Terms of Service

1. Who may use the Service

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. The Service is intended for use in the United States. If you use it for a business, you accept these Terms for that business.

2. What the Service does

Landscape AI turns a photo of your yard into an AI-generated landscaping concept. It also offers a DIY shopping list for a design and, if you ask, introductions to local contractors. Designs are illustrative AI concepts, not plans, surveys or quotes (see section 13).

3. Your account

Keep access to your email and Google account secure; anyone who can open your sign-in links can use your account. Tell us at support@idea-engine.studio if you think your account has been misused.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• upload a photo you do not have the right to use, or photos of people, their faces, licence plates or house numbers without the permission of the people concerned;
• use the Service to harass, surveil or intimidate anyone, including neighbours, or to depict property in a deceptive way (for example, passing a design off as a photo of finished work);
• upload sexual, violent, hateful or unlawful content, or ask for such output;
• break Google’s Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, which applies to everything sent to our AI provider;
• get around free-design or trial limits, create accounts to farm referral rewards, scrape the Service, or interfere with its security or operation.

We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these rules.

5. Your photos and content

You keep ownership of the photos, notes and other content you upload. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, process and display that content only to run the Service for you: this includes sending it to our AI provider to generate designs (see the Privacy Policy), showing it on pages you choose to share, in the public gallery if you opt in, and in contractor introductions you request. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies already shared at your request.

6. AI-generated designs

As between you and us, you own the designs you generate, to the extent any rights exist in them. We make no promise that a design is protectable by copyright (purely AI-generated images generally are not registrable in the US) or that it is unique: similar results may be generated for others. Google embeds an invisible SynthID watermark in generated images. You are responsible for how you use a design. You allow us to show designs you choose to share on their share page and, if you opt in, in the public gallery.

7. Sharing and the public gallery

Sharing a design creates a page anyone with the link can open. It is listed in our public gallery, and may appear in search results, only if you tick that option. You can unlist or stop sharing a design at any time; we cannot recall copies others have already saved.

8. Tokens, prices and payment

• Every account gets a number of free designs each day, shown in the app. We may change the free allowance.
• Token packs and shopping lists are one-time purchases. There are no subscriptions and nothing renews. One token is one design; tokens never expire and have no cash value. If a generation fails, its token is refunded automatically.
• Prices are in US dollars and shown before you pay. Taxes are added where the law requires. Payments are processed by Stripe under its own terms, and you authorise us to charge your payment method for what you buy.
• Shopping-list quantities, costs and availability are estimates to shop from, not a quote.

9. Refunds

Our Refund Policy is part of these Terms. In short: if something went wrong with a purchase, email support@idea-engine.studio within 14 days and we will make it right. Tokens already spent on completed designs and shopping lists already unlocked are not refundable, except where the law requires or we failed to deliver.

10. Contractor introductions (homeowners)

If you ask for quotes, we send your design, town and ZIP code and project size to up to 8 local contractors and sell your name, email and phone number to the first one who pays us for the lead, as described in the consent you agree to and in our Privacy Policy. Contractors are independent businesses that we do not vet, license or endorse. Any agreement for work is between you and the contractor; we are not responsible for their quotes, work, licensing or insurance. Check a contractor’s licence, insurance and references before hiring them.

11. Buying a lead (contractors)

If you are a contractor who received one of our project emails, these terms apply when you buy a lead:

• What you get. For the price shown (currently $20), the homeowner’s name, email, phone (if given) and the full design for that one project. A lead is sold to one contractor only; the first to pay gets it.
• No guarantee of work. The homeowner asked to be contacted about a quote. We do not promise they will hire you, and the project value we show is an estimate.
• Refunds. If the contact details are invalid, or you paid after someone else had already bought the lead, email support@idea-engine.studio within 14 days for a full refund.
• How you may use the details. Only to contact this homeowner about this project. Do not resell or share them, add them to marketing lists, or keep them after the homeowner asks you to delete them. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to your outreach, including the CAN-SPAM Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
• Stopping emails. Every project email has a one-click unsubscribe, and we never email an unsubscribed business again.

12. Availability and changes to the Service

We may change, suspend or discontinue features. We try to keep the Service available but do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

13. Disclaimers

Designs are AI concepts for inspiration, not construction plans, surveys, engineering, horticultural advice or quotes. They do not account for property lines, easements, HOA rules, permits, drainage, grading, retaining-wall engineering, underground utilities (call 811 before you dig), plant toxicity to children or pets, or whether a plant is invasive where you live. The hardiness zone from your ZIP code is approximate. Check with qualified professionals and your local authority before you build.

THE SERVICE AND ALL DESIGNS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, IDEA ENGINE LLC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL, AND OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF $50 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

15. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify Idea Engine LLC against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from content you upload, your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service, including claims by people shown in or affected by your photos.

16. Ending your use

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms or to protect the Service or others. Unused tokens are forfeited when an account is deleted or terminated for a breach. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as 5, 6, 13 to 17) survive.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in the State of Wisconsin, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer-protection laws that cannot be waived. Please contact us first; most problems are solved by email.

18. Changes to these Terms

We will update the date at the top when these Terms change and email account holders before a material change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the new Terms.

19. General

These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms; we may transfer them as part of a sale or reorganisation of the business.

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