Terms of Service

1. Introduction

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("you", "your") and Curio Design ("Curio", "we", "our", or "us") and govern your access to and use of the website at designbycurio.com and any related applications, application programming interfaces ("API"), command-line tools, and integrations (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, accessing the Service, or otherwise indicating acceptance, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

2. Definitions

"Account": The user record associated with your email address, the sign-in methods you have used, your profile, your Credit balance, and the Design Packages you have unlocked.
"Design Package": A bundle published by Curio containing design tokens, sample renderings, documentation, and machine-readable specifications for a single design style.
"Credit": A prepaid unit bought in a Credit Pack. Spending one Credit unlocks one Design Package for your Account (see Section 5).
"Credit Pack": A one-time purchase of a fixed number of Credits, as listed on the Pricing page.
"Unlock": Spending a Credit on a Design Package, after which that Design Package stays available to your Account without further Credits.

3. Account & access

3.1 Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years of age, or the minimum digital-consent age in your jurisdiction (whichever is higher), to register an Account. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement.

3.2 Authentication

You may register and sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address, or with GitHub or Google. Signing in with any of these methods using the same verified email address gives access to the same Account.

3.3 Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of, and access to, the email address or third-party authentication account associated with your Account. You must notify us promptly at [email protected] of any suspected unauthorized access.

3.4 One Account per person

Each Account is for the use of a single individual. You may not share Account credentials, transfer the Account, or use the Account to provide third parties with access to the Service.

4. The Service

The Service is a library of Design Packages curated and produced by Curio. Design Packages are designed to be consumed by AI agents and human users to apply visual styles to slides, websites, products, and other creative output.

We may add, modify, or retire Design Packages from time to time. Retiring a Design Package removes it from the gallery; if you have unlocked it, it remains available to your Account and you can continue to download it.

5. Credits & unlocking

5.1 Credit Packs

Credits are sold in Credit Packs listed on the Pricing page. Each Credit Pack is a single one-time payment: nothing renews and nothing is charged later. Credits do not expire.

5.2 Unlocking

Spending one (1) Credit unlocks one Design Package for your Account permanently. After a Design Package is unlocked, downloading its specification, generating share links for it, and retrieving it through the API, the MCP server, or command-line tools do not consume further Credits. Browsing, searching, and viewing previews never consume Credits.

5.3 Nature of Credits

Credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred between Accounts, and cannot be exchanged for money except as a refund under Section 6.

6. Payment & refunds

6.1 Merchant of record

Credit Packs are sold through Dodo Payments, which acts as our reseller and merchant of record: it processes your payment, issues your receipt, and handles any sales tax that applies. Your purchase is also subject to Dodo Payments' own terms and policies.

6.2 Prices, currencies and payment methods

Prices are shown on the Pricing page and at checkout. Card and WeChat Pay payments are charged in US dollars on the English site and in Chinese yuan on the Chinese site. Alipay payments are made through Alipay Hong Kong (AlipayHK) and charged in Hong Kong dollars: HK$32, HK$152 and HK$708 for the 10-, 100- and 1,000-Credit packs.

6.3 Taxes

Any sales tax, value-added tax, goods-and-services tax, or similar charge that applies to your purchase is calculated at checkout and collected by Dodo Payments.

6.4 Refunds

You may request a full refund of a Credit Pack within fourteen (14) days of purchase, provided that none of its Credits have been spent. Once any Credit from a Credit Pack has been spent, that Credit Pack is non-refundable, except where applicable law requires otherwise. To request a refund, email [email protected] from the email address of your Account. Any partial refund we agree to is handled manually.

6.5 Refunds, reversals and negative balances

If a payment is refunded, reversed, or charged back, all Credits from that Credit Pack are removed from your Account, including any that have already been spent, so your balance may become negative. While your balance is negative, downloads, share links, and retrieval through the MCP server are paused and you cannot delete your Account; they resume once your balance is no longer negative. Your unlock records are not removed.

6.6 Right of withdrawal (EU/UK consumers)

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have a statutory right to withdraw from the purchase of a Credit Pack within fourteen (14) days without giving a reason. To exercise this right, send a written request to [email protected] within the 14-day period.

