Terms of service

ART-IF Terms of Service

Last updated: April 29, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and art-if.com,  ("ART-IF," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of the ART-IF website, applications, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

By using the Service, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, our Content Policy, our Refund Policy, and our IP Complaints process. Each of those documents is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Acceptance and Changes

You accept these Terms by accessing or using the Service. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and references to "you" include the organization.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will notify you by email or by posting a prominent notice in the Service before the change takes effect. Non-material updates (typo fixes, link corrections, formatting) take effect when posted. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, your remedy is to stop using the Service and, where applicable, request deletion of your account under our Privacy Policy.

2. What ART-IF Is

ART-IF is a personalization service. You upload a photo, choose a style, and our service uses artificial intelligence to transform your photo into a stylized artwork. You can purchase physical prints of that artwork, which are produced and shipped by our print fulfillment partner.

Our brand name reflects how the service works. Every artwork produced through the Service is generated by AI. We do not market the Service as hand-painted, hand-drawn, or human-made.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher), you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian, and your parent or guardian must agree to these Terms on your behalf for any purchase.

You agree to provide accurate account information and to keep it current. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity that occurs under your account. You may not transfer, sell, assign, or license your account to anyone else. We may suspend or terminate accounts that contain false information, that we reasonably believe are operated by ineligible users, or that violate these Terms or our Content Policy.

4. Your Content and Ownership of Generated Artwork

4.1 Source photos

You retain all rights you have in the photos and other content you upload to the Service ("Source Content"). By uploading Source Content, you grant ART-IF a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display the Source Content solely as necessary to operate the Service for you — including transmitting it to our AI provider for processing, displaying it back to you in your account, and storing it for your access. This license ends when you delete the content from your account, except for limited retention required for legal, security, or backup purposes as described in our Privacy Policy.

4.2 Generated artwork

Artwork produced by the Service is generated by artificial intelligence. Under United States copyright law as it currently stands, purely AI-generated works are not protected by copyright, and no party — including ART-IF, the AI provider, or you — automatically holds copyright in the output. To the extent any rights in your generated artwork can be claimed, those rights, if any, are yours, subject only to the rights of any third party in your underlying Source Content.

ART-IF does not claim any ownership of, or license to, your generated artwork beyond what is necessary to operate the Service for you. We do not use your generated artwork in marketing, advertising, model training, or any other purpose without your separate, explicit consent.

4.3 What you can do with your artwork

You may use generated artwork for personal or commercial purposes, subject to two things: (a) the rights of any third party in the underlying Source Content (for example, a photographer who took the photo, or a person depicted in it), and (b) compliance with our Content Policy. We do not provide rights clearance, and you remain responsible for confirming that your intended use is lawful.

This permission covers your use of the artwork itself. It does not give you rights to ART-IF's trademarks, brand assets, the Service interface, or any code or content we own.

4.4 Operational handling

To run the Service we must store, process, and transmit your content to third parties (our AI provider for generation, our print fulfillment partner if you order a print, and others described in our Privacy Policy). This is operational data handling, not a license claim.

5. Your Warranties When You Upload

Each time you upload Source Content, you represent and warrant that:

  1. You took the photo, or you have permission from the photographer or copyright holder to use it for AI transformation, display, and printing through the Service.
  2. Every recognizable person in the photo has consented to having their likeness used for AI transformation, display, and printing — or the person is a minor child for whom you are the parent or legal guardian (see our Content Policy).
  3. The photo does not feature a celebrity, public figure, or any other person whose likeness is protected by rights of publicity in a manner that would require their authorization.
  4. The photo does not feature third-party logos, characters, brand names, or other intellectual property as the primary subject. (Incidental or background brand presence — for example, a logo visible on clothing in a personal photo — is treated as you would expect from any consumer photo service.)
  5. Your upload and use of the Service comply with our Content Policy and with all applicable laws.

If any of these representations is or becomes untrue, you must promptly remove the affected content from the Service and notify us at studio@art-if.com.

