Terms of Service

Effective Date: October 1, 2026

Welcome to Colorist. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Colorist application, website, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

Colorist is a software-as-a-service platform designed for professional colorists to organize and manage their professional and creative work, including product inventory, color combinations, color formulas, inspiration videos, notes, and activity journals.

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Service.

1. Eligibility

You must be legally capable of entering into a binding agreement to use the Service.

The Service is not intended for children under 13. By using the Service, you represent that you meet the applicable minimum age requirement in your jurisdiction.

If you are using the Service on behalf of a business or other organization, you represent that you have authority to accept these Terms on its behalf.

2. Your Colorist Account

You may need to create an account to use certain features of the Service.

You agree to:

  • Provide accurate and reasonably current information.
  • Keep your account information up to date.
  • Maintain the security of your account credentials.
  • Keep your authentication information confidential.
  • Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.
  • Be responsible for activity occurring through your account unless caused by our failure to maintain reasonable security.

You may sign in to Colorist using Google Sign-In.

When you use Google Sign-In, your use of Google’s authentication services is also subject to Google’s applicable terms and policies.

3. Your Content

The Service allows you to create, upload, store, organize, and manage content, including:

  • Product and inventory information.
  • Brand and product information.
  • Color formulas and recipes.
  • Color combinations.
  • Measurements and notes.
  • Images and photographs.
  • Inspiration videos and links.
  • Journal entries.
  • Activity records.
  • Tags, categories, and organizational information.
  • Other information you submit to the Service.

This information is referred to as “User Content.”

3.1 Ownership

You retain ownership of your User Content.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your User Content to Colorist.

3.2 License to Operate the Service

To provide the Service, you grant Colorist a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display, and otherwise process your User Content solely as reasonably necessary to:

  • Provide the Service.
  • Store and synchronize your content.
  • Display your content to you and people you authorize.
  • Provide backups.
  • Provide customer support.
  • Maintain and secure the Service.
  • Prevent abuse and security incidents.
  • Comply with applicable law.
  • Perform other functions reasonably necessary to operate the Service.

This license does not give Colorist ownership of your User Content.

3.3 Your Responsibility for Content

You are responsible for your User Content and for ensuring that you have the necessary rights and permissions to upload, store, use, or share it through Colorist.

You must not upload content that you do not have the right to use or that violates applicable law or these Terms.

4. Professional Information and Color Formulas

Colorist provides organizational and record-keeping tools for professional colorists.

Colorist does not guarantee that any product information, color information, formulas, measurements, recipes, or other professional information stored in or displayed through the Service is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for a particular professional application.

You are responsible for independently verifying product information, formulas, measurements, compatibility, safety information, manufacturer instructions, and applicable professional requirements before using them.

Colorist is not a substitute for professional training, manufacturer instructions, product safety information, or professional judgment.

5. YouTube API Services

Colorist uses YouTube API Services to provide YouTube-related functionality.

YouTube functionality may allow you to:

  • Select and add YouTube videos to Colorist.
  • Retrieve video IDs, titles, descriptions, and thumbnails.
  • Embed YouTube videos.
  • Save YouTube videos as inspiration within Colorist.
  • View YouTube comments.
  • Post comments to YouTube when you expressly choose to do so.

5.1 YouTube Authorization

When you connect your Google account to Colorist for YouTube functionality, you may authorize Colorist to access YouTube information and perform authorized YouTube operations on your behalf.

Colorist currently uses YouTube API authorization scopes that support its read and comment functionality, including:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl

You may revoke Colorist’s access to your Google Account at any time through your Google Account settings.

5.2 YouTube Comments

If Colorist provides the ability to post comments to YouTube, the action is initiated by you.

You are responsible for the comments and other content you submit to YouTube.

You must comply with YouTube’s applicable Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, and other applicable policies when using YouTube functionality through Colorist.

Colorist does not guarantee that YouTube will publish, retain, display, or permit any comment submitted through the Service.

