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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the organisations and individuals who have allowed us to use their images on the CharityBags website free-of-charge.  They include the following :
 

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www.oxfam.org.uk   Reg charity no 202918

Our thanks to Oxfam.

For easy identification, we've renamed the Oxfam image files so they begin with 'oxfam' - eg 'oxfamlogo.gif'.

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www.scran.ac.uk  

Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network (charity)
Our thanks to SCRAN, and to the organisations and individuals who kindly supplied the images to SCRAN - including James Gardiner and Saul Gardiner (Ikon Scotland), Oxford Designers and Illustrators, Chris Robson.

We've renamed their files so they begin with 'scran'.

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www.freeimages.co.uk  

Our thanks to FreeImages.

We've renamed their files so they begin with 'freeimages-co-uk'.

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www.freefoto.com  

Our thanks to FreeFoto.com. Their photographs are copyright. *

We've renamed their files so they begin with 'freefoto-com'.

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www.bigfoto.com  

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 www.milonic.com  

Our thanks to Milonic Solutions Ltd (suppliers of JavaScript menu software) for various images.

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www.wikipedia.org  

http://commons.wikimedia.org/  

Our thanks to the Wikipedia Foundation and Wikipedia.

Our thanks to Wikimedia Commons - and the individuals and organisations who contributed the images.

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Other images

With some of the copyright images (and text) we've used, we understand they can be used under "fair use" rules - without the need to seek permission from the owners.

Most of the other images on the site are free to use - or have been produced by us.

We may have inadvertently reproduced some images from copyright sources without permission (or omitted to credit the owner).  If so, please accept our apologies, and contact us so we can rectify matters.

We're not experts in copyright and can't afford professional advice.

Oxfam logo
(reproduced with their blessing)

Please bear in mind that our purpose is to raise extra money for genuine charities - such as Oxfam, the Children's Society, Cancer Research UK, Age UK and the RSPCA.  We don't gain financially from the site - see the Aims and About us pages.

Use of logos

Where we've added logos of organisations to the site, they're used merely as visual cues - for ready identification where we mention the organisation or their website. There's a wealth of research showing that the use of such images greatly improves communication.

Our use of these logos is not intended to imply :

• that we are the organisation (or part of it)
• that we're connected with the organisation in any way
• that the organisation supports us (or our site) or has approved it in any way
• that we consider the logo is not copyright.

Our use of any logo (in effect) provides free publicity for the organisation, encouraging people to visit their site and/or use their products or services.

Respected organisations like Wikipedia frequently use logos in the way we do - for example see their pages on the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the Charity Commission, the OFT and the BBC.  We understand that Wikipedia consider this to be "fair use" - and they don't seek prior approval from the organisations concerned.

General points

Editing - We've made minor modifications to some images, in accordance with normal practice, such as :

• cropping, resizing
• converting to GIF format to allow transparent backgrounds
• converting to JPEG format to reduce file size
• blurring private/confidential details - eg some names and phone numbers.

Types of files - Most of the images on the site are small and compressed.  So the pages should load quickly.  Most of the image files here have jpg, gif or png file extensions.

Filenames - Out of courtesy to copyright owners, we've renamed some images by adding the name of the owner (eg Oxfam).  Also we've added a note to the "Alt" text of some images (see below) to indicate copyright/source.

"Alt" text - We've added "Alt" text (ie alternative text) to most images to help users - for example people browsing with text-only mode, and visually-impaired users.  It describes the image - acting as a caption.

You can see the "Alt" text in two ways :

• It appears in place of an image if the image hasn't been loaded.
• With some older browsers (eg Internet Explorer 6 or earlier), even when an image has been displayed, you can still see the explanatory "Alt" text by passing the mouse over the image.

"Title" text - We've added this to some images.  This appears when you pass your mouse over the image.  The text is shown in a "tooltip" box.  This works with almost all browsers.

"Alt" text and "title" text are embedded (hidden) in the HTML code of web pages - so you can't see them normally.

Captions - In the early days, we added captions to only a few images - partly because it complicated the web design and it took extra time (with the software we were using).  Instead we relied on :

• the content of the image being self-explanatory
• the context making it obvious
• references to the image in the adjoining body text
• the "alt" text (see above)
• the "title" text (see above)
• the filename of the image

Recently, we've been adding captions to more images.

Related pages

• Copyright - of material we've used from other sources
• Acknowledgements - our thanks to various organisations and individuals
• Help - on using the website

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