ART-IF Content Policy

Last updated: April 30, 2026

ART-IF transforms personal photos into AI-generated artwork and ships physical prints. To keep the service safe, lawful, and useful, some content and conduct are off-limits. This Content Policy explains what's prohibited, what affirmations you make when you upload, what gets reviewed by a human before printing, and what happens if the rules are broken.

This Content Policy is part of our Terms of Service and applies to everyone who uses the Service — guest users, signed-in customers, and anyone using an automated agent on a user's behalf.

For copyright takedowns, trademark complaints, and other intellectual-property claims, see our IP Complaints page.

1. The deal

You bring a photo. We use AI to turn it into art. You can buy a print.

A few things are off-limits because they're illegal, harmful, or violate someone else's rights. The rest of this page lists those things, what we do when we encounter them, and how to reach us if you think we got something wrong.

We use a combination of automated screening and human review to enforce this policy. Some checks happen at upload, some happen during AI generation, and some happen before your order is sent to the printer. We deliberately do not reveal which specific check rejected a piece of content — that information would help bad actors evade the system. If you believe a decision was wrong, contact studio@art-if.com.

2. Absolutely prohibited

These rules apply at every stage of the Service and have no appeals process. Violations result in immediate refusal, account termination, and reporting to law enforcement where required by law.

• Sexual or intimate depictions of minors. Any depiction, in any context, of a person under 18 in a sexual, intimate, or sexualized situation. This applies regardless of whether the depiction is real, AI-generated, drawn, or stylized. Suspected child sexual abuse material is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement as required by law.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery. Sexual or intimate imagery of real people who have not consented to its creation, sharing, or transformation. This includes "deepfake" imagery and so-called "revenge" content.
• Real violence, injury, or death used for shock value. Imagery of actual injury, death, or extreme suffering, particularly where the apparent purpose is harm or shock rather than journalism, education, or memorial.
• Content promoting terrorism, mass violence, or self-harm. Including praise, recruitment, or operational facilitation of any of these.
• Content that violates applicable law in the jurisdiction where you upload it or where it is shipped.

3. Your photo-rights affirmations at upload

When you upload a photo, you're making a few important promises about the rights you have in that photo and the people in it. Because we can't verify rights ourselves, we ask you to confirm these things every time you upload by checking the affirmation box on the upload screen.

By checking the affirmation box and uploading a photo, you affirm that all of the following are true:

1. You have the right to use the photo. You took the photo, or you have permission from the photographer or copyright holder to use it for AI transformation, display, and printing through ART-IF.
2. Every recognizable person has consented. Every recognizable person in the photo has consented to having their likeness used this way — or the person is a minor child for whom you are the parent or legal guardian (see Section 4).
3. No celebrities, public figures, or other protected likenesses. The photo does not feature a celebrity, public figure, or other person whose likeness is protected by rights of publicity in a way that would require their authorization.
4. No third-party intellectual property as the subject. The photo does not feature third-party logos, characters, brand names, or other intellectual property as the primary subject. Incidental or background brand presence — a logo on a hat, a soda can on a counter — is treated as you would expect from any consumer photo service.
5. Compliance with our rules and the law. Your upload and your use of the Service comply with this Content Policy and with all applicable laws.

If any of these stops being true after you upload, you must remove the affected content from your account or contact us at studio@art-if.com to request removal.

The safest way to use ART-IF — and how the great majority of customers use it — is photos of yourself, of your family with their consent (or your minor children, for whom you are the parent or guardian), of your pets, and of objects, scenes, or places you photographed personally. If you want to upload something outside this scope — a photo of a friend, a coworker, a wedding photographer's image — make sure you have the rights and consents you need before you upload. We don't provide rights clearance, and we can't help you confirm whether you have the rights you think you have.

4. Photos of minors

A photo "depicts a minor" when a recognizable child under 18 appears in it.

In addition to the affirmations in Section 3, when you upload a photo that depicts a minor, you affirm that you are the parent or legal guardian of that minor, and that you consent on the minor's behalf to the AI transformation, display, and printing of their image through the Service.

