Terms & Conditions

These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the LIGNIQUE website, platform and related services (collectively, the "Platform"), owned and operated by Jayadevan Premnath, sole proprietor carrying on business under the trade name Lignique Studios ("Lignique", "we", "our" or "us").

Effective date: 6 August 2026 · Version: 1.1 · Business name: Lignique Studios · Legal form: Sole Proprietorship · Proprietor: Jayadevan Premnath · Principal place of business: 4/238, Komalapuram, Alappuzha, Kerala 688006, India.

LIGNIQUE is an artificial intelligence-assisted creative platform designed to enable users to generate, edit, organise and manage digital visual content, including illustrations, storyboards, comics and related sequential visual media. The Platform may be made available through invite-only beta access, free access, paid subscriptions, usage limits, generation allowances or Credits, depending on the features and commercial arrangements expressly made available by the Lignique Studios from time to time.

The Platform provides registered users with access to user accounts and may, from time to time, offer additional features and functionalities, including subscription plans, generation credits, artificial intelligence-powered content generation, file uploads, reference management, organisation accounts, and other services as they are introduced and made available by the Lignique Studios. Certain functionalities may utilise third-party artificial intelligence models, cloud infrastructure, payment service providers, and other integrated third-party services, where applicable. References in these Terms to subscription plans, credits, top-ups, organisation accounts, payment facilities, or other commercial features shall apply only if and when such features are implemented and made available on the Platform.

ACCEPTANCE — By creating an Account, starting a Free Trial, clicking or checking an unticked acceptance control, completing checkout, or otherwise taking an affirmative action that clearly indicates agreement, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. Merely browsing a public webpage does not, by itself, authorise a recurring charge. A paid or recurring Subscription is formed only after the required disclosures and affirmative consent are provided and the transaction is confirmed.

1. Definitions and Scope of Services

1.1 Definitions

For the purposes of these Terms, the following definitions shall apply strictly to the contractual relationship established herein:

1. "Account" means the registered account or user profile created to access and use the Platform and Services.
2. "Applicable Law" means all applicable laws, statutes, rules, regulations, notifications, governmental directions, orders, and legally binding requirements applicable to the User, the Platform, the Services, or these Terms.
3. "Credits" means non-cash digital usage units used to measure specified Platform operations. Credits may include Free Trial Credits, promotional or goodwill Credits, Subscription Credits, and purchased Top-up Credits, as identified in the applicable Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy and confirmed checkout. Credits are not currency, stored value, legal tender, a deposit, or redeemable for cash.
4. "Fees" means all subscription charges, charges for additional Credits and other amounts payable by a User or the holder of an Organisation Account for access to or use of the Platform or Services.
5. "Intellectual Property Rights" means all intellectual property and proprietary rights, including copyright, trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, patents, designs, trade secrets, know-how, database rights, software rights, moral rights, and all other similar rights, whether registered or unregistered, existing now or created in the future.
6. "Organisation Account" means an account or workspace established by or on behalf of a legal entity, including a commercial, institutional or educational organisation, such as an animation studio, school, library, publisher or corporate entity, to facilitate access to and use of the Platform by its designated employees, personnel, representatives or other authorised users.
7. "Outputs" means any synthetic media, digital illustrations, comic panels, storyboard frames, visual scenes, and other content generated, produced, rendered, or otherwise created by the Platform in response to or based on the User Content or Inputs.
8. "Payment Provider" means any third-party payment gateway, payment processor, financial institution, or other service provider engaged to process payments, refunds, settlements, or related transactions in connection with the Platform.
9. "Platform" means the website https://lignique.com and its cloud-hosted user interfaces, software, synthetic-media generation systems, prompt-orchestration engines and sequential visual-creation workflows. "Services" means the features, functions and services made available through the Platform from time to time, including, where available, continuity features such as character locks, style locks, background locks and prop locks.
10. "Subscription" means subscription-based access granted by Lignique Studios to a User or Organisation Account under an access tier or plan displayed by Lignique Studios (a "Subscription Plan") for the applicable Subscription Term, subject to these Terms and the terms disclosed for that Subscription Plan.
11. "Subscription Term" means the period for which a Subscription remains active, including any renewal period, as specified in the applicable Subscription Plan.
12. "Third-Party Providers" means external service providers whose systems, infrastructure, software, APIs, models, technologies or services are integrated with, used by or otherwise support the Platform or Services, including artificial-intelligence and foundation-model providers, API providers, cloud-hosting providers, Payment Providers, analytics providers, security providers, content-moderation providers and other technology or service providers.
13. "User" means any individual who accesses, registers for, subscribes to, or uses the Platform or Services, whether acting in an individual capacity or as an authorised user, employee, personnel, representative, or other permitted user of an Organisation Account.
14. "User Content" or "Inputs" means all text, descriptions, prompts, instructions, reference materials, character sheets, files, presets, parameters, or configurations voluntarily uploaded, entered, or transmitted to the Platform by the User for processing.

1.2 Scope of Services

The Platform is an artificial intelligence-assisted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to facilitate the generation, processing, and management of sequential visual media and other digital content. The Services may enable Users to submit Inputs, including prompts, reference materials, images, and other User Content, for processing through artificial intelligence technologies and integrated Third-Party Providers to generate Outputs and support continuity across sequential visual content.

