Terms & ConditionsSoftware & Plugin Licence

1.1 Individuals

If you acquire the licence as an individual, you must have the legal capacity to enter into this Agreement under applicable law.

A person below the applicable legal contracting age may use the Product only where permitted by law, under a licence purchased and accepted by their parent or legal guardian. That parent or guardian is the contracting licensee and is responsible for the permitted use. Such use remains subject to the licence's user, device and other restrictions.

1.2 Companies and Other Legal Entities

1. 1.2.1

   If the licence is acquired on behalf of a company or other legal entity, the rights granted under this Agreement belong to that entity, rather than personally to the individual completing the purchase.

2. 1.2.2

   The individual accepting this Agreement on behalf of the entity represents that they are authorised to act for it and have the authority to bind it to this Agreement.

3. 1.2.3

   The entity must ensure that its employees, contractors and other authorised users comply with this Agreement. It is responsible for their use of the Product under its licence, including compliance with the applicable user and device limits.

2.1 Grant of Licence

1. 2.1.1

   Subject to payment and compliance with this Agreement, we grant the licensee a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide and non-transferable licence to install and use the purchased Product through its authorised users. The licence is subject to applicable law and the user, device and other limits of the purchased tier.

2. 2.1.2

   A Producer licence permits use of the Product as a development tool for finished games, films, animations, renders, visualisations and other produced content (“Productions”). It is not a licence to sell or distribute the Product itself as a plugin, development tool, template library or competing middleware offering.

3. 2.1.3

   The licence to each version to which you are entitled is perpetual, unless lawfully terminated under this Agreement or affected by a refund of the corresponding purchase. The licence does not lapse merely because you do not exercise it for a period. Expiry of update coverage alone does not terminate that licence or your permitted use of finished Productions.

   Perpetual duration remains subject to revisions of this Agreement validly applicable under section 4.5, including its acceptance, restriction and lawful termination process for already entitled versions. Non-use and expiry of update coverage alone remain different from a valid missing-acceptance restriction.

4. 2.1.4

   The standard offering is a binary licence. Product source code is not included in any Producer tier or Custom offering. The licence covers the purchased Product and deliverables, not every future ILLUSTUDIO product or roadmap feature.

2.2 Number of Licences

The authorised-user, device, revenue and commercial-Production limits all apply. A higher user or revenue requirement requires the appropriate higher tier or a written Custom agreement. Exceeding the purchased tier's commercial-Production limit requires a written Custom agreement, as set out in clause 2.3.1.

1. 2.2.1

   Count people who access or use the Product for development, including relevant employees and contractors. Players, viewers and customers who only run or view a permitted finished Production are not licensed development users. A device allowance does not increase the number of people who may use the licence.

2. 2.2.2

   The licence belongs to the named individual or entity. Buying through an employee, contractor or a discounted region does not change the identity or eligibility of the business using the Product. An unrelated company or client is not automatically covered by your licence.

3. 2.2.3

   Annual revenue eligibility is measured using worldwide gross business revenue over the preceding 12 months, not profit and not only revenue from Productions using the Product. For a business operating for less than 12 months, use its actual operating period. Include the licensee and entities that directly or indirectly control it, are controlled by it, or are under common control. Control means the power to direct an entity's management or policies. Do not double-count transfers within that group; unrelated clients are not part of the group merely because they buy your work. Revenue aggregation does not extend the licence to other entities.

   Revenue is measured before business expenses, excluding refunded sales and sales taxes collected for public authorities; loans and equity-investment proceeds are not business revenue for this test. Assess eligibility when purchasing, renewing or requesting a tier change, and follow clause 2.2.5 if ongoing development outgrows the tier. For non-EUR revenue, use a documented published central-bank or commercial-bank exchange rate for the assessment date, applied consistently across that assessment.

   Declare the appropriate tier accurately and keep records reasonably sufficient to support it. On reasonable notice and for a stated eligibility concern, ILLUSTUDIO may request proportionate evidence, such as a redacted revenue summary or accountant confirmation. We do not require bank-login credentials or unrelated confidential records. We explain any disputed eligibility assessment and provide an opportunity to correct an error. We do not use an undisclosed or retrospective calculation method.

4. 2.2.4

   Each authorised user is an individual person, not a shared login. Keep a record of assigned users and development devices. Do not share licence credentials or rotate users to evade a tier limit. Request user or device reassignment manually through support@illustudio.cc before the replacement uses that allocation; the previous assignment must stop using it. Genuine staff changes and failed or replaced machines may be reassigned within the purchased allowances, subject to verification. Reassignment does not add users or devices or transfer the licence to another legal entity.

   An approved reassignment takes effect when the revised allocation is recorded in the licence service. Replacing a user or development PC does not leave both the old and replacement assignments authorised under the same slot. The licence service retains the relevant assignment history; deleting a local cache, reinstalling the Product or renaming a device does not by itself reset the allowance. Reassignment does not consume an additional commercial-project slot or remove an independently authorised finished Production's rights merely because its development assignment changed.

5. 2.2.5

   If your team, device needs or revenue eligibility changes, contact us to agree the appropriate tier before use outside your entitlement. We disclose any upgrade price and effective date and obtain your acceptance before charging. Crossing a tier threshold does not by itself revoke rights in previously compliant finished Productions.

6. 2.2.6

   More than 30 development users or requirements outside the listed allowances require a written Custom agreement. Developer or plugin-resale licences are not offered in the initial release. All Producer tiers provide the same purchased functionality; higher tiers do not grant source access.

7. 2.2.7

   The table states the standard allowances. We record any approved licence-specific variation in your Licence Schedule or a later written agreement and apply it to that licence. An administrative setting does not, by itself, change the terms you accepted or retrospectively reduce paid rights. A variation does not waive the content restrictions, grant source access, restore a refunded purchase or renew update coverage unless the applicable agreement expressly grants the relevant rights.

