This page explains the license included with your H. Doucette Studio purchase. Which terms apply depends on what you bought. This is a plain-English summary, not a substitute for legal advice. If you have a use case that isn't covered here, email heather@hdoucette.com before you buy and we'll confirm in writing.
Which license applies to my purchase?
Business Tools License covers planners, trackers, worksheets, Canva business templates, and other business-system products (signage kits, SOP libraries, marketing planners, and similar). These are tools for running your own business, not goods you resell.
Standard Creative License covers clip art, seamless patterns, printable wall art, Canva creative templates, and stock photography. These are design assets you build finished products or marketing materials from.
Business Tools License
This purchase includes a non-exclusive license for one person or one business to use and customize the files for its own operations and marketing, with no limit on how long or how often you use them.
You may:
- Print and reuse the worksheets, trackers, and templates for your own business.
- Customize editable files and Canva templates with your own brand, photos, and business information.
- Use finished signage, graphics, and documents to support your own products, operations, and marketing.
You may not:
- Resell, redistribute, share, sublicense, or give away the source files or editable templates.
- Claim the templates as your own product, or use them to create a competing template or digital-product offering.
- Share the download or editable source files with another business.
These materials are organizational tools and are not legal, tax, accounting, advertising, platform-policy, or regulatory advice.
Standard Creative License
This is the license included with every clip art, pattern, printable art, Canva template, and stock photo purchase. It grants a non-exclusive license to use the artwork in your own finished designs, personally or commercially.
You may:
- Combine the artwork into a new design of your own. Your finished piece needs to look meaningfully different from the original files and take real effort to produce, not just the graphic dropped onto a product with nothing added.
- Use the artwork across one commercial project (a cohesive set of related finished products, such as one invitation suite with a card, banner, and tags all counting as a single project).
- Sell up to 500 units total of any one finished product made with the artwork.
- Use wall art designs and seamless patterns as-is for personal use or for commercial printing on fabric, postcards, invitations, and posters.
You may not:
- Resell, redistribute, or share the purchased files themselves, even for free, and even inside a bundle where they could be extracted back out.
- Use the artwork on print-on-demand platforms, internet print shops, or any system where a customer could extract the original files.
- Turn the artwork into stickers, digital alphabets, embroidery letters, rubber stamps, or die-cut or stencil products.
- Sell more than 500 units of one finished product without stepping up to an Extended License.
- Claim the artwork as your own original creation.
Need to sell more than 500 units of one product, or use the artwork across multiple commercial projects? Email heather@hdoucette.com about an Extended License before you launch that product.
What you own
Purchasing a product gives you a license to use it; it does not transfer ownership or copyright of the artwork or templates. H. Doucette Studio / Heather Doucette retains copyright of all original artwork, patterns, templates, and business-system files sold through this site.
Source files
Editable AI, EPS, or Canva source files are included with some products so you can resize, recolor, or adapt the work for your own projects. These source files are for your use in producing your own end products. They are not to be redistributed on their own, even if modified.
Questions
If you're not sure whether your intended use is covered, or which license applies to your purchase, ask before you buy. Email heather@hdoucette.com with details about your project and we'll let you know.