Terms of Use

Effective 13 April 2026 ยท Last reviewed 1 October 2026
Akwa is operated by Akwa B.V., a Dutch besloten vennootschap incorporated in Rotterdam and registered with the Kamer van Koophandel.

These Terms of Use apply when you access or use Akwa at akwa.design, the Akwa mobile apps, or any connected catalogue, blog, or brief-sharing flow operated under the Akwa brand.

Akwa B.V. is committed to cultural integrity in every design, support for the tailors and makers who turn designs into garments, and rigorous protection of customer data, creative work, and consent, in line with Dutch and EU law.

1. Acceptance

By using Akwa, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the service. If you create an account or make a purchase for a business, you confirm that you have authority to do so for that business.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use Akwa. If you are using Akwa on behalf of a business, studio, or tailoring practice, you remain responsible for ensuring that all users under that account or workspace follow these Terms.

3. What Akwa does

Akwa is fashion intelligence infrastructure: Design Intelligence, Production Intelligence and Commerce Intelligence for how clothes are designed, made and understood. It helps users create visual fashion concepts, tailor-ready briefs, catalogue purchases, styling suggestions, technical packs, production specifications and related outputs based on the instructions they provide. Akwa uses third-party model and infrastructure providers to generate some outputs.

Production readiness in Akwa is treated as an interaction between technical, material, quantity, price, sampling, fit, construction and fulfilment constraints, not as a guarantee created by any single document.

Yibo & Kosy, formerly Egoyibo Okoro, is the fashion house founded by Egoyibo Okoro and Kosy Okoro and built with Akwa. Physical garments, accessories and limited-edition collections may be offered through Akwa B.V. under the Yibo & Kosy house name. Yibo & Kosy is operated by Akwa B.V. and is not a separate legal entity.

4. Accounts and account security

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity that happens under your account. You must provide accurate information when creating an account and you must not impersonate someone else, share credentials outside your authorised seat count, or try to bypass security features.

4A. Akwa Workspace, Developer Access and API Keys

Akwa may make organisational workspaces, developer tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), Model Context Protocol (MCP) access, integration endpoints, software development tools, and related technical features available to eligible plans or Business Customers (together, Developer Access).

Akwa Workspace. Where you create or join an Akwa Workspace, the organisation or other customer that controls the Workspace is responsible for managing its authorised users, roles, permissions, connected systems, API credentials, and use of Akwa through that Workspace. Workspace administrators may be able to invite or remove users, allocate permissions, manage Developer Access, and view or manage Workspace-level activity. Users must use only the access and permissions granted to them and must not attempt to access another user's or organisation's Workspace, data, designs, credentials, or resources without authorisation.

API keys and other credentials. API keys, access tokens, client secrets, MCP credentials, and similar credentials issued through Akwa are confidential security credentials. You must keep them secure, use them only for the Workspace, account, application, or purpose for which they were issued, and must not publish, sell, sublicense, share, transfer, embed them in publicly accessible source code, or otherwise make them available to unauthorised persons. Where Akwa permits more than one credential, you are responsible for identifying, rotating, revoking, and replacing credentials where appropriate.

If you know or reasonably suspect that a credential has been lost, disclosed, compromised, or used without authorisation, you must revoke it promptly where that functionality is available and take reasonable steps to secure the affected account or Workspace.

Permitted use. Developer Access may be used to connect authorised applications and systems to Akwa and to access the Akwa capabilities made available under your applicable plan, entitlement, documentation, and technical permissions. Developer Access does not grant access to Akwa's underlying proprietary prompts, orchestration logic, model-routing methods, internal ontologies or graphs, scoring logic, non-public datasets, security controls, source code, or other confidential or proprietary implementation details except where Akwa expressly exposes particular information through the relevant interface.

You must not use Developer Access to:

Usage, limits and charges. Developer Access may be subject to plan entitlements, usage quotas, rate limits, technical limits, API-call charges, model or credit charges, fixed surcharges, or separate pricing shown in Akwa, its documentation, Developer Access settings, checkout, or an applicable order form. Akwa may change technical limits or pricing for future use on reasonable notice where required by applicable law or contract. Usage recorded by Akwa's systems will be used for billing and enforcement purposes unless demonstrably incorrect.

Generated and production materials. Using an API, MCP connection, or other Developer Access does not change the ownership, licensing, Design Trust, production, or other rules that apply to the underlying Akwa service or material. A design, Garment Twin, tech pack, production brief, Design Trust result, or other material accessed or created programmatically remains subject to the same applicable plan, licence, usage restrictions, and disclaimers as if it had been accessed through the Akwa user interface.

