Are the images really free? YES! Almost 100% of our images are Royalty Free, provide a FreeDonwload button and are free to use displaying our credit line and respecting to our Licensing Agreement. You can use them without a credit line purchasing a license for as low as US$ 4.95.
On the other hand, in our stock we have a fine photos made with 4x5 view cameras and plate film, others with a high aesthetic rating for us or that we particullary love. A license must be purchased for these kind of photos.
Buying options Appart from our top "FreeDonwload" product, we offer:
Individual images Licenses for individual images can be purchased individually for an affordable price, on a Royalty Free basis, without requesting for any bunch purchase of CREDITS.
CD-Roms We also have some CD-Rom collections of some topics that will surely grow in the future, to get access to (L) large resolutions of 3508x2349 pixels at the lowest price.
Subscriptions For those with more picture needs we offer subscriptions. It is similar as buying credits for a period of time.
Monthly subscriptions give you access to 100% of our stock during a month or 60 images, whatever comes first.
Yearly subscriptions give you access to 100% of our stock during a year or 750 images, whatever comes first.
Both subscriptions give access up to the (M) resolution of 1920x1286 pixels aprox.
Are there any restrictions on my use of the FREE stock Photos photos that I download? Yes. While FREE stock Photos offers great freedom and a wide ranges of uses, we do not allow the redistribution of our photos, or allow the use of our photos within products that are mass distributed in any type of archive format.
As a professional photographer myself, can I submit photos to sell? Right now the only photos that we sell are the ones taken by FREE stock Photos and it's partners. We are considering this in a short future. So, stay tuned.
If I purchase a subscription, will I have acces to the full collection? Yes. 100% of our photos are accesible for subscribers with the only limitation of (M) medium size/resolution.
As a subscriber may acces (L) large resolutions? No. (L) large resolutions can only be individually purchased. We may consider in the future to make such a "Premium Subscription" to access this (L) size/resolution.
Is account sharing allowed? No, sharing an account is no different than distributing our materials to others. Individual accounts must be purchased by your friends and colleagues.
Working with lightboxes Lightbox is very usefull to provisionally store images that might look good at first sight, but need further reviewing before any purchase. In order to use the lightbox feature you need to login as a registered free or subscriber account member. Images in your lightbox will be stored until you delete them yourself.
Creating your lightbox First you must do is to create a lightbox. Just give a name to your lightbox, click the "go" button and you're done. You can create as many lightboxes as you need.
Adding images to your lightbox Once the lightbox/es is/are created, you must select one before adding any image. Adding images to a lightbox is very easy. While browsing the site you will notice an icon under every image representing the lightbox. Just click the icon to add the image to the lightbox previously selected. You will notice the icon changes to clearly show you if this image is already added to lightbox.
Deleting You can delete at any time photos added to lightbox or the lightboxes themselves by the button links provided to do so.
Use of the shopping cart There is no need to be registered to use the shopping cart to buy individual images, CD-Roms or subscriptions.
Once you have clicked a thumbnail and are in the image details page, you will see several "add to cart" buttons, corresponding to every image size license. (Some of these buttons turn to "FreeDonwload" if you are a subscriber).
To buy one image just click the "add to cart" button corresponding to the file size desired.
The images you put in your shopping cart remain there until you decide to purchase them. If you decide to leave the FREE stock Photos web site, the images will remain in your cart until you delete them.
At any moment you may forward your purchase by clicking "BUY NOW" button at the shopping cart. You may also delete any image from the cart by clicking "Remove from cart".
Payments & Taxes Payments are processed by Paypal. You can use PayPal either you have an account with them or not, just with a valid credit card. It is that simple, fast, and secure.
Prices displayed on the site are taxfree for worldwide customers except:
Customers residing in Spain: 18% VAT tax will be charged. Customers residing in European Union: providing an European valid VAT number, VAT tax will not be charged.
Individual images If for some reason you are unsatisfied with an image you have purchased, you may obtain a refund up to 3 days after receiving our email download.
In order to initiate the return process, send us an email at info@freestockphotos.es clearly indicating the following:
first and last name
phone number
email address
the reason for your return
payment or image code/s
To initiate the return process, it is essential that we receive the complete details as mentioned above.
If your complaint is accepted, we will send you an PDF document by email for you to fill out, sign, and to be returned by email, and in which you will also indicate that you have not used the image, as well as your acceptance to destroy the image/s previously acquired. We will refund your payment in the following three working days after receiving the signed document mentioned above.
CD-Roms CD-Roms are subject to be changed if defective in manufacture or fail to work during 90 days. If this happens you should inform us by email, prior to return the CD-Rom in its original packaging. Once we receive your CD-Rom, a new one will be sent to you.
Subscriptions Once your purchase is made we can not offer a refund. The reason for this policy is because we offer full access to our entire digital collection of photos and, as such, there is no way for our products to be returned.