Acceptable Use Policy

Never allowed

We close accounts for these at once, without warning.

• Child sexual abuse material, or any sexual or sexualised content that shows or suggests a minor. We report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery: sexual or nude images or video of a real person without their consent, including fakes.
• Content that helps a serious crime, such as weapons capable of mass casualties, terrorism or human trafficking.

Real people

• Do not make deepfakes. Do not show a real, identifiable person, or copy their voice, without their permission.
• Do not impersonate a real person, brand or organisation, or suggest that one endorses you when it does not.
• Do not make content about a real person that is false and harmful to them.
• Do not make deceptive content about elections, voting or candidates, or content that shows a public figure doing or saying something they did not do or say.

Advertising and deception

• Do not make ads that break consumer-protection or advertising law. This includes false or unsupported claims about health, medicine, money or results, and fake reviews or endorsements where the law prohibits them.
• Follow the AI-disclosure rules of each platform and market where you publish. For example, ad platforms can require a label on ads made with generative AI, and some places require disclosure of AI-generated performers.
• Do not use Outputs for fraud, scams or phishing.

Harmful content

• Harassment, threats, bullying or targeted abuse.
• Content that attacks people because of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age.
• Content that promotes self-harm, suicide or eating disorders.
• Graphic violence made to shock or to glorify harm.
• Sexually explicit content. PatchWork is a tool for advertising and short-form video, not for adult content.

Other people's rights

• Do not upload or make content that infringes copyright, trademark or other rights. See Copyright complaints.
• Do not put other people's personal data into the Service unless you have a lawful reason and their consent where the law requires it.
• Do not connect accounts or API keys that are not yours, or that you do not have permission to use.

The service itself

• Do not attack, probe or overload PatchWork, its storage or its servers, and do not upload malware.
• Do not get around invite codes, plan limits or access controls, or use another user's account or share links in ways they did not intend.
• Do not use PatchWork media storage as a general file host or to distribute content to the public.

What we do

We do not review your projects as a routine. We act when we get a report, when a provider tells us about a problem, or when we see a breach while we run or support the Service. If you break this policy, we can remove content, turn off share links, suspend or close your account, and report illegal content to the authorities. A Third-Party Service can also act against your account with them under its own rules.

Report a problem

To report content or a user that breaks this policy, email [email protected] with the subject "Abuse report". Include a link to the content if you have one. For copyright, follow the steps in Copyright complaints.