Controlled launch draft · Version 2026-10-03.2
Terms
The substantive risk-allocation and user obligations are drafted. Public effectiveness remains fail-closed until the operating legal identity, monitored contact, effective date, and production data-handling facts are verified.
1. Agreement and service operator
These Terms govern access to the GANTIÈRE website, Research services, account features when enabled, and prelaunch Auction and Boutique registration. The contracting operator will be the GANTIÈRE operating entity identified in the final launch notice. The effective date is to be set at public launch. Public launch remains blocked until the operator identity, contact method, and effective date are verified and published.
2. Eligibility and age
Account creation, Research submissions, Auction access registration, Boutique registration, and other interactive features are intended only for people who are at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a binding agreement. By using an interactive feature, you represent that you meet those requirements. The service is not directed to children.
3. Research scope
GANTIÈRE provides evidence-first research concerning art, antiques, collectibles, and related market context. Outputs may include observations, source citations, competing hypotheses, attribution analysis, provenance claims, comparables, confidence, and market evidence. Research records are informational and may change when new or stronger evidence appears.
4. No certificate, appraisal, or professional advice
Unless GANTIÈRE expressly issues a separate signed instrument stating otherwise, Research output is not a certificate of authenticity, legal title opinion, insurance appraisal, tax appraisal, investment recommendation, legal advice, or guarantee of authorship, provenance, condition, value, saleability, or future price. Decisions requiring a regulated or licensed professional remain your responsibility.
5. Materials you submit
You remain responsible for photographs, documents, messages, provenance information, object descriptions, and other material you submit. You represent that you have the rights and authority necessary to submit and permit processing of those materials and that doing so does not violate law, confidentiality duties, privacy rights, intellectual-property rights, or another person's contractual rights.
6. Limited license to process submissions
You retain your rights in your submissions. You grant GANTIÈRE a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license, for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the requested service and maintain authorized records, to host, copy, transform, analyze, transmit to approved service providers, and display your submissions back to you or within an authorized case. This license does not transfer ownership to GANTIÈRE and does not by itself authorize unrelated advertising or model-training use.
7. Evidence, provenance, and third-party material
Museums, archives, auction houses, marketplaces, dealers, publications, databases, experts, and other sources remain responsible for their own content and availability. GANTIÈRE may quote, summarize, link to, or compare third-party material where permitted. A citation, link, or comparable does not mean GANTIÈRE endorses the source or guarantees its accuracy.
8. AI-assisted processing
Some Research functions may use artificial-intelligence providers to analyze text or images, organize evidence, generate hypotheses, or assist with drafting. AI output can be incomplete or wrong and is not treated as evidence merely because a model produced it. Material provider use, retention, human-review, and training rules are governed by the Privacy notice and the verified production configuration.
9. Market information
Asking prices, auction estimates, verified sales, reported sales, dealer offers, marketplace listings, and reproductions are different forms of evidence and are not interchangeable. GANTIÈRE may provide ranges or context but does not promise that an object can be bought or sold for any stated amount.
10. Auction and Boutique prelaunch boundary
Before transactional launch, Auction access registration, object-submission interest, and Boutique preview registration record interest only. They are not bidder approval, a consignment agreement, an offer to buy or sell, a catalogue commitment, a guarantee of acceptance, or a completed transaction. Actual auctions, consignments, purchases, payments, returns, shipping obligations, buyer premiums, taxes, and conditions of sale will require separate transaction-specific terms before those features open.
11. Accounts and security
When accounts are enabled, you must provide accurate information, protect authentication credentials and verification codes, and promptly report suspected unauthorized access. You may not share credentials in a way that defeats security controls or impersonate another person.
12. Acceptable use
You may not use GANTIÈRE to commit or facilitate fraud, fabricate provenance, knowingly misstate attribution, traffic in stolen or unlawful property, infringe rights, upload malicious code, probe restricted systems, defeat access controls, scrape protected areas without authorization, interfere with service operation, or present a Research result as a guarantee or certification that it is not.
13. GANTIÈRE ownership and intellectual property
The Service and all GANTIÈRE-owned elements of it—including software and source code, application and systems architecture, interfaces, visual design, original graphics, GANTIÈRE names, trademarks, logos and brand assets, original editorial content, research workflows and methodologies, schemas, taxonomies, databases and compilations to the extent protectable, report formats and templates, and other proprietary materials—are owned by GANTIÈRE or its licensors. Your use of the Service does not transfer to you any ownership interest in GANTIÈRE intellectual property. You receive only a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service under these Terms. No rights are granted by implication. Your submissions remain yours as stated above, and no GANTIÈRE ownership claim is made over them merely because you submit them.
14. Service changes, suspension, and termination
Features, sources, models, supported markets, and availability may change. GANTIÈRE may restrict, suspend, or terminate access when reasonably necessary for security, integrity, abuse prevention, nonpayment for a future paid service, legal compliance, protection of users or third parties, or discontinuation of a feature. Rights that by their nature should survive termination, including intellectual-property, disclaimer, liability, and dispute provisions, survive.
15. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. GANTIÈRE disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that Research will be error-free, complete, continuously available, or accepted by an auction house, insurer, court, tax authority, expert, buyer, or seller. Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
16. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, GANTIÈRE will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, loss of data, or loss arising from reliance on uncertain attribution or market information. GANTIÈRE's aggregate liability arising from the service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid GANTIÈRE for the affected service during the preceding 12 months or USD $100. This limitation does not apply where liability cannot legally be limited, including liability that applicable law makes non-waivable.
17. Indemnity for unlawful misuse
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend and indemnify GANTIÈRE against third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from material you submit without required rights, your fraudulent or unlawful conduct, or your material violation of these Terms. This provision does not require a consumer to indemnify GANTIÈRE for GANTIÈRE's own unlawful conduct and does not waive non-waivable consumer rights.
18. Governing law and forum
These Terms are governed by State of New York, United States, excluding conflict-of-laws rules, except to the extent mandatory law in your jurisdiction applies. Subject to non-waivable consumer rights and any claim properly brought in small-claims court, disputes may be brought in State and federal courts located in New York County, New York, subject to non-waivable consumer-law venue rights. These Terms do not require private arbitration.
19. Consumer rights and local law
Nothing in these Terms limits rights that applicable consumer-protection law does not allow a business to waive. If a provision conflicts with mandatory law, that provision applies only to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions remain in effect.
20. Electronic records and changes
GANTIÈRE may provide agreements, policies, confirmations, and notices electronically where law permits. Nothing in these Terms overrides a statutory requirement for a particular form of consent or delivery. Material changes will be presented prospectively with an updated version or effective date; GANTIÈRE will not silently convert previously collected personal information to a materially broader use where additional notice or consent is legally required.
21. Contact
A monitored public contact method must be verified before public launch. The release gate remains closed until that contact is configured.
Launch facts still required
The release contract still requires the real operating legal identity, effective date, verified public/privacy contact, production provider and retention facts, rights workflow, and exact-document approval evidence. External counsel is not a software release requirement.