Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of These Terms

By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use the website.

2. Purpose of the Website

This website is provided for the presentation and viewing of documentary films, photographic and visual artwork, and related content.

Access to the website does not transfer any ownership rights in any image, artwork, film, video, text, design element, or other content made available through the website.

3. Intellectual Property and Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all photographs, images, films, and visual artworks displayed on this website are protected by copyright and other applicable intellectual property rights.

Copyright in each photographic, film, or visual work belongs to its respective author, photographer, filmmaker, or rights holder. All such rights remain fully reserved by their respective owners.

Nothing on this website grants you any licence, title, ownership interest, or other right in or to any work except the limited permission to view the website for personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these terms.

4. Limited Permitted Use

You may:

• access the website through a normal web browser;
• view the content for personal, non-commercial use only;
• navigate the website for lawful informational and viewing purposes.

No other use is permitted unless the relevant rights holder has given prior written permission.

5. Prohibited Uses

Without prior written permission from the relevant rights holder, you must not:

• copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, transmit, display, publish, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any photograph, film, or artwork from the website;
• download, store, archive, or extract images or video except where such temporary technical copying is automatically required for ordinary browser display;
• use screenshots, downloaded files, cropped versions, edited versions, derivatives, or reproductions of the images or video for redistribution or publication;
• use any image, film, or content from the website for commercial purposes;
• remove, alter, hide, or circumvent copyright notices, attribution, metadata, watermarks, or rights-management information;
• embed, mirror, frame, or systematically republish website content on another website, platform, database, or service;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract images, video, metadata, captions, text, or other content using bots, spiders, scripts, automated tools, or similar means;
• compile, index, cache, or store the website’s content in a searchable collection, archive, repository, or dataset.

6. AI, Machine Learning, and Data Mining Restrictions

For the avoidance of doubt, no content from this website may be used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, text-and-data mining, or generative model purposes without prior written permission from the relevant rights holder.

This prohibition includes, without limitation:

• using any photograph, artwork, film, or related metadata to train, pre-train, fine-tune, align, evaluate, test, validate, or improve any machine learning or artificial intelligence system;
• using website content to create, enrich, or contribute to any dataset, benchmark, corpus, embedding store, retrieval database, or model input collection;
• scraping or collecting content for use in generative AI systems, image models, multimodal models, diffusion models, large language models, or similar systems;
• using content from this website for automated feature extraction, pattern analysis, similarity matching, or machine-based classification intended for AI or ML workflows;
• storing or converting website content into machine-readable training material for present or future AI/ML use.

All rights in relation to such uses are expressly reserved. Any commercial or non-commercial text-and-data-mining, scraping, or AI-training use is prohibited unless the relevant rights holder has given explicit prior written consent.

7. Automated Access Prohibited

You may not use bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, browser automation tools, or any other automated means to access the website for the purpose of copying, indexing, extracting, monitoring, or collecting content.

You may not attempt to bypass technical protections, access controls, rate limits, robot exclusions, or other measures intended to protect the website or its content.

8. User Conduct

You agree not to use the website:

• in any unlawful manner;
• in any way that infringes copyright, moral rights, database rights, or other intellectual property rights;
• in any way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the website;
• to misrepresent ownership, authorship, or permission relating to any work displayed on the website.

9. Enforcement and Remedies

The website owner reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or block access to any user or system that violates these terms.

The website owner and/or the relevant rights holders may pursue any lawful remedy available in connection with unauthorised copying, scraping, redistribution, AI/ML use, infringement, or other misuse of the website content.

10. Third-Party Rights

These terms protect not only the website owner, but also the photographers, filmmakers, artists, authors, and other rights holders whose works appear on the website.

Where a specific work is owned by an individual author or other rights holder, that person or entity retains all rights in the work.

11. No Warranty

This website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website owner makes no representation or warranty that:

• the website will always be available;
• the website will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free;
• the content will always be complete, current, or free from technical inaccuracies.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website owner shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from or related to the use of, or inability to use, the website.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability where exclusion is not permitted under applicable law.

13. Changes to the Terms

The website owner may update these Terms of Service from time to time.

Any updated version becomes effective when published on this page. Continued use of the website after publication of revised terms constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

14. Contact

For permissions, rights-related requests, or legal inquiries, contact:

The Eidos Film Society
Email: info@eidosfilm.com