Terms of Use
LOOKSLIKEFILM is a community platform where photographers share their work, engage with the photography community, and get found by customers who are searching for photographers & videographers.
These are LOOKSLIKEFILM’s terms of use and apply to all users of LOOKSLIKEFILM website.
“We,” “our” or “us” refers to LOOKSLIKEFILM. LOOKSLIKEFILM refers to this website and the services offered by us. By using LOOKSLIKEFILM you agree to these terms. You acknowledge that you have read and understood these terms.
You also agree to our privacy policy and any other policies we post on LOOKSLIKEFILM.
We may sometimes make changes to these terms. If we make material changes that adversely affect your rights under these terms, then we will let you know by posting an announcement on the site or sending you an email prior to the changes coming into effect. Continuing to use LOOKSLIKEFILM after a change to these terms means you accept the new terms.
Creating an account
When you register for an account you must provide us with accurate information. If you don’t provide us with accurate information then we may not be able to assist you with accessing your account.
To register for an account you must be at least 15 years old. To give or receive pledges you must be at least 18 years old or have your parent’s permission. If you know a user is under the age of 15, please report them to us.
You are responsible for anything that occurs when anyone is signed in to your account, as well as the security of the account. If you believe your account is compromised, you must contact us immediately.
Being a user/subscriber
To become a subscriber simply create an account, update your preferred payment method (either credit card or PayPal) and subscribe to the membership!
There are two ways to get the membership.
- One is a monthly or annual subscription where you pay for the membership on our website.
- The other is a basic membership where you only get a limited access to the features on our website.
Annual subscription:
- Your membership starts on the day you paid the subscription in full and runs for at least one year (day exactly).
- When your annual membership expires, your subscription will automatically be renewed for another year unless you cancel your running anual subscription before it ends.
- You can cancel your membership at any time in your profile (Profile settings -> subscriptions -> “Action” – Cancel). Nevertheless your membership will continue to run without restrictions until the end of your individual annual subscription, and will not automatically be renewed after the year ends.
- There is no possibility of a total or partial reimbursement of the subscription.
- When, despite a valid subscription, you wish to delete your profile read the chapter “Disable your account” and send us an email to: members@lookslikefilm.com
Monthly subscription:
- Your membership starts on the day you paid the monthly subscription fee and runs for at least one month (day exactly).
- When your monthly membership expires, your subscription will automatically be renewed for another month unless you cancel your running monthly subscription before it ends.
- You can cancel your membership at any time in your profile (Profile settings -> subscriptions -> “Action” – Cancel). Nevertheless your membership will continue to run without restrictions until the end of your individual monthly subscription, and will not automatically be renewed after the month ends.
- There is no possibility of a total or partial reimbursement of the subscription.
- When, despite a valid subscription, you wish to delete your profile read the chapter “Disable your account” and send us an email to: members@lookslikefilm.com
Basic membership:
- You can upgrade your basic membership to a pro account at any time. Please read the subscription options above.
- If you wish to delete your basic membership read the chapter “Disable your account” and send us an email to: members@lookslikefilm.com
LOOKSLIKEFILM’s Role
While LOOKSLIKEFILM supports content creation, we do not legally endorse any content on our site. If the content is reported we may remove it, but we do not take that action lightly.
We only provide a platform for photographers and videographers to interact. We do not screen or endorse any content on LOOKSLIKEFILM. If you see content that violates these terms, then let us know and we may remove it.
Removing content or terminating accounts is not an action we take lightly and we may take a while to investigate or open the issue up to further discussion with the community.
We are constantly testing out new features with the goal of making LOOKSLIKEFILM better. We may add or remove features, and often test features with a random subset of our users. If we believe a feature is significantly different from these terms, then we explain those differences in the test.
With your permission, we may give other websites or services the ability to verify information about your LOOKSLIKEFILM account or perform actions on your behalf. This permission is asked for when you connect your LOOKSLIKEFILM account to these other websites or services. Information can include the existence of your account, pledge amounts, and length of support. Actions can include creating, editing or deleting pledges and any other interaction with educators such as posting messages or liking posts.
Disable your account
You can disable your account by request. We can disable it at our discretion.
You can permanently disable your account at any time by sending an email to members@lookslikefilm.com. You can see what information is deleted and what we continue to store after the account is disabled in our privacy policy.
