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 points: -
Please email
us to ask for permission before using our images.
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.
For big kids and
little kids everywhere, Smurf merchandise can be purchased from Kitty's
Cavern Smurf Shop.
