Mission and policies

Our Mission

At Photokonnexion we are dedicated to providing a free, simple, easy and fun photography resource for our users. We want you to learn new skills and improve your photography while using this site. Our information, products and services are designed with you in mind. We want to continuously improve the site and your experience of using these pages. So we welcome feedback or comment on anything you find here that could be improved.

Our Site Policies

• Commitment:

  We are committed to providing a free and open resource on photography for those who want to learn more. We recognise that we are setting examples and helping learners. Therefore we will act honestly, responsibly and within the policies below to provide this resource. We are always prepared to review content. However, we also have to make decisions. Where necessary we will happily make changes to the website or take other actions to improve your experience and knowledge. We take this commitment very seriously and so our editorial decisions are final and based on a responsible attitude.

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• Feedback:

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  We welcome any form of feedback, positive and negative. Our site mission aims to improve our services and our site. If you have any feedback please let us have it.
  
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• Publication:

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  We aim to provide good quality, understandable content. Our content is aimed at meeting the needs of users and our mission. We welcome contributions of all types from anyone interested in submitting content to us. We will publish contributor content as and when appropriate. We are unable to specify when any content may be published or how long it may remain on the site. Submission of content does not guarantee publication.
  
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• Language:

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  We aim to use simple and plain language throughout the site. Our site is published in English and we ask contributors to do their best to express themselves simply and clearly. You do not need to have a good standard of English to submit content for publication. However, it is important to be as clear and to the point as possible. Our Editor is happy to help with any content you want to submit for publication. We are also pleased to consider revising existing content if users ask us.
  
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• Editorial:

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  Any written material submitted to the site may be subject to editing. Please do not be offended by this. We are trying to ensure our site mission is achieved. To ensure content quality we take responsibility for publication of the site. Therefore our editorial decisions are final. However, we would be prepared to consider making changes if users ask.
  
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• Artistic expression:

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  Photokonnexion promotes the arts and encourage all forms of artistic expression. However, some artistic material enters a grey area. We Do not tolerate offensive or illegal material here. We aim to keep content on the site tasteful and respectable. We recognise that opinions differ as to where the boundaries lie. We will be cautious as the judgement of artistic material is subjective. Fair consideration will be given to feedback on any matter relating to artistic boundaries.
  
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• Moderation:

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  We try to ensure that the material on Photokonnexion is of the highest quality. We want everyone to find using this site a pleasant and acceptable experience. We do not tolerate offensive, abusive, pornographic, illegal or other inappropriate material. The Editor will moderate submissions to prevent offence, abuse or infringement of the site policies. The Editor and moderators will remove offending content, posts or comments.
  
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• Respect:

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  We are strong and committed believers in equality of opportunity, human rights, respect and dignity for all. We rejoice in diversity and enjoy the benefit of a range of opinion. We hope our users and contributors around the world also celebrate these ideas. We expect contributors and users to behave within these principles. We will not suffer discrimination or tolerate anyone who practices it.
  
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• Copyright:

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  Photokonnexion takes copyright infringement or abuse very seriously. We work to ensure we only display material within copyright law. If you believe that any copyright has been infringed please contact us immediately and we will review the case.
  The team at Photokonnexion carefully prepare the content posts and articles we provide. It is all original material written and produced by us. However, there is nothing new under the sun! So you will find some of our ideas, concepts, information and works published elsewhere in their own format, words or media. We will endeavour to produce our work in our own unique way. Please let us know if you would like to discuss our source material.
  If you submit any original work to this website for publication or other purposes you will retain the copyright for your work. However, submission to the site for publication grants us permission to reproduce your work on our site. We will ensure that your work is acknowledged. However, we cannot accept liability for any theft of your work from our website.

  Contributor content on this site is either the personal copyright of the contributor or of an individual posting on the site. We acknowledge that content to be owned by the copyright holder. However, we consider the submission of information, content, material, works or documents for publication to be the granting of a licence for publication. This licence will also include freedom for us to edit written material (not artwork or photographs) to ensure that we meet the mission stated above. We reserve the right to keep content posted on our site for as long as we deem necessary, , or to remove it at any time. All content will be acknowledged and credited to the originator of the work. Where possible a URL will be provided to an agreed website elected by the contributor.

  We produce a great deal of original work, content, articles or artwork and photographs which are published by Photokonnexion on this site. You are free to read and enjoy or work for as long as we can sustain this site. We believe in free information sharing on the internet. However, we retain full copyright and other publishing rights as well as artistic control over our content and photographs. Feel free to link to the content on this site. However, please respect our work and do not pass off any of it as your own, steal any of it to put on other websites, re-purpose the works for your own return or abuse the material we produce. We respect the right of authors and artists to preserve their work and get the credit for it. We would like the same respect in return.

  We expect contributors and users to respect copyright laws and the rights of copyright holders. Breaking the law by users and contributors will not be tolerated. Everyone is encouraged to report copyright theft abuse of any kind.

  Please contact us to discuss copyright issues of any sort.

• Privacy:

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  We take personal privacy very seriously. We do not sell or distribute any customer information under any circumstances. This includes our mailing list as well as any email information and any personal information provided privately and in good faith.
  Information you submit to comments or posts will be visible and public – worldwide.
  Users and contributors are asked to respect the personal privacy of others.
  Personal data posted on the site about other people will be removed. If information you post is not your own, or it relates to the privacy of another person please do not post it on our site.
  Under certain circumstances biographical information and personal information may be published. This will only happen with the permission of the person concerned or if the information is already in the public domain. If you believe something has been published about you without your permission please contact us and we will happily review the situation.
  
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• Cookies:

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  The Photokonnexion site generates cookies to make this site easier to use. Sometimes this information may be collected by other websites. We try to make sure that the cookie information is anonymous and does not use personal data. This is normal website practice. However, if you think the site cookies invade your privacy we are prepared to investigate on your behalf.
  
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• Images:

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  The inclusion or publication of images on this site is subject to the same policies as other forms of content. However, we recognise that the quality of an image is a subjective and artistic judgement. Image quality may also reflect the current skill and development of the photographer. We encourage the submission of images for publication from all skill levels. We especially like to see the images you are proud to have produced. Please feel free to submit your images to us for publication. Also bear in mind the other polices written here.
  We will not normally edit images that have been submitted for publication. However, images may be edited in certain circumstances for educational or tutorial reasons. Information to that effect will be given where appropriate.
  Professional photographers and contributing authors are expected to maintain image quality appropriate to the article they are submitting.
  
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• Opinions:

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  At Photokonnexion we value your opinion. We also encourage everyone to express sensible and respectful opinions on the site. Any opinions expressed are however, those of individuals and site contributors respectively. Photokonnexion does not necessarily endorse or support any specific opinion except where stated.
  Opinions differ and people will disagree. If you are offended or object to ANY content on this site we want to know about it. We will be pleased to discuss your views. However, we will not revise or remove content because you disagree with an alternative opinion.
  
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• External websites and links:

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  We welcome information about, and links to, other sites and may publish them for the benefit of everyone.
  We welcome contact with other web sites and appropriate reciprocal links. If you want to link to our content please feel free to do that. We would be grateful if you could let us know about any links you make to Photokonnexion. Thank you.
  
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