Terms of Service

Tegata is a content authentication and protection service for creative makers. We help you register works, generate Asset Passports, set licensing terms, monitor for possible misuse, and document what you find.

Tegata is technical and informational. We are not a law firm, we do not provide legal advice, and our records do not constitute a legal determination of ownership, infringement, or any other claim. Decisions about whether to send a takedown notice, file a lawsuit, or pursue any other action are yours to make, with your own counsel if you choose.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Tegata. If you are between 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed these terms.

You are responsible for the security of your account credentials and for activity on your account. Notify us at hello@tegata.us if you believe your account has been compromised.

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or close accounts that violate these terms or applicable law.

You retain all rights in the work you upload to Tegata. We do not claim ownership.

You grant Tegata a limited license to host, process, fingerprint, watermark, display, and otherwise handle your work as needed to operate the service you have asked us to provide. This license exists only for those purposes and ends when you delete the work or close your account, subject to the retention periods described in our privacy policy.

You confirm that you have the right to upload each work you submit and that doing so does not violate anyone else's rights or any law.

We do not use your uploaded work to train artificial intelligence models, our own or anyone else's. We do not sell or license your work to third parties without your authorization.

Tegata generates technical records: perceptual fingerprints, invisible watermarks, evidence packets, and audit trails. These records reflect the state of a work at the time of registration and the results of our detection systems at the time they ran.

We surface confidence bands and signal detail, not yes-or-no claims. A match is a candidate for your review, not a verdict. An absence of matches is the absence of detections by our current providers and methods, not a guarantee that none exist.

Our protection methods have measured limits. Detection survival varies by modality and by the kind of transformation applied. We document these limits where you encounter them in the product. We do not represent that Tegata makes your work uncopyable, undetectable to AI training, or invulnerable to misuse.

You set default licensing terms for your work. Tegata routes licensing requests to you. When payment processing is enabled, Tegata facilitates the transaction and charges a fee disclosed at the time.

Tegata is not a party to any license agreement between you and a licensee. The license is between you and the licensee. We provide the tools; you set the terms.

If you believe a Passport on Tegata reflects work that belongs to you, you can file an ownership claim through the link on the public Passport page or by emailing hello@tegata.us. If your claim meets the requirements of a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we will treat it as such and follow our copyright policy.

The current Passport holder will be notified and given an opportunity to respond. We may pause licensing on a disputed Passport during review. We make administrative determinations about whether to mark a Passport disputed, pause activity, or remove material; we do not adjudicate ownership in any legally binding sense.

You may not:

• Upload work you do not have the right to upload.
• Use Tegata to claim work that is not yours, to harass another maker, or to submit false ownership claims.
• Interfere with the service, attempt unauthorized access, or use automated means to extract data beyond what we provide through authorized interfaces.
• Use Tegata in violation of any applicable law.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that engage in any of the above. We maintain a repeat-infringer policy as described in our copyright policy.

If you use a paid plan, the fee, billing period, and what it includes will be disclosed before you subscribe. We may change fees with notice; changes apply to the next billing period.

Tegata is provided as-is. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that Tegata will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that detection or watermarking will produce any particular result.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Tegata's total liability to you for any claim arising from your use of the service is limited to the greater of one hundred US dollars or the amount you paid Tegata in the twelve months before the claim arose.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost data, even if we have been advised of the possibility.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

You will defend and indemnify Tegata against claims arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the service, or your violation of another person's rights or applicable law.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of laws principles.

Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction that requires disputes to be resolved elsewhere, that requirement controls.

We may update these terms as Tegata grows. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent change. Material changes will be communicated by email or in-product notice before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

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