These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding legal agreement between you ("you" or "User") and Great Ridge Design Co. ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), a business entity organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States of America, governing your access to and use of the Park Poster Studio website, web application, and any related services (collectively, the "Service").
BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE. THESE TERMS INCLUDE A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS-ACTION WAIVER (SECTION 16) THAT AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement and that you have full legal capacity to enter into these Terms.
2. The Service; Free Use and Paid Downloads
The Service permits you to design poster artwork in your browser using your own photograph, type, color, and template selections. The design tool itself is free to use. Designing, previewing, adjusting, and viewing your work within the Service is provided at no charge.
Downloading the final, full-resolution rendered image file requires payment of a one-time fee ("Download Fee"). The Download Fee is disclosed at the time of checkout and is processed through Stripe (see Section 4). The Download Fee unlocks delivery of one full-resolution copy of the specific design you have created and paid for.
Seven-day re-download window. Once you complete a paid purchase, the rendered poster file is stored on our hosting infrastructure for seven (7) days from the time of purchase so that you may re-download it from any device using your receipt link. At the end of that seven-day window the file is permanently and automatically deleted from our storage and will no longer be retrievable. We strongly recommend that you download and back up your file locally during this window. We do not retain or store rendered posters for free, unpurchased designs at any time.
3. Anti-Circumvention; Prohibited Capture of On-Screen Output
The on-screen preview of your design that appears within the Service is a low-resolution, watermark-bearing, or technologically degraded representation provided only so that you can evaluate your work prior to purchase. You acknowledge and agree that:
- You will not screenshot, screen-record, screen-capture, screen-grab, print-screen, photograph the screen, use browser developer tools, inspect or extract canvas data, use automated tools or scripts, disable client-side restrictions, modify the page, or otherwise attempt to obtain a copy of the rendered image without paying the Download Fee.
- Any attempt to circumvent the Download Fee — including but not limited to those methods listed above — constitutes a material breach of these Terms, an unauthorized use of the Service, and a violation of our intellectual-property rights in the underlying template artwork, code, and rendering pipeline.
- We reserve the right to terminate your access, void any pending transactions, and pursue any and all legal and equitable remedies available, including injunctive relief, statutory damages, actual damages, disgorgement of profits, and recovery of attorneys' fees and costs.
Successfully completing payment of the Download Fee is the sole authorized means of acquiring a copy of your rendered design.
4. Payments
Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe"). By submitting a payment, you authorize Stripe to charge your selected payment method for the Download Fee. We do not collect or store full payment card details. All transactions are denominated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated. You are responsible for any sales, use, or other taxes that may apply, except taxes assessed against our net income.
4.1 Refunds
Because the deliverable is a digital file delivered immediately upon payment, all sales are final and non-refundable, except where required by applicable law or in our sole discretion (for example, a duplicate charge or a verifiable technical failure preventing delivery). Requests for refund consideration must be submitted within seven (7) days of the transaction.
4.2 Chargebacks
Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute without first contacting us and giving us a reasonable opportunity to resolve the issue is a material breach of these Terms and may result in revocation of any license granted to you under Section 6 and forfeiture of any downloaded materials, in addition to any other remedies available to us.
5. Your Photograph; Your Representations and Warranties
You retain ownership of any photograph that you upload to the Service. The Service processes your photograph entirely within your browser; we do not receive, store, or have access to your image files. By uploading a photograph, you represent and warrant that:
- you own the photograph or have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to use it within the Service and to produce a derivative poster from it;
- your use does not infringe any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, right of privacy, contract, or other right of any third party; and
- the photograph does not contain content that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, hateful, or that depicts minors in a sexual or exploitative manner.
You agree to indemnify Great Ridge Design Co. for any claim arising from your breach of the foregoing representations, as further described in Section 13.
6. License to Your Downloaded Poster
Your purchased download consists of (a) your own photograph, which you continue to own, combined with (b) our proprietary template artwork, typography arrangement, color treatments, rendering pipeline, and other creative elements (collectively, the "Studio Elements"), which we own and license to you under the terms below.
6.1 Personal-Use License (Default)
Unless you have separately purchased a Commercial License under Section 6.2, your Download Fee grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide, perpetual license to use the rendered poster solely for personal, non-commercial purposes, including:
- printing copies for personal display in your home or office;
- giving printed copies as a personal gift to friends or family;
- posting the image to your personal social media in unedited form with a credit to Park Poster Studio.
Under the Personal-Use License, you may not:
- sell, license, sublicense, lease, or otherwise monetize the rendered poster, whether as a digital good (for example, an Etsy digital download, NFT, stock asset, print-on-demand listing, template, or preset), as a physical good (for example, prints, apparel, mugs, or merchandise), or as part of any commercial product or service;
- use the rendered poster in advertising, promotion, branding, or any commercial communication;
- redistribute the rendered poster file in its native digital form to anyone else;
- train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise input the rendered poster or Studio Elements into any machine-learning or generative-AI model.