We can terminate or suspend your account at any time at our discretion. We can also cancel any pledges and remove any content or rewards at our discretion.
These terms remain in effect after your account is disabled.
If you desire, you can request your data to be forgotten, meaning that the data controller erase your personal data, cease further dissemination of the data, and potentially have third parties halt processing of the data. Your data will be no longer be relevant to original purposes for processing, or a data subjects withdrawing consent. It should also be noted that this right requires controllers to compare the subjects’ rights to “the public interest in the availability of the data” when considering such requests
Your Content
You keep complete ownership of all content, but give us permission to use it on LOOKSLIKEFILM. Make sure you have permission to use content that you post on LOOKSLIKEFILM.
You keep full ownership of all content that you post on LOOKSLIKEFILM, but to operate we need licenses from you.
By posting content to LOOKSLIKEFILM you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, perform, publicly display or prepare derivative works of your content. The purpose of this license is to allow us to operate LOOKSLIKEFILM, promote LOOKSLIKEFILM and promote your content on LOOKSLIKEFILM. We are not trying to steal your content or use it in an exploitative way.
You may not post content that infringes on others’ intellectual property or proprietary rights.
Subscribers may not use content posted by other subscribers in any way not authorized by the creator.
LOOKSLIKEFILM Content
You can use our content as part of LOOKSLIKEFILM, but can’t use it for anything else without our permission.
Content we create is protected by copyright and trademark. Some examples of our content are the text on the site, our logo, and our codebase. We grant you a license to use our logo and other copyrights or trademarks to promote your Artists Profile page.
You may not otherwise use, reproduce, distribute, perform, publicly display or prepare derivative works of our content unless we give you permission in writing. Please ask if you have any questions.
Copyright Infringement
If someone on LOOKSLIKEFILM is using your copyright without permission, then please send an email to llfpro@lookslikefilm.com This is complicated, so make sure to read the long version before you send us an email.
If you believe that any content on LOOKSLIKEFILM infringes your copyrights, please send written notice to:
[Insert here Legal Address of LOOKSLIKEFILM]
This notice should include the following information:
- The electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
- A description of the exact location of LOOKSLIKEFILM of the content that you claim is infringing. This description must allow us to find and identify the content.
- Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement by you that:
- a) you believe in good faith that the use of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, the copyright owner, or the owner’s agent,
- b) all information contained in your copyright notice is accurate
- c) under penalty of perjury, you are either the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.
Inappropriate circumstances we may also terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
Indemnity
If we are sued because of you, you have to help pay for it.
You will indemnify us from all losses and liabilities, including legal fees, that arise from these terms or relate to your use of LOOKSLIKEFILM. We reserve the right to exclusive control over the defense of a claim covered by this clause. If we use this right then you will help us in our defense.
Your obligation to indemnify under this clause also applies to our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents and third party service providers.
Warranty Disclaimer
LOOKSLIKEFILM is provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind. Any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any other warranty is excluded to the greatest extent permitted by law.
The disclaimers of warranty under this clause also apply to our affiliates and third-party service providers.
Limit of Liability
If you lose money as a result of using LOOKSLIKEFILM, any payment to you is limited to how much you have paid us, and we don’t have to pay you if your loss is unexpected.
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable to you for any incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of these terms, or your use or attempted use of LOOKSLIKEFILM. To the extent permitted by law, our liability for damages is limited to the amount of money we have earned through your use of LOOKSLIKEFILM. We are specifically not liable for loss associated with failure to deliver rewards and from losses caused by conflicting contractual agreements.
For this clause “we” and “our” is defined to include our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents and third party service providers.
Miscellaneous Terms
You agree to indemnify and hold LOOKSLIKEFILM harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of any video or article or this website.
LOOKSLIKEFILM reserves the right to change the Terms of Service, and notify the users before the changes are applied. Further, LOOKSLIKEFILM reserves the right to modify or discontinue any portion of the membership. LOOKSLIKEFILM shall not be liable to you or any third party should.
LOOKSLIKEFILM exercises its right to modify, suspend, limit or discontinue any feature of its products or services.
Use of the videos, articles and this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of Country of Registration. You agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any Country of Registration Federal or State Court, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the use of this website or its videos and articles.
If any provision of the Terms of Service is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect.