What   this   is,   and   what   it   is   not.

The short version

We publish pages about tattoo artists and pass your request to the one you picked. That is the whole job.

• Talomis is not a party to any agreement between a client and an artist.
• No money moves through this site. There is no payment rail here at all.
• We do not employ, manage, supervise or vet any artist listed here.
• A request is a request. Nothing is booked until the artist says so.
• You must be 18 or older to send a request or hold an account.
• If you are listed and would rather not be, email us and your page comes down.

This summary is here to be read. The sections underneath it are the ones that bind.

What Talomis is

Talomis is a directory of tattoo artists and an introduction service, run by a working tattoo artist. It publishes a page for an artist, it lets a client describe what they want, and it carries that description to the artist. Then it stops.

We are not a party to anything you and an artist agree. No consultation, appointment, design, deposit, price, session or tattoo is an agreement with Talomis. It is between the client and the artist.

Nothing here creates an employment relationship, an agency, a partnership, a joint venture or a franchise between Talomis and any artist. No artist works for us. We do not work for them. No artist can bind Talomis to anything, and Talomis cannot bind an artist to anything beyond these terms.

Using this site means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.

What we do not control

We do not set, supervise, direct, approve or take responsibility for any of the following, and we make no promise about any of them:

• An artist's schedule, hours, availability or how fast they reply.
• Prices, deposits, minimums, cancellation policies or refunds.
• Whether an artist accepts your request, or shows up, or finishes.
• Licensing, permits, registration, insurance or health inspections.
• Hygiene, sterilisation, needles, ink, aftercare or shop conditions.
• The design, the drawing, the placement, the technique or the result.
• Conduct, professionalism, or anything said or done in a shop.
• Anything an artist tells you about themselves or their work.

An artist controls their own book. That is the point of the tool and it is also the limit of our responsibility.

What curation is, and is not

Artists are on this site because a working tattoo artist looked at published work and judged that it fits a style. That is the entire meaning of the word curated here. Placement on the site is not for sale to anybody, and nothing about where an artist appears is bought.

Curation is not vetting. It is not a background check, a licence check, an insurance check, a health inspection, a reference check, an identity check or an endorsement. We do not verify anybody's qualifications and we do not represent that anybody's qualifications have been verified. Being listed here is not a recommendation that you should get tattooed by that person, and it is not a warranty about their skill, their safety or their conduct.

We do not check licences, and in most places we could not. What is licensed differs by country and by US state. Some places license the individual artist, some license only the shop, some leave it to the county, and some have no body art law about an individual artist at all. Every artist here agrees, as a term of being here, that they hold and keep current every licence, permit, registration and insurance their own jurisdiction requires of them. We do not check it, we cannot check it, and we do not represent to anybody that it has been checked.

Do what you would do anyway. Look at healed work, read reviews outside this site, ask about licensing and hygiene, ask to see it, and meet the artist before you commit. Any working artist will show you.

Who can use this

You must be 18 or older to send a request, hold an account or upload anything here. The site is not built for children and we do not knowingly collect anything from anybody under 18. If you tell us an account or a request belongs to somebody under 18, we delete it.

Being 18 is our rule for using the site. It is not permission to be tattooed. The legal age for a tattoo, and the rules about consent, are set where the artist works, and the artist checks identification. Some places set the age higher than 18 for some work.

Do not use this site if the law where you are says you may not, or if we have already told you that your access is closed.

A request is a request

When you send a request you are asking an artist for a consultation. You are not booking a tattoo, and you are not confirming an appointment.

• Nobody charges you for the consultation itself.
• No tattoo, no price, no date and no appointment is guaranteed by it.
• The artist can decline, or not reply at all. We cannot make them answer.
• We do not promise how fast anybody replies, because we do not control it.

Where an artist has connected a calendar and turned automated booking on, picking a time holds a consultation slot on their calendar. That is still a consultation, and the artist can move it, decline it or cancel it under their own policy. Nothing is booked until the artist says it is.

We try to keep calendars accurate and we are not liable when they are not. Sync delays, double bookings, a missed notification and downtime all happen. The artist's own calendar is the final word on their schedule.

Money

Talomis takes zero percent of your booking and never handles client money. Whatever you and your artist agree is paid directly to them.

There is no payment rail on this site at all. No card on file, no plan, no tier, no trial. We do not process payments, hold funds, take deposits, act as an escrow, act as a payment agent or collect on anybody's behalf. We hold no card details of yours because we never ask for any. Nothing here is for sale to artists: not placement, not features, not leads. That is promise 004 of the covenant, and this page is where it binds.

Because no money moves through here, we cannot reverse a payment, refund a deposit, force a refund, or mediate a payment dispute. If you and your artist disagree about money, it is between the two of you, and it is settled under whatever the two of you agreed and under the law where the artist works.

Never pay Talomis to hold a consultation. Talomis never asks you for money. The artist contacts you directly about any deposit. Anyone claiming to be from Talomis and asking you to pay is a scam, and we want to hear about it.

Risk, and no medical advice

A tattoo breaks the skin and the result is permanent. It carries real risk: pain, infection, allergic reaction to ink or aftercare, scarring, blowouts, uneven healing, a result you do not like, and removal that is slow, painful and expensive when it works at all. Some health conditions, medications, allergies, skin conditions and pregnancy change that risk.

Nothing on Talomis is medical advice. Anything on this site about placement, size, healing or aftercare is general information written by tattoo artists, not by clinicians, and it is not about you. Talk to your artist about your skin and your health, follow their aftercare, and talk to a doctor about anything medical. If something looks infected, see a doctor rather than a search engine.

You decide to get tattooed, and you accept the risk of it. Talomis is not responsible for any injury, reaction, infection, scar, cost, loss or disappointment that comes out of a tattoo, a consultation or any dealings with an artist you found here.

For artists: the booking terms

These are the terms you accept when you switch automated booking on.

1. 001
   Talomis is a matchmaking service.

   We connect a client to you for a consultation. We are not your employer, agent, manager or business partner, and we are not a party to anything you and a client agree to.

2. 002
   The consultation, and everything after it, is between you and the client.

   Any appointment, artwork, payment, deposit or tattoo that follows is your business, conducted under your own policies.

3. 003
   You are responsible for your own compliance.

   You agree to hold and maintain every licence, permit and health and safety standard required by your town, city, state or province, and country, including age verification, consent forms and hygiene regulations. Talomis cannot and does not verify legal compliance for you.

4. 004
   You release Talomis from liability.

   If a dispute, injury, loss, no show, scheduling conflict or any other issue arises from a consultation or anything that follows it, you agree it is resolved between you and the client without involving Talomis, and you agree not to hold Talomis liable.

5. 005
   You control the switch.

   You can decline any request and turn automated booking off at any time. Bookings we facilitate are leads, not guarantees of work or income.

6. 006
   The service is provided as is.

   We work hard to keep calendars accurate, but you agree Talomis is not liable for sync delays, double bookings, missed notifications or downtime. Final schedule authority is your own calendar.

For artists: what you promise us

The other half of the deal. These hold whether or not automated booking is on, for as long as you have a page here.

1. 001
   You are licensed and insured where you work.

   You hold and keep current every licence, permit, registration, bloodborne pathogen certification and insurance your jurisdiction requires of a tattoo artist, and you follow the health and safety rules that apply to your shop. You promise this again every time you accept a request through Talomis. We do not check it, we cannot check it, and we do not represent to anybody that it has been checked.

2. 002
   The work you publish is yours to publish.

   Every photograph, design and word you put on your page is yours, or you hold the permission you need to publish it. Anyone identifiable in a photograph agreed to it being shown. If a design belongs to somebody else, you have their permission.

3. 003
   Your page is true.

   Your name, your shop, your city, your styles and your availability are accurate, and you keep them accurate. If you stop taking clients, you say so, so nobody books a lie.

4. 004
   Your account is yours to hold.

   You keep your sign in details to yourself, and you tell us if you think somebody else has them. Anything done from your account is treated as done by you.

5. 005
   You cover us for your own conduct.

   If somebody brings a claim against Talomis because of your work, your compliance, your content or how you dealt with a client, you defend it and you cover what it costs. This is the whole reason the sections above are written down.

For artists: how your page was built

Most artists here did not ask to be listed. Your page exists before you claim it, built from your own public work, because a directory of working artists is only useful if the working artists are in it. This is what that means, what it binds, and how to get out of it.

