Terms of Service
Copyright
This website's content and design, which includes but is not limited to XHTML documents, PHP documents, graphics, copy, and scripts are exclusive property of this site unless otherwise stated and are Copyright © 2003 - 2007 Melfina. All rights reserved. By viewing any pages owned by this site, you acknowledge that you have agreed to the terms and conditions listed on this page. If for any reason you do not agree with these terms, then you are not permitted to view this website.
Although our site graphics may contain copyrighted works, we lay claim only and explicitly to the arrangements, layout, and designs used by those images. Graphics submitted by site users are copyrighted to those users, however any copyrighted work within their submissions is copyright to its respective owner(s). Celestial Star cannot be held liable for any copyright infringement within a user-submitted graphic.
These terms
We reserve the right to update this agreement with or without prior notice at any time for any reason we see fit. These terms may be modified at any time and all visitors previous and new are subject to the latest terms posted here at all times.
Direct linking
Direct linking anything from this site is theft, and shall be treated as such. Our records show the website addresses of any site which direct links anything from this site, so we can easily trace the owner of the site, and contact their host to have the issue resolved.
External links
Celestial Star is not liable for any content on external sites, which we may link to. The views of the members of said external sites do not necessarily reflect the views of Celestial Star.
Distribution and usage
Distribution of any part of, or content on, Celestial Star, is strictly forbidden. Usage of content on Celestial Star is strictly personal, no profitable or commercial usage is allowed with the exception of our brush sets (prices detailed below)! You must give adequate credit where required, no credit information may be edited or moved within any distributed content. You must not use any of our resources to create your own resources to distribute.
Commercial usage of brush sets
You may purchase commercial licenses for any of our brush sets. This will allow you to use them for commercial purposes without having to link back, the rest of terms of use will still apply however. Please, contact me if you have any question.
Payments can only be done through Paypal:
Replication
You must not replicate any content on this site in direct or in-direct form, i.e. you cannot directly take content from this site and claim it as yours, nor can you take content from the site, re-write it and claim it is yours. You may also not base anything on content from this site and create it in your own method as it is still considered plagiarism.
Brushes, textures and patterns
You must always give credit back to Celestial Star if you use any of our resources in any of your creations. Should any of the zip files require a password, the password is "in-nomine-dei".
Layouts
All credit links must remain in the layout, unmoved, unless specifically stated by the layout owner. If permission has been given to move the credit links, that permission is only valid for the artist links, the link to Celestial Star must remain on every page in it's current position. You must not copy any design or coding within Celestial Star's layouts, this includes our downloadable layouts, and Celestial Star's layout.
You must never edit the layouts, with the exception of adding your own content, unless you have gained written permission from the original creator of the layout.
Tutorials
After learning something from a tutorial on Celestial Star, you must not rewrite the tutorial 'in your own way' or write a similar tutorial based on anything you have learnt from a tutorial on Celestial Star.