We encourage your Passion - Our policy is to welcome photo of all levels from amateur to professional without any minimum standards of quality to submission as long as they meet with our board and copyright policies.
Our fotoloupe management team, during the course of their routine duties, may elect to move one or more of your submissions into a different, more appropriate, category; we ask that you accept this decision gracefully and with a mature attitude. If you desire a full explanation for this action, or if you feel the administrative action was performed in error, you should submit an inquiry to fotoloupe’s administrators through the “Contact Us” and include a link to the relevant deviation. Please do not bring these issues into any other areas of fotoloupe.
Fotoloupe prohibits comments considered to be inherently disrespectful, aggressive, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise volatile of any law..
If you feel that you have been the target of harassment, personal insults or other severe behavior, please notify our administrator through “Contact Us”. Please be aware that the staff will only directly intervene in cases which are considered severe.
We discourage comments considered to have the potential to escalate into an aggressive or abusive situation. We must insist that all personal arguments, disagreements, and other volatile “personal” issues within be confined to private communications such as emails. Likewise we discourage public accusations and other similar situations; please bring all issues of this nature to the attention of the administrator through our “Contact Us”.
Fotoloupe reserves the rights to suspend or delete account anytime which is suspected for any spamming, flooding or similar activities without prior notice.
We MUST insist that you submit only your own original works.
Your photos must be your own original creations and you may only use resources which are considered legitimate and legal. Submissions which make use of photos without proper permission or licensing by the original author will be removed as they come to the attention of the staff. If you have reason to believe that a submission violates this policy you should report this to administrator through “Contact Us”..
Mature content refers to photos which contain images, subject matter, or other themes which some viewers may find offensive, distasteful, or otherwise undesirable to view or to read. The most common ‘undesired’ viewing material may include, but is not limited to, images containing artistic nudity, large amounts of simulated blood and gore, or generally violent themes.
We strictly prohibit the submission of materials classified as pornographic or obscene. There is no exception to this prohibition.
Certain content may be deemed obscene by the administrator and as such the administrator reserves the right to remove such content immediately upon discovery and the sole right to review and classify questionable material as obscene or not obscene.
This section applies only to avatar which you personally use for your account; avatar submitted into a fotoloupe must still conform to all official policies without exception but are not subjected to the restrictions below.
Avatar used to represent your account on site are granted more leniency than standard site submissions. You may freely use material and resources with only the restrictions outlined as follows;
The fotoloupe staff will not tolerate attempts to exploit or disrupt the layout, navigability, or general use of the site. Such actions disrupt the ability of the community to access and review photos and are considered Site Abuse.
We will issue no warnings for violations of this nature. Violators will be banned immediately upon the discovery of the disruption or abuse.
As new situations come to our attention we may find it necessary to alter or expand upon the policies stated here with little or no notification and any such changes may be enforced in full against previously existing submissions or behavior.
Alterations of policy may be announced through either the fotoloupe notice/update or an email notification to the email address you have submitted upon registration.
Appeals, inquiries, or questions concerning removals, violation notices, account suspensions, or other administrative actions should be addressed to administrators where they will be forwarded to the appropriate department for review.
Petitions and other forms of public outcry are discouraged and will have no affect on Administrative Reviews of staff actions and may in fact be detrimental to the case in question.