Terms for Stock Asylum - Stock Photography

Please read these terms and conditions in their entirety. The terms and conditions are a legal agreement between you, the user of this web site, and The Stock Asylum, LLC, which owns and operates this web site. Your use of this web site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions. Do not use this web site if you do not accept these terms and conditions.

The Stock Asylum Internet Stock Directory links to independent web sites over which The Stock Asylum has no control. These web sites are governed by their own rules, practices and customs. It is your responsibility to read the terms, conditions and rules of each web site and to determine if it is in your best interest to abide by them. If not, you should leave the web site immediately.

The Stock Asylum, its owners and employees make no warranties, guarantees or promises about your use of any web site linked to by the Stock Asylum Internet Directory or any other resource of The Stock Asylum. The Stock Asylum, its owners and employees make no warranties, guarantees or promises about any image(s) displayed on any linked-to web site. The Stock Asylum, its owners and employees accept no responsibility for any problems that may result from your use of linked-to web site(s) or of the images found on linked-to web sites. The Stock Asylum, its owners and employees make no warranties, guarantees or promises about the practices of the businesses or people operating linked-to web sites.

In addition, The Stock Asylum strongly urges that you make sure all images you license and/or use are properly released for your intended usages and do not infringe on the rights of any third parties. Do not use any images without permission of the copyright owner. It is illegal and morally wrong.

If you infringe on any copyrights or third party rights, or if you in any way illegally or improperly use any image found through The Stock Asylum Internet Stock Directory or any other resource of The Stock Asylum, you are solely responsible for paying any and all licensing fees, penalties, legal settlements, court judgments, legal fees, and/or damages.

General Stock Asylum Terms and Conditions:

1) In using this web site, the user understands that the web site itself and all images herein are protected by all applicable United States and international copyright laws and the user agrees to strictly adhere to the copyrights of Stock Asylum, LLC, and the photographers participating in this web site. The user understands that any infringement of copyrights may be pursued vigorously and the user agrees to pay additional charges levied for copyright infringements, court settlements and court judgments. In the event of an infringement, the user further agrees to pay attorney's fees incurred by Stock Asylum, LLC, and the photographers participating on this web site.

2) The user may open images for viewing within the users web browser only for the purpose of evaluating the images for potential license or for evaluating the participating photographers. The user may not copy, print, alter, transmit, or save (or make any use whatsoever of) the images on The Stock Asylum, LLC, web site in any media, electronic, print or otherwise, without permission from the copyright holder.

3) In using this web site the user waives any so-called "fair use" rights and agrees to make no use of any image presented on the web site without permission from the photographer or the photographer's agent. The user agrees to pay fees for so-called 'fair uses" deemed reasonable by the photographer or the photographer's agent. The user agrees that he/she/it will NOT place any image found on this web site into any collection, data base or search engine.

4) The Stock Asylum, LLC, is not an agency and does not represent any of the photographers whose images appear on this web site. The user understands that any agreements between the user and any photographer displaying images on this web site (or any agent for any photographer displaying images on this web site) do not involve The Stock Asylum, LLC, its owners, officers, or employees. When licensing any image displayed on this web site, the user shall obtain copies of all pertinent model and property releases from photographer and/or the photographer's agent and make certain that all uses comply with specific releases involved. Furthermore, it is the user's absolute responsibility to make sure that the photographer (or the photographer's agent) has all necessary legal rights to license the image and that the image does not infringe on any third party rights, including, but not limited to, trademarks. The user warrants that he or she will be diligent in making sure that any and all usages he or she makes of images found on this web site comply with the terms of the appropriate model releases and property releases. Furthermore, the user agrees to make only proper and legal uses of any images displayed on Stock Asylum and will hold both Stock Asylum, LLC, and its participating photographer harmless should any legal action result from the improper usage of any image displayed on the Stock Asylum web site. In the event of legal action, the user shall pay all reasonable legal fees for Stock Asylum, LLC, and the photographers who created the work and/or the photographers' agent(s).

5) The Stock Asylum, LLC, and the photographers displaying images on this web site make no representations about the accuracy of content on this web site and shall not be held responsible for any errors or omissions.

6) The user understands and agrees that neither the Stock Asylum nor its owner(s), officers, employees, nor photographers displaying images herein, nor agents of photographers displaying images herein, nor anyone else associated with this web site will be liable for any damages or other charges whatsoever arising out of the licensing or use of images on this web site or other content herein, including, but not limited to, lost profits, printing expenses and/or other reproduction expenses.

7) While there are links to other web sites on the Stock Asylum, LLC, web site, it is understood that the Stock Asylum, LLC, has no control over these other web sites and is not responsible for the content of these other web sites or any loss suffered by user of these web sites.