House rules
Frostalgia exists thanks to the photos you hunters upload. So that the archive is a place to be proud of — and does not get anyone into trouble — these are the rules. There are only a few, and they make sense.
Upload only photos you took yourself. If the photo belongs to someone else — a relative, a friend, someone from a forum — you need their express permission before uploading it, and you must credit them in the record. No images pulled from Google, social media or copyrighted catalogs: however gorgeous that Fedders is, if it is not yours, it does not go in.
The units are the stars here. We do not accept photos showing recognizable people (faces, identifiable features) or legible vehicle license plates. If someone appears in the corner of your photo or a car is parked in front, crop or blur that part before uploading. If one slips past moderation and you let us know, we take it down.
We publish where the machine is at the neighborhood or city level, never the exact address. “Old town of Cuenca”, yes; “such-and-such street, number so-and-so, second floor”, no. Many of these units survive on private façades and courtyards, and the last thing we want is to point at anyone’s home.
Every photo carries invisible EXIF metadata: camera model, date, and very often the exact GPS coordinates of where you took the shot. On Frostalgia, all metadata — GPS included — is stripped from the copies that get published. What the world sees are clean versions, with no trace at all. Your original file is kept intact in private storage, out of public reach, solely as a backup and to verify authorship if it is ever needed.
By uploading a photo or writing in a record, you agree to share your contribution under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. In plain English: anyone can reuse your photo as long as they credit you as the author and share the result under the same license. It is the same philosophy as Wikipedia, and it is what guarantees this archive stays everyone’s even as the years go by. You always keep the authorship and the credit on your record.
Are you in a photo? Does it show your house and you are not thrilled about it? Are you the author and someone uploaded it without your permission? Ask us to take it down — no need for long explanations:
Write to us at hola@frostalgia.com with the subject “Photo removal”, including the link to the record (or a description that lets us find it) and the reason in one line.
We reply within 72 hours at most. If the request is reasonable — and it almost always is — the photo disappears from the site and from our storage. No drama: we would rather lose a photo than lose the trust of the people who make this site possible.