THE PANCHROME PROJECT

Legal Notice, Terms of Use and Intellectual Property Policy

Covers Panchrome Connect, the Panchrome Film Archive and community gallery, and the Panchrome website

Effective from: 1 October 2026

In short

Every photograph in the Archive belongs to the photographer named in its credit. Panchrome owns none of them.
Panchrome shows them on its website and social media, always credited. We never sell or license them, and the only changes we make are size, file name, alt text and SEO.
You may look at them. You may not download, copy, screenshot for reuse, repost, edit, print or use them, for any purpose including personal use, without the photographer's written permission.
Panchrome Connect is proprietary software. Copying, scraping or reverse engineering it, or using what you see inside it to imitate our service, is prohibited and will be pursued.
Our name, brand, content and confidential know-how are protected. Imitation and passing off will be pursued.
Photographers can withdraw their work at any time by writing to us.

Part 1About this document

1.1 Who we are. The Panchrome Project is a sole proprietorship of Vishal Kullarwar, with its registered address at 12, Shitla Darshan, Plot No. 375, L J Road, Mahim West, Mumbai - 400016, Maharashtra, India, and its operational address at A7, Silver Queen Apartments, Soonawala Agiary Lane, Mahim West, Mumbai - 400016, India ("Panchrome", "we", "us"). The Panchrome Collective is the name of our community of film photographers. It is operated by The Panchrome Project and is not a separate legal entity.

1.2 Who this applies to. This document applies to three groups. One person can belong to more than one.

(a)"Visitors" are people who view any part of our websites, including panchromeproject.com, the Panchrome Film Archive and connect.panchromeproject.com.

(b)"Users" are people who sign in to or use Panchrome Connect.

(c)"Contributors" are photographers and community members who submit photographs or other work to Panchrome for the Archive or any other community feature.

Part 2 applies to Users. Part 3 applies to everyone. Parts 4 to 6 deal with the Archive and community work. Parts 7 and 8 apply to everyone.

1.3 Agreement. By using our websites you agree to this document. Users and Contributors accept it by ticking the box shown when they sign up or submit, and we record the date and time. If you do not agree, please do not use our websites, Connect or the Archive.

1.4 Other documents. This document works together with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, both available at the foot of our website, and our Community Submission Guidelines. If anything here conflicts with the Community Submission Guidelines about how a Contributor's work may be used, the term that better protects the Contributor applies.

Part 2Panchrome Connect

2.1 What Connect is. Panchrome Connect™ (the "Platform"), at connect.panchromeproject.com, is our logged-in platform for customers. It brings together services, orders, order timelines, film processing updates and event tickets in one place.

2.2 Ownership. The Platform and every part of it belong to Panchrome, including:

(a)its software, source code, object code, databases and data structures;

(b)the selection, arrangement and compilation of its features, data and content;

(c)its user interface, layouts, screens, graphics, icons, text, photographs and other content; and

(d)its documentation, internal processes, know-how and non-public information about how it works.

These are protected under Indian law, including the Copyright Act, 1957, the Trade Marks Act, 1999, the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the law of confidence and trade secrets, as each applies to the relevant part, and under international treaties including the Berne Convention and the TRIPS Agreement. Nothing in this document transfers any ownership to you.

2.3 Third-party components. Parts of the Platform rely on services and software owned by others, including Shopify for customer accounts and payments. Those belong to their owners and are governed by their own terms. Our ownership covers the original software, design and content created by or for Panchrome.

2.4 Limited permission. We give you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable permission to use the Platform only to access services Panchrome provides to you. All other rights are reserved. No other licence arises by implication, conduct or otherwise.

