Terms of sale and use

This website is operated by Jakub Ivančo, trading as Darksteady, a sole trader registered in Czech Republic.

• Registered address: Poděbradská 264, Poděbrady
• Business identification number (IČO): [TO BE COMPLETED — IČO]
• VAT identification number (DIČ): not VAT registered. Where VAT is due on a sale it is charged and remitted by the merchant of record named in clause 2.
• Registered with the Czech Trade Licensing Register
• Contact: hello@darksteady.com

References to "we", "us" and "Darksteady" below mean that business. References to "you" mean the person or organisation buying or using an asset.

Purchases are not processed by us directly. Sold through Link, LLC (formerly Lemon Squeezy, LLC), trading as Lemon Squeezy, of 222 South Main Street, Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, United States, acts as merchant of record for every order placed through this store. This means your contract of sale is with that company: it takes the payment, charges and remits any sales tax or VAT due in your country, issues your invoice, and is the party named on your card or bank statement.

Darksteady is the author and licensor of the asset. The licence you receive is granted by us; the sale that delivers it is made by Lemon Squeezy.

Lemon Squeezy has its own buyer terms and privacy policy, which apply to the payment itself alongside these terms. Where the two conflict on a matter of the transaction — payment, tax, invoicing, chargebacks — theirs govern.

These terms, the licence and the refunds policy govern everything else: what the asset is, what you may do with it, and what we will do if something is wrong with it.

Each purchase is a licence to use one or more digital 3D assets, delivered as a download. Nothing physical is shipped.

The formats, texture resolution and file size stated on a product page describe that specific asset. Where an asset offers fewer formats than the store generally advertises, the product page is authoritative and the general statement is not.

Delivery is by a download link sent to the email address given at checkout, available immediately after payment is confirmed. Links remain valid for at least 30 days. If a link expires or fails before you have retrieved your files, contact us and it will be reissued.

You are responsible for giving a working email address. We cannot deliver to an address that does not accept our mail, and a mistyped address is not grounds for a second charge being refunded automatically — though in practice we will simply resend to the corrected address.

Every asset is supplied under the Darksteady licence, which grants royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide commercial use, and prohibits redistributing the asset itself. The full text forms part of these terms and takes precedence over any summary of it printed elsewhere on the site.

Assets are sold at two price tiers. Both grant identical rights. The Professional tier applies where your commercial activity grossed $100,000 or more in the preceding twelve months, and is self-declared at checkout. Selecting the wrong tier does not invalidate the licence, but we may ask for the difference to be settled.

Prices are shown in US dollars. Where VAT or sales tax is due in your country it is calculated, displayed and charged by the merchant of record at checkout, based on the location you give, and the amount you are asked to authorise there is the total you pay. Nothing is added after that point.

The total including tax is always shown to you at checkout, in your own currency, before you authorise any payment. You are never asked to work out the tax yourself, and you are never charged more than the figure you approved.

If you are visiting from the Czech Republic, an indicative figure in Czech crowns including VAT is shown beside the price, converted at the Czech National Bank's daily rate. It is there so the price is readable without arithmetic; the charge itself is made in US dollars and the exact crown amount is set by your own bank's rate.

We may change prices at any time. A change never affects an order already placed, and never affects a licence already granted.

Where a discount, pack rate or promotional price is shown, it applies only to the order in which it appears, and any stated end date is real — an offer that has ended is not restarted to keep a countdown running. Discounts do not stack unless the checkout applies them together.

Two different kinds of higher figure appear beside a price, and they mean different things. Where a single asset is shown as reduced, the figure struck through is the lowest price that asset was sold at in the 30 days before the reduction began — which, because an asset is never reduced twice within 30 days, is its own normal price — and the reduction is measured from that.

Where a pack is shown against a higher figure, that figure is what its contents cost bought one at a time, not a price the pack itself was ever sold at. The site says so wherever it appears, because a saving against buying separately is a different claim from a price reduction, and presenting one as the other would be misleading.

One asset is offered free each month. It carries exactly the same licence as a paid asset — full commercial use, in perpetuity — and is yours to keep once claimed, including after the month ends.

Claiming it requires an email address and confirmation of that address. What we do with it is set out in the privacy policy.

We may change which asset is free, and may stop offering a free asset at all. Neither affects anything already claimed.

As a consumer you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance purchase for any reason. Digital content delivered immediately is the one deliberate exception: the right is lost once delivery begins, but only where you gave prior express consent to that immediate delivery and acknowledged that it ends the right. You are asked for both at checkout, in one tick box, before anything is delivered.

That consent is a condition of buying here. Without it the checkout does not open, and there is no separate route to a delayed delivery: an immediate download is the only thing this store sells. The choice is made knowingly, before you pay, and never for you afterwards.

