Terms of Use

1. Intellectual Property & Image Ownership

All content displayed on this website, including but not limited to wildlife photography, landscape photography, digital images, illustrations, text, articles, graphics, site design, logos, and software, is the exclusive intellectual property of Timothy Blake.

This content is protected by United Kingdom copyright laws, international copyright treaties, database rights, and other intellectual property laws. All rights not expressly granted under these terms are strictly reserved by Timothy Blake.

2. Strict Prohibition of Unauthorized Use

Unauthorized actions include, but are not limited to:

• Downloading and saving images for personal use, desktop wallpapers, or screensavers without a license.
• Publishing any image on personal blogs, social media channels, forum posts, or non-commercial websites.
• Using images in commercial products, advertisements, promotions, client work, or business websites.
• Modifying, cropping, adding filters to, or removing watermarks/metadata from any image.
• Hotlinking directly to image assets hosted on my servers (embedding them on external sites).

3. Artificial Intelligence & Data Scraping Prohibition

You are strictly prohibited from using any automated or manual technologies (including web scrapers, crawlers, robots, spiders, or scripts) to access, mine, extract, or copy any images, text, or data from this website.

Specifically, no content or images from Wildlife Timothy Blake may be used for the training, testing, tuning, or development of machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) models, generative image platforms, or large language models (LLMs) without a separate, explicit written licensing agreement.

4. Permitted Uses & Licensing Requests

If you are interested in licensing any of the photographs featured on Wildlife Timothy Blake for commercial, editorial, educational, or personal projects, please submit a formal request.

Licensing requests should include:

• The specific image(s) you wish to use (referencing the species name or slug).
• A detailed description of the intended medium (website, print book, exhibition, digital presentation).
• The duration and geographic scope of the proposed usage.
• Whether the use is commercial, editorial, or educational.

To request permission, please contact me via the Contact Page. No permission is granted until a licensing contract is signed and any agreed fees are paid in full.

5. Copyright Infringement & Legal Remedies

Timothy Blake actively monitors the internet for unauthorized use of his copyrighted work using automated image tracking and reverse lookup services.

In the event that unauthorized image use is identified, I reserve the right to:

• Issue formal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices to web hosts, service providers, and search engines.
• Issue cease-and-desist letters detailing copyright violations.
• Invoice the infringing party for retroactive licensing fees, including penalties for copyright notice removal and unauthorized usage.
• Pursue statutory damages and legal costs through litigation in appropriate jurisdictions.

6. Website Use & User Conduct

You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes. You must not use the website in a way that damages, disables, or impairs my services, or interferes with other users' enjoyment of the site.

7. Limitation of Liability & Disclaimers

The information, biological details, and guides provided on this website are for educational, research, and entertainment purposes only. While I strive to ensure the accuracy of my animal database and blog posts, Wildlife Timothy Blake makes no warranties or representations regarding the completeness or accuracy of this information.

8. Amendments

I reserve the right to update or modify these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Your continued use of the website following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.