Terms of Service

Your account

• You must be 18 or older to use Pixie Studio.
• You sign in with a code we email you, so keep your email account secure. You're responsible for what happens in your account.
• Use an email address you control, and don't create extra accounts to collect more free Sparks or royalties.
• Don't sell or transfer your account.
• If you use Pixie Studio for a business, you're agreeing to these terms for that business, and confirming you're allowed to.

Sparks

Sparks are Pixie Studio's credits. You spend them on AI actions, like making a video, an image or a voiceover, and every action shows its price in Sparks before you start. One Spark is worth about 1 US cent at Spark pack prices, and plans give you a little more for your money.

Sparks aren't money. They have no cash value, and you can't sell them, exchange them for cash or move them to another account. They're refundable only as our Refund policy says. Sparks are a license to use Pixie Studio, not property you own.

Some models, which we call partner models, accept only purchased Sparks (from a plan or a pack). If a model needs them, we tell you before you start.

How long Sparks last:

Daily free Sparks

You can claim 20 a day. They expire at midnight UTC.

Plan Sparks

Each month's Sparks last that month, and unused ones roll over for one more month.

Pack Sparks

Last 12 months from purchase.

Earned Sparks

Royalties from your Recipes never expire.

Welcome and bonus Sparks

Last as long as we say when we give them. If we don't say, they don't expire.

When you spend, we use the Sparks that expire soonest first, so fewer go to waste.

If a payment is refunded or charged back after you've spent its Sparks, your balance can go below zero, and new Sparks pay that off first. We may also correct mistakes in your balance, and remove Sparks gained through fraud, abuse or a bug.

We may change what things cost and how Sparks work. You'll always see the price before you spend, and we'll tell you before a change to these rules affects Sparks you already have.

Plans and payments

Paid plans (Creator, Pro and Studio) are billed monthly or yearly in US dollars, and come with Sparks every month. On a yearly plan you pay once a year and still get your Sparks month by month. Spark packs are one-time purchases.

Plans renew automatically. At the end of each billing period we charge your payment method for the next one, until you cancel.

Cancel any time from Manage subscription in the Sparks window. Your plan keeps working until the end of the period you've paid for, then ends, and you won't be charged again. Your plan Sparks stay until they expire.

You can switch plans in the same place. A switch takes effect right away and is prorated, and an upgrade adds the bigger plan's extra Sparks for the current month.

Payments are processed by Stripe. For some purchases, Stripe or its Link service may act as the merchant of record: the seller that takes your payment and handles sales tax and VAT. Their terms also apply to those payments. Any tax is shown at checkout.

If a renewal payment fails, Stripe may try again. If it still can't be collected, we may pause or end your plan. If we change a plan's price, we'll tell you before the new price applies to you, so you can cancel first if you like.

Refunds

Failed renders refund their Sparks automatically. Purchased Sparks you haven't used can be refunded if you ask within 14 days of buying them. A refund or chargeback takes back the Sparks that payment bought. A cancelled plan runs to the end of the period you've paid for, with no refunds for partial periods except where the law requires. The details are in our Refund policy.

Your content

“Your content” means what you put into Pixie Studio (prompts, uploads and settings) and what you make with it (images, video, audio and workflows).

You keep the rights to what you make. Between you and us, your content is yours, subject to these terms and to the terms of the companies whose AI models you use (see below).

Paid plans (Creator, Pro and Studio) include commercial use. On the Free plan, use what you make for personal, non-commercial purposes.

Copyright law for AI-made work is still settling, and in some places purely AI-generated results may not be protected by copyright at all. We can't promise yours will be. AI models can also give other people results similar to yours, and those are theirs.

AI model terms. Pixie Studio runs on AI models made by other companies. When you use one, we send your prompt and inputs to its maker, or to the service that runs it, to make your result. Each maker's terms and usage policies apply to what you make with its model, and they can limit how you use the results.

Only upload what you have the right to use, including photos, video, voices, music and art. If it shows or sounds like a real person, it must be you or someone who has agreed.

Permission you give us. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, adapt and display your content to run Pixie Studio for you, keep it safe and follow the law, and to train, test and improve AI models, including our own. That includes sending it to AI models, making previews, and labeling it as AI-made (for example with content credentials) (and, on the Free plan, adding a small Pixie mark). When you delete your content, the license ends, except that remixes other people already made stay theirs, backups may keep copies for a limited time, we keep what we need for legal or safety reasons (such as a deleted Recipe that was reported), and we may keep using it to train AI models until your account is deleted. AI models already trained with your content stay as they are. Our Privacy policy explains how to ask us to leave your content out of training.

Recipes and remixes

When you publish a workflow as a Recipe, it becomes public. Anyone can find it on Trends, see how it works and remix it: run it with their own inputs and keep what they make.

What goes public: the Recipe's title, description and steps, the example results you choose, and any input files you fixed in place. Files behind the inputs you leave open for remixers stay private.

By publishing a Recipe, you let anyone on Pixie Studio remix it, and use, share and publish what they make with it, including parts of your Recipe that end up in their results. You also let us show and feature your Recipe and its examples, on Pixie Studio and when we promote it.

