Legal
Terms of Use
Effective September 10, 2026
These Terms govern use of the Illuminare app, account services, purchases, and artwork submitted for Discover.
Operator and Agreement
Illuminare is operated by Mishka Studios LLC, a California limited liability company in the United States. These Terms govern your use of the Illuminare app and related services. By checking the Terms box and creating an Illuminare account, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you may continue using any browsing-only features that do not require an account.
Eligibility and Younger Users
You must be at least 16 years old to create and manage your own Illuminare account. A parent or legal guardian may create and manage an account for a younger user and is responsible for that use. Illuminare is not directed to children under 16, although its local creative features may be suitable for families. Discover tab submissions must be made by an artist who is at least 16 or by the artist's parent or legal guardian.
Apple License Terms
Unless a custom end-user license agreement is published for Illuminare in App Store Connect, Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. If these Terms conflict with mandatory Apple terms for an App Store purchase or license, the applicable Apple terms control to the extent of that conflict.
Free Illuminare Account
Creating an Illuminare account is free and does not begin a paid subscription. A signed-in Illuminare account is required for every Illuminare purchase, including Founding Lifetime Membership, so access can be associated with and restored securely. You are responsible for accurate account information, protecting your sign-in credentials, and activity under your account. One person may not impersonate another person, reserve misleading usernames, interfere with the service, or attempt unauthorized access. You may delete your account in Settings. Account deletion does not cancel an Apple subscription or stop Apple billing, and it does not automatically erase artwork stored locally on your devices. After account deletion, a verified, unexpired monthly or annual subscription or an unrevoked Founding Lifetime purchase may be restored to one recently authenticated replacement Illuminare account at a time. This restores eligible paid access, without restoring the deleted profile, cloud artwork, or promotional access.
Free Floral Letter
A qualifying Apple sign-in or completed email account unlocks one free Book of Letters Floral folio matching the first initial associated with the account profile. This promotional benefit has no cash value, is account-bound, and may not be sold or transferred.
Premium Subscriptions and Trial
Illuminare offers monthly and annual auto-renewable Premium subscriptions through Apple. Eligible new subscribers may receive a seven-day free introductory trial on either the monthly or annual plan when Apple displays that offer. Apple permits only one introductory offer per subscription group, so using the trial on one Illuminare plan does not create a second trial on the other plan. Unless canceled at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the selected subscription automatically converts to a paid subscription at the price shown by Apple and renews for the selected period until canceled.
Prices, Renewal, and Cancellation
Current localized prices, billing periods, and trial eligibility are displayed by Apple before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm a paid purchase, or when an applicable free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and Apple may charge for renewal within the 24 hours before that period ends. Apple processes payment, renewal, cancellation, and applicable refunds. You can manage or cancel a subscription in Apple Account subscription settings and request an eligible refund through Apple's refund process. Canceling stops future renewal; paid access normally continues through the current paid period, while trial access may end when canceled as determined by Apple. Deleting Illuminare or deleting an Illuminare account does not cancel the subscription or stop Apple billing. A verified, unexpired monthly or annual entitlement remains eligible for secure restoration through the end of the Apple-verified subscription period.
Premium Cloud Sync
Illuminare Cloud Sync is included with Premium. For a signed-in Premium account with no saved Cloud Sync choice, it is enabled only after you select Accept & Turn On Cloud Sync and agree to the current Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. A previously saved account-wide on or off choice remains authoritative; if renewed agreement is required, an enabled choice does not resume until you accept the current terms. Cloud Sync stores private account-bound copies with Supabase so eligible Works can synchronize or be restored across supported devices; local files remain the primary copies. Synced copies are not public and are not used for advertising or tracking. You retain ownership of your artwork and grant Mishka Studios LLC and its service providers only the limited permission needed to host, copy, transmit, and process synced material to provide, secure, and support Cloud Sync. Turning Cloud Sync off applies to the account and stops future synchronization but does not delete existing cloud copies. Delete Cloud Copies turns sync off and permanently removes cloud copies without deleting local Works. If Premium becomes inactive, synchronization pauses and existing cloud copies remain under the Privacy Policy unless you delete them. Internet or provider interruptions, device changes, and concurrent edits may delay sync or create a recovered copy. Cloud Sync is not a substitute for keeping any separate backup you consider necessary.