   General eligibility and anti-abuse rules, including entity, revenue, user, device and project rules, may be revised only through section 4.5 or a separate lawful agreement. For a material reduction in an expressly purchased allowance, we provide the disclosure and justification and assess the consent, transition and remedy requirements specified there. An administrative setting alone creates neither a valid revision nor a new cancellation right.

2.3 Usage Restrictions & Disclaimer

1. 2.3.1

   You may use the Product in personal, non-commercial and commercial Productions within your licence. Commercial Productions are limited to the following combined allowance across games, movies, videos, animations, visualisations and simulations. These are not separate allowances for each media type.

   Combined commercial-Production limits

   Tier	Maximum commercial projects
   Solo	3
   Indie	6
   Studio	9

   Each commercial visual-only simulation counts as one Production, including a simulation created for a company's business use rather than sold separately. Commercial client projects also count toward the combined allowance. Exceeding your tier's allowance requires a written Custom licence before undertaking additional commercial Productions.

   Patches, updates and platform ports of the same game remain the same Production and together count as one commercial project. DLC and expansions belonging to that same game are counted under the identity of the main project, even when sold separately. They do not consume additional project slots. This project-counting rule does not extend your Product update coverage or increase the user or device allowances.

   For builds using licensed runtime components, the licence service associates the Production with a persistent main-project identity. Where automatic registration is enabled for your licence, the first authorised packaging operation registers that identity within the available allowance; a preliminary licence check does not reserve or consume a project slot. Repackaging the same registered main project does not consume another slot. Separately created project identities are not automatically treated as the same Production merely because their names or files are similar; request an approved association or correction where needed.

   Requests to update a project allocation, including episode grouping, an abandoned-project replacement or a tier-upgrade adjustment, must be submitted manually to support@illustudio.cc with the licence reference, main-project identity and requested change. The change takes effect only when ILLUSTUDIO confirms it in writing. A request does not automatically return a used slot, reset the allowance or authorise an additional project. The same-project rules above remain in force; additional projects beyond the purchased tier's allowance still require a written Custom licence.

   An approved project replacement or correction preserves the allocation history and specifies which identity remains authorised. It is not an unrestricted right to recycle project slots. Completed commercial Productions remain counted against the lifetime allowance; a reset or replacement cannot return their slots for different Productions. Renewing update coverage does not replenish project slots. Removing a local project or renaming it does not erase a registered allocation, and an old project cannot silently borrow its replacement's authorisation.

   For example, one commercial game and two commercial movies or videos use the entire Solo allowance of three projects. Producing a film, animation, rendered image or video within the applicable allowance does not require a separate publication permission from ILLUSTUDIO, except for the prior Custom approval required by clause 2.3.7. All such works remain subject to clause 2.3.6 and clause 2.3.8.

2. 2.3.2

   You may distribute compiled runtime components identified in the release documentation as redistributable only as necessary parts of a finished Production. The applicable redistributable list is the version supplied with that entitled release; a later documentation edit does not retrospectively withdraw permission already granted. Recipients may use those components only to run that Production. Do not distribute editor components, licence credentials, development copies or standalone plugin packages under this permission. Publishers and distributors acting on behalf of the Producer licensee may deliver that licensee's permitted Productions within the same licence scope, but receive no independent Product licence or development rights. Buying or receiving a finished work does not itself make a Consumer an authorised publisher or distributor.

   This runtime permission remains subject to the content conditions in clause 2.3.6, the prior Custom-approval requirement in clause 2.3.7 and the prohibited uses in clause 2.3.8. Those conditions continue to apply when the Product is used through a DLL, another compiled library or another embedded runtime component in a finished Production. Packaging, compiling or finishing a work does not exempt its use or distribution from these conditions. Content violations are subject to clause 2.4.2 and clause 2.4.6.

   Fixing the redistributable list does not exempt the licence from a valid prospective revision, acceptance-required restriction or lawful termination under section 4.5. A later documentation edit alone cannot withdraw the release's redistributable permissions.

3. 2.3.3

   A Producer licensee may sell or otherwise provide finished games and visual works, including movies, clips and static or animated visuals, to Consumers and other end users within the applicable commercial-Production allowance. Consumers and other end users do not need a separate Product licence merely to play or view the finished work. Receiving that work does not transfer the Producer licence or grant permission to use the Product for development, or to extract and reuse its components.

   Buying or receiving a finished work does not, by itself, grant copyright ownership or permission to republish, resell or redistribute it, subject to mandatory legal rights. Any separate publishing or distribution permission must come from the appropriate rights holder; this Agreement does not grant those rights to a Consumer merely because they are a purchaser or client. A recipient who receives development access, an editable project containing the Product, or reusable plugin components must hold an appropriate licence before accessing or using them. The Producer licensee's own licence does not transfer with a finished work.

   The Producer licensee's permission to create, use, sell or distribute finished Productions, including static images, movies and other rendered works containing no runtime component, remains subject to clause 2.3.6, clause 2.3.7 and clause 2.3.8. Finished-work status does not excuse prohibited content or remove the consequences in clause 2.4.2 and clause 2.4.6.

4. 2.3.4

   Except for the permitted distribution above, you must not sell, sublicense, rent, lend, publish, upload or share the Product, whether unchanged or modified, as a standalone or reusable development asset. Do not make it available through public repositories, asset marketplaces, shared download links or networks to people outside the authorised licence scope. Internal storage and access for your authorised users remain subject to the same limits.

5. 2.3.5

   You may configure the Product, use its documented interfaces and adapt materials expressly supplied for modification for your own permitted Productions. Keep copyright and proprietary notices. Do not bypass licence controls or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Product except where, and only to the extent, applicable law permits despite this restriction. Any separately applicable third-party licence remains effective for its own components.

6. 2.3.6

   Subject to applicable law and the restrictions below, fictional works may contain adult or erotic themes, horror, gore, violence and crime scenes. Such adult, erotic, gore, violence and crime-scene depictions must be fictional and must not portray, recreate or imitate identifiable real people, including through their likenesses. Depicting an offence in a fictional story is not, by itself, promoting or carrying out that offence. Describing content as fictional does not exempt it from applicable law or the prohibitions in clause 2.3.8.

