Visual Evidence
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Full-page scrolling capture of the entire web page
evidence.pdf
Human-readable forensic summary with all metadata
The only web evidence tool whose proofs survive even if our company disappears. Self-verifiable cryptography, no vendor lock-in, no “trust us” required.
Tamper-proof cryptographic evidence courts accept: hash, signature, blockchain timestamp, capture video, Provenance Certificate. One click. 41 seconds.
From $8.99/month (approx. €7.80) · Up to 15 files per package · 23 countries
Also available for Microsoft Edge · Browser extension with eIDAS qualified timestamps that carry the Article 41(2) presumption in all 27 EU member states
No account, nothing to set up.
Download a real evidence package. Open the PDF, read the chain of custody, then drop the whole ZIP into the Trust Verifier and watch it check the hashes, the signature and the timestamps in front of you.
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You send a link or the files. We send back a signed, timestamped package an Irish court can check, within 24 hours.
A chat export is the file the app gives you when you tap Export chat. We render it as a readable transcript, hash every file and timestamp the result, so the other side cannot argue the messages were edited.
ProofSnap captures any web page as court-ready digital evidence in Ireland in 41 seconds. As of 2026, because Ireland is an EU member state, Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 applies directly: under Article 41(2) a qualified electronic time stamp is presumed accurate as to the date and time it indicates and as to the integrity of the data bound to it.
In Ireland the legal position on captured web evidence is as simple as it gets anywhere. Ireland is an EU member state, so eIDAS applies here directly, as EU law, with no recognition argument to make. Under Article 41(2) a qualified electronic time stamp shall enjoy the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound. Because that provision is directly applicable in every member state, a qualified time stamp from any EU qualified trust service provider on the EU Trusted List triggers the same presumption before an Irish court or adjudicator. Alongside that, section 22 of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 provides that the rules of evidence shall not deny admissibility to information in electronic form solely because it is electronic, or, where it is the best evidence the person adducing it could reasonably be expected to obtain, on the ground that it is not in its original form. The presumption goes to the time and the integrity of the data, not to the truth of what the page said, so an adjudicator still weighs the evidence. What it removes is the argument about when the capture was made and whether it changed afterwards.
ProofSnap is a Chrome & Edge extension that captures web pages as court-admissible evidence in 41 seconds. Three capture options: single page, multi-tab browsing session (with per-tab forensic packages), or signed video proof (Auto, Manual, or Session-wide screen recording). Every capture includes a SHA-256 cryptographic hash, RSA-4