Copyright Notice

Last updated: May 2026

All editorial content on Explore Your Garden — original articles, plant guides, reviews, glossary entries, original photographs, illustrations, and the design of the site — is © 2019–2026 Explore Your Garden and its respective authors. All rights are reserved except those expressly granted below.

This notice applies in conjunction with our Terms of Service and the formal procedure on our DMCA Page.

1. What is permitted without prior permission

• Personal reading and offline reference. You may read, save, print, and refer back to articles for personal, non-commercial use.
• Linking. You may link to articles from any context. We encourage links and ask only that the link reasonably represent the article being linked.
• Brief quotation with attribution. You may quote up to approximately 150 words from any single article in a context that constitutes fair use, fair dealing, or the Italian “diritto di citazione” under Article 70 of Legge 633/1941, provided that (a) the quotation is clearly identified as such, (b) the author and Explore Your Garden are credited, (c) a link to the original article is included where the medium permits, and (d) the quotation is genuinely incidental to commentary, criticism, or news reporting in the host work.
• Embedding of explicitly shared media. Where we have published an article in a format that includes embed codes (typically video, where applicable), the provided embed codes may be used in line with their stated terms.

2. What requires prior written permission

• Republication, reproduction, or redistribution of articles in whole or in substantial part on any other website, in any other publication (digital or print), in any newsletter, in any commercial product, or in any educational material distributed in significant quantity.
• Translation of any article and republication of the translation, even with attribution.
• Modification or adaptation of articles, including the creation of derivative works.
• Commercial use of any kind, including incorporation of our text or images into commercial products, marketing materials, training materials, or paid courses.
• Use of our photographs and illustrations in any context other than as embedded within an unmodified link to the original article.

3. Explicit prohibition on AI training

We expressly do not consent to the use of any content on this Site — text, images, structured data, or any other material — for the training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or grounding of generative artificial intelligence models, large language models, image generation models, or similar systems.

This prohibition is asserted under:

• Italian copyright law (Legge 22 aprile 1941, n. 633), as amended.
• The European Union Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, Article 4, which permits a rightsholder to expressly reserve uses of works for text and data mining. We exercise that reservation.
• The United States Copyright Act, including the doctrine of fair use as applied to copying for the purpose of building competing commercial products.
• Equivalent provisions in other applicable jurisdictions.

The prohibition extends to (a) direct training on our content, (b) fine-tuning on our content, (c) using our content for retrieval-augmented generation by commercial systems, and (d) the use of our content as evaluation or benchmark data for commercial AI systems. Non-commercial academic research may be eligible for exemption under applicable text-and-data-mining provisions; please contact us at info [at] exploreyourgarden [punto] site to discuss.

For our own use of AI tools in producing editorial content, see our AI Usage Policy.

4. Photographs and illustrations

Photographs of plants, gardens, tools, and gardening techniques on the Site are taken by our editorial team in our own gardens, except where otherwise credited. They are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, redistributed, or used in any context without prior written permission.

Where we use third-party photographs or illustrations (rare, for plants we do not yet have local examples of, or for historical references), the source is credited and the original copyright remains with the source.

5. User-generated content

Comments, reader submissions, and other user-generated content posted to the Site remain the property of the original author. By submitting content, you grant us the license described in our Terms of Service to display and use the content in connection with the Site. You retain copyright in your contributions and may request their removal at any time.

6. Quotations from third-party works

Where we quote from third-party works (books, articles, interviews, breeders’ catalogs), we do so under fair use, fair dealing, or the equivalent right of citation in the relevant jurisdiction. The original copyright remains with the third-party author.

7. Trademarks

“Explore Your Garden” is a trade designation of the Site. Names of cultivars, brands, and products mentioned on the Site remain the property of their respective owners. Their use on the Site is for the purposes of identification, criticism, review, and reporting in line with applicable law.

8. Requesting a license

If you wish to use our content in a way that exceeds the permissions granted in section 1 above, please contact us at info [at] exploreyourgarden [punto] site with the subject line License request. Please include:

• The specific article(s) you wish to use.
• The intended use (publication, translation, course material, etc.).
• The intended audience and distribution.
• The duration of use.
• Any commercial dimension, if applicable.

We respond to license inquiries within 14 business days. Educational and non-commercial requests are usually granted at low or no cost; commercial requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

9. Reporting infringement

If you discover that someone has reproduced our content without authorization, please let us know at dmca [at] exploreyourgarden [punto] site. We pursue substantive infringement, particularly when articles are republished verbatim with attribution removed or when our photographs are reused commercially without permission.

10. Enforcement

Where unauthorized use is discovered, our typical responses, in escalating order, are:

1. Polite contact requesting either takedown or proper attribution and licensing.
2. Formal cease-and-desist correspondence.
3. DMCA notice or equivalent notice-and-takedown to the hosting provider.
4. Search engine de-indexation requests.
5. Legal action where the infringement is substantial and the infringer is reachable.

11. Content from before the current copyright notice

Content first published before the current “Last updated” date of this notice remains protected under the copyright terms in force at the time of publication. The current notice supersedes earlier copyright notices for the purposes of new readers and current uses; historical permissions previously granted remain valid as granted.

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