Terms of Service

FlashTap is a SaaS for tattoo artists. You upload your flash; we ship you a pre-programmed NFC tag that you stick at your chair; clients tap it with their iPhone and a native App Clip shows your gallery for a short window (default 10 minutes) with screenshot protections active.

By using FlashTap (the website, the dashboard, the iOS App Clip, and our APIs) you agree to these terms.

You must be 18 or older and a working tattoo artist (or working on becoming one) to create a FlashTap account. You’re responsible for keeping your password safe. If someone else logs in as you and uploads things, that’s on you, not us. But tell us right away and we’ll help untangle it.

FlashTap is a paid subscription. The current plans:

• $10 per month, billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
• $99 per year, billed annually. Cancel anytime; refund prorated to month.
• $199 one-time lifetime license, available only to artists who’ve earned Founding Sponsor status (3 referred paid subscribers). After this, you’re never billed for the subscription again.

The first NFC tag and a second backup tag are included free with every new subscription. Additional tags are $10 each, capped at 10 per order. The first replacement tag (if yours arrives broken or is lost) is free; subsequent replacements are $10 each.

You get a 10-day trial when you sign up (30 days if you came through someone else’s referral link). At the end of trial we charge the card on file. We don’t send a reminder email; Stripe’s system will, and you can check your trial end date on the dashboard at any time.

One-time charges (additional tags at signup or dashboard reorder, lifetime license) are billed immediately at checkout, including during your subscription trial, because those are physical or grants, not recurring service. Subscription billing still respects the trial.

You can cancel your subscription at any time via the Stripe billing portal we link to in your dashboard. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period; your tag stays live until then.

We don’t proactively refund partial periods or charge back never-activated tags. If something genuinely went wrong (we shipped to the wrong address, the chip arrived dead, your gallery never loaded for a tap-eligible client), email us and we’ll make it right: refund, replacement, or credit, your call.

One-time charges (additional tags, lifetime license) are non-refundable once the label is purchased or the lifetime license is granted, because those are physical or terminal grants we can’t take back. Defective tags get a free replacement under the policy above.

You retain all rights to the flash you upload to FlashTap. You’re granting us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, render, and display it through the FlashTap App Clip and your dashboard, for the duration of your subscription. That license ends when you cancel or delete your account, at which point we delete your uploaded flash from our storage.

You promise that what you upload is yours to upload: either you drew it, you have the artist’s permission, or it’s in the public domain. If a third party tells us you don’t have the rights, we’ll act on a valid DMCA notice.

When we ship you a programmed tag, you own the physical chip. The URL written to it points at FlashTap’s viewer; we control that URL’s routing. If your subscription lapses, the tag won’t show flash. It’ll show a polite “gallery offline” message. Reactivating brings it back.

The chip is locked when we ship it, which means the URL can’t be overwritten by someone else tapping with a writer app. You can’t reprogram it either; that’s the point of the lock.

You may not use FlashTap to host, distribute, or otherwise promote content that:

• You don’t have rights to (copyright infringement).
• Is illegal, hateful, harassing, or sexually exploits minors.
• Impersonates another artist or shop.
• Spams clients with anything beyond the gallery view.

The following is specifically prohibited regardless of artistic intent or framing:

• Pornographic imagery designed for sexual gratification. Artistic nudity in traditional, neo-traditional, or illustrative tattoo flash is permitted; the standard is the same one Instagram and the major tattoo print magazines apply.
• Drug use, drug paraphernalia, or imagery promoting substance abuse.
• Gang iconography, extremist symbology, or imagery promoting violence against persons or groups.
• Any depiction of minors in a sexualized context. Zero tolerance. We report this kind of upload to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by US federal law.

You may also not resell FlashTap subscriptions, scrape another artist’s flash through the App Clip or Android app, or attempt to bypass the screenshot defenses.

We may remove individual flash items, pause a tag, or suspend an account for violations. We err on the side of explaining rather than suspending, but persistent or severe violations get the immediate-suspension treatment.

If you believe content on FlashTap infringes your copyright, send a notice to our DMCA agent (registered with the US Copyright Office under registration number DMCA-1072960):

Mike Shamberg
CDA Digital LLC
921 N 16th St., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814
dmca@flashtap.ink
(208) 659-6437

Your notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed.
3. Identification of the infringing material with enough detail to locate it (URL of the gallery, artist username, or flash-item identifier).
4. Your contact information (email + phone).
5. A good-faith statement that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

On a valid notice we’ll remove the content promptly and notify the artist who uploaded it. The artist may file a counter-notice if they believe the takedown was a mistake. We follow the standard DMCA timeline (typically 10 to 14 business days for counter-notice processing) and will restore the content if the counter-notice meets the legal requirements and the original claimant does not file suit within that window.

You can cancel anytime. We can suspend or terminate accounts that violate the acceptable-use rules above, that chargeback subscription payments without first reaching out to us, or that we have reasonable cause to believe are engaged in fraud.

When an account terminates, we delete your flash and deactivate your tag. We retain billing records as required by US tax law and anonymous view-session aggregates for our internal analytics.

FlashTap is provided “as is.” We do our best to keep the App Clip fast, the chip working, the Android app working, and your flash available, but we can’t guarantee uninterrupted service or that every device on Earth will tap-launch correctly. Phone-first by design; non-phone visitors see a friendly “use your phone” page.

FlashTap’s screenshot protections are designed to make casual screen capture impossible for typical client devices: the iOS App Clip uses Apple’s secure-overlay system, and the Android app uses FLAG_SECURE to block screen capture, screen recording, and screen casting at the operating-system level. These protections are intentionally strong but not infinite. A determined attacker with a second camera, a jailbroken phone, or specialized capture hardware can still create a copy of what they see. By using FlashTap you understand and accept that the protection is friction, not a guarantee against all forms of unauthorized reproduction. We do not warrant against extraction by such methods.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim related to FlashTap is limited to the amount you paid us in the prior twelve months.

We may change these terms. When we make a material change we’ll email active artists before it takes effect, and the effective date at the top of this page will update.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Idaho, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. CDA Digital LLC is registered in Idaho. Any dispute that can’t be worked out by emailing us first will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Kootenai County, Idaho.

Email hello@flashtap.ink. A human reads it. We’re a CDA Digital LLC product.