Terms of Use

GENERAL TERMS OF USE

The following terms of use apply to any and all content, inclusive of but not limited to prints, tubes, scrapkits purchased from Artistic Dreams Imaging and is applicable to all signature tag designers, stationery, webset, and website designers as well as any social networking site, i.e. Facebook, MySpace, Signature Tag Groups.

Artistic Dreams Imaging is the sole and exclusive owner of all ADI graphic art packages "tubes", comments, codes, tutorials and signature tags (products.) displayed on its websites including rights relating thereto

Consumers are required to read, understand and follow these usage terms when using digital works of the artists represented by Artistic Dreams Imaging. These terms of use will be strictly enforced. Copyright infringement is punishable offense; five years imprisonment with fines to $250,000 upon conviction.

ADI Terms of Use include issuance of licenses to the consumer. Certain information is required to obtain a license from ADI: Name, Address, Phone, and Email. Once this information is provided you will receive a license number which is required to be placed on any design created by you using images from Artistic Dreams Imaging.

License numbers may be revoked for violation of these Terms of Use; absolutely NO refunds will be made to a licenseholder whose license has been revoked for violations of the ADI Terms of Use. We reserve the right to change, alter, modify or amend any or all of these terms. Artists represented by ADI may also change, alter, or amend these terms with regard to their works at any time. Artist modification of our standard terms of use will be noted on their image pages.

Commercial usage requires permission of the artist as the artist holds full and complete ownership of intellectual property rights. Users who seek to make commercial use of the images will be required to seek permission from the appropriate rights' holders, and to the extent practicable, Artistic Dreams will assist in facilitating those permissions by providing contact information of the rights holders.

Unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted material is forbidden. Artistic Dreams will not supply high resolution images on this site. Although original art may be purchased copyright remains with the Artist as do tubes, scrapkits and so forth.

CREDITS: Images purchased may not be shared as each individual must affix their ADI license number and artist copyright to any work designed using images/tubes purchased through Artistic Dreams. All Artist/ Photographer images and tube creations MUST be credited in the following manner: ©Artists / Photographer name, www.artists url.com, (Your ADI license number)

EXCEPTION: Some artists may offer PG13, Mature or Adult Content on their websites(adult content: nudity, sexually explicit images, fetish, etc) Some groups DO NOT allow urls to be shown on tags where the artist offers mature or adult content. In this case only, you are permitted to leave off the artist url.

This is the ONLY exception to our copyright and artist credits.

Your license number with ADI MUST be clearly legible on all of your digital creations inclusive of but not limited to tags, stationary, web sets, MySpace, Facebook pages, any social network pages, personal websites, other website layouts or skins, banners and any other digital designs created from images purchased through ADI.

You are allowed to add your watermark and tagged by (your name) , however you are not allowed to add personal, group or website links to images purchased from ADI. Artist (inclusive of photographers) url must be shown legibly on any digital designs created. Personal, website, urls can be added to the footers of skins, websets, and stationery which you create using ADI images. Images MUST NOT be shared, or uploaded to any server (4-shared, rapidshare, etc) for future downloads to individuals/groups who do not hold an ADI license and have purchased images.

ADI tubes and products may not be printed in any way, shape or form without a contract between the creator and ADI. These are for online/digital use only! You may print tags for personal use such as scrapbooking.

ADI tubes and products may not be sold or bartered or used for profit, commercial or 'break-even' endeavors in any way. Further, no tube or product may be displayed on any website or community that offers private or commercial services to the public.

ADI reserves the right to use all products made with tubes (tags, banners, etc) for marketing and other advertising and promotional purposes and do not require to display a license number.

IMAGE TERMS OF USE

Licensed images may not exceed 72 dpi or measure more than 500 pixels on the longest side.

ADI images are not to be altered in any way.

ADI images are not to be used for profit, absolutely NO monetary compensation, consideration can be received using images purchased from ADI.

