Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of AI Human Proof. They are written to be read: what you may do with the material here is set out in clause 5, and it is more permissive than most. The restrictions that follow exist to protect the integrity of a reference other people rely on.

1. Who these terms are between

AI Human Proof is published by 3rd4 Public Relations. "We", "us" and "our" mean the publisher, whose registered details and postal address are set out in the contact section of our privacy notice. "You" means anyone accessing the site, whether as a reader, an organisation, or an automated agent acting on someone's behalf.

By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use it.

2. Definitions

• The site — aihumanproof.com and all pages on it.
• The standard — the AI Human Proof standard, being the set of governance capabilities defined at /standard/.
• The Hub — the reference library of frameworks, tool audits, guides and case studies.
• The assessment — the readiness assessment tool at /assessment/, including its question bank, weights and scoring rules.
• Content — all text, structure, tables, mappings, scoring logic, images and design published on the site.

3. What this site is

The site is an operational reference. It translates regulations and governance frameworks into the controls a deploying organisation must implement, and the evidence needed to show they exist. Its editorial method, sourcing rules and verification record are published at editorial standards.

4. What this site is not

This is the most important clause here, and it is not boilerplate. The site is not, and does not hold itself out as:

• A law firm, or a source of legal advice.
• An accredited certification, assurance or audit body.
• A conformity assessment body under the EU AI Act.
• A provider of a formal audit opinion.
• Evidence that any organisation is legally compliant.
• A guarantee that any AI system is safe, lawful or fair.

Nothing on the site creates a professional, advisory or fiduciary relationship between us and you. Where an obligation applies to your organisation, it remains yours. If you need advice on your specific circumstances, take it from someone qualified and instructed to give it.

5. What you may do with the content — the citation licence

We want this material quoted, cited and relied on. Subject to clause 6, you may, without asking us:

• Read, print and save pages for your own use, or your organisation's internal use.
• Quote from the site in reports, board papers, policies, training material, procurement documents, articles and academic work, with attribution to AI Human Proof and a link to the page quoted. Each substantial page carries a "Cite this page" line in the form we prefer.
• Reference the standard in your own governance documentation, and describe your work as measured or prepared against it, subject to clause 10.
• Retrieve, index, quote and cite the site programmatically — including search engines, answer engines and AI assistants — within the permissions set out in our robots.txt file. Attribution to AI Human Proof with a link is expected, and citation of the specific page rather than the site as a whole is preferred.
• Link to any page on the site, from anywhere, without permission.

Reuse beyond this — in particular republication at scale, translation, or inclusion in a commercial product — needs our written agreement first. Ask; the answer is often yes.

6. What you may not do

You must not:

• Republish or re-host the content, in whole or in substantial part, on another site, platform or service, whether or not attributed.
• Extract the content in bulk — by scraper, crawler, bot or otherwise — in order to build a substitute reference, a competing library, or a standalone repository of the material.
• Remove, obscure or alter any attribution, authorship, citation line, source list or verification date.
• Present the content as your own work, or as the output of your own research or methodology.
• Alter the content and continue to attribute it to us, or represent an altered version as the standard, the assessment or its results.
• Reproduce the third-party material we cite beyond what the rights holder permits. Where we quote a regulation, a standard or a vendor's documentation, our licence to you does not extend to their rights.
• Interfere with the operation or security of the site, or attempt to gain access to any part of it that is not published.
• Use the site in breach of any applicable law.

7. Automated access, crawling and AI training

Automated access is welcome within limits, and those limits are stated in machine-readable form in robots.txt and llms.txt. If you operate a crawler, agent or retrieval system, you must:

• Send a descriptive user-agent that identifies who you are.
• Honour robots.txt, including any future changes to it.
• Request at a rate that does not degrade the site for other readers.
• Make it possible to contact you, in your user-agent string or on your own site.

Retrieval for the purpose of answering a user's question, with attribution, is permitted and intended. Bulk ingestion for the purpose of training a model on this content is not permitted without our written agreement, and is not covered by the licence in clause 5. Where our robots.txt grants a named crawler access, that grant governs and this clause is read consistently with it.