5.3 YouTube Terms and Policies

Your use of YouTube functionality through Colorist is also subject to YouTube’s Terms of Service and applicable YouTube policies.

You agree to comply with those requirements when using YouTube functionality through Colorist.

YouTube’s Terms of Service are available at:

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

Google’s Privacy Policy is available at:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Colorist’s use of YouTube API Services is subject to the applicable YouTube API Services Terms of Service and Developer Policies.

6. Third-Party Services

Colorist uses third-party services to operate certain portions of the Service.

These services include:

  • Google — authentication, YouTube API Services, and Google Analytics.
  • DigitalOcean — hosting, database, storage, and infrastructure services.
  • Stripe — payment and subscription processing.

Your use of third-party services may be subject to those providers’ separate terms and policies.

Colorist is not responsible for the independent acts, policies, availability, or security practices of third-party services.

7. Subscriptions and Payments

Certain Colorist features may require a paid subscription.

Subscription pricing, billing intervals, included features, and other applicable terms will be presented to you before you purchase a subscription.

7.1 Stripe

Payments are processed by Stripe.

By purchasing a paid plan, you authorize Stripe and Colorist’s applicable payment systems to process the transaction associated with your selected subscription.

Colorist does not store complete payment card numbers on its own systems.

7.2 Automatic Renewal

If your subscription is configured to renew automatically, your subscription will renew at the applicable interval unless you cancel before the renewal date.

You authorize the applicable payment provider to charge the payment method associated with your subscription.

7.3 Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription according to the cancellation options provided through the Service or applicable payment platform.

Cancellation generally prevents future renewal but does not necessarily provide a refund for amounts already paid.

Any refunds will be handled according to the refund terms presented when you purchased your subscription or as otherwise required by applicable law.

7.4 Price Changes

We may change subscription prices or plans from time to time.

If a price change affects an existing subscription, we will provide notice where required by applicable law.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Colorist to:

  • Violate any applicable law or regulation.
  • Violate the rights of another person or business.
  • Infringe copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, or other intellectual-property rights.
  • Upload or distribute malware, viruses, or other malicious code.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to another user’s account or data.
  • Circumvent security or authentication mechanisms.
  • Interfere with or disrupt the Service.
  • Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems without authorization.
  • Use automated means to access the Service in a manner that places unreasonable load on our systems.
  • Scrape or collect information from the Service except through functionality we expressly provide.
  • Impersonate another person or entity.
  • Use the Service to facilitate fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity.
  • Use the Service to store or distribute content that is unlawful or that violates another person’s rights.
  • Attempt to reverse engineer or extract source code from the Service except where expressly permitted by applicable law.
  • Use Colorist to circumvent restrictions or requirements imposed by Google, YouTube, Stripe, or other third-party services.

9. Prohibited YouTube Use

When using YouTube functionality through Colorist, you must not:

  • Use YouTube data for purposes unrelated to the functionality provided by Colorist.
  • Attempt to access YouTube accounts or data without authorization.
  • Circumvent YouTube access controls or security mechanisms.
  • Use Colorist to download or redistribute YouTube audiovisual content in violation of YouTube’s policies.
  • Use YouTube functionality to violate YouTube’s Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.
  • Use automated mechanisms to perform YouTube actions that Colorist does not expressly provide.
  • Post comments or other content to YouTube that violates applicable law or YouTube policies.

Colorist may restrict or disable YouTube functionality for an account if reasonably necessary to comply with Google’s or YouTube’s policies.

10. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, interfaces, branding, logos, text, graphics, features, and underlying technology, is owned by or licensed to Colorist and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Except for the limited rights expressly granted under these Terms, you do not receive ownership of or rights to Colorist’s software, technology, trademarks, or other intellectual property.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works from the Service except where expressly permitted by us or applicable law.

11. Feedback

If you provide suggestions, ideas, feature requests, or other feedback regarding Colorist, you grant us permission to use that feedback without restriction or compensation to you.

Providing feedback does not transfer ownership of your User Content.

