Artist Terms

These terms apply if you register for, claim or control an artist profile on Art Roll. By creating or claiming an account you agree to them and to the Website & Map Terms. The section “Your information” below is the artist part of our Privacy Policy: what we collect from you, what is public, what stays private, and what you can do about it. The Privacy Policy covers the rest - what happens when you browse the site, the cookies and tags we use, who our providers are and where your information is stored.

Artist accounts are for practising visual artists aged 18 or over who can show an active body of original creative work - a portfolio, website, public social profile or something similar. Emerging artists are welcome as long as you have a developing body of work and are actively building your practice. By registering you confirm that you are at least 18 and that what you tell us about yourself and your practice is accurate. That is a self-declaration: we do not collect a date of birth and do not verify age, but a person reviews every profile before it is published.

A person at Art Roll reviews every new profile before it is published, and reviews changes to an approved profile, new murals and cultural identity entries before they go live. We may ask for reasonable evidence of your identity, your practice, or your connection to an existing unclaimed profile. Creating an account does not guarantee that a profile, mural or change will be published; we may decline, pause or remove a profile where reasonably necessary for eligibility, safety, accuracy, moderation or legal reasons, and will tell you why where we can.

You keep ownership of your artwork and everything you upload. When you save your profile or submit a mural, you make this declaration, and it is what you grant us:

I own these images or have permission to use them, and I give Art Roll permission to use them for marketing - including on Art Roll’s social media.

The same tick records your acceptance of these terms: the first time you save your profile for review we store the date and which edition you accepted, unless that was already recorded when you registered.

In plain terms: you must own each photograph or have the photographer’s permission, and you must not upload images of other people’s work as your own. You give Habitat Marketing Pty Ltd a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to host, display, resize, crop and format your profile content, mural images and gallery images on the Art Roll website, and to use them to promote Art Roll, you and your work, including on Art Roll’s own social media accounts. Copyright in a photograph and copyright in the mural it shows are separate; where you own both, the permission covers both for those purposes, and where you do not, you must not say that you can license what you cannot.

We will credit you where it is practicable and will not alter your artwork in a way that misrepresents it or is prejudicial to your reputation; technical resizing, cropping and compression to fit the site are expected. If you remove content or delete your account, the permission ends for future use once removal is complete, except for copies reasonably held in backups and material already published that cannot reasonably be withdrawn.

Members of the public can add a mural to the map and contribute photographs of it, without an account. Where that happens with a mural of yours:

• Nothing is published without a moderator’s review, and a public photograph is only credited to you after a person verifies the attribution - we do not link work to your profile on a stranger’s say-so.
• Your own images of a mural always take precedence; public photographs are shown after them.
• We will email you once, when a mural someone else added is credited to you, so you can add your own images or ask for changes.
• Art Roll does not obtain the mural copyright owner’s prior permission before publishing every photograph of a mural. If you do not want a contributed photograph of your work on Art Roll, ask and we will remove it. The removal link is on the mural page, and what removal does - and cannot do - is set out in the Website & Map Terms.

You are responsible for keeping your profile accurate and reasonably current, including insurance, licences, tickets, qualifications, availability and travel area. Those details are shown as supplied by you and are not independently verified; when you save your profile you confirm they are true and correct. We may ask for clarification or supporting information where a claim could materially affect how someone assesses you.

The “Taking Mural Enquiries” badge is off by default and shows only if you choose Yes; you can change it at any time, and showing it does not oblige you to accept any enquiry. Job notifications are a separate switch on your dashboard and are off unless you turn them on. A notification, listing or enquiry is not an endorsement, a guarantee of work or a promise of payment.

Art Roll helps people find artists and public art. Unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing, Habitat Marketing Pty Ltd is not your employer, agent, representative, project manager or a party to any agreement you make with someone who found you here. You decide whether to take work and on what terms, and you are responsible for your own contracts, pricing, tax, insurance, licensing and safety.

You can ask for your account to be deleted from your account page. Filing a request does not delete anything immediately: you can withdraw it at any time before we act, and we act within 7 days. Once an administrator completes it, deletion is permanent.

Deletion removes your login, your profile and private details, your avatar, header and gallery images, your cultural identity entries, pending edits, claim and deletion requests, favourites and enquiry messages linked to your account. Murals you added stay on the map as a record of the artwork, unlinked from your account, with your name as a written credit - tell us in the request if you want your name taken off them too. Credits on another artist’s mural, including collaborator credits, may need separate review. Photographs of your murals that members of the public contributed are unaffected by your deletion and can be removed on request separately.

We keep a small audit record that the deletion happened. It never includes your email address. It includes your display name for 30 days, so we can answer “did you delete my account?”, after which the name is removed automatically and the record shows only the date, which administrator actioned it, whether your name was taken off murals, and which stored files were removed. Copies can also remain briefly in our providers’ backups until those cycle.

Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us promptly if you think your account has been compromised; you are responsible for activity carried out through it. We may suspend or close an account where reasonably necessary for security, repeated or serious breaches of these terms, fraud, impersonation, unlawful content, abuse of other users, or conduct that creates a material risk to Art Roll or the community. Where appropriate we will give you a chance to fix an issue first, and we distinguish between moderating a piece of content and closing an account.

We may update these terms where the site, the law or the way the service operates changes, and will give reasonable notice of a material change that is likely to affect your rights. Changes apply from their stated date and do not retrospectively remove rights already accrued. To the extent the law allows, we do not guarantee profile traffic, enquiries, jobs, commissions, search ranking, income, or the conduct of people who contact you through the site. Nothing in these terms excludes rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, including under the Australian Consumer Law. These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and applicable Commonwealth law. Contact us at letsroll@artroll.com.au.