Terms of Service

CREATIVE // ENGINE is a tattoo-focused design concept and image-generation platform intended to help tattoo artists, designers, and creative professionals develop custom visual concepts, references, design directions, and design inspiration for professional review.

The Service may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, image-generation systems, prompt-building systems, style engines, user-uploaded references, and other tools to produce visual outputs.

CREATIVE // ENGINE is not a tattoo license, legal advisor, copyright clearance service, medical advisor, professional tattoo safety authority, or substitute for the judgment of a qualified tattoo artist.

Features are available only as included in your purchased plan and actually released.

The Service is for adults aged 18 and older, including artists and apprentices. Persons under 18 may not create an account or use the Service.

By using the Service, you represent that:

• You are at least 18 years old.
• You have legal authority to enter into these Terms.
• If using the Service for a business, studio, company, or client, you have authority to bind that entity.
• Your use of the Service will comply with all applicable laws, regulations, professional standards, and client consent requirements.

This eligibility rule is separate from the rules for reference materials that depict other people, which are in Section 12.

To use the Service, you need an account. You agree to:

• Provide accurate and current account and contact information.
• Use your own login. Each person uses their own account, except through staff or team features included in your purchased plan where available.
• Keep your login credentials secure and not share, sell, sublicense, or transfer your account.
• Promptly tell us if you suspect unauthorized access.

You are responsible for activity by people you authorize to use your account. If your account is compromised, we will look at the cause, including any failure on our side, and will not automatically hold you responsible for every action taken by someone you did not authorize.

When we have a security concern, we may reasonably restrict access, end active sessions, or ask you to verify ownership of the account. Account recovery asks only for information reasonably needed to confirm that the account is yours.

Some parts of CREATIVE // ENGINE may be offered as early access, beta, preview, test, experimental, or limited-release features.

You understand and agree that beta features:

• May contain bugs, errors, incomplete functionality, or unexpected results.
• May change, break, pause, reset, or be removed.
• May produce inconsistent outputs.
• May not be suitable for commercial reliance without your own review.
• May have limited support, usage caps, or performance restrictions.

Beta status does not override an express paid offer or rights that applicable law does not allow us to exclude. The disclaimers and liability limits in Sections 23 and 24 apply to beta features to the extent permitted by law.

CREATIVE // ENGINE offers subscriptions and credits. Before you buy, checkout states the price, currency, billing period, applicable taxes, included features and credits, and renewal terms.

By purchasing a recurring subscription, you authorize charges at the price and cadence disclosed at checkout until you cancel. Separate purchases and upgrades require the authorization presented for that transaction. Subscription fees are billed in advance.

Only released features expressly included in your plan form part of your purchase. A roadmap or Coming Soon label is not a promise of access by a particular date.

Credits

• Subscription credits are issued for each paid billing period and do not roll over. When your subscription renews, any unused subscription credits are replaced by the new period’s credits. When your subscription ends, unused subscription credits end with it.
• Credit packs you buy separately do not expire on a time limit. They stay on your account as long as the account exists. When you generate, subscription credits are used first, then purchased credits.
• Buying and spending credits requires an active subscription. If your subscription ends, unused purchased credits stay on your account but cannot be spent until you subscribe again. When you resubscribe, that balance becomes usable again.
• If your account is permanently deleted at your request, all remaining subscription and purchased credits are forfeited. We will warn you and ask you to confirm before deleting. This does not limit rights that apply under law.

Any Founding Artist discount, trial, promotional rate, or price lock must be stated in writing in the offer, including its duration, renewal price, eligibility, and conditions. The program name alone does not establish a discount or lifetime entitlement. We honor written price-lock commitments.

Price changes

• We will give existing subscribers at least 30 days’ notice of a price increase, by email and in the app. The notice will state the old and new price, the first billing date affected, and any change in included credits.
• A price increase takes effect at your first renewal after the notice period. There is no mid-cycle surcharge, and a prepaid term keeps its agreed price until the term ends.
• You may cancel before an increase takes effect.
• If we permanently lower the regular price of your plan, we will move you to the lower price at your next renewal without you having to ask. Temporary promotions for new customers do not automatically apply to existing subscribers.

