Terms of use

What this agreement is

These terms are a binding contract between you and the business that operates Doodle Colors ("we", "us", "our"). They cover the Doodle Colors mobile app, the website at doodlecolors.app, and everything we run as part of them, together "the service".

By downloading the app, opening it, or creating an account, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service. If you got the app from the App Store, the Apple section also forms part of your licence.

Who may use Doodle Colors

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• If you are between 13 and the age at which you can agree to online services on your own where you live (that age is between 13 and 16 across the EEA, depending on the country), a parent or guardian has to set up the account, hold it, accept these terms, and supervise how it is used.
• Under 13, no account of your own. A parent or guardian may hold an account and let a younger child color on it. The adult holding the account is responsible for everything done on it.
• You must be able to enter a binding contract, and not be barred from using the service under any law that applies to you.

We may ask you to confirm your age or your authority to accept these terms, and we may suspend an account while we wait for an answer.

Your account

• One account per person, and the password is yours to protect.
• Anything done through your account is treated as done by you, so write to hello@doodlecolors.app as soon as you suspect someone else has access.
• Give us an email address that works and keep it current. Notices we send there count as delivered.
• Signing in with Apple or Google links your account to an identifier from that provider. If you disconnect it, or lose access to it, you may lose access to your account.
• Do not sell, rent, share, or transfer your account to anyone.

Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own private and non-commercial use, for as long as these terms are in force. The app is licensed to you, not sold. Every right we do not expressly grant here stays with us.

What you may not do

• Copy, modify, translate, adapt, or make derivative works of the app or the artwork, other than by coloring the artwork inside the app the way it is meant to be used.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, or try to derive its source code, except where mandatory law expressly allows it and only after you have asked us first.
• Extract, scrape, bulk download, mirror, or republish the line art, the vector files, the thumbnails, or any other part of the catalogue.
• Use the artwork, blank or colored, to train, fine tune, benchmark, or evaluate any machine learning or generative model, or let anyone else do so.
• Sell, sublicense, rent, or otherwise commercialise the artwork or the app.
• Reach the service through anything other than the interfaces we provide, including automated clients, bots, scripts, and modified builds.
• Probe, interfere with, overload, or work around any security measure, rate limit, or access control, or use the service to distribute malware.
• Remove or obscure any notice of ownership.
• Upload anything unlawful, infringing, hateful, sexual, violent, or otherwise unsuitable for a product used by children, or anything you do not hold the rights to.
• Use the service to break any law that applies to you.

Our artwork, our brand

The line art, the illustrations, the vector files, the thumbnails, the page and collection names, the app, the website, the software behind them, the Doodle Colors name, and the logo belong to us or to the people who licensed them to us, and are protected by copyright and trade mark law. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you.

Your coloring, and anything you upload

The colors you choose and the finished pages you make are yours. Keep them, print them, post them, sell them if you like. The one limit: you may not distribute the underlying line art on its own, or in any form that lets someone else color it or reuse it as artwork.

Some things you send us: an avatar picture, a support email, a bug report. That is "your content", and you keep ownership of it. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free licence to store it, copy it, adapt it technically (resizing an avatar, for example), and display it back to you, for the single purpose of running the service. That licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies sitting in backups until those roll off on their normal schedule.

You promise that your content is yours to send, that it infringes nobody's rights, and that it suits a product used by children. We may remove content, or close an account, over a breach of that promise.

Feedback

If you send us an idea, a request, or a suggestion, we may use it freely, with no obligation to you and no payment. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential.

Paid features

Doodle Colors may offer paid features or subscriptions. Where it does:

• Purchases go through the Apple App Store or Google Play, not through us. Those stores process the payment, in most countries act as the seller, and their terms govern the transaction.
• A subscription renews automatically at the price then in force until you cancel it. Cancel it in your Apple or Google account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Refunds are requested from Apple or Google under their policies. We are usually not able to issue them ourselves.
• Prices can change. Where a change affects a renewing subscription, you will be told before it takes effect and can cancel first.
• If you are a consumer in the EEA you have a 14 day right to withdraw from a contract for digital content or services. If you ask for immediate access and acknowledge that you lose the withdrawal right by doing so, that right ends once supply begins.
• We may add, change, or retire paid features and the content inside them.

The service will change

We add pages, retire pages, change how features work, and sometimes remove them altogether. We may set or change limits, for example on uploads or on how often the app may call our servers. We are not obliged to keep any particular page, feature, palette, or collection available.

We may stop running Doodle Colors, at any time

We may suspend, discontinue, or permanently shut down the service, the app, the website, any part of them, or the whole project, at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without notice to you.

If we do that:

• your licence and your account end at the same moment;
• we are under no obligation to keep anything running, to provide a replacement, to hand over artwork or software, or to keep your data reachable;
• we may delete every account, all coloring progress, favorites, palettes, uploads, and anything else we hold, with no obligation to return, export, or preserve any of it;
• we are not liable to you for the shutdown or for anything that follows from it, including lost coloring, lost data, lost time, or lost money.

So export what you care about while the app still runs. Save finished prints to your photo library as you go, because that copy is yours and it lives on your device.

