Legal
Plain-English terms for the Footprint OnChain monthly service, provided by Pearce Studios. Last updated: November 2026.
Footprint OnChain is a monitoring and evidence service. We register a unique fingerprint to your website and its authorised domains, hash and timestamp your website content, monitor for that fingerprint loading on unauthorised domains, alert you by email (and by text message if you have opted in to SMS), and prepare evidence packs from our records. It is a monthly service that runs month-to-month.
Footprint OnChain cannot and does not prevent copying of a public website, and we make no promise that a copy will never occur. We do not guarantee the outcome of any takedown request, dispute, or legal proceeding. Our timestamps and certificates are evidence of existence and timing; they are not a copyright registration, and nothing we provide is legal advice.
You confirm you own the website and content you ask us to protect, or are authorised to act for the owner. You are responsible for keeping at least the core fingerprint snippet in place on your site (we will tell you if we detect it has gone missing from your own pages), and for giving us a working email address for alerts.
The service is billed monthly at the rate quoted to you when you sign up. You may cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current paid period, after which monitoring and alerting stop. Timestamp certificates and proof files already issued to you remain yours to keep and use.
A "suspected copy" alert is an automated flag that your fingerprint loaded on an unregistered domain; it is a strong signal, not by itself a legal finding. We keep monitoring records and stamp records for your sites while your service is active, and use them to prepare your alerts and evidence packs.
You may not register websites or content you do not own or control, or use alerts or evidence packs to make claims you know to be false.
Our liability is limited to the fees you paid for the service in the three months before a claim. We are not liable for a copier's actions, a platform's takedown decision, or losses arising from copying itself.
We may update these terms; material changes will be notified by email before they take effect for the next billing period.
Questions about these terms: email contact@info.footprintonchain.com or call 510-619-0213. Related policies: Privacy Policy · SMS Policy · Email Policy.