Member Agreement

Membership at 1x.com

This member agreement applies between 1x Innovations AB (hereinafter 1x) and You (the Member) where You will obtain membership at 1x's website and You grant 1x the right to display your uploaded photographs. As an option You may sell Your Photographs.


1. Definitions

The following terms shall have the meanings assigned to them herein below:

1.1 "Agreement" means the terms and conditions below, to which You have agreed to be bound.

1.2 "Member" (or "You") means the individual or entity that has accepted and agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

1.3 "1x's website" shall mean 1x's websites 1x.com, onexposure.net, personal homepages hosted by 1x and any subdomains.

1.4 "Gallery" shall mean the collection of photographs approved and selected to be published on 1x's website by the curators of 1x.

1.5 "Your Photographs" shall mean the photographs that you have uploaded to 1x's website.

1.6 "Your Submitted Material", shall mean Your Photographs, your presentation photo, your cover photo, your biography, photo descriptions and any other text, material or information, submitted to 1x by You.

1.7 ”Your Account" shall mean the account You register at 1x's website.

1.8 "Account Menu" shall mean the menu in the top navigation to the far right with a small silhouette or your presentation photo.

1.9 ”Your Manage Photos Page” shall mean the overview of Your Photographs in the Account Menu where you manage Your Photographs when You are logged in to 1x’s website.

1.10 ”Your Settings Page” shall mean your Settings page in Your Account Menu where You edit Settings and view agreements.

1.11 “Your Photographs made available for sale” shall mean all Your Photographs made available for sale by You. Photographs made available for sale will be indicated by a checked box in the ”For sale” column in Your Manage Photos Page. You can make any of Your Photographs available for sale in Your Manage Photos Page by clicking the checkbox ”For sale” or when editing the details about Your Photographs by checking the checkbox “This photo is for sale”. Your Photographs made available for sale by You previously in other ways than described above will also be considered having been made available for sale by You. All Your Photographs marked for sale in Your Manage Photos Page (indicated by checked "For sale" checkboxes) when this Agreement comes into effect will be considered having been made available for sale by You.

1.12 “Printed Copies” shall mean printed versions of Your Photographs on any material, including, but not limited to, posters, paper, fine art paper, canvas, metal, wood, fabric, acrylic, glass, plexiglass, plastic, wall peels, wall stickers, wallpaper and wall murals.

1.13 “Customer” shall mean an individual or entity buying Printed Copies of Your Photographs made available for sale.

1.14 1x's Partners shall mean any companies, organizations or entities which Your Photographs have been sublicensed to by 1x.


2. License Grant

2.1 1x is hereby granted the right to display, process and store Your Photographs and all Your Submitted Material on 1x's website. You will remain the copyright owner of Your Photographs and all Your Submitted Material.

2.2 1x is hereby granted the right to display Your Photographs in thumbnail versions websites other than 1x's website. 1x is also granted the right to display share-buttons for social network sites below Your Photographs.

2.3 1x is hereby granted the right to display, process and store Your Photographs and Your Submitted Material, including, but not limited to, in computers, mobile devices, tablets, TVs, monitors, media centers, image streaming devices and digital picture frames and in apps for any and all such devices.

2.4 In order to gain extra promotion for Your Photographs there is a checkbox "Get extra promotion of your photos" in Your Settings Page. When this checkbox is checked 1x is granted the right to post to and display, process and store Your Photographs and Your Submitted Material, on social network sites, blogs, photo sites, magazine sites, news sites and any other sites, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and Youtube. The default setting is that the checkbox is checked and enabled. In Your Settings Page, you can disable “Get extra promotion of your photos” to prevent 1x from posting Your Photographs and Your Submitted Material to such sites as mentioned above. If any of Your Photographs or Your Submitted Material have already been published on any such sites prior to disabling "Get extra promotion of your photos", Your Photographs and Your Submitted Material already posted and displayed on any such sites can not be removed from those sites.

2.5 By making photos available for sale on 1x's website You grant to 1x the right to market, sell and distribute Printed Copies of Your Photographs. 1x is also granted the right to sublicense the right to market, sell and distribute Printed Copies of Your Photographs to 1x's Partners, in any sales channel. 1x's Partners are also granted the right to sublicense Your Photographs. The license and sublicenses are non-exclusive, unless otherwise agreed between you and 1x in a separate agreement.

2.6 By making Your Photographs available for sale You also grant to 1x and 1x's Partner's the right to use Your Photographs made available for sale, both in digital versions and printed versions, including, but not limited to, on websites, in social media sites, in blogs, in mobile applications, in presentations, in catalogues, in books, in magazines, in flyers, in demonstrations, in exhibitions, in trade fairs and in marketing material, for the purpose of advertising and marketing the sale of Printed Copies of Your Photographs.


3. Terms of Service

3.1 For terms and conditions for using 1x's website and/or services the Terms of Service apply, to which you accept and agree to be bound (https://beta.1x.com/terms).


4. Privacy Policy

4.1 For terms and conditions regarding 1x's processing of your personal data and use of cookies, the Privacy Policy applies, to which you accept and agree to be bound (https://beta.1x.com/privacy).


5. Warranties and Indemnifications

5.1 You warrant that You are 18 years old or above, which is the minimum age required to use 1x's services.

5.2 You warrant that You are the copyright owner of Your Photographs and that You have all necessary permits and sufficient rights in and to Your Photographs to grant to 1x and 1x's Partners the rights indicated under Section 2 above. For avoidance of any doubt, if Your Photographs is a montage, You warrant that You are the copyright owner and that you have all necessary permits and sufficient rights in and to all parts of Your Photographs to grant 1x and 1x's Partners the rights indicated under Section 2 above.

5.3 You undertake to defend, at your own expense, 1x and 1x's Partners against any claims from third parties alleging that 1x's or 1x’s Partners use of Your Photographs in accordance with this Agreement constitute an infringement of any rights of a third party (hereinafter referred to as "Claims") and to indemnify and hold 1x and 1x’s Partner’s harmless from any costs, damages, liabilities, and/or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) suffered or incurred by 1x or 1x's Partners due to or arising from such Claims.

5.4 You warrant that You have all the necessary model releases and that You have obtained all the necessary approvals from persons that appear in Your Photographs to grant to 1x and 1x's Partners the rights indicated under Section 2 above.

5.5 You warrant that You have all the necessary property releases and that you have obtained all the necessary approvals for any property, buildings, architecture, structures or sculptures appearing in Your Photographs to grant to 1x and 1x's Partners the rights indicated under Section 2 above.

5.6 You warrant that You have all the necessary permits, rights and releases and that You have obtained all the necessary approvals for any live performances appearing in Your Photographs to grant to 1x and 1x's Partners the rights indicated under Section 2 above.

5.7 You warrant that Your Photographs do not contain any illegal material and/or in themselves constitute illegal material.

5.8 You warrant that Your Photographs do not contain anything that may constitute a violation of the personal integrity and privacy of an individual.

5.9 You warrant that Your Photographs do not contain anything that may offend, slander, defame or discriminate any individual, entity or group of people.

5.10 You warrant that Your Photographs do not contain any pornographic material.

5.11 You warrant that Your Photographs do not contain any offensive material.

5.12 You undertake to indemnify 1x and 1x's Partners for any and all costs, losses and/or damages incurred by 1x due to or arising from a breach of any of the warranties under this Section 5.

5.13 You acknowledge and agree that if You fail to fulfill any of your undertakings under this Section 5, 1x may ban or delete Your Account. If Your Account is banned or deleted no money for paid membership fees will be refunded. If Your Account is deleted no compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs will be paid out to You.


6. Member's Undertakings

6.1 You undertake to register a valid email address when you create Your Account and to keep Your Account information updated with a valid, active email address in Your Settings Page at all times.

6.2 You undertake to register a PayPal account at PayPal's website PayPal.com and to provide a valid email address to your registered PayPal account in Your Settings Page. In the box where you enter your Paypal email address You undertake not to enter your Paypal email address only without any additional names, words or characters. You acknowledge and agree that if You fail to provide a valid email address to your registered PayPal account, 1x will not transfer any earnings from sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs to You.

6.3 You warrant that you are the author of all of Your Photographs and if Your Photographs is a montage, that You are the author of all parts of Your Photographs. You are not allowed to upload photographs to 1x's website, which someone else is the original author of, for example stock photography or creative commons material, or use such material in any part of Your Photographs. If in doubt, 1x might request original digital source files, RAW-files or negative scans from You to verify that You are the author of Your Photographs.

