Terms of Use
What cannot be uploaded to minypic.com servers:
Copyrighted images if you don't own the copyright and are not licensed to do
so.
Violence, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or
sexual orientation, etc.), or advocacy against any individual, group, or
organization.
Images that are threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourage
violence or crime.
Any images that might be illegal in the USA or EU, such as child sexual
abuse, or public exposure ("doxxing").
Adult imagery is not allowed.
If you are not sure whether the image you want to upload is allowed then do
not upload that image. Uploaded images are checked by staff and images that
violate terms will be removed without prior warning. This may also get you
banned from our website.
Automatic/programmatic uploads are not allowed. If you need image storage
for your app, please use Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. Violators may be
hunted down and banned.
Please keep the images embedded into third-party websites wrapped in links
back to the corresponding HTML pages at our site when possible. The outgoing
link should lead the user directly to our web page without any interstitial
pages or interruptions. This allows your users to get access to the
full-resolution images, and also helps us pay our bills.
Legalese (inspired by Imgur terms of use)
By uploading a file or other content or by making a comment, you represent
and warrant to us that (1) doing so does not violate or infringe anyone
else's rights; and (2) you created the file or other content you are
uploading, or otherwise have sufficient intellectual property rights to
upload the material consistent with these terms. With regard to any file or
content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant minypic a
non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with
sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any
present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads
of, and/or distribute any such file or content, including embedded
(hotlinked) into third-party websites otherwise not affiliated with minypic.
To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public
portions of our site, the license you grant to minypic pursuant to the
preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked
with respect to any file or content minypic has already copied and
sublicensed or designated for sublicense.
By downloading an image or copying other user-generated content (UGC) from
minypic, you agree that you do not claim any rights to it. The following
conditions apply:
You may use UGC for personal, non-commercial purposes
You may use UGC for anything that qualifies as fair use under copyright law,
for example journalism (news, comment, criticism, etc.), but please include
an attribute ("minypic" or "courtesy of minypic") next to where it is
displayed.
You may not use UGC for non-journalistic commercial purposes, except if the
UGC items in question have been legally uploaded by you (i.e. you are the
copyright holder), or if you have otherwise obtained a license from the
copyright owner. Posting photos of goods you sell is okay; ripping off a
competitor's catalogue is not.
Your use of UGC is at your own risk. minypic MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF
NON-INFRINGEMENT, and you will indemnify and hold minypic harmless from any
copyright infringement claims arising out of your use of the UGC.
You may not copy or use any portions of our site that are not UGC except
within the limits of fair use.
If you see anything on our site that you believe infringes your copyright
rights, you may notify our Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") agent
by sending the following information:
Identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been
infringed. IMPORTANT: you must have a registered copyright for the work, or
at least have filed with the Copyright Office
(http://www.copyright.gov/eco/) an application to register a copyright for
the work. DMCA notifications based on unregistered works are not valid.
Identification of the material on our servers that is claimed to be
infringing and that is to be removed, including the URL or other information
to enable us to locate the material.
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in
the manner complained of is not authorized by you as copyright owner, or by
your agent, or by law.
A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and under
penalty of perjury, that you are the owner (or authorized to act on behalf
of the owner) of the exclusive copyright right that is allegedly being
infringed.
Your physical or electronic signature, or of someone authorized to act on
your behalf.
Instructions on how we may contact you: preferably email, but also address
and phone.
Because all DMCA notifications must be based on a work for which the
copyright is registered with the Copyright Office (or for which registration
has been applied for), and because a high percentage of DMCA takedown
notices are not valid, it will speed our investigation of your DMCA notice
if you attach to it a copy of your copyright registration, or registration
application, for the work. DMCA notices should be sent using the appropriate
method in the Contacts section of our site or to [email protected]
Although of course we strive to make minypic as dependable as possible,
minypic's services are provided on an AS IS – WITH ALL FAULTS basis. Your
use of our service is entirely at your own risk. We do not guarantee the
availability of our service at any given time, or the reliability of our
service when it is running. We do not guarantee the integrity of, or the
continued availability of, files on our servers. Whether we make backups,
and if so, whether restoration of those backups will be available to you, is
at our discretion. minypic DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS AND
MERCHANTABILITY. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE STATED IN THESE TERMS, AND
IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER minypic TAKES OR DOES NOT TAKE MEASURES TO REMOVE
INAPPROPRIATE OR HARMFUL CONTENT FROM ITS SITE, minypic HAS NO DUTY TO
MONITOR ANY CONTENT ON ITS SITE. minypic DOES NOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THE ACCURACY, APPROPRIATENESS, OR HARMLESSNESS OF ANY CONTENT APPEARING ON
minypic.com THAT IS NOT PRODUCED BY minypic, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO USER CONTENT, ADVERTISING CONTENT, OR OTHERWISE.
Your sole remedy for the loss of any services and/or of any images or other
data you may have stored on minypic's service is to discontinue your use of
our service. minypic WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR
USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, minypic'S SERVICES, EVEN IF minypic HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF OR REASONABLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NO CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF minypic'S SERVICES
MAY BE BROUGHT MORE THAN ONE YEAR AFTER IT OCCURS.
YOU WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD minypic AND ALL OF ITS PERSONNEL HARMLESS FROM
ALL LOSS, LIABILITY, CLAIMS, DAMAGES AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING REASONABLE
ATTORNEY FEES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS,
YOUR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY'S RIGHTS, AND ANY HARM CAUSED TO ANY
THIRD PARTY AS A RESULT OF YOUR UPLOADING OF FILES, COMMENTS, OR ANYTHING
ELSE TO OUR SERVERS.
"You" refers to any person who has consented to these terms or has become
contractually bound to them, whether such person is identified or not at the
time. "minypic" or "we" refers to the legal entity controlling the minypic
project, its successors and assigns. If any part of these terms is invalid,
the remaining provisions will be unaffected. These Terms of Use constitute
the entire agreement among the parties relating to this subject matter, and
they will continue to govern any issues that arise out of your use of
minypic's services even after you discontinue using them. We may revise
these terms from time to time without notice