Contributor Account and Content Submission Guidelines
Important policies and account regulations for indipik contributors.
The following information supplements indiPik’s Submitter Terms of Service. As an indiPik contributor, you are required to adhere to the policies outlined below.Account Registration and Required Forms
- You must be 18 years of age or above to create an indiPik account.
- You may not share an account with another individual, and/or share content with another indiPik contributor without prior consent from indiPik.
- The name used in your account must be your full legal name as it appears on your tax form/identification docs; this is the name to which commission payments will be made. Contact our support team for assistance.
- You may not open a second indiPik account without permission from indiPik.
- You may not share the same online payment account with another indiPik contributor.
Content Submissions
Please note: Intentionally submitting content to which you do not own copyright or submitting content that infringes on the copyright of another artist will lead to immediate account termination.- Submitting content that infringes on the rights of any person. Including directly copying or excessive inspiration from work to which you do not own the copyright.
- Repeatedly resubmitting rejected content without correcting the legal/compliance, technical quality, or metadata issues that have been identified.
- Consistent repeated submissions of Objectionable Content and/or Metadata, including inappropriate titles or keywords (e.g., using sexual terms to describe a minor)
- Re-adding keywords that were previously removed by an administrator, adding restricted keywords after content approval, or modifying a caption that was previously edited by an administrator
Content Ownership and Intellectual Property
Copyright gives the author(s) of a creative work the exclusive right to display, reproduce, distribute, and financially benefit from the work they create.- You must own or control the copyright to all content you submit to indiPik. This means that you cannot submit work obtained from other sources (e.g., online image search results or free image download websites).
- You may not submit content created in a manner that violates human and animal rights, including but not limited to activities such as cruelty, forced labour, child slavery, or other oppressive practices.
- Content submissions that relate to members of certain race(s), ethnicities, disabilities, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation must depict and/or describe such members in ways that accurately and respectfully represent their identities.
- Do not embed your own watermark, website name, or copyright notice in your content. We protect your content with our own watermark, which is applied when your content is accepted to our site.
- Don’t over-edit the image. Try to preserve the raw and natural colours.
- We reserve the right to remove any previously accepted content submission from the indiPik library, and reserve the right to reinstate any previously accepted content submission which was later removed by an indiPik administrator, at any time for any reason.
Content Quality Guidelines
Content submitted to indiPik must be of professional quality and each submission is reviewed by our creative team and site administrators.Click on the link below to read the image submission guidelines
Image Submission Guidelines