1. Acceptance
By using Akwa, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the service. If you create an account or make a purchase for a business, you confirm that you have authority to do so for that business.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to use Akwa. If you are using Akwa on behalf of a business, studio, or tailoring practice, you remain responsible for ensuring that all users under that account or workspace follow these Terms.
3. What Akwa does
Akwa is an AI fashion design platform. It helps users create visual fashion concepts, tailor-ready briefs, catalogue purchases, styling suggestions, and related outputs based on the instructions they provide. Akwa uses third-party model and infrastructure providers to generate those outputs.
4. Accounts and account security
You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity that happens under your account. You must provide accurate information when creating an account and you must not impersonate someone else, share credentials outside your authorised seat count, or try to bypass security features.
5. Plans, purchases, and billing
Akwa offers free access, subscriptions, one-time design purchases, catalogue briefs, and other paid products. Pricing shown in the product, checkout, or app store listing controls for the specific purchase.
Web NGN payments are processed through Paystack. Supported non-NGN web catalogue and subscription payments may be processed through PayPal. Native iOS and Android purchases are processed through the Apple App Store or Google Play, with RevenueCat used for purchase orchestration and fulfilment. On iOS, the App Store determines the final price for your territory, including any applicable VAT; the price you see in the App Store at the moment of purchase controls.
Akwa does not receive or store full payment card details. Payment processors and app stores handle those details under their own terms and privacy notices.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the next renewal date. One-time purchases, including catalogue briefs and packs, do not renew. Refunds are handled according to the payment method used, applicable law, and (for native purchases) the rules of Apple or Google.
If you are in the EEA, UK, or another jurisdiction with a digital-content right of withdrawal, you have a 14-day right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content or services unless you have expressly waived that right at checkout. Akwa collects this waiver as a separate, affirmative checkbox before payment for monthly and annual subscriptions, pay-per-design purchases, and catalogue brief purchases. By ticking the waiver and proceeding to payment, you request immediate performance and acknowledge that the right of withdrawal no longer applies once delivery has begun.
6. Fair Use
Akwa is licensed for genuine human-led creative and tailoring use. It is not licensed for account sharing, scraping, industrial prompt farming, abuse of trial quotas, or repackaging Akwa's outputs as a white-label system without written permission.
What you must not do
- Share or resell access to your account outside your licensed scope.
- Use scripts, bots, or automation to generate or harvest outputs at scale without Akwa's written approval.
- Re-list, re-sell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute purchased catalogue briefs as if you created the underlying Akwa design.
- Remove Akwa branding, provenance, or licensing context where Akwa requires it for a product or plan.
- Use Akwa to create unlawful, defamatory, abusive, or rights-infringing content.
- Use Akwa to create designs depicting minors, sexually explicit garments, or content that violates applicable laws on hate speech, harassment, incitement, or violence. Akwa may refuse generation requests that violate these rules.
- Upload or submit reference images that you do not have the right to provide, that contain identifiable third parties without their permission, or that depict minors.
- Attempt to bypass payment, credit, rate limit, or security controls.
Akwa may throttle, suspend, refuse fulfilment, or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or abuse the service.
7. Intellectual property and licensing
You retain ownership of the lawful text, images, and instructions you submit to Akwa. You grant Akwa a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, transmit, process, and analyse your prompts and reference images for the purposes of generating, refining, rendering, and delivering your design output, and for ordinary service operations such as rate-limit checks, abuse monitoring, and quality review for up to 30 days after delivery. Akwa does not use your uploads to train external AI models. Akwa's software, prompts, workflow design, interface, branding, catalogue structure, and non-user content remain Akwa's property. All designs, concepts, and creative content published by Akwa are the original intellectual property of Egoyibo Okoro, trading as Akwa.
Designs you create using the Akwa design wizard, Akwa Capture, or any other user-facing generation surface are intended for your use within the scope of your plan tier (personal, professional, or commercial as your plan permits). Akwa retains anonymised metadata and aggregate visual statistics for service improvement, but does not republish individual user-generated designs. Where your plan does not include commercial use, you must not resell, sublicense, or redistribute the design output as a standalone product.