Family Sharing
Illuminare Premium subscriptions and Founding Lifetime access are not enabled for Apple Family Sharing. A purchase is associated with the Apple Account used to complete or restore it and with the applicable Illuminare account and device entitlements.
Founding Lifetime Membership
Founding Lifetime Membership is a limited one-time, non-consumable purchase intended for the first 100 completed and verified purchases recorded for the offer. A completed and verified purchase permanently consumes one of the 100 founding slots, including if Apple later refunds or revokes that transaction; the slot is not reopened or resold. A refund or revocation may end the associated access according to Apple's records and applicable law. The purchase grants one individual, non-transferable account access to the Premium features described at purchase for the commercial life of the Illuminare product. 'Lifetime' means the period during which Illuminare continues to make the product materially available, not the lifetime of the purchaser. It does not guarantee that every current feature, operating system, device, or third-party service will remain available forever. Founding Lifetime access is bound to one Illuminare account at a time. If that account is deleted, the purchaser can restore a verified, unrevoked purchase to a recently authenticated replacement account using the Apple Account used for the purchase. Recovery reuses the original completed founding slot and does not create or reopen a slot. The purchase cannot be transferred to another person. Buying Founding Lifetime does not cancel an existing Apple subscription; cancel that subscription separately in Apple Account subscription settings if you no longer want it to renew.
Founding Inventory Errors
Illuminare checks its server-authoritative inventory before asking Apple to begin a Founding Lifetime purchase. If, despite that control, Apple completes a transaction but Illuminare cannot allocate one of the 100 founding slots because the inventory was exhausted, the transaction will not displace an earlier valid purchase or create a 101st Founding Lifetime Membership. The purchaser may request a refund through Apple's refund process, and Illuminare will provide reasonable support confirming that the purchased access could not be fulfilled. Apple processes and decides App Store refunds, subject to applicable law. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable refund, cancellation, or consumer rights.
Founding Lifetime Features
Founding Lifetime access includes Premium access, Illuminare Cloud Sync, Premium Folios, historical Pigments, Save, Export and print-ready export features, gilding and ornament tools, and standard product updates that add palettes or folios. It does not automatically include a materially separate future product or service unless Illuminare expressly says that it does. Founding members retain their purchased access if later monthly or annual subscription prices change.
Friends and Family Access
An Illuminare-issued Friends and Family code may grant revocable Premium access to one signed-in Illuminare account without beginning an Apple subscription. Codes are personal, one-use, non-transferable, have no cash value, and may be disabled or revoked if issued in error, shared, sold, abused, or used contrary to these Terms.
Restore Purchases
Restore Purchases is available from Settings and purchase screens to refresh eligible Apple purchase entitlements. Ordinary restoration returns access to the signed-in Illuminare account associated with the purchase. If that account was deleted, restoration may securely bind a verified, unexpired monthly or annual subscription or an unrevoked Founding Lifetime purchase to one signed-in, recently authenticated replacement Illuminare account at a time. Founding Lifetime recovery reuses the original completed slot. Account deletion cleanup must finish before the associated purchase records can be created again for restoration. Restoration requires the Apple Account used for the purchase and a purchase record verified through Apple and RevenueCat; email matching or an unverified client claim is not sufficient. Illuminare checks account ownership and, for Founding Lifetime, its separate inventory record before granting access. A RevenueCat record alone does not transfer access to another Illuminare account or bypass the 100-purchase limit. Restoring a purchase does not recover the deleted account, profile, cloud artwork, or promotional access. An internet connection and available verification services are required, and an interruption can delay purchase confirmation or restoration.
Your Artwork
As between you and Illuminare, you retain ownership of original artwork you create. Using Illuminare does not transfer ownership of your artwork to Illuminare. You are responsible for ensuring that artwork, text, names, and other material you create, export, or submit do not violate another person's rights or applicable law.