   The permitted-use conditions in clauses 2.3.6 to 2.3.8 may be tightened only through the applicable process in section 4.5. That process does not itself introduce a blanket prohibition on fictional adult content.

7. 2.3.7

   Use whose purpose is real-world religious or political campaigning, promotion or advocacy requires prior written approval through a Custom agreement. Before undertaking that use, submit the proposed purpose, content, audience and distribution context so ILLUSTUDIO can assess its nature and likely impact. Approval is not automatic and applies only to the use expressly authorised in writing. A fictional religion, cult, political setting or incidental narrative reference does not by itself trigger this requirement. No Custom agreement permits unlawful conduct or overrides clause 2.3.8.

8. 2.3.8

   You must not use the Product to create, distribute, promote or facilitate child sexual abuse or exploitation, or pornographic or sexually explicit depictions of children. This prohibition includes wholly fictional, drawn, animated, simulated and computer-generated children; it does not depend on a real child being involved or on the depiction being separately prohibited by local law. It is an ILLUSTUDIO licence restriction, not a statement that every jurisdiction defines an offence identically. Calling a work fictional is not an exception. Age-of-consent rules do not create an exception to this prohibition.

   You must not create or distribute sexual material involving real persons or their identifiable likenesses, whether recorded, simulated or generated. The broader restriction on real-person depictions in adult, gore, violence and crime-scene content is set out in clause 2.3.6. You must not use the Product for terrorist recruitment, fundraising or propaganda promoting terrorist violence, to facilitate real-world violent attacks, or otherwise to commit or intentionally assist unlawful conduct. Other sexual depictions prohibited by applicable law are also prohibited.

9. 2.3.9

   ILLUSTUDIO supplies general-purpose development components, not the content of your independently created Productions. You control your assets, narrative, depictions and distribution, and are responsible for the necessary rights, permissions, classifications and compliance with applicable law. Supplying the Product does not make ILLUSTUDIO the author, publisher, sponsor or endorser of your Production. Do not claim ILLUSTUDIO approval without written permission. This allocation does not exclude responsibility that the law places on ILLUSTUDIO for its own conduct.

2.4 Termination and Legal Remedies

1. 2.4.1

   We may stop offering the Product for new sales. Withdrawal from a storefront does not by itself revoke an existing, paid-up perpetual licence or remove rights already granted in entitled versions. Existing paid delivery, update and other express commitments remain subject to their terms and applicable law.

2. 2.4.2

   A violation of the content conditions in clause 2.3.6, the prior Custom-approval requirement in clause 2.3.7 or the prohibitions in clause 2.3.8 is a material breach. Where ILLUSTUDIO establishes such a violation through a reasonable review of documented evidence, the affected licence will be terminated with immediate effect and the internal licensing restriction in clause 2.4.6 will apply, subject to mandatory law. No prior opportunity to cure is required for these established content violations, except where applicable law requires otherwise. This rule applies during development and after a Production is finished, distributed or used through Product runtime components.

   An unsupported allegation alone does not establish a violation. Where lawful, we will give written notice of the decision, its factual basis and the affected licence, and a way to contest mistaken identity or an incorrect finding. If a decision is found to be erroneous, we will correct the restriction and restore any rights wrongly withdrawn. Pending review, proportionate suspension may be used where reasonably necessary to address credible evidence of serious unlawful use or an urgent security threat.

   For other material breaches capable of remedy, we will give written notice identifying the breach and a reasonable opportunity to remedy it before termination. We may take immediate, proportionate action where required by law or reasonably necessary to address serious unlawful use, deliberate unauthorised redistribution or an urgent security threat.

   Nonacceptance of an applicable revision is handled under section 4.5; it is not an established content violation under this clause. A revision does not turn a previously permitted act into a retrospective breach.

3. 2.4.3

   We limit suspension or termination for breach to the affected licence and breach. Expiry of update coverage, a storefront withdrawal, or a good-faith support or refund request is not by itself grounds to terminate an otherwise valid perpetual licence. A refund request is different from a completed refund: cancellation of a refunded purchase ends the corresponding entitlement as set out in section 3.6.

   Restriction and termination for nonacceptance of a qualifying revision are separate grounds, limited to the affected licence and section 4.5. An unanswered, dismissed or postponed prompt does not preserve Product authorisation after the lawful acceptance cutoff. Nonacceptance alone is not an abuse finding.

4. 2.4.4

   On lawful termination, stop development use and further distribution of the Product under the affected licence and remove development copies you are no longer entitled to retain, subject to mandatory law and any agreed remedy. Lawfully distributed copies of compliant finished Productions are not automatically recalled, and unrelated licences remain unaffected.

   No automatic recall means that game files are not automatically taken back or remotely deleted; it never exempts embedded Product features from ongoing licence authorisation. If the underlying licence is revoked, or its base purchase is fully refunded and cancelled, affected embedded Product features in already distributed games lose authorisation after the next successful authenticated online check confirms that revocation or completed cancellation. This applies even to compliant copies already held by Consumers. The affected features become disabled or neutral without deliberate crashing or stopping of the game process. A pending refund request alone has no such effect; expiry of update coverage alone does not revoke previously entitled versions. Unrelated licences, the offline limitations in section 2.6 and mandatory rights remain unaffected.

   The absence of automatic recall does not excuse unlawful or infringing material, depictions contrary to clause 2.3.6, campaigning that requires but lacks prior written Custom approval under clause 2.3.7, or uses prohibited by clause 2.3.8. You must stop that prohibited use and distribution, including use or distribution through DLLs or other Product runtime components. The termination and internal licensing restriction in clause 2.4.2 and clause 2.4.6 apply to established violations. A contractual restriction may apply even where the conduct is not a criminal offence. Any request we make for removal or action affecting copies already held by Consumers follows applicable law and appropriate legal or platform processes.

