THESE TERMS ARE UP TO DATE.
Please share my TOS to any new owner. You are welcome to copy my terms for your own use with or without credit.
These TOS may be updated at any time. If your design was owned before an update, please follow my current TOS.
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If a base is used from someone other than me, please read their TOS as well.
You own copyright to the character, not the design. Do not use it for commercial use.
Do not remove my signature if it came with one. Credit me where it is due (credit sections, when asked, when reposting the original design, etcetc). Please use my Toyhouse username, birdio.
You are permitted to edit the design, so long as it is recognizable from the original. However, you must still list me as the designer. If you want to credit yourself too, please list the changes you made when doing so.
You must contact me for permission before transferring a design into a species community, such as closed or open species.
If you have been added to a drawing such as on Chicken Smoothie, do not use the art for anything other than your character. For instance, if I made an adoptable on a P2U or closed base, do not color it in unless editing the design (see above).
Under no circumstances may your character be used to promote bigotry or hatred. This includes but is not limited xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, TERF ideology, truscum/transmed ideology, religious discrimination, racism, ableism, sexism, classism, and ageism.
If you are found purposefully breaking these terms, I will report & block you as well as warn others about you where it's appropriate. If I find you breaking these terms I will give you a reminder and if you change whatever you are doing wrong, you don't have to worry about being reported/blocked. I'm reasonable and we can work it out.
Please message me with any questions. I don't bite and would much rather you ask than just do something without being sure! Thank you :)
In the case of free designs:
Do not resell unless extra art is added, and thus the value is increased. Low effort, free, or gift art does not count as extra. Paid or (not low effort) self-made art counts. You may gift and trade the character regardless of extra art.
In the case of paid designs:
Do not resell for higher than you bought it unless extra art is added, and thus the value is increased. Low effort, free, or gift art does not count as extra. Paid or (not low effort) self-made art counts. You may gift and trade the character regardless of extra art. Do not resell for real currency unless that's what it was bought with or extra art is added. (For instance, do not sell a design bought for 50 C$ for its USD equivalent. You can sell a USD character to virtual currency, though.)