Terms and conditions

These terms and conditions (“Agreement”) set forth the general terms and conditions of your use of the patterned.com website (“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”). This Agreement is legally binding between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and Patterned LLC (“Patterned LLC”, “we”, “us” or “our”). If you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a business or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity to this Agreement, in which case the terms “User”, “you” or “your” shall refer to such entity. If you do not have such authority, or if you do not agree with the terms of this Agreement, you must not accept this Agreement and may not access and use the Website and Services. By accessing and using the Website and Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. You acknowledge that this Agreement is a contract between you and Patterned LLC, even though it is electronic and is not physically signed by you, and it governs your use of the Website and Services.

Accounts and membership

If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with it. We may monitor and review new accounts before you may sign in and start using the Services. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. You must immediately notify us of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. We will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions. We may suspend, disable, or delete your account (or any part thereof) if we determine that you have violated any provision of this Agreement or that your conduct or content would tend to damage our reputation and goodwill. If we delete your account for the foregoing reasons, you may not re-register for our Services. We may block your email address and Internet protocol address to prevent further registration.

User content

We do not own any data, information or material (collectively, “Content”) that you submit on the Website in the course of using the Service. You shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use of all submitted Content. We may monitor and review the Content on the Website submitted or created using our Services by you. You grant us permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, display and perform the Content of your user account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, we have the right, though not the obligation, to, in our own sole discretion, refuse or remove any Content that, in our reasonable opinion, violates any of our policies or is in any way harmful or objectionable. You also grant us the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the Content created by you or stored in your user account for commercial, marketing or any similar purpose.

Backups

We are not responsible for the Content residing on the Website. In no event shall we be held liable for any loss of any Content. It is your sole responsibility to maintain appropriate backup of your Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on some occasions and in certain circumstances, with absolutely no obligation, we may be able to restore some or all of your data that has been deleted as of a certain date and time when we may have backed up data for our own purposes. We make no guarantee that the data you need will be available.

Links to other resources

Although the Website and Services may link to other resources (such as websites, mobile applications, etc.), we are not, directly or indirectly, implying any approval, association, sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation with any linked resource, unless specifically stated herein. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any businesses or individuals or the content of their resources. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, products, services, and content of any other third parties. You should carefully review the legal statements and other conditions of use of any resource which you access through a link on the Website. Your linking to any other off-site resources is at your own risk.

Prohibited uses

In addition to other terms as set forth in the Agreement, you are prohibited from using the Website and Services or Content: (a) for any unlawful purpose; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any applicable laws, regulations, rules, or local requirements; (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Website and Services, third party products and services, or the Internet; (h) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; (i) for any obscene or immoral purpose; (j) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Website and Services, third party products and services, or the Internet; or (k) to share contact details or off-site links, or to request, offer, or complete any licensing, custom work, or commission outside the Website, as described in “Keeping business on Patterned.” We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Website and Services for violating any of the prohibited uses.

Keeping business on Patterned

Patterned is where artists and brands find each other and where licensing, custom work, and commissions happen. By using the Website and Services, every User agrees to keep that business on the Website.

Contact details and outside links. You may not include contact details or off-site routes in any Content you submit to the Website. This includes your profile (name, company name, bio, avatar, and banner), pattern titles, descriptions, and images, collections, comments, and messages. Contact details and off-site routes include, without limitation: email addresses; phone numbers; street addresses; usernames or handles for social media or messaging apps; website addresses and links of any kind; QR codes; and instructions to find, contact, hire, or buy from a User anywhere other than the Website. This does not apply to information that a form on the Website specifically asks you to provide.

Transactions. Any licensing, custom work, or commission between Users who found, met, or contacted each other through the Website must be requested, agreed, and paid for through the Website. You may not ask for, offer, or accept contact details, payment, or any other arrangement to move that business off the Website, and you may not direct or encourage another User to do so.

Twelve-month period. The rules in this section apply to you and another User for twelve (12) months after you first find, meet, or contact that User through the Website. They do not apply to a working relationship that you can show existed before that first contact.

Why this matters. A deal made off the Website has no Patterned license agreement, no protected payment, no license files delivered through the Website, and no support from us if something goes wrong.

Enforcement. If we determine that you have broken this section, we may, with or without notice, edit or remove the Content involved, limit your ability to send messages, unpublish your pattern designs from licensing, or suspend or delete your account as described in “Accounts and membership.”

