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Software License & Service Agreement

Published 2026-08-04 · Revised 2026-08-15

Important Notice

I. This Agreement is entered into between you (the “user” or “you”) and 杭州余杭澈韵网络科技工作室 (Hangzhou Yuhang Cheyun Network Technology Studio, Unified Social Credit Code 92330110MAEJ52Y33R, hereinafter “ArisFusion Studio” or “we”/“us”), governing your download, installation, registration, login, and use of the Nephele Workshop software (the “Software”) and related services (the “Services”).

II. Please read this Agreement in full before using the Services, paying particular attention to the clauses in bold that exempt or limit our liability, restrict your rights, or govern applicable law and dispute resolution. By clicking to agree, registering an account, or otherwise using the Services, you are deemed to have read this Agreement and agreed to be bound by it.

III. If you are a minor under 18 or otherwise lack full capacity for civil conduct, you should read this Agreement accompanied by your guardian and use the Services only with your guardian's consent.

IV. This Agreement comprises: the main text of this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, the Architect Showcase Submission License Terms (Annex I), and specific rules we publish from time to time. These documents have equal effect; where they conflict, the specific terms prevail over the main text for the corresponding feature.

Article 1 — Definitions

  1. Software: the Nephele Workshop desktop application and its versions, including the companion browser extension (Wisp) and the mobile application (Nephele Aura).
  2. Local features: features that run without depending on our servers, including but not limited to digital certification, invisible watermarking, rights-enforcement tooling, library indexing, Eagle integration, Pipeline, and delivery packing.
  3. Cloud features: features that depend on our servers or cloud inference, including but not limited to Axioma cloud chat, cloud analysis such as Evaluation and Style DNA, artist subscriptions, and the cloud legs of reverse image search.
  4. Architect's Seal: the paid membership credential of the Software; the associated cloud entitlements and term are as described on the purchase page.
  5. Nepheline: the usage credit for cloud features, obtained as part of an Architect's Seal or by separate top-up.
  6. Daily stamina: a free daily cloud-feature quota granted during the testing period.
  7. User content: content you process, generate, upload, or submit through the Software, including your artwork files, showcase submissions, and feedback.

Article 2 — Contracting Entity and Scope

  1. The Services are operated and provided by ArisFusion Studio (杭州余杭澈韵网络科技工作室). “ArisFusion Studio” is our registered trademark and public brand name, and “CreatorAris” is the developer's byline; both refer to the same entity. In this Agreement and the Privacy Policy, “ArisFusion Studio” and “we” have the same meaning.
  2. This Agreement applies to all client forms of the Software (desktop, the Wisp extension, and the Aura mobile app) and the related services provided on our website.
  3. You should obtain the Software from our official website (arisfusion.com and its mirror domains) or channels we authorize. We cannot guarantee the safety or integrity of copies obtained from unofficial channels, and you bear any resulting loss.

Article 3 — Software License

  1. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license, revocable under this Agreement, to install and use the Software for your personal creative work or the ordinary business of your studio.
  2. One license may be bound to at most 2 devices concurrently.
  3. Local features are a one-time buyout: once purchased, you may use local features permanently. We commit that we will not paywall, lock, or remotely downgrade your local features because your Architect's Seal expires, because of service adjustments, or because of updates to this Agreement.
  4. Expiration of the Architect's Seal affects cloud features only; renewal restores cloud access. Upon expiration, the yearly Nepheline bundled with the Seal is frozen and restored upon renewal; topped-up Nepheline never expires and is unaffected by Seal status.
  5. The Software is currently in Beta: features and the interface may change. Purchased content and credits are unaffected, but some features may be refactored or retired as the product evolves.
  6. We update the Software continuously (including feature changes, enhancements, and version upgrades). After a new version is released, older versions may no longer be usable; please update to the latest version promptly.

Article 4 — Accounts

  1. Your email address is the sole identifier of your account. You should ensure your registration information is accurate and keep your login credentials safe.
  2. Accounts and licenses may not be transferred, rented, lent, or resold, and credentials may not be shared.
  3. You bear the consequences of account theft caused by your failure to safeguard credentials, except where caused by defects or fault on our side; if you notice anything unusual, contact us promptly.

