Legal & Terms

Last updated: January 2025

Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using the IPFN service, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provision of this agreement.

2. Use License

Permission is granted to temporarily use IPFN for personal, non-commercial purposes. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title.

3. User Responsibilities

You are responsible for:

Ensuring you have the right to certify any work you submit
Maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials
All activities that occur under your account
Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations

4. Certification Accuracy

IPFN provides cryptographic certification of files but does not verify ownership, copyright, or legal rights. Users are solely responsible for ensuring they have the right to certify submitted works.

5. Limitation of Liability

IPFN and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from your use of the service.

Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly to us, including:

Name and email address
Work metadata (title, description, license information)
Cryptographic hashes of certified files

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

Provide, maintain, and improve our services
Generate and manage IPFN certificates
Communicate with you about your account
Ensure security and prevent fraud

Data Sharing

Certificate metadata (IPFN, CID, SHA-256, title, author) is published publicly by design. We do not share your email address or other personal information with third parties except as required by law.

Your rights stay yours — always

Nothing we do ever takes an author's or artist's rights. Registering an image, publishing a book, opening a studio, selling a print — none of it transfers ownership of your work to us. You retain full rights to everything you create, forever. There is no sneaky language anywhere on this platform that says otherwise, and there never will be.

Where a specific agreement exists (like a publishing agreement for a book), it spells out exactly what we may do — and it is the same standard contract for everyone, written to be read. You are always invited to take it to an attorney.

We don't sell your data

We don't sell anyone's data. We don't run third-party ad trackers, and we don't hand your personal information to data brokers or ad networks. The platform keeps the minimal first-party records it needs to function — your account, your work, your orders — and that's it.

Certificate and registration metadata (your IPFN, the work's title, the claimant name you chose) is public by design — that's what makes a registration verifiable. Your private details are not.

Questions About Our Policies?

If you have any questions about these terms or our privacy policy, please contact us.

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Operated by Blinding Visuals Press