6.4 You warrant that each of Your Photographs mainly consists of digital original photographic source files from camera or film negatives and are not computer generated. If in doubt, 1x might request digital original source files or negative scans from You to verify that Your Photographs is not computer generated.

6.5 You undertake to only register one account at 1x's website. If Your Account has been banned, or if You have lost your username or password, or for any other reason, You are not allowed to register a new account, without the written consent of 1x, instead contact support@1x.com.

6.6 You undertake to keep your password safe and never share it with anyone or write it down. 1x's staff will never ask for your password. If you have lost your password You are able to reset it on 1x's website.    

6.7 You warrant that the residential country You have selected is the country You actually reside in. You undertake to always keep your residential country updated in Your Settings Page.

6.8 You warrant that the country You have selected when you make purchases on 1x's website, is the country You actually reside in. You undertake to always keep your residential country updated in Your Settings Page.

6.9 You acknowledge and agree that if you fail to fulfill any of your undertakings under this Section 6, 1x may delete one or more of Your Photographs and may ban or delete Your Account. If Your Account is banned or deleted no money for paid membership fees will be refunded. If Your Account is deleted no compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs will be paid out to You.


7. 1x's Undertakings

7.1 1x decides exclusively and in its sole discretion which of Your Photographs to publish or not publish in the Gallery. A decision not to publish Your Photographs in the Gallery can not be appealed. No reasons will be given why Your Photographs were published in the Gallery or not. If Your Photographs have been published in the Gallery, 1x undertakes to display them in the Gallery.

7.2 1x undertakes to acknowledge and identify you as the author of Your Photographs. Such acknowledgement will be made on 1x's website and on social network sites, blogs, photo sites, magazine sites, news sites and any other sites where Your Photographs have been posted. For thumbnail versions of Your Photographs you will be acknowledged as the author directly below the thumbnail or when Your Photographs are opened up in full size.


8. 1x's Handling of Your Photographs

8.1 Once Your Photographs have been published in the Gallery, it is not possible to delete them unless you delete Your Account. Your Photographs posted to social network sites, blogs, photo sites, magazine sites, news sites or included in 1x's blog, magazine, photo tutorials or contests will not be deleted even if Your Account is deleted. If there are special circumstances for deleting one or more of Your Photographs published in the Gallery, for example copyright issues or personal integrity issues, contact support@1x.com and state your reasons for deletion. 1x decides exclusively and in its sole discretion if Your Photographs will be deleted or not in such a case. A copy of all Your Photographs sent to the curators may be saved as a history of your uploads for the curators and are not possible to delete unless you end your membership. Your Photographs not sent to the curators or published in the Gallery can be deleted by You at any time.

8.2 1x may at any time publish Your Photographs in the Gallery or remove Your Photographs from the Gallery.

8.3 You may upload high resolution files of Your Photographs. By default Your Photographs will be displayed on 1x's website in the original size you have uploaded, but Your Photographs will never be displayed in greater width than 2500 pixels or height than 2500 pixels. If Your Photographs are uploaded in greater resolution than 2500 pixels width or height, they will be downsized so the maximum width and height do not exceed 2500 pixels, when displayed to the public on 1x's website. 1x will keep copies of the image files of Your Photographs made available for sale, in the highest resolution uploaded, to use for printing.

8.4 You acknowledge and agree that 1x have the right to delete any of Your Photographs, high resolution files or any other of Your Submitted Material at any time and for any reason, from 1x's website or other websites where Your Photographs are displayed.


9. Selling Prints

9.1 You undertake to upload high resolution files of Your Photographs made available for sale to 1x's website, in Your Manage Photos Page. You undertake to upload your high resolution files in the original resolution from camera or scanner without upsizing or downsizing and in the exact same crop as Your Photographs are displayed on 1x's website.

9.2 1x undertakes to acknowledge and identify you as the author of Your Photographs made available for sale. Such acknowledgement will be made where Your Photographs are offered for sale. 1x also undertakes to inform 1x's Partners to acknowledge and identify you as the author of Your Photographs made available for sale.

