Credits & Licensing
Credits & Licensing
A record of every third-party asset used in this site, its license, and what you need to do (if anything) before using it commercially. None of these require a paid license, but a few have conditions worth knowing.
1. Photography — Pexels (free, commercial use OK)
All photos in assets/img/*.jpg are from Pexels and
covered by the Pexels License:
- ✅ Free for commercial and personal use.
- ✅ No attribution required (appreciated, listed below anyway).
- ✅ You may modify them.
- ⚠️ You may not sell unaltered copies (e.g. as stock photos, prints or posters). Using them as website imagery is fine.
- ⚠️ Pexels does not grant rights to any trademarks, logos, brands, identifiable people, or copyrighted artwork that happen to appear in a photo. If a shot contains a recognisable logo, person, or piece of wall art, getting the relevant release/permission is your responsibility.
Photo manifest (file → Pexels photo)
| File | Pexels photo |
|---|---|
| prod-01.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/7119222/ |
| prod-02.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/18764952/ |
| prod-03.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/7885120/ |
| prod-04.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/5978722/ |
| prod-05.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/5598305/ |
| prod-06.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/6053887/ |
| prod-07.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/30324277/ |
| prod-08.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/3847482/ |
| prod-09.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/15269290/ |
| prod-10.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/1765005/ |
| prod-11.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/35920773/ |
| prod-12.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/7737412/ |
| cat-living.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/29012619/ |
| cat-lighting.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/35392792/ |
| cat-textiles.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/7218188/ |
| cat-wall.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/8521987/ |
| cat-dining.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/14598479/ |
| cat-outdoor.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/32960959/ |
| hero.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/30386991/ |
| about.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/10903296/ |
| studio.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/19866414/ |
| gallery-01.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/8146330/ |
| gallery-02.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/10071390/ |
| gallery-03.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/5825409/ |
| gallery-04.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/32053089/ |
| gallery-05.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/34574606/ |
| gallery-06.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/4119832/ |
| gallery-07.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/20418771/ |
| gallery-08.jpg | https://www.pexels.com/photo/6748972/ |
Honesty note (not a license issue, but important): these are stock photos, not pictures of actual inventory. If you sell real products, replace product shots with photos of the items you actually ship — selling against a stock photo of a different item can be misleading to customers and to platforms.
favicon.svg, icon-512.svg and og-image.svg are original brand marks created
for this project — no third-party rights.
2. Fonts — self-hosted (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
Inter, Playfair Display, Cormorant Garamond, Fraunces and Poppins are all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 — free for commercial use, including web embedding. No attribution required.
✅ Self-hosted — no third-party request. The .woff2 files live in
assets/fonts/ (latin subset) and are declared in css/fonts.css. The site no
longer calls the Google Fonts CDN, so there’s no IP leak to Google and no
GDPR concern from fonts. (To regenerate or add weights, re-run a Google Fonts
CSS request with a modern-browser User-Agent and drop the .woff2 files in
assets/fonts/ with matching @font-face rules.)
3. Icons — Font Awesome Free 6 (via cdnjs)
Loaded from cdnjs.cloudflare.com. Font Awesome Free license:
- Icons: CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial use; attribution is technically required. A line in this file (and the README) satisfies it.
- Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1. Code: MIT.
Attribution: Icons by Font Awesome, CC BY 4.0.
4. Services & embeds
- OpenStreetMap map embed (contact page) — map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. The embed shows its own attribution; keep it visible.
- Web3Forms (
api.web3forms.com) — contact/booking form backend; governed by their Terms when you create an account/key. No content-license impact. - Social links in the footer point to placeholder URLs — set them to your real accounts (or remove).
✅ Before you go live — quick legal checklist
- Brand name — “Maison Decor” is a placeholder. Check it isn’t an existing trademark in your market before trading under it.
- Product photos — swap stock shots for photos of the items you actually sell (see honesty note above).
- Check photos for embedded IP — make sure no shot shows a recognisable brand logo, identifiable person, or copyrighted artwork you don’t have rights to (watch the framed-art / wall-decor shots in particular).
- Fonts & GDPR — ✅ done: fonts are self-hosted (
assets/fonts/), no Google CDN call. (Font Awesome icons still load from cdnjs — self-host those too if you want zero third-party requests.) - Privacy/cookies —
localStorage(cart, theme) is first-party and usually fine without a banner; add a privacy policy if you enable analytics or the Google Fonts CDN for EU traffic. - Domain — replace
your-domain.exampleinsitemap.xmlandrobots.txt. - Demo copy — addresses, phone, prices, reviews and stats are placeholders; replace with real, accurate details (false reviews/claims can breach consumer-protection rules).