Terms

REV 2026-07-25 · PLAIN LANGUAGE, THE WHOLE AGREEMENT

These are the terms for garment.dev and the app at app.garment.dev, run by Garment Development in Toronto, Canada. Using either one means you accept them. How we handle your data is a separate page, the privacy policy, and it is part of this agreement.

WHO CAN USE IT

Access is by invite while we are in alpha. You need to be old enough to enter a contract where you live, and at least 16. One account is one person: keep your passkey and your email to yourself, and tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else got into your account.

YOUR WORK IS YOURS

Every pattern, measurement, note, and file you make here belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it and no right to sell it, license it, or train anything on it.

You give us exactly one permission, and only so the product can function: to store your work, back it up, render it on your screen, and show it to the people you share it with. That permission ends when you delete the work or close your account.

You can export any pattern as production DXF at any time, on every plan, free. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

WHAT YOU CANNOT DO

Do not upload work you have no right to upload, or anything unlawful. Do not resell or rent your account, scrape the app, or run it as a service for other people under your one login. Do not attack the infrastructure, try to reach another account's documents, or pull our code apart to build a copy of it.

Sending someone a pattern is normal use. Handing your login to a studio is not.

WHEN YOU SHARE

Teams, share links, and fit notes all put a document in front of someone else, and you choose every one of them. Anyone with a share link can read that document without signing in, so treat a link you have sent as public. What the people you share with do with the file is between you and them.

Opening a shared document means these terms apply to you too, for as long as you are reading it, even with no account. In practice that is one rule: the document belongs to the person who sent it, not to you.

Whoever creates a team accepts these terms for that team and is responsible for the people they add to it. Each member also needs their own account, and their own agreement to this page, before they can open anything.

IF SOMETHING HERE IS YOURS

If you believe a pattern or file on garment.dev infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with a link to it, what it copies, and how to reach you. We forward the complaint to the account holder, as Canadian law requires, and we will take a document out of reach while it is being sorted out. An account that keeps doing it loses access.

If your work was taken down and you think that was wrong, reply and say so. A pattern that resembles another pattern is not the same thing as a copied one, and a person reads every one of these.

PAYING

The drafting tools are free forever. Starter and Pro are monthly subscriptions at the prices on the pricing page, charged through Stripe, who handle the card. We never see your card number.

A subscription renews each month until you cancel. Cancel whenever you like: you keep the paid features until the end of the month you already paid for, and nothing is charged after that.

If you change your mind within 7 days of paying and have not used a paid feature yet, email us and we refund it in full. Running an auto-grade, an optimized nest, a production print, a factory handoff pack, or a branded client share is using one. Drawing, grading by hand, nesting by hand, and exporting DXF are free on every plan, so none of them spend your refund. After 7 days, or once a paid feature has run, cancel any time and keep access to the end of the month you paid for; we do not refund part-months.

If prices change, your rate holds for 30 days after we tell you, and you can cancel before it takes effect. Verified students get Pro free while enrolled.

THIS IS ALPHA

The product is in open alpha. Features move, plan limits move, and things break. We do not promise uptime, and we will sometimes take the app down to fix it. If a paid feature is unavailable long enough to matter, tell us and we will make the billing right.

We keep backups because we would rather not lose your work, but backups are not a guarantee. The export button is the guarantee.

ENDING IT

You can stop using the app whenever you want. Account settings are the primary way to delete your account and everything in it. If you cannot authenticate, email [email protected] from the address you signed up with. The privacy policy says exactly what goes and how fast.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks the section above, or that we are legally required to cut off. Except where something is actively causing harm, you get notice first and a chance to export your files.

OUR SIDE

The app, its code, its name, and its design are ours. Being allowed to use it is a licence, not a sale, and it lasts as long as your account does.

LIMITS

The product is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it is free of bugs or that a pattern it produces is correct for your factory, your fabric, or your fit. Check your work before you cut.

If we owe you something, our total liability is capped at the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the problem and CA$100. We are not liable for lost profits, lost contracts, or lost work. Nothing here removes a right you have under consumer law that cannot be signed away.

LAW

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario, Canada, and disputes go to the courts there. Email us first, though. At this size, most things are a conversation.

CHANGES

This is revision 2026-07-25. If these terms change in a way that matters, this page changes first and we tell every account holder.