Pro bono programme
Free evidence certificates for the people who protect others.
Grooming chats, revenge-porn posts, threats and defamatory pages disappear the moment someone is confronted. If you preserve them for people who cannot pay a bailiff, we would like to pay for the certificates. Approved child-protection, victim-support and domestic-violence organisations and law clinics receive a free monthly instantproof credit; legal-aid lawyers and journalists get 50% off every certificate.
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Capture it
Save a webpage, record a browser session, or certify a file.
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Seal it
A cryptographic seal and timestamp help reveal later changes.
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Verify it
Anyone can check the evidence package independently.
Who can apply
Child protection and abuse cases
Youth lawyers, guardians ad litem, child-protection organisations. Grooming chats, profiles and posts that must be preserved before they are deleted.
Intimate-image abuse and sextortion
Lawyers and support services helping victims prove what was posted, where and when, for takedown requests and complaints.
Domestic violence, stalking, online harassment
Shelters, victim support services and the lawyers who file protection orders: threats and messages, captured with the sender on screen.
Legal aid
Pro deo and legal-aid lawyers, law centres, and clinics whose clients could never afford a €300 bailiff report.
Journalists and press freedom
Reporters and organisations documenting threats, deleted statements and altered pages.
University law clinics
Students handling real cases under supervision.
What you get
Organisations: €50 free per month
For child-protection, victim-support and domestic-violence services and law clinics: enough for five recorded sessions or about fifty web page captures, renewed every 30 days while you are in the programme.
Legal aid and journalists: 50% off
Pro deo and legal-aid lawyers, legal-aid bureaus and journalists pay half price on every certificate, with no cap. Organisations get the same 50% off on anything beyond their free monthly credit.
The full product
The same sealed packages, qualified eIDAS timestamp and seal, verification guide and court-ready declaration as paying customers. Nothing is watermarked or reduced.
A person to talk to
The founders answer your email. If a case needs something unusual, ask.
The honest terms
- The credit is granted at our discretion, monthly, and only for the qualifying work. We may reduce or end the programme at any time with 30 days' notice; certificates already issued stay valid and verifiable forever, and credit already granted stays usable.
- We ask for an organisation, website or registration number so we can confirm who you are. We never publish your name or organisation without written consent.
- Once a year we may ask for a short, anonymised description of how the credit was used. No case details, no client names.
- instantproof is not a law firm and gives no legal advice.
Apply
Two minutes. We read every application ourselves and reply by email, usually within two working days.
Questions
Is this really free?
For child-protection, victim-support and domestic-violence organisations and law clinics, yes: €50 of credit per month by default, paid for by instantproof, and 50% off anything beyond it. Legal-aid lawyers and journalists get 50% off every certificate instead. The programme can end with 30 days' notice, which is stated above so that nobody plans around a promise we cannot keep forever.
Do I need an account first?
No. Apply first. If approved, create an account with the same email address, or the credit is added to the account you already have.
Can my whole team use it?
Apply once per organisation and tell us how many people need access. We can approve several accounts under one application.
Can I still use it for paying clients?
Use the credit for the qualifying work only. For other matters, the normal prices apply on the same account.
Capture what matters. Before it changes.
Start with €10 welcome credit. Keep a cryptographically sealed evidence package you can download and verify.