Sketch Gallery Terms & Conditions

 

These terms and conditions are in addition to our main terms and conditions and privacy policy. 

Before uploading any photo to our site, please carefully read the following terms and conditions of use. Uploading any photograph onto this website constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of use outlined herein. 

Purpose and Intentions

Our website sketch gallery is intended for our registered students’ use only. The Urban Sketch Course gallery is designed to provide a private viewing area for students to upload and share their own sketches. It is intended to engage interest and encourage positive and constructive feedback for students on their recent artwork. We reserve the right to reject any images or comments that we feel are unsuitable, inappropriate, obscene, substandard, deemed offensive, or an infringement upon copyright.

The gallery is not a space for users to permanently keep their photos or use them as online storage. Images uploaded to the gallery will only be kept on our servers for 12 months. After this time images will be removed.

Public Viewing and Permitting of Limited Rights

By uploading an image to our site, you are granting us a license to use and display the image in any size or format and on any pages deemed suitable.

Please be aware that your photo may be displayed within our public sketch gallery, on various pages on our site, within promotional materials and maybe also be displayed across Urban Sketch Course social networking sites.

Please note, you are not transferring your copyright in any way, this remains with you (the artist) at all times.

If your image is selected and displayed within promotional material, we will endeavour to publish your name alongside it and also notify you beforehand. If you have any queries or concerns regarding the above, please contact [email protected] before uploading your image.

Copyright

You must own the copyright of the image you upload. Uploaded photographs must be owned and submitted by the original artist and sole owner of the copyright. Copyright of the uploaded image remains the property of the student. Do not submit any photographs taken by anyone other than yourself or your account access will instantly be blocked and you may be liable to prosecution. By submitting your photograph you are guaranteeing that you are the artist, photographer and copyright holder for the image and accept responsibility for ownership.

By uploading an image to our website you are agreeing to indemnify us from any liability resulting from breaches of copyright of the image existing online on our website in digital form. urbansketchcourse.com will not be held responsible or liable for loss; claim, damages, and expenses that occurred in connection with or associated with the uploading of any photograph or artwork.

As artists ourselves, we respect your image copyright and ask that you respect the copyright of your fellow students, course tutors, and course providers. You may not copy or distribute any photographs or written content from within Urban Sketch Course without prior consent and written authorization from the parent company V-Learn.

Please note: anyone seen to be abusing or breaking copyright infringement, using other students’ images, or using our trademark name (without written permission) will have their account immediately closed (and also risks legal prosecution). If you are in any doubt, please contact [email protected]

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

By uploading a photograph to our site, you indicate that you accept these terms and that you agree to be bound by them. Acceptance of these terms creates a binding contract between you and urbansketchcourse.com that you will use the service only in a manner consistent with these terms. These terms may be changed or updated at any time, but you can always find the most recent version here. You should periodically check this page to make sure you are up to date.

If you have questions about these terms, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the gallery and site upload services is entirely conditioned on and subject to your compliance with these terms. If you do not agree with these terms, do not upload, access, or use the service.

If you submit an image in error or have accidentally breached these terms in any way, please contact [email protected] immediately.

If you notice that these terms are being breached by others within (or outside) of the course, please detail and report the abuse of these terms to [email protected]. Thank you for your cooperation, support, and assistance.

Copyright Infringements

When uploading photographs to the Urban Sketch Course feedback gallery all images uploaded by students must 100% belong to that user. Students that are found to have uploaded an image(s) of artwork that does not belong to them will have that image(s) removed and their account may be suspended. This includes reposting images owned by other gallery users without their expressed permission.

We take copyright infringement extremely seriously for the protection of the gallery’s integrity and the protection of other artists’ work.

Rights and Usage

Any images uploaded to the Urban Sketch Course Feedback Gallery may be used by Urban Sketch Course for purposes of promotion or advertising without prior consent. Where possible, Urban Sketch Course will credit the original artist on publication. Please do not post images to the Gallery if you do not agree with these terms.

The original artist retains full ownership of their intellectual property.

Use of AI-Generated Imagery

As the use of AI-generated imagery and assets rises we ask that ANY gallery upload, that has used AI generation technology to partially create the final upload, is labelled as such either in the upload’s title or description field. Failure to do so may result in an account being restricted from using the gallery.

Behaviour & Comments

The Urban Sketch Course gallery is a space for new and experienced artists to share work with like minded people. The use of comments in the gallery is to aid with image feedback, suggestions and general communication with a specific user. Comments should not be unhelpful, rude,  hateful or spam. Any accounts found to be breaching this purpose may be restricted from using the gallery or their account removed permanently.