📜 License

The generator operates under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

You may use it to create your own certificates, print them and hand them out — as a gift, for decoration, for yourself or for friends.

  • the certificate does not imply any institutional origin,
  • you do not remove or hide the tool’s author credit,
  • you do not build a new generator based on this code/graphics without the author’s permission.

For commercial cooperation (e.g. custom design, personalized template) – contact the author.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

📄 Using the generator to issue a certificate of your own skills?

You have qualifications, you’re a specialist, you want to confirm something you actually do professionally?
✅ If you have the basis for it — no one will stop you.
❌ But if you don’t — don’t pretend. This tool does not give you competence or authority.

💡 What this license means – simple, with examples

✅ Allowed (Good!)

🎁 Making a gift for a friend

You create a certificate “Best Friend in the World” and give it to someone close?
Good! That’s exactly what this generator is for.

🏠 Using it at home or in class

You’re a teacher and hand out diplomas like “Super Reader” to kids?
Good! Education + fun = win-win.

🧾 You run a business and hand them out for fun

You create certificates like “License to Smile for No Reason” or “Burger Slayer of the Month” and give them to customers?
Good! Nice branding, nice vibe. Just don’t pretend it’s accredited by the ministry 😄

📚 You’re a trainer running a camp or workshop?

You organize activities in crafts, storytelling, coding, personal development or sewing machine skills, and at the end give a certificate of completion?
Good! People love that, and we’re rooting for you.

👥 You create certificates for members of a club, group or community

You run a book club, a band, a scout troop or an activist group – and want to honor members with a certificate?
Good! Appreciating people is a beautiful thing.

❌ Not allowed (Bad!)

💸 Advertising yourself as a “certificate specialist”

You’ve discovered a clever way to make money and start offering certificates or diplomas on eBay based on this generator?
Bad! You cannot sell services directly built on this tool without the author’s permission.

🛍️ Selling certificates as a product

You run a gift shop and offer ready-made certificates generated here as stand-alone products?
Bad! This tool is not a free product factory for your store. Want to collaborate? Reach out.

📜 Forging a lost official certificate

You had a real training certificate but lost it in the attic, so you try to recreate it here?
Bad! That’s a fake, even if “just for the frame”. Not the way.

🏢 Offering paid certification to companies

You offer businesses or institutions paid certificates “issued by you” using this generator?
Bad! Don’t profit off someone else’s tool without permission. That’s not fair.

⚖️ The gray zone – technically possible, but still not cool

🎯 Issuing a “Certificate of Being a Fool” to a disliked colleague

You don’t have to like them. But by publicly shaming someone with a certificate, you ruin the mood — and that’s not what this tool is for. Bad.

🧪 Using the generator to “certify toxicity” of your ex

A joke as classy as gas-station wine, but using this tool for revenge or mockery is just unfair. That’s not what it’s made for.

🧾 Giving employees a “Survival of the Week” certificate as evaluation

If it’s a joke — fun. But if someone feels it’s instead of a raise, or that you’re mocking them — not cool. The line is thin.

🎓 Pretending to be a university or educational body

You’ve got a great idea for workshops and want them to look “professional”? Awesome! But don’t use this generator’s certificates as fake “academic credentials”. Not the right league.

🤡 Trying to impress your uncle

You create a fake “course completion diploma” just to make your uncle jealous at a family party?
Bad! Unless it’s clearly for laughs and everyone knows it. But if you try to pass it off as real — not cool.