Simple Rules So Everyone Enjoys It

Last updated: November 1, 2026

Welcome to Playdate.pics, operated by X1Q1 Labs LLC (the “Company,” “we,” or “us”). By creating an account or using the site, you agree to these terms. They exist to keep Playdate.pics safe, respectful and family-friendly.

1. Purpose

Playdate.pics helps families and friends privately share photos of the moments they spend together, without advertising or public exposure.

2. Accounts And Eligibility

You must be 18 or older to create an independent account. Anyone under 18 needs permission from a parent or legal guardian and must use a guardian-created child account.
The parent or guardian controls a child account and the photos uploaded through it, including sharing, access, retention and deletion. Child accounts may be limited or unavailable until our consent and privacy review is complete.
Use accurate information, keep your password private, and keep one personal account. To reduce the chance of anyone using a breached password, we send a partial one-way hash of a new password to a third-party breach-checking service and may refuse a password that appears in known breaches. Your password itself is never sent. Creating accounts to get around limits or moderation is not allowed.
During the United States private beta, sign-up may be limited and features may change.

You promise that you own the content or have the rights or permission to upload it, including the explicit consent of parents or legal guardians for photos showing minors. Everything you upload should match the spirit of the site: safe, joyful and family-appropriate.

You may not upload or post:

adult, suggestive or sexual material of anyone, and never any sexualized image of a minor;
violent, graphic or disturbing content, hate speech, harassment or spam;
material you do not have the right to share; or
photos of other people, including children, without their consent or their parent’s or guardian’s consent.

You are responsible for what you upload and share. We may remove content that breaks these rules and suspend the accounts involved. We report suspected child exploitation to the appropriate authorities.

Removal requests. If something inappropriate was shared, or something was shared without your permission, use Report Abuse in the feedback form or email support@playdate.pics, and we will review it promptly.

4. Your Photos And Your Rights

Ownership And Control

You retain your copyright and other rights in photos you upload while signed in, subject to the permissions below. Each photo has one account that owns and controls the stored photo on Playdate.pics. A guardian controls photos uploaded through a child account. Album or group administrators cannot override another uploader's rights in their stored originals. The service may restrict or remove content to enforce these terms or comply with law.

Guest-upload exception. If you upload without signing in through an album's public upload link, the album owner becomes the owner of the stored photo on Playdate.pics and its storage is charged to that account. You grant the album owner an irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to keep, use, copy, download, display, share and delete that photo, and to exercise the rights permitted by these terms as if they had uploaded it themselves. This is a license, not a transfer of your copyright, and you can grant only rights you actually hold. It does not override another person's copyright, privacy or consent rights. You cannot later revoke this license by creating an account or closing your browser. You have no self-service access to view, edit or delete the guest upload; contact the album owner or support for removal concerns. The photo remains subject to our moderation, plan limits, expiry and deletion rules. Uploading through an upload link does not give you access to view the album.

Permission To Operate The Service

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license solely to host, display, back up, resize, process and transmit your photos to provide the service. We may review uploaded images and related information, including images in private albums, to confirm compliance with these Terms and to investigate suspected abuse, complaints or legal obligations. Only authorized personnel may do this, each review requires a recorded reason and is logged, and we do not routinely browse private albums. Our storage is encrypted at rest, but server-side processing is allowed; this is not end-to-end encryption.

We do not sell your photos or personal information, use family media for advertising or public marketing, use photos for facial recognition or profiling people, or use photos or children's data to train artificial-intelligence models. We do not submit family media to third-party AI systems for their use. We disclose information only to your authorized audiences, service providers acting for us to operate the service, and when reasonably necessary to comply with law or address safety and abuse, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Sharing, Saved Copies And Forward Sharing

Recipients may retain copies they lawfully saved for private, personal use. Permission to access a photo through Playdate.pics ends when the relevant grant is revoked or expires, or when other access restrictions apply. Forward sharing is off by default. If you enable it, recipients may create linked references for other people on Playdate.pics within the permissions you allow; those references remain subject to your source grants, expiry and revocation. Enabling this setting does not by itself authorize public posting on other services.

