Intellectual property

1. Our brand and content

The name The Human Behind, the fingerprint logo, the green Registered and gold Verified seals, the design of this website and the software that runs the registry are owned by AIGiner S.L. or used under licence. They are protected by intellectual and industrial property law. You may not use them in a way that suggests affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement that does not exist.

2. Using the seals

The seals exist to be shown — on your profiles, websites and channels — as long as they are shown truthfully:

• You may display the seal that corresponds to your active record, linked to your public record page.
• The green seal means Registered (a dated self-declaration). It must never be presented as "verified".
• The gold seal means Verified (an identity check confirmed a real human). Only records with that level may display it.
• No seal may be presented as an official certification, a government approval or an endorsement by the European Union or any public authority. It is not one.
• If your record is unpublished or suspended, you must stop displaying its seal.

Misuse of a seal (displaying one you have not earned, or altering its colour or meaning) is a breach of the terms of use and may lead to the suspension of the record.

3. Your content

The data you provide when registering remains yours. You grant AIGiner S.L. a non-exclusive, worldwide licence limited to what is strictly necessary to operate the registry: publishing your record's public fields, serving them through the public API, and keeping the evidence trail described in the database policy.

4. The registry database

The registry as a whole — the structured collection of records — is protected by the sui generis database right (Directive 96/9/EC and the Spanish Intellectual Property Act). What this means in practice:

• Allowed, and encouraged: consulting records, verifying hashes through the public API, citing or linking to individual records, research and journalism based on reasonable extracts.
• Not allowed: extracting or re-utilising all or a substantial part of the database — for example, to republish it or to build a competing registry — and any use prohibited by the database policy, such as feeding biometric identification systems.

5. Third-party names and marks

Third-party names and trademarks mentioned on this website (for example, Stripe, Supabase or Cloudflare) belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify the services they refer to.

6. Reporting an infringement

If you believe content in the registry or on this website infringes your intellectual property rights, write to legal@thehumanbehind.com with the details and, where applicable, proof of ownership. Impersonation claims follow the process in claiming a record.

7. Changes

We may update this policy. We will publish the current version on this page with its update date.