UCSF School of Pharmacy

Participation Guidelines

This page describes the School's participation guidelines for how we use Flickr.

1. Regarding what you upload to Flickr:
   1. The entire world is the audience for these photos and videos. The photos and videos you upload and submit to our groups will reflect upon the School and the University -- and, ultimately, you.
   2. Photos and videos you submit to our groups must be related somehow to the School. You can use Flickr for non-School-related photos and videos, of course, but please don't submit these photos and videos to School-related groups.
   3. Photos and videos you submit to our groups must adhere to the UCSF Principles of Community.
   4. Photos and videos you upload must conform to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
   5. Similarly, we expect you to abide by Flickr's Community Guidelines.
   6. Remember the audience for Flickr is worldwide, so optionally add a title, a description, notes, or tags to your photos and videos to explain things to those who might not know what's happening in the photo. Example: Parnassus Avenue. It's a little more work, but it makes a big difference to everyone who visits the photo later.
2. Regarding copyright:
   1. Neither the University nor Flickr nor Yahoo! owns your photos and videos -- you do. You can retain the full copyright or select a Creative Commons license -- it's your choice.
   2. Images owned by the University should not be posted by you under a personal Yahoo!/Flickr account since that implies you own and control the copyright of such images. Please contact Associate Dean of Planning and Communications Susan Levings at levingss@pharmacy.ucsf.edu if you want to share such images.
   3. Please don't upload photos that aren't yours. This is part of the Yahoo! Terms of Service and Flickr's Community Guidelines (see 1d and 1e above), but it is worth repeating because it is frequently overlooked. For personal photos, in most cases the person who took the photo is the copyright owner. Let the copyright owner of the photo choose to share his or her photos from his or her own Flickr account (or other account). For photos taken by a hired photographer (such as for University-related business), ownership of the photos is determined by your agreement with that photographer. If you don't already have a signed agreement granting you the appropriate rights, please check with your photographer before uploading to your Flickr account.
3. Regarding Flickr groups:
   1. You're welcome to create and administer your own Flickr groups, but if you want to create a School-managed Flickr group which will be listed in our Flickr groups, contact Web Developer Eric Davila at davilae@pharmacy.ucsf.edu or 415/476-3845. Only School-managed Flickr groups will be listed and featured on pharmacy.ucsf.edu. Students: if your organization will continue to exist after you leave UCSF, it's better to let us create the Flickr group so that we can continue to administer it after you leave.
   2. Having an event where you know people will be taking photos or videos? Contact Web Developer Eric Davila at davilae@pharmacy.ucsf.edu or 415/476-3845 so that we can create your Flickr group in advance and provide you with a URL to an empty Flickr group. When you announce your event, you can include the Flickr group URL as a central place for everyone to upload photos and videos afterwards. Once the photos and videos are in a Flickr group, you can easily feed them back to your organization's website -- see Flickr for Web Developers.

Photos and videos that don't conform to these guidelines might be removed from groups managed by the School. The School reserves the right to change these participation guidelines at any time.

Go To: How we use Flickr

About Privacy

1. Reminder: respect patient privacy by ensuring that photos and videos you upload do not include patients or patient data. Example: Do not upload a photo which includes a computer screen or file folder with patient information visible adjacent to the subject of your photo.
2. Similarly, respect the privacy of your peers by honoring any requests to remove or make private your photos or videos.