Terms and Conditions

2. By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use (“Terms”) and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

3. There are other terms that may apply to you

These Terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

•    Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
•    Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
•    Our Code of Conduct, which sets out information about our services and the standards expected of us.
 

4. We may make changes to these terms

We amend these Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These Terms were most recently updated on 5 June 2025.
 

5. We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users' needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.
 

6. We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms, and that they comply with them.

7. We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

8. You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@dacs.org.uk.

9. How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy and may download extracts of any page(s) from our site for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these Terms, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you may retain one copy of these Terms).

10. No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose, including (without limitation) the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

• Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; and
• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or to develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models.

The provisions of this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Directive (EU) 2019/790.

We reserve the right to implement technical countermeasures, including blocking offending IP addresses, where we detect behaviour that breaches this clause.

This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

11. DACS Images and Copyright Licensing Cancellation Policy

If you ask us to prepare a licence agreement or raise an invoice in relation to a copyright licensing request or a DACS Images enquiry, you acknowledge that this involves significant preparatory work. If, after confirming in writing (including by email) that you wish us to proceed, you later withdraw the request before a licence is concluded, you agree that we may charge a cancellation fee equivalent to our standard administration fee for Copyright Licensing, as set out in our Code of Conduct.

12. Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@dacs.org.uk.

13. Our trade marks are registered

DACS® and PAYBACK® are UK registered trade marks of Design and Artists Copyright Society. You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under clause 9 (How you may use material on our site).

14. Artist Search tool – information only

Our site provides an Artist Search feature that helps visitors identify artists who may be represented by DACS or may be eligible for Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) royalties. The results are drawn from internal and publicly available data and are offered on a best-efforts basis for general information purposes only.

• The results are not exhaustive and may be incomplete, inaccurate or out of date.
• You must not rely on the search results and you must carry out your own checks and due diligence or obtain professional advice before relying on the results for the purpose of withholding, remitting or claiming ARR royalties, or for any licensing, clearance or rights management decision.
• DACS disclaims all warranties (express or implied) as to the completeness, accuracy, reliability or currency of the results and accepts no duty of care to any user.
• DACS shall have no liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense arising out of or in connection with your use of or reliance on them whether in contract, tort including negligence, misrepresentation or otherwise, save that nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded (including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence).
• Where (i) ARR royalties are later found not to be payable, DACS may refund to the remitter any undistributed amount which shall be the sole remedy; or (ii) ARR royalties are later found to be payable, responsibility for the royalty and its payment remains with the “relevant person” specified within the Artist’s Resale Right Regulations 2006.
• Use of this search tool does not establish or imply any partnership, agency, contractual, fiduciary or advisory relationship between you and DACS.

If you are seeking confirmation of an artist’s ARR eligibility or representation, please contact us directly before taking any action.

15. Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

16. We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

17. We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

18. You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. 

You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. 

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
 

19. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:

•    death or personal injury caused by its negligence;
•    fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
•    any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under English law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to the our site or any content on it are excluded.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising in connection with your use of, or inability to use, our site, or your reliance on any content on our site - whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise - even if foreseeable.

In particular, we will not be liable for:

•    loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
•    business interruption or loss of anticipated savings;
•    loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation;
•    loss or corruption of data; or
•    any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

We also accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by viruses, distributed denial-of-service attacks, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, programs, data, or other proprietary material as a result of using our site or downloading any content from it or from any website linked to it.

We are not responsible for the content of any third-party websites linked to from our site. Such links should not be interpreted as an endorsement by DACS of those sites, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

20. How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

21. Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

These Terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law and we both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.