Creator legal documents

These are the exact versioned documents presented during creator registration. The registration receipt binds each acceptance to its version and SHA-256 digest.

CREATOR SERVICE TERMS
Version 1.1 — Effective August 22, 2026

1. AGREEMENT AND ELIGIBILITY
These Creator Service Terms govern your individual Seed Signature creator account. By checking the separate affirmation and completing registration, you enter an electronic agreement with the operator of Seed Signature ("Seed Signature"). You represent that you are at least 18 years old or the age of legal majority where you live and have legal capacity to accept these Terms. If you act for an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind it; organization and external-platform services may require additional terms and approval.

2. ELECTRONIC RECORDS AND SIGNATURE CONSENT
You consent to use electronic records and signatures for your Seed Signature account and for account, signing, rights, challenge, collaboration, and ledger records made available through the service. This consent applies throughout your account relationship. You confirm that you have an email address, internet access, a current browser capable of displaying this text, and the ability to download, save, or print UTF-8 text and JSON records. Seed Signature provides accepted documents and receipts in the downloadable creator package; you may also print browser records at your own cost.

You may withdraw electronic-record consent prospectively through the account controls or published support method available at that time. Withdrawal may require account closure because the service is electronic. It does not erase or invalidate records already signed, delivered, accepted, or retained. You must keep your contact information current. If access requirements materially change, Seed Signature will disclose the new requirements and obtain renewed consent where required.

3. CREATOR ACCOUNT AND CREDENTIALS
Registration requests a canonical creator identity, public verification key, one-time-delivered private signing key, public Seed Signature brand, creator package, and an internal wallet identifier. You must provide accurate information, protect your password, devices, sessions, and private key, and promptly rotate a key you believe is exposed. You are responsible for authorizations made with your valid credentials or key except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise. You may not sell, transfer, or share an account in a way that defeats identity, delegation, or audit controls.

4. SERVICE SCOPE
Seed Signature provides cryptographic authorization, provenance, lineage, attribution, verification, collaboration, rights-record, and internal ledger tools. The exact payload you authorize—not merely the visual brand—is the signed instrument. Some records require a recipient countersignature or unanimous participant authorization before they become complete. Seed Signature may provide public-safe verification and approved partner-session results without exposing private keys or private authority internals.

5. YOUR ASSETS AND LIMITED SERVICE LICENSE
As between you and Seed Signature, you retain the rights you lawfully hold in assets and declarations you submit. You grant Seed Signature a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license limited to hosting, storing, hashing, analyzing, reproducing, formatting, signing, verifying, displaying authorized public metadata, and transmitting records as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, evidence, and improve the activated service features you use. This operational license does not transfer ownership of your asset to Seed Signature and ends when no longer reasonably required, subject to the preservation duties in Section 11.

6. CREATOR DECLARATIONS
For each Seed Signature, you must accurately state the asset's origin classification, your human contribution, material AI involvement, source and parent lineage, collaborators, licenses, permissions, restrictions, and attribution. Derivative, collaborative, licensed, likeness, and AI-assisted or AI-generated material must be identified through the applicable workflow. Likeness registration requires separate, asset-specific consent and is not authorized merely by accepting these Terms.

7. WHAT A SEED SIGNATURE PROVES
A Seed Signature is evidence that a particular creator key authorized a defined record and that Seed Signature received and countersigned or recorded it at a particular time. It does not by itself create copyright, prove that no earlier work exists, adjudicate authorship or ownership, replace government registration, guarantee enforceability, or provide legal advice. Earlier copyright filings, contracts, licenses, publicity rights, or other credible evidence may precede or limit a declaration.

8. PUBLIC RECORDS AND PARTNER USE
Public-safe records may include your display name, creator ID, public key, Seed Signature brand, asset digest, declared attribution and lineage, authorization state, rights-assertion state, and verification receipt. Approved partner platforms may receive the minimum session result and public-safe metadata required for a workflow you initiate. A partner's own service, privacy terms, and conduct remain separate from Seed Signature.

9. ACCEPTABLE USE
You may not impersonate another person; register material you are not authorized to sign; falsify origin, provenance, attribution, collaboration, identity, or rights information; hide material AI or third-party contributions; exceed a license or delegation; evade an authorized hold; upload malicious code; interfere with security or availability; scrape private records; or use the service to violate law or another person's rights.

10. RIGHTS CHALLENGES AND ENFORCEMENT BOUNDARY
A challenge is not automatically an infringement finding and does not silently erase signed history. Seed Signature may preserve evidence, request responses, record a separate rights status, and place a narrow reviewed hold on enforcement, exclusive licensing, ownership transfer, or settlement payout. Creating and accessing work remain available unless a separate lawful or security restriction applies. Monitoring connectors and outbound legal-notice delivery are not active unless the service expressly says otherwise.

