Terms of Service

1. These terms, and the other three

By using postermu.com you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it.

Three companion documents form part of this agreement and are worth reading in their own right: Non-commercial use & data sources (what you may do with a poster, and the licence terms of every API behind it), Privacy (what we store), and Refunds (what happens to your money). Where the non-commercial rules and these terms overlap, the non-commercial rules win — they're the ones you actively accepted.

2. Who you're contracting with

Noah Arons, trading as PosterMu. Alberta, Canada

Contact details are on the contact page.

3. Your account

• You must be at least 13 years old. If you're under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission.
• Give accurate information and keep your email address current — it's how we reach you about purchases and security.
• Your account is yours. Don't share it, don't sell it, and don't use anyone else's.
• Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase, so the security of your Google or email account is part of the security of this one.
• Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access. You can revoke every existing session yourself from Account settings.

4. What you're allowed to do with PosterMu

While your account is in good standing we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use PosterMu and to make posters with it, subject to these terms and to the non-commercial rules.

You may not resell, sublicense, rent out or white-label access to the service, scrape it, or use it to build a competing product.

5. Posters you make

The poster file you download is yours to keep, print and hang. What you may not do is sell it, or use it commercially, because the album art, key art, stills, lyrics, logos and statistics inside it belong to their rights holders and no plan you buy here licenses them.

That is the whole point of the non-commercial rule you accept before your first fetch, and it survives the end of this agreement. Full detail — including every provider's own terms — is at Non-commercial use & data sources.

6. Designs you upload

If you publish a template to the community gallery, this is what happens to it and what you're promising us:

• You keep ownership. Publishing doesn't transfer any rights in your design.
• You grant us a licence — worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free — to store, display, promote and use your design so that people can make posters with it, and to show previews of it on the site. That licence lasts as long as the design is published, plus a short period for caches and backups to clear.
• Your source file is never distributed. The PSD you upload is used to render posters and previews; there is no route on this site that hands it to anyone else.
• You promise it's yours to publish — that you made it or have the rights to it, and that it doesn't infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights.
• Designs are reviewed before going live, and we may decline, unpublish or remove one at any time — including on a rights holder's complaint.
• There's no payment for uploads at the moment. Publishing is voluntary and unpaid. If we ever introduce a creator payout, it will come with its own terms and won't apply retroactively without your agreement.

7. Things you must not do

• Break the law, or use PosterMu to infringe someone else's rights.
• Upload malware, or anything obscene, hateful, harassing or sexualising minors.
• Attack or overload the service — scraping, brute force, denial of service, or automated bulk requests outside what the site's own interface does.
• Try to get around paywalls, usage limits, watermarks or access controls, or help anyone else do so.
• Reverse engineer the service except where the law expressly permits it.
• Misuse other people's API keys, or use ours in ways the provider forbids.
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your connection to a person or organisation.

8. Paying

• Prices are shown on the pricing page, in the currency stated there, and exclude any taxes that may apply where you live.
• Payment is processed by Stripe. Your card details go to them, never to us.
• Credits don't expire while your account is open. A subscription's monthly allowance resets each calendar month and doesn't roll over.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time from Account → Billing; access continues to the end of the period you've paid for.
• We may change prices, and will give notice before a renewal at a new price. Refunds are covered by the refund policy.

9. The service will change, and sometimes break

PosterMu is actively developed and depends on third-party APIs we don't control. Designs, features and media types may be added, changed or withdrawn — sometimes because a provider changed or withdrew theirs.

We don't promise any particular uptime. We may take the site down for maintenance, and we'll try to make that brief. If we discontinue the service entirely, we'll give reasonable notice and a fair way to deal with unused paid access.

10. Suspension and termination

You can stop at any time: cancel your subscription, or delete your account outright from Account settings.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, uses the service unlawfully, charges back a legitimate payment, or puts the service or other users at risk. Where it's reasonable to do so we'll warn you first and give you a chance to put it right.

If we close your account for a serious breach, unused credits and remaining subscription time are forfeited. If we close it for any other reason, or discontinue the service, we'll refund unused paid access on a fair basis. Sections 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 and 14 survive the end of this agreement.

11. No warranties

PosterMu is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties — merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement.

In particular we don't warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that a poster will be free of defects or suitable for any particular print process, or that data fetched from a third-party API will be accurate, complete or current. Check a proof before you spend money printing anything.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost data, or the cost of printing — including where a poster was printed using inaccurate data from a third-party source.

Our total liability arising out of or relating to the service, in any 12-month period, is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and CAD $50.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your rights as a consumer under the law where you live.

13. Indemnity

If someone brings a claim against us because of how you used PosterMu — a design you published, content you uploaded, a commercial use of a poster, or a breach of these terms — you agree to cover the reasonable costs and damages that result. We'll tell you promptly about any such claim and won't settle it without talking to you.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta, Canada, and the courts there have jurisdiction.

If you're a consumer somewhere else, this doesn't take away the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your own country, or your right to bring a claim there.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is material we'll give notice on the site before it takes effect, and the version date below will change. Continuing to use PosterMu after that means you accept the new version. If you don't, stop using the service and — if you've paid for access you no longer want under the new terms — contact us.

16. Odds and ends

• If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• Not enforcing something once doesn't waive our right to enforce it later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the service is sold or reorganised, without reducing your rights.
• These terms and the three documents named in section 1 are the whole agreement between us about the service.
• Questions about any of it: contact us.