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The images on BestFreeChristian.com
are not in the Public Domain. No royalty fees or
usage fees are charged for their use, but certain
legal and ethical restrictions do apply. Your use of
any image on this site constitutes full and complete
acceptance of these Terms of Use and your agreement
to comply with them.
Our Terms of Use covers any and all
images, animations, clipart, composites, digital
footage, digital video, graphics, illustrations,
motion sequences, photographs or any other visual
representation together with all accompanying
metadata and other material that may be obtained
from this site, either directly or by any other
source.
All images on this site are
copyrighted and protected under the various laws of
the United States, International treaties and other
applicable laws. They shall remain the sole and
exclusive property of Jim Sutton,
www.GospelfGifs.com and www.BestFreeChristian.com.
Use of any image is permitted only under the terms
stated here. Any other use is copyright
infringement.
Permitted Uses
You may, without additional approval,
download, back up and store images from this site
for your own personal use and witness, for the use
of your local church ministry, local Bible study
group, local VBS and Sunday School program, for
Christian missionary or evangelistic outreach, and
local community outreach.
You may, without additional approval,
use BestFreeChristian images in print and on the
Internet, as a Christian witness in personal
profiles and pages, on church pages, church websites
and for similar evangelistic purposes.
You may, without further approval,
use BestFreeChristian and GospelfGifs images on
items for personal use or resale, including notebook
binders, calendars, items of external clothing, such
as shirts, jackets and hats, on posters, cups, mouse
pads, etc. (except in computer software and
electronic video games or computer games), provided
such use does not include the re-distribution,
re-use of the images or access to the images apart
from a product or service. (See Prohibited Uses
below.)
You may not modify or alter BestFreeChristian
images without specific, written permission.
You may use BestFreeChristian images
as decor in your church, home, in an office, lobby,
public area, restaurant, or retail store. You do not
need special approval to use the images as graphics
or design elements in video, film, or television
broadcasts. You may use BestFreeChristian and
GospelfGifs images in connection with your business
or profession, or with a corporate identity
documents and letterhead, except as a logo, service
mark or trademark (see the Prohibited Uses below).
Prohibited Uses
You may not
distribute, sell, license or sublicense, transfer or
assign rights to any GospelfGifs images. You may not
copy or reproduce these images except as
specifically provided for above. You may not remove
any copyright, logo emblem, signature or other
identifying mark from any place where it appears on
a GospelfGifs image.
You may not
use the images as part of a trademark,
service mark, or logo. GospelfGifs retains the full
rights to the images and therefore you cannot
establish your own rights over them.
You may not modify or alter BestFreeChristian
images without specific, written permission.
You may not
use GospelfGifs images in any way that competes with
www.GospelGifs.com or www.BestFreeChristian.com,
www.CA4C.com (ClipArt4Christians.com) or any other
website, graphics service or distribution network
owned by Jim Sutton, the artist and provider of
these images. GospelfGifs.com exists to offer high
quality Christian and family-friendly images to
Christian believers and ministries world-wide. It is
the specific intent of this provision to prohibit
you from using our own images to compete, directly
or indirectly, with this work. (On the other hand,
we always joyfully welcome the addition of new
Christian artists and new websites offering fresh
new graphics and art.)
You may not
use GospelfGifs images in any product or service
where the images can be used apart from a product or
service. This includes the manner in which
GospelfGifs images are used to promote, display,
describe or advertise books, recorded music,
imprinted T-shirts, caps, and other items.
You may not
use GospelfGifs images as part of a product in any
electronic format intended for multiple distribution
or licensing including, with or without limitations,
or as graphic templates, Web site templates,
software products, including computer and/or video
games and game consoles, e-greetings, etc. Contact
Jim@GospelfGifs.com to request special written
permission for such use.
You may not
use GospelfGifs images (or resell or redistribute
the images for use) in mobile or wireless devices,
including but not limited to cell phones and other
mobile telephones, handheld game consoles, and PDAs.
Such usage/distribution is a copyright infringement.
You may not
use any GospelfGifs image in any way that could be
considered defamatory, pornographic, libelous,
immoral, obscene or fraudulent, or illegal, either
by making modifications to it, or the placement in
the proximity to or arrangement with any
accompanying text or images, or in any other way.
You may not use GospelGifs images to ridicule, mock,
deride the Christian faith (including all
Protestant, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic
Christian groups).
GospelfGifs
images may not be used in any way to
discredit or show contempt for any racial, ethnic or
national group. Nor may these images be used on
websites, in books or other publications, video
productions or in any other printed, electronic or
digital media owned or operated by an individual,
group or corporate entity that engages in any of the
practices listed and prohibited in this paragraph.
GospelfGifs
images may not be used in any way that
brings discredit to the name or Person of Jesus
Christ, to His church, to the Christian faith, to
the Holy Bible or the generally accepted and
orthodox Christian teachings of Holy Scripture. |
