This Acceptable Use Policy forms part of our Terms of Service and applies to everyone who uses the Attesian Service. Where these rules refer to what the Service is for, it is a registry and trust infrastructure — not a marketplace, gallery, appraiser, or messaging platform.
1. Purpose
Attesian exists to create honest, verifiable records of origin. Conduct that undermines the truthfulness of those records harms the whole community that relies on them, and is prohibited regardless of whether it is technically possible.
2. What may be registered
The Service is for:
- unique physical works by living artists — painting, drawing, works on paper, photographic prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, mixed media, and contemporary craft;
- editioned physical works, with honest handling of edition size, numbering, proofs, and plate or mould status.
You must notregister antiquities, excavated objects, or cultural-heritage material. Every history has to begin with a living artist who made the work, so these objects don't belong here and must not be presented as if they do.
3. Keeping records honest
A history is only ever added to, and corrections are always visible. You must not try to get around this, tamper with certificates or the daily timestamp that proves records haven't changed, or misrepresent what a certificate means — for example, presenting an entry only one person noted as if others had confirmed it.
4. What you must not do
You must not use the Service to:
- falsely claim who made a work, or register work you didn't create or aren't allowed to record;
- pretend to be an artist, gallery, venue, collector, or Attesian;
- add information you know to be false, misleading, or dishonest;
- infringe other people's intellectual property or privacy;
- upload unlawful content, or anything defamatory, harassing, or abusive;
- launder money, evade tax, or do anything else unlawful with money through records on the Service;
- break into, overload, scrape, or get around the security and privacy protections of the Service;
- try to identify people who chose to stay private, or work out an individual work's sale price from the broad ranges we show.
5. Faking confirmations
Confirmations are the backbone of trust here. You must not fake or coordinate confirmations, ask people to confirm things that didn't happen, or use one-time confirmation links other than as intended. A confirmation from both sides must be a genuine agreement between genuinely separate people.
6. Heritage & identity data
Heritage and identity information is something people share about themselves. You must not add it about someone else without their permission, and must not use identity information in a way that is discriminatory or harmful. It is shown only with permission everywhere, including on certificates and in partner versions of the Service.
7. Enforcement
Breaking these rules may lead to removal of the content, suspension or loss of access, and referral to the authorities where appropriate. Because a history is only ever added to, we don't quietly delete entries to cover up a breach — instead, false or unlawful entries are corrected with visible new entries, and personal data is removed as the law requires.
8. Reporting
If you believe a record is false, a work is misattributed, or the Service is being abused, report it to trust@attesian.com. Protecting the integrity of the registry is a shared responsibility, and we take reports seriously.