6. Acceptable Use

Your use of the Service is governed by our Content Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Acceptable Use Policy describes content that is prohibited, content that may be reviewed by a human before printing, and conduct that may result in account suspension or termination.

We may, at any time and without prior notice, refuse to process a generation request, refuse to fulfill a print order, suspend an account, or terminate an account for any violation or suspected violation of the Acceptable Use Policy or these Terms. We may also report violations to law enforcement or other authorities where required or permitted by law.

7. Credits, Free Grants, and Purchases

7.1 Credits

The Service uses a credit system. One generation consumes a defined number of credits. Credits are a service unit, not currency, and have no cash value. Credits are non-transferable between accounts.

7.2 Free credit grants

We may, from time to time, offer free credits to new customers. Free credit grants are limited to one per real person. To prevent abuse, we deduplicate by normalized email address (treating Gmail "dot" variations and "+alias" addresses as the same identity), reject grants to disposable email domains, and may apply additional anti-abuse checks. We reserve the right to deny, withhold, or reverse a free credit grant if we believe it has been or is about to be abused. Free credits may expire; expiration terms, if any, will be disclosed at the time of the grant.

7.3 Purchased credits

You may buy credits in packs through the Service. Pricing is shown at the point of purchase. Purchased credits do not expire, except as required by law.

7.4 Auto-refund of credits

If a generation fails for a technical reason on our side, if our AI provider refuses the request, or if your order is rejected during human review for an Content Policy reason, the credit used for that generation will be automatically returned to your account.

7.5 Refunds and discretionary adjustments

Credits and orders are subject to our Refund Policy. For legitimate support cases not covered there, we may, at our discretion, grant makeup credits or partial refunds.

7.6 Operational limits

We apply daily generation limits at the account and store level to protect against abuse. These limits are operational protections, not guarantees about how many generations you will be able to perform. Hitting a limit shows a generic "daily limit reached" message; limits reset on a rolling daily basis.

7.7 Payment processing

Purchases are processed through Shopify and its payment processors. You authorize the charge for any purchase you make. Taxes, where applicable, are added at checkout. You represent and warrant that the payment information you provide is accurate, that you are authorized to use the payment method, and that you will pay all charges incurred. If a payment is reversed or charged back without first contacting us, we may suspend your account until the dispute is resolved.

8. Print Orders and Fulfillment

8.1 Order acceptance

When you place an order, you are making an offer to purchase. We reserve the right to accept or decline an order for any lawful reason at our discretion. Your order is not accepted until we confirm acceptance, and we must receive and process your payment before acceptance. If we cancel or change an order, we will attempt to notify you by email.

8.2 How prints are made

Prints are custom-produced on demand by our print fulfillment partner after each order. Because every print is made for a specific customer, prints are non-refundable as a default; see our Refund Policy for the defects, loss, and pre-printing cancellation cases where a refund or reprint is available.

8.3 Human review before printing

Before an order is sent to the printer, our team reviews the artwork. Most orders pass review quickly; some are held longer if anything looks ambiguous; a small number are rejected and refunded if they violate our Content Policy.

8.4 Estimates, not guarantees

Production and delivery times shown in the Service are estimates based on the print partner's typical turnaround and carrier averages. They are not guarantees. Color accuracy, fine detail, and texture on the physical print are best-effort: the print is produced from your AI-generated artwork as supplied, and we do not provide physical proofs before printing. Once we transfer a printed order to the carrier, title and risk of loss pass to you.

8.5 Address accuracy

You are responsible for the shipping address you provide. We are not responsible for delays, returns, or losses caused by an incorrect address.

9. Errors, Inaccuracies, and Omissions

The Service may occasionally contain typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions in product descriptions, pricing, promotions, transit times, or availability. We reserve the right to correct any error, change pricing, or cancel an order at any time — including after you have submitted it — if we discover that the information in the Service was incorrect. If we cancel an order due to an error and you have already paid, we will issue a full refund of the affected amount. We are not obligated to honor pricing or promotional terms that are clearly the result of a typographical or system error.

