Terms of Use

Last updated: August 1, 2026

Welcome to ArtSites.ca (the "Service"), a website creation and hosting service for visual artists operated by Lustrio Media Inc. (the "Company", "we", "us"). These Terms of Use (the "Terms") are an agreement between you and the Company and govern your use of the Service, whether as a paying member, a trial member, or a visitor to websites we host.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Eligibility and Your Account

You must have reached the age of majority in the place where you live to open an account. The Service is available to members in Canada, the United States, and elsewhere; you are responsible for making sure your use of the Service is lawful where you live. You agree to provide accurate registration and billing information, to keep it up to date, and to keep your password secure. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

You agree not to impersonate any person or organization or misrepresent your identity or affiliation.

2. The Service

The Service lets you create, publish, and maintain a website to showcase your artwork. We may update, improve, or change features of the Service over time. Any new features we release are subject to these Terms.

We may also send you communications necessary to operate the Service, such as billing notices, renewal reminders, and administrative or technical announcements. These service communications are part of your membership. Our newsletter and other marketing communications are optional, and you may unsubscribe from them at any time without affecting your membership.

3. Fees, Payment, and Taxes

Current pricing is posted at our pricing page.

Billing and renewal. Memberships are billed monthly or yearly. Monthly memberships are paid by an automatically renewing PayPal subscription, which charges your PayPal account each month until you cancel. Yearly memberships do not charge automatically: we send you a renewal notice, and you renew by making a payment.

Taxes. Quoted fees do not include applicable taxes. If you are in Canada, Canadian sales taxes (GST, HST, and provincial sales taxes) will be added to your fees based on your province, as required by law. If you are outside Canada, Canadian sales taxes generally do not apply, and you are responsible for any taxes your own jurisdiction imposes on your purchase. You agree to provide and maintain accurate billing information, including your country and, if you are in Canada, your province, so that we can apply the correct taxes.

Payment methods. We accept payment by PayPal and, for Canadian members, by Interac e-Transfer or mailed cheque. Payments must be received by the due date shown on your invoice or renewal notice. If your subscription lapses or is not renewed, we may suspend your website until your account is brought up to date. We often allow a grace period before suspension, but a grace period is not guaranteed. A cheque returned for insufficient funds may be subject to a handling fee.

Price changes. We may change our pricing from time to time. We will give existing members at least 30 days notice by email before a price change takes effect for their account.

Free trial. New members may try the Service free for 10 days without providing payment information. If you need more time to evaluate the Service, contact to request an extension. At the end of the trial, your website will remain active only if you become a paying member. If you do not, your trial website is taken offline and its content is archived; as with a cancelled membership (Section 4), we may be able to recover it for you later on request, and we will delete it if you ask.

Refunds. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by law. We may, at our discretion, issue a pro-rata refund of unused fees, or a full refund less any domain name registration costs, for example where a new member has had an issue with their early use of the Service. Refunds are a courtesy and not an entitlement.

4. Cancellation and Termination

You may cancel your membership at any time by contacting us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid term: your website stays online until then, and you will not be billed again. When your membership ends, your website will no longer be published and your access to the administration system will end.

If you pay monthly, you may also cancel by cancelling the PayPal subscription from your PayPal account. We treat that as notice of cancellation and will close your membership, which takes effect at the end of your current paid term in the same way. Telling us as well helps us close your account promptly.

After cancellation, your content is removed from our active systems. As described in our Privacy Policy, copies may persist in our offline backups, and we may be able to recover your website content for you on request. We have often been able to do this for former members, but recovery is offered as a courtesy and is not guaranteed. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of your artwork and content.

We may suspend or terminate your account, with notice where reasonably possible, if you materially breach these Terms, if your account remains unpaid, or if your use of the Service exposes us or other members to legal risk or harm. Where the breach is serious, including unlawful content or abuse of other members, we may suspend or terminate immediately and may report the activity to relevant authorities.

We may also terminate your membership without cause on at least 60 days notice by email. If we do, we will refund the unused portion of any fees you have prepaid for the period after your membership ends.

