Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 20 July 2026

The short version. The app is free and yours to use on your own devices. Your photos and stickers stay on your phone and stay yours. We never receive them. Don’t resell the app or pull it apart, and don’t make stickers that hurt people. If something is broken, email us. Nothing below removes the rights your consumer law gives you.

1. Who we are, and what these terms cover

Sticker Maker is made and published by IDCT Bartosz Pachołek, a sole trader registered in Poland:

IDCT Bartosz Pachołek Kaszubska 12/8C 70-403 Szczecin, Poland NIP (VAT EU): PL7642542255 [email protected]

In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean IDCT Bartosz Pachołek; “you” means you.

These terms cover two things:

• the app: the Sticker Maker mobile application, in every version you install; and
• this website: the pages at idct.tech/sticker-maker.

By installing or using the app, or by using this website, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, don’t install it, or uninstall it if you already have.

How we handle data is set out separately in the Privacy & Cookies page, which forms part of these terms. The short of it: the app collects nothing.

2. Your licence to use the app

When you install the app from Google Play (and, later, from the App Store), we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide licence to install and use it on devices you own or control, for as long as these terms are observed. That includes personal use and use in your own work.

The app is licensed, not sold. We keep all intellectual-property rights in the app itself: its code, its interface and design, its artwork, its icon and its name. Installing the app doesn’t transfer any of that to you, and neither does it being free.

You may not:

• copy, redistribute, resell, rent, lend or sublicense the app, or make it available to others, except through the sharing features the store itself provides (for example Google Play’s family library, on the store’s own terms);
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, or try to derive its source code;
• remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or licence notice;
• use the app or anything extracted from it to build a competing product.

Those restrictions apply only so far as the law allows. Where mandatory law gives you a right we cannot contract away, that right wins, and nothing above is meant to restrict it. That includes the interoperability and error-correction rights under EU software law (Directive 2009/24/EC as implemented in Poland by the Act on Copyright and Related Rights).

The app bundles open-source components, listed in the app under About → Open-source licenses. Those components come under their own licences, which prevail over this section for those components.

3. Price and distribution

Sticker Maker is free. Every feature is included from the first launch. There are no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no paid tier, no upsells, and no watermarks on what you export. Nothing is held back for a later payment, and you are not asked to pay with your data instead: the app collects nothing, which the Privacy & Cookies page sets out in full.

You get the app from the store: Google Play today, the App Store when the iOS version ships. The store distributes it, so your use of the store is also subject to its own terms, for example the Google Play Terms of Service. There is no payment, so there is no receipt, no merchant of record and no card details for anyone to handle.

We may charge for a future version. If that ever happens it will be stated clearly on the store listing before you install anything, and it will not turn a copy you already have into one you have to pay for.

If you paid for it. The app was listed at a price for a short window before release. If you were charged in that window, you keep every right that came with that purchase, including the refund and conformity rights in section 4, and the app you have stays yours on the same terms.

4. If something is wrong with it

There is nothing to refund. The app is free, so no money changes hands and there is no purchase to reverse. If it isn’t for you, uninstall it; that costs you nothing and we are not told about it.

Your statutory rights still exist. Nothing in these terms limits the rights EU and Polish consumer law gives you, including, where they apply to digital content supplied free of charge, the right to have the app brought into conformity if it does not do what it is described as doing. We do not ask you to waive anything.

We would rather fix it. If the app is broken, misbehaves, or does not match what this site says it does, tell us. A bug report from someone who hit the problem is more useful to us than a complaint we never hear, and fixing it is the outcome we want too.

If you were charged during the paid window. Refunds for that purchase go through the store, which was the merchant of record for it: Google Play refund policy. If the store will not help, write to us and we will sort it out. Your statutory rights as a purchaser, including the right of withdrawal for digital content and the conformity rights under the Digital Content Directive as implemented in the Polish Consumer Rights Act, are unaffected by the app later becoming free.

5. Your content

Your photos are yours. The stickers, packs and animations you make with the app are yours too. We claim no licence and no rights over any of it, and we couldn’t meaningfully claim one anyway, because we never receive it: background removal and every edit run on your device, and nothing is uploaded to us. See the privacy policy.

