Portfolio Collaboration Terms

1.1 Who they are between. These Terms are between you — the adult MayerPix has invited to be photographed in a Portfolio Collaboration Session — and Peter Mayer, doing business as MayerPix Photography ("MayerPix").

1.2 What they cover. They cover a Portfolio Collaboration Session that MayerPix has created for you by invitation, at no charge. They state the permission you give MayerPix as the condition of the invitation, what the Session includes, what you may do with your images, and what happens if the Session does not go ahead or produces nothing usable.

1.3 Invitation only. This Session is not a product MayerPix sells or advertises. It exists only because MayerPix invited you, and only for you. The invitation does not transfer to anyone else.

1.4 These Terms are the whole agreement for this Session. You do not accept MayerPix's Photography Services Agreement for this Session; these Terms are the only terms between you and MayerPix for it. MayerPix does not conduct a Session in conditions it considers unsafe, its staff do not recommend unsafe poses or places, and you are responsible for your own safety and for using reasonable care.

1.5 You accept them personally, before the Session. You accept these Terms yourself, before enrolment and before the Session. No one can accept them for you. If more than one adult is to be photographed in the same Session, each other adult accepts these Terms personally, through the link MayerPix provides, before the Session. MayerPix does not photograph first and ask afterwards.

1.6 Adults only. This Session is for adults. MayerPix does not invite, enrol or photograph anyone under 18 under these Terms.

1.7 A Session arranged by an organization. If an organization arranges this Session, the person who arranges it confirms that they may do so for the organization. The organization does not accept these Terms for anyone and gives no permission for anyone's likeness: each adult who will be photographed — including the person who arranges the Session, if they will be in the photographs — accepts these Terms personally, through the link MayerPix provides, before the Session.

2.1 No payment. MayerPix does not charge you for this Session, and you do not pay MayerPix anything for it.

2.2 The condition. The permission in section 3 is the condition of the invitation. It is not a consequence of attending, receiving a link, receiving a gallery or receiving photographs. If you do not accept it, you are not enrolled and the Session does not take place under this invitation.

2.3 Nothing is taken from you later. Accepting the permission is a condition of enrolment. It is never used after the Session as a reason to withhold your photographs, delay your gallery, or ask you for anything more.

3.1 What you permit. You permit MayerPix to use selected photographs from this Session in which you are recognizable for: (A) MayerPix's own portfolio, MayerPix's own website, and MayerPix's own social-media channels as ordinary, unpaid posts; and (B) publications about MayerPix or photography, competitions, awards, exhibitions, and professional presentations.

3.2 What you do not permit by these Terms. This permission is not full rights, all rights, a blanket permission, a permanent permission or a transfer of ownership. Unless you separately allow expanded commercial use under section 5, it does not allow MayerPix to use your photographs in paid advertising; on merchandise, prints or products for sale; in the promotion of an agency, partner, brand or other third party; or in stock-style licensing, resale or sublicensing to others. It never allows use in any political campaign, or for training artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models, creating synthetic images of you, or biometric, facial-recognition or age-estimation purposes. Expanded commercial use is never presented as required.

3.3 How MayerPix uses the photographs. MayerPix uses the selected photographs in a professional, respectful, non-disparaging and non-misleading way. The permission is not permission to ridicule, humiliate or defame you; to materially misrepresent you or the Session; to falsely imply that you endorse MayerPix, another person, a product, a service, an organization or a position; or to use your image in a political campaign or another heightened context without your separate documented permission.

3.4 Three separate things. MayerPix keeps the copyright in the photographs (section 6). Your licence to use the photographs delivered to you is section 6. The permission in this section is your permission for MayerPix to use your likeness. None of the three includes or implies another.

4.1 Five years. The permission in section 3, and any further permission you give under section 5, last for five years from the Session date.

4.2 During the five years. During that time there is no right to withdraw the permission. If you ask MayerPix to stop using or to remove a photograph before the five years end, MayerPix may consider the request; it does not have to agree.

4.3 After the five years. After the five years, MayerPix does not make any new use of the photographs — no new publication, placement, repost, re-upload, new gallery, feature or compilation — without a separate permission from you. MayerPix does not have to take down what it placed during the five years; a placement that simply stays where it was is not a new use.