10. Prohibited Conduct

In addition to the content rules in our Content Policy, you agree not to:

  • upload or transmit malware, viruses, or any code intended to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to the Service or any user's data;
  • reproduce, copy, scrape, mirror, or otherwise extract any portion of the Service for redistribution, resale, model training, or competitive analysis;
  • use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the Service except as expressly permitted in Section 11 (Automated Agents and AI);
  • attempt to bypass, disable, or interfere with the Service's security, rate limits, content filters, CAPTCHA challenges, or authentication;
  • phish, pretext, or otherwise attempt to obtain another user's credentials, payment information, or content;
  • impersonate any person or organization or misrepresent your affiliation;
  • collect, harvest, or attempt to identify other users' personal information; or
  • interfere with, disrupt, or place an undue load on the Service, our infrastructure, or any third-party provider used to deliver the Service.

We may suspend or terminate access for any violation of this Section without prior notice.

11. Automated Agents and AI

If you use, deploy, or cause an automated agent or AI system (an "Agent") to access or interact with the Service on your behalf, you remain responsible for that Agent's compliance with these Terms. Any use of an Agent must meet all of the following:

  1. The Agent identifies itself in HTTP request headers using the format User-Agent: Agent/[agent-name] and discloses on request the name and operator of the Agent.
  2. The Agent does not conceal its automated nature, mimic human interaction patterns, or bypass mechanisms designed to distinguish humans from automated systems (including CAPTCHA challenges, rate limits, and bot defenses).
  3. The Agent honors any technical signals indicating that we have restricted Agent access, including robot exclusion headers and 429/403 responses.
  4. The Agent responds truthfully to any prompt asking whether the request is automated.

We may apply additional technical or contractual restrictions on Agent access at any time, and we may suspend access for any Agent or for the user on whose behalf the Agent operates if these requirements are not met. Nothing in this Section grants any right to scrape, train on, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service, ART-IF's content, or other users' content; those uses are prohibited under Section 10 unless we expressly agree in writing.

12. Feedback You Send Us

If you submit suggestions, feature requests, reviews, comments, or other feedback to us about the Service ("Feedback"), you grant ART-IF a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use that Feedback for any purpose without compensation or attribution. This license applies only to Feedback. It does not apply to your Source Content or to your generated artwork, both of which are governed by Section 4.

You represent and warrant that you have the right to submit any Feedback you send us and that your Feedback does not violate the rights of any third party. We have no obligation to keep Feedback confidential, to respond to it, or to act on it.

13. Relationship with Shopify

ART-IF is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you. However, any sales and purchases you make in our store are made directly with ART-IF. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Shopify is not responsible for any aspect of any sales between you and ART-IF, including any injury, damage, or loss resulting from purchased products and services. You hereby expressly release Shopify and its affiliates from all claims, damages, and liabilities arising from or related to your purchases and transactions with ART-IF.

Shopify may collect and process personal information about your access to and use of the Service in order to provide and improve the underlying platform. See our Privacy Policy for details on how data is shared with Shopify and how Shopify uses it.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ART-IF and its officers, owners, and contractors from and against any third-party claim, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to:

  1. Source Content you upload to the Service, including any claim of copyright infringement, rights-of-publicity violation, defamation, or invasion of privacy;
  2. Your breach of these Terms or our Content Policy;
  3. Your use or distribution of generated artwork outside the Service; or
  4. Your violation of any law or third-party right.

ART-IF will defend, indemnify, and hold you harmless against any third-party claim that the Service itself, as provided by us and used by you in accordance with these Terms, infringes that third party's United States intellectual property rights, subject to the limitations in Section 16 (Limitation of Liability). This obligation does not extend to claims arising from your Source Content, your generated artwork, your prompts, the AI provider's underlying models, or your use of the Service in combination with other products or services not provided by us.

For any claim covered by this Section, the indemnifying party must be promptly notified of the claim, given sole control of the defense and settlement (provided no settlement may impose obligations on the indemnified party without consent), and given reasonable cooperation at the indemnifying party's expense.

15. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ART-IF DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

We do not warrant that:

  • the Service will produce a specific aesthetic result for any photo or style;
  • any particular photo will be transformable, or that any particular generation will succeed;
  • the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components; or
  • any specific feature, style, or fulfillment option will remain available.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties; in those jurisdictions, the exclusions in this Section apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

16. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ART-IF AND ITS OFFICERS, OWNERS, AND CONTRACTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE — EVEN IF ART-IF HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

ART-IF'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ART-IF IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory on which the claim is based (contract, tort, statute, or otherwise) and even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

17. Termination

17.1 By you

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may also request that we delete your account under the procedures in our Privacy Policy.

17.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, at any time:

  • Immediately, without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or our Content Policy, if your account shows signs of fraud or abuse, or if continuing to provide the Service to you would expose ART-IF to legal or commercial risk.
  • With reasonable advance notice if we discontinue all or part of the Service, or if your account has been inactive for an extended period.

17.3 Effect of termination

On termination, your right to access the Service ends. We will process refunds, if any, in accordance with our Refund Policy. The following sections survive termination: 4 (to the extent any operational rights remain), 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, and 20, along with any payment obligations you have already incurred.

18. Regional Rights and Additional Notices

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights or be entitled to additional disclosures under your local law. The most significant of these are summarized in our Privacy Policy:

  • California residents: see the Privacy Policy for your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act, including the right to know, delete, correct, and opt out of "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information.
  • EEA, UK, and Switzerland residents: see the Privacy Policy for your rights under the GDPR and UK GDPR, including the legal bases on which we process your personal data and the recognized transfer mechanisms we use for international data transfers.
  • Quebec residents: see the Privacy Policy for your rights under Quebec's Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector ("Law 25").

If a provision of these Terms conflicts with a non-waivable right granted to you by your local law, that provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary to comply with that law, without affecting the rest of these Terms.

19. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

19.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

19.2 Informal resolution first

Before filing a formal dispute, you and ART-IF agree to try in good faith to resolve any dispute by contacting studio@art-if.com with a written description of the issue and requested resolution. If the dispute is not resolved within sixty (60) days after we receive your notice, either party may proceed to arbitration or to small-claims court as set out below.

19.3 Binding individual arbitration

Except for the small-claims carve-out below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or your relationship with ART-IF will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules, or, if JAMS declines to administer, by another nationally recognized arbitration provider mutually agreed upon. The arbitration will be conducted in English. Unless you and ART-IF agree otherwise, the arbitration will take place in Multnomah County, Oregon, or, at your election, by video or telephone. The arbitrator's award is final and enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.

19.4 Class-action waiver

You and ART-IF agree to resolve disputes only on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one party's claims and may not preside over any class or representative proceeding. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable, then the entirety of Section 19.3 (Binding Individual Arbitration) is null and void, and the dispute will proceed in court as set out in Section 19.5.

19.5 Small-claims and court carve-outs

Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if the dispute qualifies. If Section 19.3 is held unenforceable for any reason as to a particular dispute, that dispute will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, and you and ART-IF consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

19.6 30-day right to opt out

You may opt out of Section 19.3 (Binding Individual Arbitration) and Section 19.4 (Class-Action Waiver) by sending a written opt-out notice to studio@art-if.com within thirty (30) days after you first accept these Terms. Your notice must include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms.

20. General Provisions

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the policies linked above, are the entire agreement between you and ART-IF regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in full effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or by operation of law.

No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights, except that Shopify is an intended third-party beneficiary of Section 13 (Relationship with Shopify) and may enforce that section directly.

Notices to you. We may send notices to the email address associated with your account, by posting in the Service, or by any other reasonable method. You are responsible for keeping your contact information current.

Notices to us. Notices to ART-IF must be sent to studio@art-if.com or by mail to the address below.

Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, civil unrest, labor disputes, internet or infrastructure outages, third-party provider failures, or government action.

No interpretation against the drafter. Any ambiguity in these Terms will not be construed against the drafting party.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

Contact

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

For copyright takedown notices, see our IP Complaints.