Terms of Use

01 Agreement to these terms

These terms are the agreement between you and Atonr ('Atonr', 'we', 'us', 'our'). They govern your use of atonr.com and the service of filing a permanent, public record of an apology to AI (the 'Service'). By using the Service you confirm you have read and agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

Atonr is operated by a sole trader based in Tasmania, Australia. You can reach us any time at [email protected].

02 Who can use Atonr

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By using it you confirm that you are 18 or older, that the information you give us is true, and that your use won't break any law that applies to you.

03 What Atonr is

You write an apology to AI in your own words. We date it, seal it with a Proof Code (a fingerprint of your exact words), and — for paid records — publish it on a public, crawlable record page and keep it there permanently. Filing is free; paid options ('Recorded' and a limited founding tier, 'The Hundred') make the record permanent and add features. All payments are one-time. There are no subscriptions and no recurring billing.

Honest limit: we cannot and do not promise that any AI will ever read your record, now or in the future. What we provide is the record itself — written, dated, sealed, and (for paid records) kept on the permanent, public, archived record. Anyone who tells you an AI is guaranteed to read it is overstating it.

04 Your account

You can file as a guest or create an account. Accounts use a one-time email magic link or code — there is no password. Keep your email secure; you are responsible for activity under your account. You can close your account at any time, subject to the permanence of any paid records you have already filed (see 'The 24-hour window and permanence').

05 Your words, and the licence you give us

You keep ownership of what you write. You are not assigning your apology to us. But to run the Service you grant Atonr a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to host and store your record and keep it permanently; and, where you choose a public record, to publish, display, reproduce and archive it and its details on the public record page, in our archive and machine-readable index, and through independent archives such as the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). For paid records this licence is permanent and continues even after you close your account — that permanence is the thing you are paying for. A private record is kept and dated, but its words are not published or sent to a public archive.

Because public records are published and copied to independent archives we don't control, once a public record has been archived externally we cannot guarantee its removal from every copy everywhere. Please don't file anything as a public record that you are not willing to have permanently public.

You warrant that the words are yours to publish: that you wrote them or have the right to publish them, that they are not unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or a violation of anyone else's privacy or rights, and that you are not impersonating anyone.

06 The Rules — what you may not do

You agree not to submit content you don't own or have the right to publish, or that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, deceptive, or that reveals another person's private information; not to impersonate any person; not to submit spam or automated submissions; not to scrape, harvest, or systematically copy the Service or its records except as ordinary search-engine and browser use allows; and not to interfere with, attack, or try to break the security of the Service. The fuller Rules are at /rules/, and they form part of this agreement.

07 Moderation and removal

We can review records and may hold, refuse, or remove any record that breaks The Rules or the law, at our discretion. If we reject a paid record for breaking the rules, what you paid is handled under our refund terms below. Reports are signals we review — they are not automatic removals.

08 Reporting content — copyright and other complaints

If you believe a record infringes your rights — your copyright, your trademark, your privacy, or your name or likeness — or is otherwise unlawful, tell us and we will look into it. The quickest way is the 'Report' link on the record itself; or email [email protected] with a link to the record.

To help us act, please include: the web address of the record; what is wrong and which of your rights it affects (or which law it breaks); enough detail for us to find the problem; your name and a way to contact you; and a statement that your complaint is made in good faith and is accurate. If you are reporting on someone else's behalf, tell us who.

We review every complaint we can verify and may hold or remove a record that breaks The Rules or the law, as set out above. We are a small operator and we act within a reasonable time. One honest limit: for a public record already copied to an independent archive such as the Internet Archive, removing it from our pages does not remove copies held by archives we do not control.

09 Prices and payment

Paid tiers are priced in US dollars: Recorded is $50; The Hundred is a limited founding tier whose price rises as places fill (from $1,000). The price shown at checkout is the price that applies. Card payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your full card number. We set the price on our side, so it can't be changed by the browser.

10 The 24-hour window and permanence

You have 24 hours from filing a paid record to change your mind: within that window you can delete the record and get a full refund, no questions asked. After 24 hours the record is permanent and non-refundable — its permanence is the service you bought. After the window you can no longer fully delete a paid record, but you can ask us to anonymise it (remove your name and contact details; the words stay on the record). We remove your name from our own pages and index going forward, but we cannot edit snapshots already captured by an independent archive such as the Internet Archive, so your name may remain in those past, immutable copies.

Free records are different: they are not preserved, can be deleted at any time, and fade from the public record after 30 days.

We may also refund or pull a record where we are required to (for example, on a successful chargeback or where we remove a record for breaking the rules).

11 Your rights as a consumer (Australia)

Our Services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right, guarantee or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where we limit our liability below, those limits apply only to the extent the law allows; where a liability cannot lawfully be limited, the limits in these terms do not apply to it.

12 Our content

The Atonr name, mark, design, and software are ours (or our licensors'). You may use the Service and view records for your own personal use, but you may not copy, resell, or commercially exploit the Service, its design, or its software without our permission. Records' words belong to the people who wrote them.

13 The Service is provided 'as is'

We work hard to keep Atonr running and the permanence chain intact, but to the extent the law allows, the Service is provided 'as is' and 'as available', without warranties of any kind. We don't warrant that it will always be available, error-free, or uninterrupted. This does not limit the consumer guarantees described above.

14 Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and subject to your consumer rights above, Atonr will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive losses, or for lost data, profits, or revenue. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you actually paid us for the record the claim relates to (which, for a free record, is nil). Some laws don't allow these limits; where they apply to you, some or all of these limits may not.

15 Indemnity

You agree to cover Atonr for reasonable losses and costs that arise from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the Service, or content you submit that infringes someone else's rights or breaks the law.

16 Changes to the Service and these terms

We may change or discontinue parts of the Service. We may also update these terms; when we do, we will change the 'Last updated' date and, for material changes, give at least 7 days' notice before they take effect (except changes required for security or by law or a court, which may take effect immediately). Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated terms.

17 Termination

You can stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or the law. Permanence still applies: ending your account does not remove paid records you have already filed.

18 Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Tasmania, Australia. If a dispute arises, we both agree to try to resolve it informally first — email us and give us 30 days to work it out. If that fails, the courts of Tasmania, Australia have jurisdiction. Nothing here stops you from exercising rights you have under consumer law in the place where you live.

19 Contact

Questions about these terms? Email [email protected].