Sascha van der Werf

Legal notice

1. Legal notices and media disclosure

Service provider and media owner

Mag.(FH) Sascha van der Werf · Sole trader
Business and contact address: Wiedner Hauptstrasse 33, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Email: contact@van-der-werf.com

VAT identification number: ATU68836307

Trade authorisations:

Professional photographer, GISA number 33428765
Trade in goods other than regulated trades, GISA number 33075921

Trade authority: Vienna City Administration (Magistrat der Stadt Wien)
Member of the Vienna Economic Chamber (Wirtschaftskammer Wien)
Applicable professional rules include the Austrian Trade Regulation Act 1994 (Gewerbeordnung), available from the Austrian Legal Information System.

Media disclosure and editorial purpose

Media owner and publisher: Mag.(FH) Sascha van der Werf, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 33, 1040 Vienna, Austria. Business activities: professional photography, photography workshops and the sale of photographs and art editions. Editorial purpose: The website presents Sascha van der Werf’s photographic and artistic work, projects and offerings. The Journal is his personal blog, sharing thoughts, personal experiences and stories about photography and his own work.

Enquiries and contracts

The website provides information, presents my work and invites non-binding enquiries. The website has no shop, checkout or paid online booking. Newsletter signup does not order a service. Services and art purchases are agreed through a separate offer. You receive the required pre-contract information and the terms applicable to your contract before making a binding declaration.

Complaints and alternative dispute resolution

Please send complaints to contact@van-der-werf.com. For the photography services, workshops and art sales offered here, I am under no statutory or contractual obligation to participate in proceedings before a consumer alternative dispute resolution body. I decide whether to participate on a case-by-case basis. If we cannot resolve a consumer dispute directly, you will receive the legally required information about the competent dispute resolution body or bodies and whether I will participate, on a durable medium.

2. Copyright & Intellectual Property

The original photographs, videos, texts and other protected work on this website are protected by copyright and related rights. Unless otherwise stated, the rights holder is Sascha van der Werf. Rights in identified third-party content remain with their respective holders.

Unless statutory permission or a valid existing licence applies, my written consent must be obtained before use; clear consent by email is sufficient for this purpose. This applies in particular to reproduction, publication, commercial use, adaptation and distribution. Permitted uses are governed by the scope specifically agreed. Public availability, downloading or attribution alone does not grant a licence. Technical display necessary for ordinary intended browsing of the website remains permitted.

Licensed uses are subject to the agreed editing and credit requirements. Without appropriate permission, alterations of image content, cropping that changes meaning, text overlays and distortive changes of context are prohibited insofar as protected rights are affected. This does not generally exclude purely technical adjustments necessary for an expressly permitted use and covered by its agreed purpose.

Unless otherwise agreed, where the particular use requires attribution, the credit is “Photo: Sascha van der Werf” with a reference to van-der-werf.com. Social-media use should link the actual account agreed in the offer. Attribution does not replace permission. Under this notice, omission of a credit does not automatically and retrospectively extinguish all usage rights.

A licence does not include sublicensing or sharing for independent use by third parties unless agreed. Necessary technical providers may act within the agreed purpose without acquiring their own exploitation rights. Resale of physical originals or copies that is permitted by law remains unaffected.

Trademarks, links and external services

Named trademarks and signs belong to their respective rights holders. Mentioning them alone does not imply a partnership, endorsement or support by those businesses. This also applies to linked social-media profiles, providers and academy offerings.

External links lead to content controlled by others. I check linked content with reasonable care; this is not a promise to monitor third-party websites continuously and comprehensively. If you report a potentially unlawful link, I will review it and take necessary action. My own statutory responsibilities and mandatory liability are not excluded.

Print and room visualisations

Room and print mockups are illustrative. Scale, colours and presentation may differ from the actual item. The expressly agreed characteristics of the specific offer are binding; legally relevant public product statements must also be taken into account. Frames, furniture and decorations are included only where expressly stated. A visualisation does not replace accurate dimensions, materials and information on what is supplied.

Rights enquiries and concerns: contact@van-der-werf.com.

3. AI Rights / Text and Data Mining Reservation

Without appropriate permission, my protected work must not, in particular, be uploaded into AI systems as reference, input or editing images, used for face swaps, style transfers or other AI manipulation, or used to create derivative images insofar as this engages my rights. Uses permitted by law remain unaffected. This notice does not establish an exclusive right in an abstract style, general idea or method as such.

For my own protected content, I expressly prohibit reproduction for text and data mining within section 42h(6) of the Austrian Copyright Act and reserve the corresponding rights. This also covers creating and using AI training or evaluation datasets to the extent that those activities fall within this reservation. Such use requires my express prior written consent unless a statutory permission that cannot be excluded applies.

Mandatory statutory exceptions remain unaffected, particularly privileged scientific and artistic research under section 42h(1)–(5) of the Austrian Copyright Act, subject to its legal requirements. This also includes certain non-commercial research by individual researchers. Other applicable statutory permissions likewise remain unaffected. Merely describing an activity as research does not establish that its legal requirements are met.

4. Etiquette / Ethics Principles

I treat people respectfully, regardless of age, gender, origin, skin colour, culture, nationality, religion, beliefs, sexual orientation, disability, health, social background or political views. Dignity, personal boundaries and voluntary cooperation are foundations of my work. I do not tolerate harassment or discriminatory treatment in my projects.

I work honestly, with professional care and responsibility. I do not misrepresent facts to gain an advantage. I make relevant collaborations or external support transparent. I seek reliable, respectful and lasting working relationships.

My work should not be used to degrade, defame or discriminatorily demean people, or to depict them sexually without consent. Licensed uses must remain within the agreed purpose and context, including accompanying text and hashtags. This does not generally prohibit lawful criticism, quotations or parody permitted by law.

If you recognise yourself in a published image and have legitimate concerns about your privacy or portrayal, please send me the relevant link. I will consider your concern promptly and respectfully, verify entitlement by proportionate means, and take necessary action. This may include temporarily hiding, correcting or removing the image. I do not routinely request identity-document copies. I cannot promise complete removal of copies already distributed by independent third parties. If you like the image, you may also ask about a private copy; availability and permitted use will be agreed individually.