Article 5 — Paid Services

  1. Paid items, prices, and entitlements are as displayed on the purchase page. Domestic (mainland China) payments are processed via WeChat Pay / Alipay. For overseas card orders, the Merchant of Record is Creem: the transaction terms, receipts, and refund process for such orders are governed by Creem's policies, and we assist you in initiating refunds with Creem.
  2. Nepheline is non-transferable, non-cashable, cannot be exchanged for legal tender, and is not a virtual currency.
  3. Refunds: within 14 days of your first purchase of the Architect's Seal, you may request a full refund, no questions asked. Refunds are limited to once per account / per device / per payer for lifetime; Nepheline top-up orders and renewal orders are not eligible for no-reason refunds.
  4. Daily stamina is a testing-period gift quota that resets at 00:00 Beijing Time, does not accumulate, and cannot be cashed out. Whether it continues after the testing period, and its amount, are at our discretion and will be announced in advance.
  5. If a minor makes payments inappropriate to their age and judgment without guardian consent, the guardian may contact us via Article 15 to resolve the matter.
  6. For domestic orders requiring an invoice (fapiao), email [email protected] with your order number; receipts for overseas card orders are issued by Creem.

Article 6 — User Conduct

  1. You are responsible for all activity under your use of the Software and its consequences, and you warrant that you will not use the Software for activities that violate laws and regulations or infringe third-party rights.
  2. Content you upload, submit, or transmit through the Services (including temporary reverse-image-search uploads and showcase submissions) must not contain content prohibited by law and must not infringe others' copyright, portrait, privacy, or other lawful rights.
  3. You must not:
    1. (1) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, or otherwise attempt to obtain its source code (except as expressly permitted by law);
    2. (2) use cheats, scripts, or automation to abuse the API or circumvent quota or device limits;
    3. (3) interfere with or disrupt the Services' infrastructure or other users' normal use;
    4. (4) resell or redistribute the Software or share account credentials;
    5. (5) use the Software for purposes prohibited by laws and regulations.
  4. For violations of this Article, we may, depending on severity, issue warnings, restrict or suspend some or all features, terminate service, or take other appropriate measures; suspected illegal activity will be handled in cooperation with the competent authorities as required by law.

Article 7 — Intellectual Property and User Content

  1. Your artwork is yours. All intellectual property in the artwork you process through the Software remains yours at all times; we claim no rights over your work.
  2. The intellectual property and related rights in the Software itself (including the program, interface design, the Nephele character, the “Nephele Workshop” name and marks, and the “ArisFusion Studio” registered trademark) belong to us. You may not copy, distribute, adapt, or otherwise use them without written permission.
  3. Architect Showcase submissions: if you voluntarily submit artwork for display on the startup screen and website, Annex I (Architect Showcase Submission License Terms) applies. That license is non-exclusive and revocable at any time; we do not acquire ownership of your work, do not use it for AI training, and do not create derivative works.
  4. We may use your comments, suggestions, and feedback about the Software for product improvement free of charge, without further notice or compensation; such use does not extend to any artwork contained within your feedback.
  5. For AI feature output generated from your input, the associated rights belong to you to the extent permitted by law; we do not guarantee that AI output will not resemble third-party content, and you should exercise your own judgment before use.

Article 8 — Personal Information

The handling of your personal information is governed by the Privacy Policy, including what data we collect, for what purposes, deletion timelines for temporary uploads, and our commitment that your data is never used to train any AI model.

Article 9 — Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

  1. The Software is provided “as is”; we do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or perfectly fit for your particular purpose.
  2. Cloud services may be suspended or limited due to maintenance, upgrades, force majeure, or third-party causes (network failures, third-party service outages, etc.); we will do our best to announce planned maintenance in advance. Local features are unaffected by cloud service interruptions.
  3. AI output is for reference only and does not constitute professional advice; you are responsible for how you use AI output and its consequences. The Software is an independent product and has no affiliation, partnership, or endorsement relationship with the third-party AI providers that supply its compute.
  4. Third-party platform interaction: certain features of the Software (including data reading via the Wisp extension, reverse image search, reference collection, and multi-platform publishing) access or operate third-party platforms in an automated manner, on your device, through third-party platform accounts you have signed in to yourself. Whether such use complies with a platform's rules is interpreted by that platform's operator, and platform rules may change at any time. You acknowledge and assume the risk of restrictions, suspensions, or other adverse measures imposed on your third-party platform accounts as a result of using such features; we are not responsible for the actions of third-party platform operators. The Software has no affiliation, partnership, or endorsement relationship with those platforms.
  5. Digital certification provides technical proof of creation time based on RFC 3161; similarity analysis is a technical comparison, not a finding of infringement; evidence bundles are organizational tools, not legal documents. The evidentiary weight of the above is determined by judicial authorities. We provide technical tools, not legal services.
  6. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect losses, lost profits, or data loss arising from use of the Services; our aggregate liability to you is capped at the total fees you have actually paid for the Services. This Article does not apply to liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law (including damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, and personal injury).

