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Format's Content Licence Agreement

Format’s Content Licence Agreement

Format offers a library of amazing templates to use to create your designs, including photos, icons, illustrations, video, audio, fonts and templates (Licensed Content). If you export a Format Design that contains Licensed Content , you agree to be bound by the terms of this Licensed Content  Licence Agreement, the Format Privacy Policy and Format’s Terms of Use. Defined terms used in this agreement have the meaning given in our Terms of Use.

 

  1. The basics

Format offers a library of amazing Licensed Content to use in your designs, including photos, icons, illustrations, video, audio, fonts and templates (“Licensed Content”). By using a piece of Licensed Content in a Format Design, you’re bound by this agreement.

  1. If you don’t agree to the terms of this agreement, please don’t use any Licensed Content.
  2. Format reserves the right to cancel or change the Licences granted by this agreement. We reserve the right to replace the Licensed Content with an alternative.
  3. If you create a Format Design with both Free Licensed Content and Pro Licensed Content, the stricter rules (for Pro Licensed Content) apply.
  4. All Licensed Content on Format is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright laws. Format and its contributors reserve all rights that aren’t explicitly given to you under this Licence. That includes all copyright and intellectual property rights.

 

  1. Permitted uses of all Licensed Content on Format

These are the things this Agreement permits you to do or make with Format Designs that contain Licensed Content (Free or Pro):

  1. invitations, advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations, film and video presentations, commercials, catalogues, brochures, greeting cards and postcards for promotion and/or resale, without any reproduction quantity limit;
  2. school or university projects;
  3. social media post or profile image;
  4. decorative background on a personal computer or mobile device;
  5. design templates solely for use on Format;
  6. entertainment applications, such as books and book covers, magazines, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and video, broadcast and theatrical presentations of unlimited prints;
  7. online or electronic publications, including web pages, blogs, ebooks and videos, in the case of Pro Licensed Content, subject to the restrictions in section 5A;
  8. prints, posters (i.e. hardcopies) and other reproductions for personal or promotional purposes, resale, Licence or other distribution;
  9. any other uses approved in writing by Format.

 

  1. Prohibited uses

You definitely can’t do these things that:

  1. use any of the Licensed Content as part of a trademark, design-mark, trade name, business name or service mark (excluding fonts);
  2. use Licensed Content identified as “Editorial Use Only”, for any commercial, promotional, endorsement, advertising or merchandising use. In this agreement, “Editorial Use Only” Licensed Content means relating to events that are newsworthy or of general interest and expressly excludes any advertorial use (i.e. sections or supplements featuring brand and/or product names or sections or supplements in relation to which you receive a fee from a third-party advertiser or sponsor);
  3. remove any notice of copyright, trademark or other proprietary right from any Licensed Content or Format Design;
  4. use or display the Licensed Content on a standalone basis on websites or other venues designed to induce or involving the sale, licensing or other distribution of “on demand” products, including postcards, mugs, t-shirts, posters and other items;
  5. use the Licensed Content in a way that is pornographic, obscene, immoral, infringing, defamatory or libellous in nature, or that would be reasonably likely to bring any person or property reflected in the Licensed Content into disrepute.
  6. use the Licensed Content  in a way that places any person depicted in the Licensed Content  in a bad light or in a way that they may find offensive – this includes, but is not limited to, the use of images: a) in pornography, “adult videos” or the like; b) in ads for tobacco products; c) in ads or promotional materials for adult entertainment clubs or similar venues, or for escort, dating or similar services; d) in connection with political endorsements; e) in advertisements or promotional materials for pharmaceutical or healthcare, herbal or medical products, including, but not limited to dietary supplements, digestive aids, herbal supplements, personal hygiene or birth control products; and f) uses that are defamatory, or contain otherwise unlawful, offensive or immoral Licensed Content , or Licensed Content  in violation of any applicable industry codes or regulations. You may not use Licensed Content containing the likeness of a person if such use implies that the model engages in any immoral or illegal activity or suffers from a physical or mental infirmity, ailment or condition.
  7. use Licensed Content in a manner that competes with Format’s business including, but not limited to, displaying Licensed Content in any format (including thumbnails) for download or export on a website, or offering Licensed Content for sale;
  8. incorporate the Licensed Content in any product that results in a re-distribution or re-use of the Licensed Content or is otherwise made available in a manner such that a person can extract or access or reproduce the Licensed Content as an electronic file;
  9. to the extent that source code is contained within the Licensed Content, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of such source code;
  10. use or display the Licensed Content in an electronic format that enables it to be downloaded, exported or distributed via mobile devices or shared in any peer-to-peer or similar file sharing arrangement;
  11. use or display Licensed Content in a manner that gives the impression that the Licensed Content was created by you or a person other than the copyright holder of the Licensed Content (including without limitation, by claiming ownership of, or exclusive rights to, the Licensed Content);
  12. use Licensed Content for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes, or for any technologies designed or intended for the identification of natural persons.

 

3A. Prohibited uses of Font Software

Format contains font software programs which generate human readable typeface designs (“Font Software“). The following uses of Font Software are prohibited, in addition to the Prohibited Uses in section 9:

  1. Install or use the Font Software on any device except one on which you are accessing a properly licensed copy of Format;
  2. Use the Font Software other than on Format and/or as an integrated component of a Format Design that is exported from Format;
  3. Modify, alter or convert the Font Software;
  4. Take any action which results in, or is designed to result in, gaining access to the Font Software source code, except as permitted by law and then only for the purpose of achieving an interoperable program.

 

  1. Violation of this Licence and Termination
  1. Format will keep track of your designs and your account to make sure you’re not breaking this Licence or any of our Terms. This might include monitoring downloads and Exports, retaining details of your Format Designs and tracking abuse of your username and password. If you *do* break this Licence, we may suspend or terminate your account without notice.
  2. If your account is terminated for violating this Licence or any abuse of a username or password, you will lose all rights to Licensed Content and Format designs and must immediately delete all Licensed Content and Format designs acquired from Format, and forfeit all fees paid
  3. You can terminate your Licensed Content Licence by destroying the Licensed Content and Format Design, along with any copies or archives of it or accompanying materials (if applicable) and no longer using the Format Design for any purpose. Format can terminate these Licensed Content Licences without advance notice if you fail to comply with any of its terms. If that happens, you must immediately (i) cease using the Licensed Content  and any Format Designs containing the Licensed Content  for any purpose; (ii) destroy or delete all copies and archives of the Licensed Content  and any Format Designs containing the Licensed Content  or accompanying materials; and (iii) if requested, confirm to Format in writing that you have complied with these requirements.

 

  1. Infringement claims

If you find out – from Format or somewhere else – that there’s a claim of infringement of another’s right for which Format might be liable, you have to stop using the Licensed Content immediately, at your own expense. This applies whether the claim is threatened, potential or actual. You also have to immediately delete or remove the Licensed Content from your premises, computer systems and storage (electronic or physical); ensure that your clients, printers or ISPs do likewise; and let Format know as soon as possible by emailing info@format.social.

 

  1. Disclaimers
  1. Format doesn’t grant any right nor make any warranty for the use of names, people, trademarks, trade dress, logos, registered designs or works of art or architecture depicted in Free Licensed Content. You’re solely responsible for determining whether a release is required for any proposed use of Free Licensed Content and obtaining any such release.
  2. While we’ve made reasonable efforts to correctly categorize, keyword, caption and title the Licensed Content, Format does not warrant the accuracy of that information or any metadata that may be provided with the Licensed Content.
  3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FONT SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED TO YOU WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR MERCHANTABILITY. You agree that the Font Software is supplied without any warranty that the Font Software is free of all bugs, errors, and omissions. YOU AGREE THAT IN NO EVENT WILL FORMAT OR ITS SUPPLIERS, INCLUDING THE SUPPLIER(S) OF THE FONT SOFTWARE, BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF YOU NOTIFIED THE PROVIDER OF THE PRODUCT AND THE SUPPLIERS OF THE FONT SOFTWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. This does not exclude any warranties that you may be entitled to that are not able to be excluded under applicable consumer laws.