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1. PRIVACY: We have two ways of asking for information on this site: 1.)our feedback form and 2.) our Parnassus on the Net store order forms. We NEVER share, sell, exchange, or give away any information obtained on these forms to anyone. We will not sell, give away, or exchange any of your information unless, of course, a government agency were to force us to do so.
2. CHILD PRIVACY: We do not solicit information, feedback, or orders from those under 13.
THIS IS NOT A SITE MEANT FOR CHILDREN, IN THE SENSE THAT NO ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO GEAR IT TO CHILDREN OR TO RESTRICT TOPICS OR LANGUAGE THAT PARENTS OR GUARDIANS MAY FIND UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.. THIS SITE CONTAINS LANGUAGE OF A SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS NATURE THAT MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.
As much as we hate censorship, even self censorship, we would reluctantly suggest that this site might be too sophisticated, risqué, or inappropriate for those under 15 and that some parents would want to monitor or restrict usage all the way up through 17
We will not knowingly link you directly to any site which displays explicit material of a sexual nature or which uses language, graphics, or photographs purely for the purpose of arousing prurient interest, again, presentations which are, in our opinion, news oriented articles, satirical works, literary works, or artistic works might be exempted from this ban. In all cases, we will attempt to note links which might have material questionable for children to view or read. But we can only alert you when we know, which we probably will not know for sure. We will not link to any site which we believe might be exploitative of children.
If you find that any of our links, in your opinion, violate these standards, please send us feedback. Include the URL address of the offending site and your email address in the feedback. We will respond to all such feedback, we cannot guarantee that our opinion will agree with yours. Read our Standards Policies for more on our sense of propriety.
SITE STANDARDS POLICIES
1.YES to really bad puns. NO to tacky references to private bodily functions.
2.YES to glorification of cultural idiocy NO to the glorification of idiots.
3.YES to dopes NO to dope glorification. (but we will make references and link to others who do also)
4.YES to the battle of sexes NO to winners and losers.
5.YES to representations of human pulchritude. NO to neo-Victorian silliness.
6.YES to implied or explicit sexiness. NO to explicit sexual descriptions or depiction of sexual acts or the equipment used to perform them.
NO to pictures involving human sexual or food processing plumbing or primary human sexual equipment.
NO to most profanity and scatological references. If we can't think of powerful euphemisms to replace trite scatological phrases and demeaning referents to a/the deity, then we need to increase our vocabulary and broaden our horizons.
7.YES to controversy. NO to political correctness. MAYBE: to sensitivity.
8.YES to offensiveness. If we don't offend someone, we're certainly not covering current American culture. If we gore your sacred cow, say mooooo on our feedback page.
9. All the products and services we sell are as sweet and lovable as can be and they have a liberal return policy, a conservative price, and reflect libertarian selection standards.. They can't help being placed on the same site with a bunch of sarcastic iconoclasts and they hope you'll buy them anyway.
10. Non-Childproof: See LINKS below. There will never be any graphic or photograph on this web site that couldn't be shown on the evening news. (We realize this is not much of a standard.) However, we wouldn't necessarily want to have to try to explain everything you can read or see on this web site to a six year old.
We would feel comfortable explaining everything on this web site to a precocious thirteen year old but you might not. We would not feel totally comfortable with a thirten year old browsing everything on this site without some adult to interpret. But, we feel the same way about the evening news. We would feel totally ok with a sixteen year old or above browsing this page, but, you might not.
As much as we hate censorship, even self censorship, we would reluctantly suggest that this site might be too sophisticated, risqué, or inappropriate for those under 15 and that some parents would want to monitor usage all the way up through 17.
As teenagers we, of course, would have been outraged at any suggestion that we weren't mature enough for this material. Our teenagers would certainly be allowed to surf this site. Heck, we even let them watch Bill Clinton, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, and Pat Robertson.
NOTE: In this world of shifting mores and raging tempers, standards of any kind are as reliable as an NEA grant renewal. It is an interesting comment on our culture that we cannot describe this site as adult and mature without conjuring images of fetishism and lasciviousness.