5. Your Content and Ownership

"Content" means the artwork images, text, and other material you upload, post, or publish through the Service.

You own your work. You retain all right, title, and interest in your Content, including all copyright in your artwork. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your Content to us.

Licence to us. So that we can operate the Service, you grant the Company a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, resize, cache, back up, and display your Content, solely for the purposes of providing, securing, improving, and promoting the Service (promotion is subject to your right to opt out, described below) and as otherwise directed by you. This licence ends when your Content is deleted from our systems, except that copies may persist in backups as described in Section 4. We do not use your Content for any other purpose without your permission.

No AI training. We do not use your Content to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models, and we do not provide your Content to third parties for that purpose.

Featured sites and promotion. We may feature your website or artwork in our featured sites gallery or in promotional material for the Service, and you may ask us to stop featuring your work at any time. Your website is included in our artist directory by default; you can ask us to remove the listing at any time.

Sales of your artwork. The Service lets you add a PayPal purchase button to your works, connected to your own PayPal account. Any sale is a transaction directly between you and your buyer: payment goes to your PayPal account, and you are responsible for the sale, including delivery, applicable taxes, refunds, and compliance with the law. The Company is not a party to, and has no responsibility for, transactions between you and your buyers.

Your responsibility. You are solely responsible for your Content and for ensuring you have the rights to publish it. We do not review or monitor member websites as a matter of course, and we are not responsible for Content posted by members.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Publish Content that infringes another party's copyright, trademark, or other rights
• Publish Content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, threatening, or that violates any applicable law or regulation
• Send unsolicited commercial email or collect email addresses or contact information of others for that purpose
• Distribute malware or attempt to interfere with the operation or security of the Service
• Access the Service by any means other than the interfaces we provide, or resell or exploit any portion of the Service without our written permission

We may remove Content or suspend accounts that we reasonably believe violate this section.

7. Copyright Complaints

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our members to do the same. If you believe content hosted on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to including: identification of the copyrighted work, the URL of the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized. We handle notices in accordance with the notice-and-notice provisions of Canada's Copyright Act and will forward valid notices to the member concerned. We may remove content or terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

8. Domain Names

If you register a domain name through us, the domain is registered with you (or your group) as the registrant: you own your domain. We manage the registration on your behalf at no additional cost, and our contact email address may be used on the registration records to shield you from spam. Domain registrations are also subject to the registrar's terms and applicable ICANN policies.

When your membership ends, we stop renewing any domain name we manage for you, and the domain will be allowed to expire unless you take it over. If you want to keep your domain, contact us and we will help you move it under your own control or to a registrar of your choosing — ideally before your membership ends. Once a domain expires, it may become available for registration by anyone.

If you registered and manage your own domain name, this section does not apply to it: your domain stays entirely under your control, and its registration, renewals, and configuration are your responsibility. From time to time we may ask you to make changes to your domain's configuration (for example, its DNS records) when they are needed for your domain to work with your website and our systems.

9. Our Intellectual Property

The Service itself, including its software, design templates, graphics, and the ArtSites.ca name and logo, is the property of the Company. You may not copy, reproduce, or distribute any part of the Service, other than your own Content, without our prior written permission.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no warranties or conditions, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, although we work hard to keep it all three. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• The Company will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
• The Company's total liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including under consumer protection legislation where you live.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its directors and employees from claims, demands, losses, and costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your Content, your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will notify account holders by email at least 30 days before the change takes effect and will update the date at the top of this page. Minor clarifications may be posted without individual notice. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you may cancel your membership before it takes effect.

14. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable in British Columbia. Any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service will be resolved in the courts of British Columbia, and you and the Company each agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts. This section does not deprive you of any rights you may have under the consumer protection laws of the place where you live.

15. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Service. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign your account or these Terms without our consent; we may assign these Terms in connection with a sale or reorganization of our business.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to:

Lustrio Media Inc.
Email:
Mail: PO Box 99900 VL 131 952, RPO Denman Place, Vancouver, BC V6G 0B4