and enhancements to the site are developed in compliance with accessibility recommendations.