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Terms of Service

Last updated: 1 October 2026

These are the terms that govern your use of MiniPx (minipx.com). They are written in plain English. If anything is unclear, email contact@minipx.com and we'll explain. By using the service, you agree to these terms.

1. What MiniPx is

MiniPx is a browser-based image toolkit hosted at minipx.com. It does two things. First, it compresses, converts and resizes images. Second, it runs a set of seven AI tools: three that run on your own device — a background remover, an image upscaler and a passport photo maker — and four that run only on our servers, for Pro subscribers, namely restoring, colourising and enhancing old photos, and removing an object from one.

Compression, conversion and resizing, and the first three AI tools, run locally on your own device using JavaScript, the Canvas API, and machine-learning models that execute in your browser. For that work we do not upload, store, or transmit your image files. The service is offered in a Free tier and a paid Pro tier.

There is one exception, and it is the only one. Pro subscribers can switch on Cloud HD for the background remover, the upscaler and the passport photo maker, and the same Cloud HD machinery powers four server-only photo tools — restoring, colourising and enhancing old photos, and removing an object from one. When a Cloud HD run happens, the photo for that run is uploaded to our server, processed there, and deleted. The switch is off by default, the confirmation you gave at checkout covers every Cloud HD run (no further confirmation is asked before a run — the tools tell you, in plain text, that the photo goes to our server and when it is deleted), and switching it off returns the three tools that have a device mode to running entirely on your device; the four photo tools have no device mode and simply do not run without it. Section 5 sets out how it is metered, and the Privacy Policy section 2A sets out what happens to the file. Nothing else on MiniPx uploads an image, on either tier. The MiniPx Chrome extension has no Cloud HD and no server option of any kind: it processes everything on your own machine, exactly as its own privacy policy describes.

2. Who runs MiniPx

MiniPx is operated by Gaurav Bhowmick, an individual sole proprietor based in India. Contact: contact@minipx.com. If you need a postal address — for a formal notice, or for a consumer body or regulator in your country — email us and we will provide it. Paid transactions are processed by Paddle.com Market Ltd, who acts as the merchant of record for purchases.

3. Your licence to use MiniPx

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use MiniPx for personal or commercial work, on the terms set out on this page. The licence runs for as long as you keep to those terms. It can be revoked if you break them in a material way, as described in the "Termination" section below. It does not transfer any ownership of MiniPx itself to you.

What you make with MiniPx is a separate matter, and it is yours. The licence covers the tool, not the output: your image files and everything you produce with them belong entirely to you, as set out in "Intellectual property" below.

4. The Free tier

The Free tier costs nothing and needs no registration. It is not unlimited, though. These are the published limits:

These are the limits as published today. We may change them, and if we do we will give notice on the site before the change takes effect. We do not promise the Free tier will be available indefinitely, but we have no plan to remove it. Everything in "Acceptable use" below applies to Free tier users too.

5. The Pro tier

The Pro tier lifts the Free limits and adds tools on top:

How Cloud HD is metered. Cloud HD is included in Pro but it is not unlimited, because each run costs us real money on a server we rent. Your allowance is 150 runs per calendar month on Monthly and 200 on Annual. It resets on the first of the month and it does not roll over: an unused allowance is not banked and is not refundable. There is also a short-term limit of 30 runs an hour, and a separate daily cap on repeatedly failing runs, both of which exist to stop a compromised account emptying an allowance or burning server time in a minute. Some tools cost more than one unit per run because they cost us more to run — virtual staging, when it arrives, counts as four — and where that is the case the tool says so before you run it. Within the allowance, up to 10 runs a month may be HD runs, the highest-cost class; the tools that draw it say so in their own copy, and the HD meter is shown beside the general one. The meter showing how much of your allowance you have used is displayed before every run and on your account page, and the numbers come from our server rather than from your browser.

Where Cloud HD runs, and what happens when it does not. Cloud HD is processed in the United States, on infrastructure operated by Modal Labs, Inc. and Cloudflare, Inc.; the Privacy Policy sections 2A and 12 set out what that means for your data. Whatever else happens to a run, a photo you send to Cloud HD is deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours — the same promise, in the same words, as section 2A of the Privacy Policy. We do not guarantee that Cloud HD is available. It is a server, it can be down, we can take it down, and we may pause it entirely if the cost of running it stops making sense; where we do, we will say so on the site. A run that fails on our side does not count against your allowance and is not charged for; where the tool has a device mode, a failed run offers you the same job on your own device in one click, and the server-only tools tell you plainly that the run failed and was not charged. If Cloud HD is unavailable, the background remover, the upscaler and the passport photo maker still work on your device, which is how they worked before Cloud HD existed and how they work for everyone who leaves it switched off.

The model can change, and you can always see which one ran. Cloud HD runs whichever model we have measured as the best available for that tool, and we replace models as better ones appear. We do not promise any particular model, and a replacement can change how a result looks. Every run records the model and its version, and your account page shows them against each run, so you can always tell which model produced a given result and when we changed it.

Pro is purchased via Paddle as a monthly subscription or an annual subscription. Prices are shown in USD and exclude VAT, GST and any equivalent sales tax; Paddle works out what applies where you are and adds it at checkout, so the total you pay may be higher than the listed price.

Pro features become available immediately on successful payment. The licence is stored on your device (in browser localStorage), and is verified against Paddle's API every seven days. Pro can be activated on up to 5 devices on both the Monthly and Annual plans. These device limits are real and enforced on our side, not just a note in the interface.

Subscriptions auto-renew at the price displayed at purchase. To stop renewal, email contact@minipx.com from the address you purchased with; we confirm by reply and schedule the cancellation in Paddle. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep Pro until then.

