Last Updated: 21st November 2025

General

Your use of the SWOP website, the content and the purchase of images, is governed by the Website Terms and Conditions set out below. They should be read in conjunction with the details provided on the site about how the website operates and the services available on the website. You should also read our Privacy Policy. Additional Payment Terms and Conditions apply to image purchases.

For general enquiries, please contact enquires@swop.org.uk.

If you experience problems with our website or have comments, please problems@swop.org.uk.

Important disclaimer

The SWOP (Sharing Wycombe’s Old Photographs) website and image archive is provided on an “as is” basis by The High Wycombe Society, registered charity no. 257897. Herein referred to as the Society. No warranties or representations of any kind expressed or implied are given (and if any such warranties and representations arise by operation of law or otherwise they are hereby disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law) in connection with this site or its content including the completeness or accuracy of any of its contents (in particular but without limiting the foregoing any listing information).

The Society, its trustees and officers shall not be liable for any loss or damages or expenses of any kind including without limitation compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property or claims by third parties howsoever arising in connection with the copying or use of any information or material contained in or referred to on this website or otherwise from the use of this website.

The Society is not responsible for the content of external websites that link to this website or which are linked from it. Please also refer to our Privacy Policy.

Use of site

The Society reserves the right to withdraw its website at any time and without prior warning. The Society will endeavour to advise users of its website in advance of any withdrawal, whether such withdrawal is temporary or permanent.

Links to this website

The Society reserves the right at its discretion to prohibit any link from another internet site or equivalent entity to materials or information on this website. Without prejudice to that, any link to material or information on this website must be neither misleading nor deceptive and must fairly indicate swop.org.uk as the destination of the link.

Furthermore, no page or pages from this website may be framed by or with any third party content or otherwise made available to the public in conjunction with any third party content without the prior written consent of the Society.

Copyright and related rights

All content, designs, text, graphics, software compilations and source codes on this website are the copyright of the Society or the lessors of content and contributions.

Reproduction of part or all of the contents of this website in any form is prohibited other than for individual use only and may not be recopied and shared with a third party. Images may be downloaded from this website on the understanding that they are used only for private study or educational purposes and not for commercial use or public display. For other uses, see the section on Permissions for use and Reproduction below.

Use of downloaded images on public websites, newsetters or in presentations is expressly forbidden unless this has been previously agreed in writing. See the section on Permissions for use and Reproduction below for details of how to obtain the required permissions.

Amendments

The Society reserves the right to change or amend these Website Terms and Conditions without prior notice.

Submitted content

By sending any text, images, audio, video or other content to this website, you grant to SWOP and the Society a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish and use that content (or any part of it, as that content may be edited, cropped or otherwise modified by SWOP or the Society at the Society’s discretion) on this website. The Society may require you to confirm the rights granted in this paragraph, and where requested to do so, you shall provide all reasonable assistance to the Society. You also agree that any user of this website may use such content in accordance with these Website Terms and Conditions.

You (or the copyright owner) remain the owner of copyright in any content and are free to republish it wherever you (or the owner) so wish, subject to any other restraints.

All material must comply with the Content Pages – Rules of Acceptable Use, set out below.

Content pages – rules of acceptable use

The Content Pages and any pages of this website where you are capable of posting material are provided for your private and non-commercial use and for the exchange of lawful, relevant, fair and appropriate information related to the content. Use of the website that is inconsistent with those stated purposes is strictly prohibited. Your use of these content pages and this website generally is subject to the following terms which, by your use of the content pages and this website, you are deemed to accept (and which amount to a non-exhaustive list of prohibited acts):

You may not place on this website any material (or use any user name) which is defamatory, abusive, discriminatory, threatening, harassing, harmful to children, obscene, offensive, or which applauds, encourages or entices abuse, discrimination or hate; or which might bring the Society into disrepute. 

You may not post any material on this website which compromises or is invasive of the privacy or security of anyone other than yourself; and confirm that you have secured the consent of any person (and, in the case of a child, of those persons who have parental responsibility for such child) who appears, or is referred to, in any material posted by you on the website to its publication by the Society in accordance with these terms.

• You may not use multiple log-ins or post duplicate, repetitive or trivial content or content which does not relate to the applicable discussion thread
• You may not place on the website any material which may encourage criminal conduct or which may give rise to civil liability, or which is otherwise unlawful
• You may not place on or submit material to this website, any material belonging to any person (or any material where the rights belong to any person) other than yourself, without the prior written consent of the owner of it 
• You may not place on or submit to this site any material whose publication by the Society may give rise to any third-party claims
• You may not place any links on this website where those links take users to unlawful material or material that contravenes these Rules of Acceptable Use
• You may not place on this website any material that authorises, enables or encourages the dissemination of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation; or which contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or which might interfere with the normal operation of this website or servers or networks connected to this website
• You agree that the Society accepts no responsibility for any statements, material or other submissions placed on this website by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage resulting from your breach of these Rules of Acceptable Use
• You agree to indemnify the Society, its trustees and officers from any and all claims and liabilities (including legal fees) which arise from your statements, contributions or other submissions to this website, from any unauthorised use of material obtained from our website or otherwise from your breach of our Rules of Acceptable Use

Refusal, removal and/or editing of content

The Society may not view, edit or pre-screen any content that you or anyone else makes to this website and therefore you cannot assume that the Society is responsible for having made it available on the website. The Society, and others that it designates, shall however have the right (but not the obligation) at its sole discretion to refuse, remove or edit any content that is posted to, or available on, this website without the need to give any reasons for doing so.

Content objections

If you object to the publication of any content or contributions placed on this website, please let the Society know by sending an appropriately worded email to enquiries@swop.org.uk and we will take whatever action we deem appropriate.

Registration

On certain parts of this website, the Society may require you to provide certain information about yourself, and where you do this, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the relevant registration form (such information being the “Registration Data”).

Our use of Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to the Privacy Policy.

Permission for use and reproduction

Photographs (images) may be downloaded from this website on the understanding that they are used only for private study or educational purposes and not for commercial use or public display, unless this has been previously agreed in writing.

Reproduction fees are payable for the use of images from SWOP in books, magazines and newsletters, museum and gallery display, broadcast and film, and website use. Fees are based on how the images will be used.  If you wish to link to our images for display on a public website, in a newsletter or in a presentation, or to purchase high-resolution versions of the photos, permission must be sought from us at enquires@swop.org.uk . Providing details of the proposed usage, and the SWOP image identifiers of the images concerned

When displayed, all images must reference SWOP and the SWOP image identifier.