Glynn County Fire Department - Submission Policy

Thank you for your interest in the Glynn County Fire Department’s website. Your contribution of photographs, news items and articles are welcomed. However, we would like to take this opportunity to offer some helpful suggestions.

The Glynn County Fire Department website focuses primarily on issues involving the Glynn County Fire Department. Both current and historical features are welcomed.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that any material or information you provide - including but not limited to text, photographs, and sound - does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party or is posted with the permission of the owner (s) of such rights.

Not all articles or photographs may be published. The website administrator has the discretion to decide whether content or material is appropriate for use on the Website. You acknowledge that the website administrator has the absolute right to delete, move and edit content and material for any reason, in any manner, at any time, without notice. Some of the reasons that we decline to use material may be simply because of space and/or content limitations and the contributor should not feel hesitate from contributing in the future.

No payment is made for use of photos, articles, or other contribution.

Send submissions to:

E-mail: admin@glynncountyfiredept.org

US mail: St. Simons Island Volunteer Fire Department

Attn: Website Submissions

P.O. Box 20836

St. Simons Island, GA 31522

By sending or submitting photographs, pictures, images or any other content including without limitation, graphics, data, text, files, links to GlynnCountyFireDept.org you are consenting to be bound by these submission policies. You hereby represent that you are at least 18 years of age and that you have read these Submission Guidelines and Release and are fully familiar with its content and agree to be bound by its provisions. If you do not agree, do NOT send or submit any material.

Article Submission Guidelines

When gathering information for an article, avoid the use of "second hand" information, hear-say or "rumors." Verify your information from authoritative sources, utilize quotations if possible. When writing about a specific activity, provide a short synopsis of the incident and of the personnel affected, but the bulk of your article should focus on the incident.

We prefer that articles are not formatted in any manner, meaning that the first line of an article should not be indented, type should not be justified, words should not be bold faced, italicized, etc. Once you have typed the final draft of your article, proofread it for typos and accuracy. We prefer that articles be submitted by email with the images sent by mail or email. If this is not possible, articles may be submitted in printed form or on 3 1/2" computer diskettes.

If submitting materials via postal service, please label all of your materials with your name and address. Mark every print, caption page, and letter so that you may deservedly see your credit line in print. All information on prints should be written on a label before it is adhered to the print. Place the label on the back in a corner. Include on each label your name, address and all relevant data concerning the image. DO NOT WRITE DIRECTLY ON THE BACK OF PRINTS because this interferes with the reproduction process. Not having this information where we require it may preclude our publishing your material.

Photograph Submission Guidelines

Your photo contribution makes the Glynn County Fire Department’s website that it is. We rely on photographers to get us top quality photographs. Following are the types of photos we require for quality reproduction.

While we will consider any photograph we prefer to use color prints or digital images. Our experience has shown that slower film speeds (less than ASA 400) produce the best color publication. Higher speed films (ASA 400-1000, etc.) while acceptable are not desired because they yield grainy images when enlarged.

For quality black and white photo reproduction we require crisp, contrast, well-exposed prints. Generally, the larger the print the better the reproduction but smaller prints are acceptable. It is better to reduce a larger print than to enlarge a smaller print. We can use color or black and white for black and white reproduction. Some color prints may be reproduced in black and white.

When selecting an image or print to send to the website, select contributions that are not blurred, out of focus, or poorly exposed. Submissions showing non-working apparatus should have compartment doors closed with no personnel present. The apparatus views selected for publication typically are those that are 3/4 front-side views with sun shinning on both the front and side of the vehicle with all shadows behind the vehicle and no shadows or obstructions blocking or projected on the vehicle. For editing purposes there should be some space in front of and behind the vehicle so we can do some cropping of the photo without cropping into the vehicle. However, don't stand so far back that the resulting photo is a small image of the vehicle. The vehicle should fill up 90% of the width of the photo.

All printed photographic contributions are returned whether or not published provided they are legibly marked with the photographer's name and address.

Release & License

By submitting material you hereby grant the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to use, reproduce, edit, market, store, distribute, have distributed, publicly and privately display, communicate, publicly and privately perform, transmit, have transmitted, create derivative works based upon, and promote the content through the Glynn County Fire Department’s website in any medium now known or hereafter devised, for editorial, commercial, promotional and all other purposes.

While you retain ownership of all right, title, and interest in the content itself, you agree that GlynnCountyFireDept.org owns all right, title, and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created using or incorporating your submitted material. You represent and warrant that the content does not and shall not infringe on any copyright or any other third party right nor violate any applicable law or regulation, and you have the right to grant any and all necessary rights and licenses provided herein, including without limitation, all necessary copyright and other related rights to the content, free and clear of all claims and encumbrances without violating the rights of any person or entity, including any right to privacy or publicity.

You acknowledge that you are solely liable for any damage resulting from infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights or any other intellectual property rights, or any other harm or damage arising from your submission and subsequent display of any content.

You further understand, and thereby authorize, that your photograph and any other content may be accessed, viewed, stored, reproduced and viewed by visitors to the Glynn County Fire Department website. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the photograph or content or to be compensated for any such uses.

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