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Terms of Service
Last updated: April 24, 2026
Welcome
Welcome to Pemberton Portraits. The terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to Pemberton Portraits. We operate this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products and services, in order to provide you, the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). We currently use Shopify as our payment processor to handle checkout and payment on our behalf.
These Terms of Service, together with any policies referenced herein, describe your rights and responsibilities when you use the Services. Please read them carefully, as they include important information about your legal rights and cover areas such as warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability.
By visiting, interacting with, or using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you should not use or access our Services.
1. Service Description
Pemberton Portraits creates custom portraits of your pet. Our service includes:
- Portrait generation from photos you upload
- Multiple artistic styles and customization options
- High-resolution digital downloads
- Fine art prints and gallery canvas ordering and delivery
- Commercial licensing options
2. Your Session and Information
2.1 Anonymous Sessions
You can create and preview portraits without creating an account. We maintain an anonymous session in your browser so you can continue where you left off.
2.2 Accurate Information
When you provide information during checkout (such as your email, billing, payment, and shipping information), you represent and warrant that all information is correct, current, and complete, and that you have all rights necessary to provide this information.
2.3 Age Requirement
You represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use the Services on devices you own, purchase, or manage.
2.4 Account Security
You are solely responsible for maintaining the security of any account credentials you create with us and for all activity under your account. You may not transfer, sell, assign, or license your account to any other person.
3. Purchases
3.1 Products
We sell per-portrait products: digital downloads, fine art prints, and gallery canvases. Each purchase is a one-time transaction for the specific portrait you select.
3.2 Pricing
Prices, discounts, and promotions are subject to change without notice. The price charged for a product will be the price in effect at the time the order is placed and will be set out in your order confirmation email. Unless otherwise expressly stated, posted prices do not include taxes, shipping, handling, customs, or import charges.
3.3 Order Acceptance
When you place an order, you are making an offer to purchase. Pemberton Portraits reserves the right to accept or decline your order for any reason at its discretion. Your order is not accepted until we confirm acceptance and process your payment. Please review your order carefully before submitting, as we may be unable to accommodate cancellation requests after an order is accepted. In the event that we do not accept, make a change to, or cancel an order, we will attempt to notify you using the email, billing address, and/or phone number provided at the time the order was made.
You represent and warrant that your purchases are for your own personal or household use and not for commercial resale or export.
3.4 Payment
Payments are processed securely through Shopify. You represent and warrant that (i) the payment information you provide is true, correct, and complete, (ii) you are duly authorized to use such payment method, (iii) charges incurred by you will be honored by your payment provider, and (iv) you will pay charges at the posted prices, including shipping, handling, and all applicable taxes.
3.5 Refunds
Your purchases are subject to return or exchange solely in accordance with our Refund Policy.
4. Content and Intellectual Property
4.1 Your Content
You retain ownership of the photos you upload to our service.
4.2 Content License
By uploading content, you grant us a license to process your images and generate portraits from them.
4.3 Generated Portraits
Personal Use: You own the generated portrait for personal, non-commercial use.
Commercial Use: Commercial use is not permitted by default. If you need to use your portrait commercially, contact us to discuss terms. See our Commercial License page for details.
4.4 Prohibited Content
You may not upload content that:
- Violates intellectual property rights
- Contains illegal, harmful, or offensive material
- Depicts minors in any form
- Violates any applicable laws
4.5 Promotional Use by Pemberton Portraits
By using our service, you grant Pemberton Portraits a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the portraits generated for you (and the associated pet photos, where relevant to show the before-and-after) for our own promotional purposes, including:
- Our website, landing pages, and marketing materials
- Social media posts and advertising on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and similar
- Paid advertising and sponsored content
- Email campaigns and customer communications
- Press, editorial features, and portfolio examples
We will not publish your name, email address, or other personal contact information alongside the portrait without your explicit permission. If you would prefer that we not use your portrait promotionally, email us at bella@pembertonportraits.com and we will honor your request for any future use.
4.6 Our Intellectual Property
Our Services, including all trademarks, brands, text, displays, images, graphics, product reviews, video, audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof, are owned by Pemberton Portraits, its affiliates or licensors, and are protected by U.S. and foreign patent, copyright, and other intellectual property laws.
These Terms permit you to use the Services for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on the Services without our prior written consent. Pemberton Portraits's names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of Pemberton Portraits or its affiliates or licensors. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
5. Print and Canvas Orders
5.1 Physical Products
We offer printing and shipping services for generated portraits.
5.2 Order Accuracy
You are responsible for reviewing and approving your portrait before ordering prints or canvases.
5.3 Product Representation
We have made every effort to provide an accurate representation of our products in our online store. However, colors and product appearance may differ from how they appear on your screen due to the type of device you use and your device settings. We do not warrant that the appearance or quality of any products purchased by you will meet your expectations or be the same as depicted in our online store.
