Legal notice and terms of use
Last updated 13 August 2026. Written in-house, not reviewed by counsel.
Publisher
| Company | GLOBAL HUMAN INTELLIGENCE CONSULTING |
|---|---|
| Form | Société à responsabilité limitée (SARL) |
| Registered office | 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France |
| SIREN | 939 603 593 |
| VAT | FR06939603593 |
| Represented by | Philippe Guillamo, Manager |
| Contact | contact@quietmeta.app |
| Hosting | Google Cloud EMEA Limited — europe-west1 (Belgium, European Union) |
What QuietMeta does
QuietMeta reads the metadata and signed provenance records contained in a file you provide, and can remove categories of that metadata at your request. It operates on the container of the file; image data is not decoded or recompressed.
What QuietMeta does not do, and will not claim to do
- It does not prove that a file was created by a human. The absence of a detectable marker proves nothing about origin.
- It does not detect or remove watermarks embedded in pixels or in wording. Neither Anthropic's text watermark nor Google's SynthID can currently be verified by any third party, so no honest tool can claim to erase them.
- It does not guarantee the outcome of any third-party AI detector.
- It does not remove visible copyright marks, artist signatures or anti-counterfeiting features.
- It never fabricates or forges a provenance record.
Your responsibilities
You may use QuietMeta only on content you own or are authorised to process. You are responsible for the consequences of removing metadata from a file.
Prohibited uses
- Passing off content as something it is not, in any context where the truth of its origin matters.
- Evading a legal transparency obligation, an academic rule, a platform policy or an investigation.
- Stripping authorship or rights information from work you do not own.
- Producing misleading synthetic media.
Availability of the free web version
The web version is provided free of charge, without any availability commitment. It may be interrupted, changed or withdrawn at any time. Statutory warranties applicable to consumers under French law remain unaffected.
Terms of sale — QuietMeta for desktop
What is sold
A perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use QuietMeta for desktop on one computer, for the major version purchased and every earlier one. A later major version is a paid upgrade and never stops the purchased version from working. The full licence terms are displayed during installation and are available on request at contact@quietmeta.app.
Price and tax
19.00 EUR excluding tax. Value added tax is added at the rate of the purchaser's country and shown before payment; the total payable is displayed on the payment page before any commitment. Business purchasers established in the European Union outside France may enter a valid VAT number, in which case the reverse charge mechanism applies and no VAT is charged.
Order and payment
Payment is handled by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. We never see and never store your card details. The order is complete when payment is confirmed.
Delivery
Delivery is immediate and electronic: a licence key is sent to the email address given at payment, normally within a few minutes. If it has not arrived within one hour, check your spam folder and then write to contact@quietmeta.app — we will resend it. No physical medium is shipped.
Right of withdrawal
A consumer normally has fourteen days to withdraw from a distance contract, without giving a reason (article L221-18 of the French Consumer Code).
To withdraw where the right still applies, write to contact@quietmeta.app with your order reference. We refund within fourteen days of being informed, using the same payment method.
Legal guarantee of conformity
Digital content sold to a consumer carries the legal guarantee of conformity of articles L224-25-12 and following of the French Consumer Code, and the guarantee against hidden defects of articles 1641 and following of the Civil Code. These guarantees are free of charge, cannot be excluded by this contract, and are separate from any commercial gesture. If the software does not conform, you may require it to be brought into conformity and, failing that, obtain a price reduction or a refund.
Consumer mediation
If a complaint made to us in writing has not been resolved, a consumer may refer the dispute free of charge to our consumer mediator, within one year of that written complaint:
| Mediator | SAS Médiation Solution |
|---|---|
| Address | 222 chemin de la Bergerie, 01800 Saint Jean de Niost, France |
| Website | sasmediationsolution-conso.fr |
| contact@sasmediationsolution-conso.fr |
SAS Médiation Solution is listed by the CECMC, the French commission that evaluates and supervises consumer mediation.
Intellectual property
The QuietMeta name, interface and source code belong to GLOBAL HUMAN INTELLIGENCE CONSULTING. Provenance validation uses the C2PA open-source library published by the Content Authenticity Initiative under its own licence.
Governing law
French law. In the absence of an amicable settlement, the competent courts are those of Paris, subject to the mandatory rules protecting consumers.
Status of this document
These terms were written in-house and have not been reviewed by a qualified lawyer. We prefer to say so rather than let the wording imply otherwise. Nothing here reduces the rights French and European consumer law gives you: where this document and the law disagree, the law wins.