These terms govern your use of skillauthor.com (“SkillAuthor”, “we”, “the bureau”), operated by Netvista Media S.L.. By submitting a registration you accept these terms.
1. The service
SkillAuthor records the exact bytes of an uploaded .mdc file, computes a SHA-256 fingerprint of those bytes, anchors that fingerprint to the moment of receipt (UTC), and stores the name and email supplied by the submitter. On confirmed payment a sequential registration number is minted and a PDF certificate is issued.
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 are 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 Netvista Media S.L. 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 produces a permanent ledger entry, refunds are issued only in cases of demonstrable technical failure (e.g. payment captured but no certificate generated, or a duplicate charge for the same upload). Statutory consumer-protection rights — including the EU right of withdrawal for digital services where applicable — are unaffected by this clause.
5. Public record
By default, the filename, SHA-256 fingerprint, author name, registration number and timestamp of your registration are publicly verifiable at skillauthor.com/verify by registration number or by SHA-256 hash. Your email address is never published. See the Privacy notice for the full data inventory.
6. Near-duplicate detection & disclosure to earlier registrants
After a registration is sealed, SkillAuthor runs a semantic similarity check against the existing registry. If your submission is found to be strongly similar (cosine similarity ≥ 0.84 by default) to one or more earlier registrations, an alert email is sent to each affected earlier registrant. That email discloses your declared author name and the author email you supplied at registration so the earlier registrant can contact you directly. By submitting a registration you consent to this disclosure for the narrow purpose of resolving potential authorship overlaps.
The detection is heuristic, never authoritative: two authors can independently produce strongly similar skills. SkillAuthor does not adjudicate authorship; we surface the signal. Earlier registrants may flag any alert as a false positive, which raises the alert threshold for their future scans.
7. Liability
SkillAuthor is provided “as is”. To the extent permitted by applicable law, our liability for any claim arising out of your use of the service is limited to the registration fee actually paid for the affected record. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under Spanish or EU consumer protection law.
8. 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 the service, we will publish a final, portable snapshot of the public registry so that existing records remain independently verifiable.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Spain. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the service shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of the city in which Netvista Media S.L.maintains its registered office, without prejudice to mandatory rules of the consumer's country of habitual residence under Regulation (EU) 1215/2012.
10. Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected].