Terms of Service
Last updated 23 August 2026 · Effective on first use of the service
These terms govern your use of Restage. The two that matter most, and that people most often get wrong: you must have the rights to the photos you upload (in real estate the photographer usually owns them, not the agent), and you are responsible for disclosing that an image was digitally altered wherever your MLS, board, or state requires it.
- Who we are
- What the service does
- Accounts
- Credits, payment and refunds
- Your photos and the rights you need
- Who owns the output
- Disclosure and honest advertising
- What you may not do
- What the technology can and cannot do
- Availability
- Warranties and liability
- Indemnification
- Termination
- Changes to these terms
- Governing law and disputes
- Contact
1. Who we are
Restage ("Restage", "we", "us") is operated by Studio Tools Inc., at 418 Broadway, Ste Y, Albany, NY 12207, USA. By creating an account, uploading a photo, or rendering an image, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
If you are using Restage on behalf of a brokerage, team, or other organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms for that organisation, and "you" means both you and it.
2. What the service does
Restage takes a photograph you upload and produces a new, digitally generated image based on it — for example adding furniture to an empty room, updating finishes, or altering lighting. Output is generated by machine learning models, including third-party models operated by our providers.
Restage is a visualisation tool. It does not perform surveys, valuations, inspections, or construction estimates, and nothing it produces is a professional opinion or a representation about a property.
3. Accounts
You may try the service anonymously for a limited number of watermarked renders. Beyond that you need an account, created with an email address you control and accessed by a sign-in code.
You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your sign-in link and access token private. Tell us promptly at hello@studiotools.design if you believe your account has been used without your permission. You must be at least 18.
4. Credits, payment and refunds
Renders are paid for with credits. One successful render consumes one credit. A render that fails on our side is automatically refunded to your balance, including when the failure is a timeout.
- Credit packs are one-time purchases and do not expire.
- Subscription credits are granted each billing period and roll over for 60 days (365 days on annual plans).
- Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax that may apply.
- Payment is processed by Stripe. We never receive or store your full card details.
- Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You may cancel at any time; cancellation stops future charges and does not retroactively refund a period already paid for.
Our refund commitment is set out in the Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms.
5. Your photos and the rights you need
Read this one carefully — it is the term most often breached in real estate. Listing photographs are very often owned by the photographer, not the agent or the brokerage. A typical photography agreement grants the agent a licence to market the property, which may not include the right to create derivative works — and a virtually staged version of a photo is a derivative work.
Before you upload a photo you did not take yourself, check what your photographer's agreement actually permits. If it is silent on derivative works or AI processing, ask them.
By uploading a photo you confirm that:
- you own it, or you have the rights and permissions needed to upload it and to create a modified version of it;
- you have any consent required from the property owner or occupant;
- it does not contain identifiable people without their permission; and
- uploading it does not breach anyone else's copyright, contract, or privacy rights.
You keep ownership of the photos you upload. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to store and process them solely to provide the service to you — that is, to transmit them to our rendering provider, produce your output, and operate and secure the service.
We do not use your photos or your output to train machine learning models, and we do not use them in our own marketing, unless you give us separate, explicit permission in writing.
6. Who owns the output
As between you and us, you own the images you generate and may use them commercially, including in listings, advertising, and printed marketing — subject to the rest of these terms, and subject to your having had the rights to the input photo in the first place.
In plain terms: we don't claim your renders. But we can't grant you rights to a photo you didn't have permission to use.
Because output is machine-generated, similar inputs may produce similar outputs for different customers, and we cannot promise any output is unique. The legal status of copyright in AI-generated images is unsettled in the United States and elsewhere; we make no representation that any output is protectable by copyright.
7. Disclosure and honest advertising
Most MLSs require virtually staged or digitally altered photographs to be disclosed as such, and rules differ between boards and states. Some boards restrict altering structural elements even where disclosure is given.
You are solely responsible for:
- knowing the rules of your MLS, board, and state regulator;
- labelling altered images wherever those rules require it; and
- ensuring your use of an image is not misleading to a buyer, tenant, or any other person.
We supply suggested disclosure wording with every render, in the app and in
the X-Restage-Disclosure response header. That wording is a
convenience, not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for knowing your
own board's policy. See our
Content & AI Disclosure Policy.
Renovation and grounds renders. The kitchen refresh, bathroom refresh, and curb appeal tools depict a condition the property does not currently have. You may use them to illustrate potential. You may never present them as the property's current state. Doing so may constitute misrepresentation and, in many jurisdictions, a violation of real estate advertising rules.
8. What you may not do
The full list is in our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these terms. In summary, you may not use Restage to:
- misrepresent the condition, features, or legal status of a property;
- conceal a defect, damage, or hazard;
- process photos you do not have the rights to;
- generate images of identifiable people without their consent;
- resell raw access to the rendering API as a competing service;
- circumvent credit limits, free-render limits, or rate limits, including by scripting or by resetting device identifiers; or
- break any law, or any rule of your MLS, board, or regulator.
9. What the technology can and cannot do
Output is generated by a statistical model. It will sometimes be wrong, implausible, or visually flawed. It may alter details you did not intend to change, and it does not "understand" architecture, structure, or building codes.
You must review every image before you use it. Do not publish an output you have not looked at. We do not warrant that any output is accurate, realistic, fit for a particular purpose, or compliant with any rule that applies to you.
10. Availability
We aim to keep the service running but do not offer a service level agreement. The service may be unavailable for maintenance, or because a third-party provider is unavailable. We apply a daily rendering capacity limit; when it is reached, renders are declined and no credit is consumed.
We may change, suspend, or discontinue features. If we discontinue the service entirely, we will give reasonable notice and refund unused, purchased credits.
11. Warranties and liability
The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost transactions, lost commissions, or reputational harm.
Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising from: your use of the service; images you upload or publish; your breach of these terms; your failure to disclose a digitally altered image; or your infringement of anyone's intellectual property or privacy rights.
13. Termination
You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms or our Acceptable Use Policy, or where we are required to by law.
If we terminate your account without cause, we will refund unused, purchased credits. If we terminate it for a breach involving misrepresentation, fraud, or infringement, we may decline to refund unused credits.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will give at least 14 days' notice by email to your account address before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the change.
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of New York County, New York, USA (the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York) have exclusive jurisdiction, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Before filing anything, please email us. Nearly every dispute we have seen in this industry is resolved faster by a conversation than by a filing.
16. Contact
Studio Tools Inc.
418 Broadway, Ste Y, Albany, NY 12207, USA
hello@studiotools.design