Terms & Conditions
Last updated: September 29, 2026
Welcome to Ovisual Art (the “Service”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). These Terms & Conditions (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of this website, its pages, its application programming interfaces, and any related features, tools, or content made available through it (together, the “Site”). By accessing, browsing, registering with, requesting an upload link for, uploading to, or otherwise using the Site in any way, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms in their entirety. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must not access or use the Site.
Please read these Terms carefully. They contain important information about your legal rights, remedies, and obligations, including disclaimers of warranties, limitations of our liability, and a licence that you grant over the content you upload. The single most important things to understand before you continue are these two points: first, the Site and everything on it is provided to you “as is” and “as available”, and nothing about it is guaranteed; and second, all content that you upload to the Site is made available to the public under a Creative Commons licence, which means other people are free to reuse it. The sections below explain both points, and everything else, in detail.
1. Acceptance and Eligibility
By using the Site you represent and warrant that you are at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction, or that you are using the Site under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms on your behalf. You also represent that you have the full right, power, and authority to enter into these Terms and to perform your obligations under them, and that your use of the Site will comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations. If you are using the Site on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you are authorised to bind that organisation to these Terms, and references to “you” include that organisation.
Your right to use the Site is personal to you and is not transferable. We may, at our sole discretion, refuse access to the Site, decline to provide the Service, or terminate any use of the Site by any person at any time and for any reason or for no reason, without notice and without liability to you.
2. Definitions
In these Terms, “Content” means any image, video, text, caption, hashtag, metadata, description, or other material that is uploaded, submitted, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the Site. “User Content” means Content that you or other users provide. “Uploader” means any person who submits User Content to the Site. “Visitor” means any person who accesses the Site, whether or not they upload anything. “Creative Commons Licence” means the licence described in Section 6. These definitions apply regardless of whether the defined terms are capitalised elsewhere in these Terms.
3. Nature of the Service — Provided “As Is”
The Site is offered as a convenience and as an experimental, best-effort service. We make no promises about it whatsoever. Without limiting the generality of that statement, we do not guarantee that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, complete, accurate, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not guarantee that any defect will be corrected, that the Site will meet your requirements, or that it will continue to exist in its current form, or at all, in the future.
We may add, change, suspend, withdraw, restrict, or discontinue any aspect of the Site — including any feature, page, route, service, or item of Content — at any time, with or without notice, and we will not be liable to you or to any third party for doing so. Any reliance you place on the Site or its Content is strictly at your own risk. You are solely responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you consider important; the Site is not a backup service and must not be relied upon as one.
4. No Warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Site and all Content, features, and services provided through it are provided “as is” and “as available”, with all faults and without warranty of any kind. We expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of any course of dealing or usage of trade.
We make no warranty and accept no responsibility regarding: (a) the reliability, availability, timeliness, security, or performance of the Site; (b) the accuracy, quality, legality, or appropriateness of any Content; (c) the deletion of, failure to store, or failure to deliver or transmit any Content; (d) whether the Site will meet your needs or expectations; or (e) any goods, services, information, or other material obtained by you through the Site. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through the Site, creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you; in that case, any warranties that cannot lawfully be excluded are limited to the minimum extent permitted by law.
5. User Content and Your Responsibilities
You are solely and entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, submit, or otherwise make available through the Site, and for the consequences of doing so. We do not, and are under no obligation to, review, verify, monitor, screen, edit, or endorse any User Content before or after it is published, and we assume no responsibility or liability for any User Content or for any loss or damage resulting from it. Any opinions, statements, or other material expressed in User Content are those of the respective Uploader and not of us.
By uploading or submitting User Content, you represent and warrant that: (a) you are the sole author and owner of the Content, or you have obtained all necessary rights, licences, consents, and permissions to upload it and to grant the licences described in these Terms; (b) the Content, and our and the public’s use of it as permitted here, does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral right, right of privacy, right of publicity, or any other intellectual-property or proprietary right of any person; (c) the Content does not contain any material that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or otherwise objectionable, and does not depict any identifiable person without that person’s consent where such consent is required; and (d) the Content is not subject to any obligation of confidentiality and does not contain sensitive personal data of third parties.
You must not upload Content that you would not be comfortable making freely and publicly reusable by anyone in the world, because that is precisely what happens to it under the licence described below. If you are in any doubt about your rights to a piece of Content, do not upload it.
6. Licensing of Uploaded Content — Creative Commons
This is a core condition of using the Site. All Content that you upload to or make available through the Site is licensed by you to us and, more importantly, to the general public under a Creative Commons licence. Unless a more specific licence is clearly displayed alongside a particular item at the time it is published, the applicable licence is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), the full text of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
What this means in practice is that, by uploading Content, you grant every recipient of that Content a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, and irrevocable licence to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, adapt, and build upon your Content for any purpose, including commercial purposes, subject only to the conditions of the Creative Commons licence — principally, that they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You cannot revoke this licence with respect to copies of the Content that have already been shared, and you understand that once Content is published it may be downloaded, copied, cached, mirrored, indexed, and reused by others beyond our knowledge or control.
