Content policy

Website property

The whole website publifix.net and its “Services” are operated by PUBLIFIX NETWORK, S.C.

Website Content Property

All the content presented or showed in the website including, among others: texts, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sounds, illustrations and videos, are property of the brands, companies and/or individuals that loaded that content in publifix.net with the intention of distributing it with representatives of the communication media. The set of this content presented in different formats is protected by copyright, moral rights, commercial images, registered trademarks and other laws related to intellectual property rights.

publifix.net website is designed to make it easier for the active members of communication media (press) the writing and generation of journalistic content, by using files protected by the different intellectual property laws.

You recognize that all of the intellectual property rights of every content available in the website are always property of the brand, individual or organization that loaded it to the system.

When you register yourself and use publifix.net website, you agree to protect, recognize and respect the integrity of every content available in the platform; therefore, you are obliged to avoid any distortion, modification, alteration, exploitation or affront suposing a damage for the legitimate interests of the owner of the material, or a lessening for the brand’s reputation.

All the files of publifix.net website are available for the communication media professionals, only and exclusively with JOURNALISTIC purposes.

Policies related to Public Content in the System

Our policies related to Public Content in the System, draw lines on the type of allowed editorial contents. When a brand and/or individual loads files in a collection, publifix.net team reviews that each of these contents complies these policies, before they are located in a public way and available for communication media.

If you think any of your collections was incorrectly rejected, please contact media@publifix.net.

Before you start to use our platform to distribute or download press digital materials, please consider our basic guidelines about the correct use of publifix.net service.

For our clients

  • The system has been designed to provide FREE contents to communication media, specially in subjects related to: arts, culture, cinema, festivals, music, sports, tourism, gastronomy, events, entertainment, theater, television and lifestyle. If your brand, product or service is not in these industries, we invite you to reconsider if publifix.net is the ideal tool to distribute your press contents.
  • All of the content intended to be distributed through our platform is subject of a strict review and authorization process; therefore, we ask you to use our system in a responsible, ethic and professional way.
  • To get optimal results in the distribution of your materials, we invite you to load the files in the right, recognized by the platform formats.
  • If you have any doubts about the correct use of our platform, please send us an e-mail to media@publifix.net

For our users from Communication Media

  • Remember that the files you’ll have access to through the platform always belong to the brand, individual or organization that loads them to the system, and are protected by copyright, moral rights, commercial image, registered trademarks and other laws related to intellectual property rights. Therefore, we ask you to include, without exception, each time you publish any material obtained through publifix.net, the corresponding credits.
  • All the materials distributed through publifix.net have an editorial nature; therefore, we ask you to use these contents with those purposes. This means you can’t use any image obtained through the platform for other purposes different from editorial ones.
  • One of our main goals as a company is to improve all the time the experience of clients and users; therefore, if you have any suggestion, doubt or comment about publifix.net service, we invite you to contact us through media@publifix.net

1. Introduction to our Policies related to Public Content in the System

Our platform publifix.net is a tool focused exclusively on professionals of communication media, and brands and individuals that, because of the very nature of their activities, need press coverage. Every file loaded in the system goes through a review and authorization process, during which PUBLIFIX NETWORK, S.C. reserves the right to deny, under its discretion and unilaterally, any file collection that, under its consideration, fails to comply any of our Policies related to Public Content in the System.

The public content in publifix.net system must be editorial purposed and aimed to provide material to enrich journalistic articles of communication media.

2. Collections revision process

Before any collection has the “public” status in publifix.net system, there’s a review to guarantee it complies with our Policies related to Public Content in the System. Usually, most of collections are reviewed in a period of 24 hours, but in some cases the process can take more time.

Our considerations when reviewing a new collection

During the files collection review process, we will verify, among some other aspects:

  • That images have been loaded in the correct format for a correct preview in the site.
  • That images comply with the required quality standards; that is to say, that they must be professional photographs, with the right framings, focus and resolution to be used by printed and digital communication media.
  • That the collection is configured in the right way, including: correct name and related to the content, allocated in a category coinciding with the files type loaded in the site.
  • That the whole material in the collection is important, in journalistic terms, for communication media. If publifix.net editorial team considers the collection reviewed is not very relevant for the press, they can deny the authorization for it to be published in the site.
  • That none of the files loaded in the collection infringes any of our Forbidden Content list.

¿What happens after a collection is reviewed?

When the answer is positive

Once a collection is reviewed, you will receive an e-mail notification where we will inform you if its publication in the system is authorized. If it is, since you receive the notification, the reviewed collection and its content will be available for those communication media following the category in which the collection is assigned. Once the collection goes to the status “PUBLISHES IN PUBLIFIX.NET”, you will be able to follow its performance from your control panel.

When the answer is negative

If the team of publifix.net doesn’t approve the publication of your collection, you will receive through e-mail a notification to explain in detail the reasons for the ones the team considered that the content of the collection doesn’t comply our Policies related to Public Content in the System. In that e-mail we will give you some options so, if applies, you can set your collection as public.

¿How can I appeal the decision?

