Last updated: August 3, 2026
Honeyfell is in private beta. These Terms will be updated before the service becomes generally available, and we will tell you when that happens. If you do not agree to the updated terms at that point, you can export your work and close your account.
These Terms cover your use of Honeyfell as a Studio — the photographer or business that creates galleries, uploads photographs, and manages clients. If you are a client who received a gallery link, these Terms do not apply to you; see the Privacy Policy instead.
Honeyfell ("Honeyfell", "we", "us") is a client-experience platform for photographers, operated by Vince Shewmaker, a sole proprietor located in California, United States.
By creating a studio account you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect information, and forms part of these Terms. Where the two disagree about how we handle personal information, the Privacy Policy governs.
Some words, defined once. Studio (or "you") is the photographer or business holding the account. Client is a person your Studio shares a gallery with; Clients are not party to these Terms. Content is anything you upload or create in Honeyfell — photographs, galleries, websites, contracts, client records. Services is the Honeyfell platform in all its forms: the web app, the iOS app, published tenant websites, and the APIs behind them.
Studio access is by invitation only. We may decline or revoke access at our discretion.
You are responsible for everything done under your account, including by anyone you add to your studio team. You must keep your sign-in credentials secure and tell us promptly if you believe they have been compromised.
You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract.
You own your photographs. Uploading them to Honeyfell does not transfer any ownership to us.
You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, process, reproduce, and display your Content solely to provide the Services — generating thumbnails and web-resolution copies, serving galleries to the Clients you share them with, publishing your website, and sending prints to a lab when you place an order. This licence exists only so the product can function and ends when you delete the Content or close your account.
We do not use your photographs to train machine-learning models, and we do not license them to anyone. If we ever offer a feature that would require either, it will be opt-in and you will be asked first — silence is never consent.
This section matters more than any other, because you are uploading photographs of other people.
You represent and warrant that:
You are responsible for the lawfulness of what you upload. If we receive a credible complaint or legal demand about your Content, we will notify you and give you a reasonable deadline to remove it or demonstrate your right to it. If you do not, we may remove the Content or suspend the account.
You are the data controller for your Clients' personal information. We process it on your behalf. If your Clients are in a jurisdiction with specific data protection requirements, meeting them is your obligation, not ours.
You may not:
Honeyfell hosts photographs uploaded by Studios, so eventually someone will upload work they do not own. This is how that is handled.
If you believe your copyrighted work is on Honeyfell without permission, send a notice to [email protected] including: your contact details, an identification of the work, the URL or gallery where it appears, a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorised, a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them, and your signature (electronic is fine).
On a valid notice we will remove or disable access to the material and notify the Studio that uploaded it.
If you are a Studio whose content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with the equivalent information. Where the law requires, we may restore the material unless the complainant files a court action.
Repeat infringers. We terminate the accounts of Studios who repeatedly upload infringing material. What counts as "repeatedly" is our judgement, applied in good faith to the circumstances.
Paid plans are billed monthly in advance through Stripe. We do not see or store your card details.
Prices, storage limits, and included allowances are those shown on the pricing page at the time you subscribe. We may change pricing with at least 30 days' notice; changes take effect at your next billing period, and you may cancel before then.
Storage is metered. Each plan includes an amount of storage covering every file we keep for you. Reaching your limit does not delete anything — it prevents new uploads until you upgrade, remove content, or recycle old galleries. Storage is calculated by our own measurement of the bytes we store on your behalf, including the derivative copies we generate (thumbnail, web-resolution, and full-resolution versions of each photograph). Our measurement governs.
Taxes. Prices exclude tax unless stated otherwise. You are responsible for any sales, use, VAT, or similar taxes arising from your subscription, other than taxes on our income.
Failed payments. If a charge fails we will retry it and tell you. If it remains unpaid we may suspend paid features, and after a reasonable further period we may cancel the subscription and return the account to the free plan. We will not delete your Content for non-payment without the notice described in section 9.
Overages. Some usage beyond your plan's allowance (for example, contracts sent above the included number) is charged per use at the rate shown at the time. You will always be shown the price before incurring a charge.
Print orders. Where you sell prints through Honeyfell, we retain a commission at the rate for your plan. The remainder, less lab and payment processing costs, is yours.
Prints are made and shipped by a third-party lab, not by us. We pass the order to the lab you have selected and make the resulting files available to them. Except where the law requires otherwise, we are not responsible for print quality or defects, colour accuracy, shipping delays, carrier damage, or loss in transit — those are matters between you, your lab, and the carrier. You choose the lab, and your agreement with them governs their work.
No refunds for partial months, except where required by law.
You may cancel at any time. Your subscription remains active until the end of the period you have paid for, then drops to the free plan.
We may suspend or terminate an account for material breach of these Terms, non-payment, or where required by law. Except in cases of unlawful content or legal compulsion, we will give notice and a reasonable chance to fix the problem first.
We may suspend or terminate immediately, without notice, where necessary to protect Honeyfell, its other Studios, their Clients, or to comply with a legal obligation.
While your account is active: your Content stays available to you and to the Clients you have shared it with.
After cancellation or downgrade: you have 60 days to export your Content — a download of your images and a CSV of associated metadata. After 60 days, Content above your plan's limits may be archived or deleted permanently.
We will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide working export for that period. We cannot guarantee that every export will succeed: files can be corrupted, storage providers can fail, and export tooling can break. Export is a best-efforts feature, not a warranty.
On deletion: deleting a gallery, or your account, removes the underlying files. This cannot be undone.
We keep backups for operational purposes; deleted Content may persist in backups for a limited period before being overwritten.
Honeyfell is operated by a very small team. At the time of writing that is one person. We think you should know this before trusting us with your business, so we are saying it plainly rather than burying it.
During the private beta, the Services are provided as-is, are expected to contain defects, and may change substantially.
Honeyfell is not a backup service. It is a place to deliver photographs to your clients, and it should never be the only copy of anything. Keep your own backups of every image you upload. This is true after the beta ends as much as during it.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Honeyfell is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, or lost data.
Our total liability arising out of these Terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred US dollars ($100).
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
You will defend and indemnify us against claims arising from your Content, your use of the Services, or your breach of these Terms — including claims by your own Clients about photographs you uploaded.
We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events outside our reasonable control — including outages at the infrastructure providers Honeyfell is built on (hosting, storage, payments, email), internet or network failures, natural disasters, fire, flood, earthquake, epidemic, war, civil unrest, labour disputes, or government action.
This does not excuse us from refunding amounts you have paid for a service we cannot deliver.
We may update these Terms. For material changes affecting your rights we will give at least 30 days' notice by email or in-app. Continuing to use Honeyfell after that means you accept the updated Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California.
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and Honeyfell about the Services, and replace any earlier understanding.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is limited to the minimum extent necessary.
Waiver. If we do not enforce a provision on one occasion, that is not a waiver of it. A waiver counts only if we give it in writing.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business — and if we do, we will tell you.
Electronic communications and consent. You agree that we may communicate with you electronically, and that clicking to accept these Terms, or continuing to use the Services, has the same effect as a written signature.
Export control and sanctions. You may not use the Services if you are subject to U.S. sanctions or located in an embargoed jurisdiction, and you may not use them in breach of applicable export control laws.
Relationship. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship between you and Honeyfell.
Vince Shewmaker, sole proprietor