Terms of use

The terms, plainly stated.

These terms govern your use of afterfact.io and of Receipt during its private beta. By requesting access, creating an account, or using the service, you agree to them. They are written to be read.

[ LAST UPDATED · 8 July 2026 ]

Who we are

The service is operated by Afterfact SASU, a société par actions simplifiée registered in Paris, France. Its registered office address is available on request. For any question about these terms, contact [ email ].

What Receipt is

Receipt is provenance infrastructure for scientific figures: it records how a figure was produced and lets that record travel with the figure. During the beta, Receipt is provided by invitation only, free of charge, for evaluation.

The beta programme

  • Access is granted per person, by invitation or approved request. Invitation tokens are personal and non-transferable — do not share or resell them.
  • Receipt is pre-release software. Features may change, break, or be withdrawn without notice, and we make no availability commitment during the beta.
  • We may ask for feedback. Feedback you give us can be used to improve the service without obligation or compensation.
  • We may suspend or end the beta programme, or any individual's participation in it, at any time. If we end your access, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to export your data.

Your account

  • Provide accurate information when you request access and register, and keep your credentials confidential.
  • An account is for one person. You are responsible for what happens under it.
  • Tell us promptly at the address above if you believe your account has been compromised.

Your content stays yours

You retain all rights in the figures, data, code, and other material you bring to Receipt. You grant us only the licence needed to operate the service for you: to store, process, and display your material to you and to the people you choose to share it with. We claim no other rights in it, and we do not use your research content to train models or for any purpose other than running the service.

Your content is your responsibility

Receipt is a hosting and provenance service: it stores what you upload and records how it was made. We do not review, moderate, verify, or endorse user material, and we are not a party to what it shows or claims.

You are solely responsible for the material you upload and share through the service, including:

  • having the necessary rights and permissions to it;
  • its lawfulness, accuracy, and scientific integrity;
  • compliance with your institution's, funders', and publishers' policies, and with any rules that apply to the data itself — personal data, confidential or proprietary information, and export-controlled material included.

Any dispute about a figure or dataset — its ownership, its content, or the claims made with it — is between you and the party raising it, not with Afterfact. If we become aware that material hosted on the service is unlawful or breaches these terms, we may remove it or suspend the account concerned, in line with our obligations as a hosting provider under French law (LCEN).

You agree to indemnify Afterfact against any third-party claim, and the reasonable costs of dealing with it, arising from the material you upload or from your breach of these terms.

Acceptable use

Do not:

  • break, probe, or circumvent the service's access controls or rate limits;
  • use the service to store or distribute unlawful material, malware, or other people's personal data without a lawful basis;
  • interfere with other users' access to or use of the service;
  • misrepresent provenance — the point of Receipt is that records are honest; fabricating them is a breach of these terms;
  • resell or provide the service to third parties without our written agreement.

Our intellectual property

The service, its software, design, and branding (including the Afterfact and Receipt names and marks) belong to Afterfact or its licensors. These terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service during the beta — nothing more.

Warranties and liability

During the beta, the service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the extent permitted by law. Keep independent copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Afterfact is not liable for user material stored or shared through the service, nor for what third parties do with material a user chooses to share with them.

To the extent permitted by law, Afterfact's total liability arising out of or relating to the beta is limited to €100. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under French law, including liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury.

Privacy

How we handle personal data is described in our privacy notice. It is part of how we operate, not part of these terms — but read it; it is short.

Ending things

You can stop using the service and ask us to delete your account at any time. We can suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms. Where reasonable, we will warn you first and give you the chance to export your data; where the breach is serious — abuse, unlawful content, circumvention of access controls — we may suspend immediately.

Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms as the service evolves — in particular when the beta ends and paid plans are introduced. If we make material changes, we will notify account holders by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the revised terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by French law. Any dispute that cannot be resolved amicably falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Paris, France, subject to any mandatory consumer protections that apply where you live.