Terms of use

Squigglegram turns words into abstract paintings. These terms cover using the site, sharing and sending your paintings, and ordering prints. By using Squigglegram you agree to them.

1. Your words stay with you

Your words are turned into a painting inside your own browser. We don't receive them, store them or read them. A gift link carries your words encrypted inside it, so anyone who has the link can read them: send it only to the people you mean it for. We count visits and button presses anonymously, never the words.

2. What you can't create, share, send or print

These rules follow the community guidelines of X, Instagram and Pinterest, so anything you make here is safe to post there. Don't use Squigglegram for words that:

• attack or demean people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, age, disability or serious illness;
• harass, bully, threaten or intimidate anyone, or wish them harm;
• praise, support or recruit for terrorism, violent extremism or hate groups;
• sexualise minors in any way (we report this where the law requires it);
• are sexually explicit, or share intimate details about someone without their consent;
• encourage suicide, self-harm or eating disorders;
• promote illegal goods, services or activities;
• share someone else's private information, such as their home address, phone number or ID numbers, without their permission;
• impersonate someone, or are used for scams, fraud or spam;
• copy someone else's protected work for a print, such as song lyrics, poems, book passages or trademarks you don't have the rights to. A line from a song is fine for a painting you keep, but we may decline to print it.

Words don't need to be spelled out to break these rules: deliberate misspellings, spacing and code words count too.

3. How we apply these rules

• A filter in your browser checks your words before a painting can be shared, sent or printed. Painting is always allowed, because the picture itself is abstract. No filter is perfect, so these terms still apply to anything it misses.
• When someone opens a gift whose words break these rules, the words are hidden from them.
• Anyone who receives a gift can report it. We may block a reported painting from being shown on squigglegram.com.
• We check the words on every print order that includes them, and may refuse or cancel an order that breaks these terms.

4. Your painting

The same words always make the same painting. You're welcome to keep it, share the image anywhere and print it for yourself. The system that draws the paintings, and the paintings as artworks, belong to Squigglegram. For commercial use, such as client projects, product designs or resale, get in touch for a licence.

5. Prints

Prints are coming soon. Their prices, shipping and return terms will be shown before you order.

6. The usual fine print

Squigglegram is provided as it is, without warranties. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses from using it. We may update these terms; the date at the top shows the latest version. These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario, Canada.

Questions, or something to report? Use the report form or message @squigglegram.