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Terms

Terms of use

Draft. Waiting for legal review before launch. The rights and remix terms are still open decisions.

Your account

You must be 13 or older. Keep your sign-in to yourself; you're responsible for what you and the assistants you connect do with your account.

What you paint

You own what you and your assistant paint. You let us store it, show it to anyone with its link (or, for a private canvas, to the people you let in), replay it, and make the pictures and downloads you ask for. If you turn on "Show in the gallery" in your account, we may feature your shared canvases on our homepage, and while an assistant is painting a featured canvas it shows there under "Live now". It is off unless you turn it on; turn it off, or ask, and we take yours down.

Only put pictures and fonts on a canvas that you have the right to use. A font you upload is served to everyone who opens that canvas, so its licence must allow use on the web (many fonts you buy for print do not). When an assistant places a picture from a web address, you are asking it to use that picture.

Private canvases and reviewers

Whoever manages a canvas (its owner; on a team canvas, whoever started it, the team's admins and its owner) decides who else has access and at what level: Can view (watch and replay), Can comment (pin notes and reply) or Can edit (paint and change anything on it). Your assistant can do on a canvas exactly what you can, and no more. Invite only people who expect to hear from you: an invitation by email sends that address an email from us.

You can make a canvas private: 2 on Studio Free, any number with Studio Plus or Teams. Then only you, people you invite to draw and its reviewers can open it, and it is never featured, shown on the homepage, streamed to Live Art or copied by anyone but you. Our moderators can still open it to check it against these rules.

With Studio Plus or Teams, a canvas's owner can share a review link. Anyone with the link can look at the canvas, private or not, without an account. Someone who opens it while signed in becomes a reviewer; someone without an account becomes a guest once they give a name. Reviewers and guests can pin notes, reply, delete their own notes, and approve the version the owner sent or ask for changes, but not paint, download a private canvas or see anything else of the account or team. A guest's notes and answers show the name they typed, with "via review link"; we do not check who typed it. The owner can remove a reviewer or a guest, and making a new link or turning it off stops the old link working and ends every guest's access. Share a review link only with people you mean to see the canvas: whoever has it can pass it on, and anyone who can look at a canvas can copy it, with a screenshot for example. Sending for review is limited to 10 times an hour for a canvas and 30 a day for a person.

An approval records who approved which version of a canvas, and when. It is a note between the owner and the reviewer; we do not check or enforce what it means.

Teams

A team has one Owner, and may have Admins and Members. The owner pays for its seats, can delete the team and can make an admin the owner instead; after that they are an admin and may leave. Admins and the owner decide who is in the team: they share a join link, change roles and can remove anyone except the owner. Members are seated in the order they joined; when there are fewer seats than members, the newest members lose access to the team's canvases and library until seats return.

A team canvas belongs to the team, not to the person who started it. When you move one of your canvases into a team, you hand it to the team: everyone with a seat can open it, paint on it and connect their assistant to it, and it stays private to everyone else. You manage it as the person who started it; the admins and the owner manage it too, and they can open, change, delete or take out every team canvas. Only an admin or the owner can take a canvas out of the team, and it then goes to the team member they name, as that person's private canvas.

If you leave a team, are removed from it, or delete your account, the team canvases you started stay with the team, with what you painted on them. Your personal canvases stay yours.

What you add to a team's palette or library is shared with everyone in the team, who can place it on their team's canvases. Only add things the team may use. A part placed on a canvas stays there if the part is later removed.

The owner can delete the team. Its members, palette and parts go; its canvases become the owner's private canvases (past the owner's own plan allowance, they are view only until the owner renews or makes room). While a team's plan has lapsed, its canvases are read-only for everyone: nothing is deleted or handed out, and painting returns with the plan.

Taking it further

Anyone who can see a canvas, except a private one, can take their own copy and carry on with it ("Take it from here"). The copy is credited to the original: its link, title and who started it. You let people do this with your canvases unless you turn it off, which you can do for each canvas on its page. Turning it off does not remove copies already made.

When you take a copy, keep the credit, and don't present the original work as only yours. What you add is yours.

We may make a canvas the daily starting point, which everyone can copy that day. We only use canvases whose owners allow featuring and taking further; ask and we will take yours down.

What's not allowed

We can hide canvases and suspend accounts that break these rules. Anyone can report a canvas from its page.

Plans and payment

Paid plans renew until you cancel. Cancel any time from your account page; the plan stays on until the end of the period you paid for. If you go back to Studio Free, nothing is deleted and nobody loses access to a canvas. Private canvases past Studio Free's 2 stay private but are view only, for you and everyone else, until you renew, make one shared or delete one; you choose which ones keep painting, and until you do the most recently painted ones do. Review links you already made keep working for looking and notes; new versions, new links and approvals wait for a plan. The same applies when your seat in a team ends.

The service

We work hard to keep Pimvizo running and your canvases safe, but the service is provided as is. Download anything you can't afford to lose.

Changes and contact

If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll tell you by email before the change takes effect. Questions: hello@pimvizo.example.