Terms & Conditions

SHORT PHOTO STORIES Website Terms and Conditions

(1) Introduction

SHORTPHOTOSTORIES.COM, later called SHORT PHOTO STORIES, is a registered domain and legally protected name under the domain name registry in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

These terms and conditions of use govern your use of our SHORT PHOTO STORIES website; later called “the website”. Access to the website (www.shortphotostories.com) is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the terms and conditions below.

By using the website, you agree to these terms and conditions of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use the website.

These terms and conditions of use are for the benefit and security of you and SHORT PHOTO STORIES

(2) Use of the website

You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website. By using the website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions of use, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, then you must obtain your parent or guardian consent before using the website.
Unless otherwise stated, SHORT PHOTO STORIES owns the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. All these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view and download for caching purposes only, for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You must not:

(a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell or exhibit material from the website;

(d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on the website for a commercial purpose

(e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website;

and / or

(f) redistribute material from this website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution (such as our newsletter)

(3) Acceptable use

You must not use the website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, offensive, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use the website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without limitation, scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to the website without our express written consent.

You must not use the website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use the website for any purposes related to marketing or self- advertisement without our express written consent.

(4) Restricted access

Access to certain areas of the website is restricted. SHORT PHOTO STORIES reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of the website, or indeed the whole website, at SHORT PHOTO STORIES discretion.

(5) User content

In these terms and conditions of use, “your content” means material (including photographs, text, images and any other material) that you submit to the website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to SHORT PHOTO STORIES a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media. You also grant SHORT PHOTO STORIES the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these terms and conditions.

You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions of use.

Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

SHORT PHOTO STORIES reserves the right to edit and/or remove any material submitted to the website and/or stored on our servers, and/or hosted and/or published upon our website.

Notwithstanding terms of use in relation to your content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.

(6) Limited warranties

SHORT PHOTO STORIES do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do SHORT PHOTO STORIES commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, SHORT PHOTO STORIES excludes all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law in respect of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(7) Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in these terms of use will: (a) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (b) limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; (c) exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in these terms and conditions of use: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions of use or in relation to the subject matter of these terms and conditions of use, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.

To the extent that the website and the information and services on the website will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

SHORT PHOTO STORIES will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

SHORT PHOTO STORIES will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES does not give any guarantee, assurance or promise to you to sell your photographs, images or any other materials you send to us.

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES does not give any guarantee assurance or promise to you to exhibit or publish your photographs, images or any other materials you send to us.

(8) Indemnity

You hereby indemnify SHORT PHOTO STOIRES and undertake to keep SHORT PHOTO STORIES indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, legal expenses and any amounts paid by SHORT PHOTO STOIRES to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by SHORT PHOTO STOIRES arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions of use and / or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions of use.

(9) Breaches of these terms of use

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms and conditions of use in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

(10) Variation

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES may revise these terms of use from time to time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms of use on our website.

(11) Assignment

SHORT PHOTO STORIES may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with its rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

(12) Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(13) Exclusion of third party rights

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and SHORT PHOTO STORIES, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(14) Entire agreement

Subject to the Section [8], these terms and conditions of use (together with SHORT PHOTO STORIES privacy policy) constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of our website.

(15) Law and jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions of use will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

(16) Contact details

SHORTPHOTOSTORIES.COM

E-mail: contact@shortphotostories.com

Post address: PO BOX A649 Sydney South NSW 1235

(I) SHORT PHOTO STORIES Privacy Policy

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES.com is committed to protect the privacy of the website visitors.

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES respects your right to privacy and this policy sets out how your information is collected and treated.

(1) What information we collect

(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of the website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation);

(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of posting image and/or comment and / or registering with SHORT PHOTO STORIES including : name and email address

Before you disclose to us personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

Our website uses cookies for statistical reasons, to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website. We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms and conditions of use when you first visit our website. By using our website you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms and conditions of use.

(2) Using your personal information

Personal information submitted to us via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

SHORT PHOTO STORIES may use your personal information to:

(a) administer the website;

(b) improve your browsing experience by personalizing the website;

(d) send you general communications;

(e) send you email notifications which you have requested;

(f) send you SHORT PHOTO STORY newsletter and other communications relating to our business (or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties) which we think may be of interest to you, by email or similar technology (and you can inform us at any time if you no longer require any communications)

(i) provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;

(j) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;

(k) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website (including monitoring messages sent through the website and comments posted on the website)

SHORT PHOTO STORIES will not, without your express consent, provide your personal information intentionally to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

(3) Disclosures

SHORT PHOTO STORIES may disclose your personal information to (any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers, members or subcontractors) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling;

and

(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

(4) International data transfers

(a) Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which SHORT PHOTO STORIES operates and in which SHORT PHOTO STORIES website is accessible and in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

(b) Information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including People’s Republic of China (PRC), Nigeria, Indonesia, the United States, Japan, Paraguay, India or any other countries which have no data and privacy protection laws, limited data and privacy protection laws or do not have data and privacy protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.

(c) in addition, information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.

