Draft. This text is waiting for a lawyer to read it and is not legal advice.
You must hold the rights to the image you upload
The rule this page exists to state
You must hold the rights to the image you upload. Everything below is procedure; this is the obligation. Tracing changes the form of a picture, not its ownership: a logo redrawn as curves is still that logo, and a photograph reduced to flat colour regions is still that photograph. If you would need permission to print or publish the file you are about to drop into the converter, you need the same permission for the vector that comes back out, and for whatever you do with it afterwards.
Work you made, work made for you under a contract that gives you the rights, work under a licence that allows this kind of adaptation, and work genuinely out of copyright are all fine. A mark scraped off somebody's website, a stock image whose licence you have not read, a character or a club badge are not — and the converter not stopping you is not permission. We cannot give you a view on your particular licence; that is a question for the rights holder or your own lawyer.
Why there is usually nothing here to take down
Worth knowing before you write to us, because it changes the shape of a notice. This site is a converter, not a library. There is no public gallery, no browsable collection of anybody's uploads, no profile page and no search across them. Nothing anyone uploads is published, indexed or shown to another visitor.
An uploaded image and the files traced from it belong to a single conversion. They sit in private storage under that job, reachable only through a signed link issued to the person who started it, and they are removed by an automatic 1-day deletion rule. Download links expire after 1 hour.
Two honest qualifications, because we would rather state a limit than imply a guarantee we cannot keep. A signed link works for anyone holding it until it expires, so the person who uploaded your artwork can pass that link on inside that window without us seeing it. And deletion is a storage lifecycle rule: it runs on the rule's own schedule once a file qualifies, not on a stopwatch.
The practical consequence is that a takedown request aimed at this site usually has no target. There is no public copy for us to remove, and often nothing left at all. What does remain available to us is the account behind the upload.
Sending a notice anyway
Cases do arise: a signed link still circulating, a preview being passed around, a pattern of uploads from one account. Send a written notification containing all of the following — an incomplete notice costs days, because we have to come back and ask for the missing part.
- The work. Identify the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, closely enough for us to recognise it: a link to where it properly appears, a registration number, or a copy attached.
- The material. Identify what you want removed or disabled and say where it is — the link you were given, the preview address, the job identifier inside it, or the account you believe is responsible. "Somewhere on your site" gives us nothing to act on.
- Contact details. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address, so we can reach you and so they can be passed to the account holder as the procedure requires.
- A good-faith statement that the use you complain of is not authorised by you, your agent or the law.
- A statement of accuracy — that what the notice says is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you own the right or are authorised to act for the owner.
- A signature, physical or electronic, of the person making the statement.
Send it to [designated agent and address — to be completed]. A notice that reaches some other address may sit unread longer, though we will act on it once it does arrive.
What happens next, and how to answer
A person reads every notice. Where material named in a complete notice is still reachable, we revoke the link and delete the files; where it has already gone, we say so. We keep the notice, tell the account holder what was removed, and pass on a copy of what we received.
If your files were removed and you believe that was a mistake or that the wrong material was identified, reply with a counter-notification. It should identify what was removed and where it was, state under penalty of perjury your good-faith belief that the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, give your name, address and telephone number with your consent to the jurisdiction that applies to your address, and carry your signature. We forward it to whoever complained, and the material may be restored after ten to fourteen business days unless they tell us they have gone to court.
Notice and counter-notice are both sworn statements. Knowingly misrepresenting either way — that something infringes, or that a removal was a mistake — exposes you to the other side's costs.
Repeat infringers
Accounts that attract repeated notices we find well-founded are terminated: sign-in, conversion and downloading all end, and we may decline to serve the same person again. We keep a record of notices against an account for that purpose. One mistaken upload is not a pattern; a pattern is what this rule is for.
Phase 2 changes what this page must cover
A hosted image library is planned for a later phase. The day visitors can browse, search or download artwork that lives on this site rather than something they uploaded themselves, most of the second section above stops being true: there will be public material to take down, it will be findable, and this page will need rewriting around a working notice-and-takedown process. Read it today as covering the converter only.
Questions
Does tracing an image give me any rights in it?
No. The vector is measured from your source and follows it line for line; it is derived from the original rather than a new work that escapes it. If you did not have the right to use the picture, you do not have the right to use the outlines taken from it.
I found my artwork traced on somebody else's website. Do I write to you?
Probably not. We publish nobody's uploads, so a copy you can see on another site is hosted by that site, not by this one, and the notice belongs with its host or registrar. Write to us if the material is reachable through one of our own links — a preview or a download address — or if you want an account looked at.
Do you keep the images people upload?
Only as long as the conversion needs them. The working files are discarded when the request finishes, and what is left in storage is removed by an automatic 1-day deletion rule; download links expire after 1 hour. Nothing is added to a gallery, a collection or a training set.
Will you tell me who uploaded my image?
We hold less than people expect, and we do not hand it over because somebody asks. An account carries the identity behind its Google sign-in plus usage records; what is collected is listed on the [privacy page](/privacy/). Disclosure follows lawful process, not an email.
Where did the before-and-after pictures on your pages come from?
We drew them and traced them with our own engine, so no sample on this site has a third-party source. They are the only images we publish. If you think one resembles work of yours, tell us and we will take it down while we look.