Terms and Conditions

Last updated: May 20, 2026

Welcome to cultural-arts.com (“we”, “us”, “our”). This platform collects, preserves, and shares photographs for cultural heritage, education, and research purposes.

1. Purpose

The platform exists to archive and preserve cultural heritage through user-submitted photographs, making them available for public interest, education, and research.

2. Use of the service

  • Use of the platform is voluntary.
  • Users may upload content anonymously.
  • We may update, organize, or curate content for archival and research purposes.

3. Content ownership and rights

By uploading content to cultural-arts.com:

  • You confirm that you have the legal right to submit the content.
  • You do not obtain any ownership, rights, or claims over the platform, archive, dataset, or collections created by it.
  • Uploading does not grant you any ownership interest in how the content is stored, curated, or used by the platform.
  • You retain copyright only if you are the original rights holder of the content.

By submitting content, you grant us a:

  • perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license
  • to use, store, reproduce, modify (for technical and archival purposes), publish, distribute, and display the content
  • for cultural heritage preservation, research, education, and public access purposes.

This license remains valid even after deletion requests, where retention is necessary for archival, legal, or research purposes.

4. Anonymity

  • The platform does not require user accounts.
  • We do not require or verify identity.
  • Content is treated as submitted anonymously unless voluntarily disclosed.

5. Open-source software

The platform software is open source and made available for research. The open-source license applies only to the software code, not to user-uploaded content.

6. Content moderation

We reserve the right to remove or restrict access to content that is illegal, harmful, or incompatible with the purpose of the archive.

7. Disclaimer

All content is provided “as is”. We are not responsible for accuracy, authenticity, or misuse of submitted material.

We reserve the right to update these Terms and the Privacy Policy at any time. Continued use of the platform after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.