Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 24 October 2026

1. About these Terms

Welcome to Cloudy Button (the "Service"), a community for creating, showcasing, and celebrating original characters and the fan-art, stories, and collaborative artwork they inspire. The Service is operated by the founder of the Cloudy Button project ("we", "us", "our"), who can be contacted at info@cloudy-button.com.

These Terms & Conditions (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the Service, including the website, its messaging and comment features, shared canvas rooms, notifications, and the community rules area. By creating an account, posting content, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

These Terms work together with:

the Community Rules, AI Policy, and Copyright Policy published in the Rules section (the "Community Rules"); and
our Privacy Notice, which explains how we handle personal data.

If the Community Rules and these Terms conflict, these Terms take priority.

2. Eligibility

Anyone may browse the public pages of the Service. To create an account and take part in the community, you must be at least 13 years old (or older, if the minimum age for using online services without parental consent in your country of residence is higher). If you are under the age of majority in your country, you may have an account only with the involvement and permission of a parent or guardian. By creating an account you confirm that you meet these requirements.

3. Your account

3.1 Sign-in

Accounts are created and accessed through our single sign-on provider. You are responsible for the information you provide, for keeping your sign-in credentials secure, and for all activity that happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been used without your permission.

3.2 Nicknames and profiles

Your nickname, display name, avatar, biography, social links, and the characters and artwork on your profile are public. Do not choose a nickname or profile content that impersonates another person or brand, is misleading, or breaches the Community Rules. We may require you to change a nickname that does.

3.3 Connected services

Some features run on separate services that we operate or connect to:

Messaging and comments run on our separate chat server. A chat account is created for you and linked to your Cloudy Button account so that you can comment and send messages.
Community Rules proposals run on our separate collaborative editing system. An account there is created and connected to your Cloudy Button account automatically — when you register, or when you first suggest a change, comment or vote — so that you can take part in discussing the rules. You can disconnect it at any time on the rules page.

Your use of these features is also governed by these Terms. Content you post through them may be stored on those services as well as on the Service itself.

4. Your content

4.1 What counts as Your Content

"Your Content" means anything you submit to the Service, including original characters and their descriptions, attributes, colour palettes, reference sheets and galleries; fan-art and other artwork; stories; canvas placements; comments, messages, and reactions; profile information; and proposals and comments in the Rules section.

4.2 You keep ownership

You keep all ownership rights you have in Your Content. We do not claim ownership of your characters or artwork.

4.3 The licence you give us

So that we can run the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, adapt for technical purposes (for example, resizing, cropping, re-encoding images, or compositing canvas banners), display, and distribute Your Content solely to operate, provide, promote, and improve the Service.

This licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except:

for copies kept for a limited time in backups or logs;
where Your Content has already been shared with or incorporated into the content of others (for example, a message you sent, a reply quoting you, or a shared canvas render); and
for contributions to the Community Rules, as described in section 4.4.

We will never sell Your Content or license it to third parties for training artificial intelligence models.

4.4 Contributions to the Community Rules

When you propose, comment on, or react to changes to the Community Rules, that activity is recorded in a version history that shows your name or nickname. If a proposal is accepted, the accepted wording becomes part of the Community Rules. You grant us and the community a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, modify, and publish your accepted wording and to keep the related history as a record of how the rules were decided.

4.5 Your responsibility

You are responsible for Your Content. By posting it you confirm that you own it or have all the rights and permissions needed to post it, and that it does not breach these Terms, the Community Rules, or anyone else's rights.

5. Original characters and fan-art

The Service is built around original characters and the art they inspire. To keep that fair for everyone:

Character creators may state how others may use their characters. Those conditions should be clear and reasonable.
Fan-art is published only when it is linked to a character on the Service. The link credits the original creator automatically. Unlinked fan-art can be saved as a draft but cannot be published; if the link is removed or the character's owner rejects it, the work stops being public.
Fan-art creators must respect any usage conditions set by the character's creator, and remove their work promptly if the original creator reasonably asks.
Fan-art of a character does not transfer any rights in the character itself, and owning a character does not transfer any rights in someone else's fan-art of it. Each creator keeps the rights in their own work.

