PROFESSIONAL WORDPRESS THEMES & DESIGN TUTORIALS

I sell and provide for free, select themes and templates that contain a specific license which are outlined below. However, for my WordPress themes, I've adopted full GPL license guidelines.

In separate, I am also an exclusive template author at Theme Forest, and have adopted their license terms for Joomla items I sell from Gradient Pixels. This lets me maintain consistent terms of use between items I sell on Theme Forest and those I sell here (with exception to my WordPress themes which are fully GPL compliant). Please note that any part that is licensed under the GPL, such as Joomla source code can be freely redistributed without restrictions. To read more about about the GNU General Public License (GPL), click here.

WordPress Themes - Full GNU/GPL License

All my WordPress themes, both commercially priced and free, are licensed under the GNU general public license. This means that my themes may be used on as many websites as you like and have no restrictions.

Joomla Templates - Regular License

The Regular License grants you, the Purchaser a non-exclusive, non-transferrable right to make use of the work that you acquire (Work).

Your use of the Work, under the Regular License, is subject to the following conditions:

1. Your use of the Work is limited to a single application.
2. You may use the Work alone or you may incorporate the Work into another work you are creating.
3. Unless you have our prior written consent, you must not directly or indirectly license, sub-license, sell or resell or provide for free the Work or offer to do any of these things. All of these things are referred to as RESALE.
4. You may use the Work in a work which you are creating for your own purposes or for your client (singular) who has asked you to create it.
5. You must not incorporate the Work in a work which is created for Resale by you or your client.
6. If you acquire the Work on behalf of your client you may recoup from your client the cost of acquiring the Work.
7. If the whole, or part, of the Work has been created using materials which are the subject of a GNU General Public License (GPL), your use of the Work (or part Work) is subject to the specific terms of the GPL in place of the foregoing conditions (to the extent the GPL applies). For example, any part that is licensed under the GPL, you can freely distribute this without restrictions.

In Simple Terms - What you can do

The regular license allows you to use an item within a "single" project of your own or on behalf of a client. For example, you could use a template purchased under a regular license in one website. For web content a regular license is suitable for use on a single domain or single subdomain or single directory. For most buyers the regular license is sufficient. For any part that is subject to the GPL license, such as the Joomla core files, you can freely reuse and redistribute it.

In Simple Terms - What you CANNOT do

The main thing you CANNOT do is offer the item up for resale either on its own or as part of a project. You can use the item in a website for yourself or for your client's website, but not in a web template that you resell or redistribute freely. If you want to do this, you need the Extended License.

Joomla Templates - Extended License

The Extended License grants you, the Purchaser, a non-exclusive, non-transferrable right to make use of the work you acquire (Work).

Your use of the Work, under the Extended License, is subject to the following conditions:

1. Your use of the Work is limited to a single application.
2. You may use the Work alone or you may incorporate the Work into another work you are creating.
3. Unless you have our prior written consent, you must not directly or indirectly license, sub-license, sell or resell or provide for free the Work or offer to do any of these things unless the Work is incorporated into a work you have created. All of these things are referred to as Resale.
4. You may use the Work in a work which you are creating for your own purposes or for your client who has asked you to create it.
5. You may incorporate the Work in a work which is created for Resale by you or your client (provided that only the complete work is offered for sale and the terms of sale (i) require those that acquire the work to only use the Work for their own personal use or in a work they are creating for a client (ii) prohibit resale of the Work as a stand-alone item).
6. You may display the Work, and make the Work available for use by an unlimited number of your clients, in conjunction with a web site service that you host on behalf of your clients. When using the Work through a web site service, you may make unlimited copies of the Work but you must procure that your clients do not reproduce or use the Work in another application.
7. If the Work is used or incorporated in a work there is no restriction on the number of copies of that work that can be reproduced and distributed.
   
   For example: you may incorporate the Work, such as a music file, in a sound mixing software program that you or your client distributes commercially. An unlimited number of copies of the software program may be made and sold but the Work cannot be incorporated in more than one software program or other work. Additionally, buyers of the software program must not offer the Work (that is the music file) for sale, such as on a site like AudioJungle.net .
   
   
8. Notwithstanding the restriction on Resale, if you acquire the Work on behalf of your client you may recoup from your client the cost of acquiring the Work.
9. If the whole, or part, of the Work has been created using materials which are the subject of a GNU General Public License (GPL), your use of the Work (or part Work) is subject to the specific terms of the GPL in place of the foregoing conditions (to the extent the GPL applies). For example, any part that is licensed under the GPL, you can freely distribute this without restrictions.

In Simple Terms - What you can do

This license is more expensive than the regular license. An extended license lets you use an item in something that will be sold. For example, you could use an item purchased under an extended license for a template to be sold. An extended license is also appropriate for people looking to offer a web template to many users such as on multiple domains, subdomains or sub directories.

In Simple Terms - What you CANNOT do

An extended license does NOT allow you to resell the item by itself. You may only incorporate the item into a larger work that is then sold. The original item will always remain the property of the original author and all copyright notices must stay within the file source code and license file.

Your use of this website is based on your acceptance for the following terms of use:

Pricing, Refunds, and Item Changes

Gradient Pixels reserves the right to make price changes to any item or membership available from this website without notice.

Since Gradient Pixels is offering non-tangible goods we do not issue refunds after the Item or membership purchase is made. You are responsible for understanding this upon buying and/or registering at Gradient Pixels. If you encounter any product bugs or issues directly resulting from the item purchased and not from third party items, either separate or in part, I will help find a solution for you. The exception of these terms is if I am unable to solve the issues resulting from my own product, a 100% refund will then be approved with the understanding the item will no longer be used by the customer and must be deleted.

Item transactions are not transferrable for an alternate choice once the purchase has gone through or downloaded. For example, if you purchase a theme or template, download it, then request a change for an alternate item, you will need to purchase the other item or service as a separate transaction. Refunds are not applicable if an item has been downloaded. 

Support

Gradient Pixels offers these themes, templates, and designs ‘as is’, with no implied meaning that they will function exactly as you wish or guarantee they are 100% error free.

Further, I offer NO SUPPORT for the following:

• Theme or Templates obtained from any third party source
• Free Theme or Templates
• Third Party Products - Example: themes, scripts, css, images, or other.
• WordPress
• Joomla
• Modifications for any modifications made by the user

If a members-only forum is available to anyone having an active membership. Gradient Pixels does not commit to monitor these forums, but we reserve the right to respond and answer questions. You acknowledge by your use of my themes and templates that it is at your sole risk, and that you assume full responsibility for all costs associated with all necessary servicing or repairs of any equipment you use in connection with the templates.

Support for my themes and templates is available with each Support Membership. Active support memberships include support for all themes and templates, commercially priced and free.

Memberships

Memberships on this website are for Support only and does not provide access to themes or templates. You do not need to be a member of this website to access or use the public accessible content or services. However, access to some areas of this website, including some content and services may be restricted to members only.

Memberships may be offered with varying time periods but not guaranteed to be available for these times as exact and may change without notice. Life of any membership offered means they are available for the active life of this website or the active life of any membership. Gradient Pixels reserves the right to make changes to these terms without prior notice.

Developer Membership

The Developer membership needs to be renewed upon expiration if the member wishes to continue to use themes or templates for additional client projects. If a member does not renew their Developer membership, all downloaded and saved items (with exception to free GPL Items) must be deleted. The developer membership account allows for unlimited usage in client projects, it does NOT allow for redistribution or the marketing of themes or templates in any form. If you have questions regarding this distinction please contact Gradient Pixels using the Contact form.

Proprietary Rights & Licenses

Your use of this website does not grant to you any ownership or interest in any content, code, data or materials you may access on or through this website or any intellectual property rights subsisting any content, code, data or materials you may access on or through this website.

When you download a copy of a theme, template, or other item from this website, you must maintain the copyright and other notices contained in that content or source code. For GPL licensed Items, all copyright and other notices must be maintained within the source code. However, you can remove or modify any such notices from the front-end pages.

If you make other use of this website, or the Products, content, code, data or materials on this website or available through this website, except as otherwise provided above, you will violate copyright and other laws of Canada, other countries, as well as applicable provincial laws and may be subject to liability for such unauthorised use.

You are prohibited from copying, downloading, and using any website content, source code, graphics, photographs, or products such as themes, templates, or other items, on any location other than this website www.gradientpixels.ca unless written permission is obtained to grant such rights. You may not place any non-GPL portions of our products, modified or unmodified, on a diskette, CD, website or any other medium and offer them for redistribution or resale of any kind without prior written consent from Gradient Pixels. Please contact me if you require more clarification

GPL compliant: All PHP WordPress and Joomla portions of the templates, themes and styles are licensed under the appropriate GPL license of the parent platform. The visual design and non-compiled portions including images, cascading style sheets and JavaScript of templates are licensed under the The "Gradient Pixels Regular License" in accordance with the rest of these Terms of Use. "Free" templates are released with all aspects of the theme and templates are released under GPL licenses. Further details on the licenses can be found by clicking on the Licenses link at the bottom of the Gradient Pixels website.

