Terms & Conditions

1. The Service

Beadium is a bead-pattern design tool for creating, weaving and organising beadwork patterns on mobile and web.

2. Your account

You can browse as a guest or create an account. Keep your login details secure — you are responsible for activity under your account. You must be able to form a binding contract to subscribe.

3. Your content & ownership

You keep ownership of the patterns you create. You grant Beadium a limited licence to store, sync and display your content so we can run the Service for you.

Community sharing: when you tap Share, your pattern is published to Global Patterns and becomes visible to everyone using the Beadium app and website. It is shown with your Display Name as the creator, or "Anonymous" if you have not set one (you can set a Display Name in Settings). By sharing you confirm the pattern is yours to share, you agree it may be used free of charge by the community, and you grant other users the right to duplicate it and make finished items from it (including selling those items). You remain the author; others may not resell or publish the pattern itself as their own design.

You can make a shared pattern private again at any time (My Patterns → the pattern → Private), which removes it from the public library going forward. However, copies that other users already duplicated remain in their own collections and cannot be recalled.

Patterns you import from a PDF stay private: they cannot be shared to Global Patterns or exported, unless you are a verified author (see section 9).

Reference photos used for tracing are processed on your device and never uploaded, on the website as well as in the mobile app. We store the traced pattern, never the photo it came from.

4. Acceptable use

• Patterns you design yourself are yours. You may keep, export (Pro), share, sell or give away your own patterns, and you may sell finished beaded items you make from any pattern.
• Duplicating a pattern from Global Patterns is welcome — that is exactly what the Duplicate button is for. You can bead it, adapt it for your own use and sell the finished items you make. It stays the original author's design, though: do not resell or publish someone else's pattern (or an edited copy of it) as your own, and do not pass it off as your original design.
• Pro Patterns and their PDFs are for your personal use: do not modify, distribute, share, copy for others, resell or publish them, in whole or in part. You may sell the finished beadwork you make from them (see section 8).
• Import only your own files — files you are entitled to use, such as patterns you created or bought — and only for your personal use (see section 9).
• When designing, make sure you have the right to any photo or artwork you trace or include — do not use copyrighted characters, logos or third-party artwork without permission.
• Shared content must be appropriate. Do not publish patterns, images, names or words that are offensive, hateful, illegal or infringing. We may remove shared content we consider harmful to the Service or its users, with or without prior email notice, and may suspend accounts that repeatedly breach this.
• Do not misuse, disrupt, reverse-engineer or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service.

5. Guest mode

Guests can draw a limited number of patterns per day, saved on the device only (not synced). Sign up free to save your work to your account and use it across devices; guest work migrates to your account on sign-in.

6. Subscriptions & billing

Beadium Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. It starts with a 3-day free trial; after that it renews at the stated price until you cancel. Prices may vary by platform, region and currency, and a free trial is available once — resubscribing later may not include one.

Pro unlocks features on every device where you sign in to the same Beadium account, no matter where you bought it. Pro is personal to your account and is not shared through Apple Family Sharing.

Where you subscribe is where you manage it. On iPhone and iPad, Pro is sold through the Apple App Store; on Android, through Google Play; on the web, through our payment provider (Stripe). Manage or cancel it in that same place — App Store or Google Play account settings for a mobile subscription, or your Beadium account on the web for a web subscription. Billing, renewals and refunds are handled by whichever platform you purchased through (Apple, Google or Stripe), under their terms.

Refunds for App Store and Google Play purchases are decided only by Apple or Google, under their own refund policies — we cannot issue, promise or refuse them. To ask for a refund, use Apple's refund process (reportaproblem.apple.com) or Google Play's refund process (your Google Play order history).

For web subscriptions paid through Stripe: because Pro gives immediate digital access, by subscribing you ask for that access to start right away and you acknowledge that you therefore lose the statutory 14-day cancellation (withdrawal) right once the subscription period has begun. Except where the law requires otherwise, payments for a period already started are non-refundable — you can still cancel to stop future renewals. Applicable VAT or sales tax is shown and added at checkout according to your region. Mobile purchases follow the App Store / Google Play refund and tax rules instead.

PDF import is a beta feature and its limitations are explained up front (see section 9). For web subscriptions paid through Stripe, a PDF that does not convert correctly is not by itself a fault in Pro. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Cancelling stops future renewals from the end of the current billing period; you keep Pro until then. A subscription can only be cancelled on the platform it was bought on, and cancelling in one place does not cancel a separate subscription started elsewhere — so please avoid subscribing on more than one platform at a time.

If your Pro subscription ends, we do not delete your own patterns, but Pro-only features stop working: export, extra palettes, patterns above the Free limits, in-app access to Pro Patterns (including the colours you tried and your beading progress on them) and PDF import. Patterns above the Free limits become read-only or hidden until you resubscribe or bring your account within the Free limits. Patterns you imported stay in your collection, and Pro Pattern PDFs you already downloaded remain usable for your personal use (see section 8). We may change subscription prices with reasonable notice; changes never affect the period you have already paid for.

7. Plans & limits

Free and Pro include different limits (saved patterns, palettes, auto-trace, reference images, export, inventory, Pro Patterns and PDF import, including the daily Pro Pattern PDF download limit), as shown on the Subscription screen. We may adjust features and limits over time.

8. Pro Patterns

Pro Patterns are exclusive designs made by Beadium, available while you have an active Beadium Pro subscription.

During the free trial you can view Pro Patterns, weave them in Beading Mode and try colours. The ready PDF can be downloaded only once your first paid subscription period has started, and Pro Pattern PDF downloads are limited to 3 per day.

Try colours only changes how a pattern looks for you. It never changes the original pattern or its PDF.

Finished items: you are welcome to sell the finished beadwork you make from Pro Patterns. Crediting Beadium (for example, "Pattern by Beadium") is not required, but we'd be very grateful if you did.

Downloaded PDFs: you keep lifetime access to the Pro Pattern PDFs you downloaded while subscribed, for your personal use only — even after your subscription ends. You may not modify, distribute, share, copy for others, resell or publish a Pro Pattern or its PDF, in whole or in part.

When your subscription ends, in-app access to Pro Patterns ends, including the colours you tried on them and your Beading Mode progress for them.

Pro Patterns remain Beadium's intellectual property. Your subscription gives you a personal licence to use them as described in these Terms, not ownership of the designs.

9. PDF import (beta)

PDF import is a Pro feature that turns a pattern PDF into a Beadium pattern. It is in beta: not every PDF converts correctly, so please check the result against the original. If you have any questions, contact support at [email protected].

Import only your own files, and only for your personal use. To protect the Service from automated abuse, there is a technical daily cap on imports, far above normal use.

Your PDF is sent to our server only to read the chart. It is processed in memory and is not stored and not shared; only the resulting pattern is saved to your account (see our Privacy Policy).

Imported patterns stay private: they cannot be shared to Global Patterns or exported.

Author verification (for PDF import): if you are a pattern designer and have decided to move your own work to Beadium, we warmly welcome it. Before lifting the import restrictions, we need to make sure the work is original and that you hold the rights to it. Email [email protected], ask for author verification and list the patterns you want to move, with links to where they are published or sold (for example, your shop). We check each listed pattern and its authenticity personally, usually within 14 working days.

Each pattern we verify is no longer treated as imported: it becomes a regular pattern in your account, and you can share it to Global Patterns and export it just like any design you create in Beadium. Patterns that are not listed or cannot be verified keep the import restrictions.

10. Intellectual property

The Beadium name, logo, app, Pro Patterns and other Beadium content (other than your own patterns) belong to us and may not be used without permission, except as these Terms allow.

11. Disclaimer & liability

The Service, including beta features such as PDF import, is provided "as is" without warranties. To the fullest extent permitted by law we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of data. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

12. Termination

We may suspend or end access for breach of these Terms. You can stop using the Service at any time and delete your account in Settings.

13. Changes

We may update these Terms; the "Last updated" date will change. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

14. Governing law & contact

These Terms are governed by the laws of England & Wales. Contact: [email protected].