By registering on and/or using the artistsdirectory.co.uk website you are agreeing
to the terms and conditions as set out below.
1. INTRODUCTION
Artistsdirectory.co.uk has been created to become a definitive internet
directory (and future archive) of current UK Visual Artists.
When registered as a visual artist on the directory, it is an aptly named and
superb user friendly website/internet platform from where you can showcase and
promote more widespread awareness of your work and any other information you
wish to have showing such as a profile etc to viewers of the directory via
having total control in easily creating managing and updating all of your
registered and viewable details and images at any time by using your registered
email address and password to login to your 'personal home page' from where you
can access the 'steps' of your content management system within.
Once initially created via your 'steps', your viewable introductory
'strip-profile' listing, main 'gallery/profile page' and any 'extra gallery
pages' will be permanently viewable on the directory in their last updated and
current state unless you should ever wish to temporarily 'hide' all of those
viewable details at any time or for any reason wish to be permanently deleted
from the directory.
2. FREE REGISTRATION
Free for life registration with no future fees (unless at any time purchasing optional
'extra gallery pages') includes your content management system and viewable 'introductory
strip-profile listing' and 'main gallery/profile page'.
3. OPTIONAL EXTRA GALLERY PAGES
The current price for optional 'extra gallery pages' may change and nominally increase
from time to time depending on the economic climate and future administration costs
of the website as it grows. (For the current price, see paragraph seven under the
heading 'creating your viewable details' on the 'about artistsdirectory' page.)
4. NO AGENT OR COMMISSION FEES
When registered, artistsdirectory.co.uk has no involvement if you are commissioned
or sell any work through being contacted via the website and therefore charges no
agent or commission fees.
5. REFUNDS
Any purchased optional 'extra gallery pages' will be non refundable unless due to
special circumstances at the sole discretion of artistsdirectory.co.uk
6. WHO CAN REGISTER
Registration on artistsdirectory.co.uk is only open to UK visual artists that
are professional, semi professional, current student or competent aspiring
amateur (subject to sections 13 and 14 below) that are involved in producing
fine, commercial or decorative artforms that relate in any way (subject to
section 13 below) to any of the different artforms as listed on the home page.
Registration is also open to those outside of the UK that may have some kind of
UK connection and feel it would be beneficial to them in registering and showcasing
their work on the artistsdirectory.co.uk website.
As the website has been specifically designed for showcasing the work of UK visual
artists, you therefore acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves
the right to delete from the website without prior notification anyone registered
that it solely deems as not being based in or genuinely connected in some way to
the UK.
7. YOUR REGISTERED NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS
You may only register as an 'individual' under your own personal or 'Artist' name
and personal email address and showing your own personal work and not that of a
company or organisation name or email address.
Therefore you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right
to delete anyone registered that disregards this.
8. YOUR REGISTERED EMAIL ADDRESS
We ask that you always keep your registered email address up to date for contacting
purposes in relaton to the website. Should you ever change your email address, you
can update it at any time via your 'registered personal details' when logged in.
9. YOUR REGISTERED PASSWORD
Your password is personal and private to you and therefore you acknowledge and agree
that you shall be solely responsible for any actions under your password. Should
you ever wish or need to change your password, you can do so at any time via your
'registered personal details' when logged in.
10. PERSONAL WEBSITE LINKS
When registered, you may only show a link to a website on your 'gallery/profile
page' that is personal to you, or personal to yourself and a limited number of colleagues.Therefore
you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right to delete
any website links of those registered that disregard this.
11. YOUR SPECIALIST ARTFORM CATEGORIES
When registered, you can at any time choose and be listed in up to 3 'artforms'
that you specialise in. If you choose more than one 'artform', your 'strip-profile'
will appear in each of those 'artform' listings. For this reason and for the 'viewer',
your 'strip-profile' should show at least one introductory example image of each
'artform' that you have chosen.
When choosing your specialist 'medium' and 'subject' categories, you should only
pick those that you actually specialise in and that will predominantly relate to
actual work that you have showing on the website.
The above is to ensure that viewers using the artistsdirectory.co.uk website are
able to view examples of the kind of work they are searching for via the 'artform'
listings and 'search art/artist by category' search fields.
