Logos, mini-images, not real photos, scanned documents, text documents, screenshots, collages and copyrighted images from someone else are not acceptable in Panoramio because of legal issues.Paintings, draws, 3D images, satellite images are not accepted.
You can't upload photos from someone else to Panoramio even if you credit the original author of the photo because you need explicit permission from the author to do so. We are aware that some people just want to contribute to Panoramio and illustrate a place with photos taken from the Internet, but that's not possible according to the law. Because of legal issues uploading photo from another author can lead to user deletion without notice.
Photos of businesses and descriptive texts are allowed in Panoramio, but advertisting printed over the photo or in the title is not acceptable. For example the title "Pepito's Bar" is Ok, however "Pepito's bar; snack and beer" or "Order prints and t-shirts, call 394845" is not OK. Panoramio is a site for exploring places and sometimes business are a part of the place, but Panoramio is not a place for advertising, so please, flag those photos as inapropriate in those cases.
Sexual explicit pictures are not allowed until we can develop a filter for this kind of content. Discriminative, xenophobic or racist photos will be deleted. Picture of children are especially sensitive, if we have the shadow of a doubt about the intention of the photo it will be immediately deleted. Nudity is a little bit more complicated to judge, but if the nude is suitable for a museum, then is suitable for Panoramio. Nudity is also ok for naturist locations.
Photos that are not illustrative about the place (people posing, pets, cars, planes...) are not suitable for Google Earth / Google Maps, but still are accepted in Panoramio because some people asked us to keep them. However those photos are only visible if you click in the "all" tab in Panoramio's map or if you go directly to the personal page of the user, you don't see them by default, so it is your choice to watch them or not.
If you want to report a photo that is violating this policy, please, click on the "inappropriate or offensive" link on the right sidebar of the photo. If the photo is not violating this policy, but you still don't like it, I would suggest you to take further action and upload your own photos to Panoramio. Each photo in Panoramio.com has a popularity level, so if your photo gets more popular, it would be more visible than the ones you don't like ;)
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