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Basic rules for the Dos Leos Award Program:
- Dos Leos reserves all rights as to final judgement of evaluated
sites.
- Dos Leos reserves the right to refuse evaluation of any site, for
any legitimate reason (see criteria).
- All sites applying must meet the basic
criteria. The applicant must follow the simple instructions found there, in
order to submit a successful application.
- All sites awarded must maintain a level of quality. If Dos
Leos finds that an awarded site no longer meets our criteria, the applicant will be
notified of the problem and given the opportunity to resolve the problem. However,
if a site should display any forbidden images or text that may be considered harmful, the
site's listing will be removed immediately and without notice. Dos Leos reserves the
right to rescind an award and/or remove site's listing from the Dos Leos website without
notice and for any legitimate reason.
- All award graphics are to be displayed 'As Issued' without any
modification of any kind. If a graphic must be resized, specific permission from Dos
Leos is necessary. Dos Leos DOES check for compliance from time to time. Failure to
meet this requirement will result in forfeiture of the award.
- Applicants who receive an award must notify Dos Leos of it's
placement and URL, so we may verify it has been displayed correctly and without
alterations.
- A site not awarded may resubmit after 90 days of the initial
application date, if the site has undergone changes that will positively affect the
outcome of the next evaluation.
- A site requesting an upgrade may do so 90 days following the last
award. The site must have changes that will positively affect the outcome of the
next evaluation.
- Any site that does not publish the award graphic and notify Dos
Leos of placement within 15 days of the award will forfeit the award. Applicant will
have to reapply after 90 days.
- Any site, or applicant refusing an award because it is not what
was expected will be permanently banned from any further evaluations or awards from Dos
Leos.
- All awards are required to have a return link to the Dos Leos
Awards: http://www.dosleos.com/
- Dos Leos, by itself, will not evaluate/award a site that is
an affiliate of Dos Leos. This includes any site that we may evaluate for, or it for
Dos Leos. In this instance, we will use a qualified evaluator from another Award
Site to evaluate and score the applying website, according to Dos Leos criteria and Dos
Leos will stand on the outcome.
- If a site is down on our first evaluation attempt we will try one
more time, five days later. If the site is still down we will send an email to the
applicant advising that the site is not working. Site will have to be resubmitted
for a third evaluation attempt. If the problem is addressed in short-order, the
evaluation may be immediate.
- If a winning site retires/leaves the www or changes URLs, causing
a broken link in our directory, Dos Leos will remove, or update the site's URL.
After 1 year, a retired site may be dropped from our listings entirely. This is to
keep our award winner listings as current as possible, free-up disk space and keep our
indexes working. If you want to keep your site listing you should notify Dos Leos of
any new URL immediately.
Unauthorized use of the Dos Leos Award Graphics:
- Any unauthorized use of our Award Graphics including 'hot-linking'
(bandwidth theft) will subject your site to being listed as a 'Pirate Site' in our
indexes. The listing will remain until the graphic/s or links are removed. NO
EXCEPTIONS! This includes any other images/content from our site.
- We keep full records of all sites awarded and the authorized
graphics issued for the award. Any attempt to falsify an award will create a
negative listing.
- All awards given after January 2003 will have a serial number or
Site/Webmaster name on the graphic. Removal of the identifier will be considered a
breach of our rules and cause the award to be rescinded.
Dos Leos reserves the right to change or add to the above
rules at any time and without notice, to better our program, maintain fairness and achieve
higher consistency. Any and all sites submitted will be subject to the published
rules currently in effect.
rev. 1.06
08-28-03
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