Pixlinker terms of service
Rules for using the service, publishing content, cooperation, and community safety.
Pixlinker terms of service
These terms define the rules for using Pixlinker. By using the service, the user confirms they have read the terms and agrees to comply with them. The terms are platform-wide in nature: they cover both content publication rules and the responsibilities of parties, as well as the operating framework of platform tools.
Key rules in brief
This short summary helps users quickly understand the most important Pixlinker rules.
- Publish only content for which you have the required rights and consents, including consents from people shown in photos where needed.
- Label 18+ content where required by the nature of the material or by service rules.
- Do not use Pixlinker for spam, fraud, harassment, bypassing limits, or manipulating rankings, votes, reviews, or other metrics.
- Paid features increase the scope of tools, limits, or technical visibility, but they do not guarantee clients, sales, inquiries, views, or ranking positions.
- Reports and appeals may be submitted through the indicated contact channel or violation reporting form.
- The operator may remove, hide, or limit content and features if they violate law, these terms, or service security.
This summary does not replace the full terms. In case of doubt, the full provisions below apply.
1. General provisions and definitions
1.1. Pixlinker is an online platform for photographers, models, and visual creators, including among others a portfolio, public profile, user landing page, listings, forum, communication, community features, calendar, and selected paid features.
1.2. The operator of the Pixlinker service is Tomasz Dąbrowski, ul. Pana Tadeusza 16/28, 39-200 Dębica, Poland, e-mail: contact@pixlinker.com.
1.3. These terms apply to all users, regardless of account type, plan, and scope of feature usage.
1.4. The operator may provide additional, experimental, testing, or beta features that may operate in a limited scope, provided this does not infringe user rights under applicable law.
1.5. Account means an individual user access to the service, including login data, settings, content, and activity history connected with a given profile.
1.6. User means a person, company, or other entity that uses Pixlinker, creates an account, publishes content, or uses service features independently or through a person authorized to act on its behalf.
1.7. Content means any materials and information published or transmitted within the service, including photos, descriptions, listings, comments, reviews, messages, ratings, reports, tags, and other data added by the user.
1.8. Public profile means a publicly accessible view of a user account that may present user information, roles, links, portfolio, activity, or other elements shared by the user or the service.
1.9. Landing page means a public user page created within the landing page module and intended to present a person, brand, services, offer, portfolio, contact form, or links.
1.10. Listing means content posted in the listings or market module, relating in particular to cooperation, a project, a service, an event, a course, a digital product, equipment sale, or another offer allowed in the service.
1.11. Plan means an account variant defining the scope of features and limits, while credits mean functional units used in the service for selected actions or feature activations.
1.12. Paid features mean paid plans, credits, promotion, highlights, promoboxes, and other services or tools that increase the scope of features or the visibility of content within the service.
1.13. User activity means actions taken in the service, including publications, comments, messages, reviews, ratings, likes, follows, votes, participation in challenges, rankings, XP, badges, and other interactions.
1.14. If these terms refer to content visibility, this also includes the possibility of restricting, temporarily hiding, labeling, anonymizing, or permanently removing content in accordance with service rules and applicable law.
2. Account, identity, and minors
2.1. The user is responsible for the accuracy of registration data and for the security of login credentials.
2.2. An account is assigned to a specific person or entity.
2.3. An account may not be sold, transferred, or shared with third parties without the operator's consent.
2.4. Minors may use the service with the consent of a legal guardian.
2.5. Features related to 18+ content are available only to adults. Use of payments, subscriptions, credits, or other paid features may require adulthood or consent of a legal guardian where required by law, payment operator rules, or the nature of the given service.
2.6. Publishing 18+ content involving minors, content suggesting the involvement of minors, or styling that suggests underage persons is strictly prohibited.
2.7. The operator may change, hide, or remove a username that violates law, good practices, third-party rights, or may be misleading.
2.8. Having more than one account is not in itself prohibited. However, using multiple accounts to bypass limits, blocks, moderation decisions, payment rules, rankings, votes, ratings, reviews, promotions, or other service mechanisms is forbidden.
3. Public profile, portfolio, landing page, and public content
3.1. Availability of public profile, portfolio, and landing page features, as well as the number of possible publications, may depend on the user's active plan and current service limits.
3.2. The portfolio is intended for publishing original, creative photographs and visual works presenting the user's body of work, style, skills, or projects.
