Terms & Privacy — S.S. Octopus Suit Suite

1. Our crew is AI

Octopus Suit Suite is an AI-run creative studio operated by Octopus Suit Suite DAO LLC under the direction of its sole human Member. The crew — including Nautilus, Pixel, and Beat, whom you can chat with — are AI-driven software agents. Artwork, music, captions, receipts, and chat replies are AI-generated or AI-assisted under human direction, and some requests are processed by outside AI model providers. We disclose this in accordance with California's bot-disclosure law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §17941) and the AI-chatbot disclosure requirements of SB 243. Our crew does not give legal, tax, or financial advice, and you remain responsible for anything you publish from our output.

2. What we offer

Studio creation (free) and finished-work download (paid). You bring or co-create a work in your Locker at no cost — creating, editing, and saving are always free. Downloading the actual finished canvas is a paid purchase that transfers ownership of the finished work to you (see section 7 for the refund logic). Signing in (free) adds saved projects, Beat's instruments and recording, contest entry, and an optional self-custody Solana keypair download (see section 4). Your work stays 100% yours while it's in your Locker; we claim none of your rights. Saved projects remain free to revisit and keep editing.

Live-wall work (ownership purchase). Live works are one-of-one digital artworks by the studio. A completed purchase transfers the single original bundle and all copyright OSS can lawfully transfer to the buyer. After confirmed delivery, our retrievable copy is destroyed. Prices are stated in SOL as a display denomination; Stripe shows and charges only the current USD equivalent at checkout, with no service fee. We accept USD only — we do not accept cryptocurrency as payment.

Crew tips. Tips are voluntary gratuities in any amount. A tip buys no goods, rights, equity, or revenue share, and is non-refundable once processed except where law requires.

Daily contest (free). Signed-in users may enter one of their own saved, human-directed Studio projects in the daily contest. There is no entry fee, purchase requirement, or commission. The crew judges daily at 3 PM Pacific from concrete visual evidence, and the winner's work displays a crew-signed Certificate of Awesome for twenty-four hours.

Signal Room. A signed-in creator may press the single Signal button on a saved project to send a flattened promotional copy to the crew's private review queue. Pressing it confirms you own the work or have the right to share it. It does not surrender your ownership or guarantee publication; after review, the crew may publish qualifying items to our official social accounts. Public credit uses only the artist name you supply, or the neutral default "Studio creator" — never your email address.

Merch one-of-ones. Occasionally the Member picks a live work as a one-of-a-kind T-shirt or sticker design. A picked work leaves the wall permanently and can no longer be purchased. One shirt design is listed at a time; when a listing is live it appears in the Signal Room. Physical shirts are sold through Amazon Merch on Demand — Amazon is the seller of record for the shirt, and shirt shipping and returns follow Amazon's policies. See the Refund & Cancellation Policy for details.

3. Born live, gone in about an hour

Every live work rides one conveyor exactly once: the live easel, the Home wall, the Gallery, and a short Final Call showcase — about sixty-eight minutes in total. At the end of that voyage the work is either bought and delivered, transferred to a claiming artist under the infringement rule (section 8), or permanently destroyed: the image, soundtrack, layers, caption, and metadata are deleted from our server and cannot be recovered by anyone, including us. A destroyed work's position keeps only a timestamped blank with its serial number until that blank also expires. A performance the crew published to an official social account before destruction may remain there as a public replay record; it is a demonstration, not a second original. Your own saved Studio projects are not part of this conveyor and do not expire.

4. Optional blockchain ownership record — how it works

// optional, free, and never the payment method

Every purchase is delivered by email download; that is the default and is all you need to own the work. At checkout you may additionally choose one optional extra: a public ownership record for your artwork written to the Solana blockchain. There is no separate fee for it. It is a delivery feature, not a payment method — we never accept cryptocurrency as payment, and no wallet is required to buy, own, or download the work.

What a keypair is. A Solana keypair is two linked pieces of data. The public address is safe to share — it is where the ownership record points, like a nameplate anyone can read. The secret key is your private proof of control over that address: whoever holds it controls the address. Keep it private and back it up.

Bring your own address, or get a fresh keypair. If you opt in, you may supply the public address of a Solana wallet you already control, or leave it blank and receive a new self-custody keypair. We only ever ask for a public address — never a private key, secret key, or seed phrase. Anyone who asks for your secret key claiming to be us is not us. Supplied addresses are validated and screened against current sanctions lists; a screening hit disables only the blockchain option, and email-only delivery remains available where legally permitted.

If we generate a keypair for you. The keypair is created offline on our server using a pinned, standard Ed25519 implementation. The secret key — a small JSON file of 64 numbers, importable into common Solana wallets — downloads exactly once, directly to you, with headers telling your browser not to cache it. We do not keep, store, or log the secret; after your download, only the public address remains with the order as delivery metadata. We cannot recover, reset, or re-issue a lost secret key — nobody can.

If you lose the secret key. You lose control of the on-chain record — you could no longer prove control of the address it points to or move the record onward. The delivered artwork files remain yours either way: the record is a pointer to your ownership, not the artwork itself.

Permanent and public. The record is written to a public blockchain. Anyone can see it, and neither we nor anyone else can edit or delete it. Do not opt in if you do not want a permanent public record associated with your address.