All descriptions of products are subject to change at any time without notice at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to discontinue any product at any time and may limit the quantities of any products that we offer to any person, geographic region, or jurisdiction, on a case-by-case basis.
5.4 Shipping and Delivery
We are not liable for shipping and delivery delays. All delivery times are estimates only and are not guaranteed. We are not responsible for delays caused by shipping carriers, customs processing, or events outside our control. Once we transfer products to the carrier, title and risk of loss pass to you. See our Shipping Policy for details.
5.5 Print Refunds
See our Refund Policy for details on print and canvas refunds.
6. Downloads
6.1 Delivery
After a successful digital purchase, we deliver your download via a signed link emailed to you.
6.2 Re-downloads
Previously purchased downloads can be retrieved again using your original download link. Contact us if the link has expired.
7. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Uses
You may access and use the Services for lawful purposes only. You may not access or use the Services, directly or indirectly:
- For any unlawful or malicious purpose
- To violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances
- To infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or those of others
- To harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or harm any of our employees or any other person
- To transmit false or misleading information
- To send advertising or promotional material, including junk mail, chain letters, spam, or similar solicitations
- To impersonate or attempt to impersonate any other person or entity
- To engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone's use or enjoyment of the Services
In addition, you agree not to:
- Upload or transmit viruses or other malicious code
- Reproduce, duplicate, copy, extract, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Services
- Collect or track the personal information of others
- Spam, phish, pharm, or pretext the Services
- Use any robot, spider, scraping, data gathering and extraction tools, automated devices or processes, AI tools (such as agentic AI), or automated or manual means to access the Services
- Interfere with, bypass, or circumvent the security or authorization features, robot exclusion headers, or other measures we employ to restrict access to the Services
- Reverse engineer or attempt to extract our systems or models
We reserve the right to suspend, disable, or terminate access at any time, without notice, if we determine that you have violated any part of these Terms.
8. Agents
8.1 Application
This section ("Agent Terms") applies if you use, allow, enable, or cause the deployment of an Agent to access, use, or interact with any Services. "Agent" means any software or service that takes autonomous or semi-autonomous action on behalf of, or at the instruction of, any person or entity, and that can be executed without direct supervision.
8.2 Compliance
No Agent may access, use, or interact with the Services unless, at all times, it identifies itself and operates in strict accordance with the requirements below. No Agent may access, use, or interact with the Services if we have requested that the Agent refrain from doing so.
8.3 Our Controls
We may limit, including by technical measures, whether and how any Agent accesses, uses, and interacts with the Services.
8.4 Agent Requirements
Agents must:
- In all HTTP/HTTPS requests, identify that the request is from an Agent and disclose the name of the Agent by including "Agent/[agent name]" in the request's user agent string
- Not conceal or obfuscate that any access, use, or interactions are from an Agent (for example, by mimicking human behavior or completing or circumventing CAPTCHAs or other measures intended to distinguish computer use from humans)
- Respond truthfully to any question or prompt seeking to determine if interactions are coming from a human or a computer
- Not circumvent or avoid any measure intended to block, limit, modify, or control whether and how Agents access, use, or interact with the Services
9. Service Availability
9.1 Uptime
We strive for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service.
9.2 Maintenance
We may perform scheduled or emergency maintenance with minimal notice.
9.3 Modifications
We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue features at any time.
10. Errors, Inaccuracies, and Omissions
Occasionally there may be information on or in the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions that may relate to product descriptions, pricing, promotions, offers, shipping charges, transit times, and availability. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, and to change or update information or cancel orders if any information is inaccurate at any time without prior notice (including after you have submitted your order).
11. Third-Party Links and Tools
The Services may contain materials and hyperlinks to websites provided or operated by third parties (including any embedded third-party functionality) or provide access to customer tools offered by third parties. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy of any third-party materials, websites, or tools, and we provide access to them "as is" and "as available" without any warranties, representations, or conditions of any kind.
If you decide to leave the Services to access third-party materials or sites, you do so at your own risk. We are not liable for any harm or damages related to your access of any third-party websites, or your purchase or use of any products, services, resources, or content on any third-party websites. Please review carefully the third party's policies and practices before you engage in any transaction.
12. Feedback
If you submit, upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any ideas, suggestions, feedback, reviews, proposals, plans, or other content (collectively, "Feedback"), you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, and display such Feedback in any medium for any purpose, including for commercial use.
You represent and warrant that (i) you own or have all necessary rights to all Feedback; (ii) you have disclosed any compensation or incentives received in connection with your submission of Feedback; and (iii) your Feedback will comply with these Terms. We are and shall be under no obligation to maintain your Feedback in confidence, to pay compensation for your Feedback, or to respond to your Feedback.
