Terms of Use

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These Terms govern your use of vyaz.net (the "Service"), a website for cross-stitch pattern creation, tracking and community. By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age of digital consent in your country if it is higher.
• You are responsible for everything done through your account and for keeping your password secure.
• One person may hold one account. Additional accounts created to evade limits, inflate ratings or influence disputes may be removed together with their content.
• We may assign you an automatically generated username. You may change it, subject to limits described in the Service.

2. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to publish unlawful, infringing, deceptive, harassing or spam content; to scrape or bulk-download content; to interfere with the operation of the Service; or to impersonate another person, a brand, or the Service's staff. The community rules published within the Service form part of these Terms.

3. Your content and the licence you grant

You keep every right you hold in what you upload to or create on the Service — patterns, photographs, texts, comments and reviews ("Your Content"). Nothing in these Terms transfers those rights to us. We do not become the rightsholder of Your Content, we acquire no exclusive right in it, and we may not sell it, or licence it to anyone else to sell, without your separate and explicit agreement.

You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to:

• store Your Content on our systems and in our backups, and reproduce it as operating the Service requires;
• make the technical changes needed to show it — resizing, re-encoding into another file format, and generating previews and thumbnails;
• display it on the Service, and include it in the catalogue, in listings and in search results;
• translate it into the languages the Service offers and publish the translation, marked as a translation (section 5);
• use it to promote the Service itself — for example showing a pattern of yours as an example of what is published here, with attribution to you.

We may sublicense these rights only so far as delivery requires — to hosting providers, content delivery networks and other technical suppliers acting on our behalf and on our instructions. This is not a right to pass Your Content to third parties for their own use.

You confirm that you hold the rights necessary to publish Your Content. Redrawing, photographing or otherwise reproducing a pattern you do not own and publishing it as your own is prohibited.

3.1 How long the licence lasts

The licence runs for as long as Your Content is published on the Service, and ends for whatever you delete.

What you may delete yourself depends on where it is. A pattern that is not in the catalogue is yours to delete at any moment. A pattern that is in the catalogue is not, and neither is one waiting for review or held while a copyright claim about it is examined. A catalogue address is one other people keep — bookmarked to stitch later, sent to a friend, written into a forum thread — and deleting the pattern would turn all of those into dead pages and delete the projects other people started from it, together with their stitching. Ask us instead, from the pattern's own page: the request reaches support with the pattern named and the number of other people's projects beside it, and a person reads it and answers you.

Taking a pattern out of the catalogue is a different act, and it stays yours to do at any time without asking anybody. Nothing is destroyed by it and the pattern stays in your account — but the catalogue address stops working for everybody holding it, and people who started projects from the pattern can no longer open it, so it is not a quiet act either.

We promise neither that a pattern stays in the catalogue nor that it is taken out of it. Nothing here obliges us to keep any particular piece of Your Content available, and section 8 continues to apply to all of it.

Closing your account is different, and the difference is deliberate: closing it does not delete what you published. When you close your account:

• What you published stays published — patterns, posts, comments, blog entries and reviews. It has stopped being only yours: people are stitching from your patterns, other people's replies stand under your texts, and the addresses of both sit in bookmarks and links we cannot see. Withdrawing it would destroy their work rather than yours, and that holds for a pattern nobody has started yet as much as for one somebody is halfway through.
• We may keep it published, and we are not obliged to. Nothing here promises that any particular piece of Your Content remains available after you leave; we may withdraw or remove it, and section 8 continues to apply to it.
• Your authorship of it is anonymised. Your email address, display name, profile picture and profile texts are erased, and what stays published is shown as the work of a closed account, linking nowhere.
• Your username is not erased and not released. Handing it back would let somebody else take it, and every surviving pattern and mention filed under it would then read as their work.
• What was private goes with the account — your drafts, your own projects, and your side of your private correspondence. Messages you sent to a person who is still there stay in that person's conversation, without your name: they are that person's record of what was said to them as much as they are yours.
• The licence in section 3 survives only for what stays published, only for as long as it stays published, and only for the purposes listed there.

Closing an account can be undone for a period stated in the message we send you when you close it (currently 30 days), after which your personal data is erased. Support tickets and copyright complaints are kept beyond that period, because they are the record that an obligation was discharged. What is erased and what is kept is described in the Privacy Policy.

3.2 If patterns are sold through the Service

The Service does not sell patterns today. When it does, this section applies to anything sold through it. A buyer receives a licence to what they bought, on the terms shown at the time of the sale, and that licence does not end when the seller leaves: it survives the seller closing their account, withdrawing the pattern from the catalogue, or the listing being taken down. Our own position is unchanged — we deliver and display, and we do not become the rightsholder — and we can pass to a buyer only what the seller was entitled to grant. A pattern you did not create, or created from somebody else's work without the right to pass that work on, may not be sold here.

4. Advertising and paid features

The Service is free to use. All features are available without payment. We may display advertising, and we may offer a paid option that removes it. We may also reduce the amount of advertising shown to accounts that reach thresholds in the Service's own reputation system. We may change what is advertised, where, and how much, at any time.

Advertising appears only in places declared in advance: a catalogue listing, a published chart's page below its description, and below an article. It does not appear inside the chart editor, inside the progress tracker, or within the content of a chart itself, and while these Terms stand it will not. Advertising here is not selected from your content, your private messages or a profile built about you; what is processed in order to decide whether a slot is shown at all is described in the Privacy Policy. Where showing an advertisement would require storing or reading anything on your device beyond what signing in needs, we ask for your consent first.

Quantitative limits may apply to any account — for example on the number of patterns, projects, listings, stored files, or the rate of actions. These limits exist to keep the Service usable for everyone and may be changed.

5. Machine translation

Content published on the Service may be translated automatically into the other languages the Service offers and published in translated form. What is translated is published text: the title, summary and description of a chart in the catalogue, articles and their comments, short posts, and reviews. Machine translations may be inaccurate. Translated content is marked as such where it is displayed, with the original available beside it.

To produce a translation, the text is transmitted to a third-party provider of language models, which may be located outside your country. The text alone is sent; your account, your name and your address are not. Drafts, private charts, hidden content and private messages are not translated and are not sent anywhere.

6. Virtual currency

• The Service may offer virtual currencies usable only within the Service.
• Virtual currency is not money, carries no monetary value outside the Service, cannot be exchanged for cash, cannot be transferred outside the Service, and is not inheritable.
• Balances expire when an account is closed or removed.
• We may change earning rules, prices and exchange ratios at any time.
• Purchases of virtual currency for real money are final except where a refund is required by applicable law.

7. Transactions between users

Where users sell patterns, kits or supplies to one another, the contract is between those users and them alone. We are not a party to it, do not receive, hold or transfer their money, and provide no guarantee of quality, delivery, payment or satisfaction. Any payment between users happens outside the Service and at their own risk.

Where the Service charges a fee for listing an item, that fee is payable in virtual currency and is charged for the listing itself, not for the transaction. It is not refundable if the item does not sell.

Where the Service explicitly holds virtual currency in escrow between users, it does so only in virtual currency and only as described in the Service.

8. Moderation and enforcement

We may hide, edit, remove or refuse any content, and may limit, suspend or terminate any account, at our discretion, including for breach of these Terms or the community rules.

Moderation decisions are taken by people. Two automated mechanisms operate alongside them, and neither examines content for meaning: a list of forbidden words, which refuses a submission containing one and names the word; and the weighing of reports made by other users, which hides a publication once their combined weight passes a threshold. No content published on the Service is submitted to an artificial-intelligence service to be assessed, scored or classified.

Hiding a publication is not a decision but what precedes one: the author continues to see the content, with the reason, and may still edit it. The only automatic measure applied to an account is a time-limited pause on publishing for a newly registered account reported for spam by several different users; it is never a suspension, and a person reviews it. Every other measure is applied by a person and requires a stated reason.

Where we restrict content or an account, we will tell the affected user what was restricted and why, for how long, and whether automated means were used, unless the content was deceptive high-volume commercial content. A restriction may be contested by writing to the address given in that notice, where it is reviewed by a person who did not take the decision.

Where a complaint, dispute or suspected abuse requires it, authorised staff may review private messages relevant to that case. Such reviews are logged.

9. Copyright complaints and counter-notices

If you believe content on the Service infringes your rights, use the complaint form published within the Service, or write to [email protected]. A complaint must identify you, state the basis on which you act, describe the work relied upon, give the exact location of the material complained of, include evidence of copying, and confirm that the information is accurate and submitted in good faith.

On a substantiated complaint we may freeze the publication: it stops being publicly accessible while the matter is examined. The person who published it is told what was restricted, on what basis, and how to respond, and may submit a counter-notice within 14 days. We may restore, keep frozen or remove the material in light of what both sides provide. Repeated infringement may result in the account being terminated.

Submitting complaints that are unfounded, abusive or repeatedly inaccurate may result in us declining to accept further complaints from you.

10. Availability and disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We do not guarantee that data will never be lost. Keep your own copies of anything important to you; the Service provides export functions for this purpose.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for loss of data, profit or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service, from content published by other users, from transactions between users, from machine translation, from moderation decisions, or from any interruption or discontinuation of the Service. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, and nothing in them limits the rights you have as a consumer under the law of your country of residence where those rights cannot be waived.

12. Your responsibility

You are responsible for the content you publish and for your dealings with other users. If a claim is brought against us because of content you published or something you did through the Service, you agree to cover the costs and damages we reasonably incur as a result, to the extent permitted by law.

13. Changes

We may change these Terms. Material changes will be announced within the Service. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

Every version of these Terms carries the number and date shown at the top of this page. When you create an account we record which version you accepted and the moment you accepted it. Where a change materially affects your rights, we may ask you to accept the new version before you continue to use the Service.

14. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may terminate or suspend access for breach of these Terms. The licence in section 3 survives termination only to the limited extent set out in section 3.1; the disclaimers and the limitation of liability survive it in full.

15. General

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours in connection with a transfer of the Service.

16. Requests from public authorities

We may be required by law to disclose information about an account or its content, including the content of private messages, to a court, a law-enforcement body or another competent authority. We answer a request that is lawful and binding on us, with what the request covers and nothing beyond it. Where we are legally required or permitted to keep such a request confidential, we will not notify you of it; where we are not, we may. How such a request is answered inside the Service, and what is recorded when it is, is described in the Privacy Policy.

Contact: [email protected] · Privacy Policy · Community Rules