TrueSpec Publisher Agreement
Effective 2026-05-24. This agreement is between TrueSpec (Sopko Technologies, LLC, "TrueSpec," "we," "us") and the company publishing data ("Publisher," "you"). Written in plain English on purpose. This document is provided as-is and is not legal advice.
By creating a Publisher account, uploading a catalog, or clicking "I agree," you accept this Agreement on behalf of your company and confirm you're authorized to do so.
1. Definitions
- Platform — the TrueSpec service at truespec.net, including the API.
- Content — the product data, descriptions, specifications, dimensions, images, and other materials you upload or publish.
- Catalog — your collection of Content on the Platform.
- API — the versioned read interface (e.g.
/v1/) through which Consumers retrieve Content. - Consumer — a party you authorize to access your Content through the Platform.
- Authoritative Publisher — a Publisher verified as the brand owner or its authorized representative for the Content (Section 4).
- Derived Publisher — a Publisher that publishes Content it has the right to distribute but for which it is not the verified brand owner (e.g. a distributor or retailer publishing its own or independently-sourced records).
- Authority of Record — the status of being the verified authoritative source for a given product record.
2. What the Platform does
TrueSpec hosts your Content, normalizes it to a standard schema, makes and stores its own copies (including making technical copies of images and re-encoding, resizing, or stripping metadata from them), and serves it through the API to Consumers you authorize. We are a conduit. We do not author, fact-check, or guarantee your Content, and we are not a party to any transaction between you and a Consumer.
3. Accounts and eligibility
You must be a business, provide accurate registration information, and keep your credentials secure. You're responsible for everything done under your account.
4. Authority verification and Publisher tiers
We may verify a Publisher's Authority of Record by methods including DNS-based domain control, GS1 company-prefix verification, or manual review. A Publisher verified for a given scope may be designated an Authoritative Publisher for that scope. A Publisher that is not so verified operates as a Derived Publisher. You must not claim Authority you do not hold, and you must not misrepresent your tier.
5. Authority of Record and claiming
A product record has at most one Authority of Record. A Derived Publisher may create records to populate a Catalog. When the verified brand owner later claims those records, Authority transfers to the Authoritative Publisher and the record's stable public identifier is preserved, so existing Consumer integrations continue uninterrupted. Matching a claim to an existing record requires confirmation — we do not auto-merge records. Your edits or annotations made as a Derived Publisher may persist as your own layer where applicable, but canonical authority passes to the verified owner.
6. The license you grant us
You grant TrueSpec a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, reformat (technical changes only — re-encoding, resizing, metadata stripping — that do not alter the substance of your Content), index, and display your Content in order to:
(a) operate and provide the Platform; (b) make your Content available to Consumers you authorize — and your act of authorizing a Consumer is your authorization for us to sublicense your Content to that Consumer for display on that Consumer's own properties; and (c) generate aggregate, de-identified analytics that do not identify you or your individual Content.
You keep all ownership of your Content (Section 7). This license ends as described in Section 13, except for aggregate de-identified data already generated and any copies already delivered to Consumers.
7. Ownership
You own your Content. We own the Platform — the software, schema, category templates, normalization logic, accumulated mapping templates, and the compiled database as a whole. Purely factual data (such as dimensions) may not be protectable by copyright; your expressive Content (marketing copy, images) remains yours. Nothing here transfers ownership either way except the licenses expressly stated.
8. Your representations and warranties
You represent and warrant that:
(a) you have authority to enter this Agreement; (b) your Content does not violate any law or infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights; (c) if you are an Authoritative Publisher — you own or control all rights in the Content (or are authorized by the rights holder) and are authorized to grant the licenses in Section 6; (d) if you are a Derived Publisher — you have the right to publish and redistribute the Content you upload, and you are not republishing through the Platform any authoritative record or Content you obtained from TrueSpec or any third party without the right to do so.
You are solely responsible for the accuracy and completeness of your Content.
9. Restrictions
You will not: publish unlawful Content; claim false Authority of Record; upload Content you lack the rights to; interfere with or probe the Platform; or use the Platform to redistribute another party's authoritative Content without the right to do so.
10. Indemnification
You will defend, indemnify, and hold TrueSpec harmless from third-party claims arising out of your Content or your breach of this Agreement, including intellectual-property infringement claims relating to Content you published. This is the clause that keeps liability for the rights in your Content with you, who is in the position to know them.
11. Disclaimers
The Platform is provided "as is." Because we are a conduit, we do not author, verify, or warrant the accuracy of any Content — yours or any other Publisher's. We disclaim implied warranties to the fullest extent the law allows.
12. Limitation of liability
Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. Our total liability is capped at the greater of the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or $500.
13. Term, termination, and what happens to your data
Either party may terminate at any time. On termination, or when you remove Content: your license to us ends; we stop serving the affected Content to Consumers; and we delete our stored copies within 30 days, except for (i) aggregate de-identified data, (ii) routine backups that expire in the ordinary course, and (iii) copies already delivered to or cached by Consumers, which are outside our control. Revoking a Consumer's access stops new delivery but cannot recall copies a Consumer already holds.
14. Fees
Publishing is currently free. We may introduce fees on reasonable notice; continuing to use the Platform after a fee takes effect is acceptance, or you may terminate before it does.
15. Privacy
Personal data of your account users is handled under our Privacy Policy.
16. Changes to this Agreement
We may update this Agreement on notice, with 30 days' notice for material changes. Continued use after changes take effect is acceptance.
17. Governing law
This Agreement is governed by the laws of Pennsylvania, and the exclusive venue is Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
18. General
This is the entire agreement between us on its subject. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. No waiver is implied by delay. You may not assign this Agreement without our consent; we may assign it in a merger or sale of the business. Notices go to your account email.