Terms.

Who this agreement is with

This site is operated by [PLACEHOLDER: registered name and address of the legal entity], called "we" and "us" below. "You" is whoever is reading it.

Using the site means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, the remedy is simple and costs you nothing: close the page.

What Arted is right now

Arted is a mobile app in development. It is not released, it is not available to download, and nothing on this site is an offer to sell you anything. The site describes what is being built and takes an address from people who want to hear when it is ready.

The store buttons say "coming soon" because that is what they mean. They lead to the waitlist and nowhere else.

The waitlist

Joining the waitlist means we may email you about Arted. It is not a contract, not a reservation, and not a place in a queue that anyone is counting. It does not entitle you to access, to a particular price, to a free period, or to a release on any date.

Use an address you control. Putting somebody else's address in the form is not a joke we can undo for them, and it is the one thing this form can be misused for.

You can leave at any time, from any message we send or by asking at the contact page. What we do with the address while you are on the list is in the privacy policy.

Age

You may read this site at any age. To join the waitlist you must be at least 16, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for agreeing to something like this on your own.

What you may do here

Read it, share it, quote it with a link back, print it, translate it for your own reading, and send it to anyone you like. Write about it and use short quotations from it. You do not need our permission for any of that.

What you may not do here

• Submit addresses that are not yours, or use the form to test whether an address exists.
• Collect addresses from this site by any automated means. That is what the contact page is built against.
• Attack the site or the service behind it, or try to reach any part of it you were not offered. Probing for weaknesses is welcome only if you tell us what you find, and you tell us first.
• Copy the site's text or design and present it as your own, or as somebody else's.
• Use anything here to train a model that reproduces it, or to build a service that passes our writing off as its own.
• Break the law with it.

Ordinary crawling by search engines is fine and welcome. robots.txt says so.

What belongs to us

The name Arted, the mark, the wordmark, the design of this site and of the app, the illustrations drawn for it, and every sentence we wrote are ours, or are used by us with permission. Reading them gives you no licence to them beyond section 5.

What belongs to other people

The artworks are not ours, and we have never claimed a right in them we do not have. Every image in the product comes from an institution that has declared that particular object free to reuse, and it carries that declaration with it. How that works, which institutions, and what to do if you hold a right in something you find here, is set out on the rights and credits page.

Accuracy

We check what we publish against the record of the institution that holds the object, and we cite it. Art history still argues with itself: attributions move, dates get revised, and a label written in 1911 can be confidently wrong. Treat what you read here as a good starting point rather than as a citation of last resort, and tell us when we are wrong.

The counts on the front page carry the month they were true. They are counts of what is in the product, not a promise about what will be in it later.

The site is offered as it is

We do not promise the site will always be up, always be current, or always work in your browser. We do not promise the app will be released, or released with any particular feature in it. To the extent the law lets us, we exclude the implied warranties that would otherwise say we did promise those things.

Nothing here removes a right you have as a consumer that cannot be removed by agreement. Where your local law gives you such a right, it wins over this section.

Liability

We are responsible for harm we cause by our own deliberate wrongdoing or gross negligence, and for anything the law does not permit us to limit, including death or personal injury caused by our negligence and any liability for fraud.

Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit, or for lost data arising from your use of this site. Since the site costs you nothing, our total liability for anything else is capped at one hundred euros.

Links to other places

We link to museums, collections and archives because the record is theirs and you should be able to reach it. We do not control those sites and we are not responsible for what is on them. Their terms apply when you are there, not ours.

Ending this

You can stop using the site whenever you like, and coming off the waitlist ends the only ongoing thing between us. We can stop serving the site, or remove an address that is being used to abuse the form, without notice. Sections 7, 8, 10, 11 and 15 survive whatever ends.

Changing these terms

We will change this page when the product changes, and the app opening will change it. The date at the top is the date of the version you are reading. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the new version. If a change matters to people on the waitlist, we email them rather than relying on you to notice.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of [PLACEHOLDER: governing law], and disputes go to the courts of [PLACEHOLDER: forum].

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring a claim in your own courts. If one part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

How to reach us

Questions about these terms, and any notice you have to give us under them, go through the contact page.