Terms of Use

By accessing this website, users agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions, which govern your use of our website. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website. These terms and conditions may be revised at anytime and users are encouraged to visit this page from time to time to review current terms and conditions.

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1. Copyright Notice

1.1 Copyright (c) 2025 The Papers of William Short.

1.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) all content found on this website has been licensed under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

(b) use of transcriptions, annotations, identifications, exhibits, blogs, and other textual materials should be cited as follows: [page title]. The Papers of William Short digital edition, eds. Monica Henry and Marty D. Matthews. Columbia: University of South Carolina, McCausland College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Southern Studies, 2025.

(c) images, video, and audio files found within the site are within the public domain or permission from the copyright holder has been granted. As some of this content may be subject to copyright, it should not be used without appropriate permission.

2. Permission to use website

2.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, as long as it does not violate the above mentioned Creative Commons license;

(d) download content from our website using our download features for your own personal and non-commercial use, as long as it does not violate the above mentioned Creative Commons license

(e) stream audio and video files from our website

2.2 You may only use our website for your own personal, business, or educational purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.

2.3 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

2.4 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(d) redistribute material from our website.

2.5 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website [during server maintenance or when we update the website]. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

3. Misuse of website

3.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(g) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(i) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means;

(j) use our website except by means of our public interfaces without our express written consent;

(k) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(l) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

3.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

3.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

4. Registration and Accounts

4.1 To be eligible for an account on our website under this you must be an employee of the The Papers of William Short. This includes but is not limited to: full time staff and editors, parttime staff and editors, students, and volunteers.

4.2 Express permission from the project director must be given in order to register for an account as either a staff member or for any other reason.

4.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

4.4 You must notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

4.5 You must not use any other person's account to access the website, unless you have that person's express permission to do so.

5. User login details

5.1 If you register for an account with our website, we will provide you with OR you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

5.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

5.3 You must keep your password confidential.

5.4 You must notify us immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

5.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

6. Cancellation and suspension of account

6.1 We may:

(a) suspend your account;

(b) cancel your account; and/or

at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.

6.2 In order to cancel your account on our website, you must notify us directly and we will block/cancel your account as appropriate.

7. Our rights to use your content

7.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

7.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media AND reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website.

7.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 7.2.

7.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 7.2.

7.5 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

7.6 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

8. Rules about your content

8.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

8.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

8.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) [constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement];

(f) [constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity];

(g) [be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order];

(h) [be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation];

(i) [be blasphemous];

(j) [be in breach of official secrets legislation];

(k) [be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person];

(l) [depict violence[ in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner]];

(m) [be pornographic[, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit]];

(n) [be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading];

(o) [consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage];

(p) [constitute spam];

(q) [be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory]; or

(r) [cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person].

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9. Limited warranties

9.1 We make every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information published on our website and that the material on the website is up to date. In the event that information is outdated or incorrect, we will make every effort to correct the error(s).

9.2 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) that the website will operate without fault; or

(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available in it’s current format.

9.3 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

9.4 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

10. Limitations and exclusions of liability

10.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

10.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

10.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

10.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

10.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

10.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

10.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

10.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

11. Breaches of these terms and conditions

11.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.

11.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking including without limitation:

(a) creating and/or using a different account;

(b) using a different computer, web browser, or ip address;

12. Variation

12.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

12.2 [The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.] OR [We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.]

12.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

13. Assignment

13.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

13.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

14. Entire agreement

14.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions[, together with [our privacy and cookies policy],] shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

15. Our details

15.1 This website is owned and operated by The Papers of William Short.

15.2 You can contact us:

(a) using our website contact form;