1. Scope

This policy explains what you may and may not do with POPX, popx.tools, and your account. It supplements the Terms of Service; if there is a conflict, the Terms control.

2. What you can do with POPX

  • Use POPX in your own commercial and non-commercial work — shows, installations, broadcasts, music videos, advertisements, client projects, art pieces, R&D, teaching, demos.
  • Modify POPX internally for your personal workflow.
  • Install POPX on machines you personally own or directly control, and use it inside TouchDesigner.
  • Publish renders, recordings, and screenshots of work made with POPX.
  • Share tutorials and educational content that show how to use POPX, as long as you do not redistribute the POPX .tox file or its source.

3. What you cannot do with POPX

  • No redistribution. Do not upload, share, mirror, host, post on a torrent, embed in a downloadable project, or otherwise distribute the POPX .tox file or any of its components, internal networks, GLSL shaders, or source code.
  • No derivative products. Do not use POPX’s code, shaders, structures, or operators to build tools, plugins, components, or systems that you sell, license, give away, or otherwise distribute.
  • No reverse engineering. Do not attempt to extract, decompile, or recover source from compiled or encrypted parts of POPX.
  • No circumvention. Do not bypass licensing, gating, download tokens, rate limits, or any other technical access control on popx.tools.
  • No public modified versions. Do not publish modified versions of POPX, even for free.
  • No removal of attribution. Do not remove or alter copyright notices, internal credits, or version markers inside POPX.

4. Account use

  • One subscription is for one user. Do not share login credentials.
  • Studios, classrooms, and teams should purchase one subscription per individual user. Get in touch if you need a team arrangement.
  • Do not create multiple accounts to abuse trials, promotions, or refunds.
  • Keep your account credentials secure. You are responsible for actions taken under your account.

5. Site behavior

  • Do not attempt to disrupt the Site (DoS, abusive crawling, attacks against other users).
  • Do not probe for vulnerabilities except in good faith and only via responsible disclosure (email support@popx.tools first).
  • Do not scrape gated content (operator docs, learn material, downloads) for redistribution or training datasets.
  • Do not use the Site or any popx.tools API in a way that imposes an unreasonable load on infrastructure.

6. Automation and AI

  • You may use POPX inside your own creative pipelines, including those that involve AI tools, for your own projects.
  • You may not feed POPX’s source, internals, shaders, or operator implementations into model training, fine-tuning, or any process that produces a derivative tool, dataset, or product.
  • You may not use automated agents to bulk-download POPX releases, scrape gated documentation, or replay download tokens.

7. Content you publish using POPX

You own the work you create with POPX. You are responsible for ensuring that the content you publish complies with applicable law and does not infringe the rights of third parties (including music, footage, branding, and likeness rights).

8. Enforcement

Violations of this policy may result in any of the following, at our discretion:

  • A warning and a request to remove infringing content.
  • Temporary suspension of your account.
  • Permanent termination of your account, without refund.
  • Takedown notices to hosting providers, social platforms, and asset marketplaces.
  • Legal action where the violation causes ongoing harm (especially redistribution of POPX or commercial derivatives).

For copyright and IP issues specifically, see the Copyright & IP Policy.

9. Reporting violations

Spotted a leaked copy of POPX, a derivative product based on POPX, or another violation? Please tell us: support@popx.tools. Reports are confidential.