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Indian Star Tortoise
Burmese Star Tortoise
Other Starred Tortoises
Angulate Tortoise
Misc. Pages
Treasury - "a store or collection of valuable or delightful things"
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Disclaimer, References and Linking
There are numerous web sites about tortoises and tortoise care, including this one, in the cyberspace. As always, use your own judgment.
Disclaimer
- All information contained within the Star Tortoise Treasury web site and any of its links is provided solely for recreational, educational, and convenience purposes.
- I make no warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of any information contained within this web site or any of its links.
- No breeders, products, services etc. contained in or any of the links from this web site are intended nor should they be construed as being endorsed, recommended, or guaranteed by me.
- Individuals are responsible for, and encouraged to, thoroughly research all matters before making any decisions or purchases based upon the content of this web site.
References & sources
- my personal knowledge, experience, and observations
- numerous turtle and tortoise books and web sites, most are listed on the books and links pages, and the links to rest of them are scattered on various pages on this site
- book and reptile products links in association with Amazon
- music box links in association with Collectibles Today
- photos are taken by me, purchased, or generously provided by visitors, Morgue File users, and Flickr members through Creative Commons licenses and/or personal permissions from the photographers
Using my photos
- If you'd like to use a photo taken by me, i.e., a photo not credited to someone else, please email me and let me know the URL of the page where you'd like to post it. With photo credit given to 'StarTortoises.net', you are welcome to use many of my photos, unaltered, for positive and NON-COMMERCIAL purposes (e.g. informational sites about tortoises, not sales).
- Sadly, I see unauthorized and non-credited uses of my photos on the web. Please, do respect copyrights. My photos are not in public domain.
Linking to Star Tortoises
- If you are linking to a photo on my site, please do create a link to the web page the photo is on, instead of linking directly to the photo.
- If you'd like to link to the Star Tortoise Treasury web site (http://startortoises.net) with a graphic link, here's a graphic you can copy and post on your web site.
Links
- Bitlaw - Linking and liability, by Brad Bolin
- US Copyright Office - On a few pages, I have used brief quotations from other works as comments for educational purposes. They are used in accordance to the Fair-Use Statute of the U.S. Copyright Act. Fair use is a right granted to the public on all copyrighted work. Fair use allows excerpts of a copyrighted work to be used for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. However, posting an entire copyrighted work without the copyright holder's permission violates fair use.
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