11. RECORD INTEGRITY, SUSPENSION, AND CLOSURE
Seed Signature may restrict a capability or suspend an account to address abuse, compromise, legal process, rights disputes, or service integrity. You may stop using the service and request closure through the published account-support method. Closure does not require Seed Signature to destroy append-only signatures, acceptances, audit evidence, challenges, collaboration records, countersigned instruments, or public verification records where retention is reasonably necessary to preserve another party's record, security, legal obligations, or evidentiary integrity.

12. WALLET AND FINANCIAL BOUNDARY
The wallet issued at registration is an identity-linked internal ledger account. Creator registration does not activate payment custody, deposits, withdrawals, banking, cryptocurrency exchange, escrow, securities services, title settlement, Stripe Treasury, Circle, blockchain settlement, or transfer of underlying file bytes. Any later external settlement feature requires separate activation, eligibility checks, disclosures, and terms.

13. SERVICE AVAILABILITY AND WARRANTIES
Seed Signature may change or discontinue features and does not promise uninterrupted or error-free availability. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided on an "as available" basis without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, or a guaranteed legal outcome. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or liability that applicable law does not allow to be excluded.

14. DISPUTES, LAW, AND MATERIAL CHANGES
This operational baseline does not impose mandatory arbitration, a class-action waiver, a selected governing state, or a contractual monetary liability cap. Applicable law therefore governs unless a later founder-approved version or separately accepted service agreement lawfully states otherwise. Parties should first use the published support method to seek a good-faith resolution. Any later addition of dispute, governing-law, liability-cap, fee, or settlement provisions is a material change requiring a new version and recorded acceptance.

15. ENTIRE CREATOR AGREEMENT AND CONTACT
These Terms, the Privacy and Public-Record Notice, Private Signing-Key Custody Notice, Rights, Originality, and Attribution Declaration, and any separately accepted instrument terms govern the creator onboarding relationship. If an instrument has specific terms, those terms control only that instrument. The operator's verified legal name, mailing address, and legal/privacy support method must be published before public registration is authorized.

CREATOR PRIVACY AND PUBLIC-RECORD NOTICE
Version 1.1 — Effective August 22, 2026

1. SCOPE AND RESPONSIBLE SERVICE
This Notice explains how the operator of Seed Signature collects, uses, discloses, and retains personal information in the creator service. A partner platform may separately control information it collects in its own product. The operator's verified legal name, mailing address, and privacy contact must be published before public registration is authorized.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTED
Seed Signature collects information you provide, including email, display name, entity type, password, public Signature-brand choices, assets, asset metadata, origin and human-contribution statements, AI disclosures, lineage, collaborators, rights and license terms, challenge evidence, and communications or requests you submit. Passwords are stored as hashes, not readable passwords.

The service creates creator, public-key, wallet, content, Seed Signature, receipt, collaboration, challenge, observation, and ledger identifiers and records. It also processes authentication tokens, timestamps, integrity hashes, audit events, request and device information, and HMAC-protected source-IP and user-agent evidence for legal-acceptance receipts. Your browser may store authentication state and interface preferences on your device. The official browser client places a private key delivered or supplied by you in session-scoped browser storage for the current browser session and removes it on logout; it does not place that key in persistent local storage.

3. SOURCES
Information comes from you; from approved partner sessions you choose to use; from collaborators, counterparties, or challengers participating in a governed record; from activated service providers; and from approved observation sources if monitoring is later activated. Candidate observations are not automatic infringement findings.

4. PURPOSES OF USE
Seed Signature uses information to register and authenticate creators; generate and manage public verification keys; deliver a private key once; create and verify Seed Signatures and instruments; preserve attribution, provenance, lineage, rights, collaboration, and ledger history; provide creator-requested partner flows; investigate challenges; prevent abuse; secure and troubleshoot the service; comply with lawful obligations; and maintain reproducible acceptance and audit evidence.

5. PUBLIC AND SHAREABLE RECORDS
Public-safe verification may include display name, creator ID, public key, Signature brand, Seed Signature and wallet identifiers, asset digest, asset type, declared attribution and lineage, authorization and integrity status, rights-assertion status, public terms, timestamps, and verification receipt. Public verification excludes your password hash, email by default, private signing key, raw creator-authorization signature bytes, private authority receipt, private contract terms, raw invitation token, and private challenge evidence. Do not enter confidential information in a field identified as public.

