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HRhero.com is a product of M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC, which owns the copyright for all text, graphics, and other content on the website.

HRhero.com provides the free information on this site to be read by anyone, and the password-protected information to be read by Employment Law Letter subscribers or other customers who have paid to have access to the information. M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC retains the copyright on all text and graphics. To use this information in any other way, you must strictly follow these guidelines.

Reprinting or redistributing HR Hero articles

We strive to provide you with valuable information, and you may want to share it with others. We consider that a compliment, and we'll try to work with you to let it happen. But at the same time, we have to protect our copyrighted work from unauthorized distribution.

Here are the rules that apply to all articles on HRhero.com, the HR Hero Line e-mail newsletter, and all HR Hero publications from M. Lee Smith Publishers:

Photocopies

Photocopying one of our articles, newsletters, or other publications is strictly prohibited without written permission.

Printouts

Multiple printouts of a web page, PDF file, or other electronic publication is also prohibited without written permission. For example, you'd need permission to distribute copies to co-workers or hand them out in a meeting, training session, or classroom.

One printout of a web page. You don't need permission to print out a web page or e-mail message for your own use or to share with one other person.

E-mail

Forwarding the HR Hero Line e-mail. We're glad to have you forward the HR Hero Line e-mail message in its entirety. Be sure not to delete or change any of the text without permission.

E-mailing a link. You're welcome to send your friends or co-workers a link that will take them to an article in the free area of HRhero.com.

Do not share links to the Subscribers Area of HRhero.com. The links to these articles will include "/lc" or your user name or password.

E-mailing an article. Except as described above, you need our permission before you e-mail one of our articles, newsletters, or other publications to anyone else. This includes individual articles as well as the Employment Law Letter. This restriction applies to individual e-mail messages as well as listservs, e-mail groups, news groups, web-based forums, intranets, and any other electronic medium.

Your company newsletter, etc.

You need our permission to include one of our articles in a company newsletter, training material, memo, or any other document or publication.

To ask permission, send an e-mail to WebEditor@mleesmith.com. Please specify which article you'd like to use and explain what you'd like to do with it.

Your website

Using one of our articles. You need our prior permission to put the text of any article from HR Hero Line, HRhero.com, or any of our print publications on your website, intranet, database, discussion board, or any other system.

Linking to HRhero.com on your website. On your website or intranet, you're welcome to link to any article in the free area of HRhero.com as long as you don't frame our web page. (A frame means putting additional graphics or text above or next to our web page.)

If you want to use a framed link, you can request permission at the e-mail address below.
Linking to the Subscribers Area of HRhero.com is strictly prohibited. The links to these articles will include "/lc" or a user name or password.

To ask permission to use one of our articles, send an e-mail to WebEditor@mleesmith.com. Please specify which article you'd like to use and explain what you'd like to do with it.

If you have any questions, just drop us a line at the e-mail address above.

M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC
P.O. Box 5094
5201 Virginia Way
Brentwood, TN 37024-5094
(800) 274-6774

Other resources you can share

HR Hero Line. If you know anyone who might like to receive HR Hero Line, Northern Exposure, or Diversity Insight, our free e-mail newsletters, please send them to www.HRhero.com/enewsletter.cgi.

Multi-User Accounts. If you have co-workers who would benefit from your Employment Law Letter subscription, you should check out a Multi-User Account. It's an easy and economical way to share your newsletter, plus all the resources in the Subscribers Area of HRhero.com. For more information, click here.

HR Frontline. Here's a quick and painless way to teach your company's supervisors about employment law. HR Frontline is a two-page monthly newsletter that's priced low so you can buy a copy for each supervisor you have. For more information, click here.