You are responsible for applicable taxes disclosed for your purchase.

You may cancel from your account dashboard or by contacting admin@creativetattooengine.com. Cancelling stops your subscription from renewing. You keep paid access and can use your remaining credits until the end of the period you already paid for.

Unless applicable law or the written offer for your purchase says otherwise, fees are non-refundable, partial billing periods are not refunded, used credits are not refunded, and choosing not to use the Service does not create a refund entitlement.

Failed generations

If a generation fails, the credits reserved for it are restored to your account automatically. You do not need to contact us.

Billing errors

If you are charged twice, charged the wrong amount, or otherwise charged in error, contact admin@creativetattooengine.com with your account email, the transaction date, and any relevant transaction or generation identifier. Do not send full payment-card details. We will investigate and correct the error.

Courtesy credits

Dissatisfaction with a completed generation does not automatically qualify for a refund or replacement credits. Courtesy credits may be offered following review, subject to eligibility requirements and limits. Requests may be declined when applicable limits are reached, and a previous adjustment does not guarantee future adjustments.

These courtesy limits do not restrict automatic credit restoration for failed generations, correction of billing errors, or rights under applicable law.

Please contact admin@creativetattooengine.com if you believe a charge is incorrect so we can investigate. Contacting us first is encouraged, but it is not a condition of exercising your rights with your bank or payment provider.

We may temporarily restrict affected paid features while investigating nonpayment, suspected fraud, or a disputed transaction. We will not treat a good-faith exercise of dispute rights as fraud by itself. You remain responsible for valid unpaid charges. Confirmed fraudulent chargebacks may lead to termination under Section 22.

“User Inputs” means anything you upload, submit, type, enter, provide, or transmit through the Service, including:

• Prompts.
• Tattoo ideas.
• Client concepts.
• Reference images.
• Sketches.
• Photographs.
• Artwork.
• Style references.
• Text.
• Business information.
• Client records and client-provided materials.
• Messages.
• Uploaded files.
• Feedback.

You retain your rights in your User Inputs, subject to the license you grant us below. You are responsible for your User Inputs.

You grant CREATIVE // ENGINE a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, adapt, and display User Inputs only as reasonably necessary to provide the Service you request, generate Outputs, operate your account, provide support, maintain security, investigate abuse or errors, and meet legal obligations.

We may allow service providers to exercise this license only as needed to perform those functions for us. This license does not transfer ownership of your artwork or client materials to CREATIVE // ENGINE.

We do not use your client photos, prompts, or private designs to train general-purpose AI models. Marketing use requires the separate permission described in Section 17.

“Outputs” means images, designs, concepts, text, visual directions, files, previews, variations, or other materials generated for you by or through the Service.

You retain your existing rights in content you upload. As between you and CREATIVE // ENGINE, and to the extent permitted by law, you own your generated Output. We assign to you any rights we hold in that Output.

You may use your Output for lawful personal and commercial purposes, including tattooing, client commissions, portfolios, and merchandise, without additional royalties to CREATIVE // ENGINE. Subscription cancellation does not revoke these rights.

These provisions do not guarantee that Output is unique, copyrightable, or free of third-party rights. Similar Outputs may be generated for other users. You remain responsible for obtaining any permissions required for your intended use.

CREATIVE // ENGINE provides tools to assist with creative development and visualization. Generated designs, stencils, previews, and other Outputs may contain errors or require editing. We do not guarantee that an Output will be accurate, unique, eligible for copyright protection, free of third-party rights, or suitable for a particular use.

You are responsible for reviewing Outputs before using, sharing, selling, or applying them. This includes checking spelling, anatomy, proportions, placement, technical suitability, and any permissions needed for your intended use. Generating an image does not grant permission to use another person’s protected work, trademark, or likeness.

AI systems can generate Outputs that resemble existing designs, trademarks, copyrighted works, tattoo flash, characters, or likenesses. CREATIVE // ENGINE does not provide copyright clearance. Before tattooing, selling, publishing, or commercially using an Output, perform your own review and obtain legal advice if needed.

