Terms of service

What we sell

Your World in Bricks sells digital brick designs: illustrated building instructions, parts lists, shopping lists and 3D model files. Bricks are not included. You buy any bricks you need separately, from LEGO® Pick a Brick, BrickLink or another retailer, under that retailer's terms and prices. Brick-cost estimates on this site are estimates, not quotes.

We are an independent service. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site. Designs of real buildings are independent artistic models and are not affiliated with or endorsed by the buildings' owners or architects.

Who can use the service

We currently accept accounts and orders only from US residents. Account holders must be at least 18. A parent or guardian must create and control the account and make purchases for children.

Your account

You need an account to buy, claim or download designs. Keep your sign-in secure; you are responsible for activity on your account.

Custom designs

A custom design (your home or a brick painting from your photo) is a one-time purchase at the price shown at checkout. We create models from photos you upload and have permission to use. We don't use Google Street View or map imagery to design your model; an address, if you type one, is only a label for your project.

Delivery. We deliver within 24 hours after payment (and your photos). If we miss that, you can choose a full refund or a new delivery time. Most designs are ready in about an hour.

Designs are created with AI and automated tools, then checked by software. They are a stylized brick interpretation, not an exact replica: colors are limited to real brick colors, and some details are simplified or inferred where photos don't show them. Instructions are checked by software and have not been physically built, so occasionally a step may need a small adjustment.

Problems. If a design fails, or has a problem that stops you building it, tell us and we will retry or revise it at no charge. If we can't fix a problem that stops you building it within 7 days of you telling us, you can choose a full refund. If we can't make a design from your photos at all (for example, a house shape we don't support yet), we will tell you and refund you. If a yearly build credit paid for a design we couldn't deliver or fix, we restore the credit instead.

Membership

Membership gives you the instructions and files for every design in our library while your membership is active, including designs we add. It costs $20 a month or $199 a year, billed in advance, and renews automatically until you cancel. Before you join we show the price, how often you're charged and how to cancel, and we ask you to agree to automatic renewal.

Cancelling. Cancel anytime in Membership → Manage or cancel. If you can't use that page, email support@yourworldinbricks.com and we will cancel for you before your next renewal. Cancellation stops future charges; you keep access through the period you've paid for, and we email you a confirmation with the date access ends. Cancelling doesn't refund the current period, except as described under Refunds.

Yearly plan. We email you a reminder about 35 days before each yearly renewal. Each paid year includes one custom design of your choice (a build credit). Switching from monthly to yearly charges the yearly price today, less the unused part of your month; we show the exact amount before you confirm. If you had scheduled a cancellation, switching removes it only if you confirm that.

Build credits. Unused credits are frozen during a lapse and become usable again when membership resumes. They stay yours if you switch to the monthly plan. Credits have no cash value and cannot be transferred.

Price changes. We may change membership prices. We will email you at least 30 days before a new price applies; it applies only from a renewal after that notice, and you can cancel before then.

When membership ends

Files you downloaded while you were a member may still be used under the personal licence below. Further library downloads end until you rejoin; the library designs stay listed in your account.

Designs you bought individually, free designs you claimed and custom designs paid for with a build credit are not affected: they stay in your account to download, with the same personal licence.

Free designs

Each week we offer some library designs for free. A free design you claim while it is offered stays in your account; the free offer itself ends when the week's selection changes.

Refunds

Digital designs are generally not refundable once the completed files are available to you, except:

Late delivery: if we miss the 24-hour delivery time, you can choose a full refund or a new delivery time.

Problems: a full refund if we can't fix a problem that stops you building the design within 7 days, or if we can't make a design from your photos.

Before we start: if you change your mind before your design starts, we refund it.

Membership: if you join or are charged for a renewal you didn't intend, contact us within 14 days and, if you haven't downloaded library files since that charge, we will refund it.

Refunds go back to your original payment method; we start them within 5 business days of agreeing, and your bank may take a few more days. Contact support@yourworldinbricks.com. Nothing here limits refund rights you have under law.

Ownership and your licence

You retain the rights you hold in your photos and other inputs. We retain the rights we hold in our software and original content, including our library designs. AI-generated elements may not be protected by copyright, and outputs may resemble other designs. We do not promise exclusive ownership of any design.

We give you a personal, non-commercial licence to the designs you can download: to build, display and gift your own models, make copies and changes for your own use, keep backups, and share photos of what you build. You may not resell, redistribute or publish the instructions or files, or use them to make kits for sale, without our written permission.

Your photos and information

You give us, and the service providers who help us, permission to use the photos, notes and details you send to create, check, deliver and support your design, as described in our privacy notice. We won't use your photos or custom design in our public library or marketing without asking you separately.

Content rules

Only upload photos you took or have permission to use. Don't upload anything that infringes someone else's copyright or other rights; images of people who haven't agreed; photos meant to impersonate someone; private documents or other privacy-invasive material; intimate or sexual images; or anything unlawful. We may decline or remove a design request that breaks these rules, and close accounts that repeatedly do.

Complaints and removal requests

If you believe a design on this site shows your home, copies your work, or breaks these rules, email support@yourworldinbricks.com with "Removal request" in the subject, a link to the design and why. For a copyright notice, also include the work you own, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorized and that your notice is accurate. A person reviews every request, and we remove material while we look into it where appropriate.

Support

An AI assistant reads support emails and may answer routine questions; its replies say so. Billing, refunds, cancellations, privacy and legal matters, complaints and anything uncertain go to a person, and you can reply "human" at any time. Automated support may make mistakes. Ask for human review if an answer appears incorrect. This does not limit our responsibility or your legal rights.

Payments

Payments are processed by Stripe, which asks for your billing address. Prices are in US dollars. We don’t currently charge sales tax. We do not store your full card details.

Our responsibility

We provide the service as is, apart from the commitments in these terms. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for the cost or availability of bricks, differences between a model and the real building or picture, or indirect losses, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms excludes consumer rights or liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and these limits do not reduce our delivery, repair or refund commitments. Take care with small parts around young children.

We may update the service and these terms. If a change materially affects you, we will email you before it applies. Changes don't apply to orders you've already placed, and don't take away credits or licences you already have.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, USA, without taking away protections of the law where you live. Questions: support@yourworldinbricks.com.