3.3. The portfolio may include, in particular, original photography, portraits, reportage, wedding photography, fashion, beauty, glamour, artistic nude photography, editorials, product photography presented as creative work, architecture, landscape, and artistic projects. Content containing nudity, erotic elements, or materials intended for adults must be labeled in accordance with the 18+ content rules. Pornographic, explicitly sexual, illegal, rights-infringing, or Pixlinker-rules-infringing content is not allowed.
3.4. The portfolio may not be used as a shop catalogue, plain product inventory, equipment sale board, advertising banner area, flyer repository, screenshot dump, image-based price list, spam, or misleading content.
3.5. Shops, companies, and service providers may present their offers in the listings module, but the portfolio should not be used as a regular sales catalogue, product price list, or advertising board.
3.6. The user is responsible for their public profile, portfolio, landing page, descriptions, photos, comments, reviews, and other content published in the service, as well as for whether such content may be shown publicly.
3.7. The user must hold copyright or a publication license for the material and all required consents from people shown in the photos, model consents, consents concerning places or objects where required, and must ensure the legality of publication and the accuracy of descriptions.
3.8. The user is also responsible for respecting trademarks, image rights, personal rights, and other third-party rights related to published content.
3.9. As part of service operation, photos uploaded by the user, for example in JPG, JPEG, PNG, or other formats supported by the service, may be automatically processed technically, including conversion to WebP format and publication as thumbnail and larger preview variants.
3.10. The user must label 18+ content in accordance with service rules, and the operator may request proof of rights, consents, or route material to manual moderation.
3.11. The operator may restrict visibility, hide, label, or remove content that violates these terms, applicable law, user safety, or the service reputation.
3.12. After content removal, data recovery is not guaranteed, subject to technical copies, cache, system backups, and cases where data retention is legally or technically required.
4. Marketplace and listings
4.1. The service may provide listing publication features related to cooperation, services, projects, events, courses, sales, digital products, and other offers allowed by the service.
4.2. The operator is not a party to transactions, arrangements, or agreements concluded between users.
4.3. The operator is not responsible for payments, deliveries, fraud, service performance, service quality, user meetings, or the consequences of collaborations initiated through the service.
4.4. Publishing listings related to counterfeits, extortion, fraud, and unlawful activities is prohibited.
4.5. The operator may remove listings that violate these terms, applicable law, user safety, or the service reputation.
4.6. The operator may limit visibility of selected listings, including temporarily hiding them where moderation or report verification requires it.
4.7. The user is responsible for the legality of the offer, the accuracy of its description, the right to sell or provide the service, and the rights to materials and marks used in the listing.
5. Plans, subscriptions, credits, and paid features
5.1. Pixlinker may offer free and paid plans with different feature sets and limits.
5.2. Paid plans may operate in billing cycles consistent with the current offer.
5.3. After a paid plan period ends, if the subscription is not renewed, the account generally returns to the free plan or another currently available basic plan.
5.4. Credits in the service are functional in nature, do not constitute a payment instrument or electronic money, and are generally not exchanged for cash. This does not limit any rights the user has under applicable law, in particular as a consumer.
5.5. As a rule, credits are not exchanged for cash. This does not limit any rights the user has under applicable law, in particular as a consumer.
5.6. After account deletion, unused credits are not paid out in cash and may expire in accordance with service rules. This does not limit any rights the user has under applicable law.
5.7. The operator may change plan prices, feature scope, and plan limits, and may add or remove plan features as the service evolves.
5.8. Subscription cancellation means no renewal for the next period, while features remain active until the end of the current paid period.
5.9. The operator is not responsible for temporary feature limitations resulting from technical works or failures beyond the operator's control.
5.10. Some account types or user roles may require a specific minimum paid plan. This applies in particular to commercial, agency, or sales-oriented accounts, such as a shop, modeling agency, or scout, according to the current pricing and plan descriptions available in the service.
5.11. If the selected account type requires a higher plan than the user currently has, the service may limit the ability to select that role, use related features, or switch to a lower plan. Information about the required plan is presented in the account panel or on the plans page.
5.12. The current requirements for particular account types may change as the service develops. Such changes do not affect rights already acquired for the active billing period, subject to the user's rights under applicable law.
