blockdeco – Terms of Use

Effective Date: April 14, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of blockdeco, including the website, public gallery, artist upload features, downloadable files, and related services provided through https://blockdeco.com (together, the "Platform").

By accessing or using blockdeco, creating an account, becoming an artist, uploading content, or downloading files, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you must not use the Platform.

blockdeco is a non-commercial hobby project operated privately by its founders. It is not currently operated through a company or separate legal entity.

1. Operators

blockdeco is operated by:

Dániel Sasvári, Hungary
Dávid Sándor, Hungary

For all legal, privacy, copyright, moderation, and support-related matters, you can contact us at:

[email protected]

We do not currently publish a physical contact address on the Platform.

2. Nature of the Platform

blockdeco is a curated online gallery for LEGO®-based MOC (My Own Creation) art and decoration-oriented brick-built creations.

The Platform allows approved artists to submit artworks for review. Approved artworks may be displayed publicly on blockdeco and may become accessible to unregistered visitors, search engines, social platforms, AI indexing systems, public previews, and other third-party discovery systems.

blockdeco is not a marketplace and does not currently process payments, sell artworks, or act as a commercial agent for artists.

3. LEGO® Disclaimer

LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse blockdeco.

blockdeco is an independent, fan-created, privately operated website. Nothing on blockdeco should be interpreted as creating any relationship, sponsorship, approval, partnership, or affiliation with the LEGO Group.

Users and artists must use the LEGO® trademark lawfully and respectfully. References to LEGO® should be used to describe LEGO® products or LEGO® elements and must not suggest that blockdeco, an uploaded artwork, or an artist is sponsored, authorized, endorsed, or approved by the LEGO Group.

Artists should avoid using the LEGO® trademark as a standalone noun, brand identity, logo replacement, or misleading source identifier. blockdeco may edit, reject, or remove content that appears to misuse the LEGO® trademark or create confusion about affiliation.

Learn more about legal use of the LEGO® trademark here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play

4. Eligibility and Age Requirement

You must be at least16 years oldto use blockdeco.

By using the Platform, you confirm that you are at least 16 years old and that you are legally permitted to use the Platform under the laws applicable to you.

Because blockdeco is globally accessible, users are responsible for complying with their own local laws and regulations.

5. Accounts and Registration

Some features of blockdeco require an account.

To register, users provide:

email address;
password.

Email verification is mandatory. Unverified accounts cannot log in or use account-based features.

Users are responsible for keeping their account credentials secure. You must not share your password, allow unauthorized access to your account, or use another person’s account without permission.

Passwords are stored in hashed form and are never stored in plain text. However, users remain responsible for choosing a strong password and protecting access to their email account and devices.

blockdeco may send essential account-related emails, including:

email verification emails;
two-factor authentication or security-related emails;
policy update notices;
essential service notices.

blockdeco does not currently send marketing newsletters.

6. Artist Accounts

Only artists may upload artworks to blockdeco.

To become an artist, a user may be required to provide a public artist name and proof of own artwork. The artist name may be displayed publicly on the Platform together with approved artworks.

Artist status is intended to allow artwork submission. blockdeco currently does not intend to remove artist status from users in the ordinary course of operation, but blockdeco reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or disable upload functionality where necessary to protect the Platform, comply with law, prevent abuse, or enforce these Terms.

7. Artist Submission Requirements

By uploading artwork or related content to blockdeco, artists represent and warrant that:

uploaded images are their own original images or images they are legally authorized to submit;
uploaded artworks depict their own original LEGO® MOC creation;
the MOC was genuinely designed, built, or created by the artist;
the uploaded work is not an official LEGO® set;
the uploaded work is not intentionally copied from, substantially similar to, or misleadingly presented as an official LEGO® product;
the uploaded work represents a realistically buildable creation;
the uploaded work is not an AI-generated image, AI-generated concept, AI-generated visualization, or similar generated content;
the uploaded content does not infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other third-party rights;
descriptions, titles, tags, dimensions, social links, donation links, and other submitted information are accurate to the best of the artist’s knowledge.