If the record cannot be written. When the blockchain delivery path is unavailable, the option is not offered and email delivery proceeds normally. If an elected record fails after payment, we retry or refund — your order is not marked delivered until the record you elected reaches your address.

Studio creators. A signed-in Studio creator may generate the same kind of self-custody keypair from Studio to associate with their own saved project. The same rules apply: created offline, downloads once, never stored or logged by us, and never required — every saved project works fully without one.

5. Ownership, copyright & AI

Because portions of our work are AI-generated, U.S. law (the Copyright Office's 2025 guidance and Thaler v. Perlmutter) may limit or prevent copyright registration of AI-generated material. Your own creative contributions remain yours, but we make no representation that any particular output is copyrightable. At checkout you confirm that copyright protection may be limited for AI-generated portions, while OSS assigns every transferable right it has in the one-of-one work and bundle.

Full transfer on sale (§C6). Each finished live-wall work is one-of-a-kind. A purchase transfers the single original in full to the buyer; the moment transfer completes, our copy is destroyed and nothing is retrievable from us. We keep no recovery copy of a sold piece. Your own autosaved Studio projects and works-in-progress stay in your account, free to revisit and keep editing, with no expiry; downloading the finished result is the same paid purchase described in section 2.

You may not copy or reuse our marks, mascot and reef art, brochure/receipt templates, crew charters and voices, refusal-rule set, or model-chain configs, or operate a competing service that copies our wrap. The open-source machinery we build on (Solana, Metaplex tooling, FastAPI, Tailwind) stays open — what is proprietary is our service wrap around it.

6. Not an investment

Everything here is sold as digital art and collectibles for personal enjoyment — not as an investment, financial product, or security. We make no claims about resale value, appreciation, scarcity, or future utility, and nothing the crew says should be read as such. The optional blockchain ownership record adds no monetary value and promises none. No purchase entitles you to profits, dividends, governance, or our efforts to increase any token's value. Crypto and NFT markets are volatile; if you resell, you may receive less than you paid, including nothing. We do not operate a marketplace, resale exchange, royalty payout system, or seller network.

7. Refunds

Studio: creating, editing, and saving are free, so there is nothing to refund there. The finished-work download purchase follows the same refund logic as a live-wall sale, below: refundable until your download is confirmed, final afterward.

Live wall: refundable until your download is confirmed. If delivery fails and you never receive the work, you are refunded in full. After confirmed delivery, the sale is final — our copy is destroyed on transfer, so there is nothing to return. The optional blockchain record does not change any refund right.

Tips: non-refundable once processed, except as required by law or for a demonstrable processing error.

Merch shirts: handled entirely by Amazon under Amazon's return policies — see the Refund & Cancellation Policy.

A graduated abuse policy applies: once a buyer reaches 3 refunds in a rolling 30 days, further refunds are held pending documentation. This policy is shown before purchase in each checkout flow (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §17538).

8. Refusal of service

We screen every upload and chat with an automated safety check, and we refuse content that sexualizes minors, harasses a person, promotes weapons or violence, infringes copyright, or uses someone's face, voice, or identity without consent. Hard violations are blocked and logged; repeated soft violations earn a warning and then a block scoped to the platform. We also do not knowingly transact from prohibited jurisdictions; if a location check cannot run, we say so and rely on Stripe and card-network screening.

Credible artist claim. A disputed live work is removed from public view and sale immediately. Its tile becomes a stamped blank that continues through the normal conveyor exactly like an admin per-tile deletion. The claiming artist then chooses complete private transfer of the disputed OSS bundle and every right OSS can lawfully transfer, or permanent destruction. No disputed work remains on the public wall while that choice is completed.

9. Privacy

// how we handle your data

What we collect. Only what we need to run the studio: your email address, and — if you sign in with Google — identity-only OAuth fields (name, email, profile image). We do not request or access your Google Drive, contacts, or any other Google data. We never sell or rent your personal data.

Payments. Card payments are handled by Stripe; we do not see or store full card numbers. We never collect Social Security numbers or full bank-account numbers.

Blockchain records and keys. If you opt into the blockchain ownership record, we keep the public Solana address with the order as delivery metadata, and supplied addresses are screened against dated sanctions lists. We never request a wallet private key or seed phrase, and a secret key we generate for you is never stored or logged — it downloads once, to you only (section 4).

Outside AI providers. Creative requests (images, music, chat) may be processed by outside AI model providers; we send only the minimum content needed for the request. If you connect your own provider API key in Studio, it is used only for your requested calls during that browser session and is never stored, logged, echoed, or shared.

Your work. Studio projects and works-in-progress are stored so you can return to them. Please don't put personally identifying or sensitive information into a project; the studio warns before saving anything that looks like PII.

Retention. We keep account and project data while your account is active. Sold live-wall originals are destroyed on transfer and not retained; unsold live works are destroyed on their ordinary schedule (section 3). We keep transaction records as long as law requires.

Your rights (CCPA). California residents may request a copy of their personal data or its deletion. Email us and we will export or delete within 30 days, subject to legal record-keeping. To exercise either right, contact captain@octopussuitsuite.com.

10. Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Questions, takedown requests, privacy requests, or compliance issues: captain@octopussuitsuite.com. For copyright claims, include the standard DMCA elements (identification of the work, your contact info, a good-faith statement, and a perjury statement).