2.5 What you must not do. You must not, and must not help or allow anyone else to:

(a)copy, reproduce, modify, translate, adapt or create derivative works from any part of the Platform;

(b)reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Platform, or try to discover its source code, structure or algorithms;

(c)scrape, crawl or extract data or content from the Platform by any automated or manual means;

(d)access the Platform through bots, scripts or anything other than the interface we provide, or try to reach any system not meant for you, including administration and internal systems;

(e)use any non-public screen, workflow, document, data or information obtained through the Platform to build, train or improve a competing or similar product or service;

(f)use the Platform, or any content or data from it, to train, test or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model;

(g)frame, mirror, resell, sublicense, rent or commercially exploit the Platform;

(h)remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;

(i)share your login or let anyone else use the Platform through your account; or

(j)publish screenshots, recordings or descriptions of non-public parts of the Platform without our written consent, except where the law allows or requires it, including to make a complaint to a court, regulator or authority.

2.6 Confidential information. What you see in the non-public parts of the Platform, including its internal workings, features, processes and business information, is confidential to Panchrome. Use it only to receive our services and keep it confidential, including after your account ends. This does not apply to information that is public through no fault of yours, that you already lawfully held, that you developed independently without using ours, or that the law requires you to disclose.

2.7 Your content and feedback. You keep ownership of the photographs, files and information you upload to Connect. You give Panchrome a licence to store, process and display them only to provide our services to you. Ideas and feedback you give us about the Platform may be used by Panchrome freely, and the resulting improvements belong to Panchrome.

2.8 Monitoring. We log and monitor access to and activity on the Platform to protect its security and our intellectual property. Logs may be used as evidence in legal proceedings. Personal data is handled as set out in our Privacy Policy.

2.9 Licensing. The Platform and its underlying technology are available for licensing to film labs, distributors, retailers, educators and other businesses, in India and internationally. A licence exists only in a written agreement signed by Panchrome. None arises from using the Platform, from correspondence or from a demonstration. Licensing enquiries: support@panchromeproject.com.

2.10 Consumers. Where you use Connect as a consumer, nothing in this document limits your rights under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 or any other law.

Part 3Copying, imitation and misuse of how Panchrome operates

3.1 What we protect. Panchrome has built its platform, processes and community over years. The following are protected to the extent the law allows:

(a)our name, logos and brand, including "Panchrome", "The Panchrome Project", "The Panchrome Collective", "Panchrome Film Archive" and "Panchrome Connect";

(b)our software, internal tools, dashboards and databases, including their source code and compilation;

(c)the design of our website and Platform, including screens, layouts, text, photographs, forms, templates and get-up;

(d)our written documentation, process manuals, procedures and guides;

(e)our confidential know-how, supplier and partner arrangements, pricing and business information; and

(f)photographs credited to The Panchrome Project. Contributor images belong to their photographers and are covered by Part 4.

The names of other businesses, including partner labs such as Darkroom8 and Safelight, belong to their owners.

3.2 How the law protects them. Copyright in India protects how something is expressed, such as code, screens, text, designs, databases and documents. It does not protect a bare idea. Panchrome therefore relies on the full range of protection the law gives:

(a)Copyright Act, 1957. Copying, adapting or substantially reproducing our code, content, designs or documentation is infringement (Section 51). A civil court can grant injunctions, damages and an account of profits (Section 55). Criminal liability arises under Section 63 and, for knowingly using an infringing copy of a computer program, Section 63B. Circumventing technological protection measures (Section 65A) and removing rights management information (Section 65B) are separate offences.

(b)Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the law of passing off. These cover use of our names or marks, or a confusingly similar name, logo, domain, handle or get-up, and presenting any service as ours or connected with us.

(c)The law of confidence and contract. These cover using confidential information, or access given for one purpose, for another. Users and Contributors are also bound by this document as a contract accepted electronically, which the Information Technology Act, 2000 recognises (Section 10A).

(d)Information Technology Act, 2000. Unauthorised access to, copying or extraction of data from a computer system gives rise to compensation under Section 43, and dishonest or fraudulent acts of that kind are offences under Section 66.