We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit, or remove Feedback that we determine in our sole discretion to be unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, or which violates any party's intellectual property rights or these Terms.
13. Payment Processing by Shopify
We currently use Shopify as our payment processor. Shopify handles the checkout and payment steps on our behalf, but any sales and purchases you make are made directly with Pemberton Portraits. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Shopify is not responsible for any aspect of any sales between you and Pemberton Portraits, including any injury, damage, or loss resulting from purchased products and services. You hereby expressly release Shopify and its affiliates from all claims, damages, and liabilities arising from or related to your purchases and transactions with Pemberton Portraits.
We may change, add, or remove payment providers at any time. Our use of Shopify is limited to payment processing and may be replaced by another provider in the future.
14. Privacy
All personal information we collect through the Services is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read our Privacy Policy.
When you make a purchase, the payment and billing information you submit at checkout is transmitted to our payment processor (currently Shopify) in order to process your payment. That information may be processed by the payment provider in countries other than where you reside and is also subject to the payment provider's own privacy policy. We may change payment providers in the future.
15. Disclaimer of Warranties
The information presented on or through the Services is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED BY PEMBERTON PORTRAITS, THE SERVICES AND ALL PRODUCTS OFFERED THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" FOR YOUR USE, WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTIES, OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, DURABILITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE, REPRESENT, OR WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED OR OTHER WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
We do not guarantee specific artistic results. Generated portraits may vary in style and interpretation.
16. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO CASE SHALL PEMBERTON PORTRAITS, OUR PARTNERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, OR LICENSORS, OR THOSE OF SHOPIFY AND ITS AFFILIATES, BE LIABLE FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS, CLAIM, OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST SAVINGS, LOSS OF DATA, REPLACEMENT COSTS, OR ANY SIMILAR DAMAGES, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY PRODUCTS PROCURED USING THE SERVICES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.
Where liability cannot be excluded by law, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount paid by you in the 12 months preceding the claim.
17. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Pemberton Portraits, Shopify, and our affiliates, partners, officers, directors, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, and service providers from any losses, damages, liabilities, or claims, including reasonable attorneys' fees, payable to any third party due to or arising out of:
- Your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents they incorporate by reference
- Your violation of any law or the rights of a third party
- Your access to and use of the Services
We will notify you of any indemnifiable claim, provided that a failure to promptly notify will not relieve you of your obligations unless you are materially prejudiced. We may control the defense and settlement of such claim at your expense, including choice of counsel, but will not settle any claim requiring non-monetary obligations from you without your consent (not to be unreasonably withheld). You will cooperate in the defense of indemnified claims, including by providing relevant documents.
18. Dispute Resolution
18.1 Informal Resolution
We encourage resolving disputes informally by contacting our support team.
18.2 Arbitration
Any disputes shall be resolved through binding arbitration rather than in court.
18.3 Class Action Waiver
You agree to resolve disputes individually, not as part of a class action.
19. Governing Law
These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom, without regard to conflict of law principles. You and Pemberton Portraits consent to venue and personal jurisdiction in the courts of the jurisdiction where Pemberton Portraits is headquartered.
20. Termination
20.1 By You
You may stop using our service at any time.
20.2 By Us
We may terminate this agreement or your access to the Services (or any part thereof) in our sole discretion at any time without notice, and you will remain liable for all amounts due up to and including the date of termination.
20.3 Effect
Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases immediately.
20.4 Survival
The following sections will continue to apply following any termination: Content and Intellectual Property, Feedback, Termination, Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Severability, Waiver and Entire Agreement, Assignment, Governing Law, Privacy, and any other provisions that by their nature should survive termination.
21. Assignment
You may not delegate, transfer, or assign this agreement or any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent, and any such attempt will be null and void. We may transfer, assign, or delegate these Terms and our rights and obligations without consent or notice to you.
22. Changes to Terms
You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to update, change, or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. We will notify you of any material changes in accordance with applicable law, and such changes will be effective on the date specified in the notice. Your continued use of or access to the Services following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.
23. Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Service is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, such provision shall nonetheless be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and the unenforceable portion shall be deemed to be severed from these Terms of Service. Such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.
24. Waiver and Entire Agreement
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
These Terms of Service and any policies or operating rules posted by us on this site or in respect to the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and Pemberton Portraits and govern your use of the Services, superseding any prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, and proposals, whether oral or written, between you and us (including any prior versions of these Terms of Service). Any ambiguities in the interpretation of these Terms of Service shall not be construed against the drafting party.
25. Headings
The headings used in this agreement are included for convenience only and will not limit or otherwise affect these Terms.
26. Contact Information
For questions about these Terms of Service:
- Email: bella@pembertonportraits.com
- Support: Contact form on our website
By using Pemberton Portraits, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.