Pikkot

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Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-05-14

1. Who we are

Pikkot (collectively "we", "us", "the service") is currently operated as a sole proprietorship by Hsiu-Pen Lin (林修本), based in Taiwan, under the trade name "豐禾創研" (Fenghe Innovation Research). Formal Taiwan business registration (商業登記) is planned once monthly service-sales cross the threshold prescribed by the Taiwan Business Registration Act (currently NT$80,000 / month for services). Until then, the operator named above is the legal counterparty for all contracts under these Terms.

These Terms govern your access to and use of the Pikkot sticker-pack production service at pikkot.com and its subdomains.

2. The service

Pikkot uses third-party AI models (Anthropic, Google Vertex, fal.ai, OpenAI) to generate LINE Creators Market sticker packs from a reference image you upload. Output is delivered as a downloadable zip suitable for direct upload to the LINE Creators Market.

3. Your account

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to create an account. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for all activity on your account.

4. Reference images

  • Reference photos must be of you, your pet, your own minor child for whom you hold parental responsibility and consent on the child's behalf, your own original characters, or subjects for which you personally hold reuse rights. You may not upload photos of friends, other people's children, public figures, or other third parties without their explicit, documented consent — and for any third-party minor, the explicit, documented consent of a parent or legal guardian — even on a Pro plan.
  • You warrant that you own or have the right to use any reference image you upload, and that the image does not infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.
  • You must not upload images depicting real people without consent (or, for any minor, without the consent of a parent or legal guardian), copyrighted characters you don't own, any sexual, nude, abusive, or violent imagery involving any subject (an absolute prohibition — see §7), or content that violates our Acceptable Use Policy below.
  • Reference images are deleted according to the retention periods in our Privacy Policy (currently 30 days after upload). Generated artwork is retained while your account is active; if you delete your account, hosted artwork and zip bundles are deleted as part of the deletion flow itself (typically within minutes) and in any case within 30 days.

5. Subscription accounts & resale prohibition

Lite and Pro subscriptions are sold for personal and small-business use by the account holder. They are not a wholesale sticker-generation service for unrelated third parties.

  • You may not operate a subscription account as a paid sticker-generation service for third parties — including but not limited to: selling individual sticker packs generated under your subscription quota to customers who are not you, offering "design services" that pass our AI cost basis through to end clients, or sharing subscription credentials with anyone else.
  • You may give a finished sticker pack to a friend or family member as a gift — a single pack at a time, generated from a reference photo whose subject has consented to the artwork being created (or, for any minor in your care, for whom you hold parental responsibility and consent on the child's behalf).
  • Per-month quotas (200 stickers, 10 new characters on Pro; 3 packs on Lite) are designed around honest personal use. Each generated sticker image counts against your monthly quota, including re-rolls, variations, and replacements requested for creative preference. Images regenerated solely because of a confirmed technical defect in Pikkot's pipeline do not count against your quota. Patterns consistent with resale — many distinct reference subjects per month, rapid pack-to-pack subject changes, transactional metadata in pack themes — may trigger account review.
  • Enforcement is investigative, not automatic: we contact suspected violators before any enforcement action. Confirmed violations result in account suspension or termination without refund of the current period.

If you need wholesale or multi-seat access, contact us — we plan a dedicated commercial tier and would rather sell you the right plan than terminate the wrong one.

