Terms
Terms & Conditions
Effective August 2026
1. Who you are agreeing with
Mercedes Creative LLC (doing business as "Reliquary") ("we," "our," or "us") is a multi-disciplinary tattoo and creative practice in Nashville, Tennessee. This policy describes how we collect, use, and protect personal data in connection with Reliquary and the services offered at reliquaryarchives.com.
By using this site, submitting an inquiry, or booking a session, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.
2. Inquiries and sessions
Submitting an inquiry is a request, not a booking. A session is confirmed only when we say so directly and any deposit has been received. Deposits hold your time and are applied to the cost of the work. Rescheduling terms, deposit handling, and aftercare are communicated with your confirmation and form part of these terms for that session.
You must be of legal age to receive tattoo work in the state where the session takes place, and you must present valid identification. We may decline or stop any work at our discretion, including where we believe it is unsafe or unsuitable.
3. Your content
Reference images and descriptions you send remain yours. You give us permission to use them to design and carry out your work. Photographs we take of completed work are ours, and we may show them as part of our portfolio unless you ask us not to — you can ask at any time, before or after a session.
4. Our content
Artwork, flash, photography, writing, and design on this site belong to Mercedes Creative LLC. Please do not reproduce them, or take a design to another artist, without asking first.
5. Text messaging
5.1 Opt-in and consent
You may opt in to receive SMS messages from Reliquary in four ways. Web form opt-in: by entering your mobile number and checking the dedicated SMS consent checkbox on our signup form. The checkbox is unchecked by default, is never required to submit the form or as a condition of any purchase, and is displayed together with the specific consent language, a link to this Privacy Policy, and a link to our Terms. Keyword opt-in: by texting CONNECT to our published number. You will then receive a confirmation message identifying Reliquary, stating that message frequency varies, stating that message and data rates may apply, and providing HELP and STOP instructions. Written opt-in: by completing a printed consent form in person, which states the message types, that frequency varies, that message and data rates may apply, HELP and STOP instructions, and links to our Terms and this Privacy Policy, and which you sign and date. The signed form is retained. Verbal opt-in: by giving consent in person after a member of staff reads a scripted disclosure covering who is texting you, the message types, how often, that message and data rates may apply, that consent is not required to book, and how to stop. Verbal consent is logged with the date, your name and number, and who took it.
Consent to marketing messages is never a condition of booking a session or of any purchase.
5.2 Frequency and rates
Message frequency varies with our activity and with your own bookings. Message and data rates may apply. We do not charge for sending or receiving messages, but your carrier may.
5.3 Help and opt-out
Reply HELP to any message from Reliquary for information about the program and how to reach us. Reply STOP (or STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, QUIT, OPTOUT, or REVOKE) to stop receiving further SMS messages. You will receive one confirmation of your opt-out, after which no further marketing or transactional SMS will be sent. To resume, reply START or opt in again through the methods above. You may also contact us at contact@mercedescreative.com at any time.
5.4 No third-party sharing
Mobile opt-in consent and mobile phone numbers are not shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes under any circumstances.
5.5 Your representations
Messages are sent across major U.S. wireless carriers, including but not limited to AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, Boost Mobile, MetroPCS, Cricket, and Virgin Mobile. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages, and delivery is outside our control. The SMS program is available only to individuals in the United States who are at least 13 years of age. You represent that you are the subscriber of the number you provide, or are authorized by the subscriber to opt it in. If you stop being the subscriber of a number you opted in with, please notify us at contact@mercedescreative.com so we can remove it.
6. Platform
This site and our booking, messaging, and contact tools run on the Common Garden platform, provided by Common Garden LLC, which processes data on our behalf. Text messages are delivered by Twilio, Inc. as a sub-processor. Your use of those tools is also subject to the Common Garden Terms at https://www.cmngrdn.com/terms.
7. Liability
Tattooing carries inherent risks, including of infection and of variation in healing. We follow professional hygiene practice and will tell you how to care for your work, but healing depends on aftercare we cannot control. To the fullest extent the law allows, our liability arising from this site or from any session is limited to the amount you paid for that session. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
8. Changes
We may update these terms. The effective date above tells you when they last changed, and continued use of the site after that means you accept them.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
10. Contact
Mercedes Creative LLC — contact@mercedescreative.com