ArTatoO! — Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the « Terms ») govern the use of ArTatoO!, available at artatoo.com and www.artatoo.com (the « site »). They apply to everyone who visits the site, and in particular to members who hold an account.

1. Publisher and service

The site is published by Frédéric Andrieux, established in the Balearic Islands, Spain (the « publisher »). The publisher can be reached at contact@artatoo.com. Further details are given in the Legal Notice.

ArTatoO! is an online gallery and community: members present their artistic works, a profile and exhibitions, and visitors can write to them in the conversation of their gallery. Visitors can browse the public gallery without an account.

The publisher operates the site with a team acting under the publisher's authority (technical operation, content and curation, communication). Administrators designated by the publisher may moderate the whole site.

2. Acceptance of the Terms

New users. By creating an account, you accept these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. Signing up is not possible without this acceptance.

Existing members. ArTatoO! has been rebuilt as an entirely new site, into which existing members and their data have been carried over. When you log in for the first time on the new site, you will be asked to accept these Terms and to acknowledge the Privacy Policy before you continue to use your account.

If you are an existing member and do not log in again, the works you had already made public remain displayed in the public gallery on the site, as a continuation of the gallery you had chosen, under the necessary licence described in section 7.2 only. The optional off-site promotional licence (section 7.3) does not apply to your works unless you choose it. You can ask at any time for your works or your account to be removed by writing to contact@artatoo.com.

Visitors without an account accept these Terms by using the site.

3. Description of the service

The site offers a free base service, which includes publishing a limited number of works and basic options. The current limits are shown on the site.

The publisher may later offer paid options. If so, they will be governed by separate terms of sale, which will be presented to you before any purchase and which you will be free to accept or not. The free base service is not affected by the mere existence of paid options.

The publisher may change, add or remove features to improve the site. Where a change significantly affects members, they will be informed in advance by reasonable means.

Gallery conversations. Each gallery may have one conversation, managed by its artist. The conversation is closed by default; the artist may open it. Visitors can write in it by giving their name, their email address and a message. Messages appear straight away, except messages containing a link, which appear only once the artist has approved them. The artist may remove any message at any time. Messages are subject to the rules in section 8 and may be reported under section 9. By writing a message, the visitor allows it to be displayed in the conversation and translated dynamically (section 10).

An artist who receives a visitor's email address undertakes to use it only to reply to that message. The artist does not add it to any mailing list, does not publish it, does not pass it on to anyone and does not keep it longer than needed to reply. The artist is responsible for any other use they make of it.

A visitor may delete their message with the code shown after sending it, for 30 days, and after that by writing to contact@artatoo.com. If the artist closes their account, the conversation of their gallery is deleted together with all its messages.

4. Eligibility

You must be at least 14 years old to create an account. At sign-up, you confirm that you meet this age requirement. No other age information is requested. Persons under 14 may browse the public gallery but may not create an account.

5. Accounts

One account per person, one email per account. Each account is linked to a single email address, which cannot be used for another account. You log in with your email address and your password.

Security. When you create an account, a temporary password made up of digits and uppercase letters is sent to the email address you provide, in order to verify that address and allow you to log in for the first time. You must replace it immediately with a password of your choice. You then keep that password confidential. Tell us at contact@artatoo.com without delay if you think your account has been used without your permission.

Accuracy. The display name and profile information you provide must not be misleading as to your identity, and must not impersonate another person.

Duplicate accounts. Where several accounts from the former site share the same email address, the publisher may merge them into a single account after review. The member concerned is informed of the merge.

Closing your account. You may close your account at any time from your account settings or by writing to contact@artatoo.com. The public display of your works and profile ends immediately. For 14 days, you may cancel the closure by logging in again or by writing to contact@artatoo.com. After that period, the closure is final and your data are erased as described in the Privacy Policy. If you expressly ask for your data to be erased at once, we do so without waiting for the end of this period.

Suspension. In the event of serious or repeated breach of these Terms, the publisher may suspend or close an account, after warning the member where appropriate. The decision is proportionate to the breach and the member is informed of the reasons (see section 9).

6. Intellectual property of the site

© 2002-2026 ArTatoO! These rights cover the site itself: its interface, graphic design, structure, the texts written by the publisher and the compilation of its content. You may use the site for its intended purpose; any other reproduction of these elements requires the publisher's permission, except where the law allows it.

These rights do not cover the works published by members, which remain the property of their authors.

7. Intellectual property of members' works

7.1 You keep your rights

You keep the copyright in the works, texts and images you publish on the site. Nothing in these Terms transfers your copyright to the publisher. Your moral rights — in particular the right to be credited as the author (paternity) and the right to respect for the integrity of your work — are inalienable and remain fully yours.

7.2 Necessary licence (display on the site)

By signing up or by uploading a work, you grant the publisher a non-exclusive, worldwide, free-of-charge licence, for the duration of your account, to:

host your works and the related content (titles, descriptions, profile);
make the technical reproductions needed to operate the site, such as thumbnails, format conversions and backups;
translate biographies and work descriptions, and dynamically translate messages in gallery conversations, for display on the multilingual site;
communicate them to the public on the site, including on the homepage and in internal editorial selections, always with your name as the artist.

