By using Sirv, you agree to be bound by Part A of these terms – it applies to all users including casual visitors.
By registering for a Sirv account, you also agree to be bound by Part B of these terms.
Provisions applicable to all Users of the Service (whether registered or not).
Sirv offers an image hosting service to serve digital images through web browsers and apps.
Sirv uses all reasonable endeavors to ensure that the Service is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. However, there may be occasions when the Service will be interrupted for upgrades, emergency repairs or due to failure of telecommunication links and equipment that are beyond the control of Sirv. Every reasonable step will be taken by Sirv to minimize such disruption where it is within the reasonable control of Sirv. You agree that Sirv shall not be liable to you for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
Sirv is committed to protecting your privacy. Your submission of personal information through this site is governed by our Privacy Policy. We will not review, share, distribute or reference any personal information, except as provided in this Agreement, as provided in our privacy policy or as may be required by law.
We also provide you with control over Cookie settings, to describe what cookies this site uses and the ability to accept/reject them.
All brand, service names used in this Service which identify Sirv or third parties and their services are proprietary marks of Sirv and/or the relevant third parties. Nothing in this Service shall be deemed to confer on any person any license or right on the part of Sirv or any third party with respect to any such image, logo or name.
Sirv is, unless otherwise stated, the owner of all copyright and rights in the Service and its contents. You may not publish, distribute, extract, re-utilize or reproduce any such content in any material form without written permission from Sirv.
Sirv does not claim copyright or ownership of any content that you upload to Sirv (see Copyright of Your Content below).
If you believe the copyright in your work has been violated through this Service, please send the following information in accordance with the DMCA via our contact form.
Sirv may forward a copy of a Notice including name and email address to the account holder in order to notify that person. Sirv will terminate, under appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who infringe copyright, and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate any user for actual or apparent infringement of intellectual property rights.
Sirv reserves the right to amend these Terms of Service from time to time without notice. You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time at https://sirv.com/terms/.
These Terms of Use shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with English law.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity of any other provision. We may delay enforcing any of our rights under the Terms of Use without losing them. You agree that we may assign these Terms of Use or any of our rights or obligations without giving you notice.
We shall not be liable to any third party in respect of your use of (or inability to use) the website.
These terms constitute the entire agreement between Sirv and you with respect to your use of the Service. Sirv’s failure to enforce any right or provision in these terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If a court should find that one or more rights or provisions contained in these terms is invalid, you agree that the remainder of the terms shall be enforceable.
This Service is operated by Sirv, a business owned and operated by Sirv Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom (number 06041171).
Sirv is also referred to in these terms as “we”, “us” and “the Service”.
If you have any comments or questions about the Service please contact us by email through our contact form.
Email: Contact form
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8798 3432
Address: Sirv Limited, 9 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HP, United Kingdom
Provisions Applicable to Registered Users
To register as a user of the Service you must be 18 years or over.
You agree that the information that you provide to us on registration and at all other times will be true, accurate, current and complete. You also agree that you will ensure that this information is kept accurate and up to date at all times. This is especially important with respect to your email address, since that is the primary way in which we will communicate with you about your account and your payments.
You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
When you register as a user, you will be asked to provide a password. As you will be responsible for all activities that occur under your password, you should keep your password confidential. You should change your password immediately if you believe that your password is no longer confidential and notify Sirv of any unauthorized use of your password.
We reserve the right to require you to alter your password if we believe that your password is no longer secure.
Notification emails will be sent if your account is approaching or has reached the permitted storage/usage limit of the plan you have chosen. If your account remains above those limits, your account may be locked.
When an account is locked:
To unlock an account, you must either:
Your account will be unlocked within 5 minutes once you have completed one of the options above.
Sirv commits to providing 99.95% service availability to all paid accounts. If the Service is unavailable for more than 0.05% of the month, you will be eligible for a refund of twice the fees for the time the Service is unavailable.
Your account has a storage limit measured in gigabytes (GB). If you need more space, you can upgrade to a higher plan or contact us to discuss tailoring a plan to suit your needs.
Sirv saves your files in triplicate, to protect against data loss when hard drives fail. These files are updated in real-time, so any data which is overwritten or deleted (after being emptied from Trash) will be lost. Therefore, it remains your responsibility to keep a copy of the files you upload to Sirv, in case you need them in future.
Sirv does not claim ownership rights in any digital content contained in your account. For the sole purpose of enabling us to display your content through the Service and fulfilling any orders for you or those you have shared your content with, you grant to Sirv a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, distribute, and display that content.
If Sirv comes across high quality examples of photography and/or impressive usage of the Sirv service that has been published on your website and is therefore within the public domain, it may publish a link to the content you have created, with a credit to your business. The objective is to give kudos for quality work and to generate buzz for your business and for Sirv. You may opt-out of any such promotion by requesting your work is not shared by Sirv.
You are responsible for all of the content you upload, share or copy using the Service. You must have the legal right to copy and display each image that you upload, share or print. Professional content that is provided to you by professional content creators or made available through websites or other resources, is protected by copyright and should not be uploaded, shared or copied using the Service.
You agree not to use the Service:
Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your Sirv account. While Sirv prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that Sirv cannot be responsible for the content posted on its website and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the Sirv service at your own risk.
You further agree that you shall not:
Sirv makes random and regular checks on the content of users accounts, to look for any illegal content, including content deemed illegal due to copyright. Should any illegal content be found, the content will be erased immediately.
You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for all content and activity that occurs on your user account.
You agree that Sirv may at any time without notice:
Sirv seeks to promote peaceful relations between all nations of the world. Of our 4 company co-founders, 3 are Ukrainian and most of our team is Ukrainian. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, it is with sadness that we no longer permit Russian companies or citizens to create or use Sirv accounts.
Sirv provides online storage of content to its users. If your account becomes inactive for a period of 6 months, Sirv may, at its option, terminate access to the account altogether (including deletion of any account information held by Sirv). Sirv may change this policy at any time, upon reasonable notice to you.
You may cancel your account at any time without refund. Termination of your account does not relieve you of any obligation to pay any outstanding fees.
Sirv agrees that all services will be carried out with reasonable skill and care.
The service, Sirv’s sites and all related services are provided by Sirv “as is” with no warranties. All express, implied and statutory warranties, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, are expressly disclaimed.
You understand and agree that the submission of any digital content to Sirv, and the download or upload of any material through the service is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any loss or damage to your content or any damage to your computer system or loss of data that may result in the download or upload of any material. You are solely responsible for creating back-ups of your digital content.
Except as expressly provided in the preceding paragraph, to the fullest extent allowed by law, Sirv shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, and punitive damages resulting from the use or provision of the service, Sirv’s site and all related services, even if Sirv has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The foregoing disclaimers, waivers and limitations shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy.
