Terms of Service

Last updated: September 11, 2026

Pixel Atelier (“the Service”) is a free set of tools that convert images you provide, entirely in your browser: to binary, ASCII art, a color grid, base64, a color palette, or a resized/compressed file. By using it, you agree to the terms below. This is a small, independently-run project, not a company. Read this as plain-language terms for a hobby service, not a law firm's boilerplate.

What the Service does

Every tool processes your image entirely on your device; the original is never uploaded to any server or seen by anyone else. Four tools (Image to Binary, ASCII Art, Build a Color Grid, and the Color Palette Extractor) have a “Save” button: pressing it sends only that tool's derived output, never the original image, to a server, and only if you're signed in. Base64 (image mode) and the Image Resizer never contact a server at all, regardless of whether you're signed in.

Accounts

You can use the Service without an account (“guest” mode); in that case your last five saved items per tool live only in your browser's session storage and are cleared when the tab closes. Creating an account (via Google or email/password) lets that history persist permanently, capped at your five most recent saved items per tool. Signing in also enables each tool's settings to be remembered between visits and saved as named presets (see Privacy below for exactly how). You're responsible for keeping your password confidential and for anything that happens under your account. You must be old enough, under the law that applies to you, to agree to these terms on your own behalf.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service to process, generate, or store unlawful content;
• attempt to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the Service, its accounts, or its underlying infrastructure, including automated scripting against its API beyond normal interactive use;
• circumvent or attempt to bypass any rate limits, validation, or other safeguards; or
• use the Service in any way that violates applicable law.

Accounts or access used to violate these terms may be suspended or terminated.

No warranty

The Service is provided “as is,” free of charge, with no uptime guarantee and no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including no warranty of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or that it will be available or error-free at any given time. It may change, break, or be discontinued without notice.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator of the Service is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service, including loss of saved history, whether from a guest session ending or any other cause.

Privacy: what's actually collected

In full, this is everything the Service stores about you:

• If you sign in with email/password: your email address, an optional display name, and a bcrypt hash of your password (never the password itself).
• If you sign in with Google: the name, email, and profile image Google shares for authentication. Nothing else is requested from your Google account.
• Saved items (signed-in users only): for whichever of the four tools with a Save button you use, that tool's derived output (a bit grid, a character grid, packed pixel values, or a list of extracted colors) plus the settings that produced it, capped at your five most recent per tool. The original image is never stored, because it's never sent anywhere.
• Guest history: the same saved-item data, kept only in your browser's session storage, never transmitted to a server, and erased when the tab closes.
• Remembered settings and presets: each tool's controls (things like resolution, threshold, or output format) can be auto-remembered between visits and saved under a name you choose. This never touches our server at all, signed in or not: it's stored only in your browser's local storage. Signing in is what unlocks the feature (as a guest, it's switched off and resets on reload), not what causes anything to be collected.

Server-stored data lives in a Postgres database and is not sold, shared, or used for advertising.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as the Service changes. Continuing to use the Service after an update means you accept the revised terms.