Card Studio makes physical business cards and hosts the web address engraved on them. The address is the part that has to outlive everything else — the plan, the design, the job — so these terms are mostly about what we owe you, and what we need from you, to keep it working.
Last updated 24 August 2026
1. Who these terms are between
Card Studio is a service of Quo Vadis AI (“we”, “us”). If a company bought cards for its people, our agreement is with the company, and the people carrying the cards are covered by it. If you bought a card for yourself, our agreement is with you. Write to john@qvadisai.com about any of it.
2. The address is permanent
We will keep your card’s web address working for as long as Card Studio operates. It will not be deleted, reassigned to anybody else, or pointed somewhere you did not choose. This is not a courtesy; it is the thing you paid for, because a dead link on a piece of engraved metal cannot be fixed.
Two consequences we hold ourselves to. A handle is never reissued, even years after a card stops being used — so the address on a card in somebody’s wallet can never lead to a different person. And a card is never deleted from our records, which is enforced in the database rather than by policy.
If we ever cease operating, we will give at least 12 months’ notice and keep every card address redirecting to a destination you choose for the whole of that period. We would rather write this down than let “permanent” quietly mean “until we lose interest”.
3. Paying, and not paying
A lapsed plan hides features. It never takes a card off the internet. If a subscription ends, cards keep serving, and the person on a card can still sign in and correct their own phone number or email. What stops is the extras: analytics, the search-listing toggle, a company domain, the embedded contact photo.
The same applies to downgrading. An organisation that moves to a smaller plan with more cards than it now includes keeps every card live; it simply cannot add another without talking to us.
Cards are added by us rather than bought self-service, because each one is an object we engrave and ship. Ask and we will quote; nothing is blocked by a button.
4. If you engrave your own domain
Some customers have their company’s own address on the card instead of ours. That is your domain, not ours, which makes it the one part of the promise in §2 we cannot keep alone: if the DNS record stops pointing at us, the printed cards stop working and we cannot fix it from our side.
So two things. While you are a customer, you agree to keep that record pointed at us. If our agreement ends, you agree to leave it pointed at us for a further 90 days, so anybody holding a printed card has time to reach the person on it.
And a safety net you get whether you ask for it or not: every card is also permanently reachable at an address on our own domain, allocated the day the card is made and never released, whether or not it is ever advertised. If a company domain goes dark, the cards themselves are still alive at that address.
5. When somebody leaves
A company that bought a card controls the card. An owner can take it out of service at any time, and the address then serves a short notice instead of the person’s details — their phone number, email and photograph stop being handed out immediately.
Erasing the person’s details is the person’s decision, not the company’s. We do it when they ask, and we do not do it on request from a former employer, because their contact details are theirs. See the privacy policy for what erasure removes and what necessarily survives it.
6. What you are responsible for
- That the details on a card are accurate, and that you are entitled to publish them. If a company puts an employee’s number on a card, that is the company’s call to justify, not ours.
- Keeping access to the email address you sign in with. There is no password to lose, which also means the address is the only key.
- Not using a card to impersonate somebody, to publish somebody else’s details without their agreement, or for anything unlawful. We will take a card out of service if it is doing one of those, and say why.
7. What we are responsible for
Serving the cards, keeping the addresses working, and looking after the contact details in them as described in the privacy policy. Three of our own people can reach any customer’s data in order to build and support cards; every such access is logged with the fact that it was staff, and that log cannot be edited or deleted, by us or anybody else.
We do not promise the service is never briefly unavailable. We do monitor it from outside our own hosting, every thirty minutes, and we treat a card that will not load as the most serious kind of fault there is.
8. Ending it
You can stop being a customer whenever you like — tell us. The physical cards are yours; you bought them. The addresses keep working under §2, the features fall back to what a free plan includes, and if you had your own domain engraved, §4’s 90 days apply.
We would only end it from our side for the reasons in §6, for non-payment after we have asked twice, or if we cease operating, in which case §2’s notice applies. Ending our agreement never deletes a card.
9. The boring necessities
We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
If we change these terms we will say so here and date it, and we will not use a change to walk back §2 for a card that already exists. These terms are governed by the law of the place Quo Vadis AI is established; if a clause is unenforceable the rest still stands.
These terms are a plain-English draft written against what the service actually does. They have not yet been reviewed by a lawyer, and we would rather tell you that than let you assume otherwise.
by Quo Vadis AI · Privacy · Terms