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Does the Virginia Web Archive need permission to crawl and make available certain Web sites?

April 26, 2017archive certain Crawl permission Virginia web web sites

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Does the Virginia Web Archive need permission to crawl and make available certain Web sites?

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Since the Library of Virginia serves as the official archives for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia Web Archive does not need permission to crawl the sites of government and quasi-governmental agencies, boards, and institutions. However, for non-governmental Web sites, the Virginia Web Archive will seek permission prior to making the archived sites available to the public. For non-governmental Web sites, the Library will contact site owners via e-mail. The message will contain a link to the Library of Virginia permission form where the site owner will have the option to accept or decline the Library’s permission request. If the site owner declines, the Web site will not publicly display on our Web Archiving page. However, if the site owner does not reply after at least two attempts, the Web site will be publically displayed unless the site owner specifically requests that the archived page be removed.