   During a lawful acceptance-required restriction under section 4.5, affected development use and further Product distribution must stop until valid acceptance restores authorisation or lawful termination follows. Final termination has the consequences described above; temporary restriction does not itself require deletion of files. A lawful restriction also applies to affected embedded Product features at the next successful authenticated verification of the decision, subject to disclosed offline authorisations, required transition arrangements and independently protected rights. Those features become disabled or neutral without deliberate crashing, remote deletion or blocking the entire editor, cooking, packaging or game process. A local refusal click does not directly revoke the licence. Only the identified affected licence is restricted; unrelated licences remain unaffected.

5. 2.4.5

   Either party may take enforcement steps available under applicable law. Depending on the facts and legal basis, these may include a written demand to stop a breach, a lawful removal request, or asking a court for an order to stop unlawful conduct or for compensation for legally recoverable loss. Suspected offences may be reported to the competent authorities. An allegation does not by itself establish liability, and this Agreement does not impose an automatic fine or guarantee that proceedings will be brought or succeed. Refund-related entitlement adjustments are addressed in section 3.6.

6. 2.4.6

   A licensee whose content violation is established under clause 2.4.2 will be placed on an internal licensing blacklist: ILLUSTUDIO will refuse new licences, optional renewals and Custom approvals for that licensee unless the restriction is withdrawn following review or written reinstatement, subject to applicable law and existing contractual commitments. Do not use another account or intermediary to evade that restriction. Blacklisting does not itself revoke unrelated existing paid licences, impose a public blacklist or label ordinary Consumers as offenders merely for receiving a finished work. We limit any necessary personal-data handling to lawful licensing enforcement and describe it in the Privacy Policy. This Agreement does not authorise remote deletion of Consumer-held copies.

   Nonacceptance-only restriction or termination under section 4.5 is not grounds for this abuse blacklist. It nevertheless prevents continued affected Product authorisation after the lawful cutoff. Reinstatement or a new licence may require valid acceptance without labelling the licensee an abuser.

2.5 Custom Licence

A Custom agreement takes effect only when recorded in writing and accepted by authorised representatives of both parties. It may vary specified commercial or usage provisions only to the extent stated. All other provisions remain applicable. It cannot waive clause 2.3.8, mandatory law or rights that ILLUSTUDIO does not own. Source code is not offered through Custom licensing. A permission from ILLUSTUDIO is not an approval by Paddle or another payment provider; any proposed transaction remains subject to that provider's separate requirements.

Enquiries: contact@illustudio.cc.

2.6 Licence Verification and Runtime Behaviour

Native licence verification checks the applicable entitlement, release, authorised development user and PC, and main-project identity. Licence denial does not intentionally block the editor, cooking or packaging process. Completing a package is not proof of licensed runtime authorisation: a package without valid authorisation can run with the affected Product features disabled or returning neutral outputs. This technical availability does not grant permission to use a refunded, lawfully restricted or terminated licence.

Runtime components check their signed authorisation with the licence service. After an authenticated check confirms a revocation, the affected licensed features become disabled or neutral; the licensing mechanism does not deliberately crash or stop the game process. Both licence revocation and a completed full base-licence refund and cancellation remove authorisation for affected embedded Product features in already distributed games, including compliant Consumer-held copies, at their next successful authenticated online verification of that decision. No remote deletion or recall of the game is required, and retaining its files does not preserve the affected plugin authorisation. An offline copy cannot receive a new server decision until a successful online check. Existing time-limited authorisations remain subject to their disclosed validity and offline conditions; no instantaneous offline revocation is promised. The scope of enforcement remains subject to clauses 2.4.3 to 2.4.6 and the refund provisions in section 3.6.

The Licence Schedule identifies the first-use and periodic internet requirements, any hardware-verification requirement, and the applicable authorisation and offline periods before purchase. A test configuration is not a change to a purchased licence's conditions. Periodic technical verification is not a paid update renewal and does not cancel an already entitled version solely because update coverage has ended.

The same non-destructive enforcement and disclosed offline limits apply to a lawful acceptance-required restriction under section 4.5. The licence service, not an editor button, determines the applicable revision and affected licence authorisation. We preserve a recorded acceptance even if its acknowledgement fails. We do not issue new authorisation contrary to a valid acceptance requirement; reinstalling, rolling back or postponing a prompt does not reset it. Acceptance, account, order, support and remedy routes remain available. Accepting before final termination removes an acceptance-only restriction where the other licence conditions are met; reinstatement after final termination requires ILLUSTUDIO's confirmation. No new contractual obligation is imposed on an ordinary player who has not accepted this Agreement.

3.1 Purchase and Payment

For transactions processed by Paddle, Paddle acts as merchant of record and authorised reseller. Its Buyer Terms govern the transaction; this Agreement governs the ILLUSTUDIO Product licence. Neither document overrides mandatory rights.

Paddle conducts the order process for those transactions and handles payment-related customer-service enquiries and returns through Paddle buyer support. ILLUSTUDIO handles Product, licence and technical-support enquiries at support@illustudio.cc.

The product, tier, currency, amount and applicable taxes shown before payment determine the purchase. Direct-store licence-package prices are not per-user charges. Prices for future purchases may change without retrospectively changing an accepted order. Regional pricing, where offered, does not change tier eligibility or purchased functionality. Do not misrepresent purchasing location or licence-holder information.

The current Producer offering and optional update renewals are one-time purchases. They do not authorise automatic recurring charges. Any future subscription would require separate, clearly disclosed terms and your express agreement.

Agreement acceptance and payment are separate decisions. You must accept the Agreement validly applicable to your licence under section 4.5, including its prospective commercial terms, to continue authorised use. Acceptance does not place an order, promise a future purchase or authorise a payment. A new purchase or optional update renewal requires a separate order at its disclosed price. A later price increase does not create an additional charge on an already accepted order.

