Rights Policy

For The Digital Archive:

Materials posted on this site have been donated to the Southeast Chicago Historical Society and Museum for public use. If there are any questions or concerns about materials posted, please contact the Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project at sechicagohistoryorg@gmail.com.

Materials on this website (either those particular donated materials in which the Museum holds rights or material generated for the website including “stories” and metadata) are subject to a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International license CC BY-NC-SA 4.O https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. This license allows users to copy or redistribute material under the following conditions: users must give credit to the Southeast Chicago Historical Society, provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes are made to materials. You may not suggest that SECHS endorses you or your use of these materials. You may not use this material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original and may not apply terms that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. 

For those who would like to use these materials for commercial publication in books, articles or other media, please contact SECHS at sechicagohistoryorg@gmail.com. Commercial licensing and higher resolution versions of the materials may be available for a fee which will go towards supporting the Society and website.

For The Stories:

The materials on this site are subject to a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International license CC BY-NC-SA 4.O https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Under the aforementioned license, users are free to copy or redistribute material  under the following conditions: users must give credit to the Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project [this is the broader collaborative project that includes the Southeast Chicago Historical Society/Museum and the Exit Zero team], provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes are made to materials. You may not suggest that the Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project endorses you or your use of these materials. You may not use this material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original and may not apply terms that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.