We think that this is site is adult and mature in the sense that the 1950's TV series Have Gun, Will Travel was adult and mature when compared to the 1930' movie serial The Tales of Lash LaRue. NOW STOP IT! There is NO hidden meaning in the word Lash. Really! Thank the heavens that we didn't mention James Fennimore Cooper's LEATHER Stocking Tales.
LINKS - we exercise editorial discretion but, ALL BETS ARE PRETTY MUCH OFF on linked sites. We have neither the facilities nor the inclination to monitor the content of every page on links that we provide, or the links those links provide, etc., etc. We do not knowingly provide links to sites whose PRIMARY purpose is to provide sexual, scatological, or, profane material., UNLESS of course this material is used for satirical, literary, or artistic purposes. We are generally not receptive to scatological material as art, but its existence certainly is a cultural phenomenon. From a culturally conservative point of view, we're a little weak on what some may deem to be profanity and we are fairly liberal in our estimation about acceptable references to sexuality.
We will not knowingly link you directly to any site which promotes or displays explicit material of a sexual nature or which uses language, graphics, or photographs purely for the purpose of arousing prurient interest, again, presentations which are, in our opinion, satirical, literary, or artistic works might be released from this ban. In all cases, we will attempt to note links which might have material questionable for children to view or read. But we can only alert you when we know, which we probably will not know for sure. We will not link to any site which we believe might be exploitative of children. If you find that any of our links, in your opinion, violate these standards, please send us feedback. Include the URL address of the offending site and your email address in the feedback. We will respond to all such feedback, we cannot guarantee that our opinion will agree with yours.
A Discretionary Caution and A Disclaimer from GazetteOfTheArts.com™ and
from Free Marketing, Inc.
We at GazetteOfTheArts.com™ encourage you to exercise discretion while browsing the internet using
links provided in this site, or from any search engine or directory, or, for that matter,
from anyone. We strive for comprehensive coverage of interesting culturally oriented sites.
Historically, artists and those of an artistic bent are known neither for their
conventionality nor for their sensitivity to delicate or conservative cultural
sensibilities. Today is no different.
We do not thoroughly monitor content on the sites we link to and therefore you may be
directed to sites containing information that you may find offensive or inappropriate. We
do not check thoroughly for accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of
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presented on this site or the use of the links offered on this site.
References, bowdlerizing, and the censorial sic: When we make references to sites which might have tacky titles or require the use of tacky words in their description we will bowdlerize the reference or description (We've always wanted to bowdlerize something and now we have a chance.) To indicate that we've done so, we will place the words censorial sic in parentheses after the bowdlerization.
Note: Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English doctor, man of letters, and foolish prude who is most famous for his 1818 edition of Shakespeare's works in which he boasted "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The American College dictionary defines bowdlerize as "to expurgate prudishly."
Our bowdlerization will be accomplished by replacing the offending word with: 1.) English phrases are words with no affective strength in modern parlance, 2.) obsolete or quaint expressions , and 3.) Latin, Greek, or other foreign phrases.
As an example we have a link to a cookbook whose subtitle is The Blow Health Out of Your Fundament (censorial sic) Cookbook. Thus, anyone visiting our site who does not want to be confronted by the unseemly popular slang expression for the gluteus maximus is spared. Anyone who wishes to see the original wordage in the linked site is just a click away. Thus we can censor, without censoring, a delightful concept. Also, we are vouchsafed the fun of coming up with the alternative word or phrase. So, we hope, everyone will be amused and happy which, after all, is the aim of our web site.
The term censorial sic is our own invention. Censorial simply means we're acting like censors; sic is a Latin notation, usually placed in text to indicate that the author has made a mistake and, that the editors know it is a mistake but, are leaving it in anyway. This is usually to maintain textual faithfulness to the original and a certain literary integrity and respect for the author of the errant word or phrase. The censorial sic has no truck with this original integrity business, you can get that on the linked site. Use of the censorial sic means that we have changed the original, which we know introduces an inaccuracy but, we're doing it anyway. You can see the correct, unbowdlerized text by simply visiting the referenced internet site. You can score yourself on how well you guessed the word or phrase we bowdlerized -- or, you can avoid possible offense by avoiding the referenced web site.
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