This licence does not involve any assignment of copyright, any sale of your works, or any use on merchandise. It cannot be sublicensed, except to the technical providers needed to operate the site, and only for that purpose.

The licence ends, for public display, when you remove the work or close your account. Copies in backups disappear as backups are rotated.

7.3 Optional off-site promotional licence

You may, if you wish, also allow the publisher to use your works to promote the site outside it. This option is unchecked by default and can be withdrawn at any time from your account settings or by writing to contact@artatoo.com.

If you choose this option, the publisher may use your works on the site's official social media accounts, in its newsletter, in its press kit and in presentations of the site, always with your name as the artist, without distorting the works, and without any commercial exploitation of the works themselves.

When you withdraw this licence, no new use is made from that point on. Please note that the site cannot recall a share that has already been picked up by third parties (for example, a post re-shared on a social network before the withdrawal).

7.4 Your warranties

When you publish a work, you warrant that you hold the necessary rights to it, or that you have the authorisation of the rights holders. Where identifiable persons are depicted, you warrant that you have their consent where it is required, and in the case of minors, the consent of their legal representatives.

7.5 Display without watermark — risk of copying

Works are displayed on the site without a watermark and without right-click blocking. Putting a work online always involves a risk of copying. The site cannot guarantee that a displayed work will not be copied or collected by third parties, including by automated tools. If you notice an unauthorised reuse of your work on the site, you can report it (section 9).

7.6 Respect for others' works

Members' works may be viewed on the site. Any reproduction or reuse of a member's work outside the site requires that member's permission, except where the law allows it (for example, quotation or private copying). Automated mass collection of works or of members' data from the site is not permitted.

8. Content rules and moderation

On ArTatoO!, everything that is not forbidden is allowed. The rules are short:

do not publish illegal content;
respect the rights of others: copyright, image rights, privacy and reputation;
do not use the site to harass, deceive or send unsolicited advertising.

Adult or violent content. Adult or violent content may be shown in a restricted or blurred form. This may be done at the request of the member who published it, for their own content, or by moderation.

Administrators designated by the publisher may moderate the whole site: they may hide, blur, move or remove content, or restrict an account, where content breaches the law or these Terms, or to apply the restricted or blurred display mentioned above. Each member manages their own content and data.

9. Reporting content (notice and action)

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act), the single point of contact for users and authorities is contact@artatoo.com, in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian or Japanese.

Anyone may report content they consider illegal, or content that infringes their rights, by writing to contact@artatoo.com. To allow the report to be handled, it should include:

the exact address (URL) of the content concerned;
an explanation of why the content is considered illegal or infringing;
the name and email address of the person reporting, except where the law allows anonymous reporting;
a statement that the report is made in good faith and that the information in it is accurate and complete.

The publisher acknowledges receipt, assesses the report diligently and objectively, and removes or restricts access to the content if appropriate. The person who reported it is informed of the decision.

When content is removed or restricted, or an account is suspended, its author is informed with a statement of reasons: what was decided, the facts and grounds (law or these Terms), and the means of redress. The author may contest the decision by replying to contact@artatoo.com; the publisher re-examines it. This does not affect the right to go to court.

The site is not the publisher of the works and content posted by members: it hosts them as an intermediary within the meaning of the LSSI and the Digital Services Act. It has no general obligation to monitor them, but acts promptly once it has actual knowledge of illegal content.

10. Translations

The site interface is available in six languages; English is the default language.

To make the site multilingual, members' biographies and work descriptions may be translated into the languages of the site. This translation is covered by the necessary licence in section 7.2. Your original text remains the reference. Where no translation is available, the text is shown in its original language. Messages in gallery conversations may be translated dynamically.

Translations may be produced automatically, including by an external translation provider acting on the publisher's behalf (see the Privacy Policy). They may contain inaccuracies and are offered for convenience; the original text prevails.

The name « ArTatoO! » is never translated or transcribed.

11. Liability

The publisher takes care to keep the site running properly, but provides it as available, without guaranteeing that it will be free of interruptions or errors. Maintenance operations may make it temporarily unavailable. Members are encouraged to keep their own copies of their works.

Each member is responsible for the content they publish. As a hosting intermediary, the publisher is liable for that content only under the conditions laid down by the LSSI and the Digital Services Act.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits the publisher's liability where the law does not allow it to be excluded or limited, in particular in the event of wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or the rights that consumers derive from mandatory legal provisions.

12. Personal data

The processing of your personal data is described in the Privacy Policy, which also covers cookies.

13. Changes to the Terms

The publisher may update these Terms, for example to reflect changes in the site or in the law. Members are informed of significant changes in advance by email or by a notice on the site. Where a change requires your acceptance, it is requested when you next log in. If you do not accept the new Terms, you may close your account.

14. Applicable law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Spanish law. This choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence where those provisions apply to you, in particular as a consumer.

In the event of a dispute, please first write to contact@artatoo.com so that an amicable solution can be sought. Failing that, the competent courts are those determined by the applicable rules; where you act as a consumer, you may in any case bring proceedings before the courts of your place of residence.

15. Languages

These Terms are available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian and Japanese. In case of discrepancy between versions, the English version prevails.

16. Contact

For any question about these Terms, to report content or to exercise your rights: contact@artatoo.com.