Do not redistribute or publicly post another person's photo, including on social networks, without that person's express permission. Once you share a photo, neither you nor Playdate.pics can prevent a recipient from saving, screenshotting or posting a copy elsewhere, including on other social networks. This practical limitation does not give the recipient permission to do so. Removing access cannot recall delivered copies or remove them from services we do not control.

When you contribute to someone else's album or an album shared with a group, you authorize its acknowledged audience to view the photo, including future members where that changing audience was disclosed. The album's organizers may change its audience. Access still depends on live source grants, owner restrictions and applicable guardian approvals; an album or group role cannot override them. Check the audience before contributing, since it may include people you do not know.

Use of the site is for personal, non-commercial purposes unless you have an Organization plan. An Organization plan does not grant commercial rights to other people's photos.

5. Other People's Photos

You agree to be respectful of other users, including other users' photos. You agree to use images in ways that are appropriate for the highly personal subject matter. You agree that any images that are shared with you will be used only for personal purposes, and that you will not use them commercially. Under no circumstances may you use photos shared with you in a way that is intended to harm, embarrass, or harass any person or to mislead other people. You agree that you will not share images uploaded by other users unless you have been given express authority to forward share the image. You agree not to upload any image that you do not have the right to upload or to re-upload an image that another user has uploaded without the original person's permission.

6. Plans, Limits And Billing

The following billing provisions are subject to applicable law. During the current private beta, card payments, automatic charging and subscription cancellation are not yet implemented; paid-plan access is available only through eligible zero-price coupons. The renewal, cancellation and failed-payment provisions below apply when billing becomes available. Organization is currently listed as coming soon.

The Standard plan is free. Paid plans (Premium, and Organization) add storage, longer photo keeping and other features, as shown on the site when you choose a plan.
Each plan has limits on storage, photos, albums, groups and how long photos are kept. Photos expire at the end of the time you choose, within your plan’s limit.
Paid plans renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel; you can cancel from the Manage My Subscription page, accessible from your account page. Coupons apply only as described when you redeem them. After cancellation, you may continue to download your photos until they expire or you remove them from the site.
Failed payments may make images you own unavailable for sharing, viewing, or download, and may restrict uploads and other actions. Your photos will continue to be stored on the site until they expire.
We may change prices or plan limits at any time. Subject to applicable law, changes become effective at your first renewal at least 30 days after we post the change on our website. We will also send price-change notices to the email address on file and provide any additional notice, consent or cancellation rights required by applicable law.
Subject to applicable law, we do not give refunds. You may cancel at any time and continue to use the site until the end of your current period.

7. Minors And Guardian Accounts

Playdate.pics is intended for primary administration by adults. Anyone under 18 must have permission from a parent or legal guardian and use a child account created and supervised by an authorized guardian. A guardian accepting these policies for a child confirms that they are the parent or legal guardian, or act with that person's express permission.

Guardians are responsible for configuring and supervising the child's account, activity and uploads. An image uploaded through a child account is controlled by its guardian, while remaining associated with that child account in our records. Guardians can review the child's photos and messages, manage sharing permissions, and restrict or remove the child's account and its own uploaded content. This does not confer control over another uploader's stored originals; use our removal-request process for concerns about those photos. Already-downloaded copies cannot be recalled.

You must have the necessary copyright, privacy and parental permissions before uploading media depicting a child. An adult uploading a photograph of a child is different from a child directly supplying personal information. Creating a child account, checking an agreement box or uploading a photograph does not by itself establish verifiable parental consent under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not enable real child accounts until the applicable consent and privacy requirements have been reviewed and met. Child-account availability may therefore be restricted even when adult sharing is available.

We use private defaults, guardian approval controls and unlisted child profiles. We do not sell children's information, use it for behavioral advertising or use family media to train AI models. Authorized recipients, providers acting for us and legally necessary safety disclosures are described in the Privacy Policy. We do not claim that these controls alone establish compliance with every California or other privacy law. Parents and guardians may request access, correction or deletion through support, subject to applicable law, other people's rights and the retention limits described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Not A Backup Service

We work hard to keep your photos safe, but no system is completely secure and failures or unauthorized access are possible. Playdate.pics is not a permanent archive or backup service. Photos become unavailable when they expire or are removed; keep your own copies of anything that matters to you.

