This User Agreement regulates the relationship between "us" ("Hippo Games", the developer of "Pixel Studio") and app "users".
"Pixel Studio" is an app for creating and editing pixel art images. We made "Pixel Studio" for personal and commercial use. The app provides in-app purchases, subscriptions and contains ads. The app can display extra content (promotional and marketing materials, weather forecasts).
"User-generated content" is any kind of content created by users in Pixel Studio (images, animations, fonts). User-generated content fully belongs to users (authors).
The app can request permissions:
show push notifications
access files on user devices
access files on Google Drive
The app collects the following information:
advertising ID for serving ads
device ID, crash logs and user actions for analytics
user ID and public profile (depending on platform), email (when possible) and OpenID (OAuth) for creating accounts in Pixel Network
gender, age, country and bio in user account details in Pixel Network (optional)
All data is encrypted in transit. We don't share data with third parties (ad and analytics platforms are not considered as third parties).
Users can request account deletion (refer to 6.7 for more info).
The full version of privacy policy is available here.
Pixel Network is a social community for pixel artists. Users can create accounts in Pixel Network (not required for app functionality). Users can publish user-generated content on Pixel Network and make it public.
All copyrights remain with authors. Other users are not allowed to use your artworks in any ways (including modification, appropriation and selling), except sharing with attribution.
Pixel Network is compliant with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
By publishing in Pixel Network, users grant us the following permissions:
display content inside and outside the app with attribution (including sharing on social networks)
use content in promotional and marketing materials
allow other users to share content (including social networks)
allow other users to cache/download content
Users can publish animated images with and without audio content. Users should have appropriate license (or permission to use) for audio content, if included. Users can also leave comments on others content in Pixel Network.
images made by other users (reposted, reuploaded, modified, with/without attribution, appropriated/stolen)
audio content that violates copyrights
NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content the viewer may not wish to be seen viewing in a public, formal or controlled environment. NSFW content may contain violence, pornography, profanity, nudity, slurs or other potentially disturbing subject matter.
disrespective, abuse, discriminatory, racist and other destructive content
NPA (Not Pixel Art), including photos, traditional and digital art
Users can report disallowed/inappropriate content in Pixel Network inside the app or contacting us by email (hippogamesunity@gmail.com). We can remove reported content from Pixel Network, as well as other content we consider inappropriate. Pixel Network accounts can be terminated (banned) for posting disallowed content (images, comments and other).
Users can make user-generated content for sale. Our platform does not provide any financial instruments for selling content, users should contact authors directly for any questions.
Users can request account deletion inside the app or by contacting hippogamesunity@gmail.com. To request account deletion inside the app do the following steps: sign in to Pixel Network, open your profile and press Options, then select Update info and press 3 dots at the bottom right.
"AI-generated content" is any kind of content created by AI (Artificial Intelligence), no matter if and how it was modified by users. AI-generated content is not considered "user-generated". Pixel Studio can be used to open, edit and save AI-generated content. AI-generated content is allowed to be published in Pixel Network (Made with AI tag is required).
The NoAI tag indicates that such content can't be used by AI systems, including Deep Learning. It works the same way as on other platforms like ArtStation. Please note that the NoAI tag doesn't provide any protection mechanisms, and your content will be still publicly accessible.