Free Legal Pictures for your Web Site

Free online image use directions.

Step 1.  Read, understand, agree to, and follow the Free Web Site Photo Use Requirements.

Step 2.  Locate the image you wish to use on DownTheRoad.org.  (See our  FAQs for Photographic Use page for search tips and assistance.)

Step 3.  Save the image to your web server so it loads from your web server when your web page is opened by surfers on the internet.  Never repeatedly load an image from our server on your web site, this is called bandwidth theft.  Bandwidth theft is illegal and easy to track through server logs.

Understand:  After the permission request email is sent I grant you temporary permission to use my photo on your web site for 30 days while it is being inspected.  After this grace period has expired you need to have in your possession an "Online Publication License" for legal permission to use my photo.  If you have not received this license in your email within 30 days you do not have permission to use it and you must remove our photo from your website.

Step 4.  Place the image you wish to use on your web site with the exact required caption and text link "Photo provided by www.DownTheRoad.org the Ongoing Global Bicycle Touring Adventure" as it appears in the image use example below. This linked caption must be directly under each and every photo used.  In order to use my photo legally this text must be clearly readable, no less than 10 points type and, no attempts to hide or obscure this text in any way.

The entire caption must be linked to www.DownTheRoad.org as it appears in the photo use example below.  This means that when an internet user clicks on this text they are taken directly to my website.  Any image taken from DownTheRoad.org without the proper caption and link will be considered illegal and dealt with accordingly.

If you are unwilling or unable to provide the exact required caption and text link as it appears in the Photo use example below you can purchase an affordable photo use license.  For a small fee of US$10 I grant permission to use my photo without a caption, link, or other credit for the life of the purchaser.

Step 5.  In the permission request email include the exact URL where you have placed our photo on your web site so I can click it and go directly to the page with our photo.   If this URL does not go directly to your web page with our photo you request will be refused and the photo must be removed from your website.  This URL will be inspected periodically to check if the terms of the agreement are being met. Also include your contact information.  Please double check that your email address is correct and working properly.  We will send the final Online Publication License using this email address.

Example:  www.YourDomain.com/PageWithPhoto.html

Name of contact person

Email of contact person
Your email address will not be sold or disclosed

Step 6.  Send permission request email below.  I will inspect your website through the URL you provided above and when all the conditions of the Free Web Site Photo Use Requirements are met I will use the email address provided above to send you a Photograph Use License for Free Online Web Site Publication which grants you legal permission to use the photograph on your web site.

Every couple months after you have received your permission I will inspect your web site to ensure the Free Web Site Photo Use Requirements are being met.  If your photo use is in compliance you will not hear from me.

After the permission request email is submitted below I grant you temporary permission for 30 days to post the photo while it is being inspected.  After this grace period has expired you need to have in your possession an "Online Publication License" for legal permission to use our photo.  If you have not received this license in your email within 30 days you do not have permission to use it and you must remove our photo from your web site.