Terms of Service

Version 1.2 · Last updated August 2, 2026 · Operated by Electric Wonder LLC, a New York limited liability company, doing business as FriedAI · Contact: support@fried.ai · Mailing address: 418 Broadway, Ste N, Albany, NY 12207

1. Who we are; agreement to these Terms

1.1 The Service. fried.ai (the “Service”) is operated by Electric Wonder LLC, doing business as FriedAI (“fried.ai,” “we,” “us,” “our”). The Service uses artificial intelligence to generate stylized album-cover artwork (“Renders”) from a photo you upload, an artist name you choose, and options you select.

1.2 Agreement. By clicking “I agree” (or a similar affirmative action) where these Terms are presented, you enter a binding agreement with us consisting of these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”), each incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. We record the date, time, and version of the Terms you accept, together with your email address and IP address, as our record of this agreement.

1.3 Plain-language summaries. Some sections begin with a short summary in a box. Summaries are for convenience; the full text controls.

2. Eligibility: adults only

2.1 The Service is for adults. You represent that you are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if higher) and have the legal capacity to enter this agreement.

2.2 The Service is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that a user is under 18, we will terminate the account and delete associated personal information as described in the Privacy Policy.

3. Your account

3.1 Email sign-in. Accounts are identified by your email address and accessed by secure sign-in links (“magic links”) we send to that address. You are responsible for maintaining control of your email account and for activity that occurs through sign-in links sent to it. Notify us at support@fried.ai if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

3.2 Accurate information. You agree to provide a valid email address that you control.

3.3 One person per account. Accounts are personal to you and may not be sold, transferred, or shared.

4. Your content and permissions you give us

4.1 Your Uploads. “Uploads” means the photo you submit, the artist name you choose, and any other content you provide. As between you and us, you own your Uploads.

4.2 Limited license to us. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable (except to our service providers working on our behalf), royalty-free license to host, reproduce, and process your Uploads solely to (a) generate your Renders, (b) operate, secure, and moderate the Service, and (c) comply with law. This license ends when your Uploads are deleted (see Section 4.4), except for content we must retain to comply with law. We claim no right to sell your Uploads or Renders, or to use them for advertising or model training, and we never publish or publicly display them on our own initiative. There is one narrow exception, and it is one you switch on yourself: when, and only when, you create a share link for one of your Renders (Section 4.6), you also grant us a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable (except to our service providers working on our behalf), royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, and publicly display that Render to anyone holding that link, for as long as the link is active. That permission covers that Render only, it exists so the link you created actually works, and it ends when you archive or delete the cover, when you delete your account, or if the link is disabled under Section 4.7. Everything in the first part of this Section still applies to everything else.

4.3 No publication by us. The Service is private by design. We do not operate a public gallery, showcase, feed, or wall, we do not browse, curate, feature, or promote anyone’s covers, and we never make your work public on our own initiative. Your Renders are accessible to you through your account, and to other people only through a share link you choose to create for a specific cover (Section 4.6). Sharing or publishing Renders is your choice and your responsibility.

4.4 Automatic deletion of your photo. Your uploaded photo and any temporary, machine-generated description of your appearance created during rendering are automatically and permanently deleted from our systems within 72 hours of upload, whether or not a Render completes. The photo file is kept separately from our database and is never written to our database backups, as described in the Privacy Policy and our posted Biometric Data Retention and Destruction Schedule. The narrow exception: where a specific upload is blocked by our safety screening or is the subject of an abuse report, we preserve a copy as legally required evidence (see Sections 5.4 and 9.4 and Privacy Policy Section 5). That preservation never extends to ordinary uploads.

4.5 Attestations. Each time you upload a photo you attest that: (a) the photo depicts you, not anyone else; (b) the photo does not depict anyone under 18; (c) you own or control the rights needed to upload it; and (d) your chosen artist name and any text you provide do not violate another person’s or company’s rights (including trademark, publicity, or privacy rights) and comply with the AUP. Each time you create a share link you also confirm that: (e) you have the right to share that image publicly; (f) it depicts you, and no one else; and (g) sharing it breaks no law and no one else’s rights, including anyone’s privacy, publicity, and intellectual property rights. These attestations are a material condition of your permission to use the Service.

4.6 Share links, yours to switch on and off. You can create a share link for a cover of your own. When you do, we mint an unguessable web address, and anyone holding that address can view that cover, along with an invitation to make their own. That is the whole of it: there is no feed, no gallery, no discovery, and no way for anyone to browse from your cover to someone else’s. Share pages ask search engines not to index them, set no cookies, and run no analytics, as described in the Privacy Policy. A link stops working when you archive or delete that cover, or delete your account: deleting the cover is how you stop sharing it, and the page then simply says the album is no longer available. One honest note: once a person has opened or saved a copy of an image, that copy is beyond our reach, so share with people you trust.

4.7 When we turn a link off. We may disable any share link at any time, including when someone reports it, when we believe it may break these Terms or the AUP, or when we need to meet a legal obligation. Links also switch off on their own when the cover behind them is archived or deleted, and when the account behind them is deleted. Where practicable we will tell you and say why, and if you think we got it wrong, write to support@fried.ai and a human will look again. Turning off a link never deletes your cover: your own copy stays in your library, and you can still view and download it.

5. Renders: what you get and what we can honestly promise

5.1 Rights in Renders. As between you and us, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to your Renders. You may use your Renders for personal or commercial purposes, subject to these Terms and applicable law.

5.2 Honest limits. You understand and agree that: (a) under current U.S. Copyright Office guidance, purely AI-generated images may not qualify for copyright protection, and we make no promise that your Renders are protectable; (b) outputs of AI systems are not guaranteed to be unique, and visually similar renders may be generated for other users; (c) your rights in a Render do not include rights in any third-party material that may appear in it; and (d) responsibility for how you use a Render, including any commercial use of your artist name, is yours.

5.3 AI provenance labels. Renders carry a visible “Made with AI” label and machine-readable AI-provenance signals (an imperceptible watermark and, where preserved through processing, embedded provenance metadata) identifying them as AI-generated. You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter the label, the watermark, or any provenance metadata where present. Where you publish a Render in a context in which it could mislead people about its nature, you are responsible for any disclosure required by applicable law.

5.4 Moderation. We screen inputs and generated text (including artist names and album titles) and may block, modify the processing of, or refuse any request that we believe violates the AUP or the law, including uploads that appear to depict minors, someone other than you, or widely recognized public figures. These are automated content-category checks; they do not create face-recognition templates or determine anyone’s identity (see Privacy Policy Section 4). We may refuse service or reverse a render to comply with law or protect people’s rights; if we refuse or reverse a paid render for reasons not attributable to your breach, we will re-credit it.

6. Credits (“Album Generations”)

6.1 What credits are. Purchased credits (“Album Generations”) are a limited, prepaid license to use the Service to generate Renders, revocable only as provided in these Terms (see Sections 5.4, 7, 11, and 12, which provide for re-credit or refund of unused credits). Credits: (a) have no cash value; (b) are not a deposit, stored-value account, gift card, or gift certificate; (c) are non-transferable and may not be sold, exchanged, or redeemed for money; (d) may be used only within the Service; and (e) are consumed one credit per completed Render as described at purchase.

6.2 No expiration. Purchased credits do not expire. (We may discontinue the Service per Section 11.1, in which case unused credits are refunded.)

6.3 Price and receipt. Prices are shown at checkout in U.S. dollars (plus any applicable taxes). Your receipt will describe your purchase as prepaid service access (for example, “Prepaid access: 6 album generations”). When you buy credits, payment is handled by our payment processor; we never see or store full card numbers.

6.4 Free renders. We may offer a limited number of free Renders per person. Free renders are provided as a courtesy, may be rate-limited or geo-limited, may be withdrawn at any time, and are subject to these Terms and the AUP, including anti-abuse limits (Section 10).

7. Refunds and cancellation

7.1 14-day cancellation of an unused purchase. Within 14 days of a purchase, you may cancel it for a full refund, as long as you have not used any credits from that purchase. Once you use a credit from a purchase, that purchase becomes final. Contact support@fried.ai from your account email.

7.2 Used credits are final. A credit is “used” when a Render generated with it completes. Refunds are not available for used credits except as described in Section 7.4 or required by law.

7.3 Failed renders. If a Render fails for technical reasons attributable to us, the credit is automatically returned to your balance (or, for a free render, restored).

7.4 Quality concerns. AI outputs vary and taste is subjective; dissatisfaction with the artistic result of a completed Render is not a defect. That said, if you believe something went wrong, contact support@fried.ai. We want to make it right where the Service did not perform as described.

7.5 Consent to immediate performance (EU/UK and similar jurisdictions). Where you have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract (for example, under EU or UK consumer law): at checkout you (a) expressly request and consent, for each credit in that purchase, to immediate supply of the digital content as soon as you use the credit, before the withdrawal period ends, and (b) acknowledge that once a Render is generated with a credit, you lose your right of withdrawal for that credit. We confirm this consent and acknowledgment on a durable medium (your receipt email). By way of exception to Section 7.1, your statutory withdrawal right continues to apply to any credit in that purchase you have not yet used.

7.6 Chargebacks. If you initiate a chargeback while continuing to use the Service in a way we reasonably determine is abusive or fraudulent, we may suspend the account pending resolution. Nothing in this section limits your rights to dispute charges with your card issuer.

8. Acceptable use

Your use of the Service must comply with the Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of these Terms. In short: only your own face and no one else’s, no minors, no impersonation, no infringing artist names or text, no attempts to abuse free renders, probe, scrape, or disrupt the Service, and no unlawful content of any kind. We may suspend or terminate accounts for violations (Section 12).

9. Reporting content; takedown

9.1 One door for complaints. If you believe content generated or stored through the Service infringes your rights or depicts you without consent, use our public report page at fried.ai/takedown (no account required) or email support@fried.ai, with (a) your name and contact information, (b) identification of the content (for example, the share link or other address where you saw it), (c) the nature of your complaint, and (d) a good-faith statement that the information is accurate. We review all reports promptly and will remove or disable content where appropriate. Shared covers can be reported this way by anyone, with or without an account, and there is a report link on every share page. Where a report about a shared cover is valid, we disable every link to that cover, not only the one that was reported.

9.2 Copyright (DMCA). Notices of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to our designated agent: Copyright Agent, Electric Wonder LLC d/b/a FriedAI, 418 Broadway, Ste N, Albany, NY 12207, support@fried.ai (subject line “DMCA notice”). Notices must comply with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). We respond to valid notices, may terminate repeat infringers, and accept counter-notifications as provided by law.

9.3 Intimate imagery. We prohibit intimate or sexually explicit content outright. If an intimate visual depiction of you is nonetheless present on the Service without your consent, report it under Section 9.1; we will remove verified nonconsensual intimate imagery within 48 hours of a valid request and take reasonable steps to remove identical copies.

9.4 Child safety.Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is strictly prohibited. We screen uploads and block sexually explicit content. If we become aware of apparent CSAM, we preserve it and the related records, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as required by law.

9.5 Repeat infringers. We will suspend or terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of others. We keep a record of the valid notices we receive so we can apply this policy consistently, and we weigh the full circumstances before we act. We may also remove or disable access to infringing material and take other steps we believe are appropriate.

9.6 Counter-notification. If your content was removed or disabled because of a copyright notice and you believe that was a mistake or that the material was misidentified, you may send a counter-notification to our designated agent at support@fried.ai, including (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location where it appeared before removal; (c) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification; and (d) your name, address, and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent. When we receive a valid counter-notification, we forward it to the person who filed the original notice and may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless that person notifies our designated agent that they have filed a court action to stop the alleged infringement. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person may be liable for damages for knowingly and materially misrepresenting that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, so please send a counter-notification only if you genuinely believe that is the case.

10. Anti-abuse and security

You agree not to: create accounts or use email addresses to exceed free-render limits; use automated means (bots, scripts, scrapers) to access the Service; probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system; interfere with service integrity; or resell access to the Service. We use reasonable technical controls (including rate limits, CAPTCHA, and email suppression lists) and may decline service to protect the Service and its users.

11. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

11.1 Service changes. We may add, change, or discontinue features. If we discontinue the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice and refund unused credits.

11.2 Terms changes. We may revise these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days’ advance notice by email to your account address and/or a conspicuous in-Service notice, stating the effective date. Changes apply prospectively only: they do not apply to any dispute that accrued, or any Notice of Dispute submitted (Section 14.3), before the effective date. For material changes to Section 14 (dispute resolution), we will ask you to affirmatively re-accept, and your prior arbitration agreement (including its version) continues to govern disputes arising before your re-acceptance. If you do not agree to revised Terms, stop using the Service and contact us to cancel; unused credits purchased before the change will be refunded on request.

12. Suspension and termination

12.1 By you. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in Settings (History and Data → Delete my account). Deletion is handled per the Privacy Policy.

12.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms or the AUP, if required by law, or to protect the Service or others. Where practicable we will notify you and, unless the breach is willful or unlawful, give you a chance to cure. If we terminate without cause, we will refund unused credits.

12.3 Survival. Sections 4.2 (license end), 4.4 (deletion), 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 (share links end with the account), 5, 6.1, 7, 9, 13 through 17, and any accrued rights survive termination.

13. Disclaimers; limitation of liability

13.1 Disclaimers. THE SERVICE AND RENDERS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY RENDER WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS OR BE PROTECTABLE BY COPYRIGHT.

13.2 Exclusion of indirect damages. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, OR DATA, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

13.3 Cap. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) US $100.

13.4 Carve-outs and savings clause. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS OR EXCLUDES LIABILITY FOR: (A) GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR FRAUD; (B) DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE; (C) ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED OR EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW; OR (D) YOUR OR OUR STATUTORY CONSUMER RIGHTS THAT CANNOT BE WAIVED. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case, liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted.

13.5 Basis of the bargain. The pricing of the Service reflects the allocation of risk in this Section 13.

14. Dispute resolution: informal resolution first, then individual arbitration; class action waiver

14.1 Scope. This Section applies to any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and us arising out of or relating to the Service, these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the AUP, or your Uploads or Renders, whether based in contract, tort, statute (including privacy and biometric statutes), or any other theory (“Disputes”), except: (a) individual claims in small-claims court (Section 14.2); (b) requests for injunctive relief to stop unauthorized use of intellectual property or actual or threatened unlawful use of the Service; and (c) claims that by law cannot be arbitrated.

14.2 Small-claims carve-out. You may bring an individual claim in small-claims court in your county of residence or New York County, New York; any small-claims action we bring against you will be brought only in your county of residence. In each case the claim must stay in that court, on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis, and within that court’s jurisdictional limits.

14.3 Informal dispute resolution (required first step). Before starting arbitration or any court case (other than small claims), the party with the Dispute must send the other an individualized, good-faith written notice (“Notice of Dispute”). Yours goes to support@fried.ai (subject: “Notice of Dispute”); ours goes to your account email. The Notice must include: the claimant’s name and account email; a description of the Dispute; the relief sought and the basis for it; and the claimant’s (or their counsel’s) signature. For 60 days after a complete Notice, both parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the Dispute, including at least one telephone or video conference if either party requests it (you personally, and we through a representative with settlement authority, must participate; counsel may also attend). All applicable statutes of limitation are tolled during this 60-day period. Completing this process is a condition precedent to starting arbitration or litigation; a court may enjoin proceedings begun without it.

14.4 Binding individual arbitration. If the Dispute is not resolved informally, it will be finally resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules and, where applicable, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, each as in effect when the arbitration is filed (together, the “AAA Rules”), as modified by this Section. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section. If the AAA is unavailable, the parties will select another established consumer arbitration administrator; failing agreement, a court will appoint one.

14.5 Arbitration procedure and costs. One arbitrator, appointed under the AAA Rules. The arbitration will be conducted in English; any in-person hearing will occur in the county where you live or another mutually agreed place, and either party may elect video, telephone, or documents-only proceedings where the AAA Rules allow. Your filing fee is capped at the amount set by the AAA’s consumer fee schedule; we pay all remaining AAA administrative fees and all arbitrator compensation. If you demonstrate hardship, we will pay your filing fee too. The arbitrator may award any relief available in court to the individual claimant, must issue a reasoned written decision, and must apply these Terms and applicable law (including applicable statutes of limitation and fee-shifting rules). Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. We will not seek attorneys’ fees or costs from you in arbitration unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous or brought in bad faith. Nothing in this Section waives any non-waivable right to seek public injunctive relief; any such claim may proceed in court under Section 15.