9.3 1x and 1x's Partners shall sell Printed Copies of Your Photographs made available for sale under their own names and will handle all contacts with Customers. Consequently, 1x and 1x's Partners will, at their own expense, handle all orders and payments from Customers and the distribution of purchased Printed Copies of Your Photographs to Customers.

9.4 1x and 1x's Partners are free to use any subcontractors, such as printing labs, reproduction firms, marketing and distribution companies, and will handle all contacts with such subcontractors.

9.5 1x undertakes to inform any subcontractors that it may not user Your Photographs for any other purposes than to fulfil the tasks assigned to the subcontractors by 1x and that the subcontractors may not keep any copies of Your Photographs after fulfilment of the tasks assigned to them.

9.6 1x undertakes to inform 1x's Partners that any subcontractors of 1x's Partners may not use Your Photographs for any other purposes than to fulfil the tasks assigned to the subcontractors by 1x's Partners and that such subcontractors may not keep any copies of Your Photographs after fulfilment of the tasks assigned to them.

9.7 1x and 1x's Partners decides which printers, colors, printing process, materials and sizes to offer Printed Copies of Your Photographs made available for sale in their sole discretion. You acknowledge and agree that the colors in the Printed Copies of Your Photographs may differ from the colors you see on the computer screen. 1x or 1x's Partners shall not be liable and may not be held responsible for any differences between Printed Copies of Your Photographs and the high resolution image file provided by you or for any differences between the high resolution image file provided by you and Your Photographs as it is presented on 1x's or 1x's Partners' websites or in other material.

9.8 1x and 1x's Partners shall have the right to perform any cropping, color adjustments, dust removal, sharpening, contrast adjustments, rotation or any other editing of Your Photographs sold or marketed under this Agreement. Your Photographs shall not contain any text, copyright notices, signatures etc. 1x and 1x's Partners shall have the right to remove borders and any text, copyright notices, signatures etc from Your Photographs.

9.9 1x and 1x’s Partners shall have the right to edit the title of Your Photographs available for sale, replace or create a new title. 1x and 1x’s Partner’s also have the right to edit any information and add new information associated with Your Photographs including but not limited to, description, comments, keywords (tags), exif information, location and your biography.

9.10 1x and 1x's Partners decide exclusively and in their sole discretion the prices offered to Customers for Printed Copies of Your Photographs. 1x and 1x's Partners decide exclusively and in their sole discretion, to which countries and/or regions to offer Printed Copies of Your Photographs to Customers.

9.11 The compensation to you for each printed copy of Your Photographs sold by 1x shall be twelve (12) percent of the net sales price, defined as the price to the customer less shipping costs, discounts, custom duties, sales tax and other taxes.

9.12 The compensation to you for each printed copy of Your Photographs sold by 1x's Partners under this Agreement shall be fifty (50) percent of the net royalty earned by 1x from 1x's Partners, defined as the royalty earned by 1x from 1x's Partners less transaction fees, discounts, agent fees, sales tax, custom duties, currency exchange fees, administrative costs and any other taxes, fees or costs.

9.13 Your compensation from sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs sold by 1x and 1x's Partners will be presented to you in Your Settings Page. Your earnings will be presented in USD and EUR separately. 1x undertakes to transfer your compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs to you the first week of the second calendar quarter following immediately upon the day the order was paid by the Customer. Transaction costs and currency exchange fees, for transferring your earnings to you will be deducted from the transaction. 1x will not transfer compensation to you for earnings in USD if your total earnings since your last pay out by 1x are below 50 USD. If your earnings are below 50 USD, they will accumulate with the earnings of the next period and be transferred to you if the total accumulated earnings are not below 50 USD under this period. 1x will not transfer compensation to you for earnings in EUR if your total earnings since your last pay out by 1x are below 50 EUR. If your earnings are below 50 EUR, they will accumulate with the earnings of the next period and be transferred to you if the total accumulated earnings are not below 50 EUR under this period. Earnings are transferred to you using PayPal. If you have failed to register a valid email address to your PayPal account in Your Settings Page, 1x will not transfer any compensation to you. If Your Account is deleted you are not entitled to any compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs and no compensation will be transferred to you. Any compensation which has not been paid out when Your Account was deleted will be used by 1x to develop 1x's website.

