Terms of Use

1. Who We Are and What You Are Agreeing To

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding contract between you and Space Program Unlimited LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with its principal place of business in Astoria, Oregon, doing business as Maker Studio ("Maker Studio," "we," "us," or "our").

They apply to maker.studio and all related websites, applications, and services we operate, including the Layered Maps, 3D Maps, and Box Maker applications (collectively, the "Services"). By creating an account, starting a free trial, purchasing a subscription, or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

If you use the Services on behalf of a business or other organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" refers to both you and that organization.

The following documents are incorporated into these Terms by reference and form part of your agreement with us: the License Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Billing and Refunds Policy, and the Copyright and DMCA Policy.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

2.1 Age and supervised use

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to create an account or purchase a subscription. Accounts are for adults, and the Services are not directed to children.

Minors may use the Services, but only under the supervision of a responsible adult and only through that adult's account. A minor may not create an account or purchase a subscription in their own name. Two supervised arrangements are permitted:

• Family use. A parent or legal guardian may permit their minor child to use the Services under the guardian's supervision, on the guardian's account.
• Educational and institutional use. A school, educational institution, library, makerspace, or similar organization, acting through an adult teacher, instructor, or administrator, may permit minors to use the Services under that adult's direct supervision as part of a class, program, or supervised activity. This use is also governed by Section 7 of the License Terms.

In each case the adult account holder supervises the minor's use, is responsible for all activity on the account, is bound by these Terms, and is responsible for obtaining any parental or guardian consent that applicable law requires for a minor's participation. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from a child under 13; a minor's use occurs through the adult's account rather than an account of the minor's own. If we learn that a minor has created an account in their own name, we may suspend or close it.

2.2 Registration

You may create an account using an email address and password, a Google sign-in, or an emailed sign-in link. You agree to provide accurate information, keep it current, and keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity under your account, whether or not you authorized it. Notify us promptly at support@maker.studio if you suspect unauthorized access.

2.3 One account; no sharing

Accounts are personal to the account holder. You may not share credentials outside your own organization, sell or transfer your account, or use another person's account. Section 7 of the License Terms governs use by your employees and contractors.

3. The Services

The Services are browser-based design applications. You supply inputs such as coordinates, place names, search terms, dimensions, text, colors, and uploaded shapes, and the application generates a design you can export as a file for use on your own fabrication equipment, including laser cutters, CNC machines, and 3D printers.

We sell access to software. We do not sell physical goods, and we do not sell map data. We do not manufacture, ship, or warrant any physical item, and we do not provide design, engineering, surveying, or fabrication services.

The Services depend on third-party mapping, elevation, land-cover, and search data providers, identified in Section 9 of the License Terms. We may add, remove, substitute, or change providers at any time, which may change the appearance, coverage, resolution, or availability of results. We may also add, change, or discontinue features, applications, formats, or plan contents. We will give reasonable advance notice of changes that materially reduce the core functionality of a paid plan.

The Services are provided over the internet and may be unavailable from time to time due to maintenance, provider outages, or events beyond our control. We do not guarantee any particular level of availability.

4. Subscriptions, Trials, and Fees

Access to the Services requires a paid subscription following any free trial. Current plans, pricing, trial terms, auto-renewal terms, cancellation, taxes, failed payments, and our refund practices are set out in the Billing and Refunds Policy, which is part of these Terms. By subscribing, you authorize recurring charges as described in that policy.

5. License to Use the Services

Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Services for their intended purpose during your subscription term. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not, and may not permit anyone else to:

• copy, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services, or attempt to derive their source code, generation logic, or data pipelines, except to the extent this restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, bulk-export, or use any robot, script, or automated means to access the Services, extract Third-Party Data, or generate files, or circumvent any rate limit, quota, paywall, or access control;
• resell, rent, lease, time-share, or otherwise provide access to the Services to any third party, or operate a service bureau using the Services;
• use the Services to build, train, benchmark, or market a competing product or service, or to train any machine learning or artificial intelligence model;
• interfere with or disrupt the Services or the servers or networks that support them, including by introducing malware, overloading infrastructure, or probing for vulnerabilities without our written authorization;
• remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notice, attribution, or provider credit; or
• use the Services in violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions program, or export control.