By spending a Credit you ask us to supply digital content immediately, and you acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal for that Credit Pack once a Credit from it has been spent. If no Credit from the Credit Pack has been spent, we will refund the full price within fourteen (14) days of receiving your request.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:

scrape, copy, or systematically retrieve content from the Service in a manner designed to circumvent the Credit system;
resell, sublicense, or redistribute any Design Package as a standalone product or as a substantial component of a competing offering;
attempt to bypass paywalls, tamper with Credit balances or unlock records, or share Credits or unlocked Design Packages between Accounts;
reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or training data of the Service except to the extent expressly permitted by law;
use the Service to train an artificial intelligence model intended to replicate or substitute for the Service;
use the Service for unlawful, abusive, defamatory, infringing, or otherwise harmful purposes.

We may suspend or terminate Accounts that violate this Section 7 with or without prior notice.

8. Intellectual property

8.1 Curio content; license to you

The Service, all Design Packages, and all related text, code, documentation, and visual material (the "Curio Content") are owned by Curio or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Curio grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to apply Design Packages you have unlocked to your own slides, websites, products, and other creative work, including for commercial purposes. No other rights are granted by implication.

8.2 References to third-party brands and movements

Certain Design Packages reference well-known design movements, historical periods, and named brands (for example, "Memphis 1981", "Stripe 2024", or "Bauhaus Weimar") for educational and descriptive purposes. Such references identify the source of inspiration only. Curio is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of the brands, designers, or estates referenced. We do not redistribute proprietary assets of those third parties; Curio Content represents our own re-interpretation of publicly documented design vocabularies.

8.3 Feedback

If you submit suggestions, requests, or other feedback to us, you grant Curio a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, and incorporate such feedback into the Service. We will not publish identifiable feedback content without your consent.

9. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service and Curio Content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. Curio does not warrant that any Design Package will be suitable for your specific project or that AI-generated output incorporating Curio Content will meet your expectations.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Curio shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Service, whether based on contract, tort, statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not Curio was advised of the possibility of such damages.

Curio's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, regardless of cause of action, shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid to Curio for the Service during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty United States dollars (USD 50).

Nothing in this Section limits or excludes liability for: (i) death or personal injury caused by Curio's negligence; (ii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (iii) any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable consumer-protection law in your place of habitual residence.

11. Term & termination

11.1 Term

These Terms take effect when you first access the Service and remain in effect until terminated as set out below.

11.2 Termination by you

You may stop using the Service at any time. You can delete your Account yourself from Account settings. Deletion removes your Account, Credit balance, unlock records, usage records, sessions, and profile image, and revokes every connection you have authorized over MCP; unspent Credits are forfeited (for refunds, see Section 6.4). You cannot delete your Account while its Credit balance is negative. Payment records are kept, no longer linked to you, for accounting, refund, and tax purposes. You may also request deletion by writing to [email protected] from the email address of your Account.

11.3 Termination by Curio

We may suspend or terminate your Account, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if a payment is charged back or reversed, or if continued provision of the Service would expose Curio or other users to material risk. Where feasible we will provide reasonable advance notice.

11.4 Effect of termination

Upon termination, your right to access the Service ceases. Sections 8 (Intellectual property), 9 (Disclaimers), 10 (Limitation of liability), 13 (Governing law), 14 (Miscellaneous), and 15 (Copyright complaints) survive termination.

12. Modifications

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this document and notify registered users by email at least seven (7) days before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13. Governing law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which Curio is established, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. To the extent permitted by law, you agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in that jurisdiction. This Section does not deprive consumers of the protections afforded by the mandatory laws of their place of habitual residence.

14. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Curio regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements or understandings.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.

No waiver. Curio's failure to enforce any right under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of that right.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, provided that the assignee agrees to be bound by these Terms.

15. Copyright complaints (DMCA / equivalent)

Curio respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any Design Package or other Curio Content infringes a copyright you own or control, send a written notice to [email protected] containing:

identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed;
identification of the specific Design Package or page URL claimed to infringe;
your contact information (name, email, postal address, telephone);
a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner; and
your physical or electronic signature.

Upon receipt of a valid notice we will, where appropriate, remove or disable access to the material identified, notify the affected user (if any), and consider any counter-notice submitted under the same procedure. We will terminate the Accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Misrepresentations in a notice or counter-notice may give rise to liability under applicable law.

16. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact us at [email protected]. For information on how we handle your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.