Customer Upload and Intellectual Property Policy

This Customer Upload and Intellectual Property Policy applies to every image, photograph, artwork, graphic, logo, design, likeness, text, or other item of content uploaded, entered, or submitted to Podtas.

By submitting content, using a customization tool, selecting a required acknowledgment, adding a customized product to your cart, or completing a purchase, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to this policy.

If you do not agree to this policy, do not submit content or place a customized-product order.

Podtas offers customization features that may vary by product. Depending on the applicable product page, customization may include image uploads, custom text, product selections, image positioning, cropping, orientation, or other personalization features.

Customers are responsible for reviewing all uploaded images, entered text, selected product options, size, color, orientation, cropping, placement, and available previews before placing an order.

If a product page does not display a separate text-customization field, any names, dates, messages, quotes, or other wording should be included directly in the uploaded image before ordering.

Image quality responsibility: Please upload a clear, high-resolution JPG or PNG image suitable for printing.

Blurry, pixelated, dark, overexposed, heavily compressed, distorted, improperly cropped, or otherwise low-quality files may affect the appearance of the finished product.

Products affected by customer-submitted image quality, incorrect customer-entered text, incorrect customer selections, or other customer-submitted errors are not normally eligible for return, refund, or free replacement unless the finished product contains a material production error caused by Podtas or differs materially from the confirmed order.

You may submit content only when one of the following applies:

• You personally created the content and legally own it.
• You have received express permission from the applicable rights owner to reproduce and print it.
• You hold a valid license that specifically permits reproduction on the selected physical product.
• The content is lawfully in the public domain and may be used for the requested purpose.

Permission to view, possess, download, share, repost, display, or privately use an image does not necessarily include permission to reproduce it on a physical product.

When an identifiable person appears in submitted content, you are responsible for obtaining any consent, model release, privacy authorization, or publicity-rights permission required for the requested use.

Podtas does not grant customers any copyright, trademark, merchandise, resale, advertising, promotional, publicity, endorsement, distribution, or other commercial rights in third-party content submitted for customization.

Customers may use customized products for personal, gift, business, promotional, resale, or other purposes only when they independently possess all rights, licenses, permissions, consents, and authorizations required for that intended use.

You must not use Podtas customization services to reproduce third-party intellectual property for resale, merchandising, advertising, promotional distribution, fundraising, sponsorship, commercial marketing, or other commercial exploitation unless you have all rights and permissions required for that use.

Examples of uses that may require additional authorization include:

• Selling or reselling customized products.
• Listing customized products on Amazon, Etsy, eBay, Shopify, TikTok Shop, social media, or other marketplaces.
• Producing company merchandise, employee merchandise, uniforms, or branded workwear.
• Using customized products in advertisements, sponsored content, commercial photography, or marketing campaigns.
• Distributing customized products as branded giveaways, promotional items, event merchandise, or fundraising products.
• Using celebrity, sports, entertainment, brand, logo, artwork, or other protected third-party content for commercial purposes.

If you created and own the submitted content, or have a valid license or authorization that permits the intended use, this section does not independently prohibit that authorized use.

Customers remain solely responsible for determining whether their license or authorization permits printing, merchandise production, resale, advertising, promotional use, or other commercial activity.

Unless you have express authorization from every applicable rights owner, you must not submit content containing:

• Brand names, company names, trademarks, service marks, logos, slogans, trade dress, packaging, or branded product designs.
• Copyrighted artwork, illustrations, photographs, graphics, designs, patterns, album artwork, or book artwork.
• Movie, television, animation, comic, book, toy, music, or video-game characters and imagery.
• Celebrity, athlete, musician, performer, influencer, public-figure, or private-person names, images, signatures, voices, or likenesses.
• Sports team, league, tournament, university, school, club, association, event, or organization names and marks.
• Professional photographs, stock images, website images, social-media images, or screenshots without sufficient printing permission.
• Content subject to a personal-use, editorial-use, non-commercial-use, fan-art, or not-for-merchandise restriction that does not permit the requested reproduction.

You must not submit content that is:

• Illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, or defamatory.
• Threatening, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, or abusive.
• Obscene, sexually exploitative, or harmful to minors.
• Invasive of another person's privacy or publicity rights.
• Unlawfully disclosing personal or confidential information.
• Intended to falsely suggest sponsorship, licensing, approval, endorsement, partnership, or affiliation.
• Prohibited by applicable law, platform rules, payment-provider rules, production-partner rules, carrier requirements, or other Podtas policies.

By submitting content or placing a customized-product order, you represent and warrant that:

• You have the legal right to submit and print the content.
• You own the content or have obtained all required permissions, licenses, consents, releases, and authorizations.
• Reproduction and printing will not infringe or violate another party's copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy, publicity, contractual, licensing, or other legal rights.
• Your submission does not falsely suggest sponsorship, affiliation, endorsement, approval, or licensing.
• Your intended use of the finished customized product is permitted by all applicable rights, licenses, consents, and authorizations.

Podtas provides customer-directed customization, printing, production, fulfillment, shipping, and order-support services.

Podtas does not create, select, sponsor, endorse, license, or independently verify ownership of every customer-submitted image or item of content.

Podtas does not provide legal advice and does not determine whether a customer's proposed use qualifies as fair use, public-domain use, licensed use, or another legally permitted use.

Customers must make their own rights and permission determinations before submitting content.

Acceptance, previewing, processing, production, fulfillment, or delivery of an order does not constitute confirmation by Podtas that the submitted content is authorized, non-infringing, or legally permitted.

Customers retain any ownership rights they legally hold in their submitted content. Podtas does not claim ownership of customer-submitted images.

By submitting content, you grant Podtas and its production, technology, hosting, payment, customer-service, shipping, and fulfillment providers a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to:

• Receive, store, access, and process the submitted file or information.
• Make technical production adjustments reasonably necessary to prepare the submitted content for printing, provided such adjustments do not intentionally or materially alter the confirmed design.
• Convert file formats, adjust technical resolution, or otherwise prepare files for compatible production when reasonably necessary.
• Create product previews and production-ready files.
• Reproduce and print the content on the ordered product according to the confirmed order details.
• Manufacture, package, fulfill, ship, replace, or otherwise support the order.
• Preserve relevant records when reasonably necessary to resolve a complaint, dispute, chargeback, investigation, or legal request.

Podtas will not intentionally make a material change to the confirmed image, text, layout, orientation, product option, or other confirmed customization unless the customer authorizes that change or the adjustment is reasonably necessary to correct an obvious technical production problem.

This permission is limited to processing and supporting the customer's order and does not transfer ownership of submitted content to Podtas.

Podtas will not use a private customer-submitted image in unrelated public advertising without separate permission.

Podtas reserves the right, but is not obligated, to review customer-submitted content.

Podtas may, at its discretion:

• Reject, block, or remove submitted content.
• Request proof of ownership, permission, licensing, consent, or authorization.
• Pause production while content is reviewed.
• Ask the customer to submit replacement content.
• Refuse to manufacture or fulfill an affected product.
• Cancel and refund an affected order.
• Restrict access to customization services for repeated or serious violations.

Podtas may take these actions when content may violate applicable law, third-party rights, platform requirements, payment-provider requirements, production-partner requirements, or Podtas policies.

Podtas may act without making a final legal determination regarding ownership, authorization, or infringement.

You agree to promptly provide reasonable documentation and cooperate with Podtas regarding complaints, claims, takedown requests, payment disputes, platform inquiries, investigations, or legal notices involving submitted content.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you accept responsibility for claims arising from:

• Your uploaded or submitted content.
• Your lack of ownership, permission, or authorization.
• Your violation of copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, licensing, contractual, or other third-party rights.
• Your unauthorized resale, advertising, distribution, promotion, or other commercial use of a customized product.
• Your breach of this policy or another Podtas policy.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Podtas, its owners, affiliates, employees, contractors, service providers, production partners, shipping providers, and fulfillment partners from related third-party claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and reasonable expenses.

Nothing in this section excludes or limits responsibility that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Podtas is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, licensed by, or officially connected with any third-party brand, company, celebrity, athlete, sports organization, university, school, entertainment property, or other rights owner unless expressly stated by Podtas in writing.

Third-party names, trademarks, logos, photographs, artwork, characters, and other protected materials remain the property of their respective owners.

This statement does not authorize customers to upload, reproduce, print, sell, or otherwise use third-party intellectual property.

Rights owners or authorized representatives who believe that content submitted to or displayed by Podtas violates their intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights may contact:

Please include:

• Your full legal name and contact information.
• Identification of the copyright, trademark, publicity right, or other protected right.
• Identification or URL of the allegedly infringing content or product.
• An explanation of your ownership or authority to act for the rights owner.
• A good-faith statement that the disputed use is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent, or applicable law.
• Supporting registration, ownership, or authorization documents when available.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

Podtas may remove content, suspend production, cancel an order, preserve relevant records, request additional information, or take other appropriate action after receiving a sufficiently detailed complaint.

This policy forms part of and is incorporated into the Podtas Terms of Service .

Customer orders are also subject to the applicable Refund, Replacement & Cancellation Policy, Shipping Policy, Privacy Policy, product-page terms, and checkout disclosures.

If a general provision conflicts with a product-specific or issue-specific policy, the more specific provision will control for that issue, subject to applicable law.

Podtas may update this policy to reflect changes to its services, production processes, customization features, platform requirements, legal requirements, or business practices.

Updated terms become effective when posted on this page unless a different effective date is stated.

The version displayed when an order is placed will generally apply to that order unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Continued use of Podtas customization services after an updated policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.