Scot-image

USER REGISTRATION AGREEMENT

Terms and Conditions for use of website and image purchase/licencing

By registering to our site, you acknowledge that you agree to be bound by our terms of use policy. If you have not read this policy please do not proceed with your registration at this time. If you have questions please contact us.

Welcome to Scot-image and thank you for taking the time to read these terms and conditions, but before you do please let me explain that these terms and conditions exist to protect you, the client, as much as to protect me and for the most part they only become active in the event something goes wrong. I'm glad to say this is a rare occurrence.

Before using this site, please read all the terms and conditions carefully. By accessing and using this website you are bound by the terms and conditions and if you do not agree to all of these, you must not use this website.

These terms and conditions apply to your use of the website and are not altered by any other terms or agreements that you may have with David Robertson and/or Scot-image.co.uk.

Scot-image.co.uk is a website which is operated by Photographer David Robertson of Craigneuk, L'Estrange Avenue, ALVA, FK12 5EX.

"We/Us" means David Robertson. "You" means the person or entity allowed registered access to www.scot-image.co.uk and the images herein.

Ownership of Website

1. This website is owned and operated by David Robertson. All of the content displayed or featured on the site, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, photographs, data, moving images, illustrations and software is owned by David Robertson, his licensors or his content providers.
2. All elements of the site are protected by copyright, trade marking, moral rights and other laws relating to intellectual property rights. No part of this site, unless permitted within another agreement with David Robertson, may be copied or retransmitted by any means.

Registration and Data

1. By registering on this site, and agreeing to the terms and conditions, you agree to provide accurate and current information, that you have the authority to agree on behalf of your organisation and that you will keep all information up to date. You accept all responsibility for all activity under your registration and account.
2. Any information that you supply will be kept on a database. We will not use your personal information for any purpose other than that for which it is submitted. We use personal information to reply to enquiries, handle complaints, provide operational notices and in program record-keeping. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to any other party.

Use of the Website

1. You may only use images from this website once you have completed a full registration. Any other use of the images, or content of this website, is strictly forbidden.
2. You must satisfy yourself that all necessary rights, model releases or consents which may be required for reproduction are obtained and that the use of any Image is not obscene, indecent, libellous or unlawful. We make no claim or warranty with regard to your use of content, names, text, people, trademarks or copyright material depicted in any Image and you will indemnify us in respect of any claims, damages, costs or expenses we incur arising from the use of any Image supplied to you.
3. We reserve the right to terminate your registration if you (a) die; (b) enter into a voluntary or compulsory liquidation; (c) have a receiver appointed; or (d) fail to perform any of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions within 28 days of our giving you notice to comply. In the event of termination, any further exploitation of any Images shall constitute an infringement of copyright.

Disclaimer

1. This website and its contents are provided "as is" and David Robertson excludes to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any warranty, express or implied, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose. All functions within this website are not warranted to be without error or unavailable. You, not David Robertson, assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction due to your use of this website.
2. David Robertson uses all reasonable efforts to ensure that all the website contents are as accurate, correct and reliable as possible but we make no representations or warranties as to the content's accuracy, correctness and reliability.

Miscellaneous

1. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold David Robertson, his subsidiaries and affiliates and his respective officers, directors and employees harmless from all damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and costs), arising out of or as a result of claims by third parties relating to your use of the website outside the scope of this Agreement or any other breach of this Agreement.
2. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Scotland and the parties agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts, such jurisdiction to be exclusive, save for infringement where it will be non-exclusive.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUBMISSION AND REPRODUCTION OF IMAGES

"We" and/or "Us" means David Robertson of www.scot-image.co.uk. "You" means the person or entity named as client overleaf.

You will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions unless you notify us to the contrary and return all the Images to us within 5 days of receipt.

No variation of these terms or conditions shall be effective unless agreed in writing.

"Image" means any item which may be offered for the purposes of reproduction (including where appropriate a Digital Image).

Please note that we cannot supply images to you until you have agreed to our terms and conditions, which apply to the supply of both digital images and transparencies. If you have any questions regarding our terms, please contact us.

Supply Of Images

1. The Images are submitted on loan at your request, on approval only. Our delivery note lists the Images delivered to you, which shall be deemed to have been received complete and in good condition, unless we receive notification of any discrepancy or damage within 48 hours of receipt.
2. Images belong to us. They are your responsibility from the time we despatch them until we receive them back. You are urged to take out insurance to cover the total value of the Images delivered.
3. You must pay a non-refundable service fee to cover administrative costs and despatch of Images on each submission and resubmission of Images whether or not reproduction rights are required or granted. We will deliver Images to you by the most appropriate safe method, which affords proof of delivery, and may invoice you for the delivery costs.