Artists are solely responsible for the content they upload and for proving authorship, ownership, or authorization if reasonably requested.

blockdeco reviews submissions for suitability, quality, moderation, and alignment with the Platform’s expectations. blockdeco doesnotverify whether the uploader is the true owneror author of every submitted work.

8. LEGO® MOC and Material Requirements

Submitted artworks must be LEGO®-based MOC creations suitable for a curated art and decoration gallery.

Unless blockdeco decides otherwise in a specific case, submitted artworks must:

consist of at least90% LEGO® elements;
remain predominantly and visibly LEGO® element-based;
represent some form of LEGO® MOC art, display object, decoration, interior design element, or related brick-built artwork;
not be merely a photo of an official LEGO® set;
not be a non-LEGO artwork, advertisement, spam submission, or unrelated image.

Up to approximately 10% non-LEGO supporting elements may be used where reasonably appropriate, such as:

wooden frames;
stone stands;
plastic holders;
mounting accessories;
display supports;
other structural or decorative support materials.

blockdeco has sole discretion to decide whether a submission satisfies these requirements.

9. Prohibited Content

Artists must not upload content that includes or promotes:

NSFW, pornographic, or sexually explicit content;
hateful, harassing, discriminatory, or abusive content;
offensive or intentionally shocking material;
spam, scams, advertisements, or unrelated promotional content;
malware, malicious files, or harmful links;
AI-generated artworks, unless blockdeco expressly allows a specific exception in the future;
copyrighted franchises, protected characters, brand assets, or third-party intellectual property where blockdeco recognizes or reasonably suspects infringement;
official LEGO® sets presented as original MOCs;
content that falsely suggests sponsorship, endorsement, authorization, or affiliation with the LEGO Group or any other third party;
content that violates applicable law or third-party rights.

Political content is not automatically prohibited. blockdeco supports freedom of expression. However, political content may still be rejected or removed if it violates these Terms, infringes rights, is hateful, unlawful, misleading, abusive, or unsuitable for the curated direction of the Platform.

AI upscaling, technical image enhancement, color correction, cropping, noise reduction, and similar post-processing may be allowed if the underlying artwork is a real, artist-created, realistically buildable MOC and the final image does not misrepresent the nature of the artwork.

10. Moderation, Review, Rejection and Removal

blockdeco is a curated gallery. All uploaded artworks and related files may be reviewed before publication.

blockdeco reserves the right to:

approve or reject submitted content;
reject content subjectively based on the Platform’s aesthetic direction, quality expectations, or curatorial standards;
provide rejection reasons where reasonably possible;
request changes or improvements;
remove previously approved content;
remove content that appears unlawful, infringing, misleading, unsuitable, low quality, harmful, or inconsistent with the Platform;
change moderation standards, upload rules, quality expectations, and artistic direction at any time;
restrict upload functionality where necessary to protect the Platform.

Artists may modify rejected submissions and submit them again for review.

blockdeco may use technical measures to detect previously rejected or duplicate submissions.

Repeated submission of unchanged, previously rejected, duplicate, infringing, or abusive content may result in upload restrictions or account limitations.

blockdeco is not required to publish any submitted content.

11. Artwork Structure and Upload Limits

Artworks may include, depending on the features currently available:

up to five images;
title;
description;
dimensions;
tags;
artist name;
donation links;
social profile links;
BrickStudio or related model files;
other metadata or supporting information.

Upload limits, file formats, file sizes, allowed content types, and storage rules may be enforced through the user interface, backend validation, or moderation decisions. blockdeco may change these limits at any time.

12. Ownership of Uploaded Content

Artists retain ownership of their uploaded content, including images, descriptions, artwork titles, dimensions, tags, social links, donation links, BrickStudio files, and related materials.

blockdeco doesnotclaim ownership of artist content.

However, by uploading content to blockdeco, artists grant blockdeco the permissions necessary to operate, display, promote, cache, index, and maintain the Platform as described in these Terms.

13. License Granted to blockdeco

By uploading content to blockdeco, artists grant blockdeco a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to:

host;
store;
display;
publicly show;
reproduce for technical purposes;
resize;
crop where necessary for previews;
compress;
convert formats;
create thumbnails;
cache;
distribute through CDN infrastructure;
include in sitemaps and public indexes;
display on blockdeco-operated social media channels;
use for non-commercial promotion of blockdeco and the artist’s published artwork.

