Use of texts and images

All rights reserved. To reproduce excerpts of text, please cite the author (if applicable), the respective link to the original content, and the date of access. Reproduction of photos and illustrations is not permitted. Contact us for commercial requests to use the content.

Free Image Licensing Policy

The Socio-Environmental Institute safeguards the copyright and image rights of the materials that comprise its audiovisual collection, which are protected and owned solely and exclusively by the Institute. It may grant free licensing of photographs and videos only in specific and specific cases, at its sole discretion, and is not considered a free and publicly accessible image bank. The following licensing rules are intended to balance the institution's image reproduction requests with the need to maintain control over their use. The materials may not be reproduced or used in any way without the express written permission of the Socio-Environmental Institute. Any unauthorized use is expressly prohibited.

Images can be licensed for free only when they meet one or more of the following criteria:
 
a. When employees of the institution give interviews related to topics covered in reports, articles, stories and other content;
b. When the content to be published is related to projects, initiatives and/or other activities of the institution;
c. When the content is urgent and requires widespread and immediate dissemination. This criterion is subject to internal evaluation.
 
Orders and approval: Journalists wishing to obtain free licenses for images must submit a formal request to the email imprensa@socioambiental.org, detailing the intended use and justifying its relevance according to the established criteria.
 
Non-commercial use: Freely licensed images may not be used for commercial, advertising or promotional purposes.
 
Citation and credits: When using images, please provide proper authorship credits and include appropriate attribution to Instituto Socioambiental as the licensor. Information must be clear and visible.
 
Image modification: Modification of licensed images is not permitted.
 
License Expiration: The Socio-Environmental Institute reserves the right to revoke the free use license at any time, at its sole discretion. Additionally, the license may be revoked by the Socio-Environmental Institute if it finds that the use does not comply with the established criteria, if the use violates the morals, customs, social and/or economic order of the community and/or the individual photographed, or if the situation that justified the license no longer exists.
 
Legal responsibility: Journalists who license images are responsible for ensuring that their use complies with all applicable laws and regulations.
 
Acceptance of terms: Journalists requesting licensing of images must read and fully agree to the terms and conditions of reproduction to be sent.

Notice: No warranties are given beyond the authorization of use under this policy. The license granted may not offer all the necessary authorizations for the intended use of the work, such as image rights, privacy, or moral rights of the author. The Socioenvironmental Institute is not responsible for any resulting disputes.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is Instituto Socioambiental's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect on the website. Socio-environmental Institute, and other sites that we own and operate.

We only ask for personal information when we really need it to provide you with a service. We do this by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also tell you why we are collecting it and how it will be used.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide the requested service. When we store data, it is protected by systems that operate within market best practices to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

We do not share personally identifiable information publicly or with third parties, except as required by law.

Our website may have links to external websites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and we cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for personal information, understanding that we may not be able to provide some of the desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be considered acceptance of our privacy and personal information practices. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us. us.

Socioenvironmental Institute Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

As is common practice, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features that they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are unsure whether or not you need them, if they are used to provide a service that you use.

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Cookies we set

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In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you can find through this website.

• This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and reliable analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track items such as how much time you spend on the site and the pages you visit, so that we can continue to produce compelling content.

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The user undertakes to make appropriate use of the content and information that the Socioenvironmental Institute offers on the website and, by way of example but not limited to:

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More information

Hopefully, it is clear and, as mentioned earlier, if there is something you are not sure whether you need or not, it is generally safer to leave cookies enabled if you interact with one of the features you use on our website. <br>This policy is effective from July 2022

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