This Privacy Policy explains how Artist Title Year, Inc. (“Aty,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you use Aty.

If you have questions, contact us at: hi@aty.is

This policy applies to our website, artist and artwork pages, claim forms, upload tools, review systems, image matching systems, and related services.

It does not apply to third-party websites or services that Aty links to. Those third parties have their own privacy policies.

You may give us information directly, including:

• —account information, such as email address and password;
• —artist profile information, such as name, aliases, handles, social links, website links, and bio;
• —artwork information, such as images, title, medium, year, dimensions, description, and source URL;
• —claim form information;
• —metadata suggestions and correction requests;
• —hide, archive, or review requests;
• —communications with Aty.

Aty may collect and organize information from public sources to support attribution, indexing, artist discovery, and artwork matching.

This may include:

• —public images, captions, and page URLs from the web;
• —public profile names or usernames of people who shared those images;
• —public artist names, aliases, handles, bios, links, gallery pages, and artwork information;
• —relationships between public pages, images, artists, artworks, and Sightings;
• —public information from public web sources, including image-sharing platforms, social platforms, gallery websites, artist websites, manual submissions, and other public web pages.

We collect this information to help images of art lead back to the artist, not to profile public users for unrelated purposes.

Aty generates information to operate the Services, including:

• —visual fingerprints from images;
• —perceptual hashes;
• —object detection results;
• —bounding boxes showing where artwork appears inside an image;
• —visual embeddings used for similarity search;
• —attribution candidates;
• —attribution decisions and confidence scores;
• —duplicate and similarity clusters;
• —Sighting relationships;
• —LLM-extracted artist mentions from public captions;
• —import logs, job logs, review history, and operational records.

We treat embeddings and other derived image data with the same care as the source image, even though embeddings are not intended to recreate the original image.

Aty does not intentionally collect:

• —EXIF, GPS, or device metadata from uploaded images;
• —ad-tracking data;
• —data for advertising targeting;
• —payment information, unless and until we add payments;
• —sensitive identity information unless you choose to include it in content you submit.

If image files contain metadata, we may strip or ignore it during processing where technically feasible.

We use information to:

• —provide, operate, and improve Aty;
• —create and maintain artist, artwork, and Sighting records;
• —help attribute artworks to artists;
• —process artist claims and verification requests;
• —review metadata suggestions;
• —enable artist uploads;
• —detect duplicates and near-duplicates;
• —match public Sightings to artist portfolios;
• —rank attribution candidates for human review;
• —surface where an artist’s work appears across the public web;
• —detect suspected infringement or unauthorized commercial use on behalf of the depicted artist;
• —maintain quality, safety, and abuse monitoring;
• —prevent fraud, impersonation, and platform misuse;
• —communicate with you;
• —comply with legal obligations;
• —enforce our Terms and policies.

Aty uses computer vision and automated systems to help match artworks and reconnect them to artists.

We may use systems such as perceptual hashing, object detection, visual embeddings, text matching, and LLM-assisted extraction to support attribution, matching, deduplication, review workflows, and platform safety.

Aty does not use artwork, captions, embeddings, or artist information to train or fine-tune generative AI models that create new artwork, imitate artistic styles, or produce derivative works.

Aty does not sell, license, or share artwork or embeddings with third-party model developers for generative AI training.

We may share information in limited ways:

• —with service providers who help us operate Aty, such as hosting, storage, security, analytics, email, and infrastructure providers;
• —with verification and review tools used to process artist claims;
• —when you choose to make information public on an artist or artwork page;
• —when needed to comply with law, legal process, or enforceable government requests;
• —to protect the rights, safety, security, and integrity of Aty, artists, users, or the public;
• —in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

We do not sell personal data. We do not share data for third-party advertising targeting.

Aty includes public artist, artwork, and Sighting pages. Information on public pages may be indexed by search engines and viewed, copied, or archived by others.

If you claim a profile or upload artwork, some information may become public, including artist name, artwork images, artwork metadata, profile links, and other information you submit or approve.

If you want information hidden, corrected, or reviewed, contact us at hi@aty.is.

Where applicable privacy laws require a legal basis, we process information based on:

• —performance of a contract, such as providing account features;
• —legitimate interests, such as operating an attribution index, preventing fraud, improving the Services, and maintaining platform integrity;
• —consent, where required;
• —legal obligations, such as responding to valid legal requests or copyright notices.

We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Aty, maintain attribution integrity, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, enforce policies, and operate the Services.

If you request that content be hidden, archived, corrected, or deleted, we will review the request. Some information may remain in internal systems, backups, logs, or restricted records where needed for legal compliance, copyright review, security, fraud prevention, provenance, attribution integrity, or platform operations.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information.

You may contact us to:

• —request access to information associated with you;
• —correct inaccurate information;
• —claim an artist profile;
• —request that public information be hidden or archived;
• —report incorrect attribution;
• —submit a copyright notice;
• —ask questions about our data practices.

Contact: hi@aty.is

Copyright notices should go to: dmca@aty.is

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. No internet service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Aty is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to Aty, contact us at hi@aty.is.

Aty is operated from the United States. If you use Aty from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will try to provide reasonable notice. The “Last updated” date will show when the policy was last changed.

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent to: hi@aty.is

Aty exists to help artworks lead back to the artists who created them.

Images of art often spread online without clear attribution. Aty uses computer vision, text matching, and human review to help identify artworks, find public Sightings, and connect those images back to artists.

Aty may use the following systems:

Perceptual hashing

Perceptual hashing creates a small fingerprint of an image so we can detect duplicates and near-duplicates.

Object detection

Object detection helps identify where artwork appears inside a larger image, such as a studio shot, gallery wall, framed work, or room photo.

Visual embeddings

Visual embeddings help Aty compare images for similarity so we can identify likely matches, duplicates, and related Sightings.

Text matching

Text matching checks captions, public usernames, artist names, aliases, and handles as additional attribution signals.

LLM-assisted extraction

Aty may use language models to parse public captions into structured artist names, handles, or other attribution clues. This is used to support matching and review, not to generate artwork.

Aty may use these systems for:

• —re-attributing artwork to its creator;
• —visual similarity search and matching against artists’ own portfolios;
• —perceptual deduplication and clustering of near-identical images;
• —surfacing where an artist’s work appears across the public web;
• —ranking and sorting attribution candidates for human review;
• —detecting duplicate uploads within an artist’s own portfolio;
• —detecting suspected infringement or unauthorized commercial use on behalf of the depicted artist;
• —internal quality monitoring;
• —abuse prevention;
• —platform security;
• —improving non-generative attribution and matching systems.

Aty does not use artwork, captions, embeddings, artist names, or artist likenesses for:

• —training or fine-tuning generative AI models on stored images, embeddings, or captions;
• —style transfer;
• —style imitation;
• —“in the style of” generation;
• —image synthesis;
• —image-to-image generation;
• —producing derivative artworks;
• —selling, licensing, or sharing embeddings or images with third-party model developers;
• —training face recognition or identity recognition systems;
• —re-identifying or profiling public users beyond the attribution use case;
• —advertising targeting.

Aty does not sell, license, or provide artist images, captions, embeddings, or artwork datasets to third-party model developers for generative AI training.

If Aty uses third-party infrastructure or APIs to operate the Services, we will use them to support Aty’s attribution, matching, indexing, and platform functions, not to authorize generative AI training on artist work.

Embeddings are derived from images and are used for similarity search. They are not intended to reconstruct the original image.

Even so, Aty treats embeddings and similar derived data as protected platform data subject to this policy.

Aty’s purpose is to help artists be found, credited, and connected to the places their work appears online.

Our use of AI and computer vision is limited to that purpose.

If Aty materially changes how it uses AI or model systems, we will update this policy.

We will not quietly convert artist uploads into a generative AI training dataset.

Questions can be sent to: hi@aty.is