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Please read the terms and conditions of this Contributor Agreement (“Contributor Agreement”) carefully before contributing any Stock Media. This Contributor Agreement, which may be amended from time to time, outlines the rights you are granting to JQF Designs in any Stock Media, and what uses JQF Designs may make of the Stock Media. You can always find the most recent version of our Contributor Agreement here: http:// JQF Designs.com/contributor-agreement

Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Contributor Agreement have the meaning given them in our Terms of Use.

This Agreement hereby incorporates the terms of the following additional documents, including all future amendments or modifications thereto:

  1. Terms of Use
  2. One Time Use License Agreement
  3. Multi-Use License Agreement
  4. Extended License
  5. Royalty Schedule
  6. Privacy Policy

Here are the terms you are agreeing to when you contribute Stock Media to JQF Designs.
There are a few other documents that may be applicable to your use of the Service. Here are the links to the other agreements that may be relevant.

  1. Our Service

1.1 Our Service.

JQF Designs operates an online design and media licensing service. Our Users pay a fee to license content from the Service. You acknowledge and agree that Users may make broad use of such downloaded content for the stated fee and are under no obligation to inform JQF Designs or you of the uses made of any submitted content.

You may choose to contribute to the Service, stock photographs, illustrations, fonts, and other media, along with any associated text, for license to other Users in exchange for royalties (“Stock Media”). Any User who contributes Stock Media to the Service shall be referred to as a “Contributor.”

1.2 Contributor Guidelines.

You agree to follow JQF Designs Contributor Guidelines. JQF Designs may choose to impose submission limits on accounts with an acceptance rate that falls below the minimum thresholds listed on the Contributor Guidelines or reject Stock Media in its sole discretion. The excessive submission of content that does not adhere to JQF Designs guidelines may result in the termination of your JQF Designs contributor account. You agree that you will not, and will not solicit any third party on your behalf, to download content you have contributed as Stock Media.

1.3 Treatment of Stock Media and Removal.

JQF Designs has the right to refuse to accept any Stock Media for any reason or no reason. JQF Designs has the right to remove any Stock Media from the Service at any time for any reason (including but not limited to our belief that your submission would or does subject us to legal action or if your Stock Media violates the terms of this Agreement or our Contributor Guidelines) or no reason. You have the right to remove any of your Stock Media from our Service at any time for any reason. JQF Designs will use reasonable efforts to cause the Stock Media, including any additional versions such as Cut Outs (as defined below), to be removed from the Service and affiliated or partner websites within sixty (60) days of your deactivation of such Stock Media. However, you agree that any licenses issued by JQF Designs in respect of any Stock Media that is removed from the Service will remain in full force and effect under the terms of that license. In addition, you also agree that JQF Designs will be able to keep at least a thumbnail of any Stock Media that you removed indefinitely. In the event that Stock Media is deleted between the time when a User uses it in a JQF Designs design and when that design is Exported, you will earn royalties for the Stock Media even after it has been deleted. This is an uncommon, special circumstance. Deactivated content is not available for licensing to any User who hasn’t already included it in a design prior to the time it is removed.

JQF Designs is all about sharing your content with other people so they can make awesome designs. The content you submit to JQF Designs will become a part of that awesomeness.

Every work of art is a beautiful snowflake, but *we* get to say what content is appropriate for JQF Designs. If you’d like to remove some of your content from JQF Designs you’re free to so inform us, and we’ll try to take it off the Service .

  1. Ownership, Releases and Your License Grant

2.1 Ownership.

Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to transfer any copyrights to JQF Designs. The copyrights in and to all Stock Media remains with the owner of such copyrights. Any and all Stock Media submitted to the Service must be your own original work.

2.2 Model and Property Releases.

By submitting Stock Media to JQF Designs, you agree to provide valid and accurate releases for all non-editorial Stock Media you upload to JQF Designs that, in our judgment, contains an identifiable face, identifiable person, other identifiable attribute, or property. If you do not have a release for the Stock Media that contains an image(s) of an identifiable person or property, JQF Designs may choose to reject such content. You agree that you are solely responsible for retaining all original releases and maintaining complete and accurate release records for all Stock Media. Any applicable releases are required to be electronically submitted to JQF Designs with the Stock Media. You acknowledge and agree that the submission of falsified, inaccurate or otherwise defective releases constitutes a material breach of this Agreement and can result in the immediate termination of your account without prior notice.

2.3 License Grant.

By submitting any Stock Media to the Service, you hereby grant JQF Designs, a worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to copy, reproduce, create derivative works, publicly display, market, sublicense and sell any Stock Media uploaded by you and accepted by JQF Designs, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In addition, JQF Designs shall have the right, but not the obligation, to license all Stock Media to its Users in accordance with our One-Time Use License, Multi Use License and/or Extended Licenses, or any other license offered by JQF Designs. The specific terms that will govern specific Stock Media will be determined by the license under which a particular User downloads such Stock Media.

We claim no copyrights in the content submitted to us by others.
In order for us to accept your content it has to have appropriate releases, which you can read about in our Contributor Guidelines.
By submitting Stock Media to JQF Designs, you give us the right to sell licenses to others so they can use it.