1. 001
   What was fetched, once.

   Your own public content, retrieved on your behalf: your public profile photograph, your public post images and your public bio text. One fetch. Nothing is fetched again without you asking.

2. 002
   What we store.

   Copies of those images on our own servers, so your page does not depend on links that expire. We may derive your shop name from locations you have publicly tagged, and place your city or shop on our map.

3. 003
   Your edits always win.

   Only empty fields get filled. Anything you have written or uploaded is never touched, and you can edit or remove anything on the page, at any time, from your studio.

4. 004
   First party carve out.

   The no scraping rule below binds third parties. It does not stop us retrieving your own public content for you, at your request, which is what building your page is.

5. 005
   You can be taken off, no questions.

   Email us and your page comes down. You do not have to give a reason, claim the page first, prove anything, or talk to anybody about staying. We aim to have it down within seven days and we confirm when it is done. This right does not run out and nothing you do on the site signs it away.

The privacy policy says the same thing from the data side, including what we hold about a page nobody has claimed and how to have it removed. Read it at the privacy policy.

Your work, and the permission we need

Your work stays yours. Talomis claims no ownership of your photographs, your designs, your words or your name. Nothing here transfers a copyright.

To put your page on the internet we need your permission to do the things a website does with a picture. So you give Talomis permission, worldwide and with no fee paid in either direction, to store, copy, resize, re encode, format and display your content on Talomis, and to include it in the sitemaps, the feeds, the link previews and the plain text files that let search engines and AI assistants find and cite your page. That is the whole permission. It exists so the site can show your work, and it goes no further.

What that permission does not cover: we do not sell your work, licence it to anybody as a dataset, put it in an advertisement, use it to promote anything you did not put on your own page, or make merchandise out of it. We may show your work in ordinary talk about the site, for example a screenshot of the site itself, with your name on it.

Take your content down and the permission ends with it, for anything new we would do. Two honest limits on that. Copies already taken by search engines, assistants, archives and other people are outside our control and we cannot pull them back. And ordinary backups age out on their own schedule rather than disappearing the same minute.

Copyright and takedown

If something here is yours and should not be, tell us and we will take it down. You do not need a lawyer to write to us and you do not need a particular form of words.

If you want to send a formal notice under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, send it to the address at the foot of this page and include: your signature, physical or typed; what work you own; the address of the page or image on this site; how to reach you; a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by you, your agent or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that what you have written is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

We act on notices that look genuine, and we tell the artist whose page was affected. If they think we got it wrong they can send a counter notice with the same detail, and we will pass it on. Accounts that repeatedly put up other people's work are closed.

The same route works for a photograph of you that you did not agree to, or for a page about you that should not exist. You do not have to own a copyright to ask us to take something down.

What you may not do

Do not do any of this, whether by hand or by machine:

• Scrape, crawl for bulk extraction, mirror, resell or redistribute the roster, the pages or the data behind them, or use any of it to build or feed a competing directory, dataset, mailing list or lead product.
• Use automated access beyond what ordinary search engine and AI assistant crawling does, or work around the bot check, the rate limits or any other technical control.
• Claim, edit or hold out a page that is not yours, or hold yourself out as Talomis, as working for Talomis, or as speaking for an artist you are not.
• Use the request form for anything other than a real enquiry about a tattoo: no marketing, no recruiting, no supplier pitches, no political messages, no testing, no flooding, no automated submissions.
• Send unsolicited messages to the artists listed here, or use anything you find here to build a contact list for that purpose.
• Upload or submit anything unlawful, anything that infringes somebody else's rights, anything sexual involving a minor, and anything that harasses, threatens or defames a person.
• Probe, scan, overload or interfere with the site, its hosting or its database, or try to reach data that is not yours.
• Copy the design, the code or the structure of this site to pass it off as your own service.

The roster, the way it is organised, the descriptions written for the images and the code behind the site are ours, and copying them to run a competing directory is the one use we will actually chase.

Crawlers and assistants

Ordinary crawling by search engines and AI assistants is welcome, and it is the point. Nothing is blocked in robots.txt except the artist's own signed in studio, and /llms.txt is written for assistants to read.

What we ask in return is that you send the person to the artist rather than to a middleman, and that you credit the artist for their work. That is a request, not a licence to take the roster. Bulk extraction, mirrors and dataset builds are covered by the section above.

Removal and suspension

We can remove a page, remove a photograph, refuse a request, close an account or block access, with or without notice, when somebody breaks these terms, when something puts a client at risk, when a page is false, or when we are required to. We try to say why, and we will say why if you ask.

You can leave at any time. Ask us and your page comes down. Promise 005 of the covenant is the export button, so what you take with you is your page, your work, your captions and your requests, in a plain open format, with no exit interview.

No warranty

The site is provided as it is, and as it happens to be available. As far as the law allows, Talomis makes no warranties of any kind, whether stated or implied, and specifically disclaims the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non infringement.

In plain words: we do not promise the site is accurate, complete, up to date, uninterrupted, secure against every attack, or that it will keep running. We do not promise that any artist listed is skilled, licensed, insured, safe, available or honest. We do not promise that a request arrives, that an email is delivered, that a calendar is in sync or that a notification goes out.

Some places do not allow a business to exclude certain warranties. Where that is true, this section is trimmed to what is allowed there, and the rest of these terms still stands.

The limit of what we owe

This section is written to be as protective as the law allows, and it applies to Talomis, to the person who runs it, and to anybody who works on it.

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, and we are not liable for lost profit, lost income, lost bookings, lost work, lost data, lost time or damage to reputation, whichever way the claim is framed, and whether or not we were warned it could happen.

We are not liable for anything an artist or a client does or fails to do, including injury, infection, a result you do not like, a no show, a cancellation, a dispute, a deposit, a payment, or anything said or done in a shop.

The most we can owe you in total, for everything put together, is one hundred United States dollars, or the amount you have paid Talomis in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is larger. Nothing here is for sale, so that second figure is normally zero.

Some places do not allow these limits, and no limit here applies to anything the law says cannot be limited, such as death or personal injury caused by our own negligence, or our own fraud. Where a limit is not allowed, it is trimmed to what is allowed there and everything else stands.

What you cover us for

If somebody brings a claim against Talomis because of you, you deal with it and you cover what it costs, including reasonable legal fees. That covers claims arising out of how you used the site, anything you published or sent through it, your dealings with a client or an artist, your own work and your own compliance, and any breach of these terms.

We will tell you promptly about any such claim, and we can take part in defending it with our own lawyer if we want to. You do not settle anything that puts an obligation on us without asking us first.

Which law, and where

These terms are governed by the law of the State of New Hampshire, in the United States, without regard to its rules about which law applies. Any claim goes to the state or federal courts sitting in New Hampshire, and you agree those courts can hear it.

If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom, the European Union or the European Economic Area, this does not take away the protection your own country's law gives you, and it does not stop you bringing a claim where you live. Where your own law says otherwise, your own law wins.

How a dispute gets handled

Talk to us first. Email the address at the foot of this page, say what happened and what would fix it. A person reads it. Almost everything gets sorted this way, and we would rather sort it than argue about it.

If it is still not sorted after thirty days, either of us can take it to the courts named above. There is no arbitration clause on this page and nothing here signs away your right to go to court.

A dispute between a client and an artist is not a dispute with Talomis. We are not the referee, we do not hold the money, and we cannot decide who is right. What we can do is take a page down, close an account, and tell you what we hold, and we will do all three where it is warranted.

The rest of it

1. 001
   If one part fails, the rest holds.

   If a court decides some part of this cannot be enforced, that part is trimmed to the smallest change that makes it work, or dropped, and everything else stands.

2. 002
   Letting something go once is not giving it up.

   If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not waived it.

3. 003
   This is the agreement.

   These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and Talomis about the site. They replace anything said before them.

4. 004
   The parts that outlast the account.

   The sections on money, risk, what artists promise, permission for content, no warranty, the liability limit, what you cover us for, and which law applies, all keep working after you stop using the site or your page comes down.

5. 005
   We can hand this on, you cannot.

   If Talomis is one day passed to somebody else, this agreement goes with it and the covenant goes with it. You cannot hand your side of it to somebody else without asking us.

If this changes

Covenant promise 006: what is written here does not change quietly. A change is listed below with the date on it, the old words stay readable, and artists are asked to accept again where the change affects them. Carrying on using the site after a change means you accept it, but you will have been told first.