Bike/Walk Photo Library Terms of Service

Overview

The Alliance for Biking & Walking ("Alliance") has created a user-generated Biking & Walking Advocacy Photo Library ("Photo Library"). By submitting a photo to this site, you are authorizing the Alliance for Biking & Walking to place your photo into this photo library. In addition, you authorize the Alliance and all member organizations of the Alliance to use the photo for charitable purposes related to advocating for biking and walking. The Alliance reserves the right to switch images to other categories and include only photo entries it deems appropriate.

Guidelines for Submitting Photos

The following is a description of the categories of this photo library to help guide you in selection of an appropriate category:

Biking – people biking or shots that are emblematic of cycling
Walking – people walking or shots that are emblematic of walking
Biking and Walking – both biking and walking are represented in the same photo
Complete Streets – these photos show pedestrians, cyclists and drivers sharing the road. They demonstrate people using all types of transportation and streets that are built for all sorts of people. They include infrastructure (bike lanes, sidewalks, bike/walk paths) and shots that are emblematic of "livable streets". This category can also include emblematic shots of incomplete streets, those that are hostile to cyclists, pedestrians, and people with disabilities.
Advocates in Action – these photos show biking and/or walking advocates in action. Examples might include a speaker in front of a supportive crowd at City Hall, advocates holding signs supporting or encouraging biking and walking, or other illustrative advocacy actions.
Youth – these photos illustrate youth (0-18) cycling or walking. Examples might include a family ride, kid on a trike, child learning to bike, walking to school, etc. NOTE: any photos with an identifiable subject must obtain a photo release form from the parents of the minor to be eligible. Find our photo release form here.
Inspirational – What inspires you about biking and walking? What photos would inspire others? Think about what is possible for communities. Examples might include a shot with more bicycles and pedestrians than cars on a city street or a city street filled with bicycle traffic.

All photo uploaded to this library should:

Be useful to biking and walking advocacy
Show the people and faces of biking and walking
Represent the "everyday" cyclist or walker
Show diversity
Have aesthetic quality
Be generic/universal images
Be from North America
Adhere to category guidelines

Photographs must be in digital format. Print or film submissions are not accepted. All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or .jpg format, and must be at least 300 dpi (dots per inch or pixels per inch). All images must be digitally uploaded. Mailed or shipped entries will not be accepted.

Photos may NOT contain:

3rd party stock photography or artwork or any copy
Nudity, lewd or vulgar behavior; offensive gestures

Photos that are approved for inclusion in the library will be posted with your first name, last initial and the city and state where you live, but no other identifying information. If you would like to include your full name to be credited with use of the photo and/or an e-mail address for people to contact you, you must include this in the caption field.

All entries must be appropriate for all audiences. Photos referencing sex, drugs, or violence will not be accepted as entries. Any photo that includes content that is deemed inappropriate, indecent, obscene, as determined by the Alliance in their sole discretion, will not be included. By submitting to this site, entrants represent and warrant that

The photos that they submit: are their own original creations and do not infringe any other person's or entity's rights;
they have obtained permission, if applicable (photos with identifiable subjects who are minors and photos whose main subject is a person, require releases from these subjects), from the people featured in the photo (see the Alliance's photo release form here) to enter this Contest; and
the submission of the photo will not violate any enforceable agreements or understandings submitter has with any third party.

Submissions must be made in English. Each photo must be submitted in the name of one, and only one, entrant. You must also provide a valid email address when you submit an entry.

Grant of Rights in Photos Submitted

Entrants retain their ownership and other rights to their photos except that submission of a photo constitutes the irrevocable right to the Alliance for Biking & Walking of all rights in the photo, all rights to use, copy, sublicense, edit, modify, make derivative works, publish, exploit, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, publish, delete or display the content of and elements embodied in the photo and the photo itself, in whole or in part, in perpetuity in any and all media (whether now existing or hereafter devised) without limitation, and without consideration or acknowledgment to the entrant and the unconditional right to use the idea and statements about the photo for advertising/publicity purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law.

Limitation of Liability

The Alliance for Biking & Walking assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Alliance is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail to be received by the Alliance on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in relation to this Photo Library.

Limitation of Remedies

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL THE ALLIANCEOR AFFILIATED ENTITIES OR ITS SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS OR HARM TO BUSINESS OR REPUTATION, ARISING OUT OF SUBMISSION TO THIS SITE, POSTING ON OR ACCESS AND/OR DOWNLOAD OF ANY MATERIALS OR INFORMATION FROM ANY WEB SITE OWNED, OPERATED OR CONTROLLED BY THE ALLIANCE OR AFFILIATED ENTITIES, OR ACCEPTANCE OR USAGE OF A PAYMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DAMAGES FOR BODILY OR PERSONAL INJURY, EVEN IF THE ALLIANCE OR ANY AFFILIATED ENTITES, THEIR SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSS. THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF SPONSORS ARISING OUT OF ANY KIND OF CLAIM (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL NOT EXCEED $1.00. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Amendments

The Alliance reserves the right to suspend, cancel, terminate or modify these Terms & Conditions without advance notice.

Severability

If any one or more provisions of these Terms & Conditions are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect the validity, effect or enforcement of any other provision or provisions of these Terms & Conditions.