Terms & Conditions

1. Creator

AI Canvas (the “Service”) is the work of a single individual (the “Creator”), reachable at aicanvas.me@gmail.com. References below to “we,” “us,” or “the Creator” mean that person. References to “you” mean any person who visits or uses AI Canvas.

2. The Service

AI Canvas is a free, open-source registry of animated React components. It also publishes design-system templates and an MCP integration that exposes the registry to AI coding tools. Browsing, copying source code, and installing components via the shadcn CLI do not require an account. Saving favourites, viewing install history, and unlocking gated design-system templates do.

3. Eligibility & user account

You may create an account using a valid email address and a password, or by signing in with Google OAuth. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for any activity that takes place under your account. We may suspend or terminate accounts used for abuse, fraud, or to violate these terms.

4. Component licensing

Components published in the AI Canvas registry are released under the MIT licence. You are free to copy them, modify them, and ship them. The website chrome itself (page layout, navigation, branding, non-component code) is the Creator's copyright.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or any technical access controls.
• Scrape, mirror, or republish the registry endpoints under /r/ in a way that materially impairs the service for others.
• Use the service to build, distribute, or operate anything illegal, infringing, defamatory, or harmful to third parties.
• Submit false information about yourself when creating an account.

6. Marketing communications

By creating an account you agree that we may send you occasional emails about AI Canvas itself — new components, design-system updates, MCP releases, and other product news directly related to the Service. We do not send marketing for third-party products and we do not share your email with third-party advertisers.

You can opt out at any time by:

• Toggling “Marketing emails” off in your account settings, or
• Clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email we send.

Opting out does not affect transactional emails (sign-up confirmation, magic links, password reset) — those are necessary to provide the account service. The legal basis for this processing is § 7 (3) UWG (existing-customer exception, as interpreted by the ECJ in Case C-654/23).

7. Disclaimer of warranties

AI Canvas is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or availability. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that components published here are free of bugs, free of security issues, or suitable for production use without further review.

You evaluate, test, and ship the components at your own risk. You are responsible for deciding whether a component fits your project, testing it in your context, complying with its open-source licence, and securing the application you build with it. AI Canvas does not review or audit how its components are used downstream and is not a party to anything you build, ship, or sell with them.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Creator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, or data, arising out of or in connection with your use of AI Canvas. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — in particular, liability for intent or gross negligence, or liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) where applicable.

9. Account termination

You can delete your account at any time from /account/settings. Deletion is immediate and removes your account row, saved components, install history, and preferences. We may terminate or suspend accounts that breach these terms; in such cases we will inform you by email where reasonably possible.

Beyond breach-based termination, we may also terminate any account at our reasonable discretion with at least 14 days' notice by email — for example, if an account no longer fits the purpose of the Service. In serious cases (abuse, fraud, security risk, repeated breach) we may terminate immediately. In either case you can export your data before the account is closed.

We may also modify, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service at any time — including individual features, components, or the registry itself. Where a change materially affects existing accounts we will give reasonable notice, but we do not commit to keeping any particular feature or to operating AI Canvas for any minimum period.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms when the service materially changes (new features, new processors, new legal requirements). The “Last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. For changes that materially affect existing accounts we will notify you by email or by an in-product notice before the change takes effect. Your continued use of AI Canvas after a change to these terms means you accept the new version — if you do not, your remedy is to delete your account.

11. Severability

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full effect. The invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its purpose. This protects the rest of the agreement from falling if one clause is later held void.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email aicanvas.me@gmail.com.