Two limits we do not try to contract our way out of:

• If you are a consumer in the EEA and you have paid for a subscription period that has not run out when we shut down, we will refund the unused part of it, or arrange for the store to do so.
• Nothing in this section removes any right that consumer law gives you and does not let us exclude.

Suspending or closing your account

We may suspend or close your account, and remove content, if you break these terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud, abuse, or a security risk, if the law requires it, or if the account has sat unused for more than 24 months. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right. Serious cases, and anything putting other people or the service at risk, we act on immediately.

You can close your account at any time by writing to hello@doodlecolors.app from the address on the account. The privacy policy explains what then happens to the data.

The sections that should outlive the agreement do: Our artwork and our brand, Your coloring and anything you upload, Feedback, the shutdown section, the warranty section, Our liability, You cover us, Reporting content, Governing law, and Odds and ends.

The app is provided as it is

We work hard on this, and we still cannot promise you:

• that the service is available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, or free of errors;
• that no hairline gap in an outline ever lets a fill leak, that vectorisation is perfect, or that any particular defect will be fixed;
• that data is never lost, because no backup regime is perfect;
• that the app runs on every device, operating system version, or configuration.

Our liability

We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for intent or gross negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that the applicable law does not permit us to limit.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows:

• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill, lost time, or lost or corrupted data, however it arises;
• our total liability for all claims connected with the service, taken together, is limited to the greater of (a) what you actually paid for the service in the 12 months before the event behind the claim, and (b) EUR 50.

This applies however a claim is framed, in contract, in tort, under statute, or otherwise, and even if we had been warned the loss was possible.

You cover us

If someone brings a claim against us because of how you used the service, because of content you sent us, or because you broke these terms or the law, you will defend us and cover the reasonable costs, damages, and legal fees that result. We will tell you about the claim, let you run the defence, and may take part with our own lawyers. If you are a consumer, this applies only as far as the law allows, and only to claims caused by your own deliberate or negligent conduct.

Other people's services

Apple, Google, the app stores, our hosting and storage providers, and any payment or subscription service are separate companies with their own terms and their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for what they do. You have to comply with their terms when you use the app, including the App Store terms of service and the Google Play terms of service.

If you got the app from the Apple App Store

The following applies to you, and Apple requires it. In this section "Application" means the Doodle Colors app.

• This agreement is concluded between you and us only, not with Apple. We alone are responsible for the Application and its content.
• Your licence is a non-transferable licence to use the Application on any Apple-branded product that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, including through Family Sharing or volume purchasing where those apply.
• We alone are responsible for maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services for the Application.
• We alone are responsible for any product warranties, express or implied, that are not effectively disclaimed. If the Application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the Application to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Application.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or any third party relating to the Application or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the Application fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
• We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any claim that the Application or your possession and use of it infringes a third party's intellectual property rights.
• You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo, or designated by the United States government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Questions, complaints, and claims about the Application go to hello@doodlecolors.app, and we answer them.
• You must comply with any applicable third party terms of agreement when using the Application.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of this agreement, and upon your acceptance of it Apple will have the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce this agreement against you as a third party beneficiary.

If you got the app from Google Play

Google is not a party to these terms and is not responsible for the app. Purchases made through Google Play are subject to the Google Play terms of service, and you have to comply with the applicable Google terms when you use the app.

Export controls and sanctions

You confirm that you are not located in, or a national or resident of, a country subject to an embargo by the United States government or designated by it as a "terrorist supporting" country, that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties, and that you are not a target of European Union or United Nations sanctions. You may not use or export the app in breach of any applicable export control law.

Reporting content, or an intellectual property complaint

Write to hello@doodlecolors.app and include what you found and where, which right you say has been infringed, enough detail for us to locate it, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and a statement that your information is accurate and that you are entitled to act. We read everything that arrives, and we remove content or close accounts where that is justified. We may pass your complaint on to whoever uploaded the content.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When a change matters, we will say so before it takes effect, in the app or by email, and we will move the date at the top of this page. Carrying on with the service after that means you accept the new version. If you do not accept it, stop using the service and close your account. Where the law requires your active agreement, we will ask for it instead.

Governing law and where disputes go

• These terms, and any dispute arising from them, are governed by the law of the country where we are established, leaving aside its conflict of law rules.
• If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you live in. Nothing here takes that away.
• Disputes belong to the courts with jurisdiction where we are established, and unless mandatory law points elsewhere, that is where we will bring or defend a claim. As a consumer you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your own country.
• We do not currently recognise any out of court provider as competent to resolve a consumer dispute.
• Before any of that, please write to us. Nearly everything is settled by email in a day or two.

Odds and ends

• If a provision turns out to be unenforceable, it is cut back to what is enforceable, or removed, and everything else stays in force.
• These terms, the privacy policy, and the store terms that apply to your download are the whole agreement between us about the service.
• Not enforcing something once does not mean we give up the right to enforce it.
• We may transfer this agreement to another company, for example if the business is sold, merged, or restructured. You may not transfer it without our written consent.
• Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something outside reasonable control, such as an outage at a provider, a network failure, a natural event, or an act of government.
• We send notices to the email on your account, or show them in the app. You reach us at hello@doodlecolors.app.
• These terms are written in English. Any translation is for convenience, and the English version governs unless mandatory law says otherwise.

Contact

Anything at all goes to hello@doodlecolors.app, and a human reads it.