Fabricate Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: 2026-04-29 Version: 1

This policy lists what you can and can't do on Fabricate. It supplements the Terms of Service — agreeing to those means agreeing to this. Breach can result in account suspension, termination, forfeiture of pending payouts, and where required, reports to law enforcement.

If you see something on the platform that breaches this policy, email helixdreamsco@gmail.com with a link to the job, file, or maker. Anonymous reports are accepted.

1. What you must never print, order, or list

The categories below are absolute prohibitions. Both creators and makers commit to these.

Weapons and items designed to harm

Firearms, firearm components, receivers, magazines, suppressors, or any part substantially similar to a firearm, regardless of whether the component is "the regulated part" under the Firearms Act 1968 — we don't make those judgments, we just don't allow any of it.
Ammunition components, casings, primers, projectiles.
Restricted offensive weapons under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959: knuckle dusters, push daggers, swordsticks, butterfly knives, gravity knives, telescopic batons, throwing stars, zombie knives.
Imitation firearms, even legal ones, including airsoft and BB-gun parts.
Spring-loaded or trap-style mechanisms intended to harm an animal or person.
Edged or pointed items clearly designed for combat use rather than sport, kitchen, or craft.

Lock-picking and security-defeat tools

Bump keys, skeleton keys, jiggler keys, or any device designed to defeat a specific lock without authorisation.
Vehicle entry tools (slim jims, lockout wedges, key cloning rigs).
Decoders for commercial alarm or access systems.
Anti-theft tag removers.

Drugs, drug paraphernalia, and unregulated substances

Items intended for the cultivation, manufacture, packaging, or use of controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
Pipes, bongs, grinders, or similar items where context makes the intended use clear.
Vape cartridge moulds or tooling for unregulated vape products.

Counterfeit goods and IP infringement

Items bearing a trademark you don't own or aren't authorised to use (logos, brand names, distinctive trade dress).
Replicas of patented or design-right-protected products you don't have a licence for.
Files copied from another designer or maker's commercial product without permission.
Currency, banknotes, postage stamps, or government-issued IDs in any form.

Sexual content and content involving minors

Sexual or explicit imagery, products, or accessories involving anyone under 18 — strictly prohibited under the Protection of Children Act 1978 and we will report to the police.
Adult products in general are not permitted on Fabricate at this time.

Regulated items we can't verify

We don't permit listings for items that legally require certification we have no way to check:

Medical devices, implants, dental appliances, or prosthetics requiring CE / UKCA medical-device marking.
Toys for children under 14 (per Toy Safety Regulations 2011) without your CE/UKCA toy compliance.
Items that contact food unless made from food-safe certified material with appropriate post-processing — we recommend skipping the platform for these and using a regulated bureau.
PPE / safety equipment claiming to protect against impact, chemicals, or other hazards.

Hate, harassment, and terrorism

Symbols, names, or imagery of organisations proscribed under UK terrorism legislation.
Items promoting violence against, or harassing, an identifiable person or group on the basis of race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
Doxxing tooling or items designed to be used to identify and harass a specific individual.

Export-controlled and dual-use items

Items, components, or software subject to UK Strategic Export Control or the US ITAR regime.
Cryptographic devices subject to export controls.
Drone components beyond hobbyist class without appropriate certification.

2. Marketplace integrity

These apply to how you use Fabricate, regardless of what you're printing.

Don't transact off-platform. If you've matched on Fabricate, the payment, the chat, and the dispute path all stay on Fabricate. Arranging payment outside to avoid the platform fee is grounds for permanent account closure.
Don't manipulate reviews. No paid reviews, no review trades, no fake accounts. The mutual reveal-on-both system makes this hard, but the rule still applies.
Don't impersonate. Use your real name (or a real business name) and your real address. Identity is verified by Stripe Identity for makers; creators we trust on best-effort and revoke for breach.
Don't scrape, mass-export, or reverse-engineer. Includes auto-bidding bots, scraping maker prices, or dumping the public maker register. Fair-use access (browsing, normal API consumption) is fine.
Don't abuse the dispute system. Disputes filed in obvious bad faith (e.g. weeks after pickup, with no contact attempt) will be denied and may count toward suspension.

3. What you do print

Most things, if not on the lists above. The platform is for hobby parts, prototypes, replacement components, household widgets, gifts, art objects, jewellery, models, board-game tokens, RPG miniatures, custom phone holders, plant pots, the entire surface area of useful 3D printing.

We're a marketplace for makers and creators in good faith. Use your judgement; if you wouldn't want a friend to learn you'd printed it, don't print it here.

4. Files and copyright

You confirm at upload that you own the file or have a licence to use it for this print run.
Fabricate doesn't pre-screen uploaded files. We respond to good-faith takedown notices from rights holders at helixdreamsco@gmail.com under the UK's notice-and-takedown framework.
If a maker prints a file in good faith and the file turns out to infringe, the dispute is between the rights holder and the creator who uploaded it — not the maker.

5. Enforcement

Soft warning for ambiguous first-time issues (we email you, you fix it).
Removal of a listing for clearer breaches.
Account suspension while we investigate serious or repeated breaches.
Permanent termination for absolute prohibitions (weapons, CSAM, impersonation, fraud).
Forfeiture of pending payouts where the breach is the reason a job didn't complete or where they were the proceeds of a prohibited transaction.
Report to law enforcement for offences we are required by law to report (CSAM, terrorism material, fraud above the proceeds-of-crime threshold).

We don't refund the platform fee on breach-driven closures.

6. Changes

When this policy materially changes we'll bump the version number and update the date at the top. The Terms of Service incorporate this policy by reference, so the consent gate triggers the same way it does for terms or privacy changes.

7. Contact

Anything in this policy — questions, reports, takedown notices, or disputes about a removal — goes to helixdreamsco@gmail.com.