Terms of Sale & Service

Last updated 9 September 2026. These terms are provided in English.

Nightward sells one thing: a digital, print-ready image file of the real night sky over a place and moment you choose. There is no physical product and nothing is shipped. This page sets out what you get, what you may do with it, and what happens if something goes wrong.

1. Agreement

By using this site or buying from it, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site. You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live.

2. What you are buying

A Nightward keepsake is a digital file — a high-resolution PNG image (3000 × 4200 pixels, suitable for printing up to roughly 18 × 24 inches) showing the night sky computed for the date, time and coordinates you supply, together with the text and design you choose.

• Delivery is digital and immediate. The file is made available for download and sent to the email address you give at checkout.
• Nothing is printed, framed or posted to you. Printing is yours to arrange, at home or with any print shop.
• Previews shown on the site before purchase carry a watermark. The purchased file does not.

3. Who sells you the product

When you complete a purchase, your order is processed by Paddle.com Market Ltd, which acts as the merchant of record for that transaction. This means Paddle is the seller for the payment itself: it takes the payment, issues the receipt or invoice, and handles any sales tax or VAT due in your country. Paddle's own terms and privacy notice apply to the payment, alongside these terms, which continue to govern the product and the licence you receive.

We never see or store your full card details. See our Privacy Policy for what we do receive.

4. Prices and tax

Prices are shown on the site in the currency indicated and may change at any time; the price that applies is the one displayed at the moment you complete checkout. Any sales tax, VAT or equivalent required in your country is calculated and shown at checkout, and is collected and remitted by Paddle as merchant of record.

5. Your details, and the content you enter

You keep ownership of everything you type or upload — names, dates, places, messages, photographs. By entering it you confirm that you have the right to use it, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. If you upload a photograph of another person, you confirm you have their permission where the law requires it.

We use that content only to produce your file and to provide support. We do not sell it, publish it, or use it to advertise without asking you first.

6. What you may do with your file

On payment you receive a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive licence for personal use. That licence lets you:

• print the file as many times as you like, for yourself or as a gift;
• frame it, hang it, and display it in a home or private space;
• share the image privately with family and friends, and post it on your own social media.

It does not let you:

• resell, license, or redistribute the file, or sell prints of it;
• use it in a commercial product, advertisement, or client work;
• claim authorship of the underlying design, or extract its artwork, typography or illustrations for use in other work.

If you want a commercial licence, ask — it is a reasonable request and we would rather say yes in writing than have you guess.

7. Our intellectual property

The Nightward name, the site, the rendering engine, and the card designs, layouts and original artwork remain ours. Some elements are third-party assets used under permissive open licences (SIL Open Font License, CC0, MIT and ISC). Your purchase grants the licence in section 6 and nothing more.

8. Accuracy, and the limits of it

Star positions are computed astronomically from the date, time and coordinates you enter — not selected from stock artwork. We take that seriously and test it. But:

• the result depends entirely on the details you supply, including the time zone implied by your chosen place;
• designs are stylised for legibility and beauty. They are not navigational or scientific instruments and must not be relied on as such;
• colours vary between screens and printers. A print will not match your monitor exactly, and that difference is not a fault in the file.

Check your details before you buy. A file rendered correctly from a wrong date is not a defect — though see our refund policy, which is deliberately generous about exactly this.

9. Acceptable use

Do not use the site to create or distribute material that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, or that infringes someone's rights; do not attempt to break, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the service; do not try to obtain the unwatermarked file without paying for it. We may decline or cancel an order, and refund it, where we reasonably believe these terms have been broken.

10. Availability

We aim to keep the site available but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Features may change or be withdrawn. Your access to a file you have already bought is not affected — keep your own copy, since download links are time-limited.

11. Refunds

Set out in full in our Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms, including how the right of withdrawal works for digital content in the EU and UK.

12. Liability

We provide the service with reasonable care and skill. To the extent the law allows, our total liability arising from your purchase is limited to the amount you paid for it, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for your mandatory rights as a consumer under the law of the country where you live. Those rights stand whatever this page says.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. The version that applies to your order is the one published when you bought. Material changes will be reflected in the date at the top of this page.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Lebanon, and the courts of Lebanon have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-law provisions of your own country, and you may bring proceedings there where the law gives you that right.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms, licensing, or an order: joseph.f.tossy91@gmail.com. See the contact page for response times.