Because of this, you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves
the right to at any time:- 1. Deselect any of your chosen specialist 'artforms'
if any you have chosen do not relate in any way to the images/work that you have
showing on your 'strip-profile'. 2. Change any image that you have showing on your
'strip-profile' via your image library if any that you have showing do not relate
to your specialist chosen artforms. 3. Deselect any of your chosen specialist 'medium
and subject' categories if any that you have chosen do not relate in any way or
generally do not relate predominantly enough to the images/ work that you have showing
among your viewable details.
12. YOUR VIEWABLE IMAGES
When registered, apart from if you wish to show an image of yourself as part of
your profile on your main 'gallery/profile page', you may only show images of artistic/creative
work. Therefore you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the
right to delete/remove any images of those registered that artistsdirectory.co.uk
solely alone judge as not being in any way of an artistic/creative nature or representing
an artistic/creative form.
13. PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ARTFORM
Photography is limited to particular artistic subject matter of which the current
list can be viewed via the 'search art/artist by category' button on the home page.
You cannot register under the guise of photography and show common everyday subject
matter such as images of holidays/family/friends//occasions etc or any images that
would normally be regarded as not being of an artistic nature.
Therefore you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right
to remove/delete from the website anyone registered that chooses photography as
their specialist artform and shows images that artistsdirectory.co.uk solely alone
judge as not being in any way of an artistic nature.
14. QUALITY OF WORK
For viewers and the integrity of the website, you should only register as a visual
artist on artistsdirectory.co.uk if you have a volume of work in whatever its form
or subject matter that shows an obvious visual degree of competent artistic/creative
ability and that could be regarded as visually interesting to those using the artistsdirectory.co.uk
website to view particular artforms or specific categories of medium and/or subject
matter an artform.
Therefore, you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right
to change any images showing on the introductory ‘strip-profile’ listings of anyone
registered that artistsdirectory.co.uk solely alone judge as generally not being
artistically or creatively competent enough to be initially visually interesting
to viewers of the website, or to switch the visibility button to ‘off’ of anyone
registered that has not yet uploaded enough sufficient images to do this.
You also acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right to
remove/delete from the website without prior notification anyone registered showing
images of work that artistsdirectory.co.uk solely alone judge as generally not being
artistically or creatively competent enough in their volume to be of any visual
interest to viewers of the website.
15. VIEWABLE CONTACT DETAILS
When registered, showing your email address, personal website address, telephone
number/s, postal address or any other form of personal contact details that you
choose to have showing will be at your own discretion and risk. Therefore you acknowledge
and agree that artisisdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible or liable for any unsolicited
correspondence you may receive or for anything that may happen as a result of others
contacting you through any viewable contact details that you choose to have showing.
As artistsdirectory.co.uk has no involvement and charges no fees if you are commissioned
or sell any work through being contacted via any contact details you choose to have
showing, you therefore acknowledge and agree that artisisdirectory.co.uk cannot
be responsible or liable for any loss or damages to artworks or monies involved
in any transactions between yourself and anyone contacting you via the website to
commission or purchase.
16. VIEWING EXTERNAL LINKS
artistsdirectory.co.uk does not imply any endorsements of resources, products or
the services of any viewable websites via any of the links on the artistsdirectory.co.uk
website such as art related links on the home page and personal website links of
those registered. Therefore you acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all
risk arising from your use of any such websites and resources and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk
cannot be responsible or liable for anything that may happen as a result of that
use.
17. CONTACTING THOSE REGISTERED
artistsdirectory.co.uk does not imply any endorsements of those registered in way
of their work or services. Therefore you acknowledge sole responsibility for and
assume all risk arising from your use of any of the contact details of those registered
and also acknowledge and agree that artisisdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible
or liable for anything that may happen as a result of you contacting those registered
through whatever contact details they choose to have showing.
As artistsdirectory.co.uk has no involvement and charges no fees if you commission
or purchase any work through contacting any of those registered, you acknowledge
and agree that artisisdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible or liable for any loss
or damages to artworks or monies involved in any such transactions between yourself
and any of those registered.