3.3 What counts as copying or imitation. Each of the following is treated as copying or misuse:

(a)reproducing our screens, layouts, text, graphics or process documents, or substantially the same combination of them;

(b)cloning the Platform or any part of it, whether by copying, by scraping, or by recording and documenting non-public parts in order to reproduce them;

(c)using access or information obtained as a customer, User, employee, contractor, vendor, lab or business partner to set up a similar service, unless we have agreed in writing;

(d)using our names, marks, handles or branding, or ones confusingly similar, for any service, event or community;

(e)presenting another service, event or community as ours, or as endorsed by or connected with us; and

(f)using our Archive, community or customer content to build, fill or promote another gallery, product or dataset.

3.4 What this does not restrict. We welcome fair competition and a strong film community. This document does not stop anyone from building their own service independently, without copying our code, content, designs or documents, without using our confidential information, and under their own name.

3.5 Consequences. Where we find copying, imitation or misuse, Panchrome may, at its sole discretion and without notice:

(a)suspend or end access;

(b)send takedown and infringement notices to hosting providers, domain registrars, app stores, marketplaces, payment providers and social media platforms;

(c)seek urgent injunctions, because money alone would not be adequate relief;

(d)claim damages or an account of profits, delivery up or destruction of infringing material, and legal costs;

(e)file criminal complaints under the laws named in clause 3.2; and

(f)rely on our logs and records as evidence.

3.6 No licence by silence. If we do not act straight away, that is not permission and does not waive any right.

3.7 Report copying. If you see a website, app, product, event or business copying or imitating Panchrome, please write to support@panchromeproject.com.

Part 4The Panchrome Archive and community work

4.1 What the Archive is. The Panchrome Film Archive (the "Archive") is a guide to how film stocks look, with a community gallery of photographs by members of The Panchrome Collective and other Contributors. The rolls are processed by our lab partners, in house by Panchrome, or by the photographers themselves.

4.2 Our word. Contributors share their work with us because they trust us. This Part is that trust, written down, and it binds Panchrome.

4.3 Who owns what. "Credited Photographer" means the person whose name or social media handle appears in the credit shown with an image.

The Credited Photographer

Owns the copyright in the image
Holds every right to reproduce, publish, adapt, print, license and sell it
Is named in the credit with every image
Can withdraw the image at any time

The Panchrome Project

Owns no copyright in any Contributor image and claims none
Holds no right to sell, license or sublicense it
May only display it on the website and social media for marketing and publicity (clause 4.4)
Always shows the credit

(a)The copyright in every Contributor image on the Archive belongs to the Credited Photographer, or to the person or organisation the Credited Photographer has told us holds it.

(b)The Credited Photographer holds every right of use in the image, including to reproduce, publish, communicate, adapt, print, license and sell it.

(c)Panchrome has not acquired, and does not claim, ownership of or any exclusive right in any Contributor image. Nothing in the Community Submission Guidelines or this document transfers copyright to Panchrome.

(d)The credit shown with an image is the record of who holds rights in it.

(e)Images credited to The Panchrome Project belong to Panchrome and are covered by Part 3.

4.4 What Panchrome is allowed to do. A Contributor gives Panchrome a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable and revocable permission to display the image, always with credit:

(a)on Panchrome's websites, including the Archive; and

(b)on Panchrome's own social media accounts, for marketing and publicity of the Archive, The Panchrome Collective, Panchrome and film photography.

This is the full extent of Panchrome's use. Where the Community Submission Guidelines describe wider uses, Panchrome does not rely on them. We may pass the files to the technology providers that host and run our website, and only to the extent they need them to do so. For any image, this permission ends when the Contributor withdraws it under clause 4.9.

4.5 What Panchrome will never do. Panchrome will not, and will not allow anyone else to:

(a)sell, license, sublicense or lease any Contributor image, or use it for direct commercial monetisation;

(b)give any brand, sponsor, client, publication or partner the right to use a Contributor image;

(c)offer any Contributor image for download or supply image files to Visitors;

(d)put any Contributor image on prints, products or merchandise;

(e)use any Contributor image to train, test or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model;

(f)remove or change the credit; or

(g)use any Contributor image in any way not listed in clause 4.4 without the Contributor's fresh written consent.

4.6 Credit. Every image is credited using the name or social media handle the Contributor provided. If a credit is wrong, incomplete or needs to change, write to us and we will correct it promptly.

4.7 No tampering. Panchrome does not alter any photograph before publishing it on the website. We do not edit, retouch, re-colour, colour grade, composite, filter, or add or remove elements from a photograph, or otherwise change what it shows. The only changes we make are:

(a)its size, including resizing and compression for the web;

(b)its file name;

(c)its alt text; and

(d)its search engine optimisation (SEO) elements, such as titles, captions, descriptions and structured data.

None of these changes what the photograph depicts. Our Community Submission Guidelines allow cropping and light adjustment for layout. On the website we hold ourselves to the stricter standard in this clause. We respect each photographer's right to claim authorship of their work and to object to its distortion or modification (Section 57, Copyright Act, 1957).

4.8 What Contributors confirm. When you submit work, you confirm that:

(a)you created the photograph;

(b)you have the right to share it with us on these terms;

(c)it was shot on film, including film bought from Panchrome or processed through our lab partners, where that applies;

(d)it does not infringe anyone's copyright or other rights; and

(e)any identifiable person in it has consented, or the photograph does not breach their privacy.

If any of these is untrue for a submission made on or after 1 October 2026, you will compensate Panchrome for the losses and costs it suffers from claims arising from that, to the extent the law allows.

4.9 Withdrawal. A Contributor may withdraw any image at any time by writing to support@panchromeproject.com and identifying the image. We will remove it from the website and stop all further use promptly, within 7 business days. We will delete our own social media posts of it and ask search engines to remove cached copies we can reach. We cannot recall copies that others have taken, and use that has already happened is not affected. If someone has copied the image in breach of this document, tell us and we will help under clause 4.11.

4.10 Our right to decline or remove. We may decline or remove any submission that infringes copyright or privacy, is offensive or harmful, or does not meet our community standards. If someone raises a claim about an image, we may remove it first and investigate afterwards.

4.11 Enforcement for Contributors. Because copyright in each image belongs to its Credited Photographer, only the photographer, or someone with the photographer's authority, can bring a claim for infringement of it. Contributors authorise Panchrome to send takedown and infringement notices, and to take reasonable steps to stop unauthorised copying of their images from the Archive, at Panchrome's choice and without any obligation to do so. Panchrome will not license, settle or compromise any claim for a Contributor without the Contributor's consent. Contributors remain free to enforce their rights themselves.

Part 5Rules for everyone who views the Archive

5.1 What you may and may not do. You may browse the Archive and view the images on our pages for your own information and enjoyment. Beyond that, the table below applies.

You may

View images on our website and social media
Link to the Archive page or an image's page
Use the share buttons on our website
Share or repost our social media posts using the platform's own share feature, which keeps the credit
Ask us to forward a request for permission to a photographer

You may not, without the Credited Photographer's written permission (Panchrome cannot give it)

Download, save or copy an image, or screenshot or screen record it for reuse
Reproduce, print, repost, upload, republish or redistribute it, including by re-uploading a file
Edit, crop, filter, adapt or add to it
Use it for personal use, including as wallpaper, in personal projects, on personal social media, in mood boards or in prints
Use it commercially, including in advertising, merchandise, stock, client work, pitches, products or editorial
Use it to train, test or improve any AI or machine learning model, or in any dataset or image recognition or search tool
Scrape or bulk collect images or data from the Archive
Remove, hide or change the credit or any information attached to the image
Bypass any measure we use to protect images
Present an image as your own or as Panchrome's

5.2 The personal use rule. The ban on personal use is deliberate. These photographs are personal work. A photographer decides if, where and how their work is used, and a Visitor's view that a use is harmless does not change that.

5.3 Asking permission. To ask for permission, write to support@panchromeproject.com with the link to the image's page, what you want to do and for how long. We may forward your request to the photographer, but we are not obliged to. Panchrome cannot grant permission. If the photographer agrees, the arrangement is directly between you and them, and Panchrome takes no commission.

