Terms of sitting

Acceptance

By requesting a sitting, paying a fee, or sending papers to Identity Canvas Core (“the studio”, “we”), you agree to these terms. If you are booking for another adult, you confirm that the sitter consents to sit and to these terms. We may refuse a booking that asks us to prove a legal lineage, to write about a person who is not in the room, or to finish work in a timeframe we cannot meet.

The work

The studio provides identity journey sittings and written work as described on the sittings and rates pages: conversations in the paper room, reading of papers you bring, and (where commissioned) a draft and a bound canvas or written review. The work is a professional sitting service. It is not legal advice, migration advice, counselling, medical treatment, or genealogical certification.

Your papers

You remain the owner of every original you bring. Copies made in the room are working copies for the commission and are destroyed after binding unless you have asked, in writing, for a sealed duplicate to be held. You must not bring originals you cannot replace. You warrant that you have the right to show the papers you place on the table, and that you will not ask us to copy a document that belongs to someone who has refused consent.

Intellectual property

You own the facts of your life. The studio owns the literary form of notes, drafts, and bound canvases as written by the practitioner, until the finished canvas is handed over. On handover of a paid canvas or review, we assign to you the right to keep, copy, and give that document to family. We retain the right to keep an anonymised station (with names, workplaces, and unique facts removed) for teaching inside the studio. We will not publish a named canvas, or a recognisable story, without your written consent.

Booking, punctuality, and the room

A date is held when the relevant fee or deposit is received. Arrive at the time agreed. If you are more than twenty minutes late, the sitting may be shortened to the remaining booked time. The paper room is a workplace; you must not photograph other sitters or papers that are not yours.

Liability

To the extent permitted by Australian Consumer Law, the studio is not liable for loss of original papers you choose to bring, for distress that arises from remembering a station you chose to name, or for any use you later make of a canvas (including giving it to a relative who disagrees with it). Our liability for a failure to provide the sitting with due care and skill is limited, at our option, to supplying the sitting again or refunding the fee for the unused part, as set out on the refund page. Nothing in these terms excludes rights you cannot contract out of under the Australian Consumer Law.

Confidentiality

Practitioners will not discuss your sitting with anyone outside the studio except where required by law. Inside the studio, notes are shared only between the practitioner on your booking and, if needed, the second practitioner for cover. We are not a health service; if a sitting reveals an immediate risk of harm, we may stop the sitting and urge you to contact an appropriate service.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction. The studio address for notices is Level 12, 19 York Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

Changes

We may update these terms for new bookings. The terms in force on the day you pay a deposit govern that commission. Questions: hello@identitycanvascore.digital or +61 2 5550 7630.