9.14 1x and 1x’s Partners have the right to discount Printed Copies of Your Photographs. In such case the discount will be deducted from the net sales price as defined in Sections 9.11 and 9.12 above. 1x and 1x's Partners have the right to give away Printed Copies of Your Photographs for free for promotional purposes in order to increase sales. In such case there will be no compensation paid to you.

9.15 Each Customer may be entitled to rescind its purchase and return the Printed Copies of Your Photographs. In such a case, you shall not be entitled to any compensation for the returned Printed Copies. If compensation for the returned Printed Copies of Your Photographs has already been registered, 1x shall be entitled to deduct an amount corresponding to such compensation. If compensation for the returned Printed Copies of Your Photographs has already been paid out to you, 1x shall be entitled to deduct an amount corresponding to such compensation from your next pay out.

9.16 If any of 1x's Partners files for bankruptcy or insolvency and royalty for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs is not transferred to 1x by 1x's Partners, you shall not be entitled to any compensation for such royalty. If compensation for the sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs has already been registered, 1x shall be entitled to deduct an amount corresponding to such compensation. If compensation for the returned Printed Copies of Your Photographs have already been paid out to you, 1x shall be entitled to deduct an amount corresponding to such compensation from your next pay out.

9.17 1x and 1x's Partners shall in their sole discretion have the right to refuse to sell or stop selling Printed Copies of any or all of Your Photographs in certain sizes and/or in certain materials, or in all sizes and materials, at any time and for any reason. In such case, you shall be entitled to compensation for any and all Printed Copies of Your Photographs already sold by 1x or 1x's Partners. You shall not be entitled to any other compensation due to such cessation of selling and marketing of any or all of Your Photographs by 1x or 1x's Partners.

9.18 If you wish to stop selling Printed Copies of any or all of Your Photographs you may uncheck the "For sale" boxes in Your Manage Photos Page. If Your Photographs are already being marketed, distributed and sold or offered for sale by 1x's Partners, 1x's Partners have the right to continue selling, marketing, distributing and printing Your Photographs for and additional 6 calendar months after you have made Your Photographs unavailable for sale. 1x's Partners have the right to market, sell and distribute any remaning already Printed Copies of Your Photographs for up to one year after Your Photographs were removed from sales.

9.19 1x's license and any sublicense to 1x's Partners to sell, market and distribute Printed Copies of Your Photographs under this Agreement are terminated if you delete Your Account at 1x's website. If Your Photographs are already being marketed, distributed and sold or offered for sale by 1x's Partners, 1x's Partners have the right to continue selling, marketing, distributing and printing Your Photographs for and additional 6 calendar months after You deleted Your Account. 1x's Partners have the right to market, sell and distribute any remaning already Printed Copies of Your Photographs for up to one year after You deleted Your Account.

9.20 Your acknowledge and agree that if you fail to fulfil any of the obligations under this Section 9, 1x and/or 1x's Partners may cease marketing, selling and distributing Your Photographs.


10. Rules for Communicating on 1x's Website

10.1 When communicating on 1x, in all forms of communication and written messages, including but not limited to photo titles, photo comments, photo descriptions, critique posts, tutorial posts, contest posts, guestbook posts, presentation texts, blog posts and news posts, always use a friendly, polite language. Never write in anger, insult, slander, defame, offend, discriminate or make personal accusations or attacks against someone. Never use a rude language. When commenting on another member's photos you are required to be extra careful. Insulting, offending, slandering, defaming or discriminating someone for any reason is strictly prohibited.

10.2 When writing in critique, Ýou must give useful, constructive tips on how to improve the photo You are commenting. Always explain in detail why You have a certain opinion. When posting an image for critique You must explain in detail how the image was taken and the idea behind it. For a complete list of rules, refer to the "guidelines for participating in the critique forum” in the Critique page at 1x's website. Failure to follow the rules may lead to deletion of individual critique posts, deletion of images posted for critique or to a loss of critique privileges and a temporary or permanent ban from critique or 1x's website.

10.3 You are not allowed to question the decisions of 1x and its curators to publish or not publish photos in the Gallery or discuss individual decisions in public in any and all forms of communication on 1x's website.

