I’m all about Win-Win. At the same time, I don’t want other people taking my ideas and creations to make money exclusively for themselves. I believe there are ways where we both can win, and that’s what I’m about in this policy.

As the owner of this website, I own all of the produced content (including any products developed by me or my team) under this website. The compilation of this website is copyrighted in my name. I want to accomplish two key goals, I want my content and products to be delivered on a global scale, while still protecting my original thoughts, creations, and intellectual property. Thank you in advance for working with me on this.

What You Can Do Freely Without my Permission

• Link to my site or any post or product on my site
• Link to my site or any post or product on my site. Extract and re-post less than 100 words on any other site, provided you give me the appropriate credit and link back to my original post.
• Extract and re-post less than 100 words on any other site, provided you give me the appropriate credit and link back to my original post.
• Print off my posts and photocopy up to 100 copies for internal distribution within your own company or organization, again provided you give me the appropriate credit and a reference to my original post or website location
• Print my posts in any non-commercial publication (e.g., company newsletter, church newsletter, class syllabus, etc.), provided you include this copyright notice:
  “© 2016, Mark A. Botros. All rights reserved. Originally published at www.markabotros.com.”

What You Must Get My Permission For

• Use my content or products in whole or in part for any commercial purposes, including selling printed or digital versions of my content or products
• Alter, transform, or build upon this work

Re-posting and Translation

Please do not repost my content in its entirety, there are other options. The reason why is that Google is not yet smart enough to tell who posted the original. So they could actually penalize my website for allowing the publishing of duplicate content.

Please do not translate and publish any of my work into other languages. There is a future plan for that, and I want to be able to direct and oversee the quality of that undertaking.

If you have some other use for my content or products that is not covered here, please email me, otherwise please review the “What You Can Do Without my Permission” section above.