The graphics and clip art images on GospelGifs.com are original and copyrighted works by Jim Sutton, and are not in the Public Domain. No royalty fees or usage fees are charged for their regular use, but certain legal and ethical restrictions do apply. Your use of any image on this site constitutes full and complete acceptance of these Terms of Use and your agreement to comply with them.

Our Terms of Use covers any and all images, animations, clipart, composites, digital footage, digital video, graphics, illustrations, motion sequences, photographs or any other visual representation together with all accompanying metadata and other material that may be obtained from this site, either directly or by way of any other source.

All images on this site are copyrighted and protected under the various laws of the United States, International treaties and other applicable laws. They shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Jim Sutton, GospelGifs.com and BestFreeChristian.com. Use of any image is permitted only under the terms stated here. Any other use is copyright infringement.

Permitted Uses (See Prohibited Uses below.)

You may download, back up and store individual images from this site for regular design use in building, decorating or modifying web pages, CD or DVD covers, posters, print or digital advertisements and promotions, brochures, stories, newsletters, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, programs, menus, and similar material. See Specific Permissions below.

You may, without additional approval, use GospelGifs images in print and on the Internet, as a Christian witness in personal profiles and pages, on church pages, church websites and for similar evangelistic purposes.

You may use GospelGifs.com images on items for personal use or resale, including notebook binders, calendars, items of external clothing (such as shirts, jackets and hats), on cups, mouse pads, etc. (see exclusions under Prohibited Uses below), provided such use does not involve the re-distribution or re-use of the images, or access to the images, apart from a product or service. (See Prohibited Uses below.)

You may not modify or alter GospelGifs.com images in any way or for any purpose without the specific, written permission of Jim Sutton.

You may use GospelGifs.com images as decor in your school, community center, church, home, in an office, lobby, public area, restaurant, or retail store. You do not need special approval to use the images as graphics or design elements in video, film, or television broadcasts. You may use GospelGifs.com images in connection with your business or profession, or with a corporate identity documents and letterhead, except as a logo, service mark or trademark (see the Prohibited Uses below).

Specific Permissions, Including Uses For Profit

On the web, in school or church emails, newsletters, postal mailings, etc: For normal design use of images in emails, on personal web pages, in newsletters, etc., no special permission is required, so long as you include proper credit/copyright info with the image.

Printed Shirts, Caps, Etc: So long as the proper credit/copyright notice is always clearly displayed along with the printed image, GospelGifs.com images may be printed onto t-shirts, coffee cups, mouse pads, posters, bumper stickers and other objects (except, of course, a book, catalog, sheet of multiple images, or a computer file/disk of images) to be distributed free or sold for fundraising or personal profit. If you have specific questions not covered on this page, contact Jim.

Printed Publications: If you are printing a book, a gospel tract, sheet music, CD, DVD or other album covers, a magazine, school newspaper, community newspaper, etc., you may freely use GospelGifs graphics so long as proper credit is always given for the images. This does not include a disk, file or digital document of any kind, including a PDF or MS Word document, or any printed publication designed or used to distribute images.

Proper Credit for Books and Other Publications: The following notice should be placed on the title page, back page or wherever you declare your own and other publishing and copyright notices:

Illustrations/graphics supplied by GospelGifs.com are copyrighted and used with permission.

Prohibited Uses

You may not sell, license or sublicense, distribute, transfer, or assign rights to any GospelGifs images. You may not copy or reproduce these images except as specifically provided for above. You may not remove any copyright, logo emblem, signature or other identifying mark from any place where it appears on a GospelGifs.com image.

You may not use these images as part of an online postcard or e-greeting service, a personal or commercial trademark, service mark, or logo without express, written permission. GospelGifs retains the full rights to the images and therefore you cannot establish your own rights over them.

You may not use GospelGifs.com images in any way that competes with this site or with HappyTimeGraphics.com, ClipArtDog.com, GospelGifs.com, BestFreeChristian.com, or CA4C.com (ClipArt4Christians.com), or with any other website, graphics service, or distribution network owned by Jim Sutton, the producer and provider of these images. GospelGifs.com exists to offer high quality family-friendly images to users world-wide. It is the specific intent of this statement to prohibit you from using our own images in any way to compete, directly or indirectly, with this work.

You may not use GospelGifs images in any product or service where the images can be used apart from that product or service. This includes the manner in which GospelGifs.com images are used to promote, display, describe or advertise services, personalities, businesses, books, recorded music, imprinted T-shirts, caps, and other items.

You may not use GospelGifs.com images as part of a product in any electronic format intended for multiple distribution or licensing including, with or without limitations, graphic templates, Web site templates, software products, including computer and/or video games and game consoles, e-greetings, etc. Contact Jim Sutton to request specific written permission for any such use.

You may not sell or distribute GospelGifs.com images for use in mobile or wireless devices, including but not limited to cell phones and other mobile telephones, Blackberry, handheld game consoles, and PDAs. Such distribution is a copyright infringement.

You may not use a GospelGifs.com image in any way that could be considered defamatory, pornographic, libelous, immoral, obscene or fraudulent, or illegal, either by making modifications to it, or the placement in the proximity to or arrangement with any accompanying text or images, or in any other way. You may not use GospelGifs.com images to ridicule, mock, deride the Christian faith or the Jewish faith.

GospelGifs.com images may not be used in any way to discredit or show contempt for any racial, ethnic or national group. Nor may these images be used on websites, in books or other publications, video productions or in any other printed, electronic or digital media owned or operated by an individual, group or corporate entity that engages in any of the practices listed and prohibited in this paragraph.

GospelGifs.com images may not be used in any way that discredits Jesus Christ, His church, the Protestant or Catholic Christian faith, the Holy Bible, or the generally accepted and orthodox Christian teachings of the Christian church.

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