Terms of Use

Last updated: 20 September 2026

The short version: your work is yours. Use the App for your own ceramics, be decent to other makers in the Community feed, and treat anything the App generates for you — ideas, materials, firing suggestions — as a starting point to check, not instruction to follow. Kilns and glaze materials are genuinely hazardous, and only you can judge what is safe in your own studio. The App can also go down from time to time, and paid features are offered as available rather than guaranteed.

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Esther Cohen, HaMatzuk 5, Yokneam Illit, Israel, operating the Clay Studio app (“we”, “us”, the “App”). They apply when you download, open or use the App. By using Clay Studio you accept these Terms; if you do not accept them, please do not use the App.

How we handle your information is set out separately in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

1. Who can use Clay Studio

Clay Studio is not directed to children under 16, and you may not use it if you are under 16 — we ask for your birth year at sign-up to confirm this. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the App with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Ceramics involves kilns, dust and chemicals; adult supervision matters.

2. Your account

You can use much of the App without signing in. Creating an account gives you backup and sync across devices, and access to the Community feed. You are responsible for keeping access to your email or sign-in provider secure, and for activity that happens under your account. Tell us at hello@claystudio.pro if you believe someone else is using it.

3. Your studio content

Your work stays yours. Your pieces, photos, notes, glazes and recipes belong to you, and nothing here transfers ownership of them to us. You grant us only the permission we need to operate the App for you: to store your content, to sync it between your devices, to back it up, and — if and only if you choose to post something to the Community feed — to display it there to other Clay Studio users.

You are responsible for the content you add: that you have the right to use it, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

You can delete your account and your content at any time from Profile → Delete account, or via our Data Deletion page.

4. AI features, and studio safety

Parts of Clay Studio are produced by an automated AI service: the ideas on the Inspiration grid, and the technique, materials and tools listed for each one. If we add another AI feature later, this section applies to it too.

This content is generated automatically, and it can be incomplete, outdated or simply wrong. Ideas that reach the Inspiration grid are read by a person before they are published there. An idea you generate on the spot from your own keyword is not — it reaches you straight from the AI service. And a review is not a safety check: it asks whether an idea makes sense and matches its picture, not whether it is safe in your studio. Treat any of it as a prompt for your own judgement, not instruction to follow unchecked.

This matters more in a ceramics studio than in most places, because some mistakes are dangerous rather than merely disappointing. In particular:

Firing. Cones, temperatures and firing schedules must come from the manufacturer’s data for your actual clay body and glazes, and from your kiln’s own manual. A schedule that is wrong for your materials can ruin a load, damage a kiln, or start a fire.
Materials and dust. Some ceramic materials are hazardous to breathe or handle — silica dust and certain colourants and fluxes among them. Follow the safety data sheet for every material you use, and your local rules on ventilation, dust control and protective equipment.
Ware that holds food or drink. Whether a glazed surface is safe to eat or drink from depends on the glaze recipe, how it was applied and how it was fired. It can only be established by proper testing — never by a suggestion from the App.

Clay Studio does not provide professional, safety, health or laboratory advice, and nothing in the App is a substitute for it. You remain responsible for your own studio, kiln, materials and finished work, and for verifying anything you act on. If a suggestion in the App conflicts with your material’s documentation, your kiln’s manual, or the rules where you work, follow those and not the App.

5. The Community feed

Posting is optional. When you post, be a decent studio-mate: no harassment, hate, threats, sexual content, spam or advertising, no impersonation, and nothing you do not have the right to share. Do not post advice you know to be unsafe.

You can block another maker and report a post or an account. We may remove content or suspend an account that breaks these Terms. We do not pre-screen posts, and posts are the responsibility of whoever wrote them.

6. Subscriptions, trials and payment

Clay Studio is free to use, with an optional paid subscription that unlocks additional features. Where a subscription is offered:

Prices are shown in the App before you buy, in your local currency.
Payment is taken by the Apple App Store or Google Play, not by us. We never see your card details.
A subscription buys access to the paid features as they are available from time to time. It is not a guarantee of a particular level of service.
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time in your App Store or Google Play account settings; cancelling stops the next renewal and leaves the current period running.
Refunds are handled by the store you bought through, under that store’s policy.
A new account may receive a free trial of the paid features. Where we offer one it requires no payment details, and it simply ends — it does not turn into a paid subscription unless you choose to subscribe.

A temporary interruption of the App, or of a paid feature, is not a failure of the subscription itself and does not on its own require a refund from us; refunds remain a matter for Apple or Google under their policies. Paid AI features may be limited, queued or paused when the AI service behind them is unavailable or rate-limits our account — that is a limit of the service, not a billing defect. If we withdraw a paid feature permanently, we will say so in the App, and you can cancel in your store account where the store requires you to do it there.

If a subscription lapses, your existing work stays yours and stays readable. Paid features stop being available.

7. Acceptable use

Please do not: use the App unlawfully; attempt to access another maker’s account or content; reverse-engineer, scrape or automate against the App or our servers; interfere with its operation; or resell access to it. We rate-limit the AI features per account, and circumventing those limits is not permitted.

8. The App will change

We add, alter and remove features as the App develops, and a feature available today may not be tomorrow. We will not knowingly make your existing work unreadable.

9. Availability, third-party services and interruptions

Clay Studio depends on things we do not control: your network, the app store you installed it from, the hosting and storage providers that keep your synchronised work, and the automated AI services behind the Inspiration grid. Apple, Google, our hosting and storage providers and our AI providers are all third parties, and we cannot answer for them.

We do not guarantee that the App, the paid features, backup and sync, the Community feed or the AI features will be available at any particular time, or without interruption. Outages, rate limits, maintenance, store outages, hosting failures, and failures or changes by a third-party provider — an AI provider included — can make part or all of the App unavailable.

Scheduled or emergency maintenance, events outside our reasonable control, and unavailability caused by your own device, network or store account, or by misuse of the App, are not a breach of these Terms.

If a paid feature is unavailable, then to the fullest extent permitted by law your sole remedy is a refund or credit from the store you paid through, under that store’s rules, or such goodwill credit as we may choose to offer. Unavailability does not by itself entitle you to damages, to an extension of your subscription, or to a chargeback beyond what the store allows.

10. Events outside our control

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform that is caused by events beyond our reasonable control — including infrastructure or cloud-provider failure, AI-provider failure, denial-of-service attack, utility or internet failure, labour dispute, government action, fire, or natural disaster.

11. Your responsibility

You are responsible for the content you post, and for the decisions you make in your own studio on the strength of anything the App shows you. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will defend us against, and hold us harmless from, claims, losses and costs arising out of your content, your misuse of the App, or your acting on a generated suggestion without checking it independently first.

12. Our intellectual property

The App itself — its design, its text, its software and its name and marks — belongs to us or to our licensors, and nothing in these Terms transfers any of that to you. Suggestions the App generates for you are licensed for your own personal studio use. They are not professional advice, and they may not be unique: another maker may be shown something much like them.

13. Disclaimers

The App is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any content it generates will be accurate or suitable for your purpose — and that includes unavailability caused by third-party hosting, app stores, networks or AI providers.

The App is offline-first and keeps your work on your device, and we back up synchronised content — but no system is perfect. Please keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, work, profit or opportunity, arising out of your use of the App. Our total liability for any claim relating to the App is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or ten (10) US dollars. Where access to the App is interrupted or degraded, any service credit, store refund or other amount that we or the stores elect to provide is your exclusive remedy for that interruption, except where the law requires otherwise.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and you may have rights under your local consumer law that these Terms do not affect.

15. Ending your use

You can stop using Clay Studio at any time, and delete your account from inside the App. We may suspend or end access to an account that breaks these Terms, or where we are required to. Sections that by their nature should survive — ownership, your responsibility to us, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law — continue to apply afterwards.

16. The app stores

These Terms are between you and Clay Studio, not with Apple or Google. Clay Studio, and not Apple or Google, is solely responsible for the App and its content, for support, and for any claim that the App infringes someone’s rights or fails to conform to a warranty. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. Your use of the App must also comply with the terms of the store you obtained it from.

17. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the competent courts of the State of Israel will have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. This does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-law rules in the country where you live, or of the right to bring a claim before your local courts where the law where you live gives you that right.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. For a material change — to pricing, to liability, or to the AI and studio-safety terms in section 4 — we will give notice in the App, and, if you have an account, ask you to accept the updated Terms before you carry on using it. For other, non-material changes, continuing to use Clay Studio after the change means you accept them.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Write to us, or email hello@claystudio.pro.