Terms, privacy and refunds

Last updated October 24, 2026

Hawkes Gen ("we", "us") runs hawkesgen.com: a service that generates images, video, 3D models, animation, voice, music and sound effects. These pages explain the deal between you and us, what we do with your data, and when you get your money back. We've kept them short and in plain language.

Terms of service

Your account

You need an account to use Hawkes Gen. You must be at least 13 years old, and at least 18 (or have a parent or guardian's permission) to buy credits. Keep your password and API keys private: anything done with them counts as done by you. Tell us right away if you think someone else has access.

Credits and payment

• Generation is paid in credits. One credit is worth one US cent. Every job is priced before it runs.
• Credits are bought in packs through Stripe. Prices are in US dollars and include any fees we charge; your bank may add its own.
• Credits don't expire while your account is open. They have no cash value and can't be transferred to another account.
• When a job starts, its quoted credits are held. If the job fails or you cancel it, they come back to your balance automatically.
• New accounts get free starter credits. We may change or stop free credits at any time.

What you make

As between you and us, what you generate is yours, along with the prompts and files you upload. You can use it for any lawful purpose, including commercial games and products. You give us only the permissions we need to run the service: to store your files, process them, and show them back to you. We don't use your prompts, uploads or outputs to train models, and we don't show them to other customers.

Generated work can resemble existing work, and the law on who owns AI-generated content differs by country and is still changing. It's your job to check that what you publish doesn't infringe anyone's rights.

What you can't do

• Generate or upload anything illegal, including sexual content involving minors.
• Create content meant to deceive people about a real person: deepfakes, impersonation, or a real person's voice without their permission.
• Upload material you don't have the rights to use.
• Harass, threaten, or promote violence against people.
• Attack, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the service, get around its limits or billing, or resell access without our written permission.

We may refuse a job, remove content, or suspend an account that breaks these rules. If we close your account for something other than breaking these terms, we'll refund any purchased credits you haven't used.

The service

We work hard to keep Hawkes Gen running and our tools working, but the service is provided "as is". Generated results vary, and we can't promise any particular output, uptime, or that a tool will stay available. We may change, add or remove tools, and change prices for future jobs. A price change never touches credits you've already bought.

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses. Our total liability to you for anything to do with the service is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Ending

You can stop using Hawkes Gen and ask us to close your account at any time. We may change these terms. If a change matters, we'll tell you on the site or by email before it takes effect. Using the service after that means you accept the new terms.

Privacy policy

What we collect

• Account: your email address, your name if you give one, and your password, stored only as a salted hash.
• Your work: the prompts, settings and files you send, and what we generate for you.
• Billing: what you bought and your credit history. Card details go straight to Stripe; we never see or store them.
• Usage: sign-in times, the jobs you run, and basic request logs (IP address, browser) we keep for security and troubleshooting.
• Site and game statistics: what happens on our pages and in games (pages visited, time spent, what you use, errors, and ratings you choose to give, and how well a game runs on your device: its loading time, device type, frame rate, memory use and the sort of thing on screen if it slows down, reported a few times a session), from our own analytics. They use no cookies. A random id kept in your browser groups a visit; when you're signed in, your account's id (not your email or name) is added so we can see how the site works for you over time. Your IP address is turned into a rough place (country and city) and then thrown away. Nothing is shared with anyone else.

Cookies

We set one cookie, to keep you signed in. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.

How we use it

To run your jobs, keep your account and library, process payments, prevent abuse, answer you when you contact us, and tell you about changes to the service. We don't sell your data and we don't use it for advertising.

Who else handles it

To make your assets, we send your job (prompts and the input files that job needs) to the companies that run parts of the work. Each one handles it only to provide that service:

• Amazon Web Services: the servers and GPUs that run the service, and file storage (United States).
• Anthropic: language and vision models, for the tools that use them.
• ElevenLabs: voice and sound effects.
• Stripe: payments.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect people from harm.

How long we keep it

We keep your account, library and credit history while your account is open. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete your files and personal data within 30 days. We keep billing records as long as tax and accounting law require.

Your choices

You can ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your account at any time. Write to us at the address below. Depending on where you live (for example in the EU, the UK or California), you may have further rights, and we honor them.

Security

Connections are encrypted (HTTPS). Passwords are hashed, API keys are stored only as hashes, and each customer's work is kept separate from every other customer's. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we'll tell you.

Refunds

• Failed and cancelled jobs: refunded to your credit balance automatically, right away.
• Unused credits: within 14 days of a purchase, we refund it in full to your card if you haven't spent any of that pack's credits. Write to us with the email on your account.
• A result you're unhappy with: generation is unpredictable, so completed jobs aren't refunded as a rule. If a tool clearly didn't do what it says, tell us and we'll make it right, usually with credits.
• Charged in error, or twice: tell us and we'll refund it.

Card refunds go back through Stripe and usually reach your account in 5 to 10 business days.

Contact

Questions, requests about your data, refunds: support@hawkesgen.com.