Terms of use

Last updated: 08.08.2026

1. Scope and provider

These terms govern the use of the Social-Stripe website and the services offered on it, operated by Jonas Langbehn ("we", "us"). Full provider details are in the legal notice. Deviating terms of the user do not apply unless we have agreed to them in writing.

2. What the service does

Social-Stripe turns a screenshot of an Instagram profile into an abstract artwork made of coloured stripes. The screenshot you select is analysed in your own browser; the colours are extracted on your device and assembled into an image you can download.

The colour extraction is an automated approximation. The result depends on the quality, resolution, cropping and colour profile of the screenshot you provide, and is intended as a decorative artwork rather than an exact colour measurement. We do not warrant that a particular result is reproducible or that it matches any specific expectation.

3. Free preview, no entitlement to availability

The current version of the site is a free preview. We provide it as it is and may change, restrict or discontinue it at any time. There is no entitlement to permanent availability of the site or of any particular feature, and no entitlement to the preview remaining free.

4. Your responsibility for the material you upload

You may only use screenshots that you are entitled to use. In particular, you must not use the service to process images whose use infringes the rights of others — including copyright, trademark rights, personality rights or the right to one's own image (Recht am eigenen Bild) of any person depicted.

Because the analysis takes place exclusively in your browser and no image reaches us, we have no way of reviewing what you process, and no content is stored on our systems. You are solely responsible for your use of the service. You indemnify us against claims that third parties assert against us as a result of your unlawful use of the service, including reasonable costs of legal defence, unless you are not responsible for the infringement.

Note that Instagram's own terms govern what you may do with content from that platform. Your use of screenshots of third-party profiles may be restricted by those terms and by applicable law, independently of these terms.

5. Rights in the generated artwork

The artwork generated from your screenshot is yours to use, including commercially, to the extent that the underlying material permits it. We claim no rights in artworks you generate. We cannot grant you rights in the source photographs themselves, which remain with their respective rightholders.

The website, its design, its texts, the example artworks shown on it and the underlying software remain our property or that of our licensors and may not be used beyond the limits of copyright law without our consent.

6. No affiliation with Instagram or Meta

Social-Stripe is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or operated by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. The service does not access Instagram's API and does not require you to connect an Instagram account.

7. Paid products

Payment is not currently active. The purchase dialog on this site does not conclude a contract, does not collect payment details and does not charge you. It records interest in the paid version and offers you the option of leaving your email address for the launch announcement.

The following applies once paid products become available:

7.1 Conclusion of contract

The presentation of products on the site is not a binding offer. By clicking the order button you submit a binding offer to purchase. The contract is concluded when we accept it, by confirming the order or by providing the product.

7.2 Prices and payment

Prices are displayed in EUR (€) or USD ($) depending on your browser locale or the version of the website shown to you. The currency and total price applicable to your purchase will be clearly displayed before you place your order.

Pursuant to § 19 UStG, no VAT is charged or shown separately (Kleinunternehmerregelung).

Payment processing is not currently available. Once paid products are activated, the available payment methods and, where applicable, the payment service provider will be displayed during checkout before you place your order.

7.3 Delivery

Products are digital and are made available for download immediately after successful payment. No physical goods are shipped and no shipping costs arise.

7.4 Right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer, you have a statutory right of withdrawal. It is set out in full, together with the model withdrawal form, in section 8 below.

8. Right of withdrawal for consumers

As no paid contract can currently be concluded, no right of withdrawal arises yet. Once payment is active, the following applies to consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB.

Withdrawal instruction

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason.

The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of the conclusion of the contract.

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us

of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement (e.g. a letter sent by post or email). You may use the model withdrawal form below, but it is not obligatory.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse all payments received from you without undue delay and in any event no later than fourteen days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.

We will carry out the reimbursement using the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise. You will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

Early expiry of the right of withdrawal for digital content

For a contract concerning digital content that is not supplied on a tangible medium, your right of withdrawal expires when we begin performance of the contract if you have expressly consented to us beginning performance before the expiry of the withdrawal period, you have confirmed your knowledge that by giving your consent you lose your right of withdrawal when performance begins, and we have provided you with confirmation of the contract in accordance with the applicable statutory requirements.

Where applicable, we will obtain this express consent and acknowledgement during checkout before making the digital content available.

Model withdrawal form

(Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.)

To:

I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/We (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract for the provision of the following digital content:

Ordered on (*) / received on (*):

Name of consumer(s):

Address of consumer(s):

Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper):

Date:

(*) Delete as appropriate.

9. Warranty and liability

Statutory warranty rights apply to paid products. For the free preview, liability for defects is limited in accordance with the following paragraphs.

We are liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, in cases of intent and gross negligence, for fraudulently concealed defects, under the German Product Liability Act, and to the extent we have given a guarantee.

In the case of slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Any further liability is excluded.

We do not accept liability for the loss of screenshots or generated artworks. Because processing takes place exclusively in your browser and nothing is stored on our systems, closing or reloading the page discards your work. Download any result you wish to keep.

10. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms where necessary for legal or technical reasons or to reflect changes to the service, provided the amendment is reasonable for you taking into account our interests. The current version applies to each use of the site.

11. Applicable law and place of jurisdiction

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer with habitual residence in another EU member state, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of that state.

12. Severability

Should individual provisions of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.