FurryGoods Shop Commission Publishing and Acceptance Rules (v1.2)

Version v1.2. Unpublished review draft; not effective. Target effective date: 1 October 2026. Actual publication, notice and commencement depend on completion of the required procedures. This draft does not replace currently applicable terms. English is the baseline and prevailing text, subject to mandatory consumer protections. See the package README for outstanding release checks.

Article 1 Scope and parties

In this document, “we”, “us” and “our” mean 香港福瑞谷國際貿易有限公司 (HONG KONG FURRYGOODS INTERNATIONAL TRADE LIMITED), the operator of FurryGoods Shop. “Shop” or the “Platform” means our FurryGoods Shop services. “You” means a user of the services covered by this document. Provisions concerning buyers, creators or other particular capacities apply only to persons acting in that capacity.

These Rules cover digital and physical commissions made to buyer-confirmed requirements. An enquiry is not acceptance of a commission. Physical commissions also follow logistics rules; digital deliverables also follow digital-delivery rules. Facilitating communication does not make us a co-author or employer.

Article 2 Contract formation

For direct-purchase goods, where a product display legally constitutes an offer, the contract forms when the buyer submits a conforming order; otherwise, it forms through lawful acceptance steps clearly disclosed before payment. For application-based commissions, requirements and quotation discussions do not guarantee acceptance. Once both parties expressly confirm requirements, price, licence, payment and delivery dates, the contract forms through disclosed valid confirmation steps. After collecting payment, a legally formed contract cannot be denied solely because of a backend status or an arbitrary reserved rejection right. Debited amounts for unaccepted orders must be promptly returned; payment authorisations must be promptly submitted for release.

Article 3 Required pre-order terms

Before payment, sellers must specify product type, content specifications, available languages and compatibility, deliverables, licence, total price and extras, start and latest-delivery dates, required buyer materials, revision counts and stages, and cancellation and refund arrangements. Estimated dispatch and latest commission delivery dates are mandatory. Creators set revisions, stage prices and buyer-material deadlines for the actual order and disclose them before payment. Corrections of non-performance remain subject to Article 5: creator-defined terms do not excuse responsibility or permit arbitrary cancellation charges. Unknown essentials must be clarified rather than left for arbitrary post-payment decisions. Ready-made digital goods, on-demand delivery and bespoke commissions must be separately labelled; we do not display “paid” as “delivered” in our systems.

Article 4 Changes and delays

Changes to content, price, delivery or licence require both parties' express recorded agreement; silence does not accept extra charges. If necessary buyer materials are missing, the creator must identify them, a submission deadline and actual schedule effects, suspending or extending only as necessary. Expected creator delay must be explained before the original deadline with reasons, a new date and choices to continue or cancel. If a buyer rejects a material delay, or timing is essential to the order's purpose and cannot be met, applicable law and these refund rules apply; indefinite waiting cannot be compelled. No extra grace period is imposed where immediate refund is legally required.

Article 5 Revisions and conformity

Paid additional requirements must be distinguished from correction of non-conforming delivery. Necessary revisions correcting the creator's own failure to perform do not consume separately agreed creative-adjustment counts and cannot carry compulsory extra charges. Confirmation of one stage does not waive defects, infringement or later non-performance claims that could not reasonably be discovered then.

Article 6 Automatic acceptance

Automatic acceptance applies only if clearly agreed and validly accepted before ordering, all agreed deliverables have been effectively delivered, the buyer has actual access, no substantial objection is outstanding and we have given the expiry reminder. The period is 14 calendar days from the day after complete delivery, with a retainable reminder at least 3 calendar days before expiry. Damage, missing content, access failure, substantial non-conformity or unresolved objections pause the clock; after correction and effective notice, a full acceptance period is provided. Without these conditions, there is no automatic acceptance. Acceptance serves performance and settlement management only; it does not shorten statutory claim periods, accept hidden defects or infringement, or enlarge licences through silence.

Article 7 Ordinary cancellation amounts

Unless more buyer-favourable arrangements or mandatory law apply, cancellation not caused by seller breach before work starts results in repayment of sums paid. Once work starts, deductions may cover only reasonable, provable value of work actually completed and necessary unrecoverable costs directly related to the order and validly agreed in advance. The entire advance cannot automatically be forfeited merely by calling it a “deposit” or “booking fee”. Saved, recoverable or reusable costs must be deducted and not counted again within work value. Deductions cannot exceed amounts paid for the cancelled part. Additional damages require a separate legal basis and cannot be automatic deductions.

Article 8 Stage-based accounting

Where stage prices were agreed, actual completed conforming work is valued up to that stage's price. Without agreed stage prices, “draft 30%, line art 60%, final 100%” does not automatically apply; work records and reasonable value and cost evidence must be provided for both parties' review. Undisputed amounts are refunded first; disputed amounts follow the Violation and Dispute Handling Rules. After partial refund, the buyer receives only the licence corresponding to paid deliverables they agree to retain. Unpaid portions must not be used, and sellers must not reuse buyer-exclusive character details, private data or third-party materials without permission.

Article 9 Refunds for seller breach

Non-delivery, material non-conformity, serious delay or inability to supply promised rights requires lawful repair, re-performance, replacement, price reduction or refund. Buyers cannot be required to pay purported progress costs for deliverables plainly unable to fulfil the transaction's purpose. Independently usable parts the buyer agrees to retain may be priced separately; otherwise, full refunds and necessary costs follow applicable law. Statutory withdrawal, returns, quality and breach remedies apply separately to physical goods, digital goods and commissions; “customised” or “downloaded” does not universally exclude them.

Article 10 Materials, changes and contact

Buyers must supply necessary materials they are entitled to use as agreed beforehand. Creators must check obvious rights or safety concerns and avoid requesting irrelevant private information. Where materials are missing, creators must explain the missing items, reasonable deadline and scheduling effects, allow reasonable extensions and not automatically forfeit advances for short loss of contact. Additions, reductions and material schedule changes require express recorded confirmation; unilateral post-payment statements cannot add charges.

Whether and when drafts and stage deliverables may be made public, and confidentiality requirements, must be explained before accepting a commission. Cancellation deductions, paid retained deliverables and third-party-material restrictions follow these Rules. Uncompleted free test drafts or quotations do not automatically grant usage rights or oblige buyers to accept separate charges.

Article 11 AI restrictions and cross-product authorisation separation

Creators' obligations when using AI. A creator using generative AI to materially generate, redraw or synthesise deliverables must clearly disclose its purpose and extent before purchase, and must not misrepresent the work as entirely human-made, hand-drawn or independently original. Basic colour correction, noise reduction or format conversion is not necessarily material generation, but does not excuse compliance with an expressly agreed “no AI” requirement. Before submitting buyer materials, unpublished character details, project files, voices or other data to an external model service, creators must obtain the authorisation or consent legally required from the relevant right holders and data subjects, and verify that the service's training, retention, onward provision and public-display conditions do not exceed the permitted scope.

Shop licences contain no AI rights. Licences you grant us for listing, transactions, delivery, security handling, customer service and necessary evidence preservation are solely for the corresponding Shop services. They do not include model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, algorithm optimisation, dataset construction, provision of retrieval material to models, generation of derivative content, voice cloning or other AI development or use rights. Public display, permission for personal-avatar use, shop operation, purchase and payment do not grant those rights.

Separation from other AI products. We will not provide works, previews, delivered files, drafts, character details, prompts, project files, voices, private messages, order data or derived data from which their content can be reconstructed obtained through Shop to other AI products operated by us or affiliated entities, or make them available for access, scraping, training, evaluation, retrieval or generation by those products. We will not place such content in shared cross-product training repositories, asset libraries or vector databases. A common operator, brand, technical infrastructure or FGID unified account does not constitute cross-product permission. We will not circumvent these restrictions through internal retrieval, scraping public pages, de-identification or provision to service providers.

Separate products, submissions and authorisations. If you actively choose to use content in another AI product, you must separately submit the specific content you are entitled to use in that product and separately give effective authorisation and legally required data-processing consent identifying the recipient, product, content scope, purposes, duration, training use, third-party recipients and withdrawal or deletion arrangements. Another product's terms, general consent or your login do not authorise extraction from Shop's backend or retrospectively expand this licence. We will not make acceptance of another AI product's terms or permission for AI use a condition of joining, transacting, downloading, obtaining refunds or settlement, or exiting Shop. Refusal does not affect those basic services or existing rights. Buyers may dispose only of rights they lawfully hold and cannot grant creators' or third parties' training or other rights they do not possess.

Restrictions on technical service providers. Where we engage hosting, storage, delivery, security or customer-service providers to perform Shop services, we limit access, purposes and duration and require that they not use received Shop content to train or evaluate their own or third-party models, improve products or pursue other independent purposes. Necessary technical outsourcing is not AI authorisation. We will not place content in training datasets under the labels “service improvement”, “security” or “performance”. Before introducing a new AI content-processing function, we will separately specify purposes and data scope and complete required notices and effective authorisation; general provisions of this Agreement do not activate such functions.

Authorisation evidence and rights requests. Licences and consents are recorded separately by product, specific content and purpose; none is inferred from another. You may object to unauthorised AI use within Shop through [email protected]. We will investigate access and provision records, stop unauthorised processing and take lawful remedial steps, including deletion and instructing recipients to stop use. Withdrawal of authorisation and data requests for an independent AI product follow its separate terms and applicable law; continued Shop use does not invalidate withdrawal or renew consent.

Article 12 Licences, settlement and disputes

Default personal licences, commercial use and portfolio display follow digital-delivery and intellectual-property rules respectively. The 14-day acceptance period runs alongside the ordinary 30-day settlement observation period after effective delivery; another 30 days is not added after automatic acceptance. Partial stage payments are handled only where the stage-settlement arrangement was validly agreed beforehand and its conditions are met; this does not mean we have launched an instalment-payment product.

Substantial objections, refunds, infringement and access failures follow the relevant rules. Evidence includes quotations, requirement versions, work records and delivery notices. Buyer silence does not admit undiscovered defects, and legitimate complaints and reviews are not penalised because of a commission dispute.

Article 13 Updates and language

This document applies together with the FurryGoods Shop Service Agreement. We provide the applicable terms, give required notices and protect existing orders under its provisions on incorporation, priority and updates. Where separate consent is legally required, we act only after obtaining that consent.

Access merely to download existing deliverables, obtain a refund or settlement, appeal or exit does not constitute acceptance of new adverse terms. Continued use has acceptance effects only to the extent permitted by applicable law and after we have completed the necessary procedures.

The English text prevails in the event of ambiguity or conflict between language versions. This does not limit consumer protections or remedies under applicable mandatory law.