# Terms of Service **Effective**: 2026-05-09 **Version**: 1.0 (Wave 4 Ciclo 7 — Spriteoven) **Operator**: Fer Gonzalez Llanos, persona física, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA), República Argentina. > Spriteoven is operated as a personal project by an individual, not a > corporation. By using Spriteoven you agree to the terms below. If you > do not agree, do not use the service. --- ## 1. Acceptance By signing up, signing in, or otherwise using Spriteoven (the "Service"), you ("you", "user") accept these Terms of Service (the "Terms") and the companion **Privacy Policy** (`/docs/privacy`) and **BYOK Disclaimer** (`/docs/byok-disclaimer`). The Terms are a binding agreement between you and **Fer Gonzalez Llanos**, persona física, CABA, Argentina (the "Operator", "we", "us"). If you use Spriteoven on behalf of another person or organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind them. Even so, the Operator contracts only with the individual who created the account. You must be **at least 13 years old** to use the Service. --- ## 2. The Service Spriteoven is a web tool that helps you generate, edit, and export pixel-art sprite sheets using third-party AI providers (Google Gemini / Imagen, OpenAI gpt-image-2, xAI Grok Imagine, and others added over time). The free tier is provided at the Operator's discretion and may change scope, quotas, or availability at any time. The Service is provided **as a personal project** by a single individual. There is no SLA, no support contract, and no guarantee of uptime, response time, or feature stability. ### 2.1 Pre-launch status Spriteoven is currently in pre-launch / beta status. Features, providers, output formats, and pricing tiers may change without notice. Data retention is best-effort during this phase. Production-grade SLA commitments will be introduced in future versions of these Terms when the Service exits beta. --- ## 3. Your account - Keep your sign-in credentials confidential. You are responsible for activity on your account, including activity by anyone with whom you share access. - We may suspend or close your account if we believe in good faith that you have violated these Terms or that the account is being used to abuse, harm, or defraud other users or the Operator. --- ## 4. BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) — Your responsibility To unlock premium AI providers you may attach your own API key ("BYOK") for OpenAI, xAI, Google (Gemini / Imagen), or any future provider Spriteoven supports. When you use BYOK: 1. **The key is yours.** It belongs to your provider account, billed to your provider account, governed by that provider's terms. 2. **The billing is yours.** Every generation, retry, or test call you trigger via Spriteoven incurs charges on **your** provider account. Spriteoven does not subsidize, cap, or refund those charges. 3. **You are responsible for the key.** Keep it secret. Rotate it if compromised. Use a key with the smallest scope and rate limit you can. See the **BYOK Disclaimer** (`/docs/byok-disclaimer`) for details on how Spriteoven handles your key in transit and the residual risks. 4. **You comply with the provider's terms.** OpenAI, xAI, Google, and any other AI provider Spriteoven may support in the future impose their own usage policies (acceptable use, content restrictions, rate limits, geographic limits). When you bring a key you agree to honor those policies. The Operator is not a party to that relationship. If a provider suspends, throttles, or revokes your key, the Operator cannot recover or re-instate it on your behalf. --- ## 5. Acceptable use You agree **not** to use Spriteoven (whether on the free tier or via BYOK) to: - Generate, distribute, or attempt to launder content that infringes any third party's copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or other intellectual-property right. This includes prompts that attempt to reproduce, imitate, or mimic copyrighted character designs you do not own or license. - Generate sexual or sexualized depictions of **minors** (real or fictional) under any circumstance. - Generate non-consensual sexual imagery of real, identifiable people. - Generate content that incites violence, harassment, or hate against individuals or protected groups. - Generate malicious code, malware, or material designed to facilitate fraud, phishing, or abuse of computer systems. - Generate disinformation depicting real people, public figures, or events in ways designed to mislead. - Bypass, circumvent, or attack the rate limits, RLS policies, BYOK validation, or any other security control of the Service. - Use the Service in violation of any applicable law in Argentina, in your country of residence, or in any jurisdiction your generations are intended to reach. - Use automated agents, scrapers, or scripts to generate content at a rate that materially burdens the Service's infrastructure beyond normal interactive use, except via the documented batch API (`/api/sprite-lab/batch`) and within its documented rate limits. We may remove generations, suspend accounts, and report illegal content