FAQ

Imaggeo is published by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and follows guidelines in line with those of EGU publications:

• The material posted here is published under a Creative Commons licence (opens in a new window). This means that the material is always credited to the author. Some images have a more restrictive licence (for example NonCommercial or ShareAlike): please refer to individual pictures for more information.
• To post to Imaggeo, you must either be the author of the photograph or video you are submitting, or you must have permission from the author to upload their image to the database.
• If you have submitted your work elsewhere, you have to secure the right to reproduce the material to Imaggeo under the copyright conditions specified here.
• Do not post any content (photographs, videos, comments) that is abusive, offensive or otherwise objectionable.
• By posting to or commenting on Imaggeo you declare that you agree with these copyright conditions.

To use material posted to Imaggeo, please credit images or videos as follows:

Credit: [Author's first name] [Author's last name] (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

File size	max. 100 MB
Image dimensions	min. 800 x 600 pixels max. 30000 pixels per side (250 megapixels total)
Video length	max. 3 minutes
Supported image formats	jpg, png, webp, avif, heic
Supported video formats	mp4, m4v, mov, avi, mpeg, mkv, webm

You can close your account yourself: go to Close my account in your profile settings.

When you close your account, we:

• disable your login and remove your email address, password and social logins;
• delete your unpublished uploads (drafts and anything still being processed);
• remove your follows and favourites.

Images and videos you have already published stay online under the Creative Commons licence you chose, keeping your name as the required attribution. Creative Commons licences are irrevocable, so this credit cannot be withdrawn.

You also decide what happens to:

• your comments: keep them with your name removed, or delete them;
• your avatar, affiliation, city and country: remove them, or leave them in place (they appear next to your images but are not needed for attribution).

If none of your media is published, your whole account is removed. If you have published media, the account is closed and your personal data deleted, but your name stays on those images as the licence requires. We email you a confirmation either way.

You can delete your files as long as they are not published. Go to the Upload section and click on "Delete" next to the unpublished image or video you would like to remove.

Once your files are published on Imaggeo, they are publicly distributed under Creative Commons (CC) licences, which are irrevocable. This means that, even if you change your mind and would like to stop distribution of your CC-licensed images or videos, we will always have the right to use and distribute them under the original licence terms.

EGU and others use files uploaded to Imaggeo in their activities (e.g. on the EGU blog), respecting the terms of the licence. To ensure we have proof of the original licence a file was distributed under, and to avoid users uploading the same files to the EGU photo competition year after year, we do not delete published files from our database.

However, we delete files on request, if there's any legal reason (e.g. if an identifiable person disagrees with the publication), if the file is a duplicate or near duplicate of an already uploaded file, or if it was uploaded in error and published just a short time ago. Please email imaggeo@egu.eu with such requests.

If you come across an image or video on Imaggeo that you feel should not be published, please let us know. You can report content that is abusive, offensive or otherwise objectionable, material that infringes copyright (for example, if you are the creator and it was submitted without your permission), duplicates of media already on the database, and abusive comments.

Open the image or video and use the Report link beneath its details. Tell us what the issue is and add any details that help us look into it.

Every report is reviewed by EGU staff, who decide what action to take, such as hiding or removing the content. We only use the contact details you provide to follow up on your report.