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By purchasing from me, you agree to these terms. If you disagree with these terms, please refrain from buying from me.

Last Updated: 12/20/17

Updated Sections:
-General Rules
-Reselling
-Trading
-Other Rules (Changing species)
-Added new sections
-Title of journal



♥General Rules

-Minor edits are allowed. If you're wondering about an edit, feel free to ask about it.

  • Please do not add any rare qualities to any of my original closed species.
  • Do not drastically change colors or markings-- color shifts are okay to a certain point, and you may change/take away/add markings to an extent, but not to the point where the design is almost unrecognizable.


-Please do not use my designs, species, or artwork for commercial usage unless an agreement was made with me.
-Feel free to give your design a new wardrobe. (clothes)
-Repeatedly breaking the rules, trying to convince others to break my rules, or any other unwanted behavior may result in ban from buying certain species directly from me or my adopts/commissions all together.
-If unwanted behavior continues, I will have to resort to blocking you. Block evading will be reported.
-I hold the right to refuse to sale to you for any reason.


*Artist Agreement

Adoptables (Character Designs)
By buying one you’re purchasing my labor and only a partial right to a design. I retain all copyrights over my work, which include but are not limited to the right to distribute, reproduce or use the image as a sample for sales/self-promotion. 

- I claim all rights to the Intellectual Property, but I will not reuse/resell the design again for personal and commercial projects.
- I reserve the right to reject your custom proposal without question.
- I reserve the right to modify and resell any rejected/refunded designs to be sold at a later date.

Commissioned Artwork
By commissioning me, you’re purchasing my artist labor only. I retain all copyrights over my work, which include but are not limited to the right to distribute, reproduce or use the image as a sample for sales/self-promotion, unless otherwise agreed upon.

- I will respect your request to not publicly post your commission. No explanation necessary.
- I cannot claim the Intellectual Property or reuse/resell the image for personal and commercial projects. Unless agreed upon.
- I reserve the right to reject your commission proposal without questionThis includes if you did not follow the rules for said order.
- I reserve the right to modify and resell any rejected sketches as "pre-posed" at a later date.

 

♥Personal Use

*Non-original Species Designs
Non-Original Species Adoptables are purchased designs which you can use to make your own character. 

You may name the character, create a personality and background information for the character as well as make design changes, create a world for them, and involve them in personal stories. However you may not edit/alter the original art for the design.

*Original Species Character Designs (Closed Species)
Closed Species Adoptables are purchased designs which you can use to make your own character which come with premade world, lore, and activities you can participate in with the design.

You may name the character, create a personality and background information for the character as well as make minor design changes. However you may not edit/alter the original art for the design, the world, or guidelines of the species you have purchased.

*Original Species Character Designs (Open Species)
Open Species Adoptables are purchased designs which you can use to make your own character which come with a loose premade world, lore, and may have activities you can participate in with the design.

You may name the character, create a personality and background information for the character as well as make minor design changes. However you may not edit/alter the original art for the design. You do not have to follow the world and lore closely.

*Reposting Commission Work
- You are allowed to repost commissions specifically done for you in character galleries (such as Toyhou.se or other personal character websites) or crop for thumbnails and icons.
- Please credit me by linking back to my Website ( pietasticcreations.weebly.com/ ) and/or one of my social medias:

- If you see any account posting my artwork that is not listed here, report it to me immediately.

♥Commercial Use

*Non-original Species Designs
-You are not allowed to use my art for profit in any way.
-You are not allowed to include my designs in games/comics/videos/books and other mass media consumed materials for profit. (unless royalties are discussed; not currently open for this)
-You may make the following for profit featuring the character you have purchased, so long as they are made in limited quantity, and the art is created by you or another artist who gave you permission to use their work in such a way:
  • Stickers
  • Prints
  • Occasion-related cards such has holiday cards, postcards, and birthday cards
  • Charms

-Anything not on the list above will not be allowed.


*Original Species Character Designs
-Original species may not be used commercially.

♥Reselling

*Original Species Character Designs
-Please do not sale it more than you bought it for. (An exception would be commissioned work-- be sure to be transparent about the pricing of the artwork so the buyer will know!)
-If you need to sell it for more in terms of emergency, discuss it with me and be sure to be transparent to any potential buyers of the original price. I may decline if taken advantage of.
-You may sell a character design you received through trade for the original price listed on the set it sold for!
-Let me know when and who you have resold your adopted character so I can keep track of owners. (updating the masterlist and uploading to Toyhou.se requesting my design approval is good enough! My TH is Pie by the way)

*Non-original Species Designs
-Please do not sale it more than you bought it for. (An exception would be commissioned work or if you have your own artwork)
-Let me know when and who you have resold your adopted character so I can keep track of owners. (Uploading to Toyhou.se requesting my design approval is good enough! My TH is Pie by the way)

*Do not sale the following (No exceptions):
-Designs from me you received as a gift
-Designs from me you received for free 

♥Vouchers

-Vouchers are allowed as long as you:
  • Have a fixed price
  • Do not ask for more than the original price listed on the set
  • The voucher is at least 50% of the original price listed on the set

♥Trading

-Trading is absolutely fine, as long as you let me know when and who you traded with.
-For my Original Species, please update the masterlist entry:

♥Gifting

-Gifting is absolutely fine, as long as you let me know when and who you gifted your design to.
-If you are buying a design for someone else, please let me know beforehand!

♥Customs/Commissions

-You may request for WIPs or updates on progress.
-You can ask for a refund if I have not started on your commission/custom.
-If you ask for a refund after I have started, depending on how far I've gotten along on your custom/commission, you may get 10% to 80% back. Once I finished a commission, there are no refunds.
-Feel free to ask for any changes to your design/commission if I am still in the sketching/lining stage.

Topics and Themes:
-I do not accept commissions involving themes that are explicit in violence/gore/sexual themes.
-I reserve the right to decline commission proposals that have themes that touch sensitive topics or contain offensive themes such as hate, racism toward real-life races, and the like.

*Licensed Characters and Franchises
-  I will not create designs heavily referenced from licensed characters such as comic book characters, TV characters, and so on.
- I do not generally make commissions of characters from franchises or design characters based within a franchise universe, though exceptions can be made if discussed. 

♥Other Rules

*Changing of Species
-Please ask me about permanently changing one of my original species into a non-original species. Once you officially change the species, you cannot change it back, so please consider this before you do so.
-You cannot change one of my original species/designs into another original species of mine.
-An exception to both of these rules would be if you were to obtain the following:
  • A MYO (make-your-own) slot of my original species you're interested in
  • A species transfer commission

-If you use the non-original species design for commercial usage, it may not reenter the original species of mine regardless.
-For my non-original species designs, you are free to change their species, including into others' original species so as long as they give you permission.

  • You must transfer the design and all of its variations to the new owner if you so happen to resell/trade/gift the character design to someone else.

*Bidding
-Please reply to "Bid here" or "Bid here for #" comments to place bids
-Dropping out of an auction without giving me a good excuse as to why may result in penalties, such as the ones listed below. (this may vary on a case-by-case basis)
-First offense: A warning and a bit distrust in you going through with your bid on a later auction/offer set.
-Second offense: Will not count your bid for the next few sets and may not count you for set price sets.
-Third offense: Ban from auctions/offer sets for a certain amount of time (if not indefinitely).
-Fourth offense: Ban from all adopt sets indefinitely.

♥Live Streaming Rules

-Please do not tell me when/what to draw unless requested.

-No advertising in my stream without permission.

-Keep personal manners between me or other watchers out of the chat.

-Be civil and respect other watchers

-Any designs made in stream are not available or free unless mentioned otherwise.


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