Artist Terms

Who can be listed

Working tattoo artists aged 18 or over whose work is mainly in Traditional styles. Profiles are added by the artists themselves, or by someone who manages an artist’s account with their agreement — we do not list anyone who has not asked to be listed.

What you confirm

• You are the artist, or you manage the artist’s account with their agreement.
• The details you send are accurate, and the Instagram account is yours.
• The tattoos in the photos are the listed artist’s own work.
• You may share these photos, and a person who can be recognised in a photo has agreed to be shown.

Your photos

Your photos stay yours. By sending them you allow us, free of charge and without exclusivity, to store them, to save our own copies (turned upright, resized, converted to WebP and stripped of camera data such as location), to crop them into previews, and to show them on your profile and in the directory — for as long as your profile is listed. That includes previews that point to your profile, such as search results and link previews.

We never copy photos from Instagram. If we would like to feature your work on @traditionalartist, we will ask you first.

Checked by hand

Our editors review every profile before it goes live. We may decline a profile, fix obvious mistakes such as a misspelt city, or take a profile down if the details turn out to be false, the work is not Traditional, or the profile is used to mislead people. Nothing you send appears on the site until an editor approves it. How we choose is explained in How we select.

Free, and no paid ranking

Being listed costs nothing. Nobody can pay to rank higher in the catalogue. The verified badge means you confirmed the profile by messaging @traditionalartist from the Instagram account on it; it is free and never for sale. If we ever offer paid placement, it will be clearly marked and will change neither the order of the catalogue nor anyone’s badge.

Changing your profile

Use “Update this profile” on your page. It gives you a short code: send it to @traditionalartistfrom the Instagram account on the profile, so we know the update is yours. An editor applies the changes after that. Your name and Instagram handle are changed by hand — write to us.

Removing your profile

You can leave at any time. Ask us to take your profile down, and the page will say that you are no longer listed; or ask us to delete it completely, and we will remove the profile, your photos and your profile picture, and its old addresses will stop working. Copies in our backups disappear as the backups expire. To ask, email traditional_artist@yahoo.com or send a direct message to @traditionalartist(Instagram, opens in a new tab).

Clients and bookings

People who find you here contact you directly through your Instagram, website or booking link. We do not take part in bookings, payments or agreements between you and your clients.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change affects what we do with your photos, we will tell listed artists before it applies. How we handle personal details is described in the Privacy policy.

Questions

If you have a question about your profile or these terms, email traditional_artist@yahoo.com or send a direct message to @traditionalartist(Instagram, opens in a new tab).