Thank you for sharing your photo with Discover FLX, Finger Lakes Daily News, and the FLX Local Media radio stations. Before you submit a photo, please read this page. By submitting a photo, you are agreeing to everything below.
You own the photo
You are the photographer, or you own the rights to the photo some other way, or the person who took it gave you clear permission to submit it. Do not submit a photo you found online, screenshotted from someone else's account, or copied from another news source.
People in the photo
If someone in the photo can be recognized, you have that person's OK to share it. If that person is under 18, you have a parent or guardian's OK instead.
What you are giving us
By submitting a photo, you give Discover FLX, Finger Lakes Daily News, and the FLX Local Media radio stations permission to:
- Use, edit, crop, reproduce, publish, distribute, display, and share the photo
- Make new things from it, such as a video, a graphic, a collage, or a montage that includes your photo
- In any format: our websites, our apps, our social media pages, our newsletters, on air, in print, and in any other format, including ones that do not exist yet
- For news coverage, promotion, advertising our own stations and services, and our own archives
- With no time limit. This permission does not expire.
- We may also pass this same permission along to others, including wire services, partner stations, and anyone who buys or takes over our business.
This permission is free, worldwide, and does not require us to ask you again before each use. Once you submit a photo, you cannot take this permission back. If you no longer want your photo used, contact us and we will consider your request, but we are not obligated to remove a photo that has already been published or shared.
You still own your photo. This permission is non-exclusive, which means you keep the copyright and you are still free to use, sell, or license your own photo however you want. You are giving us permission to use it, not handing it over.
Credit
We try to credit you by the name you give us when you submit the photo. We cannot always guarantee a credit will appear. Sometimes space, format, or how the photo is used makes a credit impractical.
No payment
We do not pay for submitted photos, now or in the future, no matter how the photo is used.
We decide how it's used
Submitting a photo does not guarantee we will use it. We also decide how a photo is cropped, edited, or presented if we do use it.
Claims you are giving up
So that we can publish and edit your photo without having to come back to you, you agree not to bring a claim against us based on:
- How we edited, cropped, or presented the photo
- Not being credited, or being credited differently than you expected
- Your name appearing, or not appearing, alongside the photo
- Us using the photo in a way you did not specifically picture when you sent it, as long as it falls within the permission described above
This does not affect the rights of other people in the photo. It covers your own claims about your own photo.
You are responsible if something goes wrong
If someone brings a legal claim against us because you did not actually have the rights to the photo or the permissions you told us you had, you agree to cover the costs that result, including our legal fees.
Age requirement
You must be 18 or older to submit a photo. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must submit the photo on your behalf.
Your safety
Photos taken on phones and cameras often carry hidden location data (GPS coordinates) showing exactly where the photo was taken. We strip this location data out before we publish a photo. Even so, please do not submit a photo that shows something you do not want other people to know about, such as your home, your school, or another location you want to keep private. Once a photo is out in public, we cannot guarantee no one will notice details in the image itself.
Questions
If you have questions about these terms or want to ask about a photo you already submitted, contact us through Discover FLX or Finger Lakes Daily News.