Tattoo previews are illustrative and do not guarantee how a tattoo will appear on skin or after healing. CREATIVE // ENGINE does not replace an artist’s professional judgment, client consultation, consent procedures, or responsibility for safe and lawful tattooing.

If you upload or process material involving a client or another person, you are responsible for having a lawful basis and all necessary permissions to use the material, upload it to CREATIVE // ENGINE, and have it sent to third-party AI providers for the design processing you request.

Permission to take a photograph or perform a tattoo is not automatically permission to process that photograph with AI. Where consent is required, obtain consent that explains the intended processing before uploading. Marketing use requires separate permission.

Upload only what the design task needs. Crop or remove unnecessary faces, names, contact details, and other identifying information. Do not upload government identification, payment-card details, medical records, or unrelated confidential information into design prompts or reference-image tools.

An adult user may submit lawful, nonsexual reference material depicting a minor only with the necessary authority and parent or guardian permission where required, and only where permitted by the Service and its AI providers. This does not allow minors to use the Service and does not establish permission to tattoo a minor. Sexual or exploitative depictions of minors and non-consensual intimate imagery are prohibited.

CREATIVE // ENGINE creates digital design references and visual concepts. Tattoo execution involves human judgment, skin conditions, placement, aging, healing, needle technique, ink behavior, anatomy, aftercare, client health, and artist skill.

You agree that:

• Outputs are not guaranteed to translate perfectly to skin.
• Outputs may require simplification, redrawing, stencil preparation, technical adjustment, or professional interpretation.
• You are responsible for determining whether a design is tattooable.
• You are responsible for stencil preparation, placement, application, sanitation, client consent, and final execution.
• You are responsible for complying with tattoo licensing, health department rules, sanitation laws, and professional standards.

To the extent permitted by law, CREATIVE // ENGINE is not liable for tattoo outcomes, infections, allergic reactions, client dissatisfaction, healing problems, coverup failures, placement errors, stencil issues, or artistic disputes.

You must use CREATIVE // ENGINE lawfully and respect the rights, privacy, and safety of others. You may not use the Service for fraud, threats, targeted harassment, exploitation, unlawful discrimination, or other prohibited activity.

You may not upload or generate content that sexually exploits minors, depicts nonconsensual intimate activity, or violates another person’s intellectual property, privacy, or other legal rights. You must have the permissions necessary to submit client photographs, artwork, and other materials for processing.

You may not gain unauthorized access, disrupt the Service, scrape it, extract its engine logic, bypass safety or security controls, manipulate billing or credit systems, or submit fraudulent refund or credit requests. You may not copy or resell the Service, or use it to train competing AI systems, without our written permission. Good-faith complaints and legitimate requests for adjustments are permitted.

Use of AI features must also comply with the applicable generation provider’s usage policies. Content may be declined or restricted by automated safeguards even when you believe your intended use is lawful. You may contact support to request review, but we cannot guarantee that a provider will permit a particular request.

We may restrict content or account access under Section 22. A single blocked generation does not, by itself, establish misconduct.

The Service, website, software, systems, design engines, workflows, prompt logic, style systems, concept engines, interface, code, brand assets, logos, trademarks, trade dress, documentation, databases, templates, processes, and proprietary methods belong to CREATIVE // ENGINE or its licensors. Your Outputs are governed by Section 10, not this section.

You may not:

• Copy our systems.
• Reverse engineer our prompt architecture.
• Extract or reproduce our engine logic.
• Resell access.
• Build a competing service using our proprietary workflows.
• Use our brand without permission.
• Remove copyright, trademark, or proprietary notices.

These restrictions apply except to the extent applicable law permits an activity despite them.

“CREATIVE // ENGINE™,” “BURN THE FLASH™,” “TATTOOING JUST EVOLVED™,” and related marks, slogans, graphics, slash marks, logos, and brand elements are brand assets of CREATIVE // ENGINE.

If you provide feedback, suggestions, bug reports, feature requests, or ideas about the Service, you grant us the right to use them without restriction or compensation. This does not give us any rights in your User Inputs or Outputs.

We will not use your private User Inputs, client materials, private designs, uploaded references, or client messages in marketing.

