Personal Use Licence Agreement

But NOT Editorial or Commercial Use

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This Licence Agreement, together with any invoice (collectively, the “Agreement”), sets forth the terms and conditions between you, or any other client or end-user on whose behalf you are purchasing a licence as the licensee (collectively, “You(r)” or “Licensee”) and the person or entity offering Images for licence on this website (“Licensor”), as licensor. Your acceptance of this Agreement by licensing any images offered for licensing on this website (“Image(s)”) forms a binding agreement between Licensee and Licensor. 

 

Please read this Agreement carefully before downloading any Images. By downloading any Image, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, Licensor’s Privacy Statement and Licensor’s Website 

 

Terms of Use. 

 

1. Ownership of Images.

Licensor and/or its contributors, as the case may be, own or control all rights, including the copyrights in and to the Images. Licensor and/or its contributors reserve all rights in and to the Images not expressly granted to Licensee in this Agreement. 

 

2. Licence Terms. 

2.1. Subject to the terms of this Licence Agreement, Licensor grants the Licensee a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable in any way (including, without limitation, re-selling, distribution, transfer, etc.) and limited right to use the Images for any personal purpose, in websites and/or digital applications for perpetuity.

2.1.1. Licensee is not required to incorporate a credit to the Images. If the licensee chooses to credit Images, the credit “© Klein Photography” should be added.

2.2. In the event that Licensee creates a derivative work based on or incorporating one or more Images, all rights in and to such Images shall continue to be owned by Licensor or its contributor, subject to Licensee’s rights to use such Image(s) pursuant to the terms of this Licence Agreement. 

2.3. Licensee grants Licensor the right to display or reference Licensee’s derivative work using or incorporating licenced Images for any marketing, educational, and/or promotional purposes as an example of customer usage. 

 

3. Limited Exclusivity.

You may request that future licensing of an Image be removed from the Klein Photography website for a limited period of time for an additional licence fee. Not all Images may be available to be removed and past licensees will retain the right to continue to use the Image. 

 

4. Restrictions on Image Use. 

Licensee may NOT without obtaining specific prior written consent from Licensor, do the following: 

4.1. Sublicence, sell, assign, convey or transfer any of its rights under this Agreement;

4.2. Sell, licence or distribute its final product in such a way that permits Licensee’s end-users to extract or access any Image as a stand-alone unmodified file. 

4.3. Incorporate any Image into a logo, trademark or service mark.

4.4. Use any Image in a pornographic, defamatory, libelous or otherwise illegal manner, whether directly or in context or juxtaposition with other subject matter and materials.

4.5. Use any Image in any manner prohibited by any international export laws, restrictions or regulations.

4.6. Falsely represent (either expressly or by implication) that Licensee is the original creator of a visual work that derives a substantial part of its artistic components from any Image.

4.7. Without obtaining the prior written consent of Licensor, upload an Image as an unmodified standalone file to file-sharing websites or social networking websites or other third party website that claims to acquire ownership rights in the Images contrary to the terms of this Agreement. Upon Licensor’s request, Licensee shall immediately remove any Images from such platform or website.

 

5. Releases.

Model and/or property releases can be provided to Licensee for Images containing identifiable persons upon request, if Licensor indicates that such is available. Other than model or property releases for recognisable persons or properties on Images identified as released, Licensor grants no rights and makes no warranties with regard to the use of names, likeness, trademarks, trade dress, registered, unregistered or copyrighted designs or other work depicted in any Image, and Licensee must satisfy itself that all the necessary rights or consents regarding any of the above, as may be required for reproduction, have been obtained. 

 

6. Termination/Cancellation/Withdrawal. 

6.1. Licensor may terminate this agreement at any time if Licensee breaches any of the terms of this Licence Agreement, in which case Licensee must immediately: cease using the Image(s); delete or destroy any copies; and, if requested, confirm to Licensor in writing that you have complied with these requirements. 

