WEBSITE INFORMATION and GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

CONTACT

Contact me by emailing me at

REFUNDS AND STRIPE

If you have any issues at all with any of my downloads or products, please let me know as soon as possible

We use Stripe, as an alternative to Paypal (having had too many issues with Paypal in the past). As far as I understand from doing test runs, when you make a purchase Stripe will hang on to your purchased amount for a few days, and during those few days I can very easily refund you directly, simply by going into my Stripe account and pressing a refund button.

After those few days I can still refund you but it becomes much more complicated. So if you have any issues with any downloads or purchases, please do contact me, and the sooner the better!

However please note that I don’t give refunds on successful downloads (for example if you change your mind. There simply isn’t any way to do this that is fair to me as well as you). Once you have downloaded something, you have possession of it and it can’t be returned, so please choose downloads carefully!

COMMISSIONING AN ILLUSTRATION OR NEW FISH ICON

To commission an illustration, or ask me about the feasibility of a prospective illustration, please email me at

I will email back to discuss it, and if you think you still want to go ahead, I will send you a quote or an estimate.

I am very happy to discuss ideas with no expectation that you will proceed with them!

COMMISSIONING FISH ICONS

Commissioned Fish Icons usually cost AUD$25 each, with the following stipulations:

1. Completed commissions may be added into the database (or used by me in any other way).
2. You must be able to email me reference photos that clearly show the colouration and life-stage you prefer. This is to avoid any confusion or wasted time, since many species vary between regions, or change as they mature, and individuals can often also change colour/pattern, etc.

If you are not able to provide photographs for a particular species, it will cost more (as I will need to hunt down and verify potential reference photos with you), and the final picture may not have the colouration you expect!

Links to photographs are sometimes acceptable, however please note that sending me links or Google searches leading to a variety of different life-phases of a species is not generally an adequate substitute for a selection of deliberately chosen pictures, as it doesn’t tell me which one you want! It also tends to add extra hours to my time, which then makes the illustrations much less cheap.

If you have any questions, or to commission Fish Icon images, please email me at:

FISH ICONS

PURPOSE of the FISH ICONS, and an OUTLINE of their CONDITIONS OF USE

The Fish Icons have been designed specifically to be used to help present data from research, so they are explicitly intended to be available for scientific publications and for republishing. This makes their conditions of use a bit convoluted, but an outline of the conditions is as follows:

The purchase of a Fish Icon entitles you to use it for any not-for-profit purpose, as many times as you wish. These images are intended for fish researchers, and so, specifically, your purchased Fish Icon images may be used in any not-for-profit publication or scientific paper in which you are named as an author. This includes where you are joint author or one of multiple authors.

Your paper containing the images (or a significant extract of your paper) may then be published commercially within any scientific journal, including online journals. For example, JEMBE, Journal of Fish Biology, Marine Biology, Fishery Bulletin, Fisheries Research, PLoS, Ecology, Nature, New Scientist, etc.

However the Fish Icon images are not intended to also be available for any commercial publisher or author to reproduce in whatever manner or venture they like, so please also note the following specific limitations:

• In order to be licensed to use a Fish Icon you must be an individual person.
• No licence to use a Fish Icon image may be granted to any corporation or group of people.
• You may not use the Fish Icon images for your own direct financial gain.

Since this is a website I need to keep the conditions of use fairly limited, as above. If you do want to use the images in any way other than as part of a research paper, please contact me to discuss!

DOWNLOADING AND REGISTRATION

For copyright reasons I need you to be logged in to download Fish Icon images, so that I have a clear record of your rights to use each image.

I realise this is an inconvenience, so I have kept registration to an absolute minimum, and all you need to supply is an email and password. As you can see, no other contact or personal details are required (you can add these to your My Account page later if you wish).

However this site was set up in response to a need for authors to have access to purpose-built images that would not potentially entangle them in murky copyright issues. So in order to clearly state your right to use the images, I would recommend that you add an “Author Name” to your account – this should be the name you usually publish under (more). This helps to circumvent any disputes over whether or not someone is licensed to use an image, as it can just be matched to the authorship of the publication in question without any need to contact you. If you publish under different names, you are welcome to make a note of this in the 'Notes' section of the 'My Details' page.

Please note that the purpose of my Fish Icon images is to give you a peace-of-mind solution, so I don’t intend to trawl the publications looking for semi-imagined breaches of copyright! However I am a one-person outfit with a very small and specialised clientele, so please help me keep going by doing the right thing and not sharing your purchased download with people who are not legally entitled to use it.

AUTHOR NAME

Author Name is your name as most published under, or that most readily identifies you in a publication. For example if you have changed your name but still publish under your birth name, then put your birth name here. If it is more complicated than that, you are welcome to list all names in your "My Account". I only need your name so that I can see that your publications aren't copyright infringements.

OVERVIEW T&C STATEMENT, WITHIN YOUR ACCOUNT

To allow you to conveniently review the general terms of use, once you have downloaded an image, your account will contain a statement along the following lines:

…(Your Author Name)… is entitled to use the Fish Icon images listed below, with the following stipulations:

• You must be an individual person. (This licence may not be granted to any corporation or group of persons).
• You may not use the listed images for your own financial gain. If you want to use the images in any way other than as part of a research paper, please contact me.
• You may use the listed images for any not-for-profit purpose, as many times as you wish. These images are intended for fish researchers, and so, specifically, the listed images may be used in any not-for-profit publication or scientific paper in which you are named as an author. This includes where you are joint author or one of multiple authors.
• Your paper containing the images (or a significant extract of your paper) may then be published commercially within any scientific journal, including online journals, such as JEMBE, Journal of Fish Biology, Marine Biology, Fishery Bulletin, Fisheries Research, PLoS, Ecology, Nature, New Scientist, etc.

(This above applies to Fish Icon images only. All images remain copyright © of Juliet Corley)."

DATA COLLECTION

I collect minimal data from you, to keep a record of who has the rights to use which images. The purpose of this is in your interests and is twofold:

• Firstly, if you accidentally delete an image you can simply download it again, without further cost, from your account.
• Secondly, if it is brought to my attention that an image may be being used illegally, I will be able to check my records and ascertain that you have unquestionably paid for and have the licence to use any Fish Icon images that you downloaded.

For the purposes of linking you to each image you have the rightful use of, you may wish to also add your “Author Name” to your account. I will also collect details of each image you have downloaded, and the date purchased. If you wish to disclose other information that will strengthen the link, you may voluntarily do so, and I will keep a record of this information as well (for example if you have a common name that could be confused with others, you might want to send me other verifying information that singles you out, such as the organisation you work for, or your specific field of study).

Although you must provide your email in order to download images, I will not use it to send you unsolicited marketing emails or other nuisance correspondence. In general I will not use it except to identify you as a rightful user of an image, respond to your enquiries, or to contact you about existing work you have commissioned. In other words I will use your email only for reasonable communication with you, and not as a marketing tool!