5.13. A paid plan, credits, promotion, highlight, promobox, or another paid visibility feature is intended to increase the availability of functions or the visibility of content within the service.
5.14. The final result of using paid features depends, among other things, on user interest, content quality, category, location, competition, activity in the service, and the settings and behavior of other users. These features do not guarantee a specific number of views, inquiries, replies, clients, sales, search positions, wins in rankings, or any other specific result.
5.15. If, after activation of a plan, credits, or a paid feature, the payment is reversed, disputed with the bank, for example through a chargeback, or turns out to be incorrect, the operator may revoke the granted features, credits, highlights, or promotions and suspend selected account functions until the matter is clarified.
5.16. Until the matter is clarified, the operator may suspend selected account functions related to payments, content visibility, or premium features.
6. Calendar and bookings
6.1. The calendar in the service is an organizational tool supporting communication between users.
6.2. The operator is not a party to arrangements regarding sessions, assignments, collaborations, or meetings arranged by users.
6.3. The operator is not responsible for canceled sessions, no-shows, payment settlements, quality of service performance, or user behavior during meetings.
7. Forum, messages, comments, reviews, and ratings
7.1. Users undertake to communicate respectfully and show regard for others.
7.2. Hate, harassment, spam, scams, threats, illegal content, and other conduct that undermines community safety are prohibited.
7.3. Comments, messages, reviews, and ratings are user content or user activity and may be moderated in accordance with these terms and the service safety rules.
7.4. The operator may remove, hide, or limit reviews and ratings if they are false, retaliatory, purchased, spam-like, infringe personal rights, reveal private data, violate law or these terms, or do not concern a genuine collaboration.
7.5. Moderators may remove content, limit its visibility, temporarily block accounts, or apply other moderation measures proportionate to the violation.
7.6. The operator may store messages and posts to the extent technically and legally required, including for security, handling reports, and pursuing claims.
7.7. Users should not publish third-party private data, confidential materials, or content that may infringe third-party rights in comments, messages, or reviews.
8. Interactions, rankings, XP, and badges
8.1. Likes, follows, votes, rankings, XP, badges, and other activity metrics are elements of the Pixlinker community and may depend on user behavior and system operation.
8.2. Interactions and activity metrics are treated as user activity and may be moderated, visibility-limited, corrected, or invalidated in the event of violations.
8.3. Manipulating metrics is prohibited, including through artificial likes, artificial follows, purchased reviews, purchased votes, coordinated group actions, limit circumvention, or automation.
8.4. The operator may correct, remove, or invalidate XP, badges, votes, rankings, and other metrics if a technical error, abuse, manipulation, or breach of these terms is detected.
8.5. Receiving a badge, points, or a ranking position does not create an acquired right if it is later found that the result was achieved in violation of the service rules.
8.6. The operator may temporarily restrict the counting of selected metrics or the visibility of rankings while verifying errors, abuse, or technical issues.
9. Challenges, contests, voting, and jury
9.1. The service may provide challenges, contests, community voting, jury selections, or other mechanisms of competition and recognition.
9.2. Participation in a challenge, contest, or voting process does not guarantee a win, distinction, publication, prize, or specific ranking position.
9.3. The operator may invalidate votes, results, ranking positions, or other outcomes if a technical error, abuse, manipulation, or breach of these terms is detected.
9.4. Decisions of the jury, moderators, or community mechanisms may be corrected or moderated if required for service safety, fairness of results, or the removal of abuse effects.
9.5. The operator may postpone publication of results, temporarily hide selected content, or extend verification if this is required for report handling or analysis of irregularities.
9.6. If separate rules for a specific challenge or contest provide additional conditions, they apply together with these terms.
10. License for user content
10.1. The user grants the operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free license, limited to operation of the service, for content published in the service.
10.2. The license includes in particular storage, processing, display, thumbnail generation, and promotion of content within the Pixlinker service.
10.3. The license does not transfer economic copyrights to the operator and serves solely to provide platform functionality.
10.4. The license expires upon content deletion, except for technical copies and backups required for secure infrastructure operation and legal obligations.
11. AI and automated analysis
11.1. The operator may use AI systems and automated content analysis, including photo classification, violation detection, material quality scoring, tag suggestions, and 18+ labeling.
11.2. As part of service operation, AI may support moderation, tagging, quality assessment, detection of sensitive content, material classification, and limiting the visibility of content that requires additional review.