These permissions are separate from each other:

• Publishing an image to the public gallery allows it to be displayed, with the public name you choose, within that gallery. It does not by itself permit external marketing.
• Promotional screenshot permission, if you give it, allows your public gallery images and approved display name to appear in screenshots or recordings that show CREATIVE // ENGINE.
• Artist feature permission, if you give it, allows approved public work to be individually featured, with attribution, on our website, social channels, or newsletters.
• Paid advertising requires separate permission for the particular image or campaign.

Promotional permissions are off unless you give them. You may exclude individual images or withdraw permission for future uses at any time by contacting admin@creativetattooengine.com. Publicly posting an Output or tagging CREATIVE // ENGINE does not, by itself, grant us a marketing license.

You can only grant permissions you hold. Client and photographer permissions must cover any material involved.

Where available, you may connect supported third-party accounts to CREATIVE // ENGINE. You must have authority to connect those accounts and authorize the requested access. We use that access only for the features you enable, as described during connection and in our Privacy Policy.

Third-party services may experience outages, delays, permission changes, or other restrictions that affect synchronization and availability. We do not guarantee uninterrupted connections, immediate synchronization, or delivery of every message or reminder. You should verify important appointments and communications, particularly when a connection is interrupted or an error is reported.

You may disconnect a supported account to stop future access through that connection. Information already imported into CREATIVE // ENGINE remains subject to our retention and deletion policies.

The Service also relies on providers such as hosting, payment, AI model, authentication, and email providers, whose own terms may apply to your use of them. These provisions do not excuse our failure to meet our own obligations or limit rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

The Service may experience maintenance, interruptions, delays, or third-party outages. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, a specific output quality, or a specific generation speed. You are responsible for downloading and backing up important Outputs.

We may update, change, or remove features. Where feasible, we will give advance notice before removing a significant feature. If a removal materially reduces a paid plan during a prepaid term, we will offer cancellation with a proportionate refund of the unused subscription time.

These limitations do not override our express credit-restoration, billing-correction, or refund commitments, or any rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

We may set reasonable limits on storage, file size, generation history, and galleries.

When your paid subscription period ends, generation, editing, and other paid features stop, but you can still sign in to view and download the designs already in your gallery. We do not currently delete designs on a schedule after a subscription ends.

If we introduce a cleanup schedule for content on accounts without an active subscription, we will give at least 90 days’ notice before any of your content is deleted, show the scheduled deletion date, and remind you before it. Resubscribing before that date preserves your work. Cleanup of content does not delete your account or your purchased credits. We cannot promise to recover content after it has been deleted.

You may ask us to permanently delete your account by contacting admin@creativetattooengine.com. We will verify the request and confirm with you before deleting. Some records, such as billing records and records we must keep by law, follow their own retention periods described in the Privacy Policy.

Cancelling billing, disconnecting an integration, and deleting your account are separate actions unless the Service explicitly combines them.

Send copyright complaints to CREATIVE // ENGINE LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, at admin@creativetattooengine.com. Identify the copyrighted work and the precise location or identifier of the allegedly infringing material so we can locate it. Include your physical or electronic signature, your contact information, a good-faith statement that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or law, and a statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner.

A person reviews each notice. We may remove or disable access to reported material, will notify the user who submitted it, and document the action. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, and we do not treat every unverified allegation as a strike.

If you believe material was removed by mistake or misidentification, contact the same address with a counter-notice. Where the DMCA applies, a counter-notice must include your signature, identification and former location of the material, a statement under penalty of perjury of a good-faith belief in mistake or misidentification, your name, address and telephone number, consent to the applicable federal court jurisdiction, and agreement to accept service from the complaining party. Your identifying information will be shared with the complainant. Restoration, if appropriate, follows the statutory process.

Our support assistant may collect and route complaints, but people handle notices, disputes, and account decisions.

We may restrict or suspend access when we reasonably believe an account has violated these Terms, has an unresolved payment issue, has been compromised, or presents a risk to people, the Service, or the rights of others. For issues that can reasonably be corrected, we will provide notice explaining the issue and a reasonable opportunity to resolve it. We may act immediately where necessary to address fraud, unlawful activity, serious or repeated violations, security risks, or legal requirements. We will explain the restriction when legally permitted and when doing so would not compromise security or an investigation.

