Smurf pictures 

Generally we don't mind people using our Smurf pictures for non-commercial reasons. However, if you wish to use one of our smurf pictures on your website then we would appreciate it if you adhere to the following: -

Please do not hotlink images from our website. Hotlinking is where someone links to the image directly from our page. To tell whether you have hotlinked our image on your website you should right-click the image and then left-click on Properties. If the Address starts http://www.kittyscavern.com.. then you have hotlinked directly from our site and are using our bandwidth. This means that every time someone views the page with our smurf image on, this is using some of our allocated bandwidth usage, which we pay for. The correct way to use one of our images is to right-click the image on our page, left-click "Save target as" and then save the image to your hard drive on your computer. If you are using one of our smurf images for a forum avatar then you may need to make it smaller before you can use it, please do not get around this problem by hotlinking. We can trace any hotlinked images and we will rename those used without our permission and indicate that they have been hotlinked which could cause embarrassment.

The main reason we will refuse to let someone use our smurf pictures is if they are using them in order to sell smurfs, because the smurf in our picture might be a different variation or differing condition to the one the person is trying to sell, and we don’t want to cause problems for smurf collectors. 

Using other people’s pictures can be quite a big problem on eBay. People who are new to selling on eBay quite often don’t own a camera so they take pictures from smurf shop websites to use in their auctions. If they don’t know a great deal about smurfs they can mislead buyers, especially die-hard collectors who are looking for variations. If you see someone selling smurfs on eBay whose pictures have differing backgrounds then it could be they are using someone else’s pictures, so take care if you come across this situation and email the seller if you are unsure whether their smurf is actually the one pictured.