6. Your Files and Your Content

"Your Content" means everything you supply to or create within the Services, including coordinates, search terms, project settings, text, uploaded shapes and images, and saved projects. You keep ownership of Your Content.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, modify, and display Your Content solely to operate, maintain, secure, and support the Services and to generate your files. This license ends when you delete Your Content or your account, subject to reasonable backup retention and legal requirements. We do not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence models.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to provide Your Content and that it does not infringe or violate the rights of others or any law. We may remove content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms, the law, or the rights of a third party, and our Copyright and DMCA Policy governs infringement claims.

Saved projects are a convenience, not a backup service. Plan limits on saved projects apply, and we may delete project data associated with a closed or long-inactive account after reasonable notice. Download and keep your own copies of any file you care about.

We offer optional publishing features, such as Quick Customize, that let you publish a design to a shared community library for other users to customize and reuse. Participation is optional. When you publish a design, we create a copy of it for community use, and you grant us and other users the rights described in the publishing terms presented at the time you choose to publish. Publishing does not transfer ownership of your original design. Section 3.5 of the License Terms also applies.

7. Rights in Exported Files

Your rights to use, fabricate from, sell, or distribute the files you export are governed by the License Terms, not by this document. In summary: a Hobby subscription permits personal, non-commercial use only; a Creator subscription permits commercial use, including selling physical products and finished files, while the subscription remains active; attribution to our data providers is mandatory; and using exported files or the Services to train artificial intelligence models is prohibited. Read the License Terms before selling anything you make.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Services to create, store, or distribute material that is unlawful, infringing, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, or that depicts or facilitates violence or illegal activity. You also agree not to impersonate another person, misrepresent your affiliation, upload malicious code, attempt to access another user's account or data, or use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, or impair them or expose us to liability.

9. Third-Party Services and Data

The Services incorporate and transmit information to third-party providers, including mapping, elevation, search, payment, analytics, email, and support providers identified in our Privacy Policy and License Terms. When you type a place name or move the map, your search text, coordinates, or map view may be sent to those providers so they can return results.

Your use of third-party services may also be subject to those providers' own terms. We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, acts, or omissions. Links from the Services to third-party sites are provided for convenience and are not endorsements.

10. Intellectual Property

The Services, including all software, interfaces, designs, templates, presets, text, graphics, and documentation, and all intellectual property rights in them, are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by law. "Maker Studio," "Layered Maps," "3D Maps," "Box Maker," and our logos are our trademarks. You may not use them without our prior written permission, except to accurately identify the Services.

We do not own the underlying geographic, elevation, land-cover, or imagery data supplied by our providers, and we claim no copyright in factual geographic information.

If you send us feedback, suggestions, or feature requests, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use and implement them without obligation or compensation to you.

11. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and share it, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights you have. By using the Services, you acknowledge that we handle information as described in that policy.

12. Beta and Early-Access Features

We may make features, applications, or formats available on a beta, preview, or early-access basis. Those features are identified as such and are provided for evaluation only. They may be incomplete, may change or be withdrawn at any time, may produce unreliable results, and are provided without any warranty or service commitment of any kind. Files generated with a beta feature are still governed by the License Terms, but you should not rely on a beta feature for production work.

13. Electronic Communications and Consent

By using the Services, you consent to receive communications from us electronically, including by email to the address on your account and by notices posted in the Services. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, authorizations, receipts, renewal reminders, and other communications we provide electronically satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing. You may withdraw this consent by closing your account; because the Services are delivered online, we cannot provide them to you without electronic communications.

Keep a current email address on your account. You are responsible for notices we send to the address on file, including billing and renewal notices.

14. Open Source and Third-Party Notices

The Services incorporate open source software and typefaces licensed under their own terms, including the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, the Apache License, Version 2.0, and the MIT License. Those components are provided under their respective licenses, which control over these Terms with respect to those components, and copies of the applicable license texts are available on request at support@maker.studio.

15. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Services at any time and may cancel your subscription as described in the Billing and Refunds Policy. You may request deletion of your account by contacting support@maker.studio.

We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, the License Terms, or any policy incorporated into them; if your payment fails or is reversed; if we reasonably believe your use creates a legal or security risk to us, other users, or our data providers; or if we discontinue the Services. Where practicable and lawful, we will give notice and an opportunity to cure a curable breach.

