Terms of Service

1. The Service

Photanora is an online image editor. Most editing happens inside your browser: the pixels you paint, the selections you make and the filters you apply are computed on your own device.

Some information does reach our servers so that your work can be restored later. This includes your canvas settings, the layer and document data your canvases are made of, and any files you upload or export. What we store and for how long is described in the Privacy Policy.

The Service is offered free of charge and is under active development. Features may change, be added or be withdrawn at any time.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for consenting to online services. If you are younger, you may only use the Service with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms for that organisation.

3. Your content

You keep every right you already have in the images, documents and other material you bring to the Service ("Your Content"). We claim no ownership of it.

To run the Service we need a narrow permission: you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, transmit and process Your Content strictly for the purpose of operating the Service for you — for example, to save a canvas, generate a preview thumbnail, or produce a file you asked us to export. This licence exists only so the Service can function, ends when the content is deleted, and does not permit us to publish Your Content, show it to other users, sell it, or use it to train machine learning models.

You are responsible for Your Content. You confirm that you hold the rights necessary to upload and edit it, and that doing so does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to create, upload, store or distribute material that is unlawful; that infringes copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights; that depicts the sexual abuse or exploitation of minors; that promotes violence or hatred against people because of who they are; or that contains malware.

You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service or to other users’ data, probe or overload our infrastructure, circumvent limits, scrape the Service by automated means, or resell access to it.

You may not copy, decompile or reverse engineer the software behind the Service, or use it to build a competing product. The software is proprietary and is licensed to nobody by default.

5. Reporting infringement or abuse

If you believe content processed through the Service infringes your rights or otherwise breaks these terms, write to [email protected]. Tell us what the material is, where it is, what right you hold, and how to reach you. We remove or disable material that we determine, in good faith, to be infringing or unlawful.

6. Availability and your own backups

The Service is provided on an "as available" basis. We do not promise any level of uptime, and we may suspend or discontinue it, in whole or in part, at any time.

Photanora is an editing tool, not a backup service. Do not rely on it as the only copy of anything you care about. Export and keep your own copies of important work.

7. Our intellectual property

The Service, its software, source code, design, user interface, and the Photanora name and logo belong to Photanora and are protected by copyright and trademark law. Nothing in these terms transfers any of those rights to you.

You are granted a personal, revocable, non-transferable permission to use the Service as it is offered, and nothing more.

8. Third-party services

With your consent we use Google Analytics to understand how the Service is used. If you decline analytics, it is not loaded at all. See the Privacy Policy for details and for how to change your mind.

9. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your canvases from within the editor.

We may suspend or terminate access if you break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use threatens the security or availability of the Service. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why.

10. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any data stored through it will be preserved.

11. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, for anything covered by a guarantee we have given, and under the German Product Liability Act.

For simple negligence we are liable only where we breach an essential contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of this agreement possible in the first place, and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical of an agreement of this kind.

Any liability beyond that is excluded. Your mandatory statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.

12. Indemnity

If you are using the Service other than as a consumer, you agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from Your Content or from your breach of these terms.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top of this page, and for significant changes we will give notice in the Service before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated terms.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer resident in another member state of the European Union, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings there.

We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. Our full provider details are set out in the Impressum.