Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Comistitch, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, you may not use the service.

We reserve the right to update these terms at any time. Continued use of the service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. Material changes will be communicated via email to registered users.

2. Service Description

Comistitch is an AI-assisted comic creation platform that helps users create comic pages from story prompts. The service includes character management, script analysis, AI-powered creative assistance, and image export functionality.

The platform operates on a credit-based system where each comic page generation consumes a defined number of credits from your account balance.

3. Account Registration and Security

You must provide accurate and complete information when creating an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

You agree to notify us immediately at support@comistitch.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account. Comistitch is not liable for losses arising from unauthorized use of your credentials.

4. Credit System and Payments

Credits are provided through subscription plans and one-time credit packs processed by our merchant of record partner, and some credits are granted free of charge. How many credits each action costs, and how plan credits and purchased credits work, is described on our Pricing page and in our Credit Policy.

Credits are refundable only as set out in our Refund Policy. Credits are non-transferable, with one exception: once the in-app Gifts feature is available, you may send credits to another user only through that feature, and gifts are non-refundable. Credits from your subscription plan reset every billing cycle and unused plan credits do not carry over; credits from one-time packs and free grants do not expire while your account remains open. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period unless cancelled.

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the account settings or the billing customer portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; no prorated refunds are issued for partial periods.

5. Content Ownership & Rights

You own all comic pages and images created through Comistitch using your prompts and characters. Comistitch does not claim ownership or licensing rights over your creative outputs.

By submitting content to the platform, you grant Comistitch a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your content solely for the purpose of operating, maintaining, and improving the service.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your story prompts, character descriptions, and creative outputs do not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. Comistitch is not liable for claims arising from user-submitted content.

6. Acceptable Use

You may not use Comistitch to generate content that: is sexually explicit or sexually suggestive, or depicts nudity; depicts minors in sexual, suggestive, or otherwise inappropriate situations; creates face-swap, face manipulation, or deepfake content of real people, or misuses the likeness of a real person; promotes violence, hatred, or illegal activity; infringes on trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights; uses recognizable characters, brands, or copyrighted works without authorization; or deliberately mimics the distinctive style of identifiable living artists.

You may not attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract the source code of the platform. Automated access (scraping, bots) is prohibited without prior written consent.

Violation of this acceptable use policy may result in immediate account suspension or termination without refund of remaining credits.

The complete list of prohibited content and conduct, and how it is enforced, is set out in our Acceptable Use Policy at comistitch.com/acceptable-use/, which forms part of these Terms.

7. Content Moderation & Enforcement

Comistitch strictly prohibits the generation, publication, or distribution of the following content categories: sexually explicit, sexually suggestive, or pornographic material, and nudity (NSFW); content depicting minors in sexual, abusive, or otherwise inappropriate situations (CSAM); non-consensual intimate imagery or synthetic deepfakes of real individuals; extreme graphic violence, gore, torture, or mutilation; content promoting terrorism, self-harm, or suicide; hate speech targeting race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics; content designed to harass, bully, stalk, or threaten individuals.

We enforce these prohibitions through multiple technical layers: (1) Automated client-side screening that detects prohibited keywords and patterns before submission; (2) Server-side content validation, including third-party prompt moderation, that analyzes all prompts before they reach our AI-powered creative tools; (3) AI provider safety filters — our AI provider applies its own content safety filters configured to the strictest available threshold, blocking harmful content at the model level; (4) Community reporting — all published comics include a report button allowing any visitor to flag content for review; (5) Violation logging — every policy violation is recorded with an audit trail for compliance purposes.

When a content policy violation is detected, the following progressive enforcement actions apply: First violation — the request is blocked and a warning is issued to the user's account. Second violation — account is suspended for 7 days. Third violation — permanent account termination without refund of remaining credits. For severe violations involving child exploitation material (CSAM), non-consensual intimate imagery, or content promoting terrorism, immediate permanent termination applies without prior warning.

As part of our compliance with payment processor and card network requirements, Comistitch cooperates fully with our merchant of record partner, Visa, Mastercard, and other payment networks to ensure content created on our platform meets their acceptable use standards. We reserve the right to review, remove, or restrict access to any content at our sole discretion.

