TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Illustratorworld.com™ is a public access general purpose portfolio hosting web site and community for professional, student and hobbyist vector artists. Illustratorworld.com provides a hosting service for person to person display, marketing, and communication on a professional level as well as for educational and promotional purposes. Illustratorworld.com does not own or claim to own any personal portfolio content or images uploaded by individual users/members for individual promotion and presentation.??It is the responsibility of the user/member to abide by this agreement and site guidelines. Illustratorworld.com uses various third party payment systems; each user is responsible to review and abide by the rules of those systems.
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Illustratorworld.com™ has provided a premium portfolio service (Service) at zero cost for vector artists using Adobe Illustrator. With several thousand members with our first version, the success speaks for itself. We expect tremendous growth with Illustratorworld.com v2. This Service is provided by Illustratorworld.com™ on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. Illustratorworld.com™ , and reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service at its sole discretion, at any time and without notice. By posting artwork on Illustratorworld.com, you agree that Illustratorworld.com or ETAMedia is and will not be liable to you for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
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There are several key differentiators between Illustratorworld.com™ and other sites (see Portfolio.com). Other sites seek to charge a fee for accessing the community or community members. Illustratorworld.com™ consistently provides free access to the community and is constantly adding features to the site that continue to add value to the users of the site- again for free. Support through voluntary donations on a monthly basis is appreciated. Additional features are available to those who wish to support Illustratorworld.com through voluntary donations.
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Disclaimer: The Service and the Sites contain information, facts and opinions from various individuals and organizations. THE SERVICE AND THE SITES ARE 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 IMPOSED BY AND INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION OR MODIFICATION UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO THIS AGREEMENT. NEITHER ILLUSTRATORWORLD.COM, OR ETAMEDIA NOR ITS AFFILIATES ENDORSE OR ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY OPINION, ADVICE OR STATEMENT ON THE SERVICE OR THE SITES. ILLUSTRATORWORLD.COM AND ETAMEDIA MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTIES OF NY KIND, EXPRESSOR IMPLIED AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE, OR THE CONTENTS OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE. BY POSTING ANY ARTWORK YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT TYOUR SOLE RISK. ILLUSTRATORWORLD.COM IS THEREFORE NOT LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR FINACIAL OR ANY OTHER PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE USE OF OR SHUT DOWN OF THIS SERVICE. ILLUSTRATORWORLD.COM AND ETAMEDIA MAKES NO WARRANTY AS TO THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SERVICE. IN NO EVENT SHALL ILLLUSTRATORWORLD.COM OR ETAMEDIA'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO ILLUSTRATORWORLD.COM PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT.
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The Service and the Sites include bulletin boards and chat rooms which allow you and other users to post information, provide feedback to Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates, and interact in real-time. You agree not to post or transmit any unlawful, fake, fraudulent, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, violate the rights of others, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law. In addition you agree to not post information or correspondence that is not of a professional nature or which contravenes US Federal, and International Trademark or copyright laws and restrictions in any way. You will be responsible for, and indemnify and hold harmless Illustratorworld.com™, its subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, agents and representatives against, any claim arising from any material that you post or transmit. Although Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions and bulletin boards on the Site, neither Illustratorworld.com™ nor its affiliates is under any obligation to do so. Illustratorworld.com™ reserves the right to change or modify portfolio information or message board postings as needed and without notice. You acknowledge that Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates do not control the information available on the bulletin boards and chat rooms and that any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content presented or disseminated on any bulletin board or in any chat room are those of their respective authors who are solely liable for their content. Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to edit, refuse to post, or remove any material, links,, email addresses, images, and content submitted to, or posted on the chat rooms, bulletin boards, or portfolios. Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to deny access to the e-mail systems provided for general community use. Illustratorworld.com TM has guidelines regarding posting of appropriate images, email addresses, content, and links. You agree to read and adhere to the guidelines as posted throughout the site.
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Your use of the Service and the Sites is at your own risk. NEITHER Illustratorworld.com™, NOR ETAMEDIA TM. NOR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES OR LICENSORS SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY LOSS OR INJURY OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR SIMILAR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF, OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE, THE SERVICE AND THE SITES AND THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE AND THE SITES OR ARISING OUT OF ANY ACTION TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO OR AS A RESULT OF ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE AND THE SITES. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST Illustratorworld.com™, OR ETAMEDIA AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES AND LICENSORS ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE AND THE SITES AND THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THEREON.
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Any communication or material you post or transmit to the Service and/or the Sites is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. You assume full responsibility for anything you post or transmit, and you grant Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any information or content you post or transmit for any purpose. Please note that when you upload content, you allow for the possibility for third parties to copy, distribute or display your content. Illustratorworld.com shall not be held responsible for any damages arising from the copying, distribution or display of you content, without your permission on other site.