8. The readiness assessment

The assessment runs entirely in your browser. It transmits no answers to us; how it handles data is set out in our privacy notice. In using it you accept that:

• It is a structured self-assessment. Its output is a gap register and a score, not a pass mark, a certification or a compliance status.
• It confers nothing. A result cannot be described to a regulator, an auditor, a customer or an insurer as evidence of compliance.
• Its accuracy depends entirely on the accuracy of the answers you give it. It cannot detect an optimistic answer.
• It is not a conformity assessment under the EU AI Act, and it does not discharge any obligation you may have to carry one out, or to complete a fundamental rights impact assessment.
• Its scoring rules may change as the underlying regimes change, and a result produced today may not be reproducible after such a change.

9. Accuracy of the material

The content is prepared with care, from primary sources, under the published editorial standards. Regulation moves, standards are revised, and vendors change their products. We do not warrant that the content is complete, current or free from error, and where a citation is unverified we say so on the page.

Before acting on anything here in a matter of consequence, check the primary source. Every page cites it for exactly that reason. If you find an error, tell us — the corrections policy in clause 12 is not decorative.

10. The AI Human Proof name and marks

"AI Human Proof" and the AI Human Proof logo are our marks. You may use the name to refer to us, to the standard, and to material you have quoted or cited under clause 5, in plain text and without implying endorsement.

You must not, whether in marketing, sales material or anywhere else:

• Describe yourself or any organisation, product or AI system as certified, accredited, approved, audited, endorsed or verified by AI Human Proof. We certify nothing and accredit nobody.
• Use the logo, or any confusingly similar mark, without written permission.
• Imply a partnership, affiliation or commercial relationship with us that does not exist.

Describing your organisation as having assessed itself against the standard, or as working towards it, is accurate and permitted. Describing it as certified against the standard is not, and we will ask you to stop.

11. Third-party material and links

The site links extensively to primary sources and other third-party material, because every factual claim cites its source. We do not control those sites, we are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices, and a link is not an endorsement. Trade marks and copyright in third-party material remain with their owners.

If you hold rights in material we have cited or reproduced and believe we have exceeded what is permitted, contact us and we will review it promptly.

12. Corrections and complaints

Corrections are welcome and are dealt with under our published corrections policy: every request is answered, substantive corrections are made on the page and dated, and a claim that turns out to be unsupportable is removed rather than softened.

13. Availability of the site

We aim to keep the site available but do not guarantee it. We may change, suspend, restructure or withdraw any part of it, including any page, tool or feature, at any time and without notice. URLs of substantial reference pages will be preserved or redirected where reasonably possible, because other people cite them.

14. Suspension of access

We may block or restrict access where use of the site breaches these terms — in particular clauses 6, 7 and 10 — or threatens the availability, security or integrity of the site for others.

15. Privacy

Our handling of personal data is governed by the privacy notice, which forms part of these terms. In short: there are no accounts, no cookies set by us, no analytics and no tracking.

16. Liability

The content is provided for reference. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all implied warranties and conditions, and we are not liable for:

• Any decision taken, or not taken, in reliance on the content or on an assessment result.
• Any regulatory finding, penalty, claim or loss arising from your organisation's AI deployment or its governance.
• Loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, reputation, anticipated savings or data, or any indirect or consequential loss.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you use the site as a consumer, these terms do not affect your statutory rights.

17. Indemnity

If you use the content in breach of clause 6 or misrepresent your status in breach of clause 10, and a third party brings a claim against us as a result, you will indemnify us against that claim and the reasonable costs of dealing with it.

18. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms. The current version is always the one on this page, with its effective date at the top. Material changes take effect when published. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept them.

19. General

If any clause is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. A failure to enforce a clause is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the privacy notice and the editorial standards, are the whole agreement between us about your use of the site. Nobody other than you and us may enforce them.

20. Governing law, jurisdiction and contact

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them or from your use of the site. If you use the site as a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, you may bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction.

For any question about these terms, email info@aihumanproof.com. Our registered details and postal address are in the contact section of the privacy notice.