14.6 Delegation. The arbitrator, not a court, will decide disputes about the interpretation, applicability, or enforceability of this arbitration agreement, except that a court will decide (a) whether the class action waiver in Section 14.7 is valid and enforceable, (b) disputes about whether the Section 14.3 process was completed, and (c) whether a party has opted out under Section 14.9.

14.7 CLASS ACTION AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER. YOU AND WE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims of different parties (except as provided in Section 14.8) and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. If a court finds this class waiver unenforceable as to a particular Dispute, that Dispute (and only that Dispute) must proceed in court, not in arbitration, and the rest of this Section remains in effect.

14.8 Coordinated filings (mass arbitration). If 25 or more arbitration demands of a similar nature are filed against us by the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply, and the parties agree to the following fair-batching process: (a) the AAA will administer the demands in batches, with an initial set of up to 10 cases per side selected to proceed first as bellwethers; (b) bellwether outcomes are not binding or precedential as to any other claimant; every claimant retains the right to individual adjudication of their own claim; (c) after the bellwethers conclude, the parties will engage in a global, good-faith mediation of remaining claims with a mediator appointed under the AAA Rules; (d) if claims remain after mediation, each remaining claimant and we may each elect, for that claimant’s claim, to continue in individual arbitration (in further batches, without undue delay) or to proceed in court; if either the claimant or we elect court for a given claim, that claim proceeds in court; and (e) all applicable statutes of limitation are tolled for all claimants from the filing of the first demand in the group until the claimant’s own proceeding begins. This subsection is intended to preserve every claimant’s individual rights while managing coordinated filings; if any part of it is held unenforceable, it is severable and the remainder of Section 14 stands.

14.9 YOUR RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION. You may reject this entire arbitration agreement (Sections 14.4 through 14.8) by emailing support@fried.ai with the subject “Arbitration Opt-Out” from your account email within 30 days of the date you first accept these Terms, or within 30 days of re-accepting any materially revised version of this Section 14, whichever is later. Include your name and account email and state that you opt out of arbitration; we will honor any communication that reasonably indicates your intent to opt out. Opting out does not affect your use of the Service, your other rights, or any other part of these Terms; and it means Disputes will be resolved in court under Section 15. An opt-out applies to all future versions of these Terms unless you later expressly agree to arbitrate.

14.10 Severability within Section 14. Except as stated in Sections 14.7 and 14.8, if any part of this Section is found unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect.

15. Governing law and venue

These Terms and any Dispute are governed by the laws of the State of New York and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that if you are a consumer residing in a jurisdiction whose laws give you mandatory protections that cannot be waived by contract, you keep the benefit of those protections. For Disputes not subject to arbitration (including where you have opted out), you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New York County, New York, except that you may instead bring an individual claim in the courts (including small-claims court) of your county of residence, and except where applicable consumer law gives you the right to sue in your home jurisdiction.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by the law of your jurisdiction, you will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims, and resulting damages and reasonable attorneys’ fees, to the extent arising from (a) your Uploads violating a third party’s rights (including uploading another person’s photo without permission), (b) your breach of the attestations in Section 4.5, (c) your unlawful use of the Service or of a Render, or (d) share links you create, including your distribution of those links and the content you make publicly reachable through them. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own conduct, and does not apply where consumer-protection law prohibits it. We will notify you of any such claim and reasonably cooperate (at your expense).

17. General

17.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the AUP, and any purchase-flow disclosures are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.

17.2 Severability. Except as provided in Section 14, if any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest remains in effect.

17.3 No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

17.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, with notice to you.

17.5 Notices. We may give notice by email to your account address or in-Service notice; you may give notice at support@fried.ai.

17.6 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

17.7 Export and sanctions. You may not use the Service in violation of U.S. export or sanctions laws.

Questions about these Terms: support@fried.ai.