6. Shared canvas rooms

Canvas rooms are shared spaces where many members place artwork together. When you place artwork on a canvas:

your placement is visible to everyone who can view the room and may be combined with others' placements into composite images, including banners shown on the home page;
those composite images may continue to be displayed after you remove your placement until they are next regenerated; and
canvas rooms may have deadlines, after which placements may be locked, archived, or removed.

Do not cover, deface, or interfere with other members' placements in a way the Community Rules do not allow.

7. Comments and messages

Comments and direct messages are delivered through our chat server.

Messages you send are delivered to their recipients and stored on the chat server. Deleting a message may not remove copies already received by others.
Messages are not end-to-end encrypted by the Service unless the interface clearly says otherwise. Do not send passwords, financial details, or other sensitive information.
We may access messages and comments when reasonably necessary to investigate reports, enforce these Terms, comply with the law, or keep the Service secure.

8. Prohibited content and conduct

You must not post content or behave in ways that:

are unlawful, harassing, bullying, hateful, discriminatory, or threatening;
sexualise minors, or depict minors in a sexual or otherwise harmful way, including fictional characters who are or appear to be minors;
contain sexually explicit or graphic violent content outside any areas and labels the Community Rules allow;
infringe someone else's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights, including reposting others' art without permission;
reveal someone else's private information without consent;
impersonate another person or creator, or misrepresent your affiliation;
contain malware, spam, scams, or unsolicited advertising;
scrape, mass-download, or harvest content or user data, except through features we provide for that purpose;
attempt to access accounts, data, or systems you are not authorised to access, or to bypass security, rate limits, or moderation; or
disrupt or place an unreasonable load on the Service or its connected services.

9. Reporting and takedown

If you believe content on the Service infringes your rights or breaks these Terms, email us at info@cloudy-button.com with enough detail to identify the content, explain the problem and, for intellectual property claims, describe the rights you hold. We will review reports and may remove or restrict content and, where appropriate, suspend accounts. Repeated infringement may lead to account termination.

If your content is removed following a report and you believe that was a mistake, you may contact us to ask for a review.

10. Moderation, suspension, and termination

We and our moderators may review, label, hide, remove, or restrict content, and may warn, suspend, or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or the Community Rules, or that we reasonably believe harm the Service or its community. Where reasonable and lawful, we will tell you what action we took and why.

You may stop using the Service and ask us to delete your account at any time by emailing info@cloudy-button.com. When your account is deleted, your public profile and content will be removed or anonymised within a reasonable time, subject to the exceptions in section 4.3. Some records, such as Community Rules history, may show your contribution as from a deleted user.

11. Notifications

With your permission, we may send you in-app and browser push notifications, for example about new fan-art of your characters, comments, messages, or followers. You can change your notification preferences or withdraw browser permission at any time.

12. Our intellectual property

The Cloudy Button name and logo, and the Service's own software, design, and interface text, belong to us or our licensors. These Terms do not give you any right to use them, except as needed to use the Service normally. Open-source components are used under their own licences.

13. Availability and changes to the Service

The Service is provided as a community project and may change over time. We may add, change, suspend, or remove features, canvas rooms, or connected services. We will try to give reasonable notice of significant changes, but we do not promise that any feature will remain available.

14. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that content will never be lost. Please keep your own copies of anything important.

We are not responsible for content posted by other users. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or affects rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date above and, for significant changes, take reasonable steps to notify you in advance, for example by a notice on the Service. If you continue to use the Service after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you should stop using the Service and may ask us to delete your account.

16. Governing law and contact

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine, and the courts of Ukraine have jurisdiction over any dispute, without affecting any mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.

If you have questions about these Terms, or need to report content, email us at info@cloudy-button.com.