Once you receive the negative notification, including the explanation, from publifix.net, if you consider you have the required arguments to appeal the decision, we invite you to send an e-mail to media@publifix.net explaining in detail why you consider that the company’s negative has no foundation.

3. Forbidden Content

It’s important to underline that every file loaded in publifix.net system is monitored 24 hours a day by our team, so to keep a safe, quality platform for our users.

The goal in publifix.net is to provide communication media QUALITY, FREE press materials, specifically about subjects related to: arts, culture, cinema, festivals, music, sports, tourism, gastronomy, events, entertainment, theater, television and lifestyle. Any content dissconnected from these genders or industries may not be authorized as Public Content in the system.

Before you load any kind of file to the system, consider those contents that are strictly forbidden:

  1. Illegal products or services

    The files loaded to the system must not constitute, promote or ease illegal services, products or activities. Contents focused on minors must not promote inadequate, illegal or unsafe products or services. It’s strictly forbidden to load deceitful, fraudulent files, mostly those focused on potentially vulnerable audiences. We won’t let, in any way, the publication of content that puts pressure on any segment of the population.
  2. Discriminatory Content

    Contents loaded in the system must not discriminate people or encourage discrimination based on personal attributes like race, ethnicity, color, nationality, religion, sex, sex orientation, gender identity, familiar situation, disability or medical condition. Any discriminatory, offensive content for any person or group of persons will be denied to be published in the site.
  3. Content related to Tobacco industry

    It's forbidden to load content related to the promotion of the sales and/or the usage of tobacco products.
  4. Content related to drugs

    It’s forbidden to load content related to the promotion, sales and/or usage of illegal drugs, whether it is a recreative or medical usage.
  5. Content related to arms, ammunitions and/or explosives

    It’s forbidden to load contents related to the sales and/or usage of any kind of arms, as well as ammunitions and explosives.
  6. Products or services for adults

    It’s forbidden to load contents of products or services for adults, including those related to contraceptive methods.
  7. Pornographic content

    It’s strictly forbidden to load files that include content for adults, such as nudes, representations of people in explicit or suggestive positions that can be sexually provocative. Any user who sends for authorization a collection containing this kind of material will be immediately dismissed from publifix.net. If in spite of the security filters we apply, you detect in the public content catalog of publifix.net some material you consider has a pornographic nature, please notify us through the e-mail media@publifix.net.
  8. Third persons rights

    It's forbidden to load contents that infringe or violate third persons rights, including, among others: copyright, commercial brand, privacy or any other personal right or related to industrial property. To report a content you consider is violating your rights, please send us an e-mail to media@publifix.net.
  9. Violent content

    It's forbidden to load contents with a sensationalist, shocking, disrespectful or violent nature. Besides from the fact that publifix.net nature is to provide a service of contents for communication media, the distribution of news gender materials that imply any form of graphic or written violence won't be allowed to be published in the platform. publifix.net is a system designed specifically to distribute press content related to subjects such as arts, culture, sports, fashion, gastronomy, tourism, festivals, lifestyle, among others. publifix.net is not a news system.
  10. Fake content or content that generates misinformation

    It's forbidden to spread content from fake or suspicious sources, as well as content that can generate some kind of confusion and/or misinformation between the public. If it is detected that a publifix.net user repeteadly uses the platform to load fraudulent content, he/she will be dismissed from the system.
  11. Political or controversial content

    The content of a collection must not promote political oriented subjects or considered “socially controversial”.
  12. Content related to surveillance equipment

    It's forbidden to load files with the intention of promoting surveillance equipment like cellphone trackers or any hidden surveillance equipment.
  13. Language and grammar

    The collections, as well as the text or images files, must not include vulgarities, offensive language or grammar mistakes. The symbols, numbers and letters must be used in the right way, without any intention to elude our process of contents review.
  14. Personal documents

    It's forbidden to load in the system any file related to official documents, real or fake, such as: passports, driving licenses, immigration documents, and so on.
  15. Content with low quality or not designed for communication media professionals

    The files of a collection must not include content that leads brands, individuals or websites to an unpleasant, unexpected experience. This includes users pretending to set as public more commercial than editorial files. All the images pretended to be set as public at publifix.net must comply minimum quality features. Below, in the ALLOWED AND RECOMMENDED CONTENT you can find a detailed explanation about the right specifications of the photographic material allowed in the site.
  16. Malware and/or Spyware

    Collection files must not include Spyware, Malware or any kind of software that provides a deceitful, unexpected experience, including any link to external websites.
  17. Not allowed formats

    Technology on which publifix.net was developed doesn’t allow to load files in the following formats:
    1. Images: .PSD, .TIFF, .BMP, .RAW
    2. Video: .FLV, .WMV, .MKV
    3. Audio: .WMA, .FAC, .AIFF, .WAV
  18. Intellectual property, copyright and commercial brand

    It’s forbidden to load files of which intellectual property or copyright does not belong to the brand and/or individual using the account publifix.net.

    Publifix.net is commited to help people, brands and organizations to protect ther intellectual property rights. Terms and conditions of PUBLIFIX NETWORK, S.C., don’t allow to publish content that violates the intellectual property rights of a person, brand and/or organization, including copyright and commercial brand.

