University Wiki:General disclaimer

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University Wiki is an online open-content collaborative guide to the universities. The structure of the project allows anyone with an internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in University Wiki; much of the time you will. However, University Wiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.

No formal peer review

We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of articles. Our active community of editors uses tools such as the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, University Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with University Wiki in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

No contract; limited license

Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual University Wiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of University Wiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and University Wiki regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-NC-SA); neither is anyone at University Wiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on University Wiki or any of its associated projects.

Trademarks

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Jurisdiction and legality of content

Publication of information found in University Wiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The University Wiki database is stored on a server in the State of California in the United States of America, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. University Wiki does not encourage the violation of any laws; and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.

Not professional advice

If you need specific college advice specific to your situation, please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

This policy was adapted from the Wikipedia Disclaimer and is available for reuse under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.