Free Travel Pictures read the following carefully - to avoid infringing copyright!

FREE — or low-cost — travel pictures for your website!

Synergise are pleased to offer well over a one-hundred travel pictures that private individuals can use for free on their websites. Even commercial websites can use reasonable numbers of them for free. All we ask is that you read the following information very carefully to ensure you do not break our terms and conditions and thereby infringe someone's copyright.

By no means all of the pictures on this website can be legally reproduced, therefore it is essential you understand how to determine which can, and what our requirements are if you do so. You need to read this entire page to be fully aware of these requirements. A misunderstanding could lead you to accidentaly commit an offence by infringing copyright.

Terms & Conditions

Although the following is phrased is readable language, it represents the Terms and Conditions on which we make images available. Any infringement of this may be subject to legal action.

Do not use our pictures unless you full understand our terms and conditions and have the skills to carry out our requirements without further guidance.

Which pictures you may use

You can only use CERTAIN PICTURES from within the Ed's Travels section of this website. You CANNOT use pictures from anywhere else on this website.

This page reproduces the side menu used on the pages of Ed's Travels in order to provide you with easy access to all the pages that contain the available pictures. But you CANNOT use ALL of the pictures within this section - just MOST of them!

The pictures you CAN use within Ed's Travels are THOSE THAT OFFER A 'CLICK-TO-ENLARGE' FACILITY. When you hover your mouse over these pictures the cursor usually changes to a hand and, when you click, this opens a larger image in another browser window. You may copy this larger image OR the thumbnail image you clicked, subject to our following Terms and Conditions. You MUST NOT use any other pictures from this website and you MUST NOT use any of the smaller in-text thumbnail images UNLESS it is clickable to a larger version.

How you may use the available pictures

You MUST NOT link to the picture from your website. Instead, you MUST TAKE A COPY of the image to save on your own website and use the image from there. (Backlinks will tells us if anyone is using them on our website, and this affects our bandwidth and is against the terms and conditions of use.)

You MAY REDUCE the size of any image PROVIDING you maintain the aspect ratio (ie reduce both height and width by the same amount to prevent distortion).

You MAY CROP the image.

You MUST NOT COMPRESS the image (thereby reducing its quality).

You MOST NOT ENLARGE the image (thereby reducing its quality).

You MAY change the name of the image file.

You MUST NOT change the image in any way other than as permitted above.

YOU MUST include the appropriate copyright information within the ALT tag of the image, as detailed below. [more]

YOU MUST include the appropriate links to the correct pages of our website on your own website, as detailed below. You MUST NOT include more links than specified below.

YOU MUST make the appropriate payment IF this is liable. (This only applies to significant usage or where you would prefer to make a payment rather than include the required links.)

YOU MUST NOT SELL OR MAKE AVAILABLE an image from the Synergise website or use it in any medium other than your own website.

If you use Synergise images in more than one website these terms and conditions apply as if for separate websites.

YOU MAY NOT use these images on any website that might be considered to be a 'link farm' (ie a site with the main aim of obtaining or exchanging links), or which contains anything which might be judged to include: profanity, hate, violence, racial or religious intolerance, reference to illicit drugs or their association, pornography, adult or mature information, explicit sexual references, or anything promoting illegal activities or infringes the legal rights of others.

You MAY NOT use any of our images on an intranet or on Internet website pages that require password access to be viewed. They can only be used on websites that are freely available to anyone via the Internet (ie in the public domain).

You MAY NOT copy any of our article text without prior agreement.

What you must do in return for using these pictures

Moderate use of available pictures is free, whether you have a personal or commercial website. However, more extensive usage or particular types of usage by commercial sites is subject to a charge. Another factor that affects our terms and conditions is what kind of website you wish to use them on. Some sites will be unsuitable.

All sites that use our images MUST inform us within 3 days of making our images available for use in the Internet and remove them within 7 days on our request if we consider their usage or the site on which they are used unsuitable or if they do not meet all the requirements of our terms and conditions.

Images are made available providing the appropriate acknowledgement links as detailed below are published or alternative payment is made where available as an option.

