Terms Of Use

Effective Date: July 2026

Welcome to Looking Back

Looking Back is a community website dedicated to preserving local history by allowing users to upload historical photographs, share memories, and help identify people, places and events.

By accessing or using our website, you agree to comply with these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the website.

1. Acceptance of These Terms

By accessing, browsing or using Looking Back, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Use together with our Privacy Policy.

These terms apply to all visitors and contributors.

2. Purpose of the Website

Looking Back exists to:

preserve historical photographs and memories;
encourage community participation;
assist in identifying people, places and events shown in historic photographs;
create a publicly accessible historical archive.

Information submitted by users is community-generated and may not always be historically accurate.

3. Uploading Photographs

When uploading photographs you confirm that:

you own the photograph, or
you have permission from the copyright owner to upload it, or
the photograph is in the public domain, or
the upload is otherwise permitted by law.

You remain the owner of your photographs.

However, by uploading content you grant Looking Back a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to:

display the photograph;
store it securely;
reproduce it within the website;
create resized versions;
use it for promoting the Looking Back project;
preserve it as part of the historical archive.

This licence continues unless you request removal of the content.

4. Historical Information

Users may contribute:

names;
dates;
locations;
stories;
historical information;
comments;

While we encourage accuracy, Looking Back cannot guarantee that community-submitted information is correct.

Users should independently verify historical information where accuracy is important.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

upload offensive, abusive or unlawful material;
upload material that infringes copyright;
impersonate another person;
knowingly submit false historical information;
upload viruses or malicious software;
interfere with the operation of the website;
attempt unauthorised access to the website or its systems;
use automated tools to scrape or harvest website content without permission.

6. Copyright

All website design, branding, logos and original content created by Looking Back remain our intellectual property.

Historic photographs remain the property of their respective copyright owners unless copyright has expired.

Users must not copy or commercially reproduce website content without permission.

7. Requests to Remove Content

We recognise that uploaded photographs may affect families, copyright owners or individuals.

If you believe material should be removed because it:

infringes copyright;
contains inaccurate information;
invades privacy;
has been uploaded without permission;

please contact us and we will investigate promptly.

8. Availability

We aim to keep Looking Back available at all times.

However, we cannot guarantee uninterrupted access and may suspend the website for maintenance, upgrades or unforeseen technical issues.

9. Disclaimer

Looking Back is provided “as is”.

Although we make reasonable efforts to maintain accurate information, we do not guarantee that:

all information is accurate;
all identifications are correct;
all photographs are correctly dated;
the website will always be available;
the website will be free from errors.

Use of the website is at your own risk.

10. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

The latest version will always be published on this website.

Continued use of the website constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

11. Contact

If you have any questions regarding these Terms, or wish to report copyright concerns or request removal of content, please contact us using the Contact page on the website.