Legal — Terms of use

Terms & conditions

The ground rules for this website and for the work commissioned through it: what you may do with the photographs, films and 360° tours published here, how we communicate with you, and where our responsibility ends.

Applies to

michelwiegandt.be and every service booked through it — photography, video, 360° tours and visual consultancy.

Last updated

20 February 2022. Any earlier version is replaced in full by this one.

Studio

Michel Wiegandt, Belegstraat 77, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium.

The agreement

Clause by clause

Read it top to bottom, or jump straight to the clause you came for.

1 · Introduction

These terms and conditions apply to this website and to the transactions related to our products and services. You may be bound by additional contracts related to your relationship with us, or to any products or services you receive from us. If any provision of those additional contracts conflicts with any provision of these terms, the provisions of the additional contracts control and prevail.

2 · Binding

By registering with, accessing, or otherwise using this website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below. The mere use of this website implies knowledge and acceptance of these terms. In some particular cases we may also ask you to agree explicitly.

3 · Electronic communication

By using this website, or by communicating with us by electronic means, you agree and acknowledge that we may communicate with you electronically — on our website or by sending you an email. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement, including but not limited to the requirement that such communications be in writing.

4 · Intellectual property

We, or our licensors, own and control all copyright and other intellectual property rights in this website and in the data, information and other resources displayed by or accessible within it. Every photograph, film, 360° tour, text and layout element published here is the work of the studio or of a credited partner, and is protected as such.

4.1 · All rights are reserved

Unless specific content dictates otherwise, you are not granted a licence or any other right under copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights. This means you will not use, copy, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, embed into any electronic medium, alter, reverse engineer, decompile, transfer, download, transmit, monetise, sell, market or commercialise any resource on this website in any form without our prior written permission — except, and only insofar as, otherwise stipulated in regulations of mandatory law, such as the right to quote.

5 · Third-party property

Our website may include hyperlinks or other references to other parties' websites. We do not monitor or review the content of those websites. Products or services offered by other websites are subject to the applicable terms and conditions of those third parties. Opinions expressed or material appearing on those websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by us, and we are not responsible for their privacy practices or their content. You bear all risks associated with the use of those websites and any related third-party services; we accept no responsibility for any loss or damage, in whatever manner and however caused, arising from that use.

In plain language

What the clauses above mean in practice

Reading and quoting is always fine

Browsing, sharing a link, or quoting a passage with credit and a pointer back to this site needs no permission. That is the right to quote, and it stays open.

Commercial use starts with a written yes

Advertising, packaging, editorial placement, internal training, reels, prints, re-crops and AI training are licensed, not implied. Send a short note describing the use, the territory and the duration — you will get an answer from a person, not a form.

Deliverables carry the rights we agreed

What you commission comes with exactly the usage rights written into your brief and quotation — nothing narrower, nothing wider. Anything beyond that scope is a quick email away, and the studio keeps the authorship it is entitled to.