Copyrights

This website respects the intellectual property rights of others, and require that those people who use this website, or the services or features made available on or through this website, do the same.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please forward the following information to Gradient Pixels with your request for removal:

1. your address, telephone number, and email address;
2. a description of where the alleged infringing material is located;
3. a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; and
4. a statement by you, that you warrant that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Terms of Use Updates

This website may, at its sole discretion, revise or change these Terms of Use (in whole or in part) from time to time and at any time without notice to you. Your continued use of this website and/or the services made available on or through this website after any changes to the Terms of Use are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes.

Privacy Policy

When using this website and/or the content or services made available on, or through, this website, you may be asked to provide certain personalised information to us (User Information). Gradient Pixels information collection and use policies with respect to the privacy of such User Information are set out in this website’ Privacy Policy.

You are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of User Information.

Linking

You are not permitted to link directly (also known as hot-linking) to any image hosted on this website or our services, to have the image hosted by us to be displayed on another web site. You agree not to download or use images hosted on this website on another web site, for any purpose, including, without limitation, posting such images on another web site. You agree not to link from any other web site to this website in any manner such that this website, or part of any page of this website, is “framed,” surrounded or obfuscated by any third party content, materials or branding. We reserve our right to insist that any link to this website be discontinued, and to revoke your right to link to this website from any other web site at any time upon written notice to you.

Disclaimer

Except as provided for by the Non-excludable Rights:

1. all content and services on this website is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied;
2. Gradient Pixels and its suppliers expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose;
3. Gradient Pixels does not warrant that the functions contained in any content or your access to this website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any defects will be corrected or that this website or the server which stores and transmits content to you are free of viruses or any other harmful components; and
4. Gradient Pixels does not warrant or make any representation regarding your access to, or the results of your access to, this website (including any related or linked web sites) or any content in terms of correctness, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, reliability or otherwise.

Under no circumstances (including but not limited to any act or omission on the part of Gradient Pixels) will Gradient Pixels or its affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special and/or consequential damages or loss of profits whatsoever which result from any use or access of, or any inability to use or access, this website or the content.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Gradient Pixels’s liability for breach of any implied warranty or condition which cannot be excluded is limited at the option of Gradient Pixels to the following:

1. in the case of services supplied or offered by Gradient Pixels:
   1. the supply of the services again;
   2. the payment of the cost of having services supplied again; and
2. in the case of goods supplied or offered by us:
   1. the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods; or
   2. the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or acquiring equivalent goods.

Gradient Pixels also rejects any responsibility concerning any postings or messages which are published by users of discussions boards, comments, or mailing lists provided from this website or from social networks.

You agree to indemnify and hold Gradient Pixels harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the templates or this website.

Warranty

Gradient Pixels cannot guarantee our items will function with any type and version of 3rd party themes, templates, content management systems (i.e.: WordPress or Joomla), or scripts, as there is currently no certification process for such components. Browser compatibility should be tested against the demonstration templates on the demo server. Please ensure that the browsers you use will work with the themes and templates as we can not guarantee that Gradient Pixels themes and templates will work with all browser combinations and/or versions. Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Nothing in this section should be construed as excluding or limiting any warranty beyond what is permissible under applicable law.

Gradient Pixels is about designing real world concepts for both individuals and businesses who feel confidence in knowing the themes they download from me are created for those who are serious about their website or blog. In addition to my stylish designs, I am here to help you build your website with tutorials and valuable tips & tricks to guide you through the process when using my themes.

You will find that my design technique is more of a minimalist style which includes a nice clean and professional approach to visual creativity. I believe that themes should not be loaded down with excessive scripts, css, or built-in plugins and extensions that will only slow down your website, or worse, creating the potential for something going wrong. Keeping it simple makes a theme run smooth and looking good with quality coding and faster load times.

I primarily focus on the award winning Joomla! cms, but I also work with the ever popular blogging platform called WordPress. So if you like what you read here, feel free to explore the site and try out a theme or template!. If you need a custom theme or template, you are welcome to submit a request for your own unique design.
 

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