to the relevant authority without prior notice when we have a good-faith belief that this clause has been violated. --- ## 6. Ownership of generations To the extent permitted by the AI provider you used: - **Inputs you provide** (prompts, reference images, configuration) remain yours. By submitting them you grant the Operator a non-exclusive license to process them through the AI provider you selected and return the result to you. - **Outputs (generated sprites)** are yours to use under the terms of the provider you used. Note that AI providers usually grant broad reuse rights to the user but **disclaim** any warranty that the output is non-infringing or original. - **You** are responsible for verifying that your inputs and your use of the outputs do not infringe the rights of third parties. The Operator does **not** add your prompts, reference images, or generated assets to any training corpus. Spriteoven recommends that you review the terms of the AI provider you used for any generation you intend to deploy commercially, as provider-specific commercial-use restrictions may apply. --- ## 7. Service changes, suspension, termination - The Operator may add, modify, or remove features, providers, output formats, quotas, or pricing tiers at any time. - The Operator may suspend or terminate the Service or your access to it for any reason, including (but not limited to) violation of these Terms, abuse, fraud, security risk, or sustained inability to keep the Service running on a personal-project budget. - You may close your account at any time from the account settings. Closing the account triggers deletion of your data per the **Privacy Policy**. --- ## 8. Disclaimer of warranties THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED **"AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE"** BY AN INDIVIDUAL RUNNING IT AS A PERSONAL PROJECT, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, ACCURACY, OR RESULTS OBTAINED FROM USE. The Operator makes **no warranty** that: - The Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. - The output of any AI provider will be accurate, original, non-infringing, or fit for any specific use. - Any data stored in the Service will be preserved indefinitely (you are responsible for downloading and backing up your assets). --- ## 9. Limitation of liability To the maximum extent permitted by Argentine law: - The Operator's **total cumulative liability** to you, for any and all claims arising out of or relating to the Service, is **capped at the greater of (a) USD 100 or (b) the amounts you paid the Operator directly in the 12 months preceding the claim** (which is **USD 0** for the free tier and BYOK users — Spriteoven does not charge users directly during Wave 4). - The Operator is **not liable** for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, or business interruption, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. - The Operator is **not liable** for charges, fees, or penalties imposed by any third-party AI provider on your BYOK account. - The Operator is **not liable** for the content of any generation produced by an AI provider, including content you produced via your own prompts. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability; in those jurisdictions the Operator's liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. --- ## 10. Indemnification You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of (a) your inputs, prompts, or generations, (b) your violation of these Terms or any applicable law, or (c) your violation of a third-party right, including any AI provider's terms or any intellectual-property right. --- ## 11. Governing law and venue These Terms are governed by the **laws of the República Argentina**, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or to the Service shall be submitted to the **Tribunales Nacionales en lo Comercial de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires** (Commercial National Tribunals of CABA), with the parties expressly waiving any other forum. If you are a consumer protected by mandatory rules of your country of residence, those mandatory rules apply notwithstanding this clause. --- ## 12. Changes to these Terms If we make material changes we will publish an updated version at this URL and bump the version number. Continued use after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, close your account. --- ## 13. Miscellaneous - **Severability**: if any clause is held unenforceable, the rest of the Terms remain in effect. - **No waiver**: failure to enforce a clause is not a waiver. - **No assignment by you**: you may not assign these Terms without the Operator's written consent. The Operator may assign to a successor in interest if Spriteoven is ever transferred (e.g., to a future legal entity). - **Entire agreement**: these Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the BYOK Disclaimer, are the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the Service. --- ## 14. Contact For questions about these Terms: - **Email**: fergonllan@gmail.com - **Operator**: Fer Gonzalez Llanos, CABA, Argentina.