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The OSYC website is an online open-content collaborative platform, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource about Yoga. 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.

The OSYC website 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 current thinking in the relevant field.

Our website administrators have tools such as AdminToolsCategory to monitor new and changing content but it is left to visitors to correct errors or engage in reviewing activity, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Any content may later be edited inappropriately, either just before or after you originally view it.

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with the OSYC website 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.

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 the OSYC website contributors, any project administrators, 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 the OSYC website or any of its agents, members, organisers or other users.

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

Trademarks

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Personality rights

The OSYC website contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to personality rights, independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.

Jurisdiction and legality of content

Publication of information found in the OSYC website may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The the OSYC website 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. The OSYC website 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 advice (for example, medical, legal, financial, or risk management) please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.