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We may revise, modify or change the Terms at any time at our sole discretion with or without notice. Your continued use of the Site after we post changes to the Terms constitutes acceptance of the Terms as modified. It is your responsibility to regularly review the Terms.
warinphotos.com includes information, images, photos, commentary, content, opinions and material that our users upload ("User Content"). You agree to upload and post only User Content that you have created yourself, or that is not protected under copyright law. warinphotos.com is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to User Content. We don't test or verify any User Content on the Site. While we do not knowingly accept User Content that violates another's rights, we are not responsible if it happens.
You are responsible for your own User Content. You agree to conform to Site polices and guidelines concerning the size, length, format, subject, content, and relevancy of User Content. Submitting User Content that violates our rules or any applicable local, national or international laws or regulations is not acceptable, and may subject you to sanctions, including termination of your user rights.
User Content may include nude photos or other images or material that an individual might find offensive, indecent and/or objectionable. We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether User Content containing nudity is acceptable. Our decision is final even if an individual user disagrees with our judgment. We reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to edit, redact or delete User Content that we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, or for any other reasons, which we need not disclose, at our discretion and convenience.
User Content may be edited. We reserve the right to edit, redact or delete any User Content that you upload to the Site, at our sole discretion. warinphotos.com also contains material from experts, organizations and advertisers ("Third Party Content"). warinphotos.com is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or usefulness of Third Party Content.
warinphotos.com owns all rights to the Site, its services, the technology, information, documents, files, webpages and other product developed in connection with the Site or available on the Site. Submitting User Content to any area of the Site does NOT transfer ownership rights. You retain the ownership rights to your User Content. By submitting User Content, however, you give certain limited rights to both warinphotos.com and other warinphotos.com users.
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You grant to other warinphotos.com members permission to download a copy of images contained in your User Content. You also grant other Site users the right to quote your User Content in their own postings on the Site.
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Other than User Content or Third Party Content, we, and/or our software suppliers, own or license all text, graphics, logos, icons, images, photographs, audio clips, video clips, digital downloads, data compilations and software and such content is protected by international copyright and other intellectual property rights. warinphotos.com's selection, coordination and arrangement of content on the Site are the exclusive property of warinphotos.com, and are protected as a compilation by international copyright laws. All software used on the Site or in conjunction with its operation is the property of warinphotos.com and/or its software suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws.
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You may not use the Site to advertise products or services, to solicit users to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind, without first obtaining the express written approval of warinphotos.com.
You may not reproduce or distribute, or cause to be reproduced or distributed, any image or material that you retrieve from the Site, without the express prior permission of both warinphotos.com and, in the case of copyrighted materials, the copyright owner.
You may not use the Site to violate anyone's copyright, trademark, intellectual property rights, or privacy rights. The User Content that you submit must be your work, or un-copyrighted material.
You may not use or launch any automated system, including "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that access the Site in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.
You may not post obscene, pornographic, degrading, harassing or humiliating User Content on the Site. You may not post or transmit any false, defamatory, abusive, threatening or illegal User Content or User Content that infringes on the rights of others or the ability of others to enjoy the Site. We have the right to determine, in our sole discretion, whether User Content violates these restrictions or is otherwise unfit for the Site. We have the sole right to delete, modify or edit any such User Content that you upload to the Site.
Failure to abide by these restrictions may result in sanctions including termination of your user privileges on warinphotos.com, as well as legal sanctions, if applicable.
The Site contains links to third party websites that we do not own or control, including sites that may appear within User Content. warinphotos.com does not review or edit the content of any third party links, and warinphotos.com has no control over what happens at any third party website. warinphotos.com assumes no responsibility for the content, policies or practices of any third party websites. You expressly agree to release warinphotos.com from any liability that arises from your use of a third party website.
If you believe that any content on the Site infringes upon your copyrights, including but not limited to User Content, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing:
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warinphotos.com reserves the right to terminate your access to and use of warinphotos.com's services at any time, at warinphotos.com's sole discretion for any reason, with or without cause. If you violate these Terms, warinphotos.com, in its sole discretion, may also require you to remedy any violation of the Terms, and/or take any other actions that we deem appropriate to enforce our rights and pursue all available remedies. We shall not be liable to you or any other person if we terminate your access to or use of the Site.
You agree to indemnify and hold warinphotos.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates, operators, agents, employees, service providers, and suppliers harmless from any dispute that may arise from your breach of the Terms or violation of any representations or warranties contained in the Terms. You also agree to hold said parties harmless from any claims and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, related to any User Content you post on the Site.
You may access warinphotos.com content, including user content, only as permitted under the Terms. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Site. We reserve the right to discontinue any aspect of the Site at any time.
This document was last updated on November 11, 2020.