Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of PortfolioDIY — the editor, the template gallery, site sync, and the export pipeline. By using the service you accept them. They're written to be read; if anything is unclear, email us and we'll explain in plain words.

PortfolioDIY is a portfolio builder that exports static websites. We provide the editor and templates; you provide your content; the output is a ZIP of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and assets that runs independently of us.

Exports run wherever you deploy them, under that host's terms — by design they don't depend on us at all. Separately, Premium includes optional hosting on our servers: publishing puts a snapshot of your site at pfdiy.com/your-name (see "Hosted profiles" below).

You can use most of the product without an account. If you create one, keep your credentials secure — you're responsible for activity under your account. Pick a password you don't reuse elsewhere.

You may delete your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy for how, and what gets removed).

You own the content you put into PortfolioDIY and you own your exported code. In full:

• Your content (text, images, links) remains yours. You grant us only the license needed to store it, render previews, and generate your exports — nothing more.
• Exported code is yours to use, modify, host, and redistribute for any purpose, commercial or not. No attribution is legally required beyond the watermark terms below.
• Template designs remain ours, but every export you generate carries a perpetual, irrevocable license to use that generated code however you like.
• You must have the rights to the content you upload — don't publish someone else's work or personal data as your own.

Free exports include a "Made with PortfolioDIY" badge, a generator meta tag, and an HTML comment. Premium ($7, one-time, 12 months, account-wide) removes them from every export you make during the term. Exports keep whatever they shipped with: a clean export stays clean after Premium ends.

Premium includes publishing one profile at pfdiy.com/your-name for the length of your Premium term. This is included with Premium, not sold as a separate hosting service. Publishing renders a snapshot of your site; you can republish to update it, or unpublish, at any time. One live profile per account.

Slugs are first-come, first-served, must meet the format rules shown in the editor, and must not impersonate another person or brand. When your Premium term ends, the hosted page stays online for a short grace period. If you renew during that time, it continues without being taken down. Your exported code is unaffected either way. We may take down hosted profiles that violate the acceptable-use rules.

Payments are one-time and processed by our payment provider (Razorpay or Stripe). Premium lasts 12 months and does not auto-renew — there are no subscriptions.

If a purchase goes wrong — a double charge, an accidental purchase, or a paid export still showing the watermark — contact us within 14 days and we'll refund or fix it. We don't claw back functionality after a refund dispute; we just fix the problem.

Keep it lawful and keep it honest. You may not use PortfolioDIY to:

• Publish content that is illegal, infringing, or defamatory, or that impersonates another person.
• Distribute malware or use exports for phishing or fraud.
• Abuse the service itself — scraping templates at scale, probing for vulnerabilities outside responsible disclosure, or reselling the editor as your own.

We aim for the service to be reliably available (see the Status page) but provide it "as is" without uptime guarantees. Because drafts are local-first and exports are independent, an outage on our side never takes your work down with it. Hosted profiles do run on our servers — if we're down, they're down until we're back; your export stays independent.

We may modify or discontinue features. If we ever discontinued the service entirely, your exported sites would be unaffected — which is precisely why the product works the way it does.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, including lost opportunities, lost data you chose not to export, or issues arising from third-party hosts. Our total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

You can stop using the service at any time. Export your sites first and you keep the code. We may suspend accounts that violate the acceptable-use rules. Termination never revokes the license to code you already exported.

We may update these terms as the product evolves. Meaningful changes get an entry in the changelog and an updated date on this page. Continued use after a change means acceptance. We will never retroactively claim ownership of content or exports — that promise is the product.