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, authentication provider, profile, and subscription state.

"Design Package"

A bundle published by Curio containing design tokens, sample renderings, documentation, and machine-readable specifications for a single design style.

"Credit"

A unit of consumption charged against your plan when you perform a metered action (see Section 5.2).

"Subscription"

A recurring fee arrangement between you and Curio that grants access to a specified Plan during a Billing Period.

"Billing Period"

The monthly or yearly interval covered by a single Subscription payment.

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 via email magic link, GitHub, or Google. Each email address may be bound to one and only one authentication method. Attempts to access an Account through a method other than the one originally used will be rejected. This restriction exists to limit account takeover risk.

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. Where retirement would materially affect paying Subscribers, we will provide at least 30 days' notice before the affected Package becomes unavailable to existing Subscribers.

5. Plans & credits

5.1 Plan tiers

The Service is offered under three plan tiers:

• Free — gallery browsing and access to designated free Design Packages, subject to a lifetime allowance of 5 Credits.
• Pro — access to the full library, subject to a rolling 7-day allowance of 25 Credits.
• Max — full library access with a rolling 7-day allowance of 200 Credits, plus the right to submit design feedback through the dedicated Max feedback channel.

For paid tiers, the 7-day allowance is calculated on a sliding basis: each consumed Credit becomes available again 7 days after consumption, rather than resetting on a fixed calendar day.

5.2 Metered actions

The following actions consume one (1) Credit per occurrence: (a) generating a share link for a Design Package, (b) downloading a token bundle, and (c) invoking a Design Package through the API or command-line tools. Browsing, viewing, and reading on-page content does not consume Credits.

6. Fees & billing

6.1 Payment processor

Paid Subscriptions are billed through PayPal. By subscribing, you authorize PayPal to charge your selected funding source for the applicable Subscription fees on each renewal date. Your use of PayPal is also governed by PayPal's own user agreement and buyer/seller policies, available at paypal.com.

6.2 Upgrades

If you upgrade your Plan mid-cycle (for example, from Pro to Max, or from a monthly to an annual cycle), the prior Plan is cancelled at PayPal and will not renew. A fresh Subscription at the new Plan is charged in full at the start of a new Billing Period. No refund is issued for the unused portion of the prior Plan; your access on the prior Plan continues alongside the new Plan through the original Billing Period end.

Plan changes are monotonic: you may move to a Plan with higher usage volume or a longer billing cycle, but you may not downgrade to a lower tier or a shorter billing cycle within an active Subscription. To move to a lower tier or to Free, cancel the Subscription and allow the Billing Period to expire, then re-subscribe at the desired tier.

6.3 Cancellation

You may cancel your Subscription at any time from the Billing page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current Billing Period; no refund is issued for the remaining portion of that period. Upon expiry your Account reverts to the Free tier.

6.4 Failed renewal

If a renewal payment fails, your Subscription enters a short retry window during which PayPal attempts to charge your funding source again according to its standard retry schedule. Your Account continues to have paid-tier access throughout the retry window. If all retries fail, your Subscription terminates and your Account reverts to the Free tier. To regain access during or after the retry window, you may update your funding source with PayPal or initiate a new Subscription from the Pricing page.

6.5 No downgrade during active cycle

You may not downgrade an active paid Subscription to the Free tier, to a lower tier, or to a shorter billing cycle within the current Billing Period. To move to Free or to a lower tier, cancel the Subscription and allow the Billing Period to expire, then re-subscribe at the desired tier if applicable.

6.6 Taxes

Subscription fees are exclusive of taxes. You are responsible for any value-added tax, goods-and-services tax, sales tax, or similar charges payable in your jurisdiction in connection with your Subscription.

6.7 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 a paid Subscription within fourteen (14) days of purchase without giving a reason. To exercise this right, send a written request to [email protected] within the 14-day period.

If you have requested that we begin providing the Service immediately (for example, by consuming any Credit during the 14-day window), you acknowledge that the Service constitutes digital content supplied immediately at your express request, that you lose your right of withdrawal once delivery begins, and that any Credits you have consumed before withdrawal are non-refundable. Where you have not consumed any Credit, the unused portion of the Subscription fee will be refunded within fourteen (14) days of receipt of the withdrawal 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, falsify Subscription state, or share Subscription entitlements 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 and payment of applicable Subscription fees, Curio grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to apply Design Packages you legitimately access 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 through the Service (including via the Max feedback channel), 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. To delete your Account and the personal data associated with it, send a request from your registered email address to [email protected]. We process deletion requests manually within thirty (30) days. Records required to be retained for legal, accounting, or fraud-prevention purposes may be kept for the period required by applicable law.

11.3 Termination by Curio

We may suspend or terminate your Account, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if your Subscription remains unpaid, 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 active Subscribers 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.