Supply of Images in transparency or printed format

4. "Return Date" is the date by which the Images must be returned as specified on the delivery note or licence. If no date is specified, the Return Date shall be four weeks from the date of the delivery note.
5. You must pay the rental fee specified in the delivery note until we receive the Images back. Payment of the rental fee does not entitle you to retain any Image after its Return Date.
6. You must return Images to us by a safe method, which affords proof of delivery. You must arrange adequate protection for Images in transit. You must enclose a delivery note detailing and totalling the returned Images and must send a copy of that note by separate post, fax or email.
7. You must immediately notify us in writing of any loss or damage. You must pay us compensation for each Image lost or damaged at the rates specified on the delivery note, which are a genuine pre-estimate of the loss, which we will suffer. Any Image returned without its mount, or with its caption or other mount data missing or defaced, may incur a replacement charge at the rate set out in the delivery note. Payment of compensation does not entitle you to any additional rights in the material. An Image subsequently found must be returned immediately. If it is undamaged you will be credited with any compensation paid less a rental fee at the rate set out in the delivery note from the Return Date to the date the Image is returned. Such credit will never be less than 20% of any compensation paid.

Licence for Use of Images

8. The reproduction by whatever means of the whole or any part of any Image (including, without limitation, slide projection, artist's reference, artist's illustration, layout or presentation of Images) is strictly forbidden without our specific written permission. You must inform us of your proposals as to when and how an Image is intended to be used. We will then consider whether we would wish to grant a licence and, if so, on what terms.
9. No reproduction rights are granted by virtue of delivery of Images unless expressly indicated. Your right to reproduce an Image arises only if (a) licence terms are agreed and (b) our invoice relating to the grant of such right is fully paid. Any reproduction before payment of the invoice or outside the terms of any licence constitutes an infringement of copyright and also a breach of this Agreement entitling us to rescind and claim damages. You must indemnify us in respect of any claims, damages, costs or expenses we incur arising from any reproduction of any Image supplied to you.
10. You must satisfy yourself that all necessary rights, model releases or consents, which may be required for reproduction, are obtained and that the use of any Image is not obscene, indecent, libellous or unlawful. We make no claim or warranty with regard to your use of content, names, text, people, trademarks or copyright material depicted in any Image and you will indemnify us in respect of any claims, damages, costs or expenses we incur arising from the use of any Image supplied to you.
11. Reproduction rights (if granted), unless otherwise agreed in writing, are:
    1. subject to these terms and conditions and any terms and conditions set out in the delivery note and licence,
    2. non-exclusive reproduction rights for single use only in the United Kingdom. A single use means a reproduction in one size for one edition of a single publication, published in one language only,
    3. strictly limited to the use, period of time and territory stated in the licence,
    4. personal to you and not assignable by you to any third party.
12. If we agree that you may license the use of any Image to any third party, you shall enter into an agreement with such third party to ensure that they are bound by licence terms restricting printing, copying, networking, multiple access or other use of the Images to personal use only, forbidding the assignment, resale, rental and lending of the Image and ensuring that credit is given to us and the author.
13. You must credit us and the author as specified by us every time an Image is used. If you fail to credit the Image an additional 50% of the original licence fee will be payable.
14. Images shall not be altered or manipulated, added to, or have any part deleted without our prior written consent.
15. You must provide us on publication with at least one complimentary copy of any publication in which the reproduction of the Image appears.

Digital Use of Images

16. You acknowledge that Images are our valuable property, as are any digital images created from the Images ("Digital Images").
17. You may not create, store or transmit Digital Images without our permission except so far as is incidentally and wholly necessary to the process of producing items licensed by us. If permission is granted the following conditions apply:
    1. Each Digital Image created by you shall be recorded and labelled with the Image reference number used by us and our copyright credit information as an integral part of the image file, and held on an electronic database under your sole possession and control.
    2. Unless otherwise agreed, any Digital Image you create must not be greater in size than 640x480 pixels, 72ppi. Any use of the Digital Images shall be in a format designed so that it will not be possible to alter, manipulate or adapt any Digital Image in any way during the normal course of using the product.
    3. You agree to destroy all Digital Images including any pre-press or pre-production copies of the Images and any copies or records of the Images held on a database within 90 days of the date of receipt of the Images or completion of the maximum production run, or expiry of the licence term, whichever is later.

Miscellaneous

18. While we take reasonable care in the performance of this agreement, we shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by you or by any third party arising from use or reproduction of any Image or its caption. Damages for any other breach shall be limited to the licence fee paid by you.
19. You must pay our invoice within 30 days of issue.
20. If you do not pay in accordance with these terms then we may at our option rescind this Agreement and recover damages, or charge interest at a rate of 5% above the Royal Bank of Scotland base rate per annum (Base rate is variable), from the date payment was due until payment is made.
21. Any licence granted will terminate immediately if you (a) die, (b) enter into voluntary or compulsory liquidation, (c) have a receiver appointed, or (d) fail to perform any of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions within 28 days of our giving you notice to comply. In the event of termination, all rights granted will immediately revert to us and any further exploitation of any Image shall constitute an infringement of copyright.
22. Any publication right (as defined in the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996) arising from your use of any Image shall vest in us and you hereby assign all such rights arising to us.
23. Our failure to exercise or enforce any of our rights will not be deemed to be a waiver of such rights nor bar their exercise or enforcement in future.
24. Should any disagreement arise between us, we shall, if we both agree, first try to settle it by a mediation procedure recommended by the British Photographers' Liaison Committee.
25. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Scotland and the parties agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts, such jurisdiction to be exclusive, save for infringement, or non payment of our invoices, where it will be non-exclusive.

© Copyright 2001 British Photographers’ Liaison Committee/ Finers Stephens Innocent as agreed by BAPLA, AOP, NUJ, MPA and the BFP. (With modification)