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Who publishes this site, who hosts it, and how to get in touch.

01 Publisher

The Mote website is published by Mathurin Mollier, 10 avenue de la Gare, 28300 Saint-Prest, France.

Contact: [email protected].

Publication director: Mathurin Mollier.

02 Hosting

The site is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, +49 9831 505-0, hetzner.com. The server is in Falkenstein (Germany).

The site goes through Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, cloudflare.com), which protects it, speeds it up and stores the videos (Cloudflare R2).

The site’s emails (address confirmation, forgotten password, new versions) are sent through Resend (resend.com).

Mote’s installers are hosted on GitHub (github.com/akpic2/mote-releases).

03 Intellectual property

The texts, renders and videos on this site are made with Mote. Unless stated otherwise, they may not be reused without permission.

The original photos belong to their authors: their sources and licences are in the photo credits below. Renders made from a photo under a CC BY-SA licence are published under the same licence.

The site is set in Inter Tight (SIL Open Font License). The animations use GSAP and Lenis.

04 Personal data

What the site records, why and for how long: see the Privacy page.

05 Photo credits

The renders on this site start from freely licensed photos. Each one is reworked in Mote (screened, recoloured, cropped): the renders are derivative works of these photos. Here they are, with their author when known, their source and their licence.

Plaster head
ToastyKen · Flickr · CC BY 2.0
Tiger
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License
Owl
jitze · Flickr · CC BY 2.0
Blue beetle
Sam Droege · Flickr · Public domain (PDM 1.0)
Pearly beetle
quinet · Flickr · CC BY 2.0
Nautilus
Author not given · Pexels · Pexels License
Black orchid
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License
Green orchid
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License
Skull
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License
Painted staircase
Omerserez · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Red staircase
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License
Black and white portrait
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License
Jumper
Author not given · Pexels · Pexels License
Boxer
Author not given · Unsplash · Unsplash License

Share-alike: the renders made from the photo “Painted staircase” (Omerserez) are published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. You may reuse, change and share them, as long as you credit the photo’s author and Mote, and share the result under the same licence.

The other renders follow the general rule of this page (no reuse without permission). Photos under the Unsplash or Pexels licence or in the public domain need no credit: they are listed anyway.

The photos and videos used before this refresh of the images came from Unsplash and Pexels, under their licences.

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