This agreement is between [Company legal name] ("we") and you ("Contributor"). You accept it when you tick the box to become a contributor. It stays in force until it ends under section 10.
You keep all rights in the images you upload. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing right to host, display, promote, sublicense and deliver your images to buyers under our license terms, and to create previews and thumbnails. You are free to sell the same images elsewhere.
For AI-generated images, copyright law in many places does not protect a work made without meaningful human authorship. Where that is true for one of your uploads, there may be no copyright for you to own or for us to license in the first place — this section is instead your permission for us to host, display, promote and deliver it as described, and you make no claim to copyright beyond what the law actually gives you.
Nothing you upload goes on sale until we have reviewed and approved it, and the release where one is needed. We may approve, reject, edit the metadata of, or remove any image at any time, including for quality or legal reasons. Buyers who already licensed an image keep their license and downloads. After you unpublish an image, we remove it from search promptly, and it may remain in partner or cached copies for a short time.
We are not responsible for loss of an uploaded file from server failure, a hosting or storage provider outage, a security incident, or other technical failure. Keep your own copy of every file you upload — do not treat Alfa Images as your only copy or as a backup service.
We record payouts to you once your balance due reaches $25.00. Payouts are made by [method, for example bank transfer or PayPal] within [number] days of a request. Before we can pay you, you must complete the payout and tax information form in your dashboard, and we must approve it. We store tax numbers and payout details encrypted and use them only to pay you and to meet tax reporting and withholding duties. We may withhold tax where the law requires it, and we may ask for further tax forms. You are responsible for your own taxes. See our Privacy policy for more on how we handle this and your other personal data.
You are solely responsible for the images you upload and for the accuracy of the statements you make about them in section 3. You will cover our reasonable losses and legal costs, and the reasonable losses and legal costs of a buyer, arising from a claim that your images or your statements in section 3 break someone's rights or the law. We may offset amounts you owe us against your earnings. Buyers are directed to bring such claims against you rather than against us; this agreement does not stop us from doing the same.
No fake accounts, manipulated sales, uploading images you do not own, or attempts to reach other people's data. We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.
We may change this agreement. We will give you at least 45 days' notice by email or on the site. If you do not agree, you can unpublish your images and close your account before the change starts.
You can end this agreement at any time by unpublishing your images and asking us to close your account. We can end it with 30 days' notice, or immediately if you break sections 3 or 8. Sections about earnings already due, claims, and governing law continue after the end.
Closing your account does not remove images you had already approved and on sale — they may stay available to buyers, credited to a generic name instead of your account, so buyers who bought (or buy after you leave) are not left without a valid license. Anything still pending or rejected is deleted. Earnings already credited to you are still owed and are not affected by closing your account.
This agreement is governed by the laws of [governing law], and the courts of [jurisdiction] have jurisdiction. Contact: [contact email].