Security and suspension. Akwa may rotate, restrict, suspend, or revoke Developer Access or individual credentials where reasonably necessary to protect Akwa, its users, infrastructure, data, intellectual property, or third-party services; where credentials appear compromised; where usage materially exceeds applicable limits; where payment is overdue; or where these Terms are breached. Where reasonably practicable, Akwa will limit the restriction to the affected credential, integration, or Workspace rather than suspending unrelated access.

Third-party systems. If you connect Akwa to a third-party application, platform, PLM, agent, service, or system, you are responsible for that third party's access to your Akwa data and for configuring the connection appropriately. Akwa is not responsible for a third party's acts, omissions, security, availability, or use of information after it has been transmitted to that third party at your direction.

5. Plans, purchases, and billing

Akwa offers free account access for browsing, alongside subscriptions, one-time design purchases, catalogue briefs, and other paid products; design generation requires a paid plan (the free design tier was discontinued on 11 September 2026). Pricing shown in the product, checkout, or app store listing controls for the specific purchase.

Web NGN payments are processed through Paystack. Supported non-NGN web catalogue and subscription payments may be processed through Stripe. Native iOS and Android purchases are processed through the Apple App Store or Google Play, with RevenueCat used for purchase orchestration and fulfilment. On iOS, the App Store determines the final price for your territory, including any applicable VAT; the price you see in the App Store at the moment of purchase controls.

Akwa does not receive or store full payment card details. Payment processors and app stores handle those details under their own terms and privacy notices.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the next renewal date. One-time purchases, including catalogue briefs and packs, do not renew. Refunds are handled according to the payment method used, applicable law, and (for native purchases) the rules of Apple or Google.

If you are in the EEA, UK, or another jurisdiction with a digital-content right of withdrawal, you have a 14-day right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content or services unless you have expressly waived that right at checkout. Akwa collects this waiver as a separate, affirmative checkbox before payment for monthly and annual subscriptions, credit top-up and one-off purchases, and catalogue brief purchases. By ticking the waiver and proceeding to payment, you request immediate performance and acknowledge that the right of withdrawal no longer applies once delivery has begun.

These Terms also apply to purchases of physical products through Akwa or Yibo & Kosy (formerly Egoyibo Okoro) unless separate product-specific terms are expressly provided.

6. Physical Products (Yibo & Kosy Fashion House)

Akwa B.V. may offer physical products under the Yibo & Kosy house name, including garments, accessories, footwear, and related merchandise.

Product Information

We aim to describe and photograph products as accurately as possible. Because garments are made from natural materials and viewed on different devices, colours, textures and finishes may vary slightly from the images shown. Many Yibo & Kosy garments are produced in limited quantities or made to order, and minor variations between individual garments may occur and are part of the character of handcrafted production.

Availability

All products are offered subject to availability. Limited editions, pre-orders and archived collections may become unavailable without notice. Adding a product to your basket does not reserve it until your order has been accepted.

Pricing

Prices are shown at checkout and include VAT where required by applicable law unless stated otherwise. Shipping costs, customs duties, import taxes and local charges are calculated or disclosed during checkout where possible. Customers remain responsible for any import duties or taxes imposed by their destination country unless expressly stated otherwise.

Orders

After placing an order you will receive an acknowledgement email. This does not constitute acceptance of your order. Akwa may decline or cancel an order where payment cannot be verified, stock becomes unavailable, fraud is suspected, pricing errors occur, or applicable laws require cancellation.

Delivery

Estimated delivery dates are provided in good faith but are estimates only. Delivery delays caused by customs authorities, carriers, weather events or circumstances outside Akwa's reasonable control do not constitute a breach of these Terms. Risk in the goods passes to you upon delivery.

Returns

Consumer customers may have statutory cancellation and return rights under applicable consumer law. Unless an item is defective or incorrectly supplied, personalised products, made-to-measure garments, bespoke commissions, and products altered at the customer's request cannot normally be returned once produced or supplied. Returned items must be unworn, unwashed, with original tags and packaging where reasonably possible.

Defective Products

Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory consumer rights relating to defective or non-conforming goods. If you believe your order is defective, please contact support promptly with photographs and your order number.

Garment Care

Care instructions supplied with each garment should be followed. Akwa is not responsible for damage caused by improper washing, drying, alterations or storage after delivery.

7. Fair Use

Akwa is licensed for genuine human-led creative and tailoring use. It is not licensed for account sharing, scraping, industrial prompt farming, abuse of trial quotas, or repackaging Akwa's outputs as a white-label system without written permission.

What you must not do

Akwa may throttle, suspend, refuse fulfilment, or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or abuse the service.

