The rules - short, signed, and on your side.

01These terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are the agreement between you and Texel ("we", "us", "our") for the use of the Texel website, app, APIs, and any related services we offer (together, the "Service"). By signing in, joining the waitlist, uploading content, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

If you're using Texel on behalf of a studio, team, or company, you confirm you have authority to bind them to these Terms, and "you" means both you and the organisation.

02Who can use Texel

You can use Texel if you are at least 13 years old (16 in the EU/UK) and able to enter into a binding contract where you live. If your studio signs you up, your studio must be a real legal entity. We may decline to offer the Service in jurisdictions where we can't legally operate.

03Your account

You're responsible for what happens under your account: keeping your sign‑in credentials safe, only sharing project access with people you trust, and telling us if you think your account has been compromised at security@texel.art.

Sign‑in is handled by our identity provider (WorkOS). Your studio admin may add per‑project, per‑node, or per‑channel permissions; respect them.

04Your work, your rights

You keep all rights to anything you create in Texel. That includes the meshes you upload, the textures you paint, the masks and brushes you build, the procedural node graphs you wire, the comments you write, and the exports you ship to your engine or DCC of choice. We don't claim ownership of any of it.

We won't use your work as our portfolio, our reference, our marketing material, or anyone's training set. If we ever want to feature something you made - for a case study, a launch post, or a screenshot on this site - we'll ask you first, in writing.

05What you let us do

For the Service to work, you give us a narrow, boring, technical licence to host, store, transmit, copy, and display your project content only as needed to run Texel for you and your collaborators.This means things like:

• Storing your files in our object storage (R2).
• Streaming your strokes between collaborators in real time.
• Backing up project state so you don't lose it.
• Rendering exports (channel‑packed maps, USD/Unreal/Unity formats).
• Showing your work back to you across devices.

That licence is non‑exclusive, royalty‑free, worldwide, and lasts only as long as we need to provide the Service. It ends when you delete your content, delete your account, or stop using Texel - whichever comes first.

You confirm that you have the rights to anything you upload (meshes you own or have a licence to, textures you have permission to use, etc.) and that uploading it to Texel doesn't break anyone else's rights.

06AI training, models & crawlers

This is non‑negotiable, and we are stating it as a contract term, not marketing copy.

Using AI features inside Texel

Texel ships AI nodes (mask‑aware fill, upscale, normal extraction, edge wear, semantic operators). When you choose to use one:

• Lighter nodes run on your GPU in your browser. Your inputs do not leave your machine.
• Heavier nodes run inside our infrastructure in the region you pick. Inputs are processed only to return the result and to keep your project's history reversible. They are not retained for training.
• Inputs and outputs are not used to train any model - ours, our model providers', or any third party's.
• Optional, clearly‑labelled integrations with external providers (e.g. a hosted model you point at) are opt‑in per node. Read their terms before you flip the switch.
• Every AI node keeps its source mask, parameters, and seed on the graph - so you (and your studio) can audit what was made by whom.

Outputs you produce with Texel

Outputs from Texel - whether painted by hand or assisted by an AI node - belong to you, subject to the licences of any third‑party content you brought in (your reference photos, scanned materials, etc.). We make no copyright claim on Texel outputs.

07Acceptable use

While using Texel, please don't:

• Upload or paint content that is illegal where you are, where we are, or where the work is being made (CSAM, terror content, doxxing, targeted harassment, etc.).
• Upload content you don't have the rights to use, or anything that infringes someone else's IP, trademark, or right of publicity.
• Use Texel to generate or distribute non‑consensual intimate imagery or to impersonate a real person to harm them.
• Try to reverse engineer, scrape, or rate‑limit‑abuse the Service in a way that affects other users.
• Use Texel as a relay to attack other systems, mine cryptocurrency, or ship malware.
• Build a competing AI training dataset out of Texel itself, or use Texel to launder scraped content into "your" training set.

We reserve the right to remove content or suspend accounts that violate this section, especially where there's a risk to other users.

08Third‑party services

Texel integrates with a small set of vendors to function - Cloudflare (hosting, R2, Durable Objects), WorkOS (sign‑in), Loops (email), Stripe (billing). When you use those parts of Texel, their respective terms also apply to that piece. We pick vendors that align with the promises on this page and we list them on our Privacy page.

Texel may also let you link out to other services (your render engine, your DCC, your asset library). What you do there is governed by their terms, not ours.

09Early Access & changes

Texel is currently in Early Access. That means:

• We're shipping fast and listening. Features arrive, change, and occasionally retire.
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs) don't apply during Early Access. We do our best to keep things up - and we'll tell you if something breaks your project.
• We may rate‑limit usage or restrict access to certain regions while we ramp.

We won't quietly downgrade the data and AI promises on this page. If we ever do something that materially changes them, we'll tell you and give you a way out.

10Pricing & billing

Early Access is invite‑only and currently free for the people we let in. When paid plans launch:

• Prices, limits, and features will be listed on the website before they go live.
• Subscriptions are billed in advance via Stripe. You can cancel at any time; we don't pro‑rate refunds for partial months unless we have to under your local consumer law.
• Taxes are added on top where required.
• If a payment fails, we may suspend access until it's resolved. Your project content is not deleted - you can come back and pick it up.

11Suspension & termination

You can stop using Texel and delete your account at any time. If you delete your account, your content is removed from active storage and backups roll off within 30 days, unless we have to keep something for a legal reason.

We may suspend or terminate access if you materially break these Terms - particularly the Acceptable Use and AI sections - or if we have to for legal/security reasons. Where we can, we'll give you notice and a chance to fix it. If we have to terminate immediately, we'll explain why.

On termination, the licences you gave us to host your content end. The promises about not training on your work and not handing it to AI scrapers do not end; they survive forever.

12Warranty disclaimer

Texel is provided "as is" and "as available". We don't promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error‑free, or fit for a particular project deadline. Real‑time collaboration, AI nodes, and exports all depend on services we don't fully control (browsers, GPUs, networks).

To the maximum extent allowed by law, we disclaim all implied warranties - merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non‑infringement - for the Service. Some places don't allow that, so this section applies only as far as your local law lets it.

13Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent allowed by law:

• We're not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost reputation, or production delays.
• Our total liability for any claim related to the Service is capped at the greater of (a) what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) US$100.

Nothing in this section limits liability that can't legally be limited - for example, gross negligence, fraud, or willful misconduct.

14Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify us against claims that arise out of (a) content you upload that you didn't have the rights to, (b) your misuse of the Service, or (c) your breach of these Terms. We'll tell you about any such claim promptly and let you control the defence with counsel of your choice, as long as you don't settle in a way that affects us without our consent.

15Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of England & Wales, without regard to conflict‑of‑laws rules. You and we agree to bring any dispute exclusively in the courts of England & Wales, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any competent court to stop IP misuse, scraping, or unauthorised AI training.

Nothing in this section overrides mandatory consumer protection rights you have where you live.

16Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material - especially anything in the AI section - we will:

• Update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
• Post a clear note in the app.
• Email everyone with an account.

If you keep using the Service after the change, the new Terms apply. If you disagree, you can stop and delete your account.

17Contact

Legal questions: legal@texel.art.

Privacy questions: privacy@texel.art.

Security reports: security@texel.art.

Everything else: hello@texel.art.