Photolions.com is the interactive Web site operated on the Internet by Photo Lions LLC, consisting of informational services and content provided by Photo Lions, affiliates of Photo Lions and other third parties. "Subscriber" means each person who establishes or accesses a connection ("Account") for access to and use of Photolions.com.

(A) This Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions that apply to use of Photolions.com by Subscriber. By using Photolions.com (other than to read this Agreement for the first time), Subscriber agrees to comply with all of the terms and conditions hereof. The right to use Photolions.com is personal to Subscriber and is not transferable to any other person or entity. Subscriber is responsible for all use of Subscriber's Account (under any screen name or password) and for ensuring that all use of Subscriber's Account complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement. Subscriber shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of Subscriber's password(s), if any.

(B) Photo Lions shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of Photolions.com, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use.

Photo Lions shall have the right at any time to change or modify the terms and conditions applicable to Subscriber's use of Photolions.com, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions, including, but not limited to, adding fees and charges for use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on Photolions.com, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means by which Subscriber obtains notice thereof. Any use of Photolions.com by Subscriber after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by Subscriber of such changes, modifications, or additions.

Subscriber shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware, and other equipment needed for access to and use of Photolions.com and all charges related thereto.

(A) Subscriber shall use Photolions.com for lawful purposes only. Subscriber shall not post or transmit through Photolions.com any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without Photolions’s express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Any conduct by a Subscriber that in Photolions's discretion restricts or inhibits any other Subscriber from using or enjoying Photolions.com will not be permitted. Subscriber shall not use Photolions.com to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other online informational services competitive with Photolions.com.

(B) Photolions.com contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound. The entire contents of Photolions.com are copyrighted as a collective work, and as works of contributing photographers, under the United States copyright laws. Photolions.com owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to it. Images used on this site were obtained from Photolions member photographers who own the exclusive copyright to those works, or purchased from stock photography agencies. Subscriber may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part. Subscriber may download copyrighted material for Subscriber's personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication, or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of Photolions and the copyright owner(s). In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution, or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend, or copyright notice shall be made. Subscriber acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.

(C) Subscriber shall not upload, post, or otherwise make available on Photolions.com any material protected by copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with Subscriber. Subscriber shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to any public area of Photolions.com, Subscriber automatically grants, or warrants, that the owner of such material has expressly granted Photo Lions the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. Subscriber also permits any other Subscriber to access, view, store, or reproduce the material for that Subscriber's personal use. Subscriber hereby grants Photo Lions the right to edit, copy, publish, and distribute any material made available on PhotoLions.com by Subscriber.

(D) The foregoing provisions of Section 5 are for the benefit of Photo Lions, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and its third party content providers and licensors, and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.

(A) Subscriber expressly agrees that use of Photolions.com is at subscriber's sole risk. Neither Photo Lions, its affiliates, nor any of their respective employees, agents, third party content providers, or licensors warrant that Photolions.com will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of Photolions.com, or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information, service, or merchandise provided through Photolions.com

(B) Photolions.com is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement.

(C) This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. Subscriber specifically acknowledges that Photo Lions is not liable for the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of other subscribers or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with subscriber.

(D) In no event will Photo Lions, or any person or entity involved in creating, producing, or distributing Photolions.com, be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of the use of or inability to use Photolions.com. Subscriber hereby acknowledges that the provisions of this section shall apply to all content on Photolions.com

(E) In addition to the terms set forth above neither Photo Lions, nor its affiliates, information providers, or content partners, shall be liable regardless of the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or other defects in, or untimeliness or unauthenticity of, the information contained within Photolions.com, or for any delay or interruption in the transmission thereof to the user, or for any claims or losses arising therefrom or occasioned thereby. None of the foregoing parties shall be liable for any third-party claims or losses of any nature, including, but not limited to, lost profits, punitive or consequential damages. Photo Lions, its affiliates, information providers, or content partners shall have no liability for investment decisions based on the information provided. Neither Photo Lions, nor its affiliates, information providers or content partners, warrant or guarantee the timeliness, sequence, accuracy or completeness of this information. Additionally, there are no warranties as to the results obtained from the use of the information.

Photo Lions shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of Photolions.com, including Photo Lions Facebook Page search engine, The Lions Den private FaceBook group, chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with this Agreement and any operating rules established by Photo Lions and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. Photo Lions shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on Photolions.com. Without limiting the foregoing, Photo Lions shall have the right to remove any material that Photo Lions, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.

Subscriber agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Photo Lions, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of the use of Photolions.com by Subscriber or Subscriber's Account.

Either Photo Lions or Subscriber may terminate this Agreement at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, Photo Lions shall have the right to immediately terminate Subscriber's Account in the event of any conduct by Subscriber which Photo Lions, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by Subscriber of this Agreement.

Photo Lions, PhotoLions.com, GreenvillePhotographers.com, and each of their logos are trademarks of Photo Lions LLC. All rights reserved. All other trademarks appearing on PhotoLions.com are the property of their respective owners.

Photolions.com is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and Subscribers. Accordingly, Photo Lions has no more editorial control over such content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, Subscribers or any other user of Photolions.com, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of Photolions. Neither Photolions nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. (Refer to Section 6 above for the complete provisions governing limitation of liabilities and disclaimers of warranty.)

In many instances, the content available through Photolions.com represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information provider, Subscriber, or other user not under contract with Photo Lions. Under no circumstances will Photo Lions be liable for any loss or damage caused by a Subscriber's reliance on information obtained through Photolions.com. It is the responsibility of Subscriber to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice, or other content available through Photolions.com. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice, or other content.

This Agreement and any operating rules for Photolions.com established by Photo Lions constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of South Carolina, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import.

Photo Lions respects the rights of all copyright holders, and in this regard, Photo Lions has adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination--in appropriate circumstances--of subscribers and account holders who infringe the rights of copyright holders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Photo Lions Copyright Department the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party;

A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

For copyright inquiries under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act please contact:

Photo Lions LLC

Copyright & Government Affairs Department

201 Smythe Street, Unit 344

Greenville, South Carolina 29611

email: inf@photolions.com

For Web posting, reprint, transcript or licensing requests for Photo Lions material, please contact info@photolions.com.

For any questions or requests other than copyright issues or licensing requests, please contact info@photolions.com