On termination, your right to access the Services ends immediately. Section 8 of the License Terms governs what happens to files you already exported. Fees already paid are handled under the Billing and Refunds Policy. Sections 6, 10, 17 through 19, and 22 of these Terms survive termination, along with any provision that by its nature should survive.

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the updated version with a new effective date and, for material changes, give active subscribers at least 30 days' notice by email or in-app notice before the changes take effect. Changes required by law or necessary for security may take effect sooner. If you continue to use the Services after the effective date, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, cancel your subscription before the effective date.

17. Disclaimers

THE SERVICES AND ALL CONTENT AND FILES GENERATED THROUGH THEM ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any data, map, elevation, boundary, or search result is accurate, complete, or current. Geographic and elevation data are modeled or crowd-sourced and contain errors.

Files generated by the Services are decorative and illustrative. They are not survey products, navigational charts, engineering drawings, or legal descriptions of land, and must not be used for navigation, surveying, construction, land-use decisions, emergency response, or any other safety-critical or legally consequential purpose. You are responsible for inspecting and test-cutting any file before fabrication and for operating your equipment safely and in accordance with its manufacturer's instructions.

18. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE AND OUR MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND CONTRACTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA, WASTED MATERIALS OR MACHINE TIME, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limitations are a fundamental part of the bargain between us and apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of Sections 17 and 18 may not apply to you, and nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any non-waivable consumer rights.

19. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Maker Studio and its members, officers, employees, and contractors from and against any third-party claim, demand, loss, liability, judgment, and reasonable expense, including attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to Your Content, your use or misuse of the Services, your products or client work, your breach of these Terms or the License Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right. We will notify you of any such claim, and you may not settle it in a way that imposes obligations on us without our prior written consent.

20. Dispute Resolution, Governing Law, and Venue

20.1 Informal resolution first

Most problems can be solved quickly. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us at support@maker.studio with a written description of the dispute, the relief you are seeking, and your account email, and to give us 30 days to resolve it. We will do the same before filing any claim against you. This step is a condition to filing suit, and the statute of limitations is tolled while it is underway.

20.2 Governing law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and without regard to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

20.3 Venue

Any claim not resolved informally must be brought exclusively in the state courts located in Clatsop County, Oregon, or the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small claims court with jurisdiction.

20.4 Class action and jury waiver

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN THAT PARTY'S INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. EACH PARTY ALSO KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY.

If this Section is held unenforceable in whole or in part as to a particular claim, that claim will proceed in court without a jury waiver, and the remainder of this Section will continue to apply to all other claims.

20.5 Consumers outside the United States

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts or to the protection of mandatory consumer law, nothing in this Section deprives you of those rights. EU consumers may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform.

20.6 Time limit

Any claim arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms must be filed within one year after the claim arose, except where a longer period is required by law.

21. Export Controls and Sanctions

You represent that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not on any U.S. government restricted-party list. You agree not to use the Services in violation of any applicable export control or sanctions law.

22. General

22.1 Entire agreement; order of precedence

These Terms, together with the License Terms, Privacy Policy, Billing and Refunds Policy, and Copyright and DMCA Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services and supersede all prior understandings on that subject. If there is a conflict, the following order of precedence applies: the License Terms control as to rights in exported files; the Billing and Refunds Policy controls as to fees, trials, renewal, cancellation, and refunds; the Privacy Policy controls as to personal information; the Copyright and DMCA Policy controls as to infringement notices; and these Terms control as to all other matters.

22.2 Survival

Any provision that by its nature should survive termination does survive, including provisions on your content license, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and these general provisions.

22.3 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

22.4 Severability and waiver

If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

22.5 Force majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including provider or infrastructure outages, natural disasters, labor disruptions, and governmental action.

22.6 Notices

We may give you notice by email to the address on your account, by posting in the Services, or by posting on maker.studio. You may give us notice at support@maker.studio. Notices are effective when sent, except that emailed notices sent outside normal business hours are effective the next business day.

22.7 Relationship and third parties

These Terms do not create any partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship, and create no third-party beneficiary rights, except that our members, officers, employees, and contractors may enforce Sections 17, 18, and 19.

22.8 Contact

Space Program Unlimited LLC d/b/a Maker Studio, Astoria, Oregon. Questions about these Terms: support@maker.studio.