6. DISCLOSURES AND PROCESSORS
Seed Signature may disclose information to infrastructure, private storage, security, identity-verification, and delivery providers only to operate an activated feature; to approved partner platforms for a session you initiate; to authenticated parties entitled to a collaboration, transfer, or challenge record; or when reasonably necessary for legal process, safety, fraud prevention, or protection of rights. Partner integrations receive only the public-safe metadata and session result required by the integration, not creator private keys or private authority internals.

Seed Signature does not sell creator personal information and does not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising in the current service. If that practice changes, a new notice and any legally required choice mechanism must be provided first.

7. IDENTITY VERIFICATION
Identity verification is not required merely to create a creator account or sign an asset. Before certain governed transfers are initiated or accepted, an activated verification provider may host document and selfie collection. Seed Signature stores provider name, session and event identifiers, lifecycle status, non-PII error code, and verification timestamps. The application does not request or store raw government-ID images, selfies, biometric outputs, or provider verified outputs.

8. PRIVATE KEY AND LIKENESS DATA
Seed Signature does not persist a recoverable copy of your creator private signing key. Likeness registration requires a separate asset-specific face or voice consent. The current registry does not persist a raw face or voice embedding and must not be represented as a general biometric-identification service.

9. RETENTION
Seed Signature retains account information while needed to provide and secure the service and to handle requests or disputes. Append-only signatures, legal acceptances, audit evidence, public verification, collaboration, transfer, and challenge history may be retained after closure when deletion would break another party's record, defeat integrity verification, or conflict with legal, security, or evidentiary obligations. Other personal information should be deleted or de-identified when no longer reasonably needed. A production retention schedule with record-specific periods must be approved and published before public registration.

10. SECURITY
Seed Signature uses role-scoped access, private storage, cryptographic integrity evidence, and tamper-detection controls appropriate to the current architecture. No service can guarantee absolute security, and a sufficiently privileged database administrator can alter data; the platform's stated control is restricted access and detection, not an impossible promise of absolute prevention.

11. YOUR CHOICES AND REQUESTS
Subject to identity verification, applicable law, and integrity obligations, you may request access to or correction of account information, closure of your account, or information about applicable privacy rights through the published privacy-support method. Public and countersigned records may not be erasable where removal would falsify signed history or impair another person's rights; corrections may instead be recorded through linked, append-only updates. You may stop an unconsumed partner session and may withdraw electronic-record consent prospectively as described in the Creator Service Terms.

12. CHILDREN
The creator service is not directed to children under 13 and creator registration requires legal majority. Seed Signature does not knowingly authorize a child to create a creator signing account through this flow.

13. CHANGES
A material change to the categories, purposes, public-record boundary, sale or advertising practice, retention, or creator rights will be issued as a new version and presented for renewed acknowledgment or consent where required. Earlier acceptance records remain tied to their exact text and digest.

PRIVATE SIGNING-KEY CUSTODY NOTICE
Version 1.1 — Effective August 22, 2026

1. WHY THE KEY MATTERS
Your Ed25519 private signing key is the secret cryptographic material used to authorize Seed Signature records in your name. Your public key is used to verify those authorizations. The visual Seed Signature brand identifies your public profile but does not replace either key.

2. ONE-TIME DELIVERY AND NO PLATFORM RECOVERY
The key pair is generated during creator issuance. Seed Signature returns the private key once through the authenticated onboarding response and does not persist a recoverable copy in the platform database, creator package, partner platform, public verification record, or private authority service. The browser displays the key on a custody board so you can copy or download it before continuing. The official browser client also holds it in session-scoped browser storage for the current browser session and removes it on logout; it does not place the key in persistent local storage. Seed Signature cannot later reveal, reset, email, or reconstruct that same key.

3. YOUR CUSTODY DUTIES
Before leaving onboarding, save the key in at least one secure location you control. Use encrypted device or password-manager storage with protected backup appropriate to the importance of your records. Keep the backup separate from ordinary asset-sharing channels. Protect the devices, passwords, recovery methods, and software that can access it.

Do not publish the key, email or text it, store it in an unencrypted shared document, paste it into untrusted software, include it in an asset package, give it to a collaborator, or provide it to a partner platform. Seed Signature staff, support, administrators, identity providers, and partner companies should never ask you to disclose the key itself.

4. USE AND AUTHORIZATION CONSEQUENCES
An authorization that verifies against your active public key will be treated as an authorization made with your creator key unless the record or applicable law establishes otherwise. Anyone who obtains the private key may be able to create valid-looking authorizations until the key is rotated or disabled. Review the complete canonical asset or instrument details before using the key; a signature may cover origin, lineage, collaborators, rights, restrictions, attribution, delivery evidence, or contract terms in addition to an asset digest.

