Published 4 November 2026

If you’re a photographer, illustrator, designer, or brand rep and you just spotted your work on dashcamhq, welcome, and thanks for stopping by. We know that moment can feel strange, and maybe a little annoying. This page explains how dashcamhq gets its images and how to tell us what you’d like us to do about yours.

dashcamhq is a site for car owners who want to understand dashcams, from front-and-rear camera kits to hardwire installs, parking mode, and memory cards. Because we cover both information and product recommendations, we use a lot of images. Product shots, installation diagrams, sample footage frames, and road scenes all help readers make sense of the gear.

We believe that every third-party image on dashcamhq is used in line with the fair use doctrine or is in the public domain. We don’t intend to infringe anyone’s copyright or intellectual property. If we’ve gotten something wrong, we want to hear about it and fix it. That’s the whole spirit of this page.

Across the site, images fall into six groups. Here’s an honest breakdown of each, starting with the type you’ll see most often in our reviews.

• Brand, editorial, and press images. When dashcamhq reviews or compares a dashcam, we often show the product itself. These images usually come from manufacturer product pages, press kits, and retailer listings for brands like Garmin, Nextbase, Vantrue, Thinkware, and VIOFO. We use them in an editorial context: commentary, criticism, reporting, and comparison. That’s where fair use applies. Where credit is appropriate, dashcamhq names the brand or photographer and links back to the source.
• Original photography. Some of our images are ours. These include photos of dashcams mounted on windshields, cable routing along a pillar trim, and screenshots of companion apps and footage from our own test drives. Those images belong to dashcamhq, and we’re happy to say so.
• Public domain images. For general road, traffic, and vehicle scenes, we sometimes use public domain material from Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress, and government agency archives. Older road safety photos and historic vehicle images are common examples. Where a work is dedicated to the public domain, we still note the source when we can.
• Creative Commons images. We pull some lifestyle and road imagery from Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, and Flickr Commons. These are licensed under terms such as CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-SA, or the platform’s own free license. dashcamhq follows each license’s attribution terms, and we link to the creator’s page when the license asks for it.
• Paid stock photography. For clean, general visuals such as drivers at night, wet highways, or city traffic, dashcamhq licenses images from libraries like Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, and Depositphotos. We use them under the terms of those licenses.
• Reader and collaborator submissions. Sometimes readers send in installation photos, clips of real incidents caught on camera, or shots of their own setups. We only publish them with the sender’s permission, and we credit them if they’d like us to.

Not every post uses all six types. A buying guide might lean on press images and original shots, while a how-to article might mix our own installation photos with a few stock pictures. If you’re unsure which category an image falls into, ask us and we’ll tell you.

Where attribution is required, dashcamhq gives it. That covers Creative Commons BY licenses, editorial use of brand images, and fair use commentary. We credit the original creator and link to the source whenever we can. If you point out a mistake in a credit, we’ll update it promptly.

Let’s be straight about something. dashcamhq has a lot of posts and a lot of images, and now and then one may show up without complete or correct credit. A source link might have broken, we might have made an oversight, or an image may have circulated widely before it reached us. None of that is intentional. If it happens, we want to fix it quickly.

If you find your work on dashcamhq, you have three options. Pick whichever suits you.

1. Ask for proper credit. We’ll add or correct the attribution and link to your site or portfolio.
2. Ask for a change in how it’s shown. That might mean cropping, resizing, adding a watermark, or changing a link.
3. Ask for removal. If you’d rather your work not appear on dashcamhq at all, we’ll take it down. No hard feelings.

Send your request to images@dashcamhq.com.

You don’t have to file a formal legal notice or hire an attorney to reach us. A simple email is enough. dashcamhq would much rather handle this directly and quickly, person to person.

We aim to respond to every rights holder request within 48 hours. Simple removals can usually be processed the same business day.

A few details help us act quickly. None of this is a legal demand, just a way to save us both time:

• A link to the page on dashcamhq where the image appears
• A link to the original source, or something that shows ownership, such as your portfolio or photography site
• Your name and the best way to reach you
• Which option you prefer: credit, modification, or removal

Once your email arrives, dashcamhq confirms we’ve received it. We then check your claim where it’s reasonable to do so, which is usually a quick look at your portfolio or the original source. After that, we make the change you asked for, whether that’s credit, a modification, or removal. Finally, we follow up to let you know it’s done.

Dashcam content is built on visuals, and dashcamhq wouldn’t work without the people who take photos, shoot product images, design graphics, and build brands. We respect that work. We want to treat it the way we’d want our own treated.

If you’re a creator with a question, a concern, or just want to say hello, the door is open. Write to us anytime at images@dashcamhq.com.

Effective date: November 2026