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The Gatehouse is your gateway to the world of steampunk and dieselpunk online!

Online since 2006, the dual mission of this website has always been to entertain and enlighten. We do not subscribe to any particular ideology and do not believe that steampunk is inherently ideological.

Steampunk is a genre and a subculture that’s all about a past that wasn’t. We feel free to reinvent that past however we see fit.

Contact information

The webmaster can be contacted at n.ottens@gmail.com.

Scope and applicability

By accessing this website, any visitor is bound to the following legal terms. All of the paragraphs below may be amended any time without notice. Only their most recent version on the server is valid.

Content disclaimer

All content, unless otherwise noted, © N. Ottens 2002-2011. All rights reserved.

This website and any information contained therein is provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind. There is no “final” version of any content presented at this website. Updates and amendments may be made any time and without being marked as such. In no event the site owner or any of the contributors shall be held responsible for any incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated information.

This site is not affiliated with the web server on which it resides in any way other than web hosting, and the web hosting service shall not, under any circumstances, be held responsible for the opinions, statements or other content within this website. All inquiries to the legality or other applicable terms and conditions of use of any of the content within this website has to be directed exclusively to the webmaster.

Technical disclaimer

This website and the web server it resides on is purposely laid out using proven, secure and professional techniques. The webmaster shall not be help responsible for any harmful effects that viewing of this site may have on a visitor’s computer system.

Viewing requirements

A CSS-compatible browser is required to view this website. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari are strongly recommended — besides displaying the website as it should appear, both are much more user-friendly and safe compared with Internet Explorer.

Copyright notice

No copyright infringement is intended with this website. All copyright text is included for the sole purpose of review. All the images copyrighted by other parties are included for illustration, or they have been altered especially for publication on this website. In case of objections, the webmaster can be contacted at n.ottens@gmail.com.

Note that almost all of the texts, unless stated otherwise, on this website have been created especially for and are copyright of this website. All content taken from other websites is, to the owner’s best knowledge, used with the explicit consent of the respective copyright owners or webmasters. In case of objections, the webmaster can be contacted at n.ottens@gmail.com.

Terms of usage

The content created for and copyright of this website is not public domain. However, it is free to be reproduced by anyone under the following common sense terms:

  • You publish the material in the form of excerpts. We do not approve of reproduction of entire pages or of sites that use our layout graphics or otherwise imitate the look of this website.
  • You give appropriate credit to this website in the form of a hyperlink. We will agree to a mention on a global credit page if you use single content, but we insist on individual credits for more extensive excerpts.
  • For any content we are using by courtesy of a third party, you credit this original source. Note that in some cases of contributed material special terms of use may apply.
  • We will retract a preliminary approval if the material appears in an improper context. This may include, but is not restricted to: sites which promote forms of intolerance, sites on which my content is disfigured or distorted, sites which misquote our statements, sites that sell intellectual property created by us.

    • We appreciate to be informed in advance, if you wish to use our material under the above terms.

    Leeching ban

    Image leeching (displaying images on other websites that are directly loaded from our server) is strictly prohibited.

    Submission agreement

    Visitor submissions to this website of any kind are always appreciated. However, we preserve the right to decline posting submissions on the website. All submitted text or image material posted at this website remains the intellectual property of the originator. Unless otherwise stated, we do not demand exclusive publishing rights. By submitting test or image material, you grant us the right to publicly post it on this website indefinitely, given proper credits. By default, we show the website or email addresses of contributors. Please indicate if you do not wish to have such information published.

    Privacy policy

    Any information submitted with the explicit request of being confidential will be treated as such. Any personal information included in your communication with us will not be disclosed to any other party without your explicit consent. Any information on non-personal nature and falling into the scope of this website may be published and may be credited with the contributor’s name at the webmaster’s discretion. Please note that, by default, we show the website or email addresses of contributors. Please indicate if you do not wish to have such information published.

    Links disclaimer

    Links to external websites do not imply any endorsement or guarantee of content. The webmaster does not assume any liability or responsibility whatsoever for the operation of, or content at, any of the linked resources, nor for any of the interpretation, comments, or opinions expressed therein.