5. LOSS, SUSPECTED EXPOSURE, AND ROTATION
If the key is lost, you may lose the ability to authorize new records with it. If it may be exposed, stop using it and use the authenticated key-rotation process promptly. Rotation creates a new key pair, delivers the new private key once, and retires the prior key for future authorizations. It does not recover the old private key, cancel completed instruments, erase historical authorizations, or rewrite the public key and receipts used to verify earlier records.

6. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MATERIAL
Your creator ID, public key, Signature brand, key version, and public verification receipts are intended to be shareable. Your private key and private authority-chain internals are not. The downloadable creator package documents custody and public verification information but intentionally excludes the private key.

7. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
By affirming this Notice, you understand the one-time-delivery design, accept responsibility for secure custody and backup, understand the consequences of loss or disclosure, and agree to use rotation when compromise is suspected. This Notice describes operational custody; it is not a warranty against device compromise, theft, malware, or user error.

CREATOR RIGHTS, ORIGINALITY, AND ATTRIBUTION DECLARATION
Version 1.1 — Effective August 22, 2026

1. PURPOSE
This Declaration establishes the truthfulness standard for every asset or instrument you later authorize. It does not pre-claim ownership of material you have not submitted and does not replace the asset-specific Original Seed Manifest, collaboration agreement, license, transfer, or likeness consent.

2. YOUR CONTINUING DECLARATION
For each record, you will truthfully identify what you created; your human contribution; what came before it; source and parent lineage; everyone whose contribution or consent must be disclosed; material artificial-intelligence use; third-party material; the rights, licenses, delegations, and permissions you rely on; and any restrictions or attribution duties that limit your authority.

3. PERMITTED CATEGORIES
You may register an original human contribution, an authorized derivative, a collaborative work, licensed material, AI-assisted work, AI-generated material with a truthful human-contribution statement, source code, documents, datasets, models, spatial assets, archives, and other digital artifacts supported by the registry. Registering a face or voice likeness requires a separate asset-specific consent embedded in the signed manifest. A licensee or organization delegate must state the capacity and scope in which that person signs.

4. PROHIBITED CLAIMS
You will not use a Seed Signature to claim another person's work; conceal prior authorship or public filings; omit a required collaborator; misstate human contribution; represent machine-generated material as human-authored; exceed a license, delegation, or consent; remove required attribution; or knowingly submit materially false provenance or rights information.

5. PLATFORM RECORD, NOT OWNERSHIP ADJUDICATION
A Seed Signature records your declaration, the exact authorized payload, cryptographic proof, platform receipt, and durable lineage. It is not an automatic ruling that you own every element and does not prove that no earlier work exists. Copyright registrations, contracts, licenses, publicity and privacy rights, public records, or credible creator evidence may establish rights that precede, conflict with, or limit your declaration. The platform does not currently search every copyright, trademark, contract, or rights registry before allowing a signature.

6. AI AND HUMAN AUTHORSHIP
When AI is used, you will disclose the provider, model or tool, role of the system, prompt digest when you elect to document it, and your own contribution as required by the asset workflow. A Seed Signature can preserve the declared human and machine lineage; it does not convert non-human-generated material into legally protectable human authorship.

7. COLLABORATORS AND COUNTERPARTIES
You will not sign for another person unless a documented organization delegation or instrument expressly authorizes you to do so. A collaboration requiring multiple parties is incomplete until every required individual or authorized organization delegate signs the same canonical terms. Two-party license, assignment, delivery, collaboration-interest, and internal-value instruments remain incomplete until the named recipient countersigns.

8. LIMITED AUTHORIZATION TO OPERATE THE RECORD
You authorize Seed Signature to store and process the asset or supplied representation, compute exact and bounded comparison evidence, preserve the content digest, lineage, public attribution metadata, Signature-brand version, authorizations, platform receipt, public verification record, and challenge history, and provide public-safe verification and creator-directed partner results. This limited operational authorization does not transfer ownership of the underlying asset to Seed Signature.

9. CHALLENGES, EARLIER RIGHTS, AND CORRECTIONS
A challenge does not automatically erase the cryptographic record or stop creative access. Seed Signature may request evidence, preserve both parties' submissions, record a separate rights status, and apply only a narrow reviewed hold. If a challenge is upheld, the rights assertion may be marked rejected while the historical authorization remains verifiable. Corrections, descendants, amendments, supersession, licenses, and resolutions must be linked append-only records rather than silent changes to signed history.

10. RESPONSIBILITY AND COOPERATION
You remain responsible for the accuracy, authority, and scope of each declaration you sign. You agree to provide a good-faith response and relevant evidence when a credible challenge is opened. Nothing in this Declaration promises automatic monitoring, automatic enforcement, legal representation, damages recovery, or a guaranteed legal outcome.