Terms of use

1. Who we are

Zine House is run by [legal name of the business], [legal form, for example “a partnership registered in England”], at [postal address]. [Company number, if a limited company.] You can contact us at [email address].

2. Using the studio

The studio is free to use. You don’t need an account to design a zine. While you work, your photographs and projects are kept in your browser, on your computer, and aren’t uploaded to us.

You need an account to buy a print-ready PDF, to share a zine on the Shelf and to use Your zines. To make one, you need an email address you can receive mail at.

Please don’t use the studio to make anything unlawful. That includes work that infringes someone else’s rights.

3. Your photographs and your zine

You keep all rights in your photographs, your words and your zine. We don’t claim any of them. You confirm that you own the photographs you use, or have permission to use them.

The layouts, grids and the studio itself belong to Zine House. Using them in your zine is part of what you pay for. They don’t give you rights to the studio itself.

4. Buying a print-ready PDF

Designing your zine and downloading the two free PDFs, Print at home and Spreads for screen, are free. The free PDFs always carry one small line, “Made with zinehouse.studio”, on the inside back cover. The print-ready PDF costs £X per zine, including VAT, whatever the size or page count. If you leave the colophon credit box ticked at checkout, it costs £1 less and the same line is added to the inside back cover. The credit never goes on the covers.

Our order process is handled by our online reseller, [payment provider], who is the merchant of record for all our orders. [Payment provider] takes your payment, issues your receipt and charges VAT where it applies. [Replace with the payment provider’s required wording.]

When you pay, you get a print-ready PDF of your zine, made in your browser. You may print it as many times as you like, with any printer, and sell the printed copies.

5. Changes after paying

Paying unlocks your zine in the studio. You can export it again at no extra cost. Use the same browser, or open a project file you’ve saved, while signed in.

For 30 days after paying, you can change the zine and export it again as often as you need, at no extra cost. After 30 days, any change, small or large, makes it a new zine, which you pay for again.

6. Your right to cancel

Under UK consumer law, you normally have 14 days to cancel an online purchase. For digital content like a PDF, that right ends once the download begins, as long as you agreed to it starting straight away and confirmed you understood that you would lose the right to cancel. We ask for both at checkout, before you pay.

This doesn’t affect your rights if the PDF is faulty. See Refunds.

7. Your account

You sign in with a link we send to your email, so there’s no password. Keep access to your email secure, because anyone who can read it can sign in as you. You can delete your account at any time from Your zines. See the Privacy page for what happens to your information.

8. If something goes wrong

We make the PDF to the size you chose, with 3 mm bleed, ready for a printer. How the printed copy looks also depends on the printer, the paper and the settings used, which we don’t control. Check a printed proof with your printer before a full run.

We are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We aren’t responsible for loss that wasn’t foreseeable. Nothing in these terms limits our liability where the law doesn’t allow it, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for your rights as a consumer. [Solicitor to check the liability wording, including any cap for business buyers.]

9. The Shelf

If you share a zine on the Shelf, the Shelf rules apply too.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when the studio changes or the law does. The date at the top of the page shows the latest version. If a change affects something you’ve already bought, we’ll tell you by email.

11. Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring a claim in your local courts. [Solicitor to confirm.]