Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using HPS, you agree to these Terms and the HPS Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use HPS.

2. What HPS provides

HPS provides provenance, verification and accountability tools intended to help people and institutions record evidence use, human and AI contribution, review, signatures, attestations and related provenance information.

3. Accounts and access

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, credentials, signing keys and passphrases. You must not use another person’s account or signing identity without authorisation.

4. Provenance records and signatures

HPS records may include hashes, public keys, signatures, timestamps, attestations and verification status. A valid signature can show that a specific key signed specific data; it does not by itself prove that every statement is true or that the signer personally created every part of the content.

You must not create misleading provenance records, impersonate another person or institution, falsely claim signing authority or use HPS to facilitate fraud.

5. Research Agent findings

The Research Agent may identify citation gaps, unresolved sources, possible contradictions, source-origin concerns or AI-review gaps. These findings support human judgement. Users remain responsible for checking sources, reviewing AI-assisted work and deciding what enters a final output.

6. Browser extension and Word add-in

HPS extensions and add-ins may access information that you explicitly choose to process, such as the active webpage, selected document content or current manuscript text. You are responsible for ensuring you are authorised to process that material.

7. Responsible use

• Do not impersonate creators, researchers or institutions.
• Do not fabricate signatures, attestations or provenance histories.
• Do not misrepresent AI-generated work as independently verified human work.
• Do not bypass security or access controls.
• Do not process information you are not authorised to use.
• Do not use HPS in violation of applicable law.

8. Your content and HPS intellectual property

You retain rights you already hold in your documents and research content. You grant HPS only the rights necessary to perform the functions you request, such as hashing, verification, analysis or provenance recording. HPS software, branding, interface design and documentation remain owned by their respective rights holders unless otherwise stated.

9. Third-party services

HPS may rely on infrastructure, authentication providers, scholarly metadata services or other integrations. Those services may have their own terms and privacy policies.

10. Prototype status and availability

Some HPS features are early-stage or experimental. Features may change, be interrupted, be replaced or be withdrawn. HPS does not guarantee continuous availability, compatibility with every browser or Office environment, preservation of every local prototype session or uninterrupted access to third-party services.

11. Disclaimers

HPS is provided on an “as available” basis to the extent permitted by law. HPS does not warrant that the service will be error-free, complete, uninterrupted or legally sufficient for every regulatory, evidentiary or contractual purpose.

12. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, HPS and Elimara Technologies Limited will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss arising solely from use of the service, loss of local prototype data, reliance on automated findings, third-party service failure or unauthorised use of credentials or signing keys. Nothing excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

13. Suspension or termination

HPS may suspend access where reasonably necessary to protect the service, investigate abuse, comply with law or respond to security risks.

14. Changes

These Terms may change as HPS evolves. Material changes will be reflected by updating the effective date.

15. Governing law

Unless mandatory law provides otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of Kenya.

16. Contact

Human Provenance Standard (HPS)
Elimara Technologies Limited
Kenya

Email: support@humanprovenancestandard.org