Welcome to Vectronic's Apple World. This page contains the following sections relating to the policies that govern this site, our responsibility to visitors, and the responsibility of visitors who use the services provided by this site:
If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following Terms of Use Agreement ("TOU"), which together with our Privacy Policy governs our relationship with you in relation to this website. Vectronic's Apple World reserves the right to update the TOU at any time without notice. By using this website, you acknowledge and agree to these limitations as set forth. The term "Vectronic's Apple World" or "VAW" or "Linktronics" or "us" or "we" refers to the owners of this website.
1. Description of Services
VAW provides you with access to a variety of resources ("Services") including general information, downloads of scanned images and digital photographs relating to the history of Apple Inc. The Services, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and/or the addition of any new web properties, are subject to the TOU.
2. Use of Content
Use of VAW content is for informational and non-commercial or personal use only. You are free to use any scanned image, digital photograph, written work, or artwork on this site, provided you comply with the License and Fair Use Notice as explained in the Copyright section listed below and do not use said items for commercial purposes. Images or written works sourced to other websites, companies, or individuals are the property of the sourced. All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.
3. Limits of Liability
VAW makes no warranties or representations of any kind that the Services provided by this website or any linked site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that the site or the server that hosts the site are free from viruses or other forms of harmful computer code. All such information is provided "as is," and with specific disclaimer of any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement. In no event shall VAW, its agents, or anyone else who has been involved in the creation, production, or delivery of these pages, be liable for any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of this website or any linked site. Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.
4. External Links
Links to other websites do not imply an endorsement of the materials disseminated at those websites, nor does the existence of a link to another site imply that the organization or person publishing at that site endorses any of the materials at this site. Links to other websites are provided by VAW and Linktronics as a convenience to our users. VAW is not responsible for the materials contained at any website linked to this site. We encourage users to link to VAW on their websites, but we cannot guarantee linked pages will remain active. Furthermore, we reserve the right to request a link to VAW be removed from any site that we find objectionable.
5. Unlawful or Prohibited Use
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the VAW website, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, computer systems or networks connected to any VAW server or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services.
6. Corrections, Errors, and Omissions
We make every effort to ensure information posted to this site is factually correct. We encourage VAW readers to contact us if errors or omissions are discovered. We reserve the right to disagree with any assertion suggesting VAW is factually in error. However, if we agree with the assertion, we will make the necessary corrections. We may or may not credit the visitor for his or her advice regarding a correction. If we do not fully agree with an assertion, we may in some cases post the visitor's comments to the section in question. All corrections and perceived errors or omissions are covered under the Limits of Liability section of the TOU. Use the information on VAW at your own risk. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure any information available through this website meets your specific requirements.
7. Abusive, Rude, or Threatening Behavior
We reserve the right to ban any visitor that exhibits abusive, rude, or threatening behavior toward site operators or other site visitors. Abusive behavior is any activity performed by an individual that we believe attempts to injure either mentally or physically someone else. We consider correspondence that impugns the intellectual capacity or morals of any site contributor to be abusive behavior. Rude behavior is any correspondence between two or more individuals that in our opinion lacks common and customary courtesy expected in a civilized venue. Threatening behavior is any behavior we deem suggests malice towards an organization, an individual or group of individuals. A ban is permanent and can only be revoked by the site owner. A ban includes the following:
Exclusion from participation in current or future site forums.
Exclusion from collaboration with site operators. We will discard emails of banned users sent to the site's inbox without reading and/or we will block the email address of banned users.
Exclusion from commenting on pages allowing comments. We will delete comments posted by banned users.
We understand that privacy online is important to users. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of Vectronic's Apple World ("Visitors"). The term "Vectronic's Apple World" or "VAW" or "Linktronics" or "us" or "we" refers to the owners of this website.
Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
Personally Identifiable Information refers to any information the user voluntarily provides that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, and email address.
1. What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?
We use Personally Identifiable Information from contributing Visitors to help us improve the site. VAW does not collect Personally Identifiable Information unless a Visitor wishes to contribute to the site. In this case, we ask the Visitor to provide us with a full name and an email address. All other information provided by a contributing Visitor is optional.
2. How does VAW use Personally Identifiable Information?
We use Personally Identifiable Information to source comments or corrections provided by Visitors of VAW.
3. With whom may Personally Identifiable Information be shared?
VAW does not share Personally Identifiable Information with any third party.
4. How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?
If and when Personally Identifiable Information is collected by VAW, it is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties.
5. Are cookies used on the site?
Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our Visitors and the web pages on this site (and only on this site) they visit.
This site is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. For a detailed listing of Apple Inc. registered trademarks, click here. Any additional company or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
We would appreciate credit for original works, but use your own judgement. We post information here for the benefit of everyone who loves Apple Inc., not to profit or obtain fame from the use of our work. You are free to use images posted in our Gallery, but keep in mind that we don't own many of these images. You are also free to use any of the digital photography displayed on this site. Please read the Fair Use Notice below for appropriate use of copyrighted material not specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
2. Fair Use Notice
This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, and so on. It is believed that this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Vectronic's Apple World is not a commercial site. We have absolutely no advertisement on this site. The use of ".com" in our domain name is for purposes of convenience and familiarity and its use does not denote a commercial enterprise. Any link to images on Vectronic's Apple World in connection with a commercial enterprise is not authorized.
We are careful to source each image not specifically authorized by the copyright owner so that there is absolutely no confusion over ownership. Furthermore, it is imperative that images taken from Vectronic's Apple World be properly sourced to the original copyright holder. Sourcing said images to Vectronic's Apple World will not indemnify any third party from a possible violation of the original owner's copyright.
Fair use copyrighted materials used on this site are mostly images or snippets taken from magazine publications, print advertisements, and brochures related to Apple Inc. Most images are over 10 years old. We post them to give visitors an opportunity to learn more about the history of Apple Inc. Our use of this material is not intended to economically harm the owner, nor do we profit from using this material. If you object to our use of this material, please contact us. We will immediately comply with any request made by the copyright owner to remove copyrighted material.
Welcome to Vectronic's Apple World. This page contains the following sections relating to the policies that govern this site, our responsibility to visitors, and the responsibility of visitors who use the services provided by this site:
