VPDC / TERMS
Terms of Service.
These terms set the ground rules for using the VPDC public Gallery and its connected community features. They are designed to protect photographers, visitors and the integrity of the archive.
1. Acceptance
By accessing or using vpdcphoto.com or its interactive Gallery features, you agree to these Terms of Service and the VPDC Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you may browse no further and should not use the interactive features.
2. Community use
VPDC is a community for virtual photography. Use the Gallery respectfully and lawfully. Do not harass other members, impersonate people, publish unlawful material, deliberately disrupt the service or use the site to distribute malicious content.
Discord-side participation may also be subject to VPDC community rules and Discord's own Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
3. Photographs, attribution & ownership
Photographers retain ownership of their original virtual-photography work to the extent provided by applicable law and subject to the underlying game's intellectual-property rights. Curation into VPDC does not transfer ownership to VPDC.
By submitting or allowing a photograph to be curated into VPDC, the photographer grants VPDC a non-exclusive permission to host, reproduce, display, resize for presentation or social preview, archive and link to that photograph for VPDC Gallery, exhibition, community, editorial and promotional purposes, with reasonable attribution.
VPDC may remove or correct content where necessary for moderation, legal compliance, attribution accuracy, technical maintenance or at the photographer's reasonable request. Permanent Gallery numbers and historical references may remain reserved even when an item is removed.
5. Likes, automation & service integrity
Gallery likes are intended to represent genuine visitor appreciation. You must not manipulate counts through scripts, repeated automated requests, account or browser farms, exploit attempts, or other artificial means. VPDC may disregard, reverse or block activity that appears abusive or technically invalid.
Do not probe, attack, bypass access controls, interfere with authentication, scrape the service at a harmful rate, attempt to access non-public data or use VPDC infrastructure to distribute malware.
6. Third-party platforms & links
VPDC links to services such as Discord and photographers' external portfolios. Those services are operated independently and are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. VPDC is not responsible for third-party content, availability or practices.
7. Availability & changes
VPDC is an independently operated community project. The Gallery and Muse are provided on a reasonable-effort basis without a guarantee of uninterrupted availability. Features may be changed, suspended or discontinued for maintenance, security, legal or community reasons.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, VPDC is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising solely from temporary Gallery unavailability, third-party outages, loss of external links or community content removed in good faith.
8. Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated as VPDC evolves. Material changes will be reflected by an updated effective date on this page. Continued use of interactive features after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
9. Contact
Questions about these terms, copyright/attribution concerns or requests relating to a curated photograph can be sent to partnerships@vpdcphoto.com.
VPDC is not affiliated with or endorsed by the publishers or developers of the games represented in the Gallery unless a specific collaboration expressly states otherwise. Game names, characters and related intellectual property belong to their respective owners.
4. Discord sign-in & comments
Discord sign-in is optional and is used to attribute discussion activity. You are responsible for comments submitted through your authenticated Discord account. VPDC may remove comments that violate community standards, contain spam, harassment, unlawful content, malicious links or otherwise undermine the Gallery.