Article 10 — Enforcement and Appeals

  1. For accounts that violate this Agreement, we apply measures in proportion to severity: warning → restriction of some features → suspension of cloud services → termination of service.
  2. Even if your account's cloud services are terminated for violations, the local features you have bought out remain usable — except where a legally effective judgment or determination by a competent authority, or clear evidence, establishes that you used the Software to commit illegal acts.
  3. If you disagree with a measure, you may appeal to [email protected]; we will review and respond within 15 business days.

Article 11 — Service Changes and Discontinuation

  1. We may adjust, suspend, or terminate some or all cloud services based on business circumstances; material adjustments will be announced in advance via in-app announcements.
  2. If the Services are discontinued entirely, we will announce it no less than 60 days in advance, and discontinuation will not affect your continued use of purchased local features. Arrangements for remaining Architect's Seal terms and unconsumed topped-up Nepheline will be explained in that announcement.

Article 12 — Notices

  1. Our notices are delivered by one or more of: in-app announcements / the notification center, website announcements, and your registered email. Announcements are deemed delivered upon publication; emails are deemed delivered 24 hours after sending.
  2. Notices from you to us should be sent to [email protected] or through the in-app feedback channel.

Article 13 — Updates to this Agreement

  1. We may revise this Agreement due to changes in laws and regulations, product features, and similar reasons. Material changes will be announced via in-app announcement no less than 7 days before taking effect; other revisions take effect upon publication on the website.
  2. If you do not agree to a revised Agreement, you should stop using the Services; continued use after a revision takes effect constitutes acceptance. Revisions do not retroactively diminish the buyout entitlements you have already acquired (see Article 3.3).

Article 14 — Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

  1. This Agreement is concluded in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Its formation, performance, and interpretation are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China.
  2. Disputes arising from this Agreement should first be resolved through friendly negotiation; failing that, either party may bring an action before the people's court with jurisdiction at the defendant's domicile (our domicile is Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province).
  3. If the law of your habitual residence grants you consumer or data rights that cannot be waived by agreement, this Article does not affect your entitlement to those rights.
  4. This Agreement is provided in multiple languages; in case of discrepancy between language versions, the Simplified Chinese version prevails.

Article 15 — Miscellaneous

  1. If any clause of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining clauses remain in force.
  2. Clause headings are for convenience only and are not a basis for interpretation.
  3. Our failure or delay in exercising any right under this Agreement is not a waiver of that right.
  4. Contact: [email protected] · Discord · QQ group (links in the website footer); mailing address for written correspondence: F0864, No. 51 Tong'an Road, Shuangxi Village, Jingshan Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Annex I — Architect Showcase Submission License Terms

Please read and agree to the following terms before submitting artwork through the Software's Architect Showcase feature. These terms are part of the Nephele Workshop Software License & Service Agreement (Annex I).

1. License granted

You grant us a non-exclusive, revocable, royalty-free license to use your submitted artwork for:

  1. (a) display on the Nephele Workshop startup screen and in the Architect Showcase gallery;
  2. (b) display in the Architect Showcase section of the Nephele website;
  3. (c) incidental appearance where the above interfaces are shown in product screenshots, demos, or promotional material. We will never use your artwork on its own as a primary marketing visual.

2. Attribution and integrity

Your byline and the homepage link you provide are always shown with the artwork. Apart from the crop you confirm at submission and technical processing necessary for display (scaling, compression, format conversion), we make no changes to the work — no secondary creation, no derivative works. Interface elements (the app mark, loading indicator, attribution bar, etc.) may overlay the artwork on screen; this is not considered a modification of the work.

3. Our commitments

We will not use your artwork to train any AI model, will not license it to any third party, and will not sell or sublicense it — except for the cloud storage and content delivery services necessary for display (artwork files are distributed to clients through their infrastructure).

4. Term and withdrawal

The license takes effect when your work passes review and continues until you withdraw it. You may withdraw at any time via the in-app entry or the feedback channel: upon withdrawal, the work is removed from the distribution manifest immediately, the artwork file stored on our servers is deleted, the website copy is removed, and distributed clients delete their local caches at the next sync (normally within 7 days). Withdrawal does not affect incidental appearances in materials lawfully produced and published before the withdrawal, but we will not make any new use from the date of withdrawal.

5. Your warranties

You warrant that the submitted work is substantially your own independent creation, is not purely AI-generated content, and does not infringe any third party's copyright, portrait rights, or other lawful rights. You bear responsibility for disputes arising from the work's ownership.

6. Review and removal

We reserve the right to review, reject, and remove submissions. Submissions are open to all signed-in accounts.

7. No consideration

This license is an uncompensated display collaboration and is not a copyright transfer or sale; all intellectual property in the work remains yours.

ArisFusion Studio
杭州余杭澈韵网络科技工作室
F0864, No. 51 Tong'an Road, Shuangxi Village, Jingshan Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Published: August 4, 2026
Effective: August 15, 2026