After some concerns from our users about their security and the security of their photos on our website, we've decided to write some explanation about how secure are your photos on our site and on the internet generally.

First of all, there is one true thing, everything on the internet is not hidden, nor can be protected from downloading. What users see on webpages has been stored on their computer by the browser, and can be reused. If you post your pictures or text online, it can be downloaded from everyone.

After this being said, we want to clarify about how we protect our user's work.

The first measure is to protect the source of the photos uploaded. Users very often upload high resolution images of their work, even though these high resolution pictures are a lot more that what is needed to be viewed on the computer screen (See Photo Upload section). All the photos uploaded on our site are reprocessed by a script which gives the browser an image with limited dimensions (low resolution), but without giving the original source of the image. Even if someone wants to download you photo, he never gets more than he/she can view on the screen.

On the other hand, as we said before, if someone views the photo, he can have it. For example, you can make a screenshot of the screen (PrintScreen button on the keyboard). Although this is not generally a concern, as many photo thiefs are wanting your high-res images, which they can manipulate and reuse, there is no way to protect this kind of theft. What photographers usually do, is by printing an overlay on the photograph, or the write over it, so the photo becomes (most of the times) uneditable.

Another security measure is our server. As many of you (don't) know, websites are almost all the time attacked. Our servers have proved to be secure till now, and this page has almost 100% online time and no instrusions have been reported, which means that till now all attacks to hijack this page have been proven useless (we've made a good job programming :-p).