6. Generated content & licensing

  • Paid tiers (One-shot, Lite, Pro): Pikkot grants you any rights we have in the generated artwork for your personal or commercial use, including submission to LINE Creators Market under your own creator account. This license does not cover rights we do not own or control, including third-party intellectual property, likeness, privacy, publicity rights, model-provider restrictions, or platform review decisions.
  • We do not claim ownership of your paid-tier output, but we retain the right to use aggregated or de-identified service metadata (non-identifying theme categories, style signals) to operate, secure, and improve Pikkot.
  • No public gallery or marketplace. Pikkot delivers your generated pack privately to you only. We do not operate a public gallery, marketplace, ranking, social feed, or search-indexed showcase of user output, and we do not publicly display, promote, or redistribute the artwork you generate. Any further publication or sale is your own action on a third-party platform (e.g. LINE Creators Market) and is governed by that platform's rules and your responsibilities under §4, §6, and §7.
  • AI-generated content and copyright: current law does not recognise purely AI-generated works as eligible for copyright protection without substantial human authorship (see Thaler v. Perlmutter, No. 22-1564 (D.D.C. 2023)). We make no warranty that the generated artwork will qualify for copyright protection in your jurisdiction, and you are solely responsible for any representations made to LINE Creators Market or any other platform regarding your rights in the output.
  • AI-generation disclosure obligations (EU AI Act Art. 50, effective 2 August 2026): when you publish or distribute artwork generated through Pikkot — including to LINE Creators Market — you must comply with applicable disclosure requirements that the content is AI-generated. The EU AI Act requires deployers of generative AI to label synthetic content that resembles real people, places, or events, or could mislead viewers. For LINE Creators Market submissions targeting EU audiences, this means stating in the pack description that the artwork is AI-generated. Pikkot does not add labelling to the sticker images themselves (LINE's spec does not permit it); the publishing decision and any platform-side disclosure are your responsibility.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Pikkot to generate content that:

  • Depicts minors in any sexual context;
  • Sexualises real, identifiable people;
  • Promotes violence, self-harm, terrorism, or hatred against protected classes;
  • Infringes third-party IP (logos, characters, trademarks you don't own);
  • Otherwise violates the acceptable-use policies of our upstream model providers — see Upstream AI providers for a current list of provider AUPs with direct links and last-audit dates.

We reserve the right to refuse or remove any content that violates this policy and to suspend accounts engaging in repeated violations.

Child safety: if we detect or become aware of suspected child sexual abuse material, we will preserve the minimum necessary evidence, immediately suspend the offending account, restrict operator access to the material, report the incident to NCMEC CyberTipline or the appropriate authority in your jurisdiction, and cooperate with lawful requests. We do not proactively monitor every upload, but moderation hits at upload time or during generation trigger this flow automatically.

8. Payment & refunds

Paid tiers are billed in advance (One-shot is a single charge; subscriptions renew monthly). Refunds for unused subscription days are not offered, except where required by applicable consumer protection law in your jurisdiction.

Refunds or free regenerations are available only for: (a) confirmed delivery failure (you completed checkout but no pack was delivered); (b) duplicate billing; or (c) a technical defect caused by Pikkot that prevents the delivered zip from meeting the advertised LINE Creators Market file specifications (dimensions, transparency, file format). Subjective dissatisfaction, typical AI artefacts, LINE content-review rejection, and changed personal preference are not defects and are not refundable. Contact us at the email below within 14 days of charge.

9. Service availability

We aim for high availability but make no SLA commitments on any tier. We may pause access during maintenance, abuse investigations, or upstream provider outages.

10. Termination

You may delete your account at any time from settings. We may terminate or suspend your access for material breach of these Terms, including violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.

11. Disclaimers

Pikkot is provided "as is". We make no warranty that the generated artwork will satisfy LINE's review process, that the service will be uninterrupted, or that the artwork will be free of artifacts. AI output is non-deterministic; the same prompt may produce different results.

This "as is" disclaimer does not waive any statutory consumer warranty required by law in your jurisdiction (including the EU consumer-rights conformity guarantee, the Taiwan 消費者保護法 implied-fitness rules, and Japan's 消費者契約法 service- defect protections), and does not limit our liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence, or breach of data protection obligations.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising from your use of Pikkot is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, or USD 100, whichever is greater.

This limitation does not apply to damages caused by our fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury, breach of data protection obligations, or where prohibited by consumer protection laws in your jurisdiction (including the European Union, EEA, Taiwan, and Japan).