Commercial Usage approval must be obtained from the 'rights holder', i.e. Artist, photographer, designer and ADI will be happy to assist you in making contact with the rights holder by providing contact information only.

ADI images are not to be used/mixed with images from free artist sites or other licensed artist sites.

EXCEPTION: ADI artists can be used with other ADI artists, multiple images from the same artist, however EACH artist (if more than one is used) must be credited on any digital designs or creations.

Animation, changing a coloured image to black and white, colouring a black and white image, adding certain elements to cover portions of adult images (in order to use those images on sites where R rated images are not allowed) is permitted as long as the Artists work is respected . As always, proper credit must be legible on all designs/creations.

You MAY NOT create blank tags, websets, skins, stationery, text must be included (watermarks DO NOT constitute text); Welcome, Snagged, Mail, etc.

Printing of any image shown on the ADI site is prohibited.

Images may be sold singly, or in image multi-packs.

Freebies will be offered from time to time.

Images MUST NOT be shared, or uploaded to any server (4-shared, Rapidshare, etc) for future downloads to individuals/groups who do not hold an ADI license and have purchased images.

TUTORIAL TERMS OF USE

ADI images may be used in your tutorials, however notice must be clear that any ADI image is being used as a 'SAMPLE' for the purpose of tutorials, and individuals wishing to use the same image in their tags based on the tutorial must be directed to ADI to purchase the image.

Images found in our freebie section should be noted in the tutorial that
the image is being used courtesy of ADI and is not available for purchase.

To credit a tutorial site on your designs:

Tutorial by (tut writers name) and url, NO copyright symbol allowed

Questions, Concerns Regarding Images; Please email any questions or concerns HERE:

SCRAPKIT TERMS OF USE

Credit for scrapkits and/or backgrounds may be shown in this way:
scrap kit by______ , render by_______ or background by_________.

If used with an ADI artist tube credit info should be shown in this way:
Artist © and url, scrapkit by (unless size of your creation prohibits all credit info to be legible and interferes with design, in this event, should be shown as:

©Artists / Photographer name, www.artists url.com, ( your ADI license number ) Your ADI license number should always be on ANY design created by you when using images/scrapkits from ADI.

As with all images found on our site, you are required to hold a license from ADI in order to use these images.

Photography tubes should be credited this way: ©Photographer Name, URL, ADI License #

You are allowed to place the following info on any tag designed by you when using photo tubes from ADI: ©Photographer Name, URL, Tagged by (your name), Tag design by (your name), ADI License #

Your ADI license number MUST BE shown on any design you create.

Photo tubes MAY NOT be used with an other artist work.

When using an ADI photo tube with a scrapkit, please show copyright info as: ©photographer name; URL . . . scrapkit or kit by (designer name); URL . . . ADI License # unless the kit designer requests otherwise in their TOU

THE ARTISTIC DREAMS IMAGING PROMISE

Artistic Dreams Imaging is dedicated to

1) Insuring to the best of our abilities that we provide the most up to date information regarding copyright in order to protect those Artists we represent as well as the individual who purchases our tubes. We feel we cannot protect one without the other, and to that end will provide updates on our blog of changes relating to copyrights of our Artists as well as keeping our customers abreast of questions, concerns, and legalities (where possible).

2) Customer service to each end user is of paramount concern, if you are unhappy with your purchases then you will be unhappy with our company, and we hope that never happens. Sometimes things happen, that's the way life works, you work hard for your money, and we recognize that fact. In doing so, please note that we will never ask you to pay for something a second time. There will be no replacement fees for any tubes/scrapkits you purchase from Artistic Dreams Imaging. We ask only that you keep your receipt, along with your license number and should life take a turn, your computer crashes, you inadvertently deleted the item, provide us that info and we will be happy to provide you a replacement at no cost to you.

Artistic Dreams Imaging . . . working to bring Artists, Designers and the Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop communities together where their imaginations & their dreams become reality.