18. COPYRIGHT
When registered, artistsdirectory.co.uk does not claim any form of copyright or
ownership over any of your images that you have showing on the website. Images lawfully
owned by you that you have showing on the website will be copyright to you, i.e.
to the name of the 'registered artist' they relate to. (This is also mentioned as
part of the copyright copy at the bottom of all 'strip-profile' results pages on
the website.)
You may only show images on the artistsdirectory.co.uk website that are copyright
to you, i.e. images of your own creation or lawfully owned by you. Therefore you
acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right to remove/delete
with no refund of any purchased extra gallery pages anyone registered deemed to
be showing images that are the copyright of others.
(If you wish, via your 'image library' account step when logged in, you will be
able to include i.e.'Copyright© your name 2009' to show alongside any of your images
as part of their picture details when they are clicked to enlarge by viewers of
the website.)
As artistsdirectory.co.uk is not the publisher and merely provides a website platform
for those registered to show images of their work, it cannot be responsible or liable
for any form of copyright infringement in way of any images showing on the viewable
details of those registered. Should you believe that any images showing are not
copyright to the name of the 'registered artist' they relate to, we ask that you
contact artistsdirectory.co.uk with details of the copyright infringement including
the name of the 'registered artist' and any contact details.
19. OFFENSIVE MATERIAL
When registered, You may not show images, text, or websites via links that would
normally be regarded as offensive. Therefore you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk
reserves the right to remove/delete any images, text or links to other websites
of anyone registered that artistsdirectory.co.uk solely alone judge as being visually
or verbally offensive such as pornographic, racist, obscene, violent or lewd material.
You also acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk reserves the right to
remove/delete anyone registered that blatantly disregards this.
20. TECHNICAL
You will need to ensure that your computers web browser is capable enough for usability
of the website, as older versions of web browsers may not be designed to cope with
basic current website technology which may result in pages among websites not viewing
or working properly. We recommend that you keep updated and download the latest
versions of your web browser that are compatible with your computers operating system.
(Web browsers and their updates are free to download.)
We would also recommend downloading and using Mozilla 'Firefox' which is generally
regarded as an excellent web browser and that by default upgrades/updates itself.
You will also need to ensure that your computers operating system is up to date
enough for usability of the later versions of web browsers. If unsure, you should
contact the supplier or manufacturer of your computer.
Out of the most commonly used web browsers and for optimum use of the website, we
recommend that your web browser should be at least the following:-
Explorer 6 or higher
Safari 3 or higher
Firefox 2 or higher.
21. AVAILABILITY/MAINTENANCE
artistsdirectory.co.uk may occasionally have to go off air and be unavailable for
brief periods of time due to routine maintenance and upgrades. Therefore you acknowledge
and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible or liable for any form
of loss due to unavailability during any such periods.
22. SECURITY
Although the utmost is done to ensure security of the website, internet security
is a complex issue and no system can be considered 100% secure. Should a security
breach occur we would endeavour to react as quickly as possible to remedy the problem,
however, you acknowledge and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk cannot assume responsibility
or be liable for anything that may happen as a result of registered details being
compromised in the unlikely event of a security breach.
23. FUTURE
Although artistsdirectory.co.uk has been created with the aim of it also becoming
a future archive, the life span and longevity of the website obviously cannot be
stipulated or guaranteed in any way simply through being unable to foresee any future
circumstances or events that may possibly prohibit that aim. Therefore you acknowledge
and agree that artistsdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible or liable to reimburse
the cost of any extra gallery pages or any form of loss if the website becomes unavailable
or is deleted or destroyed due to any circumstances or events on the internet infrastructure
that are outside of its control.
You acknowledge that artistsdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible for any form of
loss should you need to re-upload images and/or re-create worded details in the
extremely unlikely event of them being lost or deleted from your viewable details
because of a technical aberration..Should any such extremely unlikely event occur
and 'all' of your registered and viewable details are lost or deleted from the website,
you also acknowledge that artistsdirectory.co.uk cannot be responsible or liable
for any form of loss other than to reimburse by way of supplying free registration
and free extra gallery pages to re-create them.