The specific features, functionalities, available models, generation capacity, Credits, usage limits, processing quotas and other aspects of the Services may vary according to the applicable access arrangement or Subscription Plan and may depend on the availability, performance, limitations, modifications and operational stability of Third-Party Providers.

1.3 Eligibility and Contractual Capacity

By accessing the Platform or creating an Account, you represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age, have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under Applicable Law, and are not prohibited from receiving the Services under applicable trade restrictions or sanctions. Lignique Studios may rely on this representation unless it implements and discloses a separate age-attestation or age-verification process.

1.4 Account Registration, Accuracy and Security

Certain Platform features require an Account. The User must provide accurate, current and complete information; take reasonable steps to protect Account credentials; not knowingly permit unauthorised access; and notify Lignique Studios without undue delay after becoming aware of any suspected compromise. Where technically available, Lignique Studios may require credential updates, allow existing sessions to expire, restrict further access or take other reasonable security measures.

2. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Architecture

2.1 Platform Proprietary Rights

Lignique Studios and, where applicable, its third-party licensors retain all right, title, and interest in, and to the Platform and its underlying software architectures, source code, object code, algorithmic structures, execution flows, prompt orchestration logic, interface behaviours, technical packaging structures, documentation, visual website structures, and underlying business systems. This proprietary protection encompasses, without limitation:

1. All source code, object code, algorithmic structures, execution flows, prompt orchestration logic, interface behaviours, and technical packaging structures.
2. The proprietary prompt-orchestration logic, continuity-control workflows, lock configurations, reference-management structures, interface systems, preset structures, software integrations and related technical processes developed or controlled by Lignique Studios. For the avoidance of doubt, Lignique Studios does not claim ownership of any foundation model, trained model weight, model parameter, checkpoint or other intellectual property owned or controlled by a Third-Party Provider.
3. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos and digital branding assets associated with Lignique Studios.
4. No provision of these Terms shall be construed as a conveyance, assignment or transfer of any Intellectual Property Rights in the Platform to the User, except for a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Platform during the period of the User's authorised access, strictly in accordance with these Terms.

2.2 Contractual Licence to User Inputs

The User retains all right, title and interest that the User owns or is otherwise legally entitled to exercise in User Content submitted to the Platform.

To enable the Services, the User grants Lignique Studios a worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, modify, reformat and process User Content only to the extent reasonably necessary to: (i) provide generation, editing, export and continuity functions; (ii) transmit User Content to authorised Third-Party Providers; (iii) apply safety, security and abuse-prevention controls; (iv) investigate technical failures and provide support; and (v) comply with Applicable Law. Lignique Studios may sublicense these limited rights only to Third-Party Providers engaged to support the Services. Lignique Studios does not acquire ownership of User Content.

2.3 Ownership and Allocation of Output Content

Subject to the User's compliance with these Terms, payment of any Fees lawfully due for the relevant Output where applicable, and Clause 2.4, Lignique Studios grants the User a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to access, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, distribute, display, communicate to the public, make available and commercially exploit each Output generated through the User's Account.

This licence is non-exclusive because the same or similar material may be generated independently for other users. The licence survives expiry or termination of these Terms, but remains subject to Applicable Law, third-party rights and the applicable terms of any Third-Party Provider involved in generating or processing the relevant Output.

To the extent that Jayadevan Premnath, carrying on business as Lignique Studios, owns or becomes the prospective owner of copyright or any other assignable economic right in an Output generated for the User, Jayadevan Premnath hereby assigns that right to the User, with effect from the time the relevant Output comes into existence and, where applicable, the Fees lawfully due for that Output are paid.

The assignment applies throughout the world for the entire term of copyright and every renewal or extension of that term. It includes the rights to reproduce, issue copies, store, publish, distribute, display, communicate to the public, make available, adapt, translate, modify and commercially exploit the Output in all media and modes of exploitation now known or later developed.

Each Output covered by the assignment shall be identified by the generation identifier, timestamp, Account record, project record, exported file or other Platform record associated with that Output. The consideration for the assignment consists of the User's acceptance of these Terms, the User's obligations under these Terms and, where applicable, payment of the relevant Fees. No separate royalty or other payment is due to Lignique Studios, except to the extent that a royalty or payment cannot lawfully be waived.

The assignment shall not lapse merely because the User does not exercise an assigned right within one year. No moral right or other right that cannot lawfully be assigned is transferred. No right owned or controlled by a Third-Party Provider or another person is assigned.

2.4 Legal Disclaimer on Copyrightability and Synthetic Media

The User expressly acknowledges and accepts the following structural risks inherent to generative artificial intelligence:

1. Human Authorship Thresholds: The legal enforceability, copyrightability, and proprietary validation of AI-generated content remain subject to rapidly evolving domestic and international legal frameworks. Lignique Studios gives no warranty, representation, or guarantee that the Outputs are capable of being registered as a copyright work under the copyright statutes of any jurisdiction.
2. Probabilistic Non-Uniqueness: Due to the probabilistic and mathematical mechanics governing machine learning models, generation outputs are not inherently unique. The Platform may generate identical or substantially similar visual compositions for separate users using identical or conceptually congruent prompts. The licence and assignment granted under Clause 2.3 do not extend to preventing other users from using similar outputs generated independently by the model.
3. Commercial Usability Disclaimer: Lignique Studios does not warrant that an Output is accurate, unique, non-infringing, legally protectable or suitable for every commercial purpose or jurisdiction. Before publishing, distributing or commercially exploiting an Output, the User is responsible for reviewing it, undertaking necessary rights clearance and obtaining appropriate professional advice where required. Nothing in this Clause excludes any statutory right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded.

