Terms and Conditions

Posted Mar 23, 2005
Last Updated Apr 19, 2020

By using this site, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions of this site, set down on this page. Failure to abide by these terms is cause for immediate restriction and/or termination of your account on this site.

We offer no guarantee as to the workings of this site. You agree to use the site as is, and will never hold us liable for any damages that may result from its use, including but not limited to, loss of data. We do not verify the information posted by the members of this site.

Accuracy of Information

You agree to provide complete and accurate information on this site. The information you supply, such as your name, birth date, address and email address must be accurate. You must use a current email address so that we may contact you with important account information such as password retrieval and to receive our newsletter.

You will only place your profile in the directories that are relevant to your trade. For example, if you are a photographer or company that caters to photography, you are free to mark that you are a photographer; otherwise, you may not list yourself as a photographer.

You also agree that the information contained in articles, calendar events and media cutlines are accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Privacy Policy

We will not sell or share your contact information with any third party except as required by law. The information you provide is kept for internal use.

Content

You are free to post articles and profiles as you wish. You must, however, strictly abide by a few rules.

  • No pornography.
  • No bestiality.
  • No libel.
  • No content that incites hate.
  • No spam.
  • No plagiarism.
  • No SEO Blogging Content.

This site and its administrators believe in free speech. However, we see this site as a professional billboard of your skills and talents. Use it as a resume. Articles and events that include profanity, violence and/or sexuality may be labeled as containing such content so that parental controls will limit viewing such pages. Only post your own original work. If a friend or family member has original work, have him/her join and post it under his/her own account.

 We reserve the right to remove any content from the site for any reason. 

Note To SEO Professionals: We do not want you using this site to advertise your clients' work. You may not use this as an outlet for marketing your clients and/or their products.

Spam

You will not use this site for spamming. You may not contact other members for the purpose of selling goods and/or services. You may not post articles that sell or promote third-party products. Do not post anything like spam in guestbooks or emails.

You may post information about your own art products or art-related services in your profile and articles if your products or services relate to the content and purpose of this site. You may not advertise them via this site's guestbooks or email.

Newsletter

By using this site, you agree to receive our monthly newsletter, containing news about the site, upgrades, feature enhancements and links to featured articles and artists. Our newsletter may sometimes contain third-party promotional material. You agree to accept our newsletter, and to never tag it as spam with your ISP, web host or local mail client. (While our newsletter may contain third-party promotional material, we will never share your email address with any third party except as may be required by law.) You can opt-out of the newsletter at any time, but doing so is grounds for limiting your privileges to post content on the site.

You will also receive regular account updates containing information on optimizing your account on the site, information on site upgrades, and links to new featured members. Account updates do not follow regular schedules and contain no more than one promotional link. You may not opt-out of your account updates, as it is a direct means of our organization contacting you about the state of the site and its development. You will only stop receiving account updates if you remove your account from the site. On average, you will receive less than one account update per month, depending on the amount of feature development our team can do in a month.

Sponsors

Every page on this site includes some form of promotional advertisement such as Google Ads. You agree not to use software that strips those advertisements from your browser display. Those ads are how we fund the services provided on this site.

Hacking

You will not attempt to hack into the server or access pages not intended for your use. You will not attempt to log in as another user. You will not attempt to load any file that is malicious or viral. You will only load file formats that our site accepts.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of all work they load to our site. We reserve the right to use any media loaded onto our server for promotional materials.

Linking

Members of this site may include links in profiles and articles to any web page provided that the links do not infringe on our content restrictions listed above and the sites relate to the topic/information presented in the particular profile/article.

We do not require our members to provide links back to us in their sites; however, we strongly encourage such links, as they further enhance the traffic to our site and increase the viability of this artistic community.

Amendments

This page is subject to change.