●Introduction

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com is a photo sharing site made by camera lovers to connect with the world.

The site was created to be a place where photographers who insist on real cameras and lenses can exchange and enjoy photos. Publish your most treasured photos, and share wonderful photos and photo-taking spots with other members!

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com Guidelines are the ideas and behaviors that every EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com member should have.

In order to make sure you have a thorough understanding of how to use the site, and to make it a more enjoyable site for everyone,

please read this before enjoying the site. 

●Regarding the Posting of Inappropriate Photos

A characteristic of the web site is thatit is possible for members and non-members, regardless of age, sex, or nationality, to search for and browse photos. Many people with different values and ideas from you will be browsing photos. Posting the following types of photos is prohibited.

Ex.)

[Regarding Sexual Expression]

‑ Sexual or obscene expression, or images that may make others feel uncomfortable

‑ Images of either men or women that show a significant amount of exposed skin, or that emphasize the genitals or other certain body parts

[Regarding the Expression of Violence]

‑ Images that give an impression or suggestion of violence

‑ Images that depict abuse or violence, or that show bloodstains or raw wounds

‑ Images that depict considerable violence or cruelty, or that suggest it

[Regarding Anti-social or Immoral Expression]

‑ Images that express discriminatory content or expressions 

‑ Images that can be seen to glorify illegal drugs, etc.

‑ Images that show considerable anti-social or immoral conduct, or that suggest it

[Regarding Advertising and Profit-making Activities]

- Images that advertise or promote a specific product, service, or event, etc., or with the purpose or intent of making a profit

- Images that may infringe on the privacy rights, personal likeness rights, copyrights, or trademark rights of others

[Other]

‑ Posting illegal or prohibited content

‑ Images that may infringe on the copyright or personal likeness right of other sites or third parties

‑ Images that were obviously not taken by the poster

‑ Images with considerably distorted noise, orientation, ratio, or aspect size

If photos meeting the above criteria are discovered, they will be restricted or removed according to our standards. We appreciate your understanding.

●Regarding Comfortable Interactions

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com is a place where people who enjoy photography can gather to browse and enjoy each other’s photos. It is not a site for rating or comparing photos. Please refrain from any abusive or malicious interaction that could cause discomfort for another member.

When you are browsing the site, if you see any interactions of a malicious nature on your own or another member’s gallery comment section, do not react, but notify our support staff immediately.

●Regarding Other Member’s Photos

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com is a place where you can enjoy posting and sharing photos that you have taken. Please refrain from posting photos that have been taken by others that you found on the Internet or in other media (such as TV, magazines, newspapers, etc.)

Also, please refrain from posting photos taken in hazardous locations or locations where access is prohibited, or photos of locations, people, or things of which photography is prohibited.

Whether it was by coincidence or inevitable, photos of other people’s likeness or things may infringe on that person’s privacy, or on their personal likeness rights or copyright. We request that you take sufficient care to get the permission of your subjects before posting photos. Additionally, as a person who enjoys photography, don’t forget to use good manners and be thoughtful of your surroundings when taking photos! 

Use your own judgment as to whether the photos you post are infringing on the various types of copyrights. EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com (Operating company name: Shuppin Co. Ltd.) accepts absolutely no responsibility. We appreciate your understanding.

●Regarding Privacy

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com has a feature to display and share the Exif* data recorded by your camera, showing the location of the photo as well as the type of camera equipment and settings used at the time of shooting.

You can manage and restrict this data yourself, and can choose with each posting whether to make it public or not.

This data can be very useful to people interested in photography, but it can also infringe on the privacy of yourself and others, so please exercise care when choosing how to enjoy EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com.

●What is Exif?

Exchangeable image file format is an image file format developed by Fujifilm and standardized by the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association (JEIDA) that stores image metadata. It is used to save images from digital cameras. It is abbreviated as Exif.

The camera model and information about the shooting conditions are embedded in the image, and can be seen using viewing or photo retouching software. Exif2.2 uses the built-in standard Exif Print to automatically optimize the most accurate condition for printing based on the shooting condition information embedded in the image. Information on the photographer, copyright, etc. as well as comments can also be added.

