Terms of Use
General
- You are bound by these TOU regardless of whether or not you take the time to
read them.
- I reserve the right to refuse ANY individual membership.
I am not obliged to give a reason but will when possible.
- You do not need a website to join Snowdrop Design but if you do have one you
must provide me with the URL. If on reading your TOU I
find you
require generic access to the member areas of Your members then I will
require the same from you if you want to join Snowdrop Design. This is in
order to protect my work in the same way as you would want yours protected.
If you do not require generic access from your members, then I will not
require it from you.
- Your site must not contain pornography, abuse, hatred or promotion/violation
of any human rights.
- You MUST display either a text link or our logo with a clickable link
back to http://snowdropdesign.com within 7
days of joining this site.
- My TOU are subject to change at ANY time.
Membership Terms
-
Once your Username and Password are issued to you there will be NO refund
... There are NO exceptions to this.
- When you purchase a membership to
Snowdrop Design you are purchasing a license to use MY work, you will not and do not
purchase a copyright. The copyright remains ©Snowdrop Design at ALL times.
- Your membership is personal you YOU and may not be shared with Friends
or Family members.
-
You must post our banner with a link or text link only within 7 days of joining
us, your membership will be suspended with no refund of time lost if this is not
done.
- You may not give your login information to
others even if they claim to be a member. If someone claims to have forgotten
their member/login information, please ask them to contact us. Any member found
to be giving out their member/login information risks having their membership
revoked and without refund.
- If for any reason your membership is Terminated by me you must Cease
to use any of my work and remove all of it from your site.
Tubes and Bases
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My Tubes are for your use only - You may NOT pass them on to others or offer
them as is ... You may NOT offer our tubes in your own members area. If
you have an AS IS license for sale on your site ... You may NOT include any of
my tubes, sigtags, bases or graphics in that.
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You may use my tubes for profit only if you add to them. Text alone is
NOT enough, you must add more to them to make them into a 'scene'.
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You are NOT permitted to redistribute my tubes through any forums, groups
and/or CD's. This list is not exhaustive.
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You may NOT recolour, resize or frankendoll ANY of my tubes .. they are to be
used as you download them with other tubes and text added to them only.
- Any tutorials we may offer are not to be shared in any fashion or
form. They are for personal use only. You may
download the page to use for your own personal use offline.
- None of my Tube, Sigtags future Tutorials or Lines may be shared in
ANY fashion at all.
- If you use any of
my bases you Must link back to
http://snowdropdesign.com at
all times.
- You may not tube ANY of my bases, this includes those of you
with a tube license too. You may colour the lineart if that is
included to make your own base, but you may NOT tube mine.
Lineart
-
You may tube
your results for personal use only. You may NOT offer downloadable tubes unless
you hold a tube license you have purchased from me.
- You may
use your results from my Linearts to make websets, graphics premades etc,
for free or for profit in a public or members area.
- You may not add anything you make from
my lines to any CD Collection
for sale. This would then incur Royalties for each disc sold.
This includes anyone with a License.
- You may not turn any of
my Lineart into tutorials for your own site.
- You may
not offer your results as 'snaggable' in MSN or Yahoo style groups or indeed
any other Forum. You may offer them as personalised sig tags.
- You may not tube my lineart to make into blank sigtags to offer for
purchase AS IS.
- You may not frankendoll ANY
of my characters. It is ok to move/add or remove the odd pixel here
and there but you may not for example use the body of one character with the
head of another ... regardless of where it comes from. Added
10/09/06
Tutorials
- You may tube
your results for personal use only. You may NOT offer downloadable tubes unless
you hold a tube license you have purchased from me.
- You may
use your results from my Tutorials to make websets, graphics premades etc,
for free or for profit in a public or members area.
- You may not add anything you make from
my
Tutorials to any CD Collection
for sale. This would then incur Royalties for each disc sold.
This includes anyone with a License.
- You may not turn any of
my
Tutorials
into Lineart for your own site.
- You may
not offer your results as 'snaggable' in MSN or Yahoo style groups or indeed
any other Forum. You may offer them as personalised sig tags.
- You may not frankendoll ANY
of my characters. It is ok to move/add or remove the odd pixel here
and there but you may not for example use the body of one character with the
head of another ... regardless of where it comes from. Added
10/09/06
Sig Tag Terms
- You may request 1 Sig Tag per week for your own personal use, you may
not request sigtags for friends or family.
- All Sig Tags MUST be linked back to
http://snowdropdesign.com where and
whenever they are used ... This includes emails.
- Any sigtag you request is for your personal use only. You may
NOT offer it for download on your own site whether it be public or a members
area. You may not offer it ANYWHERE ... be that a forum, group, Downloadable
CD/DVD.
Licenses
- Your
tube license is LIFETIME ... but ... in order to use it ... You must have an
active membership. Once your membership expires you will not be permitted
to offer tubes from our lines/tuts until such a time as your membership is
renewed and active again. You will NOT need to reactivate/renew your tube
license ... just your membership.
- The above also applies to any Digitizing License purchased.
- You may
not offer naked bases of any of my dolls or characters - they MUST be
fully dressed and with hair first. Underwear or swimwear does not
count as fully dressed.
- Please
do not tube and offer complete collections of our Lines.
- The
licence is for YOUR use only. You may offer your results to my lines and/or
tuts on YOUR site only. You may NOT sell anything with an offer to resell
or offer AS IS on a site different to your own. This license is for YOU
only and is NOT transferrable. This covers grapics offered in ANY format !
This list is not exhaustive and as Site Owner/Designer I reiterate ...
I
reserve the right to change these TOU at any time. Please check
back often for changes.