Licence tiers
- Personal Use Licence (standard purchase) — non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable. Personal, styling, or tailoring purposes only. May be shared with a tailor for a single garment for personal use or a named client. Not for commercial production or brand purposes.
- Commercial Licence — non-exclusive, non-transferable. For production and sale of garments based on the design within your own brand. Limited to slots specified at purchase. May be exclusive or non-exclusive as specified at checkout.
- Seasonal Exclusive Licence — exclusive, non-transferable, for the Exclusivity Term specified at purchase. During the term, the design is removed from the Akwa catalogue and no further licences are granted to third parties. Returns to catalogue automatically on expiry. Akwa retains ownership.
- Extended Exclusive Licence — exclusive, non-transferable, up to 36 months. Same removal-and-return behaviour as Seasonal Exclusive. Akwa retains ownership at all times. No permanent IP transfer is available.
Custom commissions (Akwa Studio)
Custom-commissioned designs are created exclusively for the commissioner and not listed in the public catalogue. Rights structure (exclusive commercial or extended exclusive) is agreed in writing prior to work. Akwa treats commission briefs, references, and brand information as confidential. Akwa retains the right to decline any commission request.
AI-generated outputs
Akwa uses AI tools to generate design outputs. All outputs are reviewed and curated within Akwa's proprietary design system. Akwa asserts ownership of outputs generated on its platform and licences rights to buyers per the licence tiers above. The IP status of AI-assisted works continues to evolve across jurisdictions; for commercial or exclusive licences, you are responsible for assessing the position in your own jurisdiction if relevant.
8. AI and tailoring disclaimer
Akwa generates AI-assisted briefs and images. They are intended to help creative decision-making and tailoring communication, not to replace professional judgement. You are responsible for checking fit, measurements, fabric suitability, construction feasibility, local legal compliance, and any intellectual property or commercial risks before use.
Akwa's briefs are starting points for conversation with a tailor, seamstress, atelier, or production partner. Final specifications must be confirmed at fitting and before cutting.
9. Privacy and data
Your use of Akwa is also governed by the Privacy Notice and, where relevant, the Akwa Mirror notice.
10. Suspension, termination, and account deletion
You may stop using Akwa at any time and you may delete your account through Settings. Akwa may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, abuse the service, create legal or security risk, or fail to pay for a paid product.
11. Liability and indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Akwa is provided "as is" and "as available". Akwa does not guarantee uninterrupted access, perfectly accurate outputs, or that any garment made from an Akwa brief will meet your expectations without professional review and fitting.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Akwa will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses. Akwa's total liability for any claim arising from the service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid Akwa in the 3 months before the claim or EUR 50.
Akwa designs are original works produced by Akwa's own design system; Akwa does not copy named brands and does not point its prompt-compiler at trademarked third-party fashion houses. This indemnification therefore concerns claims that arise from your conduct, not Akwa's outputs. You will defend, indemnify, and hold Akwa and Egoyibo Okoro harmless from any third-party claim, damage, or legal cost arising from (a) reference images or other content you submitted to Akwa that you did not have the right to provide; (b) modifications, additions, or third-party logos, trademarks, or trade-dress you applied to an Akwa-generated design after delivery; or (c) your use of an Akwa-generated design outside the scope of your plan tier or your licence. This indemnification does not apply to any claim that arises solely from Akwa's own breach of these Terms or Akwa's own unlawful conduct.
12. Governing law, entity, and contact
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer rights that apply in your home jurisdiction.
Akwa is operated by Akwa B.V., a Dutch besloten vennootschap (private limited liability company) incorporated in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and registered with the Kamer van Koophandel (Dutch Chamber of Commerce) under KvK number 42056851.
Questions: support@akwa.design
Akwa B.V.
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
KvK: 42056851
Contact: support@akwa.design