Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

The Chart Maker is a free online chart maker at thechartmaker.com, operated by [LEGAL ENTITY NAME] ("we", "us", "our"). These Terms of Service (the "Terms") cover your use of the site, the editors, the charts you publish through them, and every other feature we offer at that address.

Our Privacy Policy and our Copyright and Takedown Policy are part of these Terms.

By using the site you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

2. Who may use the site

You must be at least 13 years old to use The Chart Maker. If you live in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you must be at least 16 years old.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the site only with the agreement of a parent or guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the site.

You also confirm that no law bars you from using the site, and that we have not previously suspended or banned you.

3. What the service does

The Chart Maker lets you build charts (tier lists, alignment charts, maps, venn diagrams, compasses, brackets, and freeform charts) in your browser, export them as image files, and optionally publish them to a public page on the site where other people can view, react to, and remix them.

Creating and exporting works without an account. Publishing works without an account too. The service is free to use and is paid for by advertising.

We may change, add, or remove features at any time, and we may suspend or discontinue the service. Where a change materially reduces what you can do with charts you have already published, we will try to give reasonable notice.

4. Accounts, anonymous use, and edit links

An account is optional. You can sign in with Google or with Reddit; we do not store a password for you. You are responsible for keeping the third-party account you sign in with secure, and for everything done through your account.

Anonymous charts and edit links

If you create a chart without signing in, the site issues a secret edit token and keeps it in your browser. That token is the only proof that the chart is yours. Anyone who has it can edit the chart, so treat an edit link like a password and share it only with people you want to give editing rights to.

If you clear your browser storage, switch device, or use private browsing, and you did not save the edit link, you may permanently lose the ability to edit or delete that chart yourself. A published chart stays online in that case; you can still ask us to remove it using the contact details below, and we will remove it where we can reasonably confirm it is yours.

Claiming your charts later

When you sign in, the site offers to claim the anonymous charts made in that browser and attach them to your account. After that, your account is the proof of ownership and your public name is shown as the creator.

We may change or reclaim a public username that impersonates someone else, infringes a trademark, or is abusive.

5. Acceptable use

You are responsible for everything you upload, publish, or link to. Do not use The Chart Maker to create, upload, publish, or share:

• content you do not have the rights to, including images, logos, and artwork that belong to someone else, unless your use is permitted by law or by the rights holder;
• any sexual content involving minors. This is an absolute prohibition. We remove such content, ban the uploader, and report it to the appropriate authorities and reporting organisations;
• sexually explicit imagery, intimate images shared without the subject's consent, or graphically violent imagery;
• content that harasses, bullies, threatens, or incites violence against a person or a group, or that attacks people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or a serious disease;
• private information about another person (home address, phone number, identity documents, login details) or content that identifies a private individual in order to expose them to harassment;
• content that is illegal where you are or where we operate, that promotes terrorism or serious crime, or that sells regulated goods illegally;
• malware, phishing pages, deceptive links, spam, advertising dressed up as a chart, or content whose purpose is to drive traffic to a scam;
• content that impersonates another person, brand, or the site itself.

Do not abuse the service itself. In particular, do not:

• scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the site or its images beyond ordinary use, or use the site to build a competing dataset;
• circumvent rate limits, moderation, bans, or the edit-token system, or attempt to access charts, drafts, or accounts that are not yours;
• probe, overload, or interfere with the site, our servers, or our providers, or reverse engineer parts of the service we have not published as open source;
• click your own ads or ask others to click them, or otherwise manipulate advertising metrics;
• create multiple identities or reset your browser identity to evade a ban, a rate limit, or a hearts limit.

6. Reports, moderation, and enforcement

Every published chart has a Report button. Reports go to a moderation queue that we review. You can also email us at [email protected], and copyright owners should use the process on our Copyright and Takedown Policy page.

We run an automated image scan when a chart is published, and our hosting provider runs scanning for known child sexual abuse material. A chart whose images trip the automated scan is hidden from public pages until a human reviews it. A chart that several different visitors report is also hidden pending review.

We are not obliged to monitor everything published on the site, and automated scanning is imperfect in both directions. Where we decide that content breaks these Terms, creates legal risk, or harms the site, we may unpublish it, delete it, restrict the creator's account, or block the browser or device it came from, with or without prior notice.

If you believe we removed or hid something by mistake, reply to the notice we sent you or write to [email protected] and we will take another look.

7. Your content and the license you give us

You keep ownership of the charts, images, text, and other material you create or upload ("your content"). We do not claim it, and publishing on the site does not transfer it to us.

To run the site we need permission to store and show your content. So, for the content you upload or publish, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable license, sublicensable only to the providers that host, store, scan, and deliver the site (see the Privacy Policy), to:

• host, store, and back up your content;
• reproduce and adapt it for technical purposes: resizing, converting formats, generating preview images, thumbnails, and social sharing (Open Graph) images;
• publicly display and distribute the content you publish, on its own page, in browse and trending feeds, in search results, and in link previews on other sites;
• use published charts to promote the service, for example in screenshots, sample galleries, and posts about the site, naming you as the creator where we show a creator name.

The license exists so that we can operate and promote the service. It does not let us sell your content on its own, and it does not extend to charts you keep as drafts, which we store but do not display publicly.

You promise you have the rights

By uploading or publishing content, you confirm that you own it or otherwise have the rights and permissions needed to use it and to grant the licenses in these Terms, and that publishing it does not break any law or anyone else's rights, including copyright, trademark, privacy, and publicity rights.

When you delete something

You can delete your charts. When you do, we stop displaying them and the license above ends, with these practical exceptions:

• copies that other users already made under the remix and template license in the next section stay theirs and stay online;
• copies may persist for a limited period in encrypted backups and in server logs before they are overwritten;
• image files that other people already downloaded or shared elsewhere are outside our control and cannot be recalled;
• we may keep a record of a removal where we need it to comply with the law or to enforce these Terms.

Feedback

If you send us ideas, bug reports, or suggestions, we may use them without restriction and without owing you anything.

8. Templates and remixes

Remixing is a core feature of the site. Every published chart carries a Remix button that copies the chart into the remixer's own editor so they can change it and publish their own version. Publishing a chart as a template is the same idea made explicit: templates exist to be used, and their pages lead with a "Use this template" button.

So, when you publish a chart, and additionally when you publish it as a template, you grant every other user of The Chart Maker a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to copy, modify, remix, republish, and export images of that chart on the service, and you allow us to provide the copy that makes this possible.

This license to other users is irrevocable and survives the deletion of your original chart. Remix chains depend on it: a chart that was remixed from yours, and every chart remixed from that one, must keep working after you delete yours. If you delete your chart or template we stop displaying your copy, but the versions other people already created remain theirs and stay online.

The license covers use on The Chart Maker. It does not give other users your images to use in unrelated projects, and it does not transfer ownership of anything.

You can only license what you actually hold rights to. If your chart contains third-party material, the grant above applies to your own contribution; other people who remix your chart are responsible for their own use of any third-party material in it.

We may show that one chart was remixed from another, including the original title and creator name, on the pages of both charts.

9. Charts you send us from another platform

We do not bulk-import charts made by other people on other platforms. If a chart made elsewhere appears here, either its creator sent it, or we made it ourselves.

Our apps on other platforms may offer an action that posts one of your own charts to The Chart Maker. That action is opt-in and only you can trigger it. When you use it:

• you are the person publishing that chart on this site;
• you confirm, at the moment you consent, that you created the chart and hold the rights needed to publish it here (or have permission from the people who do);
• you grant the licenses in sections 7 and 8, exactly as if you had published the chart here directly;
• you agree that we may show an attribution line naming the platform, the community, and your username there.

You can ask us to remove a chart you contributed this way at any time by writing to [email protected]. Section 8 still applies to versions other users already remixed.

10. Copyright complaints

We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement. If you own a copyright and believe content on the site infringes it, follow the process on our Copyright and Takedown Policy page, which sets out what a notice must contain, how to file a counter-notice, and how to reach our designated agent.

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, as described on that page.

11. Our content and brand

The site itself, including its code, layout, editor tools, sample content, and the charts and templates we create ourselves, belongs to us or to our licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. These Terms do not give you any right to our name, logo, or branding.

Images you export from the editor are yours to use, subject to the rights in any material you put into them. Exported images may carry a small thechartmaker.com credit; you may not present the site as your own product or remove our credit in order to pass off the tool as yours.

12. Advertising

The site is free and is paid for by advertising. We show ads served by Google AdSense on public pages. We choose where ad units go; we do not choose the individual ads Google serves in them, and showing an ad is not an endorsement of the advertiser.

Do not click ads on your own pages or ask other people to click them. That breaks Google's program policies and can get the site removed from the program.

How advertising cookies work, and how to change your advertising consent, is described in the Privacy Policy.

13. Privacy

The Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and what rights you have over it, including as an anonymous visitor with no account.

14. No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, and non-infringement.

We do not promise that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that charts, drafts, or uploaded images will be preserved, or that exported images will be pixel-identical to what you see on screen. Drafts held in your browser can be lost if you clear browsing data, use private browsing, or switch device, and we cannot recover them. Export or otherwise back up anything you care about.

Charts published by other users are their content, not ours. We do not endorse them and we do not verify that they are accurate.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or lost charts, arising out of or connected with your use of the service.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (for most users this is zero) and 100 US dollars.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence and for fraud. If you use the site as a consumer, you keep every mandatory right your local law gives you, and the limits above apply only as far as that law allows.

16. Indemnity

If someone brings a claim against us because of content you published, your use of the service, or your breach of these Terms, you agree to defend us against it and to cover the resulting losses, damages, and reasonable legal costs. We may take over the defence of any such claim, and you agree to cooperate with us if we do. This section does not apply where your local consumer law prevents it.

17. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the site at any time, delete individual charts, or ask us to delete your account and its charts.

We may suspend or end your access, remove or unpublish content, or block the browser or device identifier associated with abuse, if you break these Terms, if the law requires it, or if your use creates risk for the site or its users. Where it is reasonable, we will tell you why.

After termination, the following survive: licenses other users already received under section 8, the rights and obligations that arose before termination, and sections 7, 14, 15, 16, and 18.

18. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [GOVERNING LAW JURISDICTION], without regard to its conflict of law rules. Disputes that we cannot resolve informally will be heard by [COURTS OF THE GOVERNING JURISDICTION].

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, and you may also bring proceedings there.

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and the Copyright and Takedown Policy, are the whole agreement between us about the service.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the site changes or the law requires. When we do, we update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page, and for significant changes we post a notice on the site.

If you keep using the site after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the site; you can delete your charts and your account first.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms, content removal, or anything else: [email protected].

Copyright notices must go to the designated agent listed on the Copyright and Takedown Policy page. Privacy requests go to [email protected] (see the Privacy Policy).

Ads on the site are served by Google. Google's advertising policies and controls are described at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.