These terms govern your use of skillauthor.com (“SkillAuthor”, “we”, “the bureau”). By submitting a registration you accept these terms.
1. The service
SkillAuthor records the exact bytes of an uploaded .mdc file, the SHA-256 fingerprint of those bytes, the moment of receipt, and the name and email supplied by the submitter. Upon payment we issue a sequential registration number and a PDF certificate.
2. What we do not provide
A registration is not a grant of copyright, patent, trademark, or any other intellectual-property right. It is independent, cryptographic evidence of authorship-at-a-point-in-time. We make no representation as to the originality, novelty, or legal status of the underlying skill.
3. Your warranties
By submitting a file you warrant that (a) you are the author of the file or legally authorised to register it; (b) the file does not infringe the rights of any third party; (c) the file does not contain unlawful content. You agree to indemnify the bureau against claims arising from a breach of these warranties.
4. Fees and refunds
Fees are one-time and shown clearly before payment. Because each registration consumes a registration number and entails a permanent ledger entry, refunds are issued only in cases of evident technical failure (e.g. payment captured but no certificate generated).
5. Public record
By default, the filename, author name, registration number, hash, and timestamp of your registration are publicly visible. Pro-tier registrants may opt to keep the file contents private while still anchoring the hash publicly.
6. Liability
SkillAuthor is provided “as is”. Our liability for any claim arising out of your use of the service is limited to the registration fee you paid for the affected record.
7. Termination & continuity
Certificates we issue are self-contained: anyone who can compute SHA-256 can verify them without our infrastructure. If we ever wind down, we will publish a final snapshot of the registry in a durable, portable form.
8. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Disputes will be heard in the competent court of Amsterdam.