Only publish what you have the right to share and what follows our Content policy. We check Recipes automatically before they go public, and we may hide or remove one that's reported or breaks the rules.

You can unpublish or delete your Recipes from your Account at any time. That stops new remixes, but remixes people have already made stay theirs.

Creator royalties

When someone else remixes your public Recipe, you earn 10% of the Sparks their remix spends, rounded down. Royalties are held for 7 days, then credited to you as earned Sparks, which never expire and spend like any others.

No royalties are paid for:

• your own remixes;
• remixes of Pixie Originals, the Recipes we make;
• more than 5 remixes a day from the same person;
• remixes by someone whose balance is below zero when the hold ends, for example after a refund or chargeback.

Founding Creators earn 20% instead for 90 days from their first published Recipe. They're the first 50 people who asked to be one when they joined the waitlist and then publish a Recipe.

We may hold back or reverse royalties that come from fake or linked accounts, bots or other abuse. Royalties wait while a Recipe is hidden for review; if we remove it, royalties from remixes made before then are still paid.

Earned Sparks can't be cashed out today. We may add a way to cash out later, with identity checks and tax forms; it would come with its own terms. If we change how royalties work, the change applies to remixes made after it.

Invite rewards

Your invite link (on your Account page) earns you 20% of what each person who signs up with it pays us in their first 12 months, as earned Sparks: one Spark for every cent at that share. Each reward is held for 30 days after the payment, then credited to you.

No reward is paid when the payment is refunded or disputed, or the person owes Sparks when the hold ends; for sign-ups that weren't new accounts, or that came through your own link; or when the same card pays on both accounts. We may hold back or reverse rewards that come from fake or linked accounts or other abuse.

Like royalties, earned Sparks can't be cashed out today, and a change to how invite rewards work applies to payments made after it.

Using Pixie Studio responsibly

Follow our Content policy. It explains what you can't make or share here, and how reporting works. Also, don't:

• break the law or violate anyone else's rights;
• try to get around our safety checks, the models' safety filters or our limits;
• use bots, scripts or extra accounts to collect free Sparks, remixes or royalties, or to inflate a Recipe's numbers;
• get into other people's accounts or data, or parts of our systems we don't offer you;
• scrape, copy, reverse-engineer, overload or disrupt Pixie Studio;
• resell access to Pixie Studio or its models without our written permission.

We use automated checks and human review to keep Pixie Studio safe. We may refuse a request, remove content or limit features when something breaks these terms.

AI can get things wrong

AI is powerful and unpredictable. Results can be inaccurate, strange or not what you asked for, and they can look like existing people, brands or works. Pixie, our AI director, can misunderstand you or make mistakes too.

Check results before you rely on them or share them, and don't treat anything Pixie says as professional advice, such as medical, legal or financial advice.

A render that finishes uses its Sparks even if you don't love the result, because the model has done the work. Only failed renders are refunded automatically.

You're responsible for how you use what you make, including labeling realistic AI content where a platform or the law asks you to.

Closing your account

You can stop using Pixie Studio at any time. If you have a plan, cancel it first. To delete your account, reply to any email we've sent you, from the address you sign in with. Deleting your account deletes its Sparks, which have no cash value, so if you're due a refund under the Refund policy, ask before you delete.

We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you break these terms or the Content policy, if the law requires it, or to protect people or Pixie Studio. When it's appropriate, we'll tell you why. If we close your account for breaking the rules, you lose its Sparks and royalties, and we don't refund them unless the law says otherwise.

If we ever shut Pixie Studio down, we'll tell you in advance.

Parts of these terms that are meant to last, like the permissions for published Recipes, the disclaimers and the limits on liability, still apply after your account closes.

Disclaimers

We work hard on Pixie Studio, but we provide it “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond what these terms say, and we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

We don't promise that Pixie Studio will always be available or free of errors, that any particular model or feature will stay, or that results will be accurate, unique or right for your purpose.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Gifter Studios Inc. and its people aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, even if we knew they were possible. Our total liability for all claims about Pixie Studio is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the event that led to the claim.

If someone brings a claim against us because of your content, or because you broke these terms or the law, you'll cover our reasonable costs, including legal fees, as far as the law allows.

Some places don't allow these limits. Where that's so, they apply only as far as the law allows, and nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer that can't be waived.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as Pixie Studio grows. If a change matters, we'll tell you before it takes effect, by email or in the studio. The date at the top shows the current version. If you keep using Pixie Studio after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms; if you don't agree, stop using it and cancel your plan.

The legal bits

• These terms, with the Content policy and Refund policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about Pixie Studio.
• If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don't enforce part of these terms right away, we can still enforce it later.
• You can't transfer these terms to someone else. We can, for example if Pixie Studio is sold or reorganized.
• We aren't responsible for delays or failures caused by things outside our reasonable control, such as outages at AI model providers.

Contact us

Gifter Studios Inc. runs Pixie Studio. Questions about these terms? Reply to any email we've sent you. If something goes wrong, please talk to us first. Most problems can be sorted out with an email.