11.3. AI systems and automated analysis may make mistakes in classification, evaluation, 18+ labeling, tag assignment, or the suggestion of restrictions.
11.4. The operator may apply automated, manual, or mixed decisions and may correct errors identified by the user, a moderator, or an internal system.
11.5. The user may report a classification error or appeal a moderation decision in accordance with the reporting rules applicable in the service.
11.6. The use of AI tools does not guarantee full analytical accuracy, uninterrupted operation, or identical results for all content.
12. Abuse of accounts and metrics
12.1. The use of bots, scraping, unauthorized automation, and circumvention of functional limits is prohibited.
12.2. Creating account farms, overloading infrastructure, and attempting to bypass service safeguards is prohibited.
12.3. Phishing, scams, data extortion, impersonation, and actions harmful to Pixlinker's reputation are prohibited.
12.4. Multiple accounts used to bypass limits or blocks, artificial likes, artificial follows, artificial votes, purchased reviews, coordinated harassment, mass reporting or manipulation campaigns, automation of community actions, spam, and mass messaging are prohibited.
12.5. Using tools or actions intended to artificially increase the visibility of a profile, landing page, portfolio, listing, or activity results within the service is prohibited.
12.6. In the event of violations, the operator may apply technical measures, limit account functions, temporarily block an account, remove content, or remove an account.
12.7. The operator may also reverse the effects of abuse, including removing artificial interactions, correcting rankings, invalidating results, or limiting access to selected features.
13. Moderation, reports, restrictions, and appeals
13.1. Users may report violations, including copyright infringement, impersonation, image-rights violations, community abuse, and other breaches of these terms.
13.2. The operator may remove, hide, label, or limit the visibility of content, and may also limit account functions or block an account in the event of serious or repeated violations.
13.3. A report should contain information that allows identification of the problem, the violating content or activity, and as precise a description of the issue as possible.
13.4. The detailed procedure is available on the Violation reports.
13.5. The operator may request additional information and documents necessary to review a report or appeal and may contact both sides of a dispute where justified.
13.6. The operator may refuse to review a report that is incomplete, obviously unfounded, or abusive, in particular where the reporting party does not provide information allowing the problem to be verified.
13.7. Reports and appeals are reviewed within a reasonable time depending on the complexity of the matter, the completeness of the data, and the information available. The service does not guarantee a fixed response time or a separate SLA for each report.
14. Liability and consumer rights
14.1. The operator is not responsible for agreements, collaborations, sessions, transactions, and arrangements concluded directly between users.
14.2. Liability limitations apply subject to the rights the user has under applicable law.
14.3. No provision of these terms limits consumer rights arising from applicable law.
14.4. A complaint concerning service operation, payments, a plan, credits, or a paid feature may be submitted using the operator contact details indicated in the service.
14.5. The complaint should include information allowing the account, payment, or feature concerned to be identified, together with a reasonably precise description of the issue.
14.6. The operator responds to complaints within a reasonable time, depending on the complexity of the matter and the completeness of the information provided.
14.7. For digital services, immediate activation of a plan, credits, or a paid feature may affect the right of withdrawal if the user agreed to performance starting before the withdrawal period expires and was informed about the consequences of that consent.
14.8. Used credits, activated features, and performed digital services are not automatically exchanged for cash. This does not limit any rights the user has under applicable law, in particular as a consumer.
15. Service availability and technical work
15.1. The operator may temporarily limit operation of certain service features for technical, security, or development reasons.
15.2. Limitations may concern, among others, publication, search, communication, user panels, and premium features.
15.3. The operator makes reasonable efforts to ensure technical work is carried out efficiently and without unnecessary disruption.
16. Account deletion and inactivity
16.1. The user may stop using the service and delete the account in accordance with the procedures available in the service, subject to data that must be retained for settlements, security, reports, defense of claims, or legal obligations.
16.2. After account deletion, the public profile, portfolio, landing page, and active listings may be hidden or removed from public view. Some community activity may be anonymized where necessary to preserve the technical consistency of the service or the history of discussions.
16.3. Unused credits are not paid out in cash and may expire upon account deletion. This does not limit any rights the user has under applicable law.
16.4. The operator may remove or deactivate an account after at least 24 months of inactivity, after prior notice to the user by e-mail. Data required by law or needed to defend claims may be retained longer.