A temporary suspension does not automatically delete your account, content, or purchased credits. Purchased credits remain on the account but may be unavailable during the suspension. Monthly credits remain subject to their ordinary billing-period expiration. If a restriction resulted from our error, we will restore affected access and make an appropriate adjustment for lost paid access or credits.

A person will review permanent account termination. You may request human review by replying to the notice or contacting support. We will not penalize an account for an honest review or a good-faith complaint.

If we permanently terminate access, we will stop future subscription renewals. If termination is unrelated to your violation of these Terms, we will refund the unused portion of your prepaid subscription. If termination results from a serious or repeated violation, subscription fees already paid are not automatically refundable, except as required by law. In either case, we will refund the amount actually paid attributable to unused purchased credits, excluding promotional or complimentary credits and amounts already refunded, reversed, or charged back. Refunds do not restore access to a terminated account.

Following permanent termination by us, you may request export of lawful content within 90 days of termination. We may provide that export through support instead of restoring account access, and may restrict export where necessary to comply with law, protect another person’s rights or information, or address a security risk.

Sections that by nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, licenses, disclaimers, limitations of liability, third-party claims, dispute resolution, and payment obligations. Nothing in this section limits rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CREATIVE // ENGINE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, SECURITY, AND OUTPUT QUALITY.

THIS DOES NOT OVERRIDE THE EXPRESS COMMITMENTS IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING CREDIT RESTORATION FOR FAILED GENERATIONS, BILLING CORRECTIONS, AND REFUNDS DESCRIBED IN SECTIONS 6, 19, AND 22.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CREATIVE // ENGINE, ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST CLIENTS, LOST DATA, LOST GOODWILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR REPUTATIONAL HARM.

Subject to the exceptions below, CREATIVE // ENGINE’s total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of US $100 or the total amount you paid to CREATIVE // ENGINE during the six months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This limit does not create an entitlement to compensation or establish liability.

These limits do not apply to our obligations to restore credits, correct billing errors, or make refunds under these Terms, or to liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some limits may not apply to you.

If a third party brings a claim against CREATIVE // ENGINE, you agree to cover our reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, to the extent the claim results from your unlawful conduct, your infringement of someone else’s rights, or your material violation of these Terms.

You are not responsible for costs caused by our own wrongdoing. You are not automatically responsible for every claim involving an AI Output simply because you used the Service to create it.

We will give you prompt notice of a covered claim and a fair opportunity to participate in the defense. We will not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on you without your consent.

Before bringing a claim, the party with the dispute will send written notice describing the issue and the resolution requested. Notices to us go to admin@creativetattooengine.com. Both parties will then try in good faith to resolve the dispute for 30 days.

If the dispute is not resolved, either party may bring it in court as described in Section 27, or in small claims court if the claim qualifies. The parties may also agree to mediation. There is no mandatory arbitration.

This process does not prevent either party from seeking urgent relief, filing a complaint with a regulator, or taking action needed to preserve a legal deadline.

These Terms are governed by Florida law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules, without depriving you of mandatory protections that apply where you live.

Subject to any non-waivable venue rights and small claims court, court proceedings must be brought in the Florida state courts in Okaloosa County or the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, as jurisdiction permits.

The published version of these Terms shows its version, effective date, and last-updated date.

For material changes, we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email and in the app, with a plain-language summary and the effective date. Minor corrections and clarifications that do not materially change your rights may take effect without that notice. Changes needed for security, legal requirements, or unavoidable provider changes may take effect sooner, with notice as soon as reasonably possible.

For significant changes to your obligations, we will ask you to accept the updated Terms, and we keep a record of each version you accepted. Changes do not retroactively reduce your rights relating to earlier events or expand permissions over content collected earlier. If you do not agree to a change, you may stop using the Service and cancel before it takes effect.

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

CREATIVE // ENGINE · Legal Contact: admin@creativetattooengine.com