If you’re here, you probably came here from one of the “cooperative” galleries on our website.
The gallery system that we use allows for user uploads, but with some restrictions. Most commonly we use cooperative galleries on glossary pages or on location map pages so that users can share their own images if they’d like.
Before you upload an image, please observe and agree to the following:
- The photos in “cooperative” galleries are different from user media in profiles or groups. Photos you upload to cooperative galleries will not appear in your user media; they are separate systems. However, you can ALSO upload the photos to your user media.
- For safety reasons, photos uploaded to cooperative galleries are moderated. We do not necessarily receive notifications every time someone uploads a photo, so we check every few days on average for any new photos. Please allow us ample time to review yours. Our system does not send out an email for these when they are approved or rejected.
- Photos must be:
- “Safe for work”
- Your own images — or you have the right to share them. If they are an old public domain image please cite this.
- Apply to the subject of the gallery in question.
- Author information is not automatically put on the images in these galleries. However, we’ve set them up so you can add your name and a custom link so that you get credited for your image and can link to your own profile here on the site or on your own website.
- We may share images we like on social media. If we do, we’ll credit you (of course). If you would like us to, you may want to let us know your social link (i.e. your @ name on Instagram, for instance).
- You must be registered and logged in to submit a photo. We do this so we can know who submitted the photo and to decrease spam submissions, which would happen if we did not require login.
- There is no way for users to delete photos they have submitted. If you would like to delete a photo from one of these galleries, you can contact us.
- We will not try to sell your photo in one of our for sale galleries. Sometimes we pull photos by their tag; please do not tag your photo with anything like “stock photography,” etc because it may accidentally end up in one of those galleries.
- We may, in the future, use photos for various contests. We will ask your permission about such things first before we enter your photos in any contests or polls.