10.4 You acknowledge and agree that 1x has the right to delete any written message or other text or material submitted by You at any time and for any reason.

10.5 You acknowledge and agree that if You fail to fulfil any of your undertakings under this Section 10, 1x may temporarily or permanently ban Your Account from writing posts and comments on 1x's website or temporarily or permanently ban or delete Your Account from 1x's website. If Your Account is banned or deleted no money for paid membership fees will be refunded. If Your Account is deleted no compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs will be paid out to You.


11. Usage of and Linking to Photos

11.1 Copying, downloading, taking screenshots, displaying, printing or otherwise using photos on 1x's website without the written consent of 1x is strictly prohibited. It's strictly forbidden to remove the watermark or copyright information attached to photos on 1x's website.

11.2 When linking to photos on 1x's website, You are only allowed to link to the full image page with all information included (http://1x.com/photo/), never link directly to the image file or in any other way. You are not allowed to link to photos on 1x's website by copying images and use them as links, only text links are allowed on other sites.

11.3 You acknowledge and agree that if You fail to fulfill any of your undertakings under this Section 11, 1x might temporarily or permanently ban or delete Your Account. If Your Account is banned or deleted no money for paid membership fees will be refunded. If Your Account is deleted no compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs will be paid out to You. 1x has the right to economical compensation for violations against Section 11.1 above.


12. Membership Types and Prices

12.1 For a detailed list of conditions and prices for the different memberships, refer to: https://1x.com/upgrade, https://1x.com/FAQ or the information you received when you signed up or made a payment for membership fees. These conditions may be subject to change at any time.


13. Ending Membership

13.1 If you end your membership in Your Settings Page, Your Account will be deleted immediately. Your Photographs and Your Submitted Material will be deleted immediately with the exception for Your Photographs available for sale and high resolution files of Your Photographs necessary to fullfil sales of Printed Copies of Your Photographs. All Your Photographs and high resolution files of Your Photographs will be deleted within maximum 6 months after you deleted Your Account. Your Photographs, Your Submitted Material and personal information may still remain on backups, not accessible by the public, after Your Account has been deleted. Your Photographs and Your Submitted Material posted on social network sites, blogs, photo sites, magazine sites, news sites and any other sites and associated information will not be deleted. Your Photographs and information associated to photo tutorials or contest submission will not be deleted, unless You request it to support@1x.com.

13.2 For terms and conditions regarding deletion of your personal data when ending your membership the terms and conditions in the Privacy Policy apply (https://beta.1x.com/privacy).

13.3 If you end your membership, no payments for membership fees will be refunded.

13.4 If you have ended your membership you are not allowed to register a new account at 1x's website without the written consent of 1x.

13.5 If Your Account is deleted you are not entitled to any compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs and no compensation will be transferred to you. Any compensation which has not been paid out when Your Account was deleted will be used by 1x to develop 1x's website.


14. Liability and Limitation Thereof

14.1 1x undertakes to inform 1x's Partners and subcontractors in accordance with Sections 9.2, 9.5 and 9.6 above. 1x does not, however, undertake any liability for 1x's Partners' and subcontractors' compliance with such information and/or 1x's Partners' and subcontractors' use of Your Photographs.

14.2 1x and 1x's Partners shall not be liable and may not be held responsible for any differences between Printed Copies of Your Photographs and the high resolution image files provided by you or for any differences between the high resolution image files provided by you and Your Photographs as it is presented on 1x's or 1x's Partners websites. 1x undertakes, however, to respect and comply with mandatory law.

14.3 1x and 1x's Partners is relieved from liability from any consequences of hacker attacks or otherwise unauthorised access to their servers or databases, which results in a third party's possession or spreading of any personal information, Photographs, image files other material or information.

14.4 1x and 1x's Partners are relieved from liability from any consequences if 1x's or 1x's Partners' website or any of 1x's services or products (including, but not limited to, personal homepages and prints sales) are unavailable for any period of time.

14.5 1x and 1x's Partners are relieved from liability from any consequences of errors or faults in 1x's website or its services (including, but not limited to, personal homepages and prints sales).

14.6 1x and 1x's Partners are relieved from liability from any consequences of any illegal, slandering, offending, discriminating or defamatory comments or other material provided by its members. You are personally responsible for any such comments or material which You submit to 1x's website.

