Copyrights are very long and quite involved for legal purposes. 
This shortened explanation will answer most of your basic questions.

All of my designs and photos are copyrighted.  What that means is that I and my beneficiaries own them.  You may not use any of my photos, whether printed or from our website, or any of my text, patterns, drawings, or other material published mechanically or electronically by Gimmies for any purpose.