Free Use Policy

Sightline wants to make it easy for you to use, share, and distribute the Sightline materials found on our Site, subject to this Free Use Policy and Sightline’s Terms of Use (“Terms”). Unless otherwise defined in this Free Use Policy, terms used in this Free Use Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms, which incorporate by reference this Free Use Policy. Sightline and its licensors do not grant you any rights or licenses, by implication or otherwise, except for the rights and licenses expressly granted in this Free Use Policy and the Terms. 

1. Permitted Uses

a. Articles, reports, and other text. Unless otherwise indicated on the Site, and subject to your compliance with the Terms and this Free Use Policy, including the Attribution, No Modification, and No Commercial Use requirements, Sightline grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to access, view and download Sightline’s articles, reports, and other text and written works authored by Sightline (“Text”), solely for your editorial and non-commercial purposes. For our internal tracking purposes, please simply notify us (editor@sightline.org) if you plan to republish, post, print, distribute, publicly display, or publicly perform the Text, in whole or in part, in electronic or print form.  

b. Maps, charts, and other graphics. Subject to your compliance with the Terms and this Free Use Policy, including the Attribution, No Modification, and No Commercial Use requirements, Sightline grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to access, view, download, print, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform Sightline’s maps, charts, tables, and other graphics (“Graphics”) in print and electronic form, solely for your editorial and non-commercial purposes. 

c. Photographs. Most photographs on the Site are from external sources, either from creative commons sources or purchased for Sightline’s exclusive use. Please comply with the license of the original source, usually noted in the photo caption. Please comply with any and all licenses and/or restrictions, including attribution requirements, applicable to the photo(s) and included on or near the photo(s) in the original posting or web page. You must obtain written or email permission (editor@sightline.org) from Sightline to reproduce, distribute, print, or otherwise use, in any media, any photograph found on the Site. For photographs and images not originating with Sightline, you must obtain permission from the original source. 

2. Attribution

 You must attribute all Graphics and Text authored by Sightline by keeping intact our logo or copyright notice (if already affixed to the Content) or adding a text citation. For online reprints, you must include a hyperlink to the web page where the Content is posted on the Site, such as: 

• This article was originally published by Sightline Institute. 
• Graphic by Sightline Institute. 

For print reproductions, please use the following format: “From <insert title of  article, report, book, map, chart, graphic, or web page>, by <insert name of author>, Copyright <insert year published on Site> Sightline Institute; used with permission.”  

3. No Modification

You may use only verbatim copies or excerpts of our Graphics, Text, and other content, not modified, edited, revised, or derivative versions of it without written or email permission (editor@sightline.org) from Sightline. You may not modify, alter, revise, transform, build upon, or otherwise prepare derivative works of our Graphics and Text without written or email permission from Sightline (editor@sightline.org). 

4. No Commercial Use

You may not use Sightline’s Graphics, Text, photographs, or other content for any commercial purposes without permission. You must obtain written or email permission from Sightline (editor@sightline.org) to use any Graphics, Text, photos, or other content for commercial purposes (such as inclusion in a book, magazine, newspaper, fee-based website, or any other for-profit or commercial venture). 

5. How to Obtain Permission

To obtain permission from Sightline to use Text, photos, or other content free of charge, please send an email to editor@sightline.org. We grant permission to use our works in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to revoke or deny permission to anyone at any time for any reason, and to remove content from the Site at any time, for any reason, without notice.