Transparency
szallodaszoba.hu is a curated city-guide portal. We try to be deliberate about where every image comes from and under what terms we can use it. This page describes how we work — and how you can tell us if we got something wrong.
Home/ Images and licensing
Most images are pulled from the Pexels API. The Pexels license permits commercial use without required attribution — but we still record the original URL and photographer's name so we can trace any image back to its source in seconds.
City hero images, where possible, come from official tourism-board press libraries (Paris Tourist Office, Wien Tourist Board, etc.). These are released specifically for editorial use that promotes tourism — exactly what we do.
For historical and cultural context we draw on CC0 sources: the Library of Congress "Free to Use" collection, Wikimedia Commons public-domain files, the Rijksmuseum and Met open archives.
We do not use AI-generated images of real places — credibility is what makes a guide useful.
Good will alone isn't enough — process is what makes it real. Our process has four parts:
Every downloaded image is recorded with its original source URL (city_hero_source_url, city_detail_hero_source_url) and the source platform. If a question comes up, a single query tells us where any image came from.
When the source API provides it, we also store the photographer's name (*_hero_author) — even when the license doesn't require attribution. That way we can add a credit line later if asked.
We don't hot-link images from third-party servers. Each image is downloaded and stored locally (images/{city}/...) in three sizes (1600 / 800 / 400 px wide). If a source goes away, our pages don't break — and if a takedown is requested, we can act on it directly.
An image_blacklist database table holds every source, URL, or photographer name that must be excluded from the automation. After adding an entry, running bin/cache_images.php --scrub also removes any already-downloaded copies from disk.
We make mistakes. If you find an image on the site that:
write to us at the address below. We answer within two business days. If the complaint is valid, we add the image to the blacklist immediately (which also deletes any cached copies on disk) and — if you ask us to — note publicly what was changed.
Please tell us briefly: which page is affected (URL), which image (ideally with the image's direct URL), and what you'd like us to do (remove it, change the credit, add the photographer's name). If you are the rights holder, please include evidence or a link to the original.
Current state: 0 active blacklist entries.
Last cache refresh: 2026-07-17. The automation is openly documented in the
project repository (bin/cache_images.php, requirements/).