CPSnet Web Awards: Terms Of Use

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Unless otherwise noted, all website design, text, graphics, stylesheets and the selection and arrangement thereof is ©Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 by Carlos Paula Simões, all rights reserved. Permission is granted to electronically copy and to print in hard copy portions of this site for personal or non-profit educational use as an informational resource. Any other use of materials on this website, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, republication, transmission, re-transmission, modification or public showing without the prior written permission of Carlos Paula Simões, is strictly prohibited.

Be particularly aware that ALL images in this website are copyrighted, either by the owner of this website or by the organizations owning the rights of the several rating and membership badges and logos.

Company and other copyrights: The names Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, JScript, VBScript, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Javascript, Opera Software's Opera, and Sun Microsystems Java are registered trademarks of the respective companies. By referencing their products in these documents this site in no way endorses or is affiliated with these companies. The information is listed for public benefit and only serves to document historical information about the Internet and World Wide Web. The publicly available W3C HTML specifications and terminology (such as CSS and XML) carry their own trademarks and copyrights.

The creator of this award and author of this site will prosecute any unauthorized use or plagiarism of the "Award Seals" available in this site to the fullest extent of the law.

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Credits

The Code of Ethics has been considered public domain by its author and CEM/CEMA. If you are a Website Awards Evaluator also please consider participating in the Website Evaluators Code of Ethics Membership (CEM/CEMA) For further information visit the CEM/CEMA website. Please pass the Code of Ethics information on to any of your friends who are web site award evaluators.

Used in "The High In The Sky Award" section: Space related images like the "Astronaut Space walk" used in the HITSA Seal were taken from NASA JSC Digital Image Collection (see NASA Guidelines). Spider image used in the Aracnofilia Seal from personal photo gallery. Statue image used in the SOTY Seal from personal photo gallery, taken to the Lisbon public monument "Padrão dos Descobrimentos".

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Terms and Conditions

Law applicable: This site, excellentsite.org, including the content and information contained herein, shall be governed by the laws of Portugal and the courts of Portugal shall be the place of jurisdiction. As such, the laws of Portugal shall govern all and any matters relating to the ownership and management of this site, including but not limited to the disclaimer, terms and conditions and submission forms and all other terms and contents on this site, and all or any matters relating to any internal links and other contacts included in the site.

Note about the domain name and URL: This website is hosted under the domain name excellentsite.org that corresponds to the following URL's: http://awards.cpsimoes.net and http://www.cpsimoes.net/cpsnetawards. All these three URL's are equivalent and no redirection to pages outside of the cpsimoes.net web server is being done. Should you experience a situation where one of the three referred URL's replaces one of the other, that can be caused by Perl or PHP scripts referring to the localhost setting.

Changes: The right to make changes to the site and the disclaimer, terms and conditions and order form or any other contents at any time with or without warning is expressly reserved by the CPSnet Web Awards.

Disclaimer:

This website provides links to other Internet sites. These links are not endorsements of any products or services in such sites, and no information in such sites has been endorsed or approved by the CPSnet Web Awards. By providing this service the CPSnet Web Awards are not undertaking any responsibility or liability for information or publications of third parties on the Internet even if you access them through this web site.

Reference in the awarded sites to any specific commercial products, processes, or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the CPSnet Web Awards programs, or any of its evaluators. The views and opinions of authors expressed in any of the awarded sites do not necessarily state or reflect those of the CPSnet Web Awards, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. The CPSnet Web Awards programs do not endorse any third-party commercial product, process, or activity identified by this web site or any of the awarded sites.

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2005-02-02, recognized as a 5+ Elite Award by Award Sites!: As it states at Award Sites!, "In recognition of owner, Carlos Simões, for his efforts going well beyond his award program in 'bettering the net through excellence!'". Needless to say that we at the CPSnet Web Awards are honoured by this outstanding distinction. Thank You AS! and thank you all the awardmasters and applicants that helped building this program!
2005-01-16, selected the Site Of The Year 2004!: It is that time of the year agaIn, when we at the CPSnet Web Awards select the best site of the previous year. And this time, our panel of invited judges and our permanent review team have selected Tim's Spider Corner as the Best Site Of The Year 2004! Congratulations Tim Beylemans, for your outstanding website! Tim's Spider Corner is an educational site for all spider fans that addresses the conservation of nature. You will find bird eating spider information, as well as an assortment of pictures, handling tips, resource links, a spider knowledge quiz, and the complete anatomy of a bird eating spider.
2005-01-09, awarded the "Humanity Award 2005" by the The Rose Awards:: We are very proud for being granted this distinction that it is given out to:

"(1) Webmasters/webmistresses who give back of themselves to the worldwide Net community, offering their talents, their skills, their web sites, as resource points for other people who are interested in bettering themselves and their own sites ... These special people are a great asset to the World Community because they offer their advice and expertise to all who seek it, and everyday, they are making the Internet a better place to be !

(2) This award will also be granted to those special people who display love, tolerance, understanding, compassion, and all-inclusiveness to the Worldwide community, and who understand the true meaning of "We are the World" -- these folks don't shy away from "differences" but instead they reach out to all who pass through their cyber doors !"

More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted " section.
2004-10-20, listed at W3 Compliant Sites: Carlos Simoes is now a "W3 Compliant Sites Member". W3 Compliant Sites is a collection of web sites that were created by designers that conform with the W3C standards. This forum provides the opportunity for them to display their work and ideas in a community that shares common interests.
2004-10-13, listed at net-guide.co.uk: The CPSnet Web Awards are now listed at net-guide.co.uk with an accessibility rating of "excellent". This directory aims to promote accessible sites and gives an accessibility rating for the websites returned for any query entered. Similarly, the directory entries also carry an accessibility rating.
2004-06-07, rated 5 by WebsAwards: A special panel of external judges, convened to assess the programs owned by WebsAwards' Staff members, has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a WebsAwards level 5 program.
2004-05-04, rated 3 by Awardia: The Awardia Index has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a level 3 (in 4 possible, where the fourth level is designated "Corona").
2004-04-01, rated 4 by EAI:: The Euro Award Index reinstated this award program at "Level 4" (in 5 possible).
2004-03-23, joined WSG:: We have joined the Web Standards Group (WSG). The Web Standards Group is for web developers/designers who are interested in web standards, CSS and (X)HTML and related topics.
2004-03-15, web site redesigned:: The CPSnet Web Awards have now a brand new website, fully compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict, "made with CSS" and WCAG-WAI Level AAA. Thank you to Webmates, of which we are proud members, for all the help and for the inspiration!
2004-01-15, announced the Best Site of Year 2003:: Announced back in 15/January 2004: "Explore Mars Now". In this outstanding website, visitors can walk through a Mars habitat simulation learning about science and technology as they explore. There are over 100 photo-realistic 3-D images of a near term Mars Habitat concept that are "brought to life" in Macromedia Flash.