Terms

Terms of use

The rules for using StudioBlack, in plain language and as short as we can honestly make them.

Last updated August 31, 2026

What these cover

These terms cover the public website and the StudioBlack platform. They apply to you if you read these pages, and to your organisation if it uses the platform.

To confirmwhether a separate signed agreement with each organisation exists, and which document takes precedence where the two disagree.

Access is by invitation

There is no sign-up. Accounts exist for organisations we have agreed to work with, and people join by an invitation sent to their email address. If you have not been invited, the contact form is the way in — nothing on this site creates an account by itself.

Your account

An account belongs to a person, not to a job title, and it should not be shared. If you think someone else has access to yours, tell us and we will close it. Whoever administers your organisation decides who is added, who is removed, and what each person can see.

Acceptable use

While using the platform, do not:

  • Upload anything you do not have the right to share.
  • Upload malware, or anything meant to break the service or reach data that is not yours.
  • Work around access controls, rate limits, or the invitation system.
  • Send anything unlawful through it, or use it to harass anyone.
  • Scrape it, resell access to it, or rebuild it from what you can see.

We can suspend access that is being used this way. Where it is reasonable to do so first, we will say something before we do.

What you upload stays yours

Drawings, documents, comments and everything else your organisation puts into the platform belong to your organisation. We claim no ownership of them. We hold and process them only so the service works — showing them to the people you have given access, keeping versions, sending notifications — and for nothing else.

To confirmwhat happens to an organisation's content when its access ends — how long an export is available for, and how long after that the data is deleted.

What is ours

The software, the interface and the name stay ours. Being given access to use them transfers none of it.

Availability

We run the service carefully, but we do not promise it will always be available. Maintenance, provider outages and plain faults happen. This page carries no uptime commitment.

To confirmwhether a service level is committed anywhere — in a separate agreement — and what it is.

We may also change how features work. Where a change removes something you rely on, we will try to give notice first.

Fees

To confirmwhether pricing, billing terms, renewal and notice periods should be stated here or left entirely to each organisation's own agreement.

Liability and warranties

To confirmthe warranty disclaimer, limitation of liability and indemnity wording. A lawyer must draft these — this page will not invent them, and until they are written nothing here should be read as limiting or extending anyone's liability.

Ending access

An organisation can stop using the service at any time. We can end access where these terms are broken, or where the agreement behind the account has ended.

Governing law

To confirmthe governing law and the courts that would hear a dispute.

Changes to these terms

We may update this page. The date at the top says when it last changed, and continuing to use the service after a change means the new version applies.

Getting in touch

Questions about these terms: support@studioblack.app.

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