Terms of service

Last updated October 16, 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and PotteryDave (potterydave.com), which is run by POTTERYDAVE LLC, an Oregon limited liability company (“we”). By creating an account or using PotteryDave, you agree to them. Please also read our privacy policy.

Your account

• You need to be at least 13 years old to use PotteryDave.
• Give accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and let us know if you think someone else has used your account.
• You’re responsible for what happens under your account.

Your content

• What you add stays yours. That includes your photos, notes and records.
• You give PotteryDave permission to store your content, show it to you, and show it to others in the ways you choose. Examples are an unlisted link, your public gallery, the front-page gallery, or a datasheet you share. This permission is only for running the app, and it ends when you delete the content or your account. Copies that others have already saved or shared may remain.
• Only add content you have the right to share, such as your own photos.
• When you offer a clay or glaze to the shared lists, you let PotteryDave include its details for other potters to use. These entries may be edited or removed, and may stay available after you delete your account (your notes are never shared).

Using PotteryDave fairly

Please don’t:

• post anything illegal, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, or that infringes someone else’s rights;
• use PotteryDave to send spam, or pretend to be someone else;
• try to break, overload or get around the security of the service, or access other people’s accounts or data;
• copy or scrape the service or other potters’ content in bulk.

We may remove content, or disable accounts, that break these rules or put the service or its users at risk. Where it makes sense, we’ll tell you why.

Glaze and food-safety information

Clay and glaze details in PotteryDave, including the shared lists and any “food safe” label, come from potters and manufacturers. They’re provided as a convenience and aren’t checked or guaranteed by PotteryDave. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions, and test your own work before relying on it for food, drink, firing temperatures or safety.

Free and Pro plans

• The Free plan’s features and limits are shown in the app, and may change over time.
• Pro is a subscription paid monthly or yearly, sold and billed through our payment partner Stripe. It renews each month or year until you cancel. You can switch between monthly and yearly in Me → Plan & storage.
• You can cancel at any time in Me → Plan & storage → Manage billing. You keep Pro until the end of the month or year you’ve paid for, then your account moves to Free. Nothing is deleted when that happens, but Pro-only features stop.
• Payments aren’t refunded for part of a month or year, except where the law requires it.
• If the price changes, we’ll tell you before it affects your next payment, and you can cancel before then.
• Administrators may sometimes give Pro or extra storage to an account for free, for example as a thank-you or for testing.

Photo storage

• Each plan includes an amount of photo storage, shown in Me (500 MB on Free and 1 GB on Pro when these terms were written).
• Pro members can add extra storage in blocks, billed on the same subscription and rhythm as Pro. Adding a block charges for the rest of the period you’ve already paid for; removing one stops its charge from the next period, and it keeps counting until then. No refunds for part of a period.
• When your storage is full, you can’t add new photos until there’s room. We never delete your photos because you’re over your storage, including after you remove storage or move to Free.

Proceeds to charity

A potter can mark a piece “Proceeds to charity” and name the charity they give to. That is the potter’s own promise: the potter gives the money to the charity, PotteryDave does not collect, check or pass on donations, and is not responsible if a donation isn’t made. The potter is responsible for following any rules that apply where they live to saying that sales benefit a charity.

Selling through PotteryDave

Potters on the Pro plan can sell their own pieces to buyers through PotteryDave. When a piece is sold this way:

• The potter is the seller. The sale is between the potter and the buyer. POTTERYDAVE LLC provides the listing page, the checkout link and the order record, and nothing else. We are not a party to the sale, not the seller or the merchant of record, and not the potter’s agent.
• Payments go through the potter’s own Stripe account. By connecting Stripe, the potter agrees to Stripe’s terms, including the Stripe Connected Account Agreement. PotteryDave never holds, receives or forwards the buyer’s money, and takes no fee from the sale. Stripe’s processing fees are the potter’s.
• Shipping and pickup are the potter’s. The shipping charge shown to the buyer is an estimate worked out from the piece’s size and weight and the potter’s settings; the potter chooses it and keeps any difference from the real cost. PotteryDave does not pack, ship, insure or deliver anything, and is not responsible for delays, loss or breakage.
• Refunds, returns, breakage, disputes and chargebacks are between the potter and the buyer, and are handled in the potter’s Stripe account. PotteryDave can’t give refunds, because it never has the money.
• Taxes. The potter is responsible for any sales tax, income tax or other tax on their sales, and for deciding whether to collect sales tax (Stripe Tax is offered as an option, at the potter’s cost).
• Describing the piece. The potter promises that the piece is theirs to sell, that its photos and description are accurate, and that it’s safe for the use it’s sold for (for example, food-safe glazes on tableware).
• We may remove a listing, or stop a potter selling, if it breaks these terms, Stripe’s rules or the law.
• Buyers don’t need a PotteryDave account. A buyer’s order details are shared with the potter so they can send the piece. Questions about an order go to the potter, whose contact details are in the order email.
• As far as the law allows, our total responsibility to a buyer or a seller for anything to do with a sale made through PotteryDave is limited to US $100.

The service

We work to keep PotteryDave running smoothly and your data safe, and we back it up nightly. But it’s a small service, provided “as is”: it may sometimes be unavailable, change, or have mistakes. Please keep your own copies of anything important. Me → Your data → Export all data makes this easy. We may change, pause or stop features. If we ever shut PotteryDave down, we’ll give you reasonable notice so you can download your data.

Limits on our responsibility

As far as the law allows, POTTERYDAVE LLC isn’t responsible for indirect or unexpected losses, lost data, or lost profits from using, or not being able to use, the service. Our total responsibility for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before it. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time in Me → Your data → Delete account. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we’ll update the date at the top, and we’ll tell you in the app about significant changes. If you keep using PotteryDave after a change, that means you accept the new terms.

Contact

PotteryDave is run by POTTERYDAVE LLC, an Oregon limited liability company. Questions? Email hello@potterydave.com, or use the help button in the app.

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