Legal

The following constitutes a legal agreement between you, and/or your company, and Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com

USAGE RIGHTS:

For use with an eBook publication: Upon purchasing any "cover-only" product from Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com, you are licensed to use the purchased product for ONE publication title of an eBook publication of ANY size run and any number of editions of that same book title. Thus, for use with an eBook product, you are hereby assigned a royalty free license.

For use with a printed publication: Upon purchasing any "cover-only" product, or upon purchasing any "cover + spine + back cover" (a.k.a. full wrap book cover or jacket) product from Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com, you are licensed to use the purchased product for ONE printed book title of ANY size run and any number of editions of that same book title. In some cases there may be additional royalty fees due for high volume print/press productions, i.e. for the total copies in aggregate. If a royalty fee is required it will usually only apply if the total numbers of published copies are in the tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, Not all book cover products for print which are sold by Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com will require such a print production royalty fee. Only if such a fee is imposed by the stock photo or illustration company used in any aspect of the book cover work, will such a fee be required. A link to any applicable royalty fee information will be clearly displayed in this web site, within the product description area (in the Designer's comment section) for the applicable product.

For use in promotional material: Upon purchasing any product from Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com, the entire product, or extrapolations of that product may be used ONLY to promote the book title for which the product was originally purchased. This means that any part of the final product file may be used in electronic media or printed publications to promote or advertise the book for which the cover was made, be it, press releases, editorial reviews, web site display, printed sales sheets, magazine advertisements, television advertisements, or any other similar usage that is specific to promotional uses for the purchased book cover product. However, this does not apply to products which are sold such as coffee mugs, posters, etc. which will require a separate purchase, and possibly separate licensing fees. Please send any questions in this regard to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

PRODUCT UPGRADE:

Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com agrees to keep the original cover-only project on file for a period of at least two (2) years from the original purchase. You may at any time during that period order an "upgrade" to the product for delivery of data file(s) which have been sized and color tuned for off-set or digital hard copy printing. Or if the original order was for a book cover going to press, you may at any time during this period order a copy which is sized and color tuned for eBook readers. However, at no time can Joseph Maas/UniqueBookCovers.com be held liable if such files become corrupted/damaged or lost during this period. We will make every attempt to preserve the data files from the original order, but the volatile nature of digital storage precludes any absolute guarantees that can be made in this regard.

COPYRIGHT:

Joseph Maas and Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and/or the stock agency and/or other contributes to the products sold on this site retain full copyright to the book cover illustration and/or photography and design, although you, the customer, is hereby granted the use of any purchased product from this site as stipulated in the USAGE RIGHTS section above.

No action taken during the sale or production of any product from this site, even if the customer (you) adds material to the final product, shell be construed as a waver or negation of this copyright clause.

At no time shell any image be re-purposed, extracted, modified for any other use outside of those uses described in in the USAGE RIGHTS section above.

REFUND POLICY:

You may at any time during the first 20 days from product delivery to you, request a full refund for the product, provided the product has not been published, nor put to use in any other way including advertisement and promotions. If a refund under the 20 day money back guarantee is granted, then all hard copies/prints and digital files and copies of the product must be destroyed and/or removed from all personal computers, servers, and storage devices. All such requests will be granted by Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com with the full refund forthcoming within 48 to 72 hours of the request.

TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT:

Any violation of this agreement will result in immediate termination of all licensing and resulting permissions granted by this legal agreement between you, and/or your company, and Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com

RELEASE OF LIABILITY:

By conducting any business with Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase, you thereby shall indemnify, defend (by counsel reasonably acceptable to Association) and hold harmless Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase including its officers, directors, agents and employees from and against claims, damages, losses and expenses, including but not limited to attorneys' fees, arising out of use of the purchased product or resulting from the negligence or misconduct of Contractor in connection with performance of the work described in this Agreement.

Plainly stated - We will make every effort to assure the usability of all any products purchased from Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com, furthermore we promise, by our 20 day money back guarantee policy, that any said product or products will be useful for the intended purpose under which they were sold. However if any damages or financial losses are incurred as a result of conducting any business with Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase, then you hereby agree to a full waver of liability for Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase and to protect Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and attorneys' fees reasonably incurred in connection with any threatened or actual civil or criminal proceedings. In civil proceedings, officers and directors of Joseph Maas/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase may be indemnified if they acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in the best interests of all parities involved in the transaction. In the case of criminal proceedings, Joseph Maas, Bukava/UniqueBookCovers.com and all other parties associated with this purchase may be indemnified if they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.

If any part of this document is unclear, please submit questions in email to: Joseph Maas - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by way of postal mail to:

Joseph Maas c/o Bukava.com
P.O. Box 81
Middletown, CA 95461