14.7 1x and 1x's Partners are relieved from liability for a failure to perform an obligation under this Agreement if such failure is due to a circumstance of the type stated below (Relieving circumstance) and the circumstance prevents or makes substantially more difficult the timely performance of such obligation. A Relieving circumstance shall be deemed to include inter alia acts or omissions of authorities, new or amended legislation, leaving of personnel, illness or other reduction of work capacity, death, conflicts on the labour market, blockade, fire, flood, war, loss or destruction of property or data of major significance or a major accident.

14.8 1X AND 1X'S PARTNERS SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE TOWARDS YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF ANY DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED BY 1X OR 1X'S Partners.

14.9 1X'S AND 1X's PARTNERS AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, SHALL NOT EXCEED SEK 1000.


15. Termination

15.1 If you have ended your membership and Your Account has been deleted, this Agreement is terminated. Sections 2.5 and 2.6 (License grant), Section 5 (Warranties and Indemnifications), Section 9 (Selling prints), Section 14 (Liability and limitation thereof), Section 18 (Legal disputes) and Section 19 (Miscellaneous) survive termination of this Agreement.

15.2 If Your Account has been deleted by 1x in accordance with any of the provisions in this Agreement, this Agreement is immediately terminated. Sections 2.5 and 2.6 (License Grant), Section 5 (Warranties and Indemnifications), Section 9 (Selling Prints), Section 14 (Liability and Limitation Thereof), Section 18 (Legal Disputes) and Section 19 (Miscellaneous) survive termination of this Agreement.

15.3 If this Agreement has been terminated in accordance with Section 15.1 or 15.2 above, you are not allowed to register a new account at 1x's website.

15.4 If this Agreement is terminated no money for paid membership fees will be refunded to You.

15.5 If this Agreement is terminated You are not entitled to any compensation for sold Printed Copies of Your Photographs and no compensation will be transferred to you. Any compensation which has not been paid out when Your Account was deleted will be used by 1x to develop 1x's website.


16. Refunds of Membership Fees

16.1 Once a payment for membership fees has been made to 1x, no money will be refunded, except if You have made a double payment by mistake. In such a case one of the payments will be refunded upon a request made to support@1x.com within 14 days from when the payment was made. However, 1x will comply with mandatory law.

16.2 If Your Account has been banned or deleted in accordance with any of the provisions under this Agreement, no money for membership fees will be refunded.


17. Changes

17.1 1x may at any time change the provisions of this Agreement. 1x shall notify you of any changes when you are logged in to 1x's website and by sending an email to your registered email address in Your Settings Page. You will be requested to accept such changes, included in a new agreement on 1x's website. If you decline the new agreement, this Agreement is terminated and the terms and conditions for termination under Section 15 apply. If You do not either accept or decline the new agreement within 30 days, the new agreement will replace this Agreement and You will be bound by the new agreement.


18. Legal Disputes

18.1 Any dispute which may arise between You and 1x regarding the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall first be settled by friendly arrangements after discussions with our customer support. If and when such a dispute is not settled by such arrangements, any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, or the breach, termination or invalidity thereof, shall be finally settled by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The arbitral tribunal shall be composed of a sole arbitrator. The seat of arbitration shall be Stockholm, Sweden. The language of the arbitration shall be English. This Agreement shall be governed by the substantive law of Sweden, disregarding conflict of law provisions.


19. Miscellaneous

19.1 The parties are independent entities and neither shall be considered an agent, employee, commercial representative, partner, franchisee or joint venturer of the other. Neither party shall have any authority, absent express written permission from the other party, to enter into any agreement, assume or create any obligations or liabilities, or make representations on behalf of the other party not stated in this Agreement.

19.2 To the extent any provision in this Agreement is deemed illegal, void or unenforceable, that provision shall not affect the remaining provisions of this Agreement.

19.3 This Agreement, including the Privacy Policy (https://beta.1x.com/privacy) and Terms of Service (https://beta.1x.com/terms), incorporates the entire understanding between the parties. This Agreement supersedes any prior agreements between the parties, whether made orally, in writing or otherwise. No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by both parties. Notwithstanding the above, 1x may change the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Service in accordance with the provisions regarding changes in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.