3. Acceptable Use Policy and Content Restrictions

3.1 Prohibited Technical Interference

The User covenants and agrees not to engage in, facilitate, or attempt any of the following unauthorised technical activities:

1. Reverse-engineering, decompiling, disassembling or otherwise attempting to derive or obtain the Platform's non-public source code, security mechanisms, prompt-orchestration systems, proprietary configurations, non-public APIs or other protected technical components, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by Applicable Law.
2. Utilising automated scrapers, web-spiders, bots, or script-based mechanisms to harvest data, metrics, or Outputs from the Platform in bulk.
3. Bypassing, disabling, interfering with or attempting to circumvent any usage limits, access controls, authentication mechanisms, generation controls, security protections or other technical restrictions applied to the Platform.
4. Using the Platform's non-public technical systems, orchestration workflows or Outputs obtained through automated or bulk extraction to develop, train, fine-tune or validate a competing generative-AI model or commercial synthetic-media platform, unless expressly authorised in writing by Lignique Studios. This restriction does not prohibit the ordinary use, modification, publication or commercial exploitation of Outputs permitted under Clause 2.3.

3.2 Content Moderation and Infringement Restrictions

The User must not upload Inputs or request, create, modify, publish, transmit, share or otherwise use Outputs that:

1. infringe or misappropriate any third party's copyright, trade mark, design right, trade secret or other Intellectual Property Right;
2. contain child sexual abuse or exploitative material, non-consensual intimate imagery, obscene or pornographic material, or content that unlawfully invades another person's privacy or bodily privacy;
3. create or alter a false document or false electronic record, or facilitate fraud, impersonation, identity theft or other unlawful deception;
4. facilitate the unlawful preparation, development or procurement of explosives, arms or ammunition;
5. falsely depict or portray a natural person or real-world event in a manner likely to deceive others as to that person's identity, voice, conduct, actions or statements, or as to whether that event occurred;
6. are defamatory, hateful, harassing, abusive, sexually exploitative, unlawfully violent, intentionally misleading in a manner likely to cause unlawful harm, harmful to children or otherwise prohibited by Applicable Law;
7. use a real person's likeness, voice, biometric characteristics or personal identity without lawful authority, valid consent or another legally sufficient basis;
8. contain any software virus or other computer code, file or programme designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
9. relate to or encourage money laundering or gambling in violation of Applicable Law, or promote enmity between different groups on grounds of religion or caste with the intent to incite violence;
10. deceive or mislead another person about the origin of a message, or knowingly and intentionally communicate misinformation or information that is patently false, untrue or misleading in a manner prohibited by Applicable Law; or
11. threaten the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States or public order; cause incitement to the commission of a cognisable offence; prevent investigation of an offence; or insult another nation.

3.3 Right of Enforcement and Account Discontinuation

Lignique Studios may use automated systems and, where reasonably necessary and operationally feasible, manual review to screen Inputs, detect prohibited use, enforce technical limits and protect the Platform. Lignique Studios does not undertake to manually review every Input or Output. Where a material breach, security risk, unlawful act or abuse is reasonably suspected or identified, Lignique Studios may reject an operation; remove or disable access to information under its control; restrict, suspend or terminate an Account; preserve relevant evidence; and report or disclose information where required by Applicable Law. Enforcement action will be proportionate where the law permits, but Lignique Studios may act immediately where necessary to prevent unlawful harm, protect users or comply with a binding legal requirement.

3.4 Statutory User Notices and Periodic Reminders

Where and to the extent the intermediary due-diligence requirements under Applicable Law apply, Lignique Studios will inform Users, in a simple and effective manner and at least once every three months where legally required, that:

1. non-compliance with these Terms may result in immediate suspension or termination of access, removal or disabling of access to non-compliant information, or both;
2. creating, generating, modifying, hosting, publishing, transmitting, storing, sharing or otherwise disseminating information in violation of Applicable Law may expose the responsible User to civil or criminal liability, penalty or punishment; and
3. conduct constituting an offence that must be reported under Applicable Law may be reported to the appropriate authority.

Where statutory requirements concerning synthetically generated information apply, the User is additionally informed that unlawful synthetically generated information may result in immediate removal or disabling of access; suspension or termination of the relevant Account while preserving relevant evidence; identification of the responsible User and disclosure of that identity where lawfully required or permitted, including to a victim or a person acting on the victim's behalf; and reporting to the appropriate authority where required by Applicable Law.

