Effective date: August 9, 2026
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Design Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Design Labs,” “Chic,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to chic.dev and the Chic design service (collectively, the “Service”).
1. Accepting these Terms
By creating an account, using the Service, or purchasing a paid offering, you agree to these Terms and, for a paid Project, the Commercial License, and you acknowledge the Privacy Policy. If you use Chic for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization. You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. What Chic provides
Chic is an AI-assisted art-direction and website-design service. You may submit a product brief, URLs, screenshots, files, brand materials, and instructions. Chic may generate multiple design directions, allow conversational refinement, and make supported deliverables available for preview or export.
Chic is not a hosting provider, development agency, legal adviser, accessibility auditor, security auditor, or substitute for professional review. Generated material may be incomplete, inaccurate, similar to material generated for others, or unsuitable for your intended use. You are responsible for reviewing, testing, editing, licensing, securing, and lawfully deploying anything you use.
We may improve, add, remove, suspend, or discontinue features. We do not promise that a particular model, provider, export format, integration, or preview will remain available.
3. Accounts and security
You must provide accurate account information and keep it current. You are responsible for activity under your account, safeguarding your credentials, and promptly notifying support@chic.dev if you suspect unauthorized access. You may not share an individual account in a way that circumvents plan limits. We may require verification, restrict access, or suspend activity to protect users, the Service, or third parties.
4. Projects, plans, and included use
The checkout or pricing screen presented when you order is part of these Terms. If it conflicts with a general description below, the more specific order screen controls for that purchase.
Free Preview currently includes one owner-bound, unlisted Project, three visible design directions, and three included refinements. It does not include anonymous public sharing, source export, or commercial-use rights.
Project Pass unlocks one identified Project after successful payment. It currently includes three visible directions, up to fifteen included refinements, supported React/Tailwind source export, commercial-use rights under the Commercial License, and repeated export of that same available Project without another export charge. The founding offer has the same Project entitlement at the displayed limited-cohort price.
Pro is a monthly subscription. It currently includes four new Project units per billing period, up to fifteen included refinements per activated Project, private Projects, supported source export, and commercial-use rights under the Commercial License. Monthly Project units refresh and do not roll over. A Project unit is reserved when a Pro Project starts; activating that same Project does not use another unit.
Studio is offered only through a separate written or manually accepted order. Any Studio-specific order controls over conflicting public-plan descriptions.
Included refinements are bounded AI operations, not a promise of a particular result. We may reasonably enforce technical, safety, file-size, concurrency, and fair-use limits. We will not charge another Project unit merely because you re-export the same unlocked Project, but access to hosted history and re-export remains subject to account status, Service availability, these Terms, and applicable law. Keep your own copy of exported files.
5. Fees, renewal, cancellation, and refunds
Prices are stated in U.S. dollars unless the checkout says otherwise. Taxes, duties, and bank or currency-conversion fees may apply. You authorize us and our billing providers to charge the selected payment method for the displayed amount.
Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-disclosed recurring price until canceled. You may cancel Pro at any time through the direct online cancellation control in your Chic dashboard. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period unless the order screen or applicable law says otherwise, and your existing benefits remain available until then. Cancel before renewal to avoid the next charge.
Project Pass and the founding Project Pass are one-time purchases made after you can preview the Project's design directions. Once payment succeeds and Chic provisions the Project unlock and commercial-use rights, that purchase is final. If payment succeeds but Chic does not provision the purchased unlock or supported source export, report the problem to support@chic.dev. If we cannot restore the paid feature within three business days after receiving the report, we will provide a full refund.
Your first Pro subscription payment is eligible for a full refund if you request it within seven calendar days after purchase and no Pro Project has been reserved, started, activated, refined, or exported. An approved first-payment refund cancels Pro immediately and ends its unused benefits. Pro renewal payments and unused time in a current billing period are otherwise non-refundable.
We will also correct a verified duplicate, unauthorized, or incorrectly calculated charge, and we will provide any refund required by applicable law. Request a refund from support@chic.dev using the email on your Chic account and include the purchase date and relevant Project, but never send complete card details. We aim to decide a complete request within three business days. An approved refund is returned to the original payment method; after submission, banks commonly take five to ten business days to post it.
If a payment is refunded, reversed, disputed, fraudulent, or unpaid, the corresponding paid entitlement and Commercial License end or may be suspended, and you must stop commercial use of deliverables whose rights depended on that payment. Nothing in this section limits non-waivable consumer cancellation or refund rights.
We may change future prices or plan contents. Price changes do not retroactively alter a completed one-time Project Pass. We will provide notice of subscription price changes as required by law before they apply to a renewal.
6. Your content and instructions
“Customer Content” means prompts, URLs, screenshots, files, logos, text, code, feedback tied to a Project, and other material you submit. You retain your rights in Customer Content. You represent that you have all rights, permissions, notices, and lawful bases needed for us and our providers to process it as described here and in the Privacy Policy.
You grant Design Labs and its service providers a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, transmit, transform, display, and otherwise process Customer Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, support, and improve the Service; follow your sharing choices; comply with law; and enforce these Terms. This license ends when the relevant content is deleted from active systems, except for lawful retention, backups, security records, and de-identified data.