6.2 Commercial License (Optional Upgrade)
A separately purchased "Commercial License" upgrade grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide, perpetual license to use the specific rendered poster you purchased for commercial purposes, including, by way of example, selling printed or digital copies of the poster on a marketplace such as Etsy, Shopify, or your own storefront. The Commercial License is tied to the specific design and the natural person or single legal entity that purchased it; it cannot be transferred or shared.
The Commercial License does not grant:
- any right in the underlying Studio Elements separate from your specific rendered poster (you may not extract, repackage, resell, or redistribute the templates, fonts, palettes, or rendering code);
- the right to register the rendered poster or any element of it as a trademark, logo, or brand identifier;
- the right to use the rendered poster in any manner that is unlawful, defamatory, or that disparages Great Ridge Design Co. or any third party;
- the right to use the rendered poster as input to train or fine-tune any machine-learning or generative-AI model.
The Commercial License is in effect only after the corresponding fee has been paid in full and is automatically revoked if the corresponding payment is reversed or charged back.
6.3 Reservation of Rights
All rights not expressly granted in Sections 6.1 or 6.2 are reserved byGreat Ridge Design Co.. The Studio Elements, the Service, and the Park Poster Studio name, logo, and visual identity are owned by Great Ridge Design Co. and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws.
7. Acceptable Use
You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to:
- use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or our systems;
- interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, including by introducing malicious code, scraping at scale, or automating excessive requests;
- reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law;
- use the Service to create content that infringes any intellectual property right, right of publicity, or right of privacy;
- engage in any of the anti-circumvention activities prohibited by Section 3.
8. No Accounts; Email at Checkout; Local Browser Storage
The Service does not offer user accounts. There is no sign-up, sign-in, password, or persistent profile maintained on our systems. To complete a purchase you provide an email address at checkout, which we use solely to deliver your receipt and download link and to provide customer support, as further described in our Privacy Policy.
The Service uses strictly necessary cookies and your browser's local storage to keep your in-progress design on your device, to remember interface preferences, and to authorize delivery of files you have paid for. This information is stored on your own device. Clearing your browser cookies and local storage will erase your in-progress design and may require you to re-enter information; it will not delete our record of a transaction you have completed.
8A. No Artificial Intelligence Processing
The Service is not an artificial-intelligence product. Your photograph is not transmitted to, processed by, classified by, modified by, or used to train any AI, machine-learning, generative, large-language, or diffusion model. The poster rendering pipeline is deterministic and rule-based and runs entirely inside your web browser. We do not, and will not without prior notice and your consent, use any image you upload as training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or input data for any such model. You likewise agree that you will not use any output of the Service as input to train any machine-learning or generative-AI model, as further restricted in Sections 6.1 and 6.2.
9. Privacy
Our collection and use of information is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. As described there, we do not store the source photographs you upload, we do not offer accounts, and the only personal information we collect is the email address you provide at checkout. The only image file we ever store is the final rendered poster following a paid purchase, which is retained for seven (7) days and then permanently deleted.
10. Third-Party Services and Links
The Service may contain links to third-party websites, including our Etsy shop and Stripe-hosted payment pages. We do not control and are not responsible for the content, terms, or practices of any third-party service. Your interactions with third-party services are governed by their own terms and policies.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIALS, AND DELIVERABLES PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, Great Ridge Design Co. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR PRINT EXPECTATIONS.
12. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL Great Ridge Design Co., ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN PART.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Great Ridge Design Co. and its officers, employees, agents, affiliates, and licensors from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Service, (b) any photograph or other content you upload or input, (c) your breach of these Terms, including Sections 3, 5, 6, and 7, (d) your violation of any law or regulation, or (e) your infringement of the rights of any third party.
14. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, including for violation of these Terms or for conduct that we determine to be harmful to other users, third parties, or our legitimate interests. Upon termination, Sections 3, 5, 6, and 11–17 will survive.
15. Governing Law; Venue
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 16, the exclusive venue for any action permitted in court is the state and federal courts located in North Carolina, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.
16. Binding Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver
Except for (a) claims for injunctive or equitable relief to protect intellectual-property rights, including enforcement of Section 3, and (b) small-claims-court actions, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted in North Carolina or by remote means, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
YOU AND Great Ridge Design Co. EACH AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE WILL BE BROUGHT IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY ONLY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.The arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of more than one person and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this class-action waiver is held unenforceable, then the entirety of this Section 16 will be null and void.
17. Miscellaneous
- Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Great Ridge Design Co. regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
- Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force.
- No Waiver. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of that right.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
- Notices. We may provide notices through the Service or, where applicable, by email to the address you provided at checkout.
- Force Majeure. We will not be liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
- Changes. We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by a prominent notice on the Service or by email. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of those Terms.
18. Contact
Great Ridge Design Co. can be reached through our shop at Great Ridge Design on Etsy.