8. Intellectual property and licensing

You retain ownership of the lawful text, images, and instructions you submit to Akwa. You grant Akwa a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, transmit, process, and analyse your prompts and reference images for the purposes of generating, refining, rendering, and delivering your design output, and for ordinary service operations such as rate-limit checks, abuse monitoring, and quality review for up to 30 days after delivery. Akwa does not use your uploads to train AI models; the AI sub-processors that process your inputs, under their terms, do not train their models on your raw inputs or outputs, though they may retain anonymised or aggregated usage data. Akwa's software, prompts, workflow design, interface, branding, catalogue structure, and non-user content remain Akwa's property. All designs, concepts, and creative content published by Akwa are the original intellectual property of Akwa B.V.

Designs you create using the Akwa design wizard, Akwa Capture, or any other user-facing generation surface are intended for your use within the scope of your plan tier (personal, professional, or commercial as your plan permits). Akwa retains anonymised metadata and aggregate visual statistics for service improvement, but does not republish individual user-generated designs. Where your plan does not include commercial use, you must not resell, sublicense, or redistribute the design output as a standalone product.

Licence tiers

Custom commissions (Akwa Studio)

Where a customer commissions Akwa Studio to create a design specifically for that customer under an agreed statement of work, the commissioned design is created exclusively for the customer and not listed in the public catalogue. Subject to payment in full, Akwa assigns to the customer any rights, title and interest that Akwa holds in the final commissioned design, to the extent such rights are capable of assignment under applicable law; use is subject to any limitations expressly agreed in the statement of work. The statement of work defines the final commissioned deliverables and the point at which ownership attaches; drafts, rejected concepts, and other interim materials outside the defined deliverables are not transferred unless the statement of work expressly provides otherwise. Akwa retains all rights in its pre-existing and underlying technology, software, systems, workflows, methods, templates, tools and know-how; no rights in those materials are transferred by the commission. Unless otherwise agreed in writing for confidential or white-label work, Akwa may identify itself as the design creator and receive appropriate design credit. Akwa treats commission briefs, references, unpublished designs, and brand information as confidential, and retains the right to decline any commission request.

AI-generated outputs

This section applies to Akwa-generated outputs other than custom commissions, which are governed by the custom commissions terms above; Akwa Studio commissions may include human creative direction, selection, review, refinement or curation where specified in the applicable statement of work. Akwa uses AI tools to generate design outputs. Outputs are generated and refined automatically within Akwa's proprietary, software-based design system; Akwa does not provide human review or curation of individual designs. Akwa asserts ownership of design outputs that Akwa itself publishes in the Akwa catalogue and licences rights to buyers per the licence tiers above; designs you generate through the design wizard or other user-facing generation surfaces are governed by the user-generation terms above, and final commissioned designs are assigned to the commissioning customer as set out in the custom commissions terms. The IP status of AI-assisted works continues to evolve across jurisdictions; for commercial or exclusive licences, you are responsible for assessing the position in your own jurisdiction if relevant.

9. AI and tailoring disclaimer

Akwa generates AI-assisted briefs and images. They are intended to help creative decision-making and tailoring communication, not to replace professional judgement. You are responsible for checking fit, measurements, fabric suitability, construction feasibility, local legal compliance, and any intellectual property or commercial risks before use.

Akwa's briefs are starting points for conversation with a tailor, seamstress, atelier, or production partner. Final specifications must be confirmed at fitting and before cutting.

10. Privacy and data

Your use of Akwa is also governed by the Privacy Notice and, where relevant, the Akwa Mirror notice.

11. Suspension, termination, and account deletion

You may stop using Akwa at any time and you may delete your account through Settings. Akwa may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, abuse the service, create legal or security risk, or fail to pay for a paid product.

12. Liability and indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Akwa is provided "as is" and "as available". Akwa does not guarantee uninterrupted access, perfectly accurate outputs, or that any garment made from an Akwa brief will meet your expectations without professional review and fitting.

Nothing in this section limits any mandatory statutory rights consumers may have in relation to defective physical goods under applicable consumer protection laws.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Akwa's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Services, the Production Outputs, or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of (a) EUR 2,000; or (b) the total fees paid by the Customer to Akwa during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. The foregoing limitation applies regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute, or otherwise. Akwa is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages.

Akwa designs are original works produced by Akwa's own design system; Akwa does not copy named brands and does not point its prompt-compiler at trademarked third-party fashion houses. This indemnification therefore concerns claims that arise from your conduct, not Akwa's outputs. You will defend, indemnify, and hold Akwa B.V., its directors, officers, employees, and agents harmless from any third-party claim, damage, or legal cost arising from (a) reference images or other content you submitted to Akwa that you did not have the right to provide; (b) modifications, additions, or third-party logos, trademarks, or trade-dress you applied to an Akwa-generated design after delivery; or (c) your use of an Akwa-generated design outside the scope of your plan tier or your licence. This indemnification does not apply to any claim that arises solely from Akwa's own breach of these Terms or Akwa's own unlawful conduct.

13. Design Services: Design Trust, Design Check, and creative tools

Akwa's design services may include design generation, Sketch It, Build Block by Block, Design Trust, Design Check, portfolio-level design intelligence, design screening, design fingerprinting, tailor briefs, and production outputs (together, the "Design Services"). Different Design Services perform different functions and carry different technical, evidential, and legal limitations. The availability of one Design Service is not evidence that any other review, validation, screening, or production process has been completed. Unless expressly stated for a particular Service, outputs are decision-support and creative-workflow outputs, and you remain responsible for decisions to publish, pitch, procure, license, manufacture, market, sell, or otherwise commercially rely on a design.

Design Trust is screening, not certification. Design Trust screens a design for resemblance to a recognizable design signature while distinguishing that from shared cultural heritage and common garment archetypes, and grades the result (No Triggers Detected, Triggers Detected, Hold for Review, or Screen Incomplete). It is not legal advice, a legal opinion, intellectual-property clearance, a freedom-to-operate analysis, an infringement determination, an originality or authenticity certificate, a guarantee of uniqueness, or a guarantee that a design may lawfully or commercially be used in any jurisdiction. A result that does not surface a trigger does not establish that no similar design exists, that the design is original, that no third-party rights are implicated, or that publication or commercialisation is risk-free.

A similarity, resemblance, convergence, or near-duplicate signal does not by itself establish copying, infringement, misappropriation, or lack of originality. Designs may resemble one another because they share garment archetypes, functional constraints, seasonal conventions, a common design vocabulary, or a shared cultural or heritage tradition. Heritage-context assessment does not determine cultural ownership, authenticity, community consent, or entitlement to use a cultural expression.

Certain Design Services use more than one independent automated assessor, which may agree, disagree, or fail to complete. Where a design is held for review, that review is the responsibility of the User or, for an organisational account, the Customer's authorised personnel or advisers. Akwa does not provide human review as part of Design Trust or Design Check, and does not make your publication, procurement, production, commercialisation, intellectual-property, or legal decision.

Design Check is a private, pre-publication screening for a single design. The uploaded design is processed for the screen and then deleted, together with any description of it. Akwa retains only a minimal screening record and a cryptographic fingerprint of the file, not the uploaded design itself. To deliver the report you paid for, Akwa holds the deliverable result for a short period (currently up to 7 days) so you can retrieve it, after which it is deleted. Further detail is in the Privacy Notice.

Where enabled, portfolio-level design intelligence may surface patterns across a body of work (recurrence, convergence, proximity, near-duplication, novelty). A recurring pattern is not inherently negative and Akwa does not determine, from recurrence or proximity alone, whether it is intentional, original, infringing, or commercially appropriate. Sketch It and Build Block by Block do not guarantee that any output is unique, original, protectable, technically feasible, or non-infringing.

Warranties for Design Services. Without limitation, Akwa does not warrant that any screening process is exhaustive; that any output is original, unique, non-infringing, or legally cleared; that all similarities, third-party rights, protected designs, trade dress, copyright interests, or cultural interests will be identified; or that a No Triggers Detected or equivalent outcome establishes the absence of legal, commercial, reputational, or other risk. Except for rights and remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, and subject to section 14 where you are a consumer, the Design Services, screening records, automated assessments, similarity and heritage signals, portfolio intelligence, and generated outputs are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

14. Consumers

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or limits any mandatory right or remedy available to a consumer under applicable law. Where a consumer purchases a paid Design Service, Akwa will supply the digital content or digital service in accordance with applicable mandatory consumer law. The Service remains subject to the disclosed scope, technical limits, usage limits, and inherent limitations described in these Terms and at the point of purchase. A consumer remains responsible for the decision to publish, sell, or otherwise commercially use a design, but this section does not exclude any responsibility that applicable law does not permit Akwa to exclude.

15. Business customers

A Business Customer remains responsible for its own legal, commercial, intellectual-property, procurement, production, and publication decisions, and must determine the level of human and professional review appropriate to each design, including where Design Trust returns Triggers Detected or Hold for Review, where assessors disagree, or where material investment or a specific third-party right may be implicated. Unless expressly agreed in writing, Akwa does not assume a Business Customer's due-diligence obligations, and personnel authorised to act on Design Trust outcomes should understand that screening signals are decision-support outputs, not legal determinations. A Business Customer is also responsible for users, applications, agents and integrations authorised to act through its Workspace or Developer Access credentials.

16. Governing law, entity, and contact

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer rights that apply in your home jurisdiction.

Akwa is operated by Akwa B.V., a Dutch besloten vennootschap (private limited liability company) incorporated in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and registered with the Kamer van Koophandel (Dutch Chamber of Commerce) under KvK number 42056851.

Questions: legal@akwa.design

Akwa B.V.
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
KvK: 42056851
Contact: legal@akwa.design