Restrictions
Restrictions allow you to prevent your images being used in a particular way. You may want to restrict the use of your images in certain territories, industries or for sensitive issues.
- You can only apply restrictions to Rights Managed images and not Royalty Free images.
- Restrictions cannot prevent a sale to particular customer or a client based in a particular territory.
The restrictions you apply specify the industries and/or territories in which your images CANNOT be used. Below is some additional information to help you set any required restrictions, but it is your responsibility to check you have placed all the restrictions required to manage the rights of an image. Remember you can batch apply restrictions to groups of images if needed.
Editorial use only
If you need to restrict your images to permit editorial use only, you should apply the following restrictions.
- All Countries; Advertising/Promotion; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Consumer Goods; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Direct Mail/Brochures; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Indoor Display; All Medias; All Industries; All Sun-industries
- All Countries; Electronic and web uses – other; All Medias; All Industries
- All Countries; Internal business usage; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
Electronic uses
If you wish to restrict all electronic uses you should apply the following restrictions.
- All Countries; Electronic and web uses – other; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Editorial; Editorial website; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Consumer goods; E-card; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Consumer goods; Greetings card and E-card; All Industries; All Sub-industries
Web advertising
If you wish to restrict all web advertising, you should apply the following restrictions.
- All Countries; Advertising/Promotion; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Electronic and web uses- other; Web advertisement; All Industries; All Sub-industries
Low resolution for electronic and web use
We offer a range of low resolution licences to our customers. You are not able to restrict these usages specifically, but we will automatically apply the required low resolution restriction “behind the scenes” where required. Details as follows:
- If you restrict “Electronic and web uses – other / Electronic presentation” we will automatically restrict “Low res for electronic and web use / Electronic presentation”
- If you restrict “Electronic and web uses - other / Promotional email” we will automatically restrict “Low res for electronic and web use / Promotional email”
- If you restrict “Electronic and web uses - other / Web advertisement” we will automatically restrict ”Low res for electronic and web use / One web advertisement”
- If you restrict “Electronic and web uses - other / Corporate website” we will automatically restrict “Low res for electronic and web use / Corporate website”
- If you restrict “Editorial / Editorial website” we will automatically restrict ”Low res for electronic and web use / Editorial website”
Link to “Manage images” in “My Alamy”
Restriction management interfaceAdding restrictions
Note that you can only manage your restrictions using the latest version of Manage Images.
- Go to My Alamy.
- Under “Organise images”, click “Manage images”.
- If you set the image as
Rights Managed (RM) or Rights Managed - Exclusive (RM - E) you can add restrictions to a single image or a batch of images.- Please note these are ways in which your image may not be used.
Further help
- Information on:
- The Alamy Forum - the answer may be there.