.
If you're not
prepared to follow these rules,
then you're not prepared
to be a Wee Wicket
ReAdoption Agency.
Read carefully! Your
application guarantees
your acceptance of all
of the following rules!
*
* *
~ You must have
a website ~
~ Your website must
be *kidsafe*
~
~ Your site must not
contain stolen artwork or graphics ~
~ Your site must show
that you have knowledge of
uploading, linking
and displaying graphics. If you don't
know how to do these
things, avoid disappointment and
learn before applying!
~
~ If you have adopted
pets from other sites, your site
must show that you
are a responsible owner in that all
graphics are correctly
linked back to the sites
from which you adopted
them ~
~ You must send me
your URL by e-mail so I can check
out your site.
I will then send you via return e-mail
the 6 Wee Wicket images
you have chosen to set up on
your website.
These images will not be watermarked,
unless you
request them to be.
Watermarking is a deterrent against
casual theft of the
images but is not a foolproof
preventative.
If you wish, you can display a watermarked
set, as I have done,
then e-mail each image to your
applicants after you
have checked out their site ~
~ Your website name
will be listed on my site as an
official distributor
of Wee Wickets, and a link to
your site will be
provided ~
~ You may NOT
offer ANY
of the Wee Wicket images
to anyone else for
use in setting up their own Wee
Wicket Adoption Agency!
For that, they must apply to me ~
~ You must clearly
display this logo and text
and link them back
to me:
The URL to link
the above graphic to is:
http://www.oocities.org/lorayen/
~ You
MAY
NOT
ALTER THE WEE WICKET
GRAPHICS
IN
ANY
WAY!! ~
~ You may tell people
who adopt Wee Wickets from your
site to link them
back to your site, in order to attract
others to adopt Wee
Wickets from you ~
~ Under no circumstances
may you charge any kind of
fee to adopt Wee
Wickets to others. They are free
to you, and they must
be given freely by you to others ~
~ Unless you are going
to personally issue each adopted Wee
Wicket by having people
send you an application, you must
include the following
statement, or one similar to it, on
your Wee Wicket ReAdoption
page:
"DO NOT
LINK TO THESE GRAPHICS!
SAVE
THE ONE YOU WANT TO YOUR HARD
DRIVE
BY RIGHT CLICKING THE IMAGE
AND
SELECTING "SAVE AS". YOU CAN
THEN
UPLOAD IT TO YOUR OWN SERVER!"
See below for a note
on bandwidth, which explains
why the above statement
is necessary. If you are going
to personally issue
each Wee Wicket image to their new
owners, you do
not need to display the above statement ~
~ You may use the background
on this page as a background
for your Wee Wicket
ReAdoption Agency page, if you wish.
This is not compulsory,
however - you can use any background
you wish ~
~ You must use the
following title on your Wee Wickets
ReAdoption Agency
page:
"WEE
WICKETS OFFICIAL READOPTION AGENCY"
There is a graphic
available which has this wording on it.
The URL for this graphic
will be sent to you by e-mail.
You can copy and use
it, if you wish. If you don't wish
to use the graphic
you
must still display the above words
on your ReAdoption
Agency page ~
~ You may only choose
six (6) Wee Wicket images.
Additional or new
images may be made available to you
at my discretion in
the future ~
~ You will have ten
(10) days from the date of approval of
your site to set up
your Agency and display the images
according to
these rules. If after ten (10) days your
Agency has not been
set up you may forfeit your right
to display and/or
distribute any Wee Wicket image. This
time limit is necessary
because too many people apply
to become an agency
and never post the images. So if
you're not serious
about doing it, and doing it *now*,
then don't do it at
all! :) ~
WHAT
IS *KIDSAFE*?
What constitutes
an "inappropriate website"
for the purposes
of Wee Wicket ReAdoption:
An inappropriate website
is one which displays
material which is
pornographic, which promotes
violence or cruelty
to animals, which sells animals
bred in "puppy mills"
or pet shops, which advocates
the anti-social attitudes
of racism, nazism, war,
political or religious
intolerance, or which
is prejudiced against
sexual preference.
Websites of the gay,
lesbian and hermaphroditic
community are absolutely
NOT
considered
inappropriate, unless,
like anyone else, their
websites fall into
the above categories.
A
Note on Bandwidth
If you've heard the
expression "bandwidth" but
don't know what it
means, the best comparison
I can make to describe
it would be to say "switchboard."
If too many people
try to use the same phone line,
the lines get jammed.
That, basically, is what bandwith
is - the internet
equivalent of a switchboard. If you
link to a graphic
on someone else's site, and if too
many other people
are also trying to link to that same
graphic, it "jams
up the lines." That is the reason
you MUST copy all
necessary graphics to your hard
drive and upload them
to your own server! ~
If you accept the above
rules -- and your application guarantees
that you have read
and accepted these rules -- then go ahead and ...