Do not submit payment-card data, government identifiers, protected health information, biometric data, passwords, confidential source credentials, export-controlled data, or other regulated or highly sensitive information. Standard Chic plans are not designed for HIPAA, PCI DSS, or regulated-system-of-record use.
7. Generated output and ownership
“Output” means a design, text, code, image, token set, or other material generated for you through the Service. As between you and Design Labs, and to the extent permitted by applicable law and third-party rights, you own your Output. Paid commercial use is governed by the Commercial License. Free Preview Output is for evaluation and preview only.
Output may incorporate or depend on Customer Content, open-source software, fonts, icons, stock assets, model-provider material, or other third-party content. Those materials remain subject to their own rights and licenses. We do not guarantee that Output is unique, protectable, non-infringing, accessible, secure, production-ready, or free from third-party claims. You must perform the review appropriate for your use.
8. Project access and sharing
Projects are owner-bound. Free Preview Projects are currently unlisted and do not include an anonymous public share link. Paid Projects are private by default. Content leaves Chic when you intentionally export, publish, deploy, or send it to another service, and copies made outside Chic are controlled by you and the receiving service. You are responsible for those choices and for removing material you no longer want to share.
9. Acceptable use
You may not use the Service to violate law or third-party rights; create malware, phishing, fraud, deception, harassment, sexual exploitation, or hateful or violent abuse; impersonate others; process prohibited sensitive data; interfere with or overload the Service; bypass access, payment, safety, or usage controls; probe or exploit vulnerabilities without written authorization; scrape or bulk-create accounts; resell access to the Service; reverse engineer protected portions of the Service except where law makes that restriction unenforceable; or use Output while knowingly infringing another person’s intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights.
We may investigate suspected violations, remove or restrict content, preserve evidence, cooperate with lawful requests, and suspend or terminate access. We may establish reasonable usage limits to protect the Service and other customers.
10. Third-party services
The Service relies on third parties for authentication, cloud infrastructure, databases, storage, billing, payment processing, AI models, search, build execution, and other functions. Your use of connected or exported third-party services may be governed by their own terms. We are not responsible for a third party’s independent acts, availability, security, policies, or content. Provider routing may change without changing the core Chic product entitlement.
11. Chic property and feedback
Design Labs and its licensors own the Service, software, workflows, prompts, interfaces, brands, documentation, and all related intellectual-property rights, excluding Customer Content and your rights in Output. These Terms grant only the limited right to use the Service as offered.
If you give us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation. This does not give us ownership of Customer Content or Project Output.
12. Suspension and termination
You may stop using Chic at any time. We may suspend or terminate access immediately for fraud, security risk, legal necessity, nonpayment, abusive use, or material breach. For other discontinuation, we will use reasonable efforts to provide notice when practical. On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Rights in lawfully paid and exported Output continue under the Commercial License unless that license terminates under its terms. Provisions that by their nature should survive will survive, including payment obligations, ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, dispute terms, and general provisions.
13. Warranty disclaimer
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” DESIGN LABS AND ITS LICENSORS AND PROVIDERS DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE. WE DO NOT WARRANT UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR LOSS-FREE OPERATION, OR THAT OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, UNIQUE, LAWFUL, ACCESSIBLE, SECURE, OR SUITABLE FOR LAUNCH.
14. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DESIGN LABS AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, LICENSORS, AND PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; SUBSTITUTE SERVICES; OR CLAIMS ARISING FROM THIRD-PARTY SERVICES OR AI OUTPUT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF DESIGN LABS AND THOSE PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, OUTPUT, OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID DESIGN LABS FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
These limits do not apply where prohibited by law and do not limit liability that cannot legally be limited, including liability for fraud or willful misconduct. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
15. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Design Labs and its affiliates, officers, employees, and providers from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, and reasonable legal fees arising from your Customer Content; your published, deployed, or commercial use of Output; your violation of these Terms or law; your infringement or misappropriation of third-party rights; or activity under your account. We will provide reasonable notice and may control the defense and settlement, provided we may not settle a claim admitting your fault or imposing a non-monetary obligation on you without your consent, not to be unreasonably withheld.
16. Disputes and governing law
Before filing a claim, each party will attempt in good faith for 30 days to resolve it after written notice to legal@chic.dev. These Terms are governed by Delaware law, excluding conflict-of-law rules. Unless applicable consumer law requires otherwise, the state and federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and each party consents to that jurisdiction and venue. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY. Nothing prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief for misuse, security threats, or intellectual-property violations.
17. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms to reflect product, legal, or operational changes. The updated version and effective date will be posted on this page. If a change materially reduces rights or increases recurring obligations, we will provide additional notice when required by law. Changes do not retroactively alter ownership or commercial rights already granted for a fully paid Project, but continued use after an effective update constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
18. General
These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Commercial License, and any applicable order are the entire agreement for the Service. An order controls only to the extent it expressly conflicts with these Terms; the Commercial License controls for paid Output rights. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder stays effective. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond reasonable control. Headings are for convenience only.
19. Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to legal@chic.dev. Product and billing support may be sent to support@chic.dev.