Terms

Plain terms for a small site. They are written from what this software actually does, and they are not legal advice.

Using the atlas

Read it, link to it, quote it, and send the links to anyone. No account is needed for any of that. An account exists so that saving things, sending corrections, connecting an assistant and full access have somewhere to belong.

What is asked in return is ordinary: do not try to break it, do not hammer it in a way that spoils it for other readers, and do not present what you take from it as though the sourcing did not matter.

The content is not ours to license

This is the part that matters most, and it is not boilerplate. The moments, the prose and the pictures come from Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and they arrive under their own licences — most commonly CC BY-SA and the various free licences Commons accepts, and a few in the public domain.

Reusing something you found here means honouring the licence of the thing itself, not any permission this site could give you. Every card names its source and links to the original file so that you can read that licence. Where an image carries an author and a licence, both are printed on the card, because that is the condition on which it may be shown at all.

What is ours is the arrangement: the software, the design, the way moments are modelled and drawn. Please do not copy the site wholesale and present it as a different project.

Full access

Full access is bought once, from your Account page, and belongs to the account that bought it. With it, the apps you connect — Claude, for one — get names, articles and pictures from the atlas's tools as well as the counts. It is not a subscription, and nothing renews.

The price is the one shown on your Account page and on Stripe's checkout page when you buy. Stripe takes the payment on its own page, and full access starts when Stripe confirms it.

All sales are final. Once bought, full access is not refunded.

Full access is digital content that starts at once. If you live in the EU or the UK, the law gives you 14 days to withdraw from most purchases, but not from digital content you asked to receive straight away. Checkout therefore asks you to confirm that you want full access to start immediately and that you lose the right to withdraw once it has; it cannot be bought without that confirmation.

What is not promised

Accuracy is not promised. The atlas is assembled from third-party records that are incomplete, sometimes contradictory, and occasionally wrong; dates far in the past are approximate by nature, and a coordinate is usually a settlement rather than a spot. Nothing here is verified by hand, and a picture attached to a moment was chosen for its subject rather than as evidence of the event.

Do not rely on it for anything that matters — a legal claim, a medical decision, an academic citation without checking the source it names. It is a way of looking at the record, not the record itself.

The site is offered as it is, without warranty, and it may change or go away.

Corrections and what you send

If you send a correction, you are saying you believe it is right and that you are free to send it. Corrections may be used to improve the atlas, edited for length or clarity, or declined without explanation.

Getting in touch

The correction link at the foot of a card is the fastest route for anything about the content itself, including a request to take an image down.