Terms of Service

These Terms govern your use of Urban Gallery (“the app”), operated by Back Room Strategies Ltd (“we,” “us”). By installing or using the app, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the app.

What Urban Gallery is

Urban Gallery helps you discover public art — sculptures, murals, installations, monuments — in the cities it covers. Today that includes Denver, Boston, Chicago, and New York in the United States, and London, Paris, and Berlin in Europe. The app aggregates artwork records from publicly available datasets and displays them on a map with context about each piece.

The app is provided as-is and as-available, with no guarantee of uptime, accuracy, or fitness for any particular purpose. Data comes from public sources and may be incomplete, out of date, or incorrect. If a piece has been relocated or removed, we may not know.

Acceptable use

You may use the app for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not:

• Scrape, extract, or re-host our database in bulk for commercial purposes. (The underlying city datasets are published under Creative Commons Attribution licenses by each city’s open-data program — you’re welcome to source them directly from those cities under their terms.)
• Reverse-engineer the app to bypass rate limits or authentication.
• Use the app to harass, stalk, or endanger anyone, including artists whose work is featured.
• Impersonate us or falsely claim affiliation with us.

Content and intellectual property

Artwork records (title, artist, description, location) are sourced from each city’s open public-art data: the City and County of Denver (published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0), the City of Boston via Analyze Boston (published under Creative Commons Attribution), the City of Chicago via data.cityofchicago.org (published under the city’s Open Data Portal Terms of Use), the City of New York via data.cityofnewyork.us (published under the NYC Open Data Terms of Use), and OpenStreetMap contributors for London, Paris, and Berlin (published under the Open Database License (ODbL)). The app displays this data under those licenses.

The artworks themselves — the sculptures, murals, and installations in the physical world — are generally protected by the copyright of the artist or rights-holder, even when they are displayed in public space. Viewing them from a public place is unrestricted. Publishing photographs of them commercially may require additional permission from the artist.

If you’re an artist

If you are the artist or legal rights-holder of a piece displayed in the app and would like it removed:

• Tap Report this artworkat the bottom of any artwork’s detail page, which opens a pre-filled email to us, or
• Email seth@backroomstrategies.com directly with the artwork’s title, your name, and the reason for removal.

We will act on good-faith takedown requests from artists or rights-holders within a reasonable time, typically within one week.

External links

When you tap Directions, the app opens your device’s native maps application. When you tap See photos, it opens Google Image Search. These services are outside our control; their own terms apply. We are not responsible for the content or availability of third-party services.

Disclaimers

The app is provided “as-is.” We make no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of the app.

Your use of the app at physical locations is at your own risk. Public art is sometimes located along busy streets, in construction zones, or in areas that may be unsafe at certain times. Use reasonable judgment when navigating to and around pieces.

Termination

You can stop using the app at any time by uninstalling it. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms.

Changes to these Terms

If we change these Terms, we’ll update the “Last updated” date above and note what changed in the About tab. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email seth@backroomstrategies.com.