Spring Hill College Library Terms of Use

The Spring Hill College Library web site incorporates both web pages that are limited to current Spring Hill College community members as well as pages that are freely available for review on the Internet. Current Spring Hill College community members are defined as those registered for classes whose accounts are in good standing, full time faculty or faculty teaching at least one course, and full or part time employees of Spring Hill College. The Spring Hill College Library web site primarily supports the education and research efforts at Spring Hill College and, secondarily, supports the spiritual, social, and intellectual growth of those who visit the web site.

Users of the Spring Hill College Library Web site agree to conduct themselves in a manner that is lawful and recognizes the spirit in which the site is made available. Use of the site will be terminated if, in the sole opinion of those who own or administer the site, the user is engaged in unlawful or unacceptable behavior such as, but not limited to the following:

•  Content or actions that defame others;

•  Content or action that is bigoted, hateful or ethnically or racially offensive;

•  Content that is obscene, threatening, or otherwise objectionable;

•  Content that discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them;

•  Content or action that infringes upon another's intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright or trademarks;

•  Content or action designed to inflict damage or harm to another's property including but not limited to viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other harmful or disruptive files, or components;

•  Content or action that promotes or advertises or solicits any commercial product or service without explicit written permission of Spring Hill College;

•  Content or actions that restricts or inhibits the use of this site as defined in the terms of this agreement.

•  Action involving the reuse, reselling, redistributing, modifying, adapting, reverse engineering, or otherwise tampering with any resource that is part of this web site.

Anyone who attempts to access another's personal information or misrepresent one's identity will be in violation of this agreement and may be subject to further legal action.

All users agree to indemnify, defend, and hold Spring Hill College harmless against any claims, damages, or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly from a user's breach of this agreement or by any action caused by a user's violation of the agreement.

Unless otherwise noted, Spring Hill College claims ownership to all text, images, illustrations, patterns, designs, logos, icons, photographs, audio or video materials, and any other components comprising the intellectual property of the Spring Hill College Library web site. 

Spring Hill College complies with Title 17 of the US Code regarding restrictions of copyright, which governs the reproduction, distribution, adaptation, public performance, and public display of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions of the law, Spring Hill College, as a nonprofit Library, is authorized to allow the downloading of material for research and personal use. Any person who makes unauthorized copies or adaptations of the downloaded material, or redistributes the downloaded material, or publicly performs or displays downloaded materials, except as permitted by Title 17 of the United States Code, may be liable for copyright infringement. Spring Hill College reserves the right to refuse access to web resources on or linked to its site if in its judgment access will lead to violation of copyright law.

As noted above, some parts of the Spring Hill College Library web site are licensed for use by, and only available to, current Spring Hill College community members. Users are given passwords for the purpose of accessing resources licensed for use through the Library's web site. Access to and permission to use password-protected resources is solely at the discretion of Spring Hill College and all user accessing licensed materials agree to abide by the language of the contracts. Users of resources and services accessible through the Spring Hill College Library web site may not distribute or otherwise share their usernames and passwords without the explicit, written permission of Spring Hill College. Users are responsible for maintaining the privacy of their usernames and passwords. Failure to maintain the privacy of one's username and password or the deliberate sharing or dissemination of a username and password will result in the immediate suspension of that account and may result in additional legal action by Spring Hill College.
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Spring Hill College reserves the right to change or modify the terms of use related to its Web site, resources and services at any time, for any reason whatsoever, without notification. Users should visit this page to stay current with the terms of use. Violation of the terms of this use agreement will be considered a breach of the agreement and may result in the termination of the user's access to the site, it resources and services. Spring Hill College solely and exclusively will determine whether users are meeting the agreement of these terms. Termination of use may or may not include notification of termination action by the library or college.