5.4 What the law allows. This document does not authorise any use of an Archive image. Where Indian law allows a use without permission, such as fair dealing for criticism, review or reporting of current events under Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957, the law applies as it is written, and the photographer must still be credited. We do not encourage or assist such uses, and Panchrome has no power to grant or refuse them for a photographer.

5.5 Consequences of misuse. Misusing an Archive image infringes the photographer's rights, and the person who does so is responsible for it. The photographer, and Panchrome acting with their authority under clause 4.11, may:

(a)send takedown notices to hosts, platforms and search engines;

(b)seek injunctions, damages, an account of profits, delivery up and costs under Section 55 of the Copyright Act, 1957;

(c)pursue criminal complaints under Sections 63, 65A and 65B of that Act, and compensation or complaints under Sections 43 and 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 for scraping or unauthorised extraction; and

(d)block access from any person or system that scrapes or bulk collects images. We keep access logs for this purpose.

Part 6Reporting, takedown and grievances

6.1 Copyright, credit or consent complaints. If you are a photographer or rights holder and you see work on our websites that you did not authorise, that is wrongly credited, or that you want removed, write to support@panchromeproject.com with:

(a)your name and contact details;

(b)the link to the image's page;

(c)proof that you created or own the work;

(d)what you want us to do; and

(e)a statement that your complaint is made in good faith.

We will act promptly, and we may remove the image while we look into it.

6.2 Privacy complaints. If you appear in a photograph and want it removed, write to support@panchromeproject.com with the link to the image's page. We will review it promptly.

6.3 Grievance Officer. In line with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, our Grievance Officer is Vishal Kullarwar, reachable at vishal@panchromeproject.com, 12, Shitla Darshan, Plot No. 375, L J Road, Mahim West, Mumbai - 400016, Maharashtra, India. Complaints are acknowledged and handled within the time limits those Rules set.

Part 7Liability and disclaimers

7.1 As is. Our websites, Connect and the Archive are provided as they are. We take reasonable care but do not promise they will always be available or free of errors.

7.2 The film guide. How a film stock looks depends on the camera, lens, light, exposure, processing, scanning and screen. The Archive is a reference and a source of inspiration, not a promise of any result.

7.3 Content from others. We rely on the confirmations Contributors give us and act when a problem is reported. To the extent Panchrome acts as an intermediary for content that others provide, it has the protection of Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

7.4 Limits. To the extent the law allows, Panchrome is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, or loss caused by third-party websites, services or users. Nothing in this document excludes any liability that cannot be excluded by law, or limits your rights as a consumer.

7.5 Indemnity. Business Users, and Contributors for the matters in clause 4.8, will indemnify Panchrome against losses, damages, claims, costs and reasonable legal fees arising from their breach of this document or their infringement of Panchrome's rights. An individual who uses Panchrome as a consumer is responsible only for loss caused by their wilful breach, and only to the extent the law allows.

Part 8General

8.1 Governing law and courts. This document is governed by the laws of India. The courts at Mumbai, Maharashtra have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it. Panchrome may seek urgent injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction, in India or abroad, where infringement occurs. This does not remove any right a consumer has to approach a consumer forum under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

8.2 If a part fails. If any part of this document is found unenforceable, that part is to be applied as narrowly as needed to make it enforceable, or otherwise removed, and the rest stays in full effect.

8.3 No waiver. Our failure or delay in enforcing any right is not a waiver of it.

8.4 What continues. The clauses on ownership, confidentiality, enforcement, indemnity and governing law continue after your use of our websites, Connect or the Archive ends.

8.5 Updates. We may update this document. The date at the top shows the latest version, and continued use means you accept it. We will not widen the permission a Contributor has given for their images without their fresh consent.

8.6 Contact. The Panchrome Project. Registered address: 12, Shitla Darshan, Plot No. 375, L J Road, Mahim West, Mumbai - 400016, Maharashtra, India. Operational address: A7, Silver Queen Apartments, Soonawala Agiary Lane, Mahim West, Mumbai - 400016, India. Email for general, legal, licensing, permission and withdrawal requests: support@panchromeproject.com.