The following codes are used to describe the link or payment requirements that appear in the subsequent table which considers different types of website, usage and the importance of the using pages:

[HPL] = Home Page Link from using site's home page to Synergise home page [more]
[RPL] = Ranked Page Link from using site to Synergise home page [more]
[UPL] = Site's Using Page Link from EACH using page to Synergise Free Pics page [more]
[2RPL] = 2nd-tier Ranked Page Link to Synergise home page [more]
[IPL] = Intelligent Page Linking (intelligent links as detailed below) [more]
[PAY1] = GBP10 for each image used on site
[PAY2] = GBP20 for each image used on site
[PAY3] = GBP30 for each image used on site
[PAY5] = GBP50 for each image used on site.

How you must implement links

Home Page Link [HPL] or Ranked Page Link [RPL]

The [HPL] should be from the using site's home page, or the [RPL] from a Google ranked page. These links should point to the Synergise.com home page (http://www.synergise.com/) and contain the following text:

This site contains free travel pictures from Synergise.com

Using Page Link [UPL]

The [UPL] MUST have the link pointing to the Synergise Free Pics page, which is THIS PAGE (http://www.synergise.com/travel/Homepage/free-pictures.php) and contain the following text:

This page uses free travel pictures from Synergise.com

2nd-Tier Ranked Page Link [2RPL]

The [2RPL] MUST be from a using site's 2nd-tier pages (ie a page reached directly from the using site's home page), which MUST have Google page ranking (ie be a significant page). The link MUST point to the Synergise home page and contain the following text:

This site contains free travel pictures from Synergise.com

Intelligent Page Linking [IPL] - required by commercial travel sites

Commercial travel sites are required to implement a more intelligent form of linking to the Synergise site. What we require is a single link from each page that uses one or more of our pictures, with that link pointing to the actual Synergise page on which one of the using pictures appears. This should be done in an intelligent way in order to ensure that each supplying Synergise page is linked from one of the using site's pages.

You can do this either with a single page link as follows:

This page contains free travel pictures from Synergise.com

linked to the appropriate page from Ed's Travels, OR from one of the picture copyright statements (shown below).

Picture © Synergise.com

Where you use Synergise pictures on the same page as other pictures not from Synergise it must be clear which are Synergise pictures. Clarify this by putting the phrase 'Picture © Synergise.com' beneath the picture as shown to the right. If the picture is required to be in-text, as in this example, an easy way to achieve this is with a 1-column, 2-row table, as we have done here. Just copy this paragraph code and then edit it to your own requirements. (Change the table ALIGN statement to "LEFT" to put the picture on the left-hand side of the paragraph.) Provided you have a link elsewhere on the page, the text should be left unlinked.

Picture © Synergise.com

If you wish to use the text beneath the picture as your link to the appropriate Synergise page, do so as shown in the example to the left. This also depicts a table with "LEFT" alignment. The code used here will allow the table to expand to any size of picture.

How you must implement the picture ALT text

Every Synergise image must contain the following text WITHIN its 'ALT' tag:

"{country | city | location} picture © Synergise.com"

... where the section in curley-brackets is replaced by the appropriate text

For example, it might contain:

"Paris picture © Synergise.com"

How you must notify us of your picture usage

Once all your images have been published you MUST contact us within 7 days of publishing the first image, even if you have not completed the work and intend to use more images. Just explain your intentions.

If you have a commercial website and use under 6 images we MUST be told the pages on which these appear. If you use more than 6 images, tell us how many you are going to use and provide the URLs of at least 5 example pages.

If you use any images for advertising purposes you MUST tell us about each one and the URL of its location. A payment is always due where advertising is concerned.

Where a payment is due

Where any payment is due we will invoice you for the appropriate payment after you notify us of your usage. By using any or our images you do so on the UNDERSTANDING that any payment due will be paid within 7 days of the requesting date. Failure to do so breaks this agreement and thereby infringes our copyright.

You can pay by any of the following credit/debit cards or by PayPal  money transfer: