Rules and Policies

1. Rules of use

Deslove is created for designers, creative professionals and anyone who wants to showcase their work, find inspiration and grow in a professional community.

By using the platform, you agree to use it in good faith, to respect other participants and not to violate applicable laws.

2. Registration and account

Available sign-in methods are shown on the sign-in page: email and password, and Google, Facebook or Telegram when the corresponding option is enabled. Email sign-in supports address verification and password recovery.

The selected external service’s terms of use and privacy policy also apply.

Your Deslove account is created after registration is completed. A new account through Facebook or Telegram first requires a single-use code sent to the email address you provide.

Connecting Facebook or Telegram to an existing verified account requires a code sent to that account’s email address; matching addresses alone do not connect these sign-in methods.

3. User profile

After creating an account, you can set up your own profile.

• name;
• username;
• profile photo;
• description;
• country;
• city;
• experience level;
• professional skills;
• personal website;
• Behance;
• Dribbble;
• LinkedIn;
• Instagram;
• X (Twitter);
• Figma.

You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you publish in your profile.

4. Publication of works

Deslove was created primarily for the publication of design works.

Image uploads are currently supported.

One publication can contain up to 35 images.

Each work can be:

• edited;
• updated;
• deleted.

The owner of all published materials remains the author who uploaded them.

By publishing works, you grant Deslove the non-exclusive right to display them within the framework of the platform.

Individual works can be shown:

• on the main page;
• in search;
• in a personalized feed;
• in thematic collections;
• under "Popular", "New", "Rising" and "Awarded";
• on Deslove social networks;
• in advertising and informational materials of the platform.

5. Community rules

Deslove is a professional design community.

We strive to maintain a friendly atmosphere where everyone can freely display their work and receive constructive feedback.

We encourage:

• mutual respect;
• professional communication;
• constructive criticism;
• support of other designers;
• publication of your own original works.

We reserve the right to remove material that violates these rules, even if it is not explicitly mentioned in this list.

6. Comments and private messages

Users can:

• leave comments;
• reply to comments;
• subscribe to each other;
• send private messages.

Communication should remain polite, constructive and professional.

It is not allowed to use messages or comments for:

• insults;
• harassment;
• fraud;
• spamming;
• mass advertising;
• violation of the law.

7. Rewards

Deslove supports a reward system that helps designers demonstrate their professional achievements.

Two types of rewards can be used on the platform:

• Deslove's own rewards;
• rewards received from other design platforms.

Import awards

The user can submit a request to transfer an award received on another platform.

Each application is checked manually by the administration.

Open sources, links to the original work or other materials confirming its authenticity can be used to verify the award.

Deslove awards

The platform administration can assign its own awards to individual works or authors.

8. Copyright

We respect the intellectual property of each author.

All copyrights to published works remain with the user.

• is the author of the work;
• or has the legal right to publish it;
• the publication does not infringe the rights of third parties.

By posting materials, you grant Deslove a non-exclusive license for:

• storage;
• display;
• processing;
• optimization;
• using images for the service to work;
• display of works in recommendations, selections and social networks.

9. Privacy policy

This policy describes data processing associated with accounts, community features, the Aura editor, support and advertising. Public profile information and published content are visible to other visitors; private content is not automatically made public.

• Account information: name, email, username, profile photo, account creation date and identifiers for the Google, Facebook or Telegram sign-in methods you connect. Deslove stores a password hash for email sign-in and does not receive passwords for those external services.
• Profile details you provide: description, country, city, experience, skills, website and social links.
• Community content and actions: works and their files, thoughts, comments, replies, private messages and private notes, follows, likes, saved resources and collections, awards, reports and account preferences.
• Support information you submit: name, reply email, request type, subject and description, optional app version or environment details, language and source page. A request may be associated with your signed-in account.
• Technical and statistical records described below, including request metadata and pseudonymised account, browser or session identifiers where the relevant feature is enabled.

How Deslove uses information

Information is used to create and maintain accounts, authenticate users, display profiles and published content, operate community features, handle reports and support requests, protect the service and improve its functionality. Deslove does not sell personal data to third parties.

Private messages and notes are not public posts. Access needed for a specific moderation, support or security review is limited to the relevant request or incident, as described in the community rules.

Facebook and Telegram sign-in

If you choose Facebook or Telegram when available, the service may share a sign-in identifier, a name and a profile photo. We use the verified identifier to create or find your Deslove account and automatically use the supplied name and photo for a new profile. Neither sign-in method requires an email address. Any email supplied by Facebook is ignored when creating or finding these profiles and is not saved as the account email. We do not request a Telegram phone number or access to messages. The connected service’s identifier is retained for subsequent sign-ins.

Facebook and Telegram sign-in create separate profiles unless you have explicitly connected a service from your authenticated account settings. Connecting services is optional. A matching name, username, phone number or email address never merges profiles; existing email and Google accounts retain their own email. Pending sign-in and code requests are valid for at most 10 minutes. Only a hash computed with a secret key is retained for any email-code verification. Provider access tokens and Telegram ID tokens are not retained after validation.

Private work drafts

While you edit a work in your Deslove account, a private draft, its text, settings and attached images may be saved on the server so you can continue on another device. These files have no public links; viewing and editing require sign-in as their owner. This is not end-to-end encryption.

Browser-local recovery remains separate. The save indicator tells you whether account synchronisation has been confirmed. If you are offline or two devices hold different versions, the local copy is not silently overwritten. You can delete a draft; server copies are also removed when the corresponding work or account is deleted. Server backups may remain for their separate retention period.

Aura web editor and local files

Working files, recovery drafts and preferences may be stored in your browser or on your device. If a selected import or export requires conversion, the relevant file or document contents are sent to Deslove’s conversion service to perform that operation. These operations run on the server, not solely on your device.

Private document contents, filenames, text and other private design data are not passed as advertising parameters. Save important work to a file: local recovery drafts are not a backup. Clearing browser storage can remove drafts and preferences.

The Windows edition has a separate privacy notice covering local conversion, device activation and protected local storage. Deleting your website account does not remotely erase files on your device or local recovery drafts.

Statistics and technical records

Where enabled, first-party statistics count visits, community activity, resource views or outgoing clicks, openings of Aura and transitions from Aura to the website or sign-in. Records may include a keyed hash of an account, browser or session identifier, the day, event type or source and first-seen time. A new registration may be attributed to an explicit transition from Aura. These identifiers are pseudonymised, not a guarantee of anonymity, and browser-session counts are not exact counts of people.

To assess sources of active authors, only a coarse referral category, such as Instagram, Telegram or search, is kept in the existing server session for up to 24 hours. This feature creates no new visitor identifier or cookie. For a newly registered account, the category may be associated with its account ID for up to 90 days to compare registrations, first publications and return activity in an aggregate report. That association is removed with the account. Daily category totals are retained for up to 400 days; the report shows no list of people and no exact positive counts below five. This feature respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control, excludes internal traffic, and does not store full referral URLs, IP addresses, user-agent strings or browsing histories. A category is approximate evidence, not proof of a source’s causal effect.

Aura session statistics do not contain document contents or editing actions. Hosting, security and diagnostic records are separate and may contain an IP address and technical request metadata. Advertising consent is separate from these existing site functions; refusing ad personalisation is not a promise that all site processing or statistics stop.

On pages using Cloudflare Web Analytics, that service measures visits and page performance. Metrics may include the page and referral source, country, browser, device and operating-system type, and loading times. This is separate from advertising personalisation and Cloudflare Turnstile form protection.

Cloudflare privacy policy

Form protection — Cloudflare Turnstile

Some Deslove forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect against bots and abuse. When this check is enabled, Cloudflare processes the IP address, technical browser and connection signals and the site origin to detect bots and improve this protection. Deslove sends the verification token to Cloudflare to confirm the result. This is a security check, not advertising personalisation.

Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum

Storage, deletion and privacy requests

Files may be stored in Cloudflare R2 or other storage used by Deslove, and backups may be created. Storage periods differ by data type and the settings of the relevant service. For details about specific information, contact [email protected].

You can manage the available visibility and communication settings and other privacy choices in account settings and request account deletion. Deletion removes the public profile; it does not imply that every support, security, backup or feedback record is erased immediately. Support requests can remain after their account link is removed. Device files and browser drafts are separate.

For access, correction, deletion or other privacy questions, contact [email protected]. Do not include passwords or activation secrets. Information about advertising purposes, partners and available consent or objection choices is provided in the CMP form and the relevant partners’ policies.

Google AdSense and advertising partners

Google and connected advertising partners may use your IP address, cookies or other identifiers, the page address and technical browser or device information to deliver and measure ads, protect against fraud and abuse and, with the appropriate consent, personalise advertising. Personalisation may take account of previous visits to this website or other websites.

Deslove does not pass names, email addresses, profile fields, private design contents or other private user data as advertising parameters. This does not mean that an advertising service receives no technical information: the IP address, page address and identifiers described above are separate.

The current list of participating advertising partners, their purposes and links to their policies is provided in the CMP form for the relevant advertising. The participating partners can change. Consent is determined by your choices in the consent form, not by continued use of the site. You can also manage Google ad personalisation through Google Ads Settings; this does not replace changing or withdrawing consent on this site.

How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services

Google advertising personalisation settings

10. Google, Facebook and Telegram

Google Sign-In is an optional sign-in method alongside email and a password. It may provide your name, email, photo and Google account identifier to create or link a Deslove account. Deslove does not receive your Google password.

When available on the sign-in page, Facebook and Telegram are additional sign-in options. Creating a new account or connecting either method requires a single-use email code; an email match alone does not connect accounts. The privacy policy describes the data used.

11. Cookies and browser storage

Necessary cookies

Session, sign-in and security cookies support functions such as keeping you signed in, protecting form submissions and operating the service. They are separate from advertising cookies. Blocking necessary storage can prevent sign-in or other requested functions from working.

Preferences, drafts and first-party statistics

The site and Aura also use browser storage for interface preferences, local recovery drafts, palette favourites and Shape Lab preferences. This is not all advertising storage, and not all browser storage is a cookie.

Where first-party visitor statistics are enabled, Deslove may use its own visitor identifier, including the deslove_guest cookie. Statistical storage is not automatically classified as necessary simply because Deslove, rather than an advertising partner, operates it. Its purposes are described in Privacy. Advertising consent settings are not a general switch for all site statistics.

Advertising cookies

Google and participating advertising partners may read or set cookies or other identifiers for advertising purposes. Advertising storage is separate from the necessary cookies above and is subject to the applicable consent requirements.

Non-personalised advertising is not necessarily cookie-free: cookies can still be used for purposes such as frequency limits, measurement and fraud prevention. Turning off personalisation is not, by itself, consent to every other purpose.

Consent and your choices

For personalised advertising to visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google requires a certified consent management platform (CMP) integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The consent form provides “Agree”, “Do not agree” and “Manage” choices, alongside information about advertising purposes, partners and their policies.

Using the site, scrolling or continuing to use Aura is not advertising consent. When the CMP form is available, “Privacy and cookie settings” on the site and in Aura reopens it to change choices or withdraw consent. The current availability of the form is shown beside that entry. The editor remains available if you refuse, give partial consent or later withdraw it.

Refusing consent applies to purposes that require that consent and does not mean that all data processing stops. If a partner identifies legitimate interest for a particular purpose, information about that basis and the available ways to object is provided in the CMP and that partner’s policy. This is a separate choice from consent to ad personalisation.

You can also inspect, block or delete cookies and other site storage in your browser. This does not replace the CMP’s consent choices; deleting local storage can remove sign-in state, preferences or unsaved Aura drafts.

12. Deslove intellectual property

All rights to the Deslove platform belong to its owner.

• logo;
• interface design;
• platform structure;
• graphic materials;
• program code;
• text content.

Original Aura client code expressly published under AGPL-3.0-or-later, and third-party components, may be used according to their accompanying licences and notices. This does not extend Aura’s licence to Deslove’s private server code, trademarks or user works. See the licences and source code page.

Deslove does not claim ownership of user works.

13. Moderation

To maintain a safe and professional community, the Deslove administration moderates content.

Moderation may include checking:

• user profiles;
• published works;
• comments;
• notifications of violations;
• applications for awards.

14. Filing complaints

Any user can report content or behavior that violates Deslove rules.

• select a reason;
• leave a comment;
• provide additional materials.

15. Account deletion

You can delete your account in Settings → General.

Deleting your account also removes its Google, Facebook and Telegram sign-in connections from Deslove; it does not delete your accounts with those services. For data-deletion requests, contact [email protected].

Local Aura files and drafts are not erased remotely. Some support requests, security records, backups and feedback may remain separately from the account; see the privacy policy for details.

16. Service availability

Deslove is constantly evolving, so certain functions may be temporarily unavailable during technical work.

17. User responsibility

Each user is independently responsible for the content they publish on the platform.

By posting works, you confirm that:

• you are their author or have the legal right to use them;
• you do not violate the copyrights of others;
• you do not violate applicable law;
• you do not mislead other users.

18. Changes to the rules

Deslove is constantly evolving.

Along with the development of the platform, its functions, services and capabilities may change.

In this regard, we reserve the right to update or change these Rules and Policies at any time.

Most often, such changes are associated with the emergence of new platform features, service improvements or changes in legislation.

By continuing to use Deslove after the rules have been updated, you agree to their new version.

This does not replace separate consent to advertising purposes and does not automatically provide consent to cookies that require it.

19. Contacts

If you have any questions about the operation of the platform, these rules, privacy or copyright, you can contact us.

We will try to respond to all requests within a reasonable time.