A Pro subscription gives you access to current and future Pro features for as long as it is active, with one carve-out that also appears on our Pricing page: any feature that costs us money every time it is used, such as anything that has to run on a server we pay for per request, may be offered as a separate paid add-on rather than included. Everything that runs on your own device stays included.

6. Refunds

Refunds are handled by Paddle as the merchant of record, under the terms set out in our Refund Policy. In short: a full refund is available within 14 days of the original purchase, no questions asked, until you have made substantial use of Pro. Substantial use means any one of: downloading the output of a batch larger than the free tier allows (more than 5 images in a single job); downloading output from a Pro-only feature (watermarking, multi-format export, the batch rename templates or advanced codec controls); downloading a background removal above the free 1080px cap, or a Pro-tier upscale or passport-photo output; a completed Cloud HD run, whether or not you download the result (a run that failed on our side is not use); or saving a reusable preset and applying it to a later job. Opening, previewing or activating Pro is not substantial use. Once you have made substantial use, that purchase counts as consumed and the no-questions window closes for it. Renewals after the first billing period are outside the no-questions window. Faulty or misdescribed features will be considered for refund within 60 days of purchase regardless of use, and statutory consumer rights in the EU, the UK and India are unaffected by this clause. Where this summary and the Refund Policy differ, the Refund Policy applies.

Refund requests are made by emailing contact@minipx.com with your Paddle order ID. That is the single route: refunds are not self-serve and are never auto-approved, and a person here reads and decides every request. If you want to dispute a charge, email the same address before raising a chargeback with your bank or card issuer — a chargeback locks the account while the card network decides it, which removes the one route we have to put things right. That is a request about which door to knock on, and it takes nothing away from your statutory rights or your right to dispute a charge.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use MiniPx to:

MiniPx runs entirely in your browser, so the code that does the work is delivered to your device and you are free to read it, inspect it, and study how it operates. The repository itself is private and we do not currently publish the source under an open-source licence.

To be explicit, because the wording above could otherwise be read too widely: nothing here stops you observing, studying or testing how MiniPx works, and nothing here restricts decompilation where the law permits it, including for interoperability with other software. In the EU, Articles 5(3) and 6 of the Software Directive (2009/24/EC) give you those rights and we do not attempt to contract out of them. The narrow thing we prohibit is defeating the licence check and passing that around.

8. Intellectual property

The MiniPx brand, name, logo, the design of minipx.com and the underlying source code belong to Gaurav Bhowmick and are not licensed for reuse. Your image files and the outputs you produce, including AI output, belong entirely to you. We claim no rights to your content. On everything that runs on your device that is because we never see it; on a Cloud HD run the file passes through our server for that run and is deleted, and we take no licence over it, no right to keep it, and no right to use it for anything other than producing your result. In particular, we do not use anything you send through Cloud HD to train, tune or evaluate a model, and our contract with the company that runs the model for us does not permit them to use it for that either.

9. Disclaimer of warranty

MiniPx is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every browser or device. Compression and conversion results depend on your input files; we do not warrant any specific output quality or file size reduction.

The AI tools are best-effort by nature. Background removal, upscaling and passport cropping produce an estimate, not a certainty, and you should check the result before relying on it. Passport and visa photo requirements are set by the issuing authority, not by us, and we cannot guarantee any photo we help you produce will be accepted.

Some authorities restrict edited photographs, and you should know that before you submit one. The UK Passport Office requires a digital photo to be “unaltered by computer software” and instructs applicants “do not crop your photo — it will be done for you”. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada states that it will refuse an application “if the photo has been altered… including using photo-editing software, filters, or AI tools”. The passport photo maker replaces the background and crops to the document’s framing, both of which are edits of that kind.

We are telling you this rather than deciding for you. The tool is not restricted or blocked for any document, and there are legitimate uses for it against every specification we publish — preparing a photo to print, checking your framing before a studio visit, or applying to an authority with no such rule. Whether an edited photograph is appropriate for your particular application is your call, and you are the one who has read the rules that apply to you. If you are unsure, check the guidance for your document before submitting.

This section is subject to "Rights these terms cannot take away" below.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of your use of MiniPx is limited to the amount you have paid us for the service in the 12 months prior to the claim. For Free tier users, this amount is zero.

We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, or business interruption, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

This section is subject to "Rights these terms cannot take away" below.

11. Rights these terms cannot take away

Some things cannot be signed away in a contract, and we are not trying to. Whatever the two sections above say:

Where any of these rights conflict with anything else on this page, these rights win and the conflicting wording simply does not apply to you.

12. Termination

You may stop using MiniPx at any time. We may suspend or terminate access to the Pro tier if you breach these terms in a material way (for example, distributing your Pro licence publicly to bypass payment). On termination of Pro access for cause, no refund will be issued. Free tier access may continue at our discretion.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms occasionally. When we do, we update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, if the changes are material, we email every account holder at the address on their account. Continuing to use the service after a material change is taken as acceptance of the new terms.

If a change materially reduces what a paying customer bought — features removed, caps lowered, something you paid for moved behind a further charge — you do not have to accept it. Email us within 30 days of the change and you can cancel for that reason and get a pro-rata refund of the unused part of your term.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and disputes will normally be heard by the courts in Bengaluru, India.

If you are a consumer, that does not take anything away from you. You keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings against us in the courts of that country. We will only bring proceedings against a consumer in the courts of the country where that consumer lives. Nothing in this section is intended to override either of those rights.

Either way, we encourage you to email contact@minipx.com first; most issues are resolved without involving anyone else.

15. Related policies

These terms sit alongside two other documents, and all three apply together:

If those documents conflict with this one, the more specific document wins on its own subject: the Refund Policy governs refunds, the Privacy Policy governs data.

16. Contact

For any question about these terms, write to contact@minipx.com.