FAQ

If I reg­is­ter, is it free?

Yes, this is a free site. If you sign up you get more infor­ma­tion about dis­til­leries and whiskies. An own pro­file page where you can add your whiskies and access to forums and groups. You can read more about the ben­e­fits here. If you don’t want to sign up you can still browse the site and read about whiskies, news and distilleries.

Can I also add infor­ma­tion on your site?

Yep you can, and I would love if you did, just send me a mail and I’ll set up an edi­tor account for you. The site is sup­pose to be a site with user gen­er­ated infor­ma­tion. It is you who makes the alive and thriving.

I won­der how I can add a pic­ture to my pro­file like oth­ers have done

You can add (upload) your photo on your pro­file page. This photo will only be shown on chwisgi.com. Chwsigi.com also uses some­thing called Gra­vatars. Gra­vatars are Glob­ally Rec­og­nized Avatars. An avatar or gra­vatar is an icon, or rep­re­sen­ta­tion, of a user in a shared vir­tual real­ity, such as a forum, chat, web­site, or any other form of online com­mu­nity in which the user(s) wish to have some­thing to dis­tin­guish them­selves from other users. Cre­ated by Tom Werner, gra­vatars make it pos­si­ble for a per­son to have one avatar across the entire web. So to add you own pic­ture to chwisgi.com and many other sites, head over to Gravatar.com.

My pho­tos are on your site!

I try to only use pho­tos that are on Flickr and under Cre­ative Com­mons License. I give credit to all pho­tog­ra­phers and a link to the pro­filer page on Flickr. If you have changed your license or you just don’t want your pic­ture on my site, please let me know and I will remove it. The small thumb­nails you see on the right side of the site are just auto­mat­i­cally fetched from Flickr. If you click on the thumb­nail you come to your photo on the Flickr site.

Copy­right

There are dif­fer­ent copy­right own­ers for dif­fer­ent con­tent on chwisgi.com. Here is some of the differences

  • Pho­tos: I mainly use pho­tos that are under Cre­ative Com­mons License and I give credit to the own­ers of the pho­tos. Check with pho­tog­ra­pher before you make a copy of a photo.
  • Pho­tos of whisky bot­tles: I mainly use pho­tos from The Whisky Exchange. Before you use any of the these pho­tos, ask TWE if you can reuse their photos.
  • Whisky news: I syn­di­cate parts of news from other whisky sites. The con­tent is copy­righted by the spe­cific site.
  • User gen­er­ated con­tent like forum posts, reviews and pro­file pages are owned by the user who cre­ated the content.
  • Dis­tillery infor­ma­tion is com­ing from Wikipedia and is under Cre­ative Com­mons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Can I unreg­is­ter if I don’t like the site?

Sure, no prob­lem. Just send me a mail and I will remove your account from our site.

Can I or our com­pany adver­tise on this site?

Yes, just send me a mail and we can have a dis­cus­sion about it, you can read more about under Adver­tise.

I have prob­lems adding con­tent to your site, what is wrong?

If you have any prob­lem. Just let me know and I´ll see if I can fig­ure it out.

Tag cloud

When I add infor­ma­tion about a dis­tillery I also add tags to the arti­cles. The more pop­u­lar a tag or word is, the big­ger it gets in the ‘tag cloud’. If you click a tag you get all the arti­cles that have been tagged with that spe­cific word.

No answer for your question?

Just send me an mail at jens@chwisgi.com and I’ll try to answer you question.