PHOTOGRAPHERS GUIDELINES

You are welcome to post photographs to your photo gallery about anything of interest to you, other than what is listed below as unacceptable content. By posting photos to your photo gallery, you agree to let the editors of California Life select photos from your gallery to be shown on pages all across this website and potentially other sites in the USA Web Directories Network, along with a credit line and a link to your website which you designate to be used with your photographs. By posting photos to your photo gallery on this website, you affirm that you are the owner of the copyrights to these photos, or that your are an agent of the owner who is authorized to act for him or her, and you grant USA Web Directories a limited, perpetual, and non-revokable license to display selected photos on any website in its Network in consideration for the publicity, exposure, or website traffic, if any, provided by its publication of the photos.

Desirable Content -- What is most likely to be selected by the editors for display on other pages of California Life is what is most likely to be of interest to the majority of visitors to this site. We suggest you post photos of things and places you are familiar with in your own local area, or places you have seen and enjoyed on your travels around the country. You may post photos of any style or quality you would like in your photo gallery. The photos selected by the editors will be according to their judgment and sense of esthetics and what they believe would be enjoyed by the readers of California Life.

The purpose of California Life is to promote the state and the communities it represents and present them and the people who live here in a positive light to everyone who views the website. The site is meant to be used as resource to help plan a vacation or other travel in this city or state, to provide guidance and information on relocating here, to assist in finding new places for recreation, shopping, entertainment, and other pursuits of leisure, and to inspire the reader with all the natural beauty of the area in general. We hope you will recognize the benefits of these goals and orient your photography you post to contribute in a constructive way toward achieving these objectives.

Unacceptable Content -- You may not publish any written or visual subject matter which the editors of California Life determine, in their opinions alone, would be offensive to a majority of the readers of the site or the communities it represents. This includes, but is not limited to, anything that constitutes, advocates, or promotes any of the following:

• Pornography, adult content, prostitution, or violent content;
• Hate, discrimination, or intolerance based on race, sex, age, beliefs, philosophy, religion, nationality, disability, or sexual orientation;
• Activities that in any manner or for any purpose violates any law or regulation, or violates, misappropriates, or infringes the rights of any person, such as intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, or rights of personality and publicity, or that might be libelous or defamatory or otherwise malicious or harmful to an individual, group or organization;
• Computer hacking, cracking, dealing in equipment for interception or descrambling, or distribution of unauthorized data, malware, viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, worms, or other malicious software, programs or code, deceptive practices such as spamming, phishing, pharming or other illegal and unsolicited marketing activities;
• Illegal or unlicensed gambling or online casino-related items;
• Illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia, government IDs, or police items;
• Unlicensed trade or dealing in stocks and securities, professional services regulated by state licensing regimes, non-packaged food items, non-transferable items such as airline tickets or event tickets;
• Unlicensed sales of beer, wine, alcohol, tobacco or tobacco-related products, prescription drugs and medical devices, illegal weapons or ammunition, body parts and bodily fluids, goods made from protected animal/plant species, fireworks, explosives, or hazardous materials;
• Sales, exportation or distribution of replicas or imitations of designer goods, recalled goods, stolen products and items used for theft, coursework or student essays, or items subject to US embargo;
• Excessive profanity;

Unacceptable content will be removed immediately. Publishing of content that is not within these guidelines may cause your membership to be terminated and your access to the Member Center to be blocked. The decisions of the editors about this will be final and without recourse. Your use of common sense and a spirit of cooperation and good intent will preclude any unpleasant intervention by the editors.

Beyond these unfortunately necessary cautions and legal statements, we hope you will see the opportunity of posting your photography for inclusion in our publications to be a beneficial endeavor for yourself as well as for the state and communities which the website represents. By working with us to communicate meaningful and worthwhile information, ideas, and solutions to the problems we all face today, we believe you can help us make a difference for everyone and bring back true peace, happiness and prosperity for our nation.

Please also refer to our Photographers Guidelines and our Copyrights Policy.