Licensing

Copyright

© 2018–2026 Adam Rainoff. All rights reserved. All original content on rainoff.com, including photographs, story text, captions, maps, graphics, video and the original elements of the site’s design, is owned by me, Adam Rainoff, and is protected by the copyright laws of the United States and other countries and by international treaties. The copyright year of each photograph is the year in which I first published it. No content on this site may be reproduced, copied, downloaded, distributed, modified, displayed, published, transmitted, sold or otherwise used, in whole or in part, without my prior written permission. Without limitation, no content on this site may be used to train, fine-tune, test or develop artificial intelligence or machine-learning systems, or be collected, scraped or included in any dataset, without my prior written permission. Access to this site does not grant any licence or other right in its content, whether by implication, estoppel or otherwise.

Licensing

I handle every licensing request for my photographs directly, commercial or non-commercial. To request a licence, email me at adam@rainoff.com.

Local lodges, guides and community projects in the places I photograph can license my images of their place at no cost. The location is always named. To ask, email adam@rainoff.com.

Third-party content and data

Certain data, maps, software, fonts, names and trademarks used on this site belong to the third parties listed below. Each remains the property of its respective owner and is used under that owner’s licence or terms, linked below. These materials are not covered by my copyright, and nothing on this site grants any right in them. The listing of, linking to or use of material from any of these parties, or the naming of any other organisation on this site, does not imply that the party sponsors, endorses or is affiliated with this site or with me.

eBird: hotspot names, locations, links and bird data. eBird is a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. eBird API Terms of Use; Cornell Lab Terms of Use.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: conservation status data and links, owned by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). IUCN Red List Terms of Use.
BirdLife International: species data and factsheet links from the BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife Data Zone Terms and Conditions; BirdLife International Terms and Conditions of Use.
OpenStreetMap: map data and map tiles, © OpenStreetMap contributors, made available under the Open Database License; tiles served by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. OpenStreetMap Copyright and License; Tile Usage Policy.
Leaflet: map software, © 2010–2026 Volodymyr Agafonkin. BSD 2-Clause License. Leaflet.markercluster: © 2012 David Leaver. MIT License.
Google Maps: location links to Google Maps, a service of Google LLC. Google Maps Additional Terms of Service.
Fonts: Figtree, © 2022 The Figtree Project Authors (licence), and Tenor Sans, © 2011 Denis Masharov, Reserved Font Names “Tenor” and “Tenor Sans” (licence), both hosted on this site. Both fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
WordPress: site software, © WordPress contributors. WordPress License (GNU General Public License). Eksell theme: © Anders Norén, released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0, including its icons (Eksell on WordPress.org); this site’s theme is a child theme of Eksell. Plugins, including Contact Form 7 (Rock Lobster Inc.), are used under their respective licences.
Cloudflare: content delivery, security and web analytics provided by Cloudflare, Inc. Cloudflare Terms of Use; Self-Serve Subscription Agreement.
Pixels: print sales at store.rainoff.com are provided by Pixels.com. Pixels Terms of Use.
Flickr: links to photographs hosted on Flickr, operated by Flickr, Inc., a SmugMug, Inc. company. Flickr Terms of Use.
Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn: social media links. Instagram and Facebook are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc.; LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. Instagram Terms of Use; Meta Terms of Service; LinkedIn User Agreement.

All other names, logos and trademarks on this site are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright infringement and takedown notices

To report content on this site that you believe infringes your copyright or other rights, or to report unauthorised use of content from this site, send a written notice to adam@rainoff.com. A notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) should include: identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and its location (URL); your name, postal address, telephone number and email address; a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf; and your physical or electronic signature.