Terms of Service

1. Who We Are

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of QuickComic ("we," "us," "our"), an online comic book generation platform (the "Service"). We are based in Italy. By using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Contact: mf.matozza@gmail.com

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account and use the Service. The Service is designed for parents and adult guardians who want to create personalized comics, including comics about children in their care. By using the Service, you confirm you have the legal right to upload any photo, name, likeness, or story you submit.

3. Your Account

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity that happens under your account. Notify us immediately at mf.matozza@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorized access. You may close your account at any time; doing so will delete your data as described in our Privacy Policy.

4. How the Service Works

You provide a story (typed or recorded) and optionally photos and a style. We use AI models to generate a comic book based on your input. Generation is automated and may take a few minutes. The output depends on your input and the AI model's behavior; results vary and are not guaranteed to match expectations exactly.

5. Purchases, Pricing, and Refunds

Some features require payment. Prices are shown at checkout and may change at any time, but the price you see at the moment of purchase is the price you pay. Payments are processed by Polar. By purchasing, you authorize the charge for the displayed amount.

Digital content waiver: Because comics are generated and delivered to you immediately as digital content, you expressly request immediate performance and acknowledge that you lose the EU right of withdrawal once generation begins (Article 16(m) of the EU Consumer Rights Directive).

Refunds: If a comic fails to generate due to a technical issue on our side, we will either re-run the generation at no extra cost or refund the purchase. For other refund requests, contact us at mf.matozza@gmail.com and we will review them in good faith.

6. Your Content

You keep ownership of the stories, photos, and other materials you upload ("Your Content"). You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, and transmit Your Content solely so we can provide the Service to you (for example, sending your story and photos to AI providers to generate your comic).

We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and our AI providers are contractually prohibited from doing so. Photos are deleted automatically after generation; voice recordings are deleted immediately after transcription. See the Privacy Policy for details.

You represent that you have the rights and any necessary consents (including from other parents or guardians where applicable) to upload Your Content and to have a comic generated from it.

7. Generated Comics

Subject to your payment of any applicable fees, you own the comics generated from Your Content for personal, non-commercial use. You may print them, share them with family and friends, and keep them in your library. You may not resell generated comics, use them for commercial advertising, or claim them as fully human-authored work where attribution matters (for example, in contests or publications that prohibit AI-generated submissions).

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Upload photos of children without the consent of their parent or legal guardian.
• Generate content that sexualizes minors, depicts real people in sexual or violent situations without consent, or is otherwise illegal.
• Generate hateful, harassing, or violent content targeting individuals or protected groups.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone.
• Attempt to bypass safety filters, reverse engineer the Service, scrape it, or overload it.
• Use the Service in ways that violate any applicable law.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules and remove content that we reasonably believe is unlawful or abusive.

9. Intellectual Property

The Service itself — including the QuickComic name, logo, website, software, and design — is owned by us and protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a personal, limited, non-transferable license to use the Service in accordance with these Terms. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of the Service to you.

10. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third parties such as Google Gemini (AI generation), Polar (payments), Supabase (data storage), Cloudflare (hosting), and Google (sign-in). Their own terms and privacy policies apply to their services. We are not responsible for outages or issues caused by third-party providers, but we will work in good faith to resolve them.

11. Service Availability

We aim to keep the Service available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue parts of the Service at any time. We will give reasonable notice before making material changes that meaningfully affect paying users.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that AI-generated output will be accurate, appropriate, or free of unexpected results.

Nothing in these Terms limits any non-waivable consumer rights you may have under the laws of your country, including under EU and Italian consumer protection law.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty euros (€50). We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any third-party claim arising out of (a) Your Content, (b) your violation of these Terms, or (c) your misuse of the Service.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or use the Service in a way that causes harm. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (such as ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and dispute resolution) will continue to apply.

16. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Italy, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be handled by the competent courts of Italy, except that consumers may also bring claims in the courts of their country of residence where required by mandatory local law.

EU consumers may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through the Service before the changes take effect. The "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms tells you when they were last revised. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email us at mf.matozza@gmail.com.