Content Submission Guidelines
Pictures, photographs, images and/or text ("Content") may only be submitted as .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .PSD files and may not exceed 10 MBs in size. For help with any technical problems emailing Image submissions, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Site allows you and other members to submit Content. You may only submit Content to the Site that you created or which the owner of the Content has given you permission to post. You may not submit or distribute Content that is illegal or that violates 5 Minute Horror's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy or these Guidelines. By submitting or distributing Content to the Site, you represent and warrant that (a) you own all the rights to the Content or are authorized to use and distribute the Content to the Site and (b) the Content does not and will not infringe any copyright or any other third-party right nor violate any law or regulation. Remember, if your Content contains any stills or images from commercials, music videos, concert footage, television shows, movies, photographs, artwork or logos of others then you shouldn't submit it! This is true whether or not any of these contain copyright notices on/in them or not. Your Content submission should be totally created by you, and just you! Simply giving credit to the copyright owner isn't the same as obtaining permission and is still infringement. If you sumbit Content that contains infringing material, your Site account may be terminated and you may be legally liable to the lawful owner(s) and/or 5 Minute Horror and subject to monetary and statutory damages, whether or not your Content was made/used commercially.

By submitting Content to the Site, you grant 5 Minute Horror or its designees, the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt, and promote this Content in any medium. Once you submit Content to the Site, 5 Minute Horror does not need to give you any further right to inspect or approve uses of such Content or to compensate you for any such uses. 5 Minute Horror owns all right, title, and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by 5 Minute Horror using or incorporating Content submitted or posted to the Site. All information, ideas, suggestions, or other communications you submit to 5 Minute Horror, including, but not limited to, Content submitted to the Site or communications sent via e-mail, will be on a non-confidential basis. 5 Minute Horror will be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such communications without limitation or obligation.

You should carefully choose the information you submit the Site. You may not post the following items: telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs to external sites, any form of HTML or programming code, or any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable subject matter. You are solely responsible for anything you submit to the Site and the consequences of any such Content being posted on the Site. The following is a partial list of the kinds of conduct that are illegal or prohibited on the Site. 5 Minute Horror reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in 5 Minute Horror's sole discretion, engages in any of the prohibited activities.

Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Using the Site for any purpose in violation of local, state, national, or international laws; (b) Submitting Content that infringes the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, trade secret rights, or any other rights of any party; (c) Submitting Content that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by 5 Minute Horror in its sole discretion or pursuant to local community standards; (d) Posting advertisements or solicitations of business; (e) Impersonating another person; (f) Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; (g) Allowing any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments; (h) Harassing, threatening, stalking, or abusing any person; or (i) Engaging in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Site, or which, in the sole discretion of 5 Minute Horror, exposes 5 Minute Horror or any of its customers or suppliers to any liability or detriment of any type.

5 Minute Horror reserves the right, but is not obligated, to do any or all of the following: (a) Investigate an allegation that any Content submitted to the Site does not conform to these Guidelines and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the Content; (b) Remove Content which is abusive, illegal, or disruptive, or that otherwise fails to conform with these Guidelines; (c) Terminate a user’s access to the Site upon any breach of these Guidelines; (d) Monitor, edit, or disclose any Content on the Site; and (e) Edit or delete any Content submitted to or posted on the Site, regardless of whether such Content violates these standards.

5 Minute Horror is not responsible for, and does not endorse, Content in any submission or posting made by other users on the Site. Under no circumstances shall 5 Minute Horror be held liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused to you in connection with any Content posted by a third party on the Site. If you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger, you should contact your local law enforcement agency immediately. All Content, once received by 5 Minute Horror will be the sole property of 5 Minute Horror and 5 Minute Horror may (but is not obligated to) publicly post your Content submissions and invite user comments upon them. If you believe that someone has submitted/and or 5 Minute Horror has posted Content that infringes your rights or the rights of another third-party please see 5 Minute Horror's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for necessary take-down and DCMA copyright notification steps to follow.
 
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