Reporting. If another User asks you to take business off the Website, please report it to support@patterned.com.

This section adds to, and does not replace, the licensing transaction terms in the Seller's Agreement and the Buyer's Agreement.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will Patterned LLC, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, suppliers or licensors be liable to any person for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, cover or consequential damages (including, without limitation, damages for lost profits, revenue, sales, goodwill, use of content, impact on business, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity) however caused, under any theory of liability, including, without limitation, contract, tort, warranty, breach of statutory duty, negligence or otherwise, even if the liable party has been advised as to the possibility of such damages or could have foreseen such damages. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of Patterned LLC and its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, suppliers and licensors relating to the services will be limited to an amount no greater than one dollar or any amounts actually paid in cash by you to Patterned LLC for the prior one month period prior to the first event or occurrence giving rise to such liability. The limitations and exclusions also apply if this remedy does not fully compensate you for any losses or fails of its essential purpose.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Patterned LLC and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, suppliers and licensors harmless from and against any liabilities, losses, damages or costs, including reasonable legal fees, incurred in connection with or arising from any third party allegations, claims, actions, disputes, or demands asserted against any of them as a result of or relating to your Content, your use of the Website and Services or any willful misconduct on your part.

AI and Acceptable Use

All user content that is submitted to the Website for use by the Services may NOT contain any imagery or content that is generated by AI. We monitor new accounts and new content for any use of AI, and have systems in place to detect if submitted user content has been created with AI. Actions that attempt to circumvent these terms and policies will not be tolerated, and will result in account suspension or removal. Furthermore, users who invited another user that violates these policies may also have their account flagged for review.

We reserve the right to hide or remove any and all images we deem inappropriate for our platform, or that we feel do not represent authentic, genuine creation of pattern designs. Furthermore, we reserve the right to flag, hide or remove accounts that do violate our standards. This may include but is not limited to, using AI to create portions of or elements within a pattern design, posting artwork that is largely a copy of another artist's work, using stock imagery to create a pattern design, posting artwork that an artist didn't create themselves, posting artwork that doesn't represent seamless pattern design, and artwork that does not meet a basic level of quality we are trying to uphold in our platform. We retain the right to ensure images shown on our platform represent genuine, true creation by real artists.

We at BorderLeap will have the final say in moderation on our platform for the benefit of our community. We will continue to make adjustments and updates to our policies as our platform grows and the situation around AI-generated media continues to evolve.

Repeating pattern images

The first image, or "slide" for any pattern design uploaded to the Patterned platform must be a seamlessly-repeating pattern tile image. This is to ensure that publicly-viewable feeds within our web site present a consistent and uniform appearance filled with pattern designs. Any non-repeating images uploaded for the first image in any pattern design will be made private to hide it from our public feeds, or may be removed permanently.

Protecting pattern images

Helping to protect artist's work is important to us. We have measures in place to help protect pattern images by obfuscating and/or "scrambling" images uploaded to our platform. Final images shown on our web site are "unscrambled", and presented as they were originally uploaded. Furthermore, in addition to this we have additional security measures in place to help protect artwork.

We are dedicated to making continual improvements and advancements in our platform to protect uploaded pattern images, however, as with any online service we cannot guarantee full, 100% protection.

Licensing

By listing designs for license on the site, artists have agreed to the terms of our Seller's Agreement, available at https://patterned.com/licensing-agreement-seller . By purchasing licenses to designs on the site, buyers have agreed to the terms of our Buyer's Agreement, available at https://patterned.com/licensing-agreement-buyer . Both sellers and buyers must agree to our general licensing terms available under our Patterned Licensing Agreement at https://patterned.com/licensing-agreement-general .

Changes and amendments

We reserve the right to modify this Agreement or its terms related to the Website and Services at any time at our discretion. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also provide notice to you in other ways at our discretion, such as through the contact information you have provided.

An updated version of this Agreement will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Agreement unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of the Website and Services after the effective date of the revised Agreement (or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes.

Acceptance of these terms

You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement, you are not authorized to access or use the Website and Services.

Contacting us

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this Agreement, we encourage you to contact us using the details below:

support@patterned.com
https://help.patterned.com

This document was last updated on October 1, 2026