Terms of Use, Disclaimers, and Privacy Policy

This is an agreement between you and GilaBen.com. This Agreement governs your use of any website or web page operated by GilaBen.com. You hereby agree to the terms and conditions contained herein by using any of the information, services and/or products available on any GilaBen.com website. 

GilaBen.com reserves the right to change these terms, conditions, and notices at any time. You are personally responsible for regularly reviewing any terms, conditions, and/or notices posted on any GilaBen.com website. Any use of any GilaBen.com website after any change of terms, conditions, and/or notices constitutes your acceptance and agreement to such changes. 

GilaBen.com websites are only for educational and/or personal use only. You will not use any GilaBen.com website for commercial purposes. You agree not use any GilaBen.com website in any manner that is unlawful or harmful to GilaBen.com, its affiliates, resellers, distributors, service providers, and/or customers.

All GilaBen.com websites are provided to you free of charge, on a "as is," basis WITH NO WARRANTIES IMPLIED WHATSOEVER. 

Some of the information and services available to you on this website may contain typographical and/or other errors. While GilaBen.com tries to maintain the accuracy of the information it provides on this website, it cannot be held responsible for any errors, defects, lost profits, delays, and/or other consequential damages arising from the use of this website. 

This GilaBen.com Web page contains links to other websites created and maintained by both public and private organizations. These links are provided for our user's convenience only. GilaBen.com does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, completeness, originality, or importance of any of this information. The inclusion of these links is not intended to reflect any endorsement by GilaBen.com of the views expressed, or does it reflect any endorsement of the products or services offered by any of the organizations or companies that may sponsor these websites. There may be occasional periods of service interruption. GilaBen.com 's contracted Web host "will make every good faith effort to ensure that its web servers are available to as many Internet users as possible and that there is minimal interruption of service as possible," however it cannot guarantee that service will not be interrupted or error free. 

In no event shall GilaBen.com be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special and exemplary damages, or any other damages arising from the use or performance of this website or from any information, services provided through this website whatsoever.

If you are dissatisfied with this website, or any portion thereof, your sole remedy shall be to stop using this website . 

Placement of advertisements and/or links to other websites that may contain advertising on this GilaBen.com website in no way constitutes endorsement of the product or service offered whatsoever. Caveat emptor. GilaBen.com is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special and exemplary damages, or any other damages arising from the use or performance of any third-party service or product advertised through this website whatsoever. 

Privacy Policy

GilaBen.com , is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. Please note that this policy applies to the GilaBen.com website ONLY and not to any other websites of other companies, organizations, and/or individuals to which GilaBen.com may provide Web links. Any information submitted to GilaBen.com from visitors to the GilaBen.com website is used only to help determine usage and to fine-tune content in order to ensure that the site is as useful as possible. Collected information will NOT be sold or given to any company or person beyond this site, and you will NOT receive any unsolicited email from GilaBen.com. 

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About GilaBen.com

GilaBen.com was created by Mark A. Hicks, Illustrator, a native Arizonan, and is intended to be an entertaining source of useful information about the state of Arizona for teachers, students, and anyone else interested in learning more about the Grand Canyon State. Mark reserves all rights to all the artwork on this site. Please see the copyright and other important information at the top of this page. You can contact Mark about this site by clicking here.

Learn about Gila Ben's beginnings in this story about the artist.

 Arizona's Birthday: February 14, 1912

Arizona's Nickname: Grand Canyon State 

Arizona's Flag

Capital City: Phoenix (see map)

State Amphibian: Arizona Tree Frog

State Bird: Cactus Wren

State Gemstone: Turquoise 

State Fish: Apache Trout

State Flower: Saguaro Cactus Blossom

State Fossil: Petrified Wood 

State Mammal: Ringtail

State Reptile: Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake

State Tree: Palo Verde