Discover Tab Submission Permission
When you voluntarily submit artwork through the Illuminare app or website for Discover consideration, you grant Illuminare a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, and promote the submitted artwork and its approved credit in the in-app Discover carousel, on illuminareapp.com, in App Store screenshots, on Illuminare-controlled social-media accounts, and in other Illuminare marketing. This license is limited to operating and promoting Illuminare and permits Illuminare's hosting, distribution, App Store, and social-platform providers to perform the technical acts necessary to provide those uses. You may continue using and licensing your artwork elsewhere.
Discover Display Treatment
Illuminare will preserve the submitted source file and will not intentionally crop, retouch, recolor, compress, or otherwise edit the artwork. Non-destructive display scaling that preserves the full image and its aspect ratio is permitted so the artwork can fit different screens and layouts. Third-party App Store, hosting, browser, or social-media platforms may perform their own technical encoding, scaling, or caching outside Illuminare's direct control.
Discover Tab Submission Promises
By submitting, you confirm that you created the artwork or have all permissions required to submit it; any credited name or username may be displayed as requested; the submission does not infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights; and it does not contain unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, exploitative, deceptive, or malicious material. If submitting for an artist under 16, you confirm that you are the artist's parent or legal guardian and are authorized to grant this permission.
Discover Selection and Removal
Submission does not guarantee publication, placement, duration, or promotion. Illuminare may reject, moderate, reorder, or stop displaying a submission. Unpublished submission files will be automatically deleted within 90 days after submission. A submitter or rights holder may request removal at support@illuminareapp.com. After reasonable identity or ownership verification, Illuminare will remove already-published artwork from locations it controls—including the app, website, controlled storage, and Illuminare-controlled social posts—without undue delay and no later than one calendar month. Illuminare cannot guarantee deletion of independent reposts, screenshots, archives, or caches controlled by others, but will make reasonable efforts concerning locations it controls.
Illuminare Content and Intellectual Property
The Illuminare app, interface, software, folios, line art, pigments, ornaments, branding, text, and supplied assets are owned by or licensed to Illuminare and are protected by intellectual-property law. Your app license is personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and only for lawful personal use under these Terms and Apple's applicable license. You may not copy, redistribute, sell, extract, reverse engineer, or commercially exploit Illuminare-provided assets except where applicable law expressly permits it.
Service Changes and Availability
Illuminare may maintain, improve, replace, suspend, or discontinue features when reasonably necessary for security, law, platform requirements, technical operation, or product development. Internet, Supabase, Apple, RevenueCat, Resend, Cloudflare, and other third-party services may experience interruption. Nothing in these Terms limits any non-waivable remedy you have under applicable consumer law.
Account Suspension or Termination
Illuminare may restrict or terminate an account for material or repeated violation of these Terms, fraud, abuse, infringement, security threats, unlawful conduct, or conduct that harms users, Illuminare, or its providers. Where reasonably possible and legally appropriate, Illuminare will provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue. Purchase and refund rights remain subject to Apple and applicable law.
Disclaimers and Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Illuminare is provided on an 'as available' basis without warranties beyond those that cannot lawfully be excluded. Illuminare is not responsible for loss caused solely by user deletion, device loss, unsupported third-party changes, or material exported from the app and controlled by others. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Illuminare is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages. These limitations do not apply where prohibited or to liability that cannot legally be limited, including applicable consumer protections.
Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. This choice does not deprive you of mandatory consumer protections or rights available under the law of your habitual residence.
Availability
Illuminare and its account services are not offered to people located in the European Union, European Economic Area, or United Kingdom. You may use Illuminare only where it is made available and where your use is lawful.
Changes to These Terms
Illuminare may update these Terms to reflect legal, technical, security, or product changes. The updated effective date will be displayed. If a material change requires renewed agreement, Illuminare will request it before the affected account service continues.
Contact
Questions, legal notices, Discover removal requests, or account concerns may be sent to support@illuminareapp.com or mailed to Mishka Studios LLC, P.O. Box 4117, Culver City, CA 90230, United States.