Planet Earth is a fascinating place, and we hope you use our maps to spread information about it. You can do what you like with our maps provided you don't make it easy for someone else to avoid paying for them.

As with other suppliers of digital products, our products are sold on a non-returnable basis and we cannot give refunds.

The You-May-Nots

You may not (a) distribute or sell our download files, or incorporate them into electronic media such as websites, CDs, and DVDs, even if renamed and/or resized/resampled, unless they are files of irreversibly modified single-layer-image versions of our maps; (b) distribute or sell printed versions of our maps which can be easily scanned, unless the maps are irreversibly modified versions; or (c) incorporate versions which are not irreversibly modified into commercial publications, whether or not they are the main content of the publication. We retain the copyright of the download maps, and you may not do anything that brings us into disrepute or lowers the status of our products.

Definitions

A map is considered irreversibly modified if it is modified heavily enough to make it quicker and cheaper for a third party to download a map from our site than to obtain a free copy of your creation and remove your modifications. Changing the sea colour and/or adding a sea texture to a Basemap is not an irreversible modification.

A printed map is considered not easily scanned if it is (a) used as, or in, a private document, or within an educational establishment; or (b) framed; or (c) too large to be scanned in one piece on a cheap scanner - the rule here is that the larger map dimension must be 37 cm or more.

Examples

You can mark up any of our maps with the results of your research into, for example, "Flight Paths of the Wandering Albatross" and give away and sell printed and digital versions of your creation provided there are lots of flight paths and related data on it. You can sell prints of our unmodified Basemaps to the public provided that prints of 36 cm or less in the larger dimension are framed. You cannot claim copyright of any of these maps, but you can claim copyright to your own parts of the "Albatross" map.

Acknowledgement

If you widely distribute any of our maps, we would appreciate acknowledgement of our contribution to your creation, or our copyright of the unmodified map, as appropriate. "Basemap by Avalon" or "Copyright Avalon" would do just fine.

Clarifications

Downloading, or otherwise receiving, a map from this site means you accept these Conditions. If you wish to use the maps in a way that conflicts with them, or would like clarification, please get in touch:

maproom@avalon-download-maps.com

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