12. Availability and Changes to the Service

We work to keep Colorist available and reliable, but we do not guarantee that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

We may:

  • Modify or improve features.
  • Add or remove functionality.
  • Change technical requirements.
  • Temporarily suspend portions of the Service for maintenance or security.
  • Discontinue features where reasonably necessary.

If we discontinue the entire Service, we will provide reasonable notice where practicable.

Third-party services, including Google, YouTube, DigitalOcean, and Stripe, may independently change or discontinue their services. Such changes may affect Colorist functionality.

13. Account Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if:

  • You materially violate these Terms.
  • You use the Service for unlawful or abusive purposes.
  • You attempt to compromise the security of the Service.
  • Your use creates a security or operational risk.
  • We are required to do so by law.
  • We are required to do so to comply with Google, YouTube, Stripe, or other applicable third-party requirements.
  • You fail to pay applicable subscription charges.

Where reasonably practicable, we will provide notice and an opportunity to resolve the issue before terminating an account for a violation.

We may immediately suspend access when necessary to address security, fraud, legal, or other serious risks.

14. Deleting Your Account

You may request deletion of your Colorist account by using available account settings or contacting:

colorist.misty@gmail.com

Upon account deletion, we will handle your information according to our Privacy Policy and applicable retention requirements.

You are responsible for exporting any User Content you wish to retain before deleting your account.

Deleting your Colorist account does not necessarily delete information that has already been submitted to or stored by third-party services, including YouTube or Stripe.

15. Privacy

Our collection, use, storage, and disclosure of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

You can review the Privacy Policy through the Colorist website.

16. Security

We use reasonable safeguards designed to protect the Service and information processed through it.

However, no online service can guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and for notifying us if you believe your account has been compromised.

17. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS.

COLORIST DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, EXCEPT WHERE SUCH WARRANTIES CANNOT LAWFULLY BE EXCLUDED.

WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT:

  • THE SERVICE WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE.
  • THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED.
  • INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL ALWAYS BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
  • USER CONTENT WILL NEVER BE LOST, DAMAGED, OR CORRUPTED.
  • THIRD-PARTY SERVICES WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE OR FUNCTION AS EXPECTED.
  • THE SERVICE WILL MEET EVERY PARTICULAR BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENT.

Colorist is an organizational and productivity tool. You remain responsible for your professional decisions, product use, formulas, measurements, client work, and compliance with applicable professional and safety requirements.

18. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COLORIST AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COLORIST’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF:

  1. THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO COLORIST FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM; OR
  2. ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

These limitations do not apply where prohibited by applicable law.

19. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Colorist and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and service providers from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to:

  • Your violation of these Terms.
  • Your User Content.
  • Your violation of another person’s rights.
  • Your unlawful or unauthorized use of the Service.
  • Your use of YouTube functionality in violation of applicable YouTube requirements.
  • Your violation of applicable law.

20. Copyright Complaints

We respect intellectual-property rights.

If you believe content available through Colorist infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, you may contact us at:

colorist.misty@gmail.com

Please, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be interpreted or or services, constitute the agreement between you now expressly tell users that Colorist uses YouTube API Services, identify the YouTube functionality, require compliance with YouTube’s terms/policies, and make posting comments an include enough information for us to identify the allegedly infringing material and understand the basis of your claim.

21. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice, such as by posting updated Terms through the Service or notifying you by email where appropriate.

The Effective Date at the beginning of these Terms indicates when they became effective.

Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

22. Governing Law

These Terms will be governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction where Colorist is organized, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be handled in a court of competent jurisdiction, subject to applicable law.

23. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be interpreted or modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

24. No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce that provision later.

25. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Colorist Privacy Policy and any additional terms presented to you for particular features or services, constitute the agreement between you and Colorist concerning your use of the Service.

If there is a conflict between these Terms and feature-specific terms, the feature-specific terms will control for that particular feature to the extent of the conflict.

26. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms or the Colorist Service, contact us at:

Colorist App
Website: coloristapp.com
Email: colorist.misty@gmail.com