Terms of service

1. The service

QRaft provides free, browser-based tools for creating, reading and converting QR codes and barcodes, and articles about using them. No account is needed. We may add, change or remove features at any time.

2. Your content and your codes

• You keep all rights to the content you put into codes and to the logos you upload.
• The QR codes and barcodes you generate are yours to use for any lawful purpose, including commercially, with no attribution required.
• You are responsible for what your codes contain and where they lead, and for having the rights to any logo or content you use.
• Because codes are created on your device, we don't store them and can't recover them.

3. Acceptable use

You must not use the site or codes made with it to:

• deceive people, including phishing, impersonating a person or organisation, or replacing legitimate QR codes with your own;
• distribute malware or link to content that harms devices or data;
• commit fraud or facilitate any illegal activity, or infringe others' intellectual property or privacy;
• harass, threaten or exploit anyone, or share content that sexualises minors;
• interfere with the site, for example by overloading it, probing for vulnerabilities outside our security policy, scraping at scale, or abusing our forms.

We may block access from sources that violate these terms. Report misuse through our report abuse page.

4. Intellectual property

The website's design, software, text, illustrations and the QRaft name and logo belong to us or our licensors. You may link to our pages and quote short extracts with attribution. Please don't copy articles or the site's design wholesale. The tools use open-source software, which remains under its own licences. QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.

5. Your responsibilities

Codes can fail for reasons outside our control: printing, materials, size, lighting, devices, and changes to the destination. Always test codes, including a printed proof, before relying on them or producing them in quantity. Barcodes for retail products need numbers issued by GS1 or your retailer; generating a barcode doesn't give you the right to a product number.

6. Service limitations and availability

The site is provided free, “as is” and “as available”. We work to keep it accurate, secure and online, but we don't guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every code will scan on every device, or that guides are complete or current for your situation. Tools may have usage limits (for example, the number of rows in a bulk upload) to keep them working well for everyone.

7. Third-party links and services

Guides and scanned codes may lead to other websites, and donations are handled by PayPal. We aren't responsible for third-party sites, their content or their practices.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we aren't liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the site or codes created with it, including the cost of reprinting materials. Where liability can't be excluded, it is limited to the greatest extent the law allows. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your statutory rights as a consumer.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

10. Contact

Questions about these terms? Contact us.