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Effective Date: 8/21/2020

The Terms and Conditions("ToC", "ToS") act as a legally-binding contract between you("You", "you") and TheExplorerBlog("we", "us", "our", "company") for the use of our website located at stock.theexplorerblog.com("Website", "site").

When using this Website, you accept and are bound to our ToC and Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to either the ToC or Privacy Policy, you do not have a right to use our site.

Sometimes, we may decide to change the ToC. All changes to our ToC are effective when published onto our Website. When you continue to use our site after we change the ToC, you will be bound to the new ToC.

Personal Data



TheExplorerBlog respects your right towards privacy. Due to this, we provide a Privacy Policy outlining how we share, collect, store, and disclose your information, and choices related to your information.

Your Account



TheExplorerBlog has an account("Account") feature to allow users to have control over their process of uploading photos. When you create an Account, you will be required to sign up by providing a first name, last name, email address, your country of residence, home airport/city, and a date of birth. When signing up, you must provide accurate, true, current, and complete information regarding these fields. We have a right to suspend or reject your account if we deem the information you have provided inaccurate, false, not up-to-date, or incomplete.

Content Sharing



Our website widely employs data sharing through the posting of images and articles. TheExplorerBlog does not own the photos once uploaded, but has permission to share the photo on their website and/or Social Media accounts (With Credit given). Credit given is defined by TheExplorerBlog as sharing the name given of the photographer or writer of the content shared with our database. TheExplorerBlog also has the right to manage photos on the website, and modify photos for use on the website. Modifications can include, but are not limited to dimension changes and width/height changes.

If you have any questions, please ask us at support@theexplorerblog.com.

Intellectual Property



You agree and acknowledge that all content made through the site is protected by copyright. Therefore, you shall not reproduce, copy, use, publish, distribute, transmit, upload, display, license, sell, broadcast, translate, perform, or exploit the site for all content, third-party content, or proprietary rights not owned by you without any form of written consent prior to the actions.

Licensing/Reproduction Rights



Every intellectual property and ownership right including but not limited to *add stuff* in and to the Website are owned and vested in TheExplorerBlog. Nothing in these terms infers a transfer of such rights.

The copyright for photos on the site that you submit to our site are possessed by you at all times. When a customer("customer", "consumer") purchases a photo, the customer does not gain access to property and copyright rights, rather gaining access to reproduce an image in a given context and the supply of a photographer's photographic ability. You may exercise the right to be identified as the author of your content and be given credit. If omitted, TheExplorerBlog has a right to charge the customer a fee of up to 30%.

For reproduction rights, TheExplorerBlog provides multiple different licenses for the customer. Below are these terms defined:

Commercial Use: The right for companies to use the image for promotional purposes or to generate revenue. Customers may be required to obtain third-party licensing including trademarks, property releases, etc.

General Use: The right for a customer to use an image for personal use, i.e. for a wallpaper on a computer.

Publication License: The right to license images to be used in a printed context i.e. magazines and newspapers.

Media License: The right to reproduce images online in an editorial context

If we believe you are using the wrong license, you may be subject to a fine of up to $30 United States Dollars.

When a license is purchased, it is effective immediately after the transaction for the photo license is complete. Any use of the images in the process of being purchased before the transaction has been fully processed is illegal and may force the cancellation of the order.

The license and its associated reproduction rights may only be used for the specified context and timeframe indicated. The reproduction rights may not be lended or transferred to a third-party as they are issued specifically to the customer. The reproduction rights issued are for license and do not imply any partial or full copyright transfer. We have the right to deny a request to issue a license to a third-party by a customer.

Warranty Disclaimer



The Website and its content is provided on an "as is" basis with no warranties, expressed or implied including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or no interruption of our services.

Additionally, we do not guarantee the safety of your photos that you upload or publish to our Website.

The Website and its content may contain technical, typographical, or photographical errors. Due to this, we do not guarantee that the contents on our website are accurate, current, or complete.

Limitation of Liability and Indemnity



We reserve the right to modify or remove content from our website. We encourage that you do not depend on us for anything of high importance or insufferable if not done due to possible Website maintenance or situations beyond our control.

TheExplorerBlog does not guarantee the safety of any information transmitted via the website. We are not liable for the content displayed via third-parties, nor are endorsing content displayed via third-parties. The company has not examined or inspected content from any third-party and not liable for this content. We are not liable for all implied or expressed representations of third-party content.

We are not liable to your or any Third-party for any damages, direct, indirect, or any other form of damage including lost profit, lost revenue, loss of income, business interruption, or loss of goodwill from the ToS or the Website.

You are liable for any damage inflicted on us or a third-party due to unlawful use that is prohibited by the ToS and any notifications on the website including but not limited to misuse of the website. Due to this, you indemnify us including our employees and affiliates, in relation to any claims, costs, damages, expenses, losses, and liabilities due to your violation of the ToC or other applicable law.

Additionally, you indemnify us including our employees and affiliates, in relation to any claims, costs, damages, expenses, losses, and liabilities from any demand or claim made by a third-party due to your use or access of the third party's service, violation of the third party's ToC, or infringement of you or a third party using your account of any intellectual property, etc.

If any photo or photos infringe a third party intellectual right, you agree to immediately remove all infringing content and indemnify us from any cost or damage related to the infringement.

You acknowledge that we have no control over and no duty to take action regarding which users access our content, what content you access when on our Website, the effects of the content on you, how you interpret the content, or action you take as a result.

Iframes



Without prior approval and express written permission, you may not create frames around our Website or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.

Advertisements



We use advertisements to generate revenue and continue to keep our website up and running. By submitting content to TheExplorerBlog, you agree to the implementation of ads and other forms of money-making on our website, including when used in conjunction with submitted content. We mainly use advertisements on photos and articles, and users are not entitled to any of the revenue gained from these forms of money-making unless otherwise agreed upon in writing and signed by both parties(TheExplorerBlog President & VP and the third party).

Termination



We reserve the right to suspend your access to the Website, or/and your account on the website, in the cases of a suspected violation of the ToS. Additionally, we reserve the right to discontinue, modify, temporarily or, permanently cease providing the Website at any time without prior notice or if required by law or by a decision by an authority. Therefore, you agree that we are not liable to you or a third party for any discontinuation, modification, or temporary cease in providing our Website.

Contact



If you have any questions regarding this agreement or if you want to report a violation in the ToC, please contact this email: support@theexplorerblog.com