3.2 Perpetual Use and Update Coverage

For direct-store purchases, a new licence includes 12 calendar months of update coverage from the completed purchase date. Updates and major-version upgrades to the purchased Product released during that coverage are included. A separately sold product or module is not included unless expressly identified in the Licence Schedule.

When coverage ends, you retain the right to use every version already included in your entitlement while complying with the Agreement validly applicable to your licence, including the renewed-acceptance requirement in section 4.5. You do not need to renew solely to continue using those versions or permitted finished Productions. Perpetual licence duration is distinct from download-hosting, support and online-service availability; it does not by itself promise indefinite availability of those services or override express commitments and mandatory remedies.

Update and download authorisations are limited to entitled releases. Not renewing means you receive no update or download authorisation for later releases outside that entitlement; it does not remove access to already entitled downloads while the download service remains available and the affected licence remains authorised under the applicable Agreement. A release described as the latest version may still be included in your existing entitlement. Eligibility depends on the releases and coverage you purchased, not on the version's marketing label.

Before purchase, the Licence Schedule states any required activation-service dependency and the arrangements for continued use if that service is discontinued. The service-availability distinction above does not authorise cancelling a perpetual licence by ending an undisclosed required service or requiring an update renewal solely to keep using an entitled version.

Continued authorisation for already entitled versions requires acceptance of revisions validly applicable under section 4.5. Missing acceptance after the lawful cutoff can restrict and ultimately terminate that authorisation, including under an older purchase. Declining a paid update renewal alone cannot do so. No paid update or renewal is required solely to review or accept a revised Agreement.

3.3 Optional Update Renewal

For direct-store purchases, a paid renewal extends update coverage by the number of calendar years stated in the renewal offer (12 months per year), from the later of your existing coverage end and the completed renewal purchase date. Early renewal preserves unused coverage; late renewal starts a new period without charging you for the gap. The renewal amount and coverage dates are shown before payment. Renewal is optional and is not automatically charged.

The commercial-Production allowance applies to the licence, not to each update-coverage year. An update renewal buys update coverage only; it does not add, reset or replenish project slots. The combined limit remains the allowance in your accepted Licence Schedule, including an earlier allowance where applicable. Additional commercial Productions beyond the purchased tier's allowance require a written Custom licence. For example, renewing a new Solo licence whose three project slots are already used does not authorise a fourth project.

The renewal offer identifies the starting release and any earlier releases included, together with updates released during the renewed period. Do not assume that every release from a gap in coverage is included unless the offer expressly says so. Separately sold products or modules are not included unless expressly listed in that offer.

For example, if coverage ends on 3 October 2026 and you renew for one year on 20 September 2026, the extended coverage ends on 3 October 2027. If instead you renew for one year on 20 October 2026 after coverage has ended, the new coverage ends on 20 October 2027.

A reminder is not a bill or a requirement to renew. Our update-expiry notices do not state or imply that expiry of update coverage ends the perpetual licence. No fixed renewal price is promised unless expressly included in the accepted order.

Future Renewal Prices and Agreement Acceptance

ILLUSTUDIO may change the price of future optional update renewals, including to reflect additional features, expanded Product scope, ongoing development, support, costs or business operations. Each renewal is offered at its then-current disclosed price, which may be higher than an earlier purchase or renewal price even if the licensee remains within the same revenue tier. An earlier purchase does not guarantee a fixed or grandfathered future renewal rate unless expressly promised in an accepted agreement. The renewal price need not equal the price of a new base licence; the actual renewal offer determines the amount.

The applicable amount, currency, taxes and update-coverage dates are disclosed before you place the renewal order. A price increase does not reprice an already accepted order, shorten update coverage already purchased or remove releases promised within that coverage. Renewal remains a separately chosen one-time purchase; no automatic charge or obligation to renew arises from a policy notice or acceptance.

If you accept the Agreement validly applicable under section 4.5 but decline the renewal offer, you may continue using already entitled versions while otherwise compliant. You acquire no additional release entitlement outside your purchased coverage merely by accepting the Terms. Refusing or not responding to the applicable revised Agreement is separate from declining renewal and remains subject to section 4.5, even if you intend to use only an older version.

3.4 Product Scope and Roadmap

Feature plans, roadmap milestones and planned release dates are described separately from these general licence terms. A roadmap entry does not automatically expand the purchased licence or guarantee every future feature. Any specific inclusion, delivery or early-buyer commitment expressly made in the accepted purchase offer remains part of that purchase and is not removed by a later roadmap or website edit.

3.5 Delivery, Compatibility and Support

The purchase offer identifies the supplied release, supported engine and operating-system versions, material hardware requirements, delivery method and any activation or internet requirements. Illustrations and roadmap items are not a substitute for the deliverables expressly included in the order.

Product, activation and download enquiries go to support@illustudio.cc. Keep your order reference and protect licence credentials. Contact support if legitimate machine replacement or an activation fault prevents access. Do not send passwords, complete licence secrets or payment-card details by email.

Unless expressly included in the purchase offer, the licence does not promise a support response deadline, custom development, compatibility with every third-party plugin or all future engine versions. These limits do not remove paid commitments or remedies for a defective, undelivered or misdescribed Product.

3.6 Refunds and Purchase Reversals

ILLUSTUDIO offers a voluntary full refund when requested within 14 calendar days of the licensee's first purchase of the Product. This is the period for submitting the request, not a fourteen-day licence expiry or a requirement that processing finish within that period. This voluntary offer does not apply to update renewals or repeat purchases. Request a refund at support@illustudio.cc or, for Paddle transactions, through Paddle payment support, providing your purchase email and order reference. Troubleshooting is available but is not a condition of this first-purchase offer. Refunds of Paddle transactions are processed through Paddle.

