Terms of Service

Last updated: 20 April 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Avatar macOS application and the website https://aaavatar.nl, both published by Square One (the Netherlands, info@squareone.nl). By installing or using Avatar, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Avatar.

1. What Avatar is

Avatar is a desktop portrait editor for macOS. It runs locally on your Mac and optionally syncs portrait libraries to your own Google Drive so you can share them with collaborators. Square One does not operate a server-side backend for Avatar; your data stays on your device and in your Google Drive.

2. Licence to use Avatar

Subject to these Terms, Square One grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Avatar on Macs you own or control. You may not:

  • resell, sublicense, rent, or lease Avatar or any part of it;

  • reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble Avatar, except where such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law;

  • remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices;

  • use Avatar to build a competing product or to train a machine-learning model without our written permission.

The licence is provided for the current major version of Avatar you install and for any updates delivered through the built-in updater, unless a new version states otherwise.

3. Your Google account and content

Avatar's cloud features rely on Google Drive. When you sign in with Google:

  • You remain the owner of every portrait, background, and file Avatar stores in your Drive.

  • You are responsible for having the rights to the images and likenesses you import into Avatar, and for sharing them only with people who are entitled to see them.

  • You are responsible for the security of your Google account, including the collaborators you invite to a workspace and the permissions you grant them.

You grant Square One no rights in your content beyond what Avatar technically needs to render and sync the features you actively use, as described in the Privacy Policy.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Avatar to:

  • process images of people without a lawful basis, such as consent or another legal ground under the GDPR;

  • create, store, or share content that is unlawful, defamatory, sexually explicit involving minors, or that infringes another person's rights;

  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to anyone else's Google Drive, Avatar workspace, or account;

  • interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of Avatar or Google's services.

We may suspend or revoke access to update distribution and support for users who materially violate these rules.

5. Third-party services

Avatar integrates with third-party services — principally Google Drive and Google Sign-In. Those services have their own terms, including Google's Terms of Service and API Services User Data Policy. Your use of Avatar's cloud features is also subject to those terms. We are not responsible for the availability, content, or practices of third-party services.

6. Updates

Avatar checks for application updates automatically through the Sparkle framework. We may release updates at our discretion. Updates may add, change, or remove features. Continuing to use Avatar after an update constitutes acceptance of that update.

7. Fees

The current version of Avatar is provided free of charge. We may introduce paid features or subscription tiers in the future. If we do, the paid features will be clearly identified and will only apply after you explicitly opt in. These Terms will be updated before any paid feature is introduced.

8. No warranty

Avatar is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Square One disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that Avatar will be uninterrupted, bug-free, or that it will produce any particular result for your images.

Nothing in this section limits any statutory rights you have as a consumer under Dutch or other mandatory law that cannot be excluded.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Square One's total liability arising from or related to Avatar in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount, if any, you paid Square One for Avatar during that period. Square One is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

This limitation does not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

10. Your content and data

You are responsible for backing up any portraits, backgrounds, or workspaces that matter to you. Avatar provides library export and Google Drive sync as convenient features, but we do not operate backup infrastructure on your behalf. Loss of Google Drive data is governed by Google's terms, not ours.

11. Termination

You may stop using Avatar at any time by quitting the app and removing it from your Mac. Signing out of Google inside Avatar revokes Avatar's access to your Drive on that device; you can also revoke access globally at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.

We may terminate your licence to use Avatar if you materially violate these Terms. On termination, your local data remains on your Mac and your Google Drive data remains in your Drive.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms when Avatar changes or when legal requirements change. The date at the top of this page shows the last update. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will note it in the Avatar release notes or on this site before the change takes effect. Continuing to use Avatar after an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from or related to these Terms or your use of Avatar shall be submitted to the competent court in the Netherlands, unless mandatory consumer-protection law gives you the right to bring the dispute in the courts of your own country of residence.

14. Contact

Square One
The Netherlands
info@squareone.nl