4. Financial Terms, Subscription, and Commercial Covenants

Current paid plans, Fees, Subscription periods, included Credits, rollover limits, top-up packages, and other material commercial conditions are displayed on the applicable pricing page and checkout and are governed by the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy. Lignique Studios may introduce, discontinue, or modify commercial arrangements prospectively, but will not change a completed purchase except in accordance with the confirmed order, the published contractual policies, Applicable Law, and any legally required notice or consent.

Before a User completes any paid transaction, the Platform will clearly and prominently disclose the total price payable, including the break-up of the Fees, applicable taxes and every compulsory or optional charge; the applicable currency; billing frequency; included usage; material feature or usage restrictions; renewal terms; cancellation method; refund conditions; and every other material condition of the paid Service.

No plan, Credit allocation, top-up arrangement, pricing model or feature entitlement is available unless it is expressly offered through the Platform.

4.1 Availability of Paid Services

No paid transaction shall be formed unless the User completes the applicable checkout process and receives confirmation of the transaction.

4.2 Usage Allowances and Credits

Where usage allowances or Credits are introduced, the applicable allocation, consumption rules, validity, expiry conditions, restoration rules and treatment of failed operations shall be disclosed through the Platform, pricing page, checkout process or applicable Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Lignique Studios shall not apply undisclosed charges or usage restrictions to a completed purchase.

4.3 Recurring Billing

Where recurring billing is offered, the User authorises the designated Payment Provider to charge the applicable Fees in accordance with the price, billing frequency and renewal terms disclosed during checkout.

The applicable cancellation process and any future price changes shall be communicated in accordance with the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy and Applicable Law.

4.4 Refunds and Billing Corrections

Refunds, billing corrections, Credit restoration, remedies for failed operations, and treatment of Subscription Credits and purchased Top-up Credits are governed by the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy available at https://lignique.com/subscription-refund-policy and by Applicable Law. A Payment Provider may process an approved refund or correction under its operational procedures, but its procedures do not reduce a mandatory consumer right or an obligation accepted by Lignique Studios. Nothing in these Terms limits a mandatory consumer right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded.

4.5 Consumer Consent, Renewals, Cancellation and Fair Interface Design

Where consumer-protection or e-commerce requirements apply, Lignique Studios will record a User's consent to purchase a paid Service only through an explicit and affirmative action. Purchase or renewal consent will not be recorded automatically, including through a pre-ticked checkbox.

Before the User confirms a recurring Subscription, the Platform will clearly disclose the amount payable, applicable taxes and charges, billing frequency, renewal mechanism, material limitations, cancellation method and applicable refund conditions.

The cancellation route will be clearly accessible and will not be designed to make cancellation impossible, unduly complex or materially more difficult than subscribing. Lignique Studios will not impose a cancellation charge on a consumer unless a comparable charge is also borne by Lignique Studios where Lignique Studios unilaterally cancels the corresponding transaction, subject to Applicable Law.

The Platform will not use deceptive interface designs, hidden recurring charges, drip pricing, subscription traps, forced action, trick wording or other dark patterns prohibited by Applicable Law.

5. Privacy and Data Governance Integration

Your use of the Platform is also governed by the Privacy Policy available at https://lignique.com/privacy, which forms part of these Terms. The Privacy Policy explains the categories of personal data and User Content processed, the purposes of processing, the involvement of Third-Party Providers, browser or device storage, retention, security measures, user rights and complaint channels.

By using the Platform, you acknowledge that personal data and User Content may be collected, used, stored, transmitted and otherwise processed as described in the Privacy Policy. Where Applicable Law requires consent or another specific notice for a particular processing activity, Lignique Studios will obtain or provide it separately in the manner required by law.

6. Data Processing and Storage Architecture

The Lignique Studios processes and stores information under a hybrid, structurally distinct architecture:

1. Storage Boundaries: Account-registration information, authentication information, security records, usage counters and operational records may be processed through cloud infrastructure. Certain project information, continuity-lock information, workspace history, generated-output metadata and settings may be stored in the User's browser or device. Clearing browser data, changing devices or using private browsing may result in loss of locally stored information. Prompts, instructions, reference images and lock information may be transmitted to authorised Third-Party Providers for AI processing.
2. Prompt Ingestion and Logs: Alphanumeric prompts and reference parameters are processed via cloud-routed computing environments to enforce requested continuity locks. Account data, prompts, and associated operational logs are retained, processed, and deleted in accordance with the Lignique Studios Privacy Policy. Lignique Studios does not represent or guarantee that deletion will occur immediately or that backup copies will be overwritten within a fixed period across all system environments.

7. Artificial Intelligence Model Training Restriction

Lignique Studios maintains a strict policy regarding data privacy for creative assets.

1. No Foundation Training: Lignique Studios does not itself use User Content or Outputs to train or fine-tune a foundation model operated by Lignique Studios. It shall not separately use User Content to train a proprietary AI model without appropriate notice and any legally required consent. User Content may be processed by Third-Party Providers whose retention and data-use practices are governed by their contracts, API settings and policies.
2. Operational Improvement: Lignique Studios may analyse aggregated, de-identified or otherwise lawfully processed performance metrics, structural parameters and error logs for the limited purposes of improving system stability, debugging prompt-orchestration layers, preventing workflow failures and protecting the Platform. Any such processing will be carried out in accordance with the Privacy Policy and Applicable Law.