Excluding renewals from this voluntary offer does not exclude refunds required by applicable law or granted by Paddle under its own policy. The fourteen-day offer does not cut off mandatory cancellation, withdrawal or defect remedies. Paddle may separately consider discretionary refund requests within 14 days under its Refund Policy. Requesting a Paddle discretionary refund does not guarantee approval; this does not limit ILLUSTUDIO's full-refund commitment under the first-purchase offer above. Nothing here automatically waives a statutory withdrawal right when you download or use the Product; any legally required separate consent is obtained in the purchase flow.

When an initial licence purchase is refunded and cancelled, the entitlement arising from that purchase ends, subject to applicable law and the refund terms disclosed before purchase. ILLUSTUDIO will deactivate the licence access attributable to the cancelled purchase. The refunded purchase no longer authorises activation or continued use, including use of a previously activated or offline copy. You must stop using and remove Product copies no longer covered by another valid entitlement. Merely requesting a refund does not have this effect.

After that refund and cancellation are confirmed, ILLUSTUDIO removes the usable licence key from active licensing records and revokes the affected purchase's authorisation. Purchase, refund and non-secret revocation records are retained as needed to document the transaction and prevent reuse of cancelled authorisations, subject to the Privacy Policy. A later purchase creates a separate entitlement and does not reactivate the refunded purchase merely because the buyer details are the same. Technical enforcement follows section 2.6 of the Terms, including its online-verification and offline limitations.

Refunding and cancelling the base licence closes that licence, not merely its update coverage. A renewal is not a standalone licence and cannot keep a refunded base licence active. Any further development, sales, downloads or patches that require the refunded Product licence must stop unless covered by another valid licence. This does not transfer ownership of your independently created content to ILLUSTUDIO or automatically recall compliant copies already lawfully held by Consumers. However, after a completed full base-licence refund and cancellation, affected embedded Product features in those copies, including already distributed games, lose authorisation at their next successful authenticated online verification of that cancellation. Revocation of the underlying licence under the Terms has the same runtime effect, independently of a refund. No automatic recall means retained game files, not surviving authorisation for the affected plugin features. This does not remotely delete the game or deliberately crash its process. A pending request alone does not disable those features, and no immediate offline cutoff is promised. Independently purchased licences and mandatory rights remain unaffected.

If an update renewal is cancelled and its entitlement is reversed, including through a refund required by law or granted by Paddle, only the entitlement attributable to that renewal is removed. We preserve pre-existing, unrefunded perpetual entitlements, including earlier entitled versions and coverage. A renewal-only reversal does not delete the original licence key or cancel the base licence solely because that renewal was reversed. Simply choosing not to buy another renewal does not reverse coverage or versions already paid for. We do not introduce new restrictions when a refund is requested.

A payment dispute will be handled under the applicable payment rules and law. An allegation or good-faith dispute is not by itself proof of licence misuse.

A right to a refund, price reduction, compensation or another remedy arising from a later policy revision, restriction or termination is governed by applicable law, the transaction terms and any disclosed exit offer, as explained in clause 4.5.7. It is not cut off by the fourteen-day voluntary first-purchase request period. Nonacceptance does not automatically forfeit money or determine refund eligibility. A refund does not by itself make an otherwise unlawful restriction or termination lawful.

4.1 Ownership and Third-Party Terms

The Product is licensed, not sold as intellectual property. ILLUSTUDIO and its licensors retain ownership of the Product. You retain your rights in your independently created content; using the Product does not assign that content to ILLUSTUDIO. Rights in embedded Product components remain subject to this Agreement.

Unreal Engine and any other third-party software or assets require their own applicable licences. This Agreement does not grant rights that belong to Epic Games or other third parties, remove their obligations, or override licences applying to separately identified third-party components. Preserve required third-party notices. Permission to distribute ILLUSTUDIO runtime components is not permission to distribute Unreal editor tools or other restricted materials.

4.2 Product Commitments and Warranties

Express deliverables and commitments made in the accepted purchase offer remain part of the agreement. We do not promise that the Product will be error-free, uninterrupted or suitable for every project or unlisted configuration. Assess the stated requirements and maintain appropriate project backups.

To the extent permitted by law, no additional warranty is given beyond the express commitments in the accepted order. This does not exclude guarantees, obligations or remedies that applicable law makes mandatory, including applicable rights relating to quality, fitness, delivery or accurate description.

4.3 Responsibility and Liability

Each party is responsible for its own conduct as determined by applicable law. Your responsibility for independently created content does not make you responsible for ILLUSTUDIO's own unlawful acts. Nor does supplying general-purpose software, by itself, constitute approval or creation of your content.

To the extent applicable law permits, neither party is liable to the other for losses that are too remote to be recoverable under that law. This Agreement does not create an automatic penalty or an unlimited indemnity for every breach. It does not exclude liability for fraud or deliberate wrongdoing, or any liability, refund or consumer remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

4.4 Applicable Law and Disputes

The laws of India govern this Agreement to the extent that choice is permitted. Mandatory protections available under other applicable laws remain unaffected. This clause does not replace the law and dispute provisions governing a separate transaction with Paddle or applicable third-party marketplace agreements.

You may contact support@illustudio.cc to seek resolution of a dispute, but doing so is not a condition of exercising mandatory rights. Disputes may be brought before a court or consumer forum with lawful jurisdiction. This Agreement does not impose compulsory arbitration, waive a lawful consumer forum or shorten a statutory limitation period.

4.5 Acceptance, Policy Updates and Nonacceptance

4.5.1 Accepted Agreement and Defined Changes

We make the licence text and Licence Schedule available before acceptance. Your accepted Agreement governs the entitlement, including the limited policy-update and termination process in this section, together with any later variation expressly agreed by the parties. We will identify and retain each applicable policy version. A website edit, administrative setting or new version number alone does not change an existing licence.

