The acceptable use policy, where the categories get carved out
An acceptable use policy lists what may not be produced or published, by category rather than by plan. It is usually a separate document from the grant, and it narrows the grant for everybody regardless of what they pay. As of 2026-09-22.
| Question | What the phrase answers |
|---|---|
| Political and election material | Platform and regulatory pressure |
| Medical and health claims | Liability for advice nobody verified |
| Likeness of real people | Consent, and personality rights |
| Adult and violent material | Payment processors and app stores |
Inclusion rule. Phrases that appear in more than one vendor's permissions documents and that change what a sentence means. A phrase used by a single vendor in a single clause is described on that vendor's own page instead. Order. Reading order: where you meet it, then what it settles, then what it does not.
1A separate document, on purpose
Keeping categories out of the grant lets a supplier update them without reissuing terms, which is why the list lives on its own page. It also means a reader who has carefully read the licence may not have read the part that rules out their campaign.
The policy usually applies to every tier. A permission that begins on the third plan and a category ban that applies to all of them are different mechanisms, and only one of them is visible on a plan comparison.
2The categories are more alike than the wording
Across these documents the same short list recurs: politics, health claims, real people's likenesses, adult material. The reasons are commercial rather than moral, and they come from platforms, processors and regulators rather than from the supplier.
What differs is how far each category reaches. Political material can mean campaign advertising or can mean anything about a contested subject, and the difference decides whether a public sector client is servable.
3Where it bites a brand
Regulated sectors. A pharmaceutical brand, an insurer or a political campaign can pass every licence test in a register like this one and still be outside an acceptable use policy that nobody thought to read.
Which is why the useful reading order is backwards: categories first, then the grant. The grant tells you what is on offer and the policy tells you whether you are allowed to accept it.
4What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Acceptable use”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
AI Edit Image on a step-2 card keeps the same character and applies a short change you describe — navy blue shirt, short curly hair, smiling — then Apply Edit.
SceneMixer, AI-Editing a Sheet: Outfit, Hair, Expression (read 2026-10-13)
The terms grant you the output to the extent the law allows, and that includes commercial use.
SceneMixer, What You Get to Keep — “Do I own the copyright in what I generate?” (read 2026-10-13)
5Where the sourced wording is
A word page, not an entry in the register: nothing above is attributed to any vendor and nothing above is legal advice. The quoted clauses are on commercial use, the column this phrase turns up in is commercial use from, and the reading rules are on the reading page. Next words: Terms of service, Plan card, Seat.