8. Post-Termination Consequences and Data Retention

Upon termination or expiry of these Terms or a Subscription, the following consequences may apply, subject to the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy, the Privacy Policy, Applicable Law and the Platform's technical capabilities:

1. Revocation and Lapsing: Upon termination of these Terms or suspension of access, your authorisation to access cloud-hosted platform services shall cease; existing credentials or sessions may expire, be invalidated, or be restricted where technically available. Unconsumed or accumulated Credits, along with any applicable Fees, shall be governed exclusively by the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy. Information stored within your local client-side browser, application cache, or device may remain until cleared or deleted by the User, browser, or device architecture. Cloud account records, usage logs, security telemetry, and operational data are retained or deleted in accordance with the Lignique Studios Privacy Policy and applicable legal or technical requirements. Termination or suspension of platform access does not, of itself, constitute or automatically effect the complete deletion of an Account or associated personal data.
2. Statutory Preservation: Where and to the extent intermediary retention requirements apply, Lignique Studios will preserve information removed or disabled under the applicable intermediary rules, together with associated records, for one hundred and eighty (180) days from the date of removal or disablement, or for any longer period lawfully required by a court or authorised government agency. Where Lignique Studios collects information from a User for registration, it will retain that registration information for one hundred and eighty (180) days after cancellation or withdrawal of the registration, or for any longer period required by Applicable Law. Further retention and deletion practices are described in the Privacy Policy.
3. Local Application Persistence: The hosted SaaS Platform and any downloadable or locally installed desktop software are governed by distinct legal agreements. If Lignique Studios makes available any separately distributed desktop application or downloadable software, such software is licensed and governed exclusively by its accompanying End User License Agreement (EULA) or dedicated software licence terms. Nothing in these SaaS Terms shall be construed as granting, preserving, continuing, or guaranteeing any licence, persistent access, or operational rights in respect of any desktop application or locally installed software upon or after termination of these Terms.

9. Contractual Survival

Any provision that by its nature is intended to survive termination or expiry of these Terms shall survive, including provisions concerning Intellectual Property Rights, User Content and Outputs, accrued payment obligations, privacy and data retention, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, governing law, Feedback, severability and waiver.

10. Force Majeure

Neither party shall be liable for a delay or failure to perform an obligation under these Terms to the extent caused by an event beyond that party's reasonable control, including widespread internet or telecommunications outages, regional cloud or data-centre failures, cyberattacks, distributed denial-of-service incidents, governmental restrictions, changes in law, pandemics, civil unrest, natural disasters or other comparable events (a "Force Majeure Event").

The Platform depends on Third-Party Providers, including artificial-intelligence providers, cloud-infrastructure providers and, where applicable, Payment Providers. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, Lignique Studios is not liable for delay, interruption or failure caused solely by a Third-Party Provider outage, rate limit, model unavailability, API change or infrastructure failure beyond Lignique Studios' reasonable control. The affected obligations will be suspended only for the duration and to the extent of the Force Majeure Event. The affected party will use reasonable efforts to mitigate the impact and resume performance as soon as reasonably practicable. Nothing in this Clause excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

11. Modification of Terms and Continued Use

Lignique Studios may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Platform, commercial arrangements, provider requirements or Applicable Law. Each version shall state its effective date and version number. Where a change materially affects existing rights or obligations, reasonable notice shall be provided through email, the Platform or another appropriate channel, unless an earlier change is required for security, fraud prevention or legal compliance. Continued use may constitute acceptance only to the extent permitted by law; separate affirmative consent shall be obtained where legally required.

12. Technical and Operational Suspension Powers

Lignique Studios may temporarily restrict or suspend access where reasonably necessary to investigate a material breach, prevent fraud or unauthorised access, respond to a security incident, enforce usage or concurrency limits, protect the Platform or comply with Applicable Law. Where reasonably practicable, legally permissible and technically available, the affected User will be notified and provided with an appropriate review or support channel. During a suspension, access to cloud-hosted Services may be blocked or restricted. User Content and other data will be handled in accordance with the Privacy Policy, applicable retention requirements and technical limitations; suspension does not guarantee uninterrupted availability or complete preservation of all data.

13. Feedback Licence

If you voluntarily provide Lignique Studios with suggestions, enhancement requests, feature recommendations, workflow ideas or bug reports ("Feedback"), you grant Lignique Studios an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, assignable and sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, develop, implement and commercialise the Feedback for any lawful purpose without attribution or compensation.

For clarity, Feedback does not include User Content or personal data. Feedback is submitted on a non-confidential basis. You should not submit confidential information through a Feedback channel unless Lignique Studios has expressly agreed in writing to receive it on a confidential basis.

14. Severability

If any clause, covenant, phrase, or specific provision of these Terms is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or an authorised regulatory body to be invalid, illegal, void, or legally unenforceable, such determination shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. Where possible, the invalid or unenforceable provision shall be interpreted or modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable; if that is not possible, it shall be severed from these Terms without affecting the remaining provisions.

15. Waiver Restrictions

No failure or delay by Lignique Studios in exercising any right, contractual power, or legal remedy under these Terms shall operate or be construed as a waiver of that right, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right preclude the further enforcement of that or any other right or remedy available under law or equity.

