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.
  

• 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
 

• 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.
• 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'.
• You are NOT permitted to redistribute my tubes through any forums, groups and/or CD's.  This list is not exhaustive.
• 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.