6.2. If Licensee uses the licenced Images on a social media platform or other third party website and the platform or website uses (or announces that it plans to use) the content for its own purpose or in a way that is contrary to this agreement, the rights granted for such use shall immediately terminate, and in that event, upon Licensor’s request, Licensee agrees to remove any Image from such platform or website. 

 

7. Refunds/Cancellation. 

7.1. All requests for refunds/cancellations must be made in writing to Licensor, and approved in writing by Licensor, at its sole discretion. Provided that the request is made within 7 days and the licenced Image(s) has/have not been used, Licensor may cancel the relevant order and issue a full refund to Licensee’s account or credit card. No credits or refunds are available for cancellation requests received more than 7 days from Licensee’s receipt of the Image, or for research, lab, service or subscription fees, all of which are non-refundable. In the event of cancellation, Licensee’s rights to use the content terminate immediately, and Licensee must delete or destroy any copies of the content, with immediate effect. 

7.2. Licensor may discontinue licensing any Image at any time at its sole discretion. Upon notice from Licensor, or upon Licensee’s knowledge, that any Image may be subject to a claim of infringement of a third party’s right for which Licensor may be liable, Licensor may require Licensee to immediately, and at Licensee’s own expense: cease using the content, delete or destroy any copies; and ensure that Licensee’s clients, distributors and/or employer do likewise. 

 

8. Indemnification/Limitation of Liability. 

8.1. Licensee agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Licensor and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and content suppliers, and each of their respective officers, directors and employees from all damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable outside legal fees) arising out of or in connection with (i) Licensee’s use of any content outside the scope of this Licence Agreement; (ii) any breach or alleged breach by Licensee (or anyone acting on Licensee’s behalf) of any of the terms of this or any other agreement with Licensor; and (iii) Licensee’s failure to obtain any required release for Licensee’s use of Images. 

8.2. Licensor will not be liable to licensee or any other person or entity for any lost profits, punitive, special, indirect, consequential, incidental or other similar damages, costs or losses arising out of this agreement, even if licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages, costs or losses. 

 

9. Miscellaneous 

9.1. This Licence Agreement is personal to Licensee and is not assignable by Licensee without Licensor’s prior written consent. It is for personal use only and is not for use in any commercial enterprise.

9.2. Upon reasonable notice, Licensee agrees to provide to Licensor sample copies of projects or end uses that contain licenced Images, including by providing Licensor with free of charge access to any restricted access website or platform where Image(s) is reproduced. 

9.3. Licensee agrees to retain the copyright symbol, the name of Licensor, the Image’s identification number and any other information or metadata that may be embedded in the electronic file containing the original Image, and to maintain appropriate security to protect the content from unauthorized use by third parties.

9.4. This Licence Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom without reference to any laws relating to conflicts of laws. Licensee agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in London, England. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not govern this Agreement. If Licensor is obligated to go to court to enforce any of its rights, the Licensee agrees to reimburse Licensor for its legal fees and disbursements (including attorneys’ fees and costs) if Licensor is successful. 

9.5. If one or more of the provisions in this agreement is found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions should not be affected. Such provisions should be revised only to the extent necessary to make them enforceable. 

9.6. No action of either party, other than express written waiver, may be construed as a waiver of any provision of this Licence Agreement. 

9.7. No terms of conditions of this Licence Agreement may be added or deleted unless made in writing and accepted in writing by both parties, or issued electronically by Licensor and accepted by Licensee. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms of this Licence Agreement and the terms contained on any purchase order sent by Licensee, the terms of this Licence Agreement will apply. 

9.8. All notices required to be sent to Licensor under this agreement should be sent via email to the email address provided by Licensor. All notices to you will be sent via email to the email Licensee provided Licensor. 

9.9. Licensee agrees to pay and be responsible for any and all sales taxes, use taxes, value added taxes, withholding taxes, and duties imposed by any jurisdiction as a result of the licence granted to Licensee, or of Licensee’s use of the licenced Images.

 

 

Last updated October 2020

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