Intellectual Property & Brand Use

This page is maintained by Timeless Messages to explain who owns what on this platform — our brand and software on one side, your memorial content on the other — and how to raise a concern if you believe something here infringes your rights.

What we own

Timeless Messages™ owns, or licenses, everything that makes up the Service other than the content you upload. That includes:

• the name Timeless Messages, our logo, wordmark, and visual identity;
• the website, application code, database design, and server workflows;
• page layouts, typography choices, and the overall look and feel;
• our written copy, guides, FAQ answers, and marketing material;
• our demonstration memorial, sample stories, promotional reels, and stock imagery;
• our QR generation, memorial verification, and publishing workflows.

These are protected by copyright, trademark, and — where applicable — trade secret and patent law. All rights reserved.

Trademark notice

Timeless Messages™ and our logo are trademarks of Timeless Messages. Use of the ™ symbol reflects common-law rights in the mark. We will update this page if and when a federal registration issues.

What you may do with our brand

• Link to timelessmessages.org, or share a memorial link or QR code.
• Refer to the Service by name in factual terms — for example, "this memorial is hosted on Timeless Messages."
• Funeral homes, monument dealers, and other partners may use our name and logo in approved partnership materials, with prior written permission.

What you may not do

• Use our name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, or partnership you don't have.
• Register a domain, app name, social handle, or business name that is confusingly similar to ours.
• Alter, recolor, or incorporate our logo into another mark.
• Copy our page copy, guides, layouts, or demonstration content for a competing service.
• Scrape, mirror, reverse engineer, or bulk-download the Service or memorials hosted on it.

Your content stays yours

Nothing on this page claims ownership of what you upload. You keep the copyright in your videos, photos, names, dates, and biographical text. You grant us only the limited licence needed to host, transcode, and display your memorial, described in section 3 of the Terms of Service. That licence ends when you delete your content.

We do not sell your memorial content, license it to third parties, or use it to train AI models. If we ever want to feature a memorial in marketing, we will ask you first and in writing.

Reporting infringement

If you believe content hosted on Timeless Messages infringes your copyright, send a notice to hello@timelessmessages.org with the subject line "Copyright notice" and include:

• your name, address, and contact details;
• identification of the work you say is infringed;
• the memorial URL or exact location of the material;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them;
• your physical or electronic signature.

We review notices promptly, remove or disable access to material that is clearly infringing, and notify the memorial owner so they can respond with a counter-notice. We terminate accounts of repeat infringers.

Brand or licensing questions

For permission to use our name or logo, partnership materials, or any other licensing question, email hello@timelessmessages.org.