Users may report content that violates this policy by using the report button on any published comic page or by contacting support@comistitch.com. We aim to review all reports within 48 hours and take appropriate action.

8. Intellectual Property

The Comistitch name, logo, website design, and platform source code are the exclusive property of Comistitch and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

User-generated content (comics, characters, prompts) remains the property of the user. By publishing content to the community gallery, you grant Comistitch a non-exclusive license to display that content on the platform.

9. Shop Characters and Other Shop Assets

The Comistitch Shop offers ready-made characters and, over time, other creative assets such as backgrounds. Shop assets published by Comistitch — including their artwork, names, descriptions, prompts, and metadata — are the property of Comistitch or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

When you add a Shop asset to your account, Comistitch grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it to create comics on Comistitch and to publish, share, and commercially use the comics you create with it. This license does not transfer ownership of the asset itself.

You may not sell, sublicense, redistribute, or offer a Shop asset (or its artwork, prompt, or description) as a standalone item, re-upload it to another service or asset marketplace, or use it to create a competing character or asset library. Assets that are free today may later be offered for credits; anything you have already added stays usable on your account.

Shop limits (such as the number of Shop characters an account can hold at once) may change. We may remove an asset from the Shop at any time; copies already added to accounts remain usable unless removal is required by law or a valid rights claim.

10. Invite Friends (Referral Program)

Eligible users can invite friends with a personal invite link. The current reward, eligibility rules, and the maximum number of rewarded invites are shown in your account under Invite friends and may change at any time; changes do not affect rewards already credited.

Rewards are granted only for genuine new users. Self-referrals, multiple accounts controlled by the same person, automated or fake sign-ups, and invites from banned or deleted accounts are not eligible. An invite marked “Not counted” is final.

Referral credits have no cash value and cannot be transferred or exchanged. We may withhold, reverse, or remove referral credits obtained through abuse, and may suspend accounts involved in referral abuse.

11. Data Collection, Scraping, and AI Training

Without our prior written consent, you may not collect, scrape, crawl, copy, reproduce, or redistribute content, data, interfaces, or metadata from Comistitch — including the Shop catalog, character artwork, style libraries, public comics, and API responses — by automated or manual means, except for ordinary personal viewing and sharing links to public pages.

You may not use Comistitch content, outputs, Shop assets, or metadata to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or distill any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, or to build a dataset for such purposes, other than for your own comics that you own under Section 5.

We may use technical measures to detect and block automated access, and violations of this section may result in immediate suspension and legal action.

12. Free User Watermark

Comic pages generated under the free plan include a small Comistitch watermark on exported images. The watermark is applied at export time and does not alter the stored original.

An active paid subscription or any credit pack purchase removes the watermark from exports. Previously exported images with watermarks can be re-downloaded watermark-free afterwards. PDF exports never carry the watermark.

13. Service Availability

Comistitch is provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. AI-powered features depend on third-party providers and may be temporarily unavailable.

We will make reasonable efforts to maintain service uptime and notify users of planned maintenance. However, we are not liable for any loss or damage resulting from service interruptions.

14. Termination

Comistitch may suspend or terminate your account at any time for violation of these Terms of Service, with or without prior notice. Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases immediately.

You may delete your account at any time through the account settings page. Deleting your account cancels any active paid subscription immediately, without a prorated refund for the remaining period. Your data will be removed in accordance with our Privacy Policy; you can ask support to restore a deleted account within 30 days. Remaining credits are forfeited upon account termination.

15. Disclaimer of Warranties

The service is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

AI-assisted outputs may vary in quality and accuracy. Comistitch does not guarantee that content created with AI assistance will meet your specific expectations or requirements.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Comistitch's total liability for any claims arising from or related to the service is limited to the subscription fees you paid in the three months preceding the claim.

In no event shall Comistitch be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, or business opportunities, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

17. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Any disputes arising from or related to these terms or the service shall be resolved through binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration shall take place in Delaware, and the arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding.