ArtSeal Artist Pilot Agreement
Beta v0.1 — pending attorney review; material changes will require renewed acceptance.
Effective 31 July 2026. This Agreement is between Gimped Hero Games, LLC, a Michigan single-member LLC doing business as ArtSeal, and the invited artist who accepts it ("you"). Contact: seth@gimpedherogames.com, or Gimped Hero Games, LLC, 901 Tower Drive, Suite 420D, Troy, MI 48098, United States.
You accept this Agreement by ticking the acceptance box on ArtSeal's Pilot Agreement page while signed in. ArtSeal records which version you accepted, its hash, the time, and the request context. Your account and the date of acceptance identify you; there is nothing to sign on paper.
1. What the pilot is
The pilot lets an invited artist use:
- the ArtSeal Trainer, to make a LoRA from selected artwork;
- the ArtSeal Tester, to generate sample images from a LoRA;
- optional Studio Compute, on ArtSeal's own GPU; and
- the artist showcase and the related beta evidence tools.
Its purpose is to test usability, reliability, data handling, and whether the product is useful to artists and small studios. You may give feedback. You are not required to produce any particular amount of work.
2. Invite-only, free, revocable — and 18+
Participation is personal, invite-only, non-transferable and revocable. You must be 18 or older. Do not share your account or a Studio Compute passphrase.
ArtSeal charges no pilot fee and owes you no compensation for participating or for giving feedback. Studio Compute is paid for by Gimped Hero Games.
No current checkout, payout, tier, record or blockchain transaction creates a payment obligation or a real LoRA license. Payments are in test mode and the blockchain network is a test network. Never enter real card, bank or cryptocurrency value into a test flow.
3. You keep your intellectual property
As between you and ArtSeal, you keep every intellectual-property right you hold in:
- your artwork and working files;
- prompts and other creative material you supply;
- the LoRA produced from your material; and
- generated images, subject to whatever rights the law recognizes and to any rights in third-party material or base models.
ArtSeal receives no ownership in any of it.
This section does not decide whether a visual style, a set of LoRA weights, or an AI-assisted output is copyrightable, or what rights could be granted to a future licensee. No marketplace license is created by this Agreement.
4. The permission ArtSeal needs to run the pilot
You give ArtSeal a non-exclusive, limited permission to copy, transmit, store, process, hash, encrypt, resize or re-encode, and return your material, only as needed to:
- run the local or Studio Compute task you chose;
- produce the LoRA, manifest or sample images you asked for;
- create and show a listing or display copy you chose to publish;
- store a model master you chose to upload, encrypted, for test-mode delivery;
- secure, debug and evaluate the pilot; and
- comply with law and with your instructions.
The permission ends when the corresponding data is deleted, except for public content you published that is pending removal or cached elsewhere, provider backups pending expiry, legal or safety holds, and the immutable records and public blockchain metadata described before submission.
ArtSeal may use de-identified operational observations that neither contain nor reconstruct your artwork, model, prompts, identity, private attestations or messages.
5. What you tell ArtSeal
By taking part, you state that, to the best of your knowledge:
- you own or have sufficient permission to use the material you submit for the pilot activity you chose;
- your submission, and ArtSeal's limited processing of it, will not knowingly violate another person's rights;
- you will distinguish original artwork from generated output honestly;
- you will not submit content prohibited by the Acceptable Use / Content Policy; and
- you will not use a pilot record or badge to claim an ownership finding that ArtSeal did not make.
6. Local processing
In local mode, the Trainer and Tester read files on your computer, download public software and model dependencies as needed, run the machine-learning processes locally, and save results to a folder you choose. The desktop apps contain no advertising or analytics telemetry.
Local runs also leave downloaded model and dependency caches, and temporary diagnostic or manifest files, subject to your own operating system's cleanup. The Data Retention Policy lists those artifacts.
Keep your own backups of source art, manifests, LoRA files and generated output.
