PhotoFakery.com Copyright, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

This document describes the terms under which you are allowed to use the PhotoFakery.com web site (hereafter, "Site"), and discloses the privacy policy for PhotoFakery.com. Your use of the PhotoFakery.com web site indicates your acceptance of these terms.

PhotoFakery.com web site is © Copyright 1999-2024 Andrew Davidson. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use strictly prohibited. All graphics, text, scripts, software, markup, styles, HTML, CSS, and other data on the PhotoFakery.com web site are copyrighted and you may not use them in any way without prior written permission.

THIS SITE, INCLUDING ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN IT OR ANY SITE-RELATED SERVICE, OR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE LICENSED OR PURCHASED THROUGH THE SITE, OR ANY SOFTWARE DOWNLOADED FROM THE SITE, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY WARRANTY THAT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES DESCRIBED HEREIN IS PROVIDED SOLELY BY THE OWNER, ADVERTISER OR MANUFACTURER OF THAT PRODUCT AND/OR SERVICE, AND NOT BY PhotoFakery.com. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE AND/OR RELATED SERVICES WILL NOT BE FREE OF INTERRUPTIONS. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AND SITE-RELATED SERVICES. NEITHER PhotoFakery.com NOR ITS SPONSORS ARE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE SITE, SITE-RELATED SERVICES AND/OR CONTENT OR INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE SITE. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE, SITE-RELATED SERVICES AND/OR CONTENT OR INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE SITE IS TO STOP USING THE SITE AND/OR THOSE SERVICES.

You are allowed to use the public PhotoFakery.com web site using a web browser. You may not unduly stress the resources of PhotoFakery.com web site or attempt to hack or damage or disable the PhotoFakery.com web site.

You may "spider" (use an automatic means to traverse) the PhotoFakery.com web site solely for the purpose of providing search facilities on another public web site, as long as you agree to the robots.txt and/or META="robots" standard.

We promise to never email you, unless you specifically request it (for example as part of a newsletter subscription), or if it is about an order you have placed or contact you have made with PhotoFakery.com. You may not send spam, unsolicted commercial email, telephone calls, or faxes to the addresses or numbers listed on any part of PhotoFakery.com.

You may not link directly to graphics or other data used on PhotoFakery.com web site without prior permission. You may freely link to PhotoFakery.com web pages.

This site may contain links to other web sites operated by third parties. You acknowledge that PhotoFakery.com does not specifically endorse or warrant the products or services of these sites. You acknowledge that PhotoFakery.com is not responsible for any content or claims that appear on these sites.

You may use feeds published on this site for non-commercial use only. For other uses, for example on your company's intranet, please contact us.

If you have a comment about PhotoFakery.com web pages or this policy, send email to support{at}PhotoFakery.com

You acknowledge that Andrew Davidson or PhotoFakery.com has no obligation to monitor the Site or Site-related services. However, you acknowledge and agree that PhotoFakery.com has the right to monitor the Site and Site-related services and to disclose any information necessary to operate the Site properly, to protect itself and its sponsors and customers and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests. We reserve the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that are unacceptable, offensive or in violation of this Agreement. We reserve the right to prohibit any user who, in our sole discretion, violates the terms of this Agreement from using the Site and related services. Such prohibition may occur without notice to the user.

You understand and agree that Andrew Davidson may review, edit, or delete any content that you publish or display (hereafter, "post") on PhotoFakery.com (collectively, "Content"). You agree that you are solely responsible for the Content that you post on PhotoFakery.com. By posting Content to PhotoFakery.com, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Andrew Davidson an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Andrew Davidson and PhotoFakery.com and its sponsors against any and all claims, damages, costs or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from (a) your breach of this Agreement, (b) your violation of the Code of Conduct and/or (c) your activities in connection with the Site or Site-related services.

This use policy does not override or amend the licenses contained in licensed software on this site.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

PhotoFakery.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect information from users at several different points on PhotoFakery.com, as explained below.

In order to use certain features of PhotoFakery.com, you may be required to complete a registration form. During registration you are required to give your contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the services for which you have expressed interest. It is optional for you to provide demographic information.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on PhotoFakery.com unless you have specifically provided it. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, you would not have to enter your password more than once, thereby saving time while using our site. If you turn off cookies in your browser, you may still use portions of PhotoFakery.com that do not require cookies. The functionality of PhotoFakery.com may be limited while you have cookies turned off. We may alert you that cookies are required to access certain portions or features of the Site. However, there may be times that this notice is not given. For example, some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, our secure order processing and download site, and advertisers). We have no access to or control over these third-party cookies.

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track usage patterns, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information unless you have specifically provided that information.

For orders you place on this site, we may use a third-party shipping company, and a third-party credit card processing company to bill you. Please see the individual privacy policies of those sites.

PhotoFakery.com may display Amazon.com advertisements in association with Amazon. PhotoFakery.com is not part of Amazon.com and is independent from Amazon.com. PhotoFakery.com may also display other advertisements generated on, or served by, external sites. PhotoFakery.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of sites for which we display advertising. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of such sites. Specifically, advertisers may serve content and/or advertisements, collect information directly from you, and may place or recognize cookies on your browser.

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

PhotoFakery.com contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by PhotoFakery.com.

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

This privacy policy is publically posted so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. This document may be updated by us from time to time without notice. However, you can view the most current version of this document at: http://www.PhotoFakery.com/privacy/

PhotoFakery.com is written by Andrew Davidson (LGPL), PhotoFakery.com uses and recommends the following open-source libraries: DataRequestor.js (LGPL), PHPMailer (LGPL), ContentFeeder (LGPL). PhotoFakery.com uses royalty-free stock photography from: Stock.xchng.