This license is granted only for operating, maintaining, improving, displaying, indexing, and promoting blockdeco and approved artworks.

blockdeco may display approved artist content on:

https://blockdeco.com;
blockdeco-operated social media channels, including Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, and similar platforms;
public previews and link cards;
search engine previews;
non-commercial promotional materials for blockdeco.

blockdeco may not sell, commercially license, independently monetize, or use uploaded content for unrelated commercial purposes unless:

the artist separately agrees in writing; or
blockdeco and the artist participate in a specific collaboration, project, or commercial arrangement where such use is agreed.

If an artist deletes their account or requests removal, blockdeco will remove the relevant content from the Platform according to the deletion process described in the Privacy Policy. However, social media posts, cached copies, search engine results, archived versions, AI indexes, third-party reposts, and external copies may remain outside blockdeco’s control.

If blockdeco has already published an artwork on a blockdeco-operated social channel before account deletion, blockdeco may keep that post available unless removal is legally required or separately agreed.

14. Public Visibility, Search Engines and AI Indexing

blockdeco is a public website.

Approved artworks and public artist information may become visible to anyone, including unregistered visitors.

Public content may appear in:

search engines;
AI systems;
social platforms;
public previews;
cached mirrors;
archived systems;
forums;
third-party websites;
screenshots;
external discussions;
automated discovery tools.

Because the Platform is public, blockdeco is not responsible if public content is copied, reposted, embedded, archived, indexed, discussed, redistributed, referenced, scraped, downloaded, or displayed elsewhere by third parties.

blockdeco can only control content on blockdeco-operated services.

blockdeco allows normal indexing by search engines and similar discovery services. However, unauthorized mass scraping, automated harvesting, bulk downloading, dataset creation, data mining, or extraction of Platform content without permission is prohibited.

15. Copyright and Takedown Requests

Artists are solely responsible for ensuring that uploaded content does not infringe third-party rights.

If a copyright owner or other rights holder believes that their work appears on blockdeco without authorization, they may contact:

[email protected]

A takedown request should include enough information for blockdeco to identify the disputed content and assess the claim, such as:

the claimant’s name and contact information;
identification of the allegedly infringing artwork;
evidence or explanation of ownership or authorization;
a statement explaining why the upload is unauthorized.

If the claimant can reasonably prove that the artwork belongs to them or infringes their rights, blockdeco is willing to remove the image or related content from the gallery.

blockdeco may remove content without prior notice if it reasonably suspects infringement, legal risk, misleading attribution, or violation of these Terms.

16. BrickStudio and Downloadable Files

Artists may be able to upload BrickStudio files or similar model files together with their artworks.

Approved model files may be publicly downloadable without registration.

Artists retain ownership of their uploaded model files.

By uploading model files, artists confirm that:

they created the file or have permission to upload it;
the file does not infringe third-party rights;
the file is safe and does not contain malware or harmful content;
they understand the file may be downloaded publicly.

Unless otherwise stated by the artist or agreed separately:

private use is allowed;
recreating the MOC physically for personal use is allowed;
commercial resale, redistribution, modification for republication, or republishing of the file is prohibited.

Downloadable files are provided “as is.” blockdeco does not guarantee that downloaded files are accurate, complete, compatible, buildable, safe for every system, or free of errors.

Users download and use files at their own risk.

17. Donation Links, Social Links and External Websites

Artists may be allowed to provide donation links, social profile links, or other external links.

blockdeco does not process payments directly and is not responsible for external payment pages, donations, taxes, refunds, fraud, disputes, scams, chargebacks, or third-party services.

Artists are fully responsible for:

donation links;
external payment pages;
tax obligations;
statements made on external pages;
scams or fraud connected to their links;
compliance with third-party platform rules.

Users who visit external links do so at their own risk.

blockdeco may remove external links that appear unsafe, misleading, unlawful, abusive, or unsuitable.

18. Account Deletion and Content Removal

Users may request deletion of their account and associated uploaded content.

