Sapgrain is a curated art and culture platform for discovering artists, makers, creative practices, cultural stories, research, and archival knowledge.

Sapgrain may publish artist profiles, cultural documentation, editorial stories, research, and other materials relating to creative practice.

Sapgrain is not an open social network or an automatically generated artist directory. Inclusion, documentation, editorial publication, and collaboration may be subject to review by the Sapgrain team.

You may browse and use Sapgrain for lawful, personal, professional, educational, research, or other purposes consistent with the nature of the platform.

You must not use Sapgrain to:

• impersonate another person or organization;
• submit deliberately false or misleading information;
• scrape or systematically reproduce substantial portions of the platform;
• infringe intellectual property or other rights;
• interfere with the security or operation of the website;
• use Sapgrain for unlawful or fraudulent activity.

Artists, makers, and other creative practitioners may submit information about themselves and their practice through Sapgrain.

Submissions may include biographies, portfolio material, photographs, artwork information, materials, techniques, lineage information, interviews, and other information relevant to documenting a creative practice.

Submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance, publication, verification, documentation, collaboration, or inclusion in Sapgrain.

You are responsible for ensuring that information you submit is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the necessary rights and permissions to provide any material submitted.

Sapgrain may document creative practices through submitted materials, interviews, conversations, photography, video, field visits, research, and other appropriate forms of documentation.

Documentation may be edited, structured, or presented in an editorial format for clarity, consistency, accessibility, and context.

Where material is agreed or intended for publication, it may appear on Sapgrain's website, social channels, editorial publications, archival materials, or other Sapgrain communications.

Specific documentation projects may be governed by additional agreements or consent forms.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, artists retain ownership of their original creative works and intellectual property.

Sapgrain retains rights in its own branding, website, interface, original editorial material, original photography or audiovisual material where applicable, graphics, and other Sapgrain-created content.

By submitting material to Sapgrain, you grant Sapgrain the permissions necessary to receive, review, host, reproduce, display, edit, publish, archive, and promote that material for the purposes agreed with you and in connection with operating Sapgrain.

The scope of any commercial, promotional, or collaborative use may be governed by separate agreements.

Where Sapgrain describes an artist or practitioner as reviewed, verified, or documented, that status reflects the information and practice reviewed by Sapgrain at the relevant time.

Verification is not a guarantee of artistic quality, future conduct, commercial performance, or the accuracy of every statement made by an artist.

Sapgrain may update, suspend, or remove a verification or documentation status where circumstances warrant.

Sapgrain may research and document art forms, craft traditions, techniques, materials, places, communities, histories, and other cultural subjects.

Such work may draw from practitioner accounts, interviews, field observations, historical sources, public materials, and other appropriate references.

Cultural knowledge may involve differing interpretations, histories, and community perspectives. Sapgrain aims to present such material responsibly and with appropriate context.

Sapgrain Studio is the applied culture and collaboration layer of Sapgrain. It may involve collaborations with artists, makers, brands, institutions, designers, and other creative partners.

Studio projects may include objects, products, commissions, exhibitions, material experiments, workshops, or other collaborative work.

Specific Studio projects may be subject to separate commercial or collaboration agreements.

Sapgrain may use third-party services for hosting, analytics, communications, payments, media, security, forms, and other technical functions.

Your use of third-party services may also be subject to those providers' own terms and policies.

Sapgrain aims to provide accurate and carefully researched information, but cultural, historical, artistic, and practitioner information may change or contain differing interpretations.

Information on Sapgrain is provided for informational and cultural purposes and should not be treated as a guarantee, professional advice, or certification unless expressly stated.

Sapgrain may also link to external websites or services that it does not control.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Sapgrain and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or other losses arising from use of the website or reliance on information presented through it.

Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or limit liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Sapgrain may restrict, suspend, remove, or discontinue access to content or services where reasonably necessary to protect the platform, its community, its contributors, or its legal interests.

Sapgrain may also decline or discontinue an artist application, profile, documentation project, or collaboration in accordance with applicable agreements and law.

These terms are intended to be governed by the applicable laws of India, subject to the mandatory rights and protections applicable to users under relevant law.

The appropriate jurisdiction and dispute-resolution provisions should be confirmed with Sapgrain's legal counsel before publication.

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