4.4 Asking for removal after the five years. After the five years, you may ask MayerPix in writing, without giving a reason, to remove your photographs from the public online placements MayerPix controls — all of them from this Session, or specific ones. MayerPix removes or disables those placements within 60 days of a request it can reasonably verify as coming from you. This reaches MayerPix's own website, its portfolio pages and the social-media posts it controls where removal is technically available. It does not reach copies, shares or screenshots made by others, search-engine or archive copies, printed material, or MayerPix's internal records and backups, and it does not require MayerPix to recall anything already downloaded by others. Printed materials and products made during the five years under a use you allowed may continue to be shown, distributed and sold after the five years; MayerPix does not make a new print run or a new product after them, and removal never requires MayerPix to recall, buy back or destroy a printed or physical item.

5.1 Optional and separate. When you accept the invitation, and separately from your acceptance of these Terms, MayerPix offers you the choice of also allowing expanded commercial use of selected photographs of you (C): MayerPix's paid advertising, merchandise, prints and products, licensing to others, and promotion with partners, brands or other third parties. It is optional and is not selected in advance. If you do not allow it then, you may allow it later in your Client Portal.

5.2 Declining changes nothing. Declining does not change the invitation, the Session, what you receive, or anything in these Terms. Only what you expressly allow is permitted, and section 4 applies to it in the same way.

5.3 Never included. Use for training artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models, synthetic images, biometric, facial-recognition or age-estimation purposes, and political-campaign use are not among the choices and are never permitted by these Terms.

6.1 MayerPix keeps the copyright. MayerPix owns the copyright in the photographs. Nothing in these Terms transfers copyright or ownership to you.

6.2 What you may do with the images MayerPix delivers. You may use the final images MayerPix delivers to you from this Session for your own personal social-media use and in your own portfolio. You may not sell or license them, use them as stock images, use them for a brand, in paid advertising or in any other commercial way, sublicense them, or transfer them to a third party for the third party's use, unless MayerPix agrees to that in writing.

7.1 The Session. The Session takes place on the date, at the time and at the location stated in your invitation, for the time it states.

7.2 The images. MayerPix delivers the final images it selects for this Session, in its creative judgment, from the usable material. Where the invitation states a number of images, it is a maximum, not a minimum. There is no guaranteed number of images, and no fixed number of colour-corrected images, retouched images, poses, outfits, locations, crops or frames is promised.

8.1 If you cannot attend. Tell MayerPix as early as you can. Because nothing was paid, nothing is refunded and nothing is owed. MayerPix may offer another date; it does not have to.

8.2 If MayerPix cancels before the Session. Before the Session begins, MayerPix may decline to go ahead with, or withdraw, the invitation for a lawful business, creative-fit, communication, scheduling, scope, conduct or safety reason. MayerPix keeps a record of its reason but does not have to explain it to you in detail. Because nothing was paid, there is nothing to refund, and MayerPix does not owe you another Session, a credit or compensation. MayerPix does not use this right for an unlawful discriminatory or retaliatory reason.

8.3 A Session that did not happen gives no permission. If the Session does not take place, for any reason, MayerPix has no permission to use any photograph, whatever was accepted at enrolment.

8.4 If the Session produces nothing usable. If the Session took place but MayerPix cannot deliver even one usable final photograph — whether because of a technical failure on MayerPix's side or for any other reason — MayerPix has no permission to use any photograph from it. Because nothing was paid, there is no refund. MayerPix does not owe you a reshoot, a replacement Session, a credit, compensation or a future booking. MayerPix may offer a reshoot or another accommodation voluntarily; nothing is promised, and an offer once does not create an entitlement another time.

9.1 Each adult decides for themselves. These Terms give MayerPix permission for your likeness only. No one accepts them for another adult, and you do not give any permission on behalf of anyone else. Each other adult who will be photographed accepts these Terms personally, through the link MayerPix provides, before the Session. Where another adult is recognizable in a photograph, MayerPix uses it only with that adult's own acceptance.

9.2 Not permission. Attending or appearing in a photograph, receiving an invitation or a link, having access to a gallery, receiving delivered photographs, a gratuity, or a pre-selected, bundled, hidden or mandatory checkbox is never permission from you or from anyone else.

10.1 The version that governs. The version of these Terms shown to you when you accepted, together with the scope shown to you at that time, is the version that governs your Session. MayerPix preserves a record of your acceptance — the version, the scope shown, your enrolment details, and the date and time — and makes the accepted version available to you.

10.2 Later changes. Changes MayerPix makes to these Terms apply to later Sessions only. They do not change the version you accepted.

10.3 Notices, law and disputes. Notices between you and MayerPix are given by email. California law governs these Terms. If a dispute arises, the party raising it gives the other written notice by email, both try in good faith for 15 calendar days to resolve it, and after that either may bring a claim in the courts of the State of California, including the small claims court where the claim qualifies, in the county California law provides for a consumer contract.