7. Studio Compute
Studio Compute is optional. If you use it:
- your images, style name and manifest — or your LoRA and prompt — travel over HTTPS through a Cloudflare tunnel to ArtSeal's studio computer;
- the studio creates a working directory holding the uploads, outputs and technical error logs;
- the result comes back to you; and
- the completed job directory is swept about 24 hours after the job finishes.
A LoRA used for Studio generation is also cached for you for 24 hours after its most recent use. Each use restarts that period, and you can choose "Delete from studio now" sooner.
Studio files are protected in transit by HTTPS. They are not separately end-to-end encrypted and are not documented as encrypted at rest. Cloudflare and the operator-controlled studio computer are both in the handling chain. Your Studio address and passphrase stay in your operating system's keychain until you clear them.
The Privacy Policy and the Data Retention Policy give the full data map.
8. Confidentiality
Each of us will use reasonable care with the other's non-public information, and use it only for the pilot. Your artwork, model files, private prompts and credentials are confidential, and so is ArtSeal's unpublished product information, unless the owner publishes it or authorizes disclosure.
This does not cover information already public without a breach, already known without a duty, independently developed, or lawfully received from someone else. Either of us may disclose where legally required, after giving notice where the law allows.
9. Feedback
You may send ideas, bug reports and workflow feedback. You grant ArtSeal a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to use, reproduce, adapt and incorporate that feedback into ArtSeal products, without attribution or payment.
This does not include your artwork, model weights, private prompts, name, likeness, or a testimonial. Those need separate, express agreement.
10. Showcase and publicity
You choose what profile, listing and display content to publish. ArtSeal will not use your name, likeness, testimonial, private artwork or the fact of your participation in external marketing without your separate written permission. Ordinary display of content you publish on your own showcase is not external marketing.
11. No promise of launch
ArtSeal does not promise that the marketplace, the payment flow, the certification layer or any feature will launch; that a listing will attract interest or revenue; that you will be admitted to a future paid service; that pilot data or URLs will carry over unchanged; or that your feedback will be implemented.
Any future paid participation will require new agreements and a new acceptance.
12. Beta condition and warranty disclaimer
Beta software can contain bugs, fail, produce unexpected output, consume substantial compute and storage, and change without notice. Review outputs before you rely on them.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the pilot Services are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, output quality, or data preservation. ArtSeal does not warrant that an attestation is true, that submitted material is legally owned, or that generated output is protectable or suitable for release.
Nothing here excludes a warranty that applicable law does not permit ArtSeal to exclude.
13. What this version deliberately leaves out
This Beta v0.1 contains no limitation of liability, no indemnity, and no arbitration or class-action waiver. Those clauses decide who bears the pilot's principal risks, and ArtSeal will not write them without its attorney. Their absence is deliberate, and nothing here waives a right either of us has under applicable law.
A later version reviewed by counsel may add such terms. It will be published as a new version, and you will be asked to accept it before continuing.
14. Ending the pilot
This Agreement starts when you accept it and continues until either of us ends your participation. Either of us may end it at any time by written notice — yours to seth@gimpedherogames.com. ArtSeal may suspend access immediately for a security problem, prohibited content, legal process, a provider requirement, or a material breach.
After it ends: Studio credentials are revoked; ordinary pilot data follows the Data Retention Policy and any deletion request you make; each of us returns or deletes the other's confidential material where applicable; public content is removed on request, subject to caches; and immutable records and public blockchain metadata remain as disclosed. Sections 3, 8, 9, 12 and 13 continue to apply after the pilot ends.
15. The rest of the agreement
This Agreement incorporates the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Acceptable Use / Content Policy, the Data Retention Policy and the Copyright Complaint Policy at the versions published when you accept. Where this Agreement and the Terms of Service differ about the pilot, this Agreement governs.
It is governed by the law of the State of Michigan, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Venue and dispute procedure are among the terms left to the later version described in Section 13.
Each version of this Agreement carries a version label, an effective date and a published hash of its text. When ArtSeal publishes a new version of this Agreement, or of any document it incorporates, you will be asked to accept the new set before continuing to use the pilot surfaces.