Excerpt from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia

●Regarding Use with Malicious Intent

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com will issue warnings regarding malicious use.

If you do not comply with the warning, your account is subject to be restricted, frozen, or deleted without prior notice. We ask that you use the site in a way that is enjoyable for everyone.

>Please refer to the FAQ and terms of use regarding account deletion.

Posted photos, comments, and galleries that do not meet our standards or are judged to be inappropriate, are subject to restriction of display or use.

(The same applies to posted photos with unrelated keywords or inappropriate content, photos where the content can’t be determined by sight, and photos where the Exif data clearly shows the photo was taken from another site’s contents, as well as comments and images, etc. posted that have nothing to do with the posted photo.)

●Other Notes on Use

EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com is not a data storage service.

Please take care of the storage and management of the original data of your photos.

■Article 1　Definition of Terms

1.Syuppin Co. Ltd (hereafter, "the Company" or "we"), for the purpose of allowing users of EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com (hereafter, "the Customer" or "you") to submit images to this site, establishes the following agreement (hereafter, "this Agreement" or "these Terms") to be applicable to the Customer.

２．The words used in this Agreement shall be defined as follows:

３．By using this Service, the Customer agrees to abide by the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree with these Terms, you will not be able to use this Service.

■Article 2 Account

1.To use this Service, you must register for an EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com account (hereafter, "Account"). Syuppin Members may log in easily using the existing ID and password that were registered with their Membership.

2. For the necessity of system cooperation relating to Syuppin point giving program and so forth, except Syuppin members who register with this site, excluding registering from a social networking service such as Facebook, Google+ or Twitter, shall be deemed to have agreed with our terms of service and to have been registered with Syuppin membership.

3．You may have one Account at EVERYBODY×PHOTOGRAPHER.com per email address. Furthermore, one Customer may register one Account.

4．If you lose possession of the email address with which you registered, we ask you to quickly update your registration email address.

■Article 3　Provision of a Use Environment for this Service

1.To use this Service, the Customer must be able to access the Web.

Furthermore, the Customer must appropriately provide and operate all devices and software needed for accessing the Web and be personally responsible for the costs necessary in doing so. This Company shall have no participation whatsoever in any provisions needed or methods by which the Customer accesses the Web.

２．The Customer agrees to take measures against the transmission of computer viruses, unauthorized access, and unauthorized disclosure of information in the Customer's own use environment. The Company assumes no responsibility for any damages incurred by the Customer such as the failure of their use environment caused by use of this Service.

■Article 4　Customer's Responsibility Concerning Submitted Images and GPS Data

１．All responsibilities concerning the Customer's images and GPS data submitted to EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com shall be assumed by the Customer who submitted the images and data. Accordingly, the Customer shall note that, in the event any third party incurs damages related to the Customer's submission of images or GPS data, this Company shall take no responsibility on behalf of the Customer.

２．The Customer shall take due care in ensuring that they possess all relevant copyrights, including but not limited to the right to reproduce, the right to publicly display, the right to transfer, the right to translate, and the right to adapt, to the images they submit and shall furthermore guarantee to us that they possess these rights. In situations that fall under the following categories in particular, the Customer shall take due care to submit images only after carrying out necessary procedures.

■Article 5　Image Rights

1.Upon submitting a photograph to EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com, the Customer consents to this Company's usage of said photograph under all relevant domestic and international copyrights, including but not limited to the right to reproduce, the right to publicly transmit, the right to transfer, the right to translate, the right to adapt, and the right to create derivative works of said photograph, at no charge and until the effective period of these rights shall end. Furthermore, the Customer consents to the continuation of our holding of these rights to the said image even should the Customer withdraw their membership from this Service.

２．The Company shall not delete submitted images from the Service even at the Customer's request. The Customer may delete their own submitted images using the "My Page" provided to each Customer.

３．Images submitted by the Customer shall not be automatically deleted from the Service even should the Customer withdraw their membership from this Service. If you do not wish for your images to continue to appear on this Service after you withdraw your membership, you must delete these images or set them as private before withdrawing your membership.