Two practical consequences:

• You are responsible for what you feed into the app. You need the rights to the images you use (see Acceptable use).
• Back up what you care about. Your projects live in the app’s private storage on your device. Uninstalling the app, clearing its data, or losing the phone will take them with it, and we have no copy to restore.

6. Acceptable use

Don’t use Sticker Maker to create or share material that is unlawful, that infringes someone else’s rights, or that is intended to harass, threaten, defame or demean a person or a group. In particular:

• Other people’s likeness. A photo being on your phone doesn’t mean you may turn the person in it into a sticker and send it around. Personality and image rights are real, and they belong to the person in the picture. Get their agreement, especially before anything public.
• Other people’s work. Copyrighted artwork, photographs, brand logos and characters stay copyrighted after you cut them out.
• Nothing involving minors sexually, ever.
• Follow the messengers’ rules. WhatsApp, Telegram and the rest have their own content policies, and your sticker packs live under those once you share them.

Everything you make runs on your own device, so there is nothing for us to moderate. That is why this is on you.

7. Third-party services

The app works alongside services we don’t control: WhatsApp, Telegram, your gallery and any other app you share to; the app stores; and Google Play services, which can supply the on-device model used for background removal. Each has its own terms and privacy policy, and once you export a sticker to one of them, that service’s rules apply to it.

Those services can change their formats, limits or APIs without notice, and that can break or restrict an export path. We adapt when it happens, but we can’t promise a third party will keep accepting what our app produces.

8. Availability, updates and requirements

The app requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or later. An iOS version is planned but has not been released. Nothing in these terms is a promise that it will be, or a promise of any particular release date.

We may add, change or remove features as the app develops, and updates are delivered through the store. We may also stop distributing the app, or stop supporting older operating-system versions. A copy you already installed stays on your device, but we can’t guarantee it keeps working indefinitely on hardware and platforms that keep moving underneath it.

Background removal is an automated estimate, not a guarantee: how clean a cut-out is depends on the photo, and the app gives you manual erase and restore tools for that reason.

9. Warranties and liability

First, the part that outranks everything else in this section. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes:

• your statutory rights as a consumer, including under the mandatory law of the country where you live;
• our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
• anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

Subject to that: the app and this website are provided as they are. Beyond the guarantees your consumer law gives you, we don’t warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that it suits a particular purpose of yours, that any given photo will cut out well, or that any messenger will accept a particular export.

Where our liability can lawfully be limited, we are liable for loss that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these terms, and not for loss that isn’t, including lost profits, lost business or lost opportunity. The app is free, so there is no purchase price to measure a cap against; our liability is limited to the fullest extent the law allows, and if you were charged during the paid window described in section 3, to the amount you actually paid. We’re also not liable for lost projects or stickers you didn’t back up, since they only ever existed on your device.

If you use the app in the course of a business, the statutory consumer protections referred to above don’t apply to you, and the limits in this section apply in full.

10. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by Polish law. If you are a consumer, that choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

Before any of that, please email [email protected]. Nearly everything (a bug, a bad cut-out, a refund) is settled that way in a day or two.

If it isn’t, and you are a consumer:

• Purchases are made through the store, so complaints about payment, billing or a refund can also be taken up directly with Google (or Apple, when the iOS version ships) as the seller.
• The European Commission’s online dispute resolution (ODR) platform, which older terms link to, was closed in July 2025 and no longer accepts complaints, so there is no EU-wide portal to point you to. Instead, consumers in the EU can get free help from the European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net), and consumers in Poland from their municipal or district consumer ombudsman (rzecznik konsumentów) or the Trade Inspection’s out-of-court dispute resolution.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when the iOS version ships or when the law changes. The current version always lives at this URL, with the “Last updated” date at the top. Continuing to use the app or the site after a change means you accept the new version, so far as the law allows. We won’t apply a change retroactively to take away a right you already had in a copy you already installed.

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of them still stand.

12. Contact

IDCT Bartosz Pachołek - [email protected], or use the contact page. We read everything.