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Illustratorworld.com™ and its affiliates do not review or monitor any web sites linked to the Service or from personal portfolios on this site. When clicking links to personal pages from Illustratorworld.com™ all users of the system acknowledge that Illustratorworld.com™ is not responsible for the accuracy or content of those links. You agree to not post URL's and other web links in any form, into your personal home page section, or the main portfolio page as links or text, that lead to ADULT SITES or Pay Sites. Illustratorworld.com™ reseves the right to remove from it's sites any references or portfolios containing Adult Sites or Pay Sites without notice. Additionally certain links to sites, as determined from time to time by Illustratorworld.com™, or the use of links and web addresses, or the use of html formatting and scripting in certain portfolio types as determined by Illustratorworld.com™, may not be permitted within the portfolio or as an acceptable use of the personal home page link or as portfolio content. Illustratorworld.com™ is under no obligation to provide exposure to competing sites through links or other methods in portfolio and may remove those at it's discretion, and without notice. The Illustratorworld.com™ referral system is intended for work related offers and general inquires related to or leading to work or further discovery. Promotion of services and goods is not an appropriate use of the referral system. Illustratorworld.com™ permits one main member portfolio per person. Managers, agents, agencies or studios many not post images in behalf of a vector artist.
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Illustratorworld.com™ has a stated policy regarding the posting of explicit violent, racist, hate related, occult related or otherwise offensive images to its web pages. Illustratorworld.com reserves the right to choose what constitutes explicit image as it relates to violence, racist, inflammatory, hate related, prejudice or occult or what is offensive to the Illustratorworld.com community.
You agree not to use the Service:
(a) for any unlawful purposes;
(b) to upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that is obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, and invasion of privacy or publicity rights, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable;
(c) to upload, post , or otherwise transmit any material that infringes any copyright, trade mark, patent or other intellectual property right or any moral right or artist's right or any third party including but no limited to Illustratorworld.com
(d) to harm minors in any way, including but not limited to, uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting content that violates child pornography laws, child sexual exploitation laws or laws prohibiting the depiction of minors engaged in sexual conduct, or implied sexual conduct, or submitting any personally identifiable information about any child under the age of 13;
(e) to forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Service;
(f) to upload, post or otherwise transmit any material which is likely to cause harm to Illustartorworld.com, or ETAMedia, or any other member's computer system, including but not limited to that which contains any virus, code, worm, data or other files or programs designed to damage or allow unauthorized access to the Service which may cause any defect, error, malfunction or corruption to the Service.
(g) for any commercial purpose, except as expressly permitted under these Terms..
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Illustratorworld.com™ has a stated policy regarding the posting of sexually explicit images to its web pages. Sexually explicit images are not permitted on this site. Sexually explicit images include but are not limited to images of sexual intercourse, obvious states of sexual arousal (erections), breast, buttocks or overt sexual positions (such as noticeably visable or spread genitalia). Failure to adhere to this restriction will result in the removal of the images, and the disablement of that member portfolio. Consistent misclassification (rating) or categorization of images may result in the forced setting of ratings and in gross violations may result in the removal of your portfolio. Illustratorworld.com staff reserves the right to define the term 'sexually explicit' as it applies to art on Illustratorworld.com Illustratorworld.com reserves the right to decline posting of ANY image it deems to be sexually explicit.
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Illustratorworld.com™ does not support bandwidth theft, the linking of images from Illustratorworld.com™ to other sites, or the misuse of links from Other sites to Illustratorworld.com™. Anyone found linking images from Illustratorworld.com™ to other sites, copying content from Illustratorworld.com™, or inappropriately linking to Illustratorworld.com™ (to increase their views - through use of hidden frames, or using programs to artificially raise page views etc.) will result in permanent REMOVAL from OneModelPlace without notification and may necessitate the notification of the appropriate State and/or Federal authorities.
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You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user name, email address) on a bulletin board or in a chat room, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other parties, and shall therefore be the sole responsibility and liability of the poster.
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As a member of Illustratorworld.com™ - you will receive regular email updates and will be contacted by other members or potential clients seeking to work with you, and you will receive occasional email from the Illustratorworld.com™. We endeavor to limit email contact as much as possible from the system administrators, however when email is sent and returned with an email bad address, we will attempt to locate a correct address from any linked web site, and failing that your portfolio will be disabled (if you discover your portfolio has been disabled because of bad contact information, please contact us with the correct information and we will re-activate your portfolio.
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This User Agreement and any disputes arising out of or related to the Service and the Sites shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of California. By your usage of, or your posting to, this site constitutes your agreement to, but not limited to, the current conditions listed in this agreement.
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Illustratorworld.com™ is not intended for users under the age of 13. If you are 13 years or younger do not submit a portfolio or any personal information. If you are a parent, or a legal guardian of a model 13 years or younger, ensure that you enter and approve all information, and that your email address and contact information is used at all times.
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Illustratorworld.com™ reserves the right to change and modify these usage rules as appropriate and without notice.
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Violation of these Terms and Conditions will cause your membership to be terminated without a refund.