13. EU consumer 14-day withdrawal (digital products)

If you reside in the European Union, EU consumer law (Directive 2011/83/EU, Article 16(m)) gives you a 14-day right of withdrawal for digital goods unless you expressly consent to immediate performance and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once the digital content has been delivered.

Pikkot generates and delivers your pack within minutes of purchase. By completing checkout you expressly consent to immediate performance and acknowledge that you waive your 14-day right of withdrawal once the pack download is made available. If checkout completes but we have not yet delivered the pack (e.g. an outage on our side), the waiver does not apply — contact us at fenghe.tech.studio@gmail.com for a refund.

14. Service discontinuation

If we decide to permanently shut down Pikkot, we will:

  • Provide at least 30 days' advance email notice to all registered users where reasonably possible (force-majeure events, upstream-provider termination, and regulatory order may shorten this window);
  • Stop charging active subscriptions on their next renewal date — you will not be billed for renewals after the notice email;
  • Keep your generated artwork available for download throughout the notice period and your paid subscription quota usable until the end of your current billing cycle or the shutdown date, whichever is later;
  • One-shot purchases are fully delivered at time of generation; no refund is due for already-downloaded packs.

Where applicable consumer protection law requires a pro-rata cash refund for unused subscription days, we will issue it via Lemon Squeezy or, if Lemon Squeezy cannot process such a refund, by another commercially reasonable payment method. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable consumer remedy or chargeback right. This section does not apply to routine maintenance, service pauses under Section 9, or individual account terminations for policy violations.

15. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify Pikkot and its operator only for third-party claims arising from: (a) your unlawful upload of reference images; (b) your lack of required rights or consents for any subject depicted in your upload; (c) your distribution of generated content in violation of law; or (d) your material breach of these Terms. This section does not require you to indemnify us for claims caused by Pikkot's own breach, negligence, or technical operation of the service, and does not apply where prohibited by consumer protection law in your jurisdiction (including the European Union and EEA, where indemnification of an operator by a consumer is generally unenforceable).

16. DMCA / takedown procedure

Pikkot respects intellectual-property rights. If you believe content generated or hosted on Pikkot infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent containing: (a) your physical or electronic signature, (b) identification of the copyrighted work, (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material with enough detail to locate it, (d) your contact information, (e) a statement of good-faith belief, and (f) a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and you are authorised to act.

Designated agent: Hsiu-Pen Lin (林修本), 豐禾創研, Taiwan. Email: fenghe.tech.studio@gmail.com (subject line "DMCA notice"). We will remove the allegedly infringing material within a reasonable time and notify the uploading user, who may submit a counter-notice.

17. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of Taiwan (Republic of China), without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

For all consumers, regardless of residence: nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory right to bring claims in the courts or procedures available under the consumer protection laws of your place of residence. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court where available. Arbitration applies only where validly agreed and legally enforceable.

For users outside the EU and EEA who are not consumers: any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of Pikkot will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by a recognised arbitration institution in Taiwan, in English. You waive any right to a jury trial or to participate in a class action.

For users in the EU or EEA: the arbitration clause above does not apply. EU consumers may bring claims in the courts of their habitual residence or, at their option, in Taiwan. The EU Online Dispute Resolution platform is available at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

For users in Japan: Japanese consumers may bring claims in the court of their habitual residence under the Japanese Consumer Contract Act, as set out in our 特定商取引法表記 (Tokushou page). Japanese non-consumer (business) users are subject to the binding individual arbitration provision in the preceding paragraph and may not invoke the consumer-residence courts.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

Material changes do not apply retroactively to subscription periods you have already paid for or to one-shot orders that have already been placed. If you do not accept a material change to pricing, quota, license terms, data processors, or refund policy, you may cancel your subscription before the next renewal date and the change will not bind you. Non-material changes (clerical fixes, formatting, new contact addresses) may take effect immediately.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms: fenghe.tech.studio@gmail.com.

These Terms are a starting template. Consult a lawyer before relying on them in production — every jurisdiction has its own quirks (especially around consumer-protection refunds and AI-generated-IP ownership).

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