Terms of Use

Seed the Earth (the “service”) is run by DEBANGAN PAUL CHOWDHURY (trading as VectorTransformerLab), 268 SN Road, Sodepur, Natagarh, Parthapur, Kolkata, West Bengal 700113 (“we”, “us”). By creating an account, holding pixels or paying for them, you agree to these Terms, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, the Privacy Policy and the Community Rules published on this site. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract under Indian law to create an account or make a payment.

Seed the Earth is an online digital art display service: a shared canvas of 1,000 by 1,000 pixels on this website. People choose pixels on it and display their own artwork there, under a username, for everyone to see.

When your payment is confirmed, we give you a personal, limited, non-transferable licence to display and change your own artwork at the pixel coordinates you chose, linked to your account, for as long as the service operates and you follow these Terms. On the site we call this “planting” and call the pixels “yours”; this clause is what those words mean.

Planting pixels does not give you, and we do not sell:

• land, real estate, property or any physical thing;
• a share, security, deposit, investment or anything with a promised or expected financial return;
• a stored balance, wallet or anything that can be exchanged for money;
• any right to resell, rent, trade, gift or transfer the pixels to another person;
• any promise that the canvas, or your place on it, will gain value, attract visitors or exist for ever.

Levels, ranks, founder numbers, being watered or featured, and leaderboard positions shown on the site are for fun and recognition only. They have no money value and cannot be transferred.

• You sign up with an email address and a password. Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what is done with your account.
• You are given a random username, which is public. You can change it up to three times. A username someone has used is not given to anyone else.
• We may change a username that impersonates another person or organisation, or that breaks the Community Rules.
• One person should not operate accounts in order to get around limits on the service.

• Selecting “Hold these pixels” reserves them for you for a short, stated time (10 minutes, extended to 15 once payment has started). A hold is free and is not a purchase. If it runs out, the pixels become available to others.
• To keep the canvas fair, we limit how many pixels one person can hold at a time and how often holds can be left to lapse.
• One purchase can be up to ₹5,00,000 (10,000 pixels). A larger artwork is held as several areas, each paid for separately. Your bank or payment method may have a lower limit of its own.
• The price is ₹50 per pixel. The total is shown before you pay and is the full amount charged: we add no fees or taxes at payment. Prices may change for future purchases; a change never affects pixels you have already planted.
• Payments are handled by Razorpay, a payment service provider. You enter your card, UPI or bank details in Razorpay’s window, not on our site, and we never receive or store them. Razorpay’s own terms apply to the payment.
• Your pixels are planted when Razorpay confirms that the payment has been received in full. If a payment is received but the pixels cannot be given to you, the Refund and Cancellation Policy applies.

• You keep all rights you have in the artwork and titles you put on the canvas.
• You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce and display that artwork and title as part of the canvas and in showing the canvas to others (for example in previews and screenshots of the service), for as long as it is on the canvas and for a reasonable period afterwards in backups.
• You confirm that the artwork is your own or that you have the right to use it, and that it does not break the Community Rules or any law.
• If you upload an image, it is converted into pixels for your area. The original file is not kept, and information stored inside it (such as location or camera details) is discarded.
• Everything you plant is public. You can change your artwork and its title at any time at no cost.
• You can add a story to any piece (bigger pieces have room for a longer one, up to 2,000 characters), and up to four links to any piece. Stories and links are public. A link must go to a page you have the right to promote and that follows the Community Rules. We do not check, endorse or take responsibility for pages that other people link to; you open them at your own choice.
• Every piece has its own page that can be shared. The share buttons are ordinary links: nothing is sent to a social network unless you choose one.

• Any signed-in person can report a piece. We do not tell the person who planted a piece who reported it.
• A piece that has received a very large number of reports may be shown blurred to everyone until a moderator has looked at it.
• A moderator may hide a piece that breaks the Community Rules. A hidden piece is not shown to the public. Its pixels stay with your account, you are told the reason, and you can change the piece and ask for another look (up to three times for one piece).
• We may suspend or close an account for serious or repeated breaches.
• Hiding a piece, or suspending an account, for breaking these Terms does not entitle you to a refund.

If the full amount paid for a set of pixels is returned to you, whether by us or by your bank after a dispute or chargeback, the licence for those pixels ends. They are removed from your account and become available to others.

• The software, design, name and logo of Seed the Earth belong to us or our licensors. These Terms do not give you any right in them.
• You must not misuse the service: for example by trying to access other people’s accounts, interfering with how it runs, automating holds or sign-ups, or using it to do anything unlawful.
• We work to keep the service available and correct, but we provide it “as is”. We may change, pause or improve features, and we do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors.
• If we decide to close the service, we will give at least 30 days’ notice on the site, and by email where we can, and will explain what happens to planted pixels.

Nothing in these Terms limits any right you have as a consumer under Indian law, including the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, that cannot lawfully be limited. Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows:

• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, business, reputation or expected benefit;
• our total liability to you for any claim connected with the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

You agree to compensate us for reasonable losses and costs we incur because artwork or other content you put on the service infringes someone else’s rights or breaks the law.

You can stop using the service at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account by writing to support@seedtheearth.in. When an account is deleted, its pixels are released and its artwork is removed from the canvas. Deleting an account does not entitle you to a refund.

We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed. For a change that significantly affects your rights, we will give at least 15 days’ notice on the site before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the change.

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Please contact our Grievance Officer first; most problems can be resolved that way. Subject to any right you have to approach a consumer forum, the courts at KOLKATA have exclusive jurisdiction.