(5) Security of your personal information

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

(6) Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. SHORT PHOTO STORIES is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

(7) Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

(8) Data controller

The data controller responsible in respect of the information collected on this website is

Commo Creative, Ostrobramska 101A, 04-041 Warszawa Poland.

(II) Copyright Notice

(1) Ownership of copyright

SHORT PHOTO STORIES own the copyright in:

(a) this website;

and

(b) the material on this website including, without limitation, the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, graphics, text, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this website.

(2) Copyright licence

SHORT PHOTO STORIES grants to you a worldwide, non-exclusive, revocable licence to:

(a) view this website and the material on the website on a computer or mobile device via a web browser;

(b) copy and store this website and the material on this website in your web browser cache memory for your own, personal and non-commercial use

SHORT PHOTO STORIES does not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website. In other words, all other rights are reserved.

For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast, sell or show or play in public this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without SHORT PHOTO STORIES prior written permission.

(3) Data mining

The automated and/or systematic collection of data from this website is prohibited.

(4) Permissions

You may request permission to use the copyright materials on this website in written by writing to contact@shortphotostories.com or via website contact key or by mailing to the post address: PO BOX A649 Sydney South NSW 1235.

(5) Enforcement of copyright

SHORT PHOTO STORIES takes the protection of our copyright very seriously.

If it is discovered that you have used our copyright materials in contravention of the licence above, we may bring legal proceedings against you, seeking monetary damages and/or an injunction to stop you using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.

If you become aware of any use of our copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the licence above, please report this by email to contact@shortphotostories.com or via website contact key or by mailing to the post address: PO BOX A649 Sydney South NSW 1235.

(6) Infringing material

If you become aware of any material on our website that you believe infringes your or any other person’s copyright, please report this by email to contact@shortphotostories.com or by post to PO BOX A649 Sydney South NSW 1235 .

(IV) Sale and exhibit policy

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES does not give any guarantee, assurance or promise to you to sell photographs, images or any other materials you send to us.

SHORT PHOTO STOIRES does not give any guarantee assurance or promise to you to exhibit or publish photographs, images or any other materials you send to us.

Should the occurrence of expressed interest in purchasing of any of photos, images, text or any other material you send to us take place, SHORT PHOTO STOIRES will contact you under provided e-mail address or whatever other contact details you provide.

SHORT PHOTO STORIES will not be liable to you neither to the purchaser in respect of quotation, value and price you agree to sell photographs, images, texts or any other material through the website.

Your acceptance of the quote, valuation and sell price is required in written by return email prior to the commencement of sale and/ or exhibit transaction by emailing to contact@shortphotostories.com

SHORT PHOTO STORIES will not be liable to you or to the purchaser in respect of media, form, and format, you agree to sell photographs, images, texts or any other material through the website.

Your acceptance of media, form and format of photographs, images, texts or any other material you agree to sell via the website is required in written by return email prior to the commencement of sale and/ or exhibit transaction by emailing to contact@shortphotostories.com

Should the occurrence of sale and / or exhibition of photos, images, text or any other material you send to us take place, SHORT PHOTO STORIES reserves the right to obtain percentage of sales transaction agreed between you and SHORT PHOTO STORIES, however not less than twenty per cent from settled price you agree to sell your photographs, images, texts or any other material through the website.

SHORT PHOTO STORIES will not be liable to you neither to the purchaser in respect to quality of photographs, images, texts or any other materials published on the website.

(III) Anti-Spam Policy

(1) What is spam?

In the context of electronic messaging, “spam” means unsolicited bulk messages, bulk or indiscriminate messages], typically sent for a commercial purpose.

We have a zero-tolerance spam policy.

(2) Spam filtering

Our messaging systems scan all incoming email (and other) messages and filter out messages that appear to be spam.

We may also report incoming email as spam. This can result in IP addresses and domain names being blacklisted.

(3) Spam filtering issues

No message filtering system is 100% accurate, and from time to time legitimate messages will be filtered out by our systems.

If you believe this has happened to a message you have sent, please advise the message recipient by another means.

You can reduce the risk of a message being caught by the spam filters by:

(a) avoiding the terminology and text styling typically used by spammers; and

(b) ensuring that your messages are scanned for malware before dispatch.]

(4) User spam

We provide a facility that enables users to post (email messages) on the website and comments to others.

Users must not use this facility to send spam, whether or not for a commercial purpose.

(6) Receipt of unwanted messages from SHORT PHOTO STORIES

In the unlikely event that you receive any message from SHORT PHOTO STORIES or sent using our systems that may be considered to be spam, please contact us immediately by writing to contact@shortphotostories.com or via website contact key and the matter will be investigated.

Final Disclaimer

SHORT PHOTO STORIES would like to welcome you to the website. We have worked hard to make it as user-friendly and informative as possible. Using the website, you agree to these terms and conditions of use (together with SHORT PHOTO STORIES privacy policy, Anti-Spam policy and Copyright notice) in full.

The information on this website is provided for general information only. SHORT PHOTO STORIES has provided this information for the benefit of users in good faith and with reasonable care. Errors and omissions in this information may occur including through negligence.

Accordingly, SHORT PHOTO STORIES does not accept any liability for any loss or damage which may directly or indirectly result from any opinion, information, advice, representation or omission contained on the website.