Removing or expiring a photo stops new access through the site. Physical file cleanup may follow through scheduled processing, and encrypted backups may retain a copy until they rotate out. Limited security, consent and legal records may be retained where necessary. Deletion does not recall copies already downloaded or remove copies posted elsewhere. See our Privacy Policy for more about retention.

9. Privacy And Links

Albums are private by default. You decide who to share with. Do not share your password, and only share access links and codes with people you trust: anyone holding an “Anyone With This Link” link can view what it shows until it expires, you turn it off or another access restriction applies. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information.

10. DMCA Copyright Notice And Takedown Procedure

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect our users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (17 U.S.C. § 512) ("DMCA"), we review copyright-infringement claims and act expeditiously on valid notices. Registration of our designated DMCA agent is pending. Until registration is completed and full agent details are posted, send takedown requests and counter-notices to the email contacts below. We do not represent that pending registration establishes DMCA safe-harbor protection. The notice, takedown, counter-notice and repeat-infringer procedures below apply in the meantime, subject to applicable law.

Filing a DMCA Notice of Infringement

If you are a copyright owner (or authorized to act on behalf of one) and believe that media or content hosted on our website infringes your copyright, please submit a written DMCA Notice containing the following details:

Identification of the Work: A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
Identification of the Infringing Material: Direct URLs or specific descriptions identifying the location of the allegedly infringing photo or material on our platform, sufficient to allow us to locate it.
Contact Information: Your full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
Good Faith Statement: A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
Accuracy Statement: A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Signature: Your physical or electronic signature.

Submit your complete notice to our copyright/takedown contacts (DMCA registration pending):

Attn: DMCA / Copyright Agent

Company Name: X1Q1 Labs LLC

Location: Los Angeles, California 90025. Full designated-agent mailing details will be added when registration is complete.

Phone: 424-242-9345

Email: copyright@playdate.pics or legal@x1q1.com

Takedown And Counter-Notification

Takedown: Upon receipt of a valid, compliant DMCA notice, we will remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing content and notify the user who uploaded it.
Counter-Notice: If you believe your content was removed by mistake or misidentification, send a written counter-notice to the copyright contacts above. Include your physical or electronic signature; identification of the removed material and its former location; your name, address and telephone number; and a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled because of mistake or misidentification. State that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where your address is located (or, if outside the United States, a district where we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the original complainant or their agent.
Counter-Notice Process: We forward a compliant counter-notice to the original complainant. Subject to applicable law, we restore access no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after receipt unless we receive notice that the complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement. Independent safety, privacy or other policy restrictions may still apply.
Repeat Infringers: In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable law, it is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are deemed to be repeat infringers.

11. Common Sense Site Prohibitions

You agree not to engage in the following activities. These rules do not prohibit ordinary supported browser use, assistive accessibility tools, or security testing we have expressly authorized in writing; those activities must still respect privacy and access controls:

No Scraping or Harvesting: Use any automated system, software, tool, robot, spider, crawler, scraper, data mining tool, or similar data-gathering or extraction method on the website, its content, or its database.
No Bot or AI Ingestion: Access, monitor, or copy any material or information on this website using any automated process, or allow any third-party software, bot, crawler, or artificial intelligence (AI) system (including large language model training crawlers, scrapers, and agents) to access, index, scrape, or ingest content from the website without our express prior written consent.
No Hacking or Interference: Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the website, or any network connected to it, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the website or any network connected to the service. This includes attempting to gain access to any images that have not been shared with you.
No Malicious Code: Upload, transmit, or distribute any viruses, worms, malicious code, trojan horses, malware, spyware, or any other software intended to damage, disrupt, or alter the operations of the website, its servers, or computer systems.
No Overloading: Take any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, or interfere with the proper working of the website or any activities conducted on it. This includes uploading images for purposes other than sharing with other users.
No Reverse Engineering: Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decode, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to the source code, underlying algorithms, architecture, or proprietary technology of the website or any software associated with it.
No Duplication or Mirroring: Copy, reproduce, duplicate, mirror, frame, sell, resell, rent, lease, or exploit any portion of the website, its content, or its code for any commercial purpose without explicit written authorization from us.
No Circumvention: Bypass, remove, deactivate, tamper with, or circumvent any technological measures, rate-limiting systems, access controls, or copy-protection mechanisms designed to restrict access to the website or its content.
No Commercial Use: Use the website, its services, or its content to build a competitive product, service, or database, or to collect user data for unauthorized marketing, solicitation, or commercial gain.