16. Payment Failure and Retry Procedures

Where the Platform offers paid Services and a recurring payment fails, the following provisions apply:

1. Payment retries, grace periods, failure notifications, suspension or termination for non-payment and related billing procedures are governed by the applicable Payment Provider's terms, the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy, the disclosures made at checkout and Applicable Law. Their timing and operation may vary by payment method and Payment Provider.
2. Lignique Studios may suspend or restrict access to paid features, the use of Credits or active generation workflows after an unsuccessful payment, subject to any disclosed grace period and Applicable Law. Access may be restored after a valid payment method is provided and the outstanding amount is successfully processed.
3. Where permitted by Applicable Law and disclosed in the applicable billing terms, Lignique Studios may take reasonable steps to recover undisputed overdue amounts. Nothing in these Terms requires Lignique Studios to use any particular debt-recovery method.

17. Chargeback Mitigations and Account Lockouts

Lignique Studios encourages Users to contact Support directly regarding any unauthorised, duplicate, or incorrect charges before initiating a dispute with their payment provider. Where a chargeback, payment dispute, or card reversal is initiated, Lignique Studios may temporarily restrict or suspend access to the affected paid Services while the dispute is under review, where technically available. Lignique Studios reserves the right to submit relevant transaction data, usage logs, and account records to the applicable Payment Provider or issuing bank to substantiate the validity of the charge. Full Account suspension, termination or broader access restrictions may be applied only where Lignique Studios reasonably determines that a chargeback or payment dispute is fraudulent, abusive or part of repeated misconduct. Nothing in these Terms shall be construed to exclude, restrict, or modify any statutory or non-waivable chargeback rights available to the User under Applicable Law.

18. Account Sharing and Account Security

Except where an Organisation Account, team workspace or other feature expressly permits multiple authorised users, each Account is intended solely for the registered User and must not be knowingly shared with another person. The User is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Account credentials and for activity conducted through the Account, except to the extent caused by Lignique Studios' own breach or security failure. Where Lignique Studios reasonably suspects unauthorised sharing or compromise, it may require credential updates, allow existing sessions to expire, restrict new sessions, temporarily suspend or restrict access, or take other reasonable security measures. Lignique Studios is not required to conduct continuous monitoring of IP addresses, devices, hardware identifiers or Account activity.

19. Subscription Cancellation Effective Dates

Where Lignique Studios offers recurring subscription plans, a User may cancel the automatic renewal of a Subscription using the cancellation method made available or otherwise disclosed by Lignique Studios at the time of purchase, through the User's Account (if available), the applicable Payment Provider, or any other designated cancellation channel notified by Lignique Studios. Cancellation shall apply to future renewals and shall not, by itself, constitute termination of the User's Account or deletion of any personal data.

Unless a refund, chargeback, suspension, immediate termination, or Applicable Law requires otherwise, Subscription benefits and unused Subscription Credits remain available through the end of the already-paid Billing Period and expire when that paid term ends. Purchased Top-up Credits remain usable until their disclosed expiry date even if the Subscription is subsequently cancelled or expires; cancellation does not accelerate their expiry or require re-subscription. Additional Top-up Credits cannot be purchased without an eligible active paid Subscription. Account and personal-data retention or deletion is governed by the Privacy Policy and Applicable Law.

20. Entire Agreement and Contractual Integration

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy, the confirmed checkout or order, and any additional terms expressly accepted by the User constitute the entire agreement between the User and Lignique Studios concerning the Platform and Services.

If those documents conflict, mandatory Applicable Law prevails. Subject to mandatory law:

1. the confirmed checkout or order governs the transaction-specific price, currency, taxes, Billing Period, renewal date, Credit allocation, and expressly disclosed promotion or capacity limit;
2. the Subscription, Credits, Cancellation & Refund Policy governs Credit validity, rollover, expiry, order of use, cancellation, failed operations, billing corrections, and refunds;
3. additional terms expressly accepted by the User govern only the specific subject they identify; and
4. these Terms govern all remaining contractual matters.

The Privacy Policy governs the processing of personal data and does not independently alter the commercial terms of a confirmed purchase. Internal pricing plans, implementation specifications, development documents, drafts, demonstrations, FAQs, and marketing materials do not form part of the customer contract unless expressly incorporated into the confirmed checkout or order.

These documents supersede prior or contemporaneous understandings, negotiations, and communications concerning the same subject matter. Nothing in this Clause excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or any statutory or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

21. Electronic Communications and Statutory Written Notice

By registering an Account or using the Platform, the User consents to receive operational, legal, billing, security and regulatory communications electronically. Marketing communications, where any, will be sent only in accordance with the User's preferences and Applicable Law.

1. Lignique Studios may send notices by email to the address registered to the Account, through an in-Platform notification, or through another electronic channel expressly disclosed to the User.
2. The User must keep the registered email address and other contact information accurate and current.
3. An electronic notice will be treated as received when it is sent or made available through the disclosed channel, unless Lignique Studios receives a delivery-failure notice or Applicable Law requires a different method or time of receipt.
4. Nothing in this Clause overrides any mandatory legal requirement for a notice to be delivered in a particular form or manner.

22. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

22.1 "As-Is" and "As-Available" Operational Clause

The Platform, its sequential visual-creation workflows and all Outputs are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, subject to any rights or warranties that cannot be excluded under Applicable Law.

To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, Lignique Studios disclaims express, implied and statutory warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, uninterrupted operation, processing speed, error-free execution and algorithmic accuracy. Nothing in this Clause excludes any mandatory consumer guarantee or other right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

22.2 Non-Infringement and Probabilistic Work Disclaimers

The Platform uses probabilistic generative AI systems provided or supported by Third-Party Providers. Lignique Studios cannot review or predict the entire range of Outputs and does not warrant that an Output will be unique or will not resemble an existing work, character, brand, person or visual composition.

The User is responsible for reviewing Outputs, obtaining any necessary rights clearances and assessing their suitability before public distribution or commercial use. Nothing in this Clause excludes responsibility or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under Applicable Law.

22.3 Exclusion of Certain Losses and Aggregate Liability Cap

To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, Jayadevan Premnath, carrying on business as Lignique Studios, shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive or consequential loss, including loss of profits, business interruption, reputational harm, corruption or loss of data, or the cost of obtaining substitute services or creative assets.

The preceding exclusion does not apply to fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, wilful misconduct or any liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

Subject to the preceding paragraphs and any mandatory statutory right or remedy, the total aggregate liability of Jayadevan Premnath, carrying on business as Lignique Studios, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Platform shall not exceed the greater of:

1. the Fees actually paid by the User to Lignique Studios during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim; and
2. INR 10,000.

This liability cap does not limit any obligation to provide a refund, replacement, compensation or other remedy that is mandatory under consumer-protection law. It also does not apply to fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, wilful misconduct or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

23. Indemnification Obligations

23.1 User Indemnity

To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the User agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Jayadevan Premnath, carrying on business as Lignique Studios, and Lignique Studios' employees, contractors, agents and authorised service providers from and against third-party claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs and reasonable legal expenses arising directly out of or in connection with:

1. the User's material breach of these Terms or Applicable Law;
2. any Input, User Content or other material submitted, uploaded or otherwise provided by the User that infringes or is alleged to infringe the intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality or other legal rights of a third party;
3. the User's use of an Output where the relevant claim results from the User's prompts, instructions, modifications, combination of the Output with other materials, use of the Output in violation of these Terms or Applicable Law, or another act or omission attributable to the User; or
4. the User's breach of the applicable terms, policies or usage requirements of an integrated Third-Party Provider, to the extent that the breach results from the User's conduct or use of the Platform.

The indemnity applies only to the extent that the relevant claim, loss or liability arises from the User's acts, omissions or breach of these Terms. It does not apply to the extent that the claim, loss or liability results from Lignique Studios' negligence, wilful misconduct or breach of Applicable Law.

Lignique Studios will provide the User with reasonably prompt notice of an indemnified third-party claim. A failure to provide prompt notice will reduce the User's obligations only to the extent that the delay materially prejudices the User's defence.

The User may control the defence of the claim using reasonably competent legal representatives, but the User shall not enter into a settlement that admits wrongdoing by Lignique Studios, imposes a non-monetary obligation on Lignique Studios or fails fully to release Lignique Studios without Lignique Studios' prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

24. Compliance with Applicable Law

The User must comply with Applicable Law when submitting Inputs, configuring workflows, using the Platform and publishing or commercially exploiting Outputs. Where Lignique Studios reasonably believes that a violation has occurred, it may take proportionate action under Clause 3.3, taking into account the nature, severity and recurrence of the conduct, platform security and applicable legal obligations. This obligation includes compliance with:

1. applicable cybersecurity, information-technology and computer-resource protection laws;
2. applicable data-protection and privacy laws, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and applicable rules, to the extent in force and relevant;
3. applicable intellectual-property, copyright, trade-mark, design-right and trade-secret laws; and
4. applicable trade-sanctions, export-control and foreign-exchange requirements.

A breach of this Clause may result in rejection of an operation, removal or disabling of access, restriction or suspension of Services, or termination of the Account in accordance with Clause 3.3.

25. Dispute Resolution, Governing Law, and Jurisdiction

25.1 Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute or non-contractual claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Platform shall be governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

25.2 Jurisdiction

Subject to any mandatory consumer-protection right, statutory forum or jurisdiction that cannot lawfully be excluded, the courts of competent jurisdiction at Alappuzha, Kerala, India shall have jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Platform.

26. Organisation Account Provisions

The Platform is presently intended for individual User Accounts. Organisation Accounts, team workspaces, multi-user access, staff seats, enterprise features, and similar organisational services may be introduced by the Lignique Studios in the future. Where such features are made available, their use shall be subject to any additional terms, order forms, subscription plans, or separate written agreements issued by the Lignique Studios. Such additional terms may govern, among other things, administrator permissions, user roles, seat allocations, billing arrangements, access controls, and the respective rights and responsibilities of the organisation and its authorised users.