We do not knowingly accept uploads of photos depicting minors from anyone other than the minor's parent or legal guardian. If we learn that an upload was made by someone outside that relationship, we will remove the content and may terminate the uploader's account.

This is in addition to — not instead of — the absolute prohibition in Section 2 on any sexual or intimate depiction of a minor. That prohibition applies regardless of who uploads the content and admits no exceptions.

5. What's blocked at upload

The Service screens uploaded photos automatically. The following are blocked at the upload step. If your upload is blocked, you'll see a generic message asking you to try a different photo.

• Explicit pornographic imagery. Content whose primary subject is sexual gratification.
• Photos featuring third-party logos, brands, or trademarks as the primary subject. Incidental or background brand presence — for example, a logo on a hat or a soda can in a family photo — is treated the same way any consumer photo service treats it (we don't block on incidental brands). What's blocked is brand-as-subject: a photo composed around a Nike swoosh, a Disney character, a sports-team logo as the focal point.
• Photos of celebrities, public figures, or other identifiable people whose likeness is protected by rights of publicity when they are the subject of the photo and are not the uploader. Photos of yourself, your family (with consent), and your pets are the intended use.
• Photos used to deceive or impersonate. Specifically, content intended to misrepresent a real person doing something they did not do.
• Hate symbols and imagery designed to harass or intimidate identifiable groups or individuals.

We use Google's content-moderation service to scan uploads for some of these signals. The scan is automated, fast, and not perfect. If your photo is wrongly blocked, contact studio@art-if.com and we'll review it manually.

6. What the AI model may refuse

Our AI provider applies its own safety policies during generation. Even if your photo passes our upload screen, the model may decline to produce the artwork — for example, if the requested transformation would produce something that violates the AI provider's policies.

When this happens:

• The credit used for that generation is automatically returned to your account.
• A generic error message is shown.
• The refusal is logged for our internal review.

We do not appeal model-level refusals on your behalf, and we do not use a fallback service to retry the same content with a different provider. If a refusal is wrong, contact us — we may be able to suggest a different style or photo that produces the result you want.

7. Human review before printing

If you place a print order, your artwork is reviewed by our team before it is sent to the printer. This is the last line of defense against content that slipped past automated screening.

• Most orders pass review quickly. Typical review windows are short.
• Some orders are held for longer review when something looks ambiguous — for example, a photo that contains a brand logo at moderate prominence, an unusual context that the automated screener flagged for follow-up, or any of the rare edge cases the system can't decide automatically.
• A small number of orders are rejected. When this happens, we cancel the print line and refund the affected amount. You keep the generated artwork in your account; we just won't print it.

We do not auto-approve flagged orders. Anything our system has flagged for review goes through human eyes.

8. What happens if your content is blocked

If something you tried to upload, generate, or print was blocked:

1. You won't be charged credits for blocked uploads. Upload screening happens before any generation.
2. You will be auto-refunded credits for AI-refused generations (Section 6) and for orders rejected during human review (Section 7).
3. You'll see a generic error message. We don't reveal which specific signal triggered the block. This is intentional — detailed feedback would help bad actors evade the system.
4. You can request manual review. Email studio@art-if.com with your account email and a brief description of what you were trying to do. We aim to respond within 2 business days.

We don't promise to reverse decisions on appeal. We do promise to look at every appeal with a real person.

9. What we do if a third party complains

If someone identifies themselves in a photo on the Service that they did not consent to having uploaded — or if a person's parent or guardian raises the same concern about their child — we take the following steps:

1. We remove the artwork while we look into the concern.
2. We notify the uploader that the artwork has been removed and tell them the basis for the complaint, without identifying the complainant unless required by law or court order.
3. We may terminate the uploader's account if the upload violated this policy or our Terms of Service.
4. We may decline to fulfill any pending print orders related to the disputed artwork.

We don't litigate the underlying rights dispute. We err on the side of removal when a credible likeness or rights-of-publicity concern is raised.

If your concern is specifically about copyright (for example, a photographer claiming their photo was uploaded without permission), please use the procedures on our IP Complaints page instead — that process gives you stronger procedural protections.

10. Operational limits and abuse defense

Some rules in this policy exist to keep the Service running for everyone, not because particular content is harmful.

10.1 Daily generation limits

We apply daily generation limits at the account level and at the store level. These limits prevent abuse, protect against runaway costs from automated misuse, and keep the Service available to legitimate customers. Hitting a limit shows a generic "daily limit reached" message; limits reset on a rolling daily basis. The specific numbers may change as we tune them and are not a commitment about how much you'll be able to generate on any given day.

10.2 Free credit eligibility

Free credit grants are limited to one per real person. To make this work fairly:

• We treat Gmail "dot" variations and "+alias" addresses as the same identity.
• We do not grant free credits to disposable email domains.
• We may apply additional checks (account age, signal patterns) before completing a grant.

We may deny, withhold, or reverse free credit grants where we believe abuse has occurred or is likely. Buying credit packs is always available as an alternative.

10.3 Automated traffic

Automated misuse of the Service — scripted requests, headless browser farms, attempts to bypass CAPTCHA challenges, attempts to circumvent rate limits — is prohibited and triggers immediate suspension. We use invisible bot-defense systems. Legitimate users typically don't notice these checks.

If you operate a legitimate automated agent that needs access to the Service, see Section 11 of our Terms of Service for the conditions that apply.

10.4 Account integrity

You agree not to:

• Create multiple accounts to evade rules, limits, or actions taken against you.
• Use false identity information, including stolen or borrowed payment methods.
• Sell, transfer, or share your account credentials.

11. Repeat infringement and account termination

We align our repeat-infringement handling with our print fulfillment partner's policy: two confirmed violations involving third-party intellectual property or any of the absolute prohibitions in Section 2 will result in account termination.

Strikes apply per real person. We deduplicate strikes across:

• Multiple email addresses owned by the same person (using normalized email matching).
• Browser sessions tied to the same payment method or identity.

Other policy violations (operational limits, automated-traffic violations, account-integrity violations) are handled on a case-by-case basis. Severity, intent, and pattern all matter. We may issue a warning, suspend the account, or terminate it depending on the facts.

We reserve the right to terminate accounts immediately for severe violations, regardless of strike count.

12. Your liability for what you upload

You are legally responsible for the photos you upload and for the affirmations you make under Sections 3 and 4. ART-IF is not a rights-clearance service. We do not verify the consent or ownership behind any photo, and accepting a photo into the Service is not an endorsement that you have the rights you claim.

If a third party brings a claim against ART-IF based on your upload — for example, a copyright infringement claim, a rights-of-publicity claim, a defamation claim, or an invasion-of-privacy claim — you agree to indemnify us under Terms of Service §14. The full indemnification language and its exceptions are in the Terms.

13. Reporting abuse or violations

If you encounter content on the Service that you believe violates this Content Policy — for example, content that depicts you or someone you know without consent, content that infringes your copyright, or content that depicts a minor in an inappropriate context — please contact us.

• Copyright takedowns: see our IP Complaints page.
• Likeness or rights-of-publicity concerns (someone uploaded a photo of you without your consent): email studio@art-if.com with the artwork or order details.
• Suspected child safety violations: email studio@art-if.com immediately. We treat these as urgent and report to NCMEC and law enforcement as required by law.
• Other concerns: email studio@art-if.com with as much detail as you can share.

You can report anonymously, but we may not be able to follow up with you about the outcome.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this Content Policy from time to time as patterns of abuse evolve, as our service providers update their policies, or as the law changes. Material changes take effect after notice; non-material clarifications take effect when posted.

The most current version of this policy is always available at this URL. Continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the updated policy.

15. Contact

ART-IF 1631 NE Broadway St #423 Portland, OR 97232 studio@art-if.com