4.5.2 Permitted Policy Updates

ILLUSTUDIO may revise any section of this Agreement and the general rules governing its licence offerings, where reasonably necessary and proportionate to:

• comply with applicable law, a binding order or a regulatory obligation;
• prevent or address sexual exploitation, child abuse, non-consensual intimate content, harmful impersonation or comparable documented threats to people's safety, privacy or rights;
• prevent fraud, serious security threats, unauthorised distribution or exploitation of licensing, eligibility, allocation or verification arrangements;
• correct a material ambiguity or close a demonstrated loophole that undermines one of the preceding purposes; or
• establish or revise prospective commercial terms for future purchases and optional update renewals, including prices and pricing methods, or terms for new features and offerings, reflecting changes in Product scope, development, support, costs or business operations without retrospectively repricing an accepted order.

Revisions may address individual and entity eligibility, related companies, authorised users, device sharing, revenue and tier calculations, project and commercial-use counting, redistribution, subcontracting, resale, activation and verification, content conditions, update and support processes, refund administration, enforcement or other provisions of this Agreement. For example, we may tighten rules if companies exploit transfers, affiliate structures, repeated reassignments or artificial project identities to evade the intended licence scope. No section is excluded merely because it is outside the content policy.

Revisions may also state the prices or pricing rules applicable to future optional renewals. A higher price may apply even where the licensee remains within the same revenue tier. The amount originally paid does not guarantee a fixed price for every future renewal unless an express accepted commitment provides otherwise. The new price applies only if the licensee separately chooses to purchase the relevant renewal under section 3.3; it does not create a debt for keeping an already entitled version or reprice update coverage already purchased.

An update may tighten a previously permitted use or practice, including a category of fictional adult content, when justified by these purposes. We identify the relevant purpose and explain the substantive change. A correction that changes a permission, allowance or obligation is a material update, not merely an editorial correction. For a reduction in an expressly purchased allowance or use, we provide specific disclosure and justification and assess applicable consent, transition and remedy obligations. Describing a change as an improvement, correction or policy update does not by itself justify it.

We do not use this power as a pretext for an undisclosed charge or subscription, a retrospective price increase on an accepted order, compulsory paid renewal solely to accept revised terms or continue using an already entitled version, appropriation of independently created content, unrelated data-processing or marketing consent, or retaliation for a complaint or exercise of legal rights. A change outside these defined purposes requires a separate lawful agreement. No revision can remove a mandatory refund, privacy or other legal right. Genuine anti-abuse changes to commercial provisions and prospective changes to optional renewal prices are within the stated scope, but remain subject to the applicable notice, acceptance, contractual-commitment and enforceability requirements.

4.5.3 Notice and Effective Date

For a material update, we will provide the full revised text in a form you can retain, its version, a summary of the changes and reasons, the affected licences and uses, the effective date, the acceptance cutoff, any termination date and the consequences of nonacceptance. The notice explains that declining, dismissing or not responding will not preserve Product authorisation after the cutoff. It identifies the available review route and any applicable exit, refund or other remedy.

Ordinarily we will provide at least 30 calendar days' notice before the update, acceptance-based restriction or termination takes effect, with longer notice where required by law or reasonably necessary for the particular change. The acceptance cutoff falls no earlier than the lawful effective date or expiry of the required notice period. Notice will be sent to the recorded licence contact and made available through the licence account; an editor prompt supplements, rather than replaces, that notice. We retain evidence of notice sufficient under applicable law. We do not treat a failed delivery as informed refusal, and we correct defects in required notice before relying on that notice for restriction or termination.

We may use a shorter period only to the extent genuinely necessary to comply with a binding legal requirement or address a specific, serious and urgent harm or security threat. We will explain the reason and provide notice as soon as lawfully possible. An urgent technical suspension is limited to what is necessary; it is not proof of abuse or a substitute for the required notice and termination process. An editorial change that does not alter rights or obligations does not require renewed acceptance and cannot trigger restriction or termination.

4.5.4 Scope and Renewed Acceptance

A qualifying revision made under this section becomes a condition of continued authorised use under every affected licence from its lawful acceptance cutoff, including already entitled Product versions and authorised embedded runtime components. A valid purchase, an earlier acceptance or perpetual duration does not alone satisfy acceptance of a later applicable revision under this originally agreed mechanism. No paid software upgrade or update renewal is required solely to review or accept a policy update.

This acceptance requirement applies to the revised Agreement as a whole, including its validly applicable prospective commercial and renewal-pricing provisions, whether or not the licensee presently intends to buy updates. Accepting those provisions means agreeing to their contractual application; it is not a renewal order, a promise to renew, acceptance of a particular optional purchase offer or authority to charge a payment method. A licensee may accept the applicable Agreement, decline a higher-priced renewal and continue using already entitled versions while otherwise compliant. Declining or ignoring the applicable revised Agreement is a different decision and remains subject to this section's restriction and termination process.

We record affirmative acceptance for the exact applicable revision and identified licence scope, given by the individual licensee or a representative authorised to bind the entity licensee. Acceptance by an ordinary player, a viewer, or an employee without that authority cannot change the entity's licence. We retain a decision already validly recorded even if its acknowledgement failed to reach a client.

For continued Product access after the cutoff, any state without valid acceptance is nonacceptance. This includes an express No, a dismissed or unanswered prompt, choosing to review later, or an attempt that never successfully records acceptance. We will withhold or suspend the affected Product authorisation until valid acceptance is recorded or the licence is lawfully terminated. There is no continuing-use exemption solely because the user has not clicked No. Our audit record distinguishes these events and does not invent an express refusal or consent.

Before the applicable cutoff, the existing conditions continue unless action is independently justified under law or the existing agreement. After the cutoff, an unanswered notice or follow-up does not extend Product authorisation. Lawfully withheld Product access does not prevent access to the terms, acceptance controls, order records, support, dispute or refund routes. Accepting before final termination removes this acceptance-only restriction, provided all other licence conditions are met. On a first grant, no Product authorisation is issued before valid initial acceptance; pre-purchase disclosure and any required refund rights still apply.