  1. Cut Outs and JQF Designs Proprietary Rights

3.1 Cut Out Photos Overview.

Additional versions of certain Stock Media that are ‘cut out’ so the background is transparent and the resulting file is in PNG format (“Cut Out(s)”) are also available on the Service. JQF Designs will store and sell licenses for both the originally submitted Stock Media file and the Cut Out version. You will always receive appropriate royalties for license sales for all versions of your Stock Media, though JQF Designs reserves the right to charge a premium (which is NOT included in royalty calculations) for the JQF Designs-created Cut Out (as defined below).

3.2 JQF Designs-created Cut Outs.

JQF Designs may, in its sole discretion, create a Cut Out as an additional version of Stock Media (“JQF Designs-created Cut Out”). Any JQF Designs-created Cut Out of your Stock Media will be created at no cost to you. However, you will have no right to use, sell, distribute, modify, or create derivative works of any JQF Designs-created Cut Outs in any way. JQF Designs will offer JQF Designs-created Cut Outs for license only while the underlying original Stock Media remains available for license on JQF Designs. You understand that JQF Designs is under no obligation to perform the cut-out process and any JQF Designs-created Cut Out will be made at JQF Designs sole discretion.

3.3 Contributor-created Cut-Outs.

You are welcome to submit your own Cut Outs, along with the original Stock Media in accordance with JQF Designs Contributor Guidelines. JQF Designs will review both the original Stock Media and the Cut-Out version. A file may be rejected, at JQF Designs sole discretion, for the content of the Stock Media and/or the quality of the Cut Out. You remain the owner of all Intellectual Property Rights, including without limitation copyrights, in and to all Cut Outs you submit to the Service.

Part of what makes JQF Designs wonderful to design with is that most items in our media library will be cut out, so that the background is transparent.
We may choose to cut out some of your images, or we may choose not to do so. If we do, you don’t get to download or use the cutout version. If you deactivate the original image, the cutout gets deactivated too.
If you cut out your own photos (which we’d love you to do!) we’ll review both the original image and the cutout independently.

  1. Permitted Uses

Subject to the restrictions described under Prohibited Uses below, the following are “Permitted Uses” of JQF Designs designs that contain Stock Media:

  1. invitations, advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations, film and video presentations, commercials, catalogues, brochures, promotional greeting cards and promotional postcards (ie. not for resale or license) up to 2,000 prints;
  2. school or university projects;
  3. social media post or profile image;
  4. decorative background on a personal computer or mobile device;
  5. entertainment applications, such as books and book covers, magazines, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and video, broadcast and theatrical presentations up to 2,000 prints;
  6. online or electronic publications, including web pages, blogs, ebooks and videos, limited to a maximum of 480,000 total pixels (for example: 600px x 800px) per Stock Media file where un-edited;
  7. prints, posters (i.e. a hardcopy) and other reproductions for personal or promotional purposes, but not for resale, license or other distribution;
  8. any other uses approved in writing by JQF Designs.

In the event that you create a derivative work based on or incorporating the Stock Media, all rights in and to such Stock Media shall continue to be owned by JQF Designs or its Contributor(s), subject to your rights to use such Stock Media pursuant to the terms and limitations set forth herein.

All other rights in the Stock Media are expressly reserved by JQF Designs for itself and its Contributors.

These are the things this license permits you to do with JQF Designs designs that contain Stock Media.

  1. Payment Amounts and Payment Terms

4.1

JQF Designs will pay you a royalty for each unique license purchase of your Stock Media for which JQF Designs receives payment. The current royalty rates are set forth on the Royalty Schedule. JQF Designs may modify the royalty rate and/or payment schedule at any time. If JQF Designs does modify the royalty rate, royalties earned before the effective change in rates will be credited at the rate in effect at the time such royalties were earned. You may also choose to not receive payment for Stock Media if used in a personal and/or commercial work by a member by marking the appropriate box during submission, in which case that particular Stock Media will be available for free to a JQF Designs member. Paid members may download a Stock Media subject to the limitations of their individual licensing terms.

4.2

Payment of royalties is made automatically each month when the balance is above your chosen threshold (minimum $3). Payments above $100 are sent without cost to you. Payouts under $100 incur a $2 processing fee. Contributors voluntarily closing their accounts may request payment of all outstanding royalties. Where this amount is under $100, the usual processing fee will apply. If your account is cancelled for a breach of this Agreement, any royalties and/or other compensation otherwise payable to you hereunder will be forfeited by you.

4.3

If you are credited with a license sale or license sales and JQF Designs thereafter issues a refund to an individual or member that licensed any of your Contributor Content, JQF Designs will have the right to deduct royalties credited to your account and/or allocated to such refunded subscriptions. Credit card chargebacks will be treated in the same manner as refunded license purchases. If JQF Designs makes an overpayment of royalties or other compensation to you for any reason, JQF Designs shall have the right to deduct the amount of such overpayment from your accrued royalties or to demand the immediate repayment of such overpaid royalties or other compensation.