The terms for using Irth.

What Irth does

Irth records a leader telling their own story and produces a documentary film, a written record in Arabic and English, and a set of shorter pieces from it. Part of that production is automated, and every output is reviewed by a person before anything is published.

Applying, and your account

• You apply through the public form. Our team reviews the application and decides whether to take it forward — applying does not guarantee acceptance.
• If you are accepted you get an invitation email and set your own password. Keep it to yourself: anything done from your account is treated as done by you.
• Tell us what is true. Your name, your role and your story must be yours.
• We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you why.

Your material stays yours

You keep ownership of your story, your recordings and the photographs you upload. By submitting them you give Irth Studio permission to transcribe, translate, edit and adapt them, to synthesise narration in your voice under the consent you gave, and to publish the resulting film and written record in the archive and in material presenting the archive.

Only upload photographs you have the right to share. If a photograph shows someone else, it is on you to have their agreement first.

You can withdraw a story from publication: tell us and we take it down. Copies already delivered to a sponsor or to press before the takedown may remain outside our control.

Voice cloning and AI production

• The consent box in the application is one specific permission: to build an AI clone of your voice from your intro recording and use it to narrate your own story and the pieces that go with it. Nothing else.
• We store the exact wording you agreed to, so what was agreed stays clear years later.
• You can withdraw that consent at any time. We delete the cloned voice and narration switches to a synthetic voice that is not yours.
• Automated systems make mistakes. Every transcript, script and translation is reviewed by a person, and nothing is published until you have approved it.
• Narration you hear in a published film is synthesised: it is your voice model reading a reviewed script, not a hidden recording of you.

Sponsorship

A sponsorship enquiry sent through this site starts a conversation; it is not a contract. The scope, the money and the term of any sponsorship are set out in a separate signed agreement between you and Irth Studio.

Using the site fairly

• Do not upload anyone else's voice, face or work as though it were yours.
• Do not submit a false or misleading story. This is an archive; its whole value is that it is true.
• Do not try to break, overload or work around the limits on the public forms, or to reach material that is not yours.
• Quoting and sharing an archive page is welcome. Republishing another leader's film or written record as your own work is not.

What we do not promise

The service is provided as it is. We work to keep it available and accurate, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that a submitted story will be produced or published.

Ending it

You can stop using Irth and ask us to close your account whenever you want. We can end access if these terms are broken. Closing an account does not by itself remove a story that is already published — ask for that separately and we take it down.

Which law applies

If a dispute arises, we will try to resolve it directly first. Nothing on this page should be read as a choice of law or jurisdiction.

Changes to these terms

These terms will change once they have been through legal review. The version on this page, with the effective date at the top, is always the current one.