■Article 6　Function for Submission of Photos to External Services

This Company, in order to allow other Customers share the pages upon which submitted images appear with unspecified large numbers of third-party users (hereafter, "User(s) of Affiliated Services"), has placed buttons on each of the said pages (hereafter, "Submission Button") to allow Customers to submit the page to Social Networking Services (hereafter, "Affiliated Services") operated by Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LINE, and others (hereafter collectively referred to as "Operators of Affiliated Services"). As a result of pressing the Submission Button and depending on the operation of the Affiliated Service, there may be situations in which the page of the submitted image and its attendant rights (including the reuse rights allotted to third parties by the Operators of Affiliated Services) shall be used by third parties. The Customer consents in advance to this usage of their rights.

■Article 7　Prohibited Conduct

１．The following behaviors are prohibited during the use of the Service.

■Article 8　Measures against Infringing Conduct, etc.

１．This Company reserves the right to delete or make private any images etc. under the following circumstances, regardless of whether the images or information are illegal or in violation of this Agreement or not. This shall be referred to hereafter as "Deletion Measures".

２．In the event that the Company determines the Customer to fall under any of the preceding situations or in other situations as determined by the Company to be necessary, the Company reserves the right to take such measures as suspension of the Customer's account (hereafter, "Account Suspension Measures") in addition to Deletion Measures.

３.The Customer agrees not to object to or protest either Deletion Measures or Account Suspension Measures taken by this Company.

■Article 9　This Company's Indemnity

1.This Company makes no guarantee of the reliability of the storage of images submitted by the Customer to EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com. You agree to take measures against the loss of any images submitted to EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com by backing them up on your own computer.

２.This Company accepts no responsibility for the resolution of disputes or troubles between you and another Customer caused by submitted images or for any other reason. You agree to resolve all such disputes on your own.

３.This Company reserves the right to alter, suspend, or terminate this Service at any time without advance notice to the Customer should the Company deem it necessary. This Company shall accept no responsibility for any damages caused by the alteration etc. of the Service in that event. This condition shall apply to any dysfunction in service or decline in displayed speed or other issue caused by excessive traffic or any other unforeseeable cause.

4.This Company accepts no responsibility for any trouble arising from private information being made public through posting to this Service, as all images and GPS data posted are assumed to have been made public by the Customer's free intentions.

5．This Company accepts no responsibility for any damages incurred by the Customer arising from Deletion Measures or Account Suspension Measures taken by this Company for violations of these Terms or other conditions of use or on reasonable suspicion of such violations.

■Article 10　Provision of Information

1．This Company may contact the Customer by the email address used during their registration with information and notices concerning this service as well as e-commerce sites operated by this Company. You agree in advance to receive these messages.

2．This Company may contact the Customer by the email address used during their registration if there are any important notices to be issued. The Company accepts no responsibility for any damages incurred in viewing these email notices.

■Article 11　Privacy

1.The handling of privacy by this Service is described in the Syuppin Site Personal Information Policy.

[Reference]

Syuppin Personal Information Handling Policy：http://www.syuppin.co.jp/privacy.html

２．Third party sites accessible by the Customer through this Company are operated independently of this company and may collect information based on their own privacy policies and data collection rules. This Company accepts no responsibility or duty pertaining to said policies or data collection. The Customer shall accept all responsibility for protecting and managing their own password or other registration information.

■Article 12　Changes to this Agreement

The terms of this Agreement for the use of EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com may be changed as necessary without advance notice. Once any altered version of this Agreement is displayed on EVERYBODYxPHOTOGRAPHER.com, it shall come into effect immediately.

■Article 13　Applicable Law

This Agreement shall be interpreted based on the laws of Japan.

■Article 14　Agreed Jurisdiction

In the event that litigation between the Customer and the Company becomes necessary, the Tokyo Summary Court or the Tokyo District Court shall be the exclusive court of jurisdiction for the first trial.

Revision: May 2, 2017

Table: Information to be obtained and purpose of use

We respect the value of information and are constantly striving to properly manage and protect it. As we fully acknowledge the importance of management and protection that respects the value of specific personal information, we have established this basic policy so that we as an organization can ensure that specific personal information is handled appropriately.