12. Suspension And Closing Accounts

We may suspend or remove an account that breaks these terms, uploads prohibited content, puts excessive load on the site or tries to get around its limits or protections. You can request account deletion or pause your account from your Account page. You may first need to resolve dependent child accounts or transfer or delete a group you own. Guardians manage child-account removal. Deletion remains subject to the retention and saved-copy limits described above.

13. Disputes

You agree to reasonably attempt to work out any dispute with us or another user. If there is a legal dispute, California state law will control and subject to non-waivable applicable law, the exclusive place to bring a lawsuit will be a state or federal court in Los Angeles, California.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, and licensors from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal costs) arising from or relating to:

Your User Content: Any photos, media, metadata, or comments you or anyone using your account (including minor sub-accounts/Guardian Profiles) upload, post, or transmit through the Service;
Lack of Authority/Consent: Any claim alleging that you uploaded or shared photos of a minor or third party without appropriate parental, legal, or copyright consent;
Violation of Terms: Your violation of these Terms of Service, applicable privacy laws (including COPPA or California privacy statutes), or any third-party right (including copyright, trademark, trade secret, or privacy rights); or
Account Misuse: Misuse of your account or associated child accounts to the extent caused by your breach of these terms or failure to take reasonable care of your credentials. This does not make you responsible for our own unlawful conduct.

We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which event you agree to fully cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.

14. Important Notice

Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California users are entitled to the following consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.

15. Disclaimer And Limitation Of Liability

Playdate.pics is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we do not guarantee uninterrupted service or that content will never be lost, and we are not liable for loss of data, misuse of your account, or how others use content you chose to share. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under law that cannot be waived.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT, SOFTWARE, MEDIA STORAGE, AND FUNCTIONS MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT:

THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR OR YOUR FAMILY’S SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS;
THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, OR ERROR-FREE;
PHOTOS, VIDEOS, OR DATA STORED ON THE SERVICE WILL BE PERMANENTLY PRESERVED, UNCORRUPTED, OR FREE FROM LOSS; OR
ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS IN THE WEBSITE OR SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING INDEPENDENT BACKUP COPIES OF ALL MEDIA UPLOADED TO THE SERVICE.

Limitation of Damages

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES. THIS INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR:

LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES;
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR LOSS/DELETION OF YOUR CONTENT, PHOTOS, OR GUARDIAN PROFILES;
INTERRUPTIONS, SYSTEM FAILURES, OR NETWORK OUTAGES; OR
THE CONDUCT, ACTIONS, OR MEDIA OF ANY THIRD PARTY OR FAMILY MEMBER ON THE SERVICE.

THIS LIMITATION APPLIES REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE), EVEN IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Cap on Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE EXCEED THE GREATER OF:

THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTION FEES PAID BY YOU TO THE COMPANY IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM; OR
ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($100.00 USD).

16. Changes To These Terms

We keep prior versions of these terms and the Privacy Policy in our policy history. When either policy is updated, we ask account holders to review and explicitly accept the current versions before continuing to use the service. Guardians accept on behalf of their child accounts; children cannot accept for a guardian. Guests using public viewing links or adding photos must also accept the applicable current policies and upload permissions. We record the policy version, the accepting account or guardian where applicable, and the time of acceptance. Merely continuing to use the site is not a substitute for this recorded acceptance.

We will display an update notice at sign-in or on your next visit and send any additional notices required by applicable law. Price-change notices are also sent to the email address on file as described above. If you do not agree, you can sign out, contact support, or use the available account export and closure controls.

17. Contact

Questions, concerns or removal requests: support@playdate.pics.

Prior Terms And Privacy Versions · Review Policy Acceptance