1. Striking an Appropriate Balance
At The GLS Project, we want to strike the appropriate balance between making our content useful to you and getting our content widely distributed, while at the same time protecting our intellectual property rights.
With this in mind, below are our ‘Acceptable Use’ guidelines to help you know which content available on and through www.goodlisteningskills.org you can freely use and share, and which content requires explicit consent from us.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Andrew G. Ward
GLS Founder and Owner
The GLS Project
www.goodlisteningskills.org
2. Our Intellectual Property Rights
This website www.goodlisteningskills.org (the “Website”) contains multiple forms of content including, but not limited to, blog posts, downloadable freemium content, free and paid courses, templates, forms, text, graphics, logos, images, etc (collectively, “Content”).
As described fully in our Terms of Use, the Content available on and through the Website are the sole property of The GLS Project and Andrew G. Ward (“Entity”, “we”, “our” or “us”), with the exception of ‘Third Party Content’ written by others (see the bottom of this page). The Content is copyrighted to Andrew G. Ward of The GLS Project.
3. When No Express Written Consent Is Needed
You are free to do the following without our express written consent:
- Link to the Website or any specific blog post on the Website.
- Share any GLS Project listening tips received by email as long as you include the copyright notice below.
Please Note: Some emails contain login information, download links, or paid content that is confidential to you as a GLS subscriber and customer. This confidential information must not be shared. Sharing may result in us needing to disable your access to this Website. See Terms of Use for full details.
By The Way: We’re always interested to know how our content is helping you and others. It helps us create even more useful content. So feel free to drop us an email (support@goodlisteningskills.org). Tell us how The GLS Project content is helping you and/or how you’ve shared it with others. Also, tell us about any other aspects of listening and interpersonal communication that you’d like to know more about.
3.1. Please Display this Copyright Notice
All content owned by us that you use must be accompanied by the following copyright notice:
© 2024, Andrew G. Ward, The GLS Project. All rights reserved. Originally published at www.goodlisteningskills.org. To further improve your listening skills visit The GLS Project, www.goodlisteningskills.org.
4. When Express Written Consent Is Needed
With regard to our blog posts and other Content, for every use that is not specifically described above, you must obtain express written consent from us, except as otherwise provided (e.g. some Freemium content contains explicit written consent allowing you to share it with others).
Please carefully read our Terms of Use for full details on “every other use” of our Content, especially our ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ section.
You can request consent by emailing us at support@goodlisteningskills.org. Tell us what content you want to use and how you want to use it.
Please note that requesting consent does not imply that we will say “no”. In some situations we will gladly grant consent. Requiring express written consent simply ensures that we retain the right to decide how and where our content is used.
Important: The slogans "Let's Make Listening Fashionable", "Make Listening Fashionable" and variations are copyrighted: © 2024, Andrew G. Ward, The GLS Project, www.goodlisteningskills.org. All rights reserved. You cannot use these slogans without our consent.
5. Re-posting and Translation Rights
We do not permit the re-posting of blog posts in their entirety. This is because Google penalises websites for publishing duplicate content. It often can’t tell which site hosts the original, so we risk getting penalised for granting consent.
In addition, we don’t allow the translation and publication of our work in other languages. We simply don’t have the resources to validate the quality of the work.
6. Guest Posts and Other Third Party Content
Guest bloggers retain the copyright to the posts they write. The above ‘Acceptable Use’ guidelines do not apply to their work. If you are interested in re-posting or publishing their content, you must contact them directly. The Entity cannot serve as a broker, agent, or contact point.
See our Terms of Use and Disclaimer regarding other forms of 'Guest Contributions' and third party content.