You retain ownership of any copyright and other intellectual-property rights that you hold in your Content; granting a Creative Commons licence does not transfer ownership. However, you acknowledge and agree that the licence you grant is a fundamental part of the bargain for using the Site, that it is non-exclusive (so you remain free to license the same Content to others on other terms), and that it survives any termination of these Terms or of your use of the Site. You further grant us a licence to host, store, reproduce, reformat, resize, transcode, generate thumbnails and derivative representations of, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and otherwise use your Content as reasonably necessary to operate, promote, and provide the Site.
You also waive, to the extent permitted by law, any moral rights or rights of attribution and integrity that would otherwise prevent us or the public from using the Content in the manner contemplated by the Creative Commons licence, except for the attribution requirement that the licence itself provides. If you do not agree to license your Content in this way, you must not upload it to the Site.
7. Prohibited Uses and Conduct
You agree not to use the Site to: upload or distribute Content that infringes any third party’s rights or that you do not have the right to license under Creative Commons; upload unlawful, harmful, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material; impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity; upload malware, viruses, or any code of a destructive or disruptive nature; attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, its servers, or any connected systems or networks; interfere with, disrupt, or place an unreasonable load on the Site or its infrastructure, including through automated scraping, denial-of-service techniques, or excessive requests; circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with any security-related or rate-limiting features of the Site; harvest or collect information about other users; or use the Site in any manner that violates any applicable law or regulation. We may investigate and take any action we deem appropriate, including removing Content and restricting access, in response to any actual or suspected violation.
8. Intellectual Property in the Site Itself
Except for User Content, the Site and all materials that comprise it — including its software, source code, design, layout, text, graphics, logos, and the arrangement and compilation of all of the foregoing — are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right, title, or interest in the Site itself other than the limited right to use it in accordance with these Terms. You must not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of any part of the Site except User Content used in accordance with its applicable Creative Commons licence, or as otherwise expressly permitted by us in writing or by applicable law.
9. Privacy and Data
Your use of the Site may involve the processing of limited information, such as an email address supplied to obtain an upload link, an IP address used for rate-limiting and abuse-prevention, and metadata associated with your Content. We handle such information on a best-effort basis and solely for the purpose of operating the Site. Because the Site is provided without guarantees, we make no warranty regarding the security or confidentiality of any information you provide, and you should not transmit any information through the Site that you require to remain private or secure. You are responsible for ensuring that any personal data contained within your Content may lawfully be published and licensed under Creative Commons.
10. Content Removal and Complaints
We reserve the right, but assume no obligation, to remove, disable, or restrict access to any Content at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice and without liability. If you believe that any Content infringes your rights, you may contact us with a description of the material, its location on the Site, and a statement of the basis for your complaint. We will consider legitimate requests and may remove or disable access to Content at our discretion, but removal from the Site does not and cannot recall copies already distributed under the Creative Commons licence, and we make no promise as to the outcome or timing of any such request.
11. Third-Party Links and Services
The Site may contain links to, or interoperate with, third-party websites, resources, or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We provide these links and integrations only as a convenience and do not endorse and are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, content, products, or services of any third party. Your dealings with any third party are solely between you and that third party, and you access them at your own risk and subject to their terms.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will we, our owners, operators, contributors, or licensors be liable to you or to any third party for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your access to or use of, or your inability to access or use, the Site or any Content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Site or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the total amount you paid us to use the Site during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim (which, for a free service, is likely to be zero) or ten euros. Because the Site is provided free of charge and without guarantees, you acknowledge that this allocation of risk is reasonable and forms an essential basis of the bargain between us. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you; in that case, our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.
13. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us and our owners, operators, contributors, and licensors from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) your access to or use of the Site; (b) any Content you upload or make available; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any rights of a third party, including any intellectual-property or privacy right. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defence of such claim.
14. Suspension, Termination, and Availability
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Site at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice, and we may remove or disable Content at any time. These Terms remain in effect while you use the Site and, with respect to provisions that by their nature should survive — including the licences you grant, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and indemnities — they continue in effect after your use ends. We do not guarantee that the Site, your account, your upload links, or your Content will remain available for any period of time, and the Site may be discontinued entirely at any moment.
15. Changes to These Terms
We may revise these Terms from time to time at our sole discretion. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting, and your continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. It is your responsibility to review these Terms periodically. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, your sole remedy is to stop using the Site.
16. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or your use of the Site are governed by the laws applicable at the place where the Site operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. You agree that the courts of that jurisdiction will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and you submit to their personal jurisdiction, except that we may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any competent court. Any cause of action you may have with respect to the Site must be commenced within one year after the claim arises, or it will be permanently barred, to the extent permitted by law.
17. General Provisions
These Terms, together with any licence notices displayed on the Site, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of that right or provision. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent, and any attempted assignment in violation of this provision is void; we may assign these Terms freely. Nothing in these Terms creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and us. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.
18. Summary (Non-Binding)
For convenience only, and without limiting or replacing anything above: the Site is a free, best-effort service that comes with no guarantees of any kind — it may be unavailable, may lose your data, and may change or disappear at any time. Everything you upload is published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0 unless stated otherwise), so anyone may freely reuse it as long as they credit the source, and you must only upload material that you have the right to share on those terms. If any of this is not acceptable to you, please do not use the Site. This summary does not form part of the legally binding Terms; the numbered sections above govern.
By continuing to use Ovisual Art, you confirm that you accept these Terms & Conditions.