Deletion requests may be submitted to:

[email protected]

When an account deletion request is processed, blockdeco will generally:

soft-delete the account and public content immediately or as soon as reasonably possible;
permanently delete relevant account and uploaded content within five business days, where technically and legally possible.

Some data may remain temporarily or permanently where necessary for:

security logs;
audit records;
abuse prevention;
legal compliance;
backups;
system integrity;
evidence of moderation decisions;
technical records.

Deleted public images may remain available for a short period through CDN caches, browser caches, third-party caches, search engine caches, archived pages, AI indexes, screenshots, reposts, or direct links outside blockdeco’s immediate control.

blockdeco does not guarantee removal from third-party systems.

19. Acceptable Use

Users must not:

abuse, disrupt, overload, or attack the Platform;
attempt unauthorized access to accounts, systems, APIs, storage, or infrastructure;
bypass security, upload limits, moderation, or access controls;
scrape, crawl, harvest, or download content at scale without permission;
use the Platform for spam, phishing, malware, scams, or illegal activity;
impersonate another person;
misrepresent authorship or ownership;
submit false, misleading, or harmful information;
use the Platform in a way that violates applicable law or third-party rights.

blockdeco may restrict access, remove content, or take technical measures where necessary to protect the Platform and its users.

20. Platform Changes and Future Paid Features

blockdeco may change, modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Platform at any time.

This includes the right to:

change features;
change upload limits;
remove features;
modify artist tools;
modify moderation processes;
change storage or file rules;
discontinue the Platform;
introduce paid features, subscriptions, or premium content in the future;
update these Terms.

If paid features are introduced in the future, additional terms may apply.

21. Third-Party Services

blockdeco may rely on third-party services and infrastructure, including hosting providers, analytics providers, CDN providers, email services, and other technical services.

blockdeco currently uses DigitalOcean infrastructure and Google Analytics as described in the Privacy Policy (https://blockdeco.com/privacy-policy).

blockdeco does not guarantee the availability, security, accuracy, or continued operation of third-party services.

Outages, errors, delays, data loss, or service changes caused by third-party providers may affect blockdeco.

22. No Warranty

blockdeco is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, blockdeco makes no warranties or guarantees regarding:

uninterrupted availability;
error-free operation;
permanent storage;
accuracy of content;
safety of downloadable files;
suitability for any particular purpose;
continued existence of the Platform;
search engine visibility;
social media reach;
approval of submitted content;
protection from third-party copying or redistribution.

Users use the Platform at their own risk.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operators of blockdeco are not liable for:

indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages;
loss of data;
loss of content;
loss of reputation;
loss of profits;
loss of opportunity;
downtime;
third-party copying or redistribution of public content;
infringement committed by users;
errors in uploaded files;
unsafe or inaccurate downloadable files;
external payment or donation disputes;
third-party service failures;
search engine, AI system, CDN, archive, or social media behavior outside blockdeco’s control.

Users and artists are responsible for their own actions, uploads, external links, tax obligations, and legal compliance.

Because blockdeco is privately operated without a company behind it, users acknowledge that the Platform is maintained as a hobby project and should not be relied upon as a guaranteed commercial service.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability where such exclusion is not permitted by applicable law.

24. Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, users and artists agree to be responsible for claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from:

their uploaded content;
infringement of third-party rights;
false ownership claims;
misuse of the LEGO® trademark;
external donation or payment links;
unlawful activity;
breach of these Terms;
misuse of the Platform.

25. Privacy

blockdeco’s processing of personal data is described in the separate Privacy Policy (https://blockdeco.com/privacy-policy).

By using the Platform, you acknowledge that your personal data may be processed according to the Privacy Policy.

26. Changes to These Terms

blockdeco may update these Terms from time to time.

If changes are material, blockdeco may notify users through the Platform, email, or other reasonable means.

Continued use of the Platform after updated Terms become effective means that you accept the updated Terms.

If you do not agree with the updated Terms, you must stop using the Platform and may request account deletion.

27. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Hungary, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Where legally permitted, disputes relating to these Terms or the Platform shall be handled under Hungarian law.

28. Contact

For questions, copyright complaints, legal notices, privacy requests, account deletion requests, or support matters, contact:

[email protected]