    In PUBLIFIX NETWORK, S.C. and its services we interpret COPYRIGHT as well as COMMERCIAL BRAND in the following way:

    • Copyright: Copyright are those legal rights protecting original works (for example books, music, movies and arts). Generally, copyright protects an original expression, like words or images. They don’t protect facts or ideas, but they can protect words or original images used to describe an idea. Copyright doesn’t protect elements such as names, titles and slogans; however, these could be protected by another legal right known as commercial brand.

    • Commercial brand: A commercial brand is a word, a slogan, a symbol or a design (for example, the name of a brand or a logo) that distinguishes the products or services offered by a person, a group or company from those offered by other person, group or company. Generally, laws about commercial brands try to avoid confussions between consumers regarding to who provides a product or service or is associated to it.

      In publifix.net we take very seriously the protection of copyright and commercial brand from all of our users; therefore, if you detect any time a fail in any of these subjects, we invite you to report it through e-mail to media@publifix.net.

      Any publifix.net user who infringes somehow copyright or commercial brand laws by loading or publishing a content distributed through the platform will be immediately dismissed.

  19. Offers and promotions

    Publifix.net is a platform designed to spread editorial contents; therefore, it’s forbidden to load images and/or texts with offers, discounts, promotions and/or coupons. It’s probable that all the commercial content will receive a negative if you ask to publish it in the website.

All the files of the collection intended to be set in a public status in publifix.net system must abide by our Public Content Policies in the System, without exceptions.

4. Allowed and recommended content

Publifix.net nature is to be a platform that eases the exchange of press contents between brands and/or individuals and representatives of communication media. Distributing original content has an important weight; therefore, we invite our users, as far as possible, to load in the site original, exclusive material that bolsters the promotion of your brand and/or service.

Below we show a list of allowed and recommended contents that will let you give our system and optimal use:

  1. Allowed formats

    The system allows to load files specifically in these formats:
    1. Images: .JPG, .GIF y .PNG
    2. Video: .MOV, .MP4
    3. Audio: .MP3
    4. Text: .PDF, .DOC/.DOCX (Word) y XLS/XLSX (Excel)
  2. Images resolution, mode, caption and credit

    1. Resolution: The optimal final resolution of the photographs loaded in the system must be 300 DPI in the case of images for printed media. Photographs for digital media must have a resolution between 72 and 150 DPI.
    2. Mode: For a correct preview in the system, all the images mode must be RGB.
    3. Caption:Publifix.net system allows to assign every picture loaded in the system a caption. This text is free and can be structured from the control panel of your account. We invite our users to consider for each caption a descriptive text about the image in question.
    4. Credit:Publifix.net system allows to assign every picture loaded in the system its credits. An example of how to put the credits could be: Photo by Clive Rose - Gran Turismo/Gran Turismo - through Publifix.net
  3. Protected material

    One of the most important tools publifix.net has is that you can load PROTECTED MATERIAL in the system; this means that, if you set a collection with this restriction, only the communication media you give the authorization to through the platform will have access to this content. This function was designed mainly to materials with territorial restrictions. If you have any doubts about the advantages and/or disadvantages of loading protected material to the system, we invite you to contact us through the e-mail media@publifix.net
  4. Categories

    • Art

      Museums, exhibitions, galleries, plastic artists, handicrafts, galas, fine art auctions, cultural events, painters, books authors.
    • Cinema

      Movies, film productions, cinema festivals, awards, interviews, premieres, promotional tours, autograph signatures, red carpets, special screenings, preview images, behind the cameras.
    • Sports

      Professional competitions, amateur and/or school competitions, sports events, sponsors presentations, interviews, awards, professional leagues and amateurs of the different sports disciplines, tournaments, cups, autograph signatures, sports ambassadors, sports clothing collections.
    • Entertainment

      Amusement parks, recreative parks, zoos, natural parks, itinerant activities, stagings, mass shows, exhibitions.
    • Festivals

      Musical, cultural, artistic, regional fairs.
    • Gastronomy

      Restaurants, chefs, educative institutions specialized in gastronomy, awards, events, exhibitions, conventions, restaurant chambers.
    • Lifestyle

      Automotives, real state developments, malls, beauty products, fine jewerly, accesories, design furniture, department stores, fragancies, wine and liqueurs, technology, social events, anniversaries, presentations.
    • Fashion

      Clothing brands, footwear, designers, fashion weeks, fashion events, conventions, product launchings, anniversaries, presentations, awards, fashion accesories.
    • Music

      Concerts, awards, launchings, interviews, artists, musical presentations.
    • Television

      Television series, streaming productions, awards, launchings, tv productions, artists, autograph signatures.
    • Tourism

      Tourist destinations, cruises, fairs, exhibitions, conventions, airlines, tour operators, tourist events, embassies.
    • Others

      Educational institutions, lecturers, bank institutions.

If you require any help for any doubt related to the system operation, you can contact us through e-mailat media@publifix.net, or you can write some lines in our contact section.

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