Kate answers:-

We encourage the redistribution of our link buttons to advertise our little site. If you are looking for a link button to put on your site you can find a selection plus hotlink codes here.

Our website URL is http://www.parsimonious.org if you are linking back, we generally advise you not to link to sub-sections within the site as these do change from time to time so you may end up with a broken link except where specified in our policies (i.e. linking to a furniture set page for meshes, or to our Skins 2 Meshes page). 

Preview Pictures:

We are very happy for you to re-use our preview photos to advertise our updates, however these images are the property of Parsimonious and will remain so even when posted to another website, group, forum etc. If you wish to rescale or crop the image to suit your site's layout then that is fine, but we ask that you refrain from making other significant alterations to the images, such as adding text or other graphics to the image which may detract from the items shown in the preview or give the false impression that the image is the property of your site. If you're not sure if your alterations are too much then feel free to ask before you publish - if your changes are tasteful and not mis-leading then we'll probably agree!

And what about other web graphics, backgrounds, menus, icons etc?

Other link buttons (i.e. ones that link to other sites) remain the sole property of the sites they link to, we advise that you consult their policies before re-using those images for your own purposes.

We do not authorize the re-use of any images on this website which are not Parsimonious link graphics or preview images of our material (as stated above) for any purpose without express consent of the administrator (Kate).

We also do not authorize hot-linking to any resources on our server without express consent of the administrator.

Violators may be prosecuted. Seriously.

What about the Maxis game icons?

Those obviously do not belong to us but have been extracted from The Sims 2 because they represent the universal language of all Simmers - we use them in order to make this website easy for any Simmer to use no matter which language they understand.

Rather than using our copies of these images you can extract your own fresh copies for use on your website using SimPE. You can get SimPE here:-
http://sims.ambertation.de/en//

To open the UI package which contains all the game icons you need to find the folder where the game is actually installed, usually c:\ program files\EA Games\The Sims 2\TS Data\Res\UI and then open the ui. package, its a big file, click on the jpeg entries in SimPE and it'll give you access to everything for the game and Bodyshop. Most of it is useless but with a little patience you should be able to find most of them. If you've got expansion packs installed, then each of those install folders has a \TS Data\Res\UI folder which has another UI package, most of those contain a lot of repeats but the EP icons will be tucked away in there.

Our Sims 1 icons are however our own designs, some are based on the Simbats font which I'm afraid I don't have a link for (try Google!) and as with our other graphics we ask that you refrain from using those.