27. Grievance Redressal and Content Complaints

To the extent Lignique Studios is subject to the grievance-redressal and intermediary due-diligence requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, as amended, the following mechanism applies.

a. Grievance Officer and Contact Details

b. Information Required

A complaint should include, to the extent available: (i) the complainant's full name and contact details; (ii) the relevant Account, email address, URL, content identifier, generation identifier or other electronic location; (iii) a clear description of the grievance and the relief requested; (iv) the legal basis of the complaint, where applicable; (v) supporting documents or evidence; and (vi) confirmation that the information provided is accurate and submitted in good faith. A person acting for another individual should also provide evidence of authority to act.

c. Acknowledgement and Resolution

Lignique Studios will acknowledge a complaint within twenty-four (24) hours and will resolve it within seven (7) days of receipt, unless Applicable Law requires a shorter period. Complaints subject to an expedited removal or disablement timeline will be handled within the period prescribed by Applicable Law, including, where applicable, thirty-six (36) hours for specified removal requests and two (2) hours for complaints concerning private-area exposure, full or partial nudity, sexual acts or conduct, or electronic impersonation, including artificially morphed images.

Where Lignique Studios receives actual knowledge through an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or a legally valid reasoned intimation from an authorised government officer or agency, it will remove or disable access to the relevant information within three (3) hours, or within any different period prescribed by Applicable Law at the relevant time.

d. Action and Evidence Preservation

Depending on the nature of the complaint and the Platform's technical control, Lignique Studios may reject an operation, remove or disable access to information, restrict prompts or workflows, suspend or terminate an Account, preserve relevant information and records, or report or disclose information where required by Applicable Law. Lignique Studios can act only on Accounts, content, records and systems under its control. Content hosted solely by a third-party service should also be reported directly to that service.

e. Appeal

A person aggrieved by a decision of the Grievance Officer, or whose grievance is not resolved within the applicable statutory period, may use any appeal mechanism made available under the applicable intermediary rules, including an appeal to the Grievance Appellate Committee within thirty (30) days from receipt of the Grievance Officer's communication, or within any other period prescribed by Applicable Law.

f. Consumer Grievance Redressal

Independently of the intermediary grievance mechanism set out above, where the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 or the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 applies, the following consumer grievance mechanism applies:

Lignique Studios will acknowledge receipt of a consumer complaint within forty-eight (48) hours and will redress the complaint within one (1) month from the date of receipt. Where the same complaint is subject to a shorter statutory period under Clause 27(c), the shorter period shall apply.

Lignique Studios will prominently display on the Platform its legal name, principal geographic address, website details, customer-care contact details and the name, designation and contact details of the Consumer Grievance Officer.

28. Operational Logs, Synthetic-Content Labelling and Provenance

a. Operational and Security Records

Lignique Studios may maintain limited operational and security records relating to the User's access to and use of the Platform for purposes including authentication, service delivery, usage measurement, security, abuse prevention, troubleshooting, compliance with Applicable Law and operation of the Platform. Such records may, where applicable and technically available, include timestamps, internal User identifiers, IP addresses, route or operation identifiers, status information, error logs, usage counters and other operational metadata. Where enabled and appropriately disclosed, web-server logs may also record technical information such as user-agent details. The nature, scope and retention of these records shall be governed by the Privacy Policy and Applicable Law.

b. Synthetic-Content Safety, Labelling and Provenance

Where and to the extent the intermediary due-diligence requirements concerning synthetically generated information apply, Lignique Studios will:

1. deploy reasonable and appropriate technical measures, including automated tools or other suitable mechanisms, designed to prevent Users from creating, generating, modifying, publishing, transmitting, sharing or disseminating synthetically generated information that violates Applicable Law;
2. ensure that other Outputs that qualify as synthetically generated information are clearly and prominently labelled in a manner that is easily noticeable and adequately perceivable;
3. to the extent technically feasible, embed such information with permanent metadata or another appropriate technical provenance mechanism, including a unique identifier identifying the computer resource used to create, generate, modify or alter it; and
4. not enable through the Platform the modification, suppression or removal of any label, permanent metadata or unique identifier required by Applicable Law.

These obligations apply only to information that falls within the statutory definition of synthetically generated information. Unless expressly stated in the Platform documentation, Lignique Studios does not guarantee the use of any particular provenance standard, including C2PA.

c. User Anti-Tampering Obligation

The User must not knowingly remove, suppress, modify, disable or circumvent any label, permanent metadata, unique identifier or other provenance mechanism applied by the Platform or required by Applicable Law, except where the action is expressly permitted by Applicable Law or authorised in writing by Lignique Studios.

d. Limitations of Provenance Information

A label, identifier or provenance mechanism is informational and does not by itself guarantee the factual accuracy, originality, ownership, copyrightability, non-infringement or authenticity of an Output.

e. Operational Implementation

Any safety control, labelling method, metadata mechanism, provenance mechanism, deletion process, retention period or Third-Party Provider restriction described in these Terms will be implemented and represented only to the extent supported by the Platform's actual technical architecture and Applicable Law.

Where a mandatory legal requirement applies irrespective of the Platform's present technical capabilities, Lignique Studios will take the technical and organisational measures reasonably necessary to comply before making the affected feature available.

Issued and signed by
Jayadevan Premnath
Sole Proprietor, Lignique Studios
Date of issue: 1 August 2026