• The full statutory notice, the deadlines, and a model withdrawal form you may use are on the withdrawal page.
• Your delivery email repeats your consent and the loss of the right, and carries these terms and the licence as attachments, so you have a record of all of it on a durable medium.
• The right remains live for as long as delivery has not begun — if you were charged and no files reached you, it has not been lost.
• The free monthly asset is not a purchase, so nothing here restricts it.

None of this touches your rights where an asset is faulty, is materially different from its description, or never arrived. Those are statutory, they cannot be waived by any tick box, and clause 8 sets them out.

An asset has to match its description, be fit for the purpose an asset of that kind is normally used for, and come with the formats, texture maps and resolution the product page states. If it does not, that is a defect and you have rights under Czech law that exist whatever this page says.

• If a defect shows up within one year of delivery, the law presumes it was there when the asset was delivered. Proving otherwise is our job, not yours.
• The order of remedies is: we fix it, or you take a reduction in price, or — where the defect is not minor, or a fix has failed — you withdraw from the contract and are refunded.
• A complaint is dealt with, and its outcome told to you, within a reasonable time — which for digital content is what the law requires, judged by what the asset is and what you wanted it for. In practice that means two working days: almost everything here is a re-export and a fresh link. It will never be more than 30 days.
• None of these rights can be limited by these terms, by the licence, or by anything you tick at checkout.

In practice most of this is a re-export and a fresh download link within a day. The refunds page says what we do and when; this clause says what you are entitled to regardless.

Each product page states the file formats, the texture resolution, the polygon count and the download size for that asset, and names the software it is built for. Read together with the licence, that is the statement of what the digital content does and what it works with.

The assets are ordinary mesh and texture files. They carry no copy protection, no licence key, no activation and no phone-home: nothing about them stops working if this store does, and nothing about them needs our permission to open.

They are supplied for use in current versions of the software named on the product page. We do not guarantee compatibility with software that is not named there, and there is no obligation on us to update an asset for future versions — where we do, it costs nothing.

You may browse, download the free asset, and use everything published here for the purpose of deciding what to buy.

• Do not attempt to obtain paid files without paying for them, including by guessing, sharing or reusing download links.
• Do not scrape, mirror or republish the catalogue, the preview renders or the 3D preview models. Preview models are deliberately reduced and are not licensed for use in any project.
• Do not attempt to disrupt the site, its email systems or its hosting.

We may withdraw access from anyone who does these things, and may decline to sell to them.

We aim to keep the store and its downloads available continuously, but this is a small operation and we do not promise uptime. Maintenance, hosting failures and provider outages happen.

If the store closes permanently, licences already granted continue unaffected, and we will give reasonable notice so that files can be retrieved.

Assets are supplied as they are. We warrant that we own or control the rights we are granting, and that the files are what the product page describes. We do not warrant that an asset is fit for a particular project — that is a judgement only you can make, which is why every product page carries renders, specifications and a 3D preview where one exists.

If you buy as a business, our total liability arising from any purchase is limited to the amount paid for it, except for harm caused intentionally or by gross negligence and for anything else the law does not allow to be limited.

If you buy as a consumer, no such limit applies. Our liability to you is what the law provides, and nothing in these terms reduces it or any other right you have as a consumer.

These terms are written in English, and a contract concluded through this store is concluded in English. A full Czech text of these terms, the licence, the refunds policy and the withdrawal notice is published on this site and is the version that governs where you are a consumer in the Czech Republic.

We do not keep an archive of individual contracts that you can log into later. What you keep instead is better: the delivery email, which sets out what you bought and what you consented to, and carries the terms and the licence it was sold under as attachments. Keep it — and if you lose it, the library page will send fresh download links to the address that paid.

Write to us first. Almost everything is settled in one email, and the routes below exist for when that has not worked.

These terms are governed by the law of Czech Republic. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your own country, and may bring proceedings before the courts there.

If we cannot resolve a dispute between us, you may take it, free of charge, to Česká obchodní inspekce (Czech Trade Inspection Authority), Gorazdova 1969/24, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic — the competent body for out-of-court resolution of consumer disputes with us. A proposal is submitted through the form at https://eportal.coi.gov.cz/#/zivotni-situace/pro-spotrebitele/informace-o-mimosoudnim-reseni-spotrebitelskych-sporu-adr, or in writing to the address above or to podatelna@coi.gov.cz; the authority's main site is https://coi.gov.cz/informace-o-adr/.

• Consumer protection, pricing and unfair commercial practices: Česká obchodní inspekce — https://coi.gov.cz
• Personal data, and unsolicited commercial email: Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů — https://uoou.gov.cz
• Trade licensing: The trade licensing office at the seller's registered address — https://www.rzp.cz

Disputes about the payment itself — the charge, the tax, the invoice or a chargeback — are matters for Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record and follow their process, using the link on your receipt.

We may revise these terms. A revision applies only from the date it is published, and never retroactively: the terms in force when you bought continue to govern that purchase.

The revision date is shown at the top of this page.