FalloutWiki:General disclaimer

The following outlines General Disclaimers of the Independent Fallout Wiki, a community-run site that documents all Fallout games and associated information.

Purpose
The Independent Fallout Wiki (IFW) is neither owned by nor affiliated with Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax Online Studios, or ZeniMax Media. The IFW is a fan-run site dedicated to documenting the Fallout Series. Its purpose is that of an open information repository and is not intended to infringe upon the copyrights of Bethesda Softworks, nor their parent and affiliate companies. All information supplied herein is provided freely, with no guarantee of accuracy, and may include spoilers throughout the articles.

License
All contributions to the Independent Fallout Wiki are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. By editing the wiki, users consent to having their contributions distributed under this license. These contributions may be redistributed or adapted by the general public for use as long as it is released under the same license and the contributing authors are attributed through either a list of contributors or a conspicuous and visible link back to the original article.

Images and other media
Images that are displayed on the Independent Fallout Wiki remain the property of their original copyright holder and are only included on this website for purposes of illustration under fair use guidelines. Unless the author and rights holder of an image expressively licenses it, images do not fall under the scope of the Creative Commons license. In all cases, images uploaded to our database must be accompanied by a specific note with:
 * The source of the image or other media file if the file is derived from an official Fallout work, or
 * Credit to the original author of the image or other media file if the file is an original fan-created work including a link where the author may be contacted.

You must also include information about:
 * The source of the file, being a specific episode, book, other official work, website, or any other medium, and
 * Whether the file is uploaded to the Independent Fallout Wiki with the expressed permission of the original author and rights holder, or under fair use rules. The rights to fair use files belong to the copyright holder of the game or other media, not the person who captured or recorded the file.

Copyrighted works
If you use part of a copyrighted work under fair use, or if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact along with names and dates. It is our goal to be able to freely redistribute as much of the Independent Fallout Wiki's material as possible within the limits of copyright law, so original images and sound files licensed under the Creative Commons license or in the public domain are preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use. Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. If in doubt, write it yourself.