This contractual requirement does not promise instantaneous revocation of a disconnected installation. Existing signed offline authorisations remain subject to their previously disclosed validity and lawful offline conditions. A new server decision takes effect technically when authenticated verification can receive it, and we issue no further authorisation contrary to the applicable acceptance requirement. Closing a prompt, reinstalling, rolling back the client or repeatedly creating a new session does not reset the required revision or the cutoff. The technical limits do not grant a contractual right to exploit an old cached authorisation.

4.5.5 Nonacceptance and Termination

If valid acceptance remains absent at the notified termination date, whether because of express refusal or non-response, ILLUSTUDIO will terminate the affected licence through the notified written process, provided the revision, restriction and termination are enforceable for that licence. The termination date falls no earlier than the lawful acceptance cutoff or completion of any legally required procedure. It may coincide with the cutoff only where lawful and clearly disclosed; we provide any required additional notice or opportunity to respond. The licence remains restricted during a lawful interval between the acceptance cutoff and final termination; not responding is not an alternative continuing-use entitlement.

You may request an earlier agreed termination. You may withdraw a refusal and validly accept before final termination; we then withdraw any scheduled acceptance-only cancellation. After final termination, reinstatement requires confirmation from ILLUSTUDIO rather than merely clicking Agree locally.

The termination notice identifies the affected licence, the revised agreement, the reason the change is required, whether there was express refusal or no recorded acceptance, the effective time, the consequences and how to challenge an error or request a remedy. Before action, we verify the authoritative acceptance history, relevant authority, sufficient notice and legal and contractual basis. We do not directly and permanently revoke a licence solely because of a local button click, missing client acknowledgement or failed connection.

On lawful termination, authorisation under that licence ends for all affected entitled versions and Product components, not only the latest release. Keeping an old copy or declining a paid update renewal does not preserve authorisation under a lawfully terminated licence. The consequences and technical limits in clauses 2.4.4 and 2.6 apply, subject to this section's safeguards and mandatory rights. Unrelated licences are not automatically cancelled; we identify and assess each affected licence separately.

Nonacceptance is not, by itself, a content violation, admission of wrongdoing, consent to a penalty or grounds for the abuse blacklist in clause 2.4.6. It does prevent continued Product authorisation after the lawful cutoff under this section. You may contest the change or termination through the retained review routes. ILLUSTUDIO need not grant a new licence under unaccepted conditions, subject to applicable law and existing commitments.

4.5.6 Prospective Operation and Finished Productions

An update applies prospectively from its lawful effective date. It does not make a previously permitted act a retrospective breach, justify a retrospective penalty or transfer ownership of a Production to ILLUSTUDIO. We assess a continued act after that date, including further use or distribution, under the conditions lawfully applicable to that licence at that time.

The update notice describes the practical effect on existing Productions and distributed runtime components and provides for a reasonable transition where required. During a lawful nonacceptance restriction and after lawful termination, clauses 2.4.4 and 2.6, as revised consistently with this section, govern the affected Product authorisation, including the disclosed limitations on online and offline enforcement. This is not permission to delete customer files, deliberately crash a game or stop the editor, cooking or packaging process. This Agreement does not create a new contractual obligation for an end user who did not accept it or remove independently protected third-party rights.

4.5.7 Review and Remedies

You may contact support@illustudio.cc to challenge mistaken identity, lack of authority, inaccurate notice, an incorrectly recorded decision, the scope or lawfulness of a change, or a restriction or termination. We will explain the decision and correct an error, including restoration of wrongly withdrawn rights where appropriate. A good-faith challenge is not misconduct. We will pause final termination where there is a credible dispute about the identity or authority behind a decision or evidence that required notice failed, unless independently lawful urgent action is necessary. A challenge does not automatically remove an otherwise lawful acceptance-required restriction, but we correct an invalid restriction or an incorrectly missing acceptance. We do not rely on this paragraph to keep a known unlawful block in place.

Nothing in this section excludes a mandatory right to continue use, end the agreement, receive a refund, price reduction or compensation, or obtain another remedy. A remedy arising from a later update is not limited by the ordinary fourteen-day voluntary first-purchase refund-request period. Nonacceptance does not automatically forfeit money or decide refund eligibility; the applicable law, transaction terms and any disclosed exit offer determine the remedy. Where law requires preservation of existing rights instead of restriction or termination, we will preserve those rights. A refund by itself does not make an otherwise unlawful block or cancellation lawful.

4.5.8 Limits and Precedence

This process applies only where the licence was granted under an agreement incorporating it, or the parties later validly agreed to adopt it. It does not unilaterally add a cancellation right to a different accepted agreement. A written Custom agreement or specific Licence Schedule commitment continues to prevail to the extent it expressly varies a general term, subject to mandatory law.

This section cannot remove rights independently granted under a marketplace or third-party agreement, or override transaction protections provided by Paddle or another merchant of record. Any separate policy or licence we offer through a marketplace applies only to the extent compatible with the agreements governing that sale. If a proposed update, restriction or termination is unenforceable, we do not implement it merely because the software can technically block access. Calling an action a temporary access block rather than termination does not avoid these limits.

4.6 Notices, Privacy and Remaining Terms

Licence and Product notices may be sent to the contact address recorded with the licence; keep that address current. Contact ILLUSTUDIO at support@illustudio.cc. Marketing permission is separate from necessary transaction or licence correspondence.

Our applicable Privacy Policy describes our personal-data handling, including actual purchase, support and licence-verification processing. This Agreement is not blanket consent to unrelated data collection or marketing. Paddle describes its own processing in its Privacy Notice; that notice does not replace ILLUSTUDIO's own disclosures.

If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue only to the extent permitted by law and consistent with the essential agreement. A failure to enforce a provision on one occasion is not a general waiver. Nothing in this Agreement excludes mandatory rights or creates a right to enforce an unlawful restriction.

Our material policy-update notices also include the full text, reasons, affected licence scope, dates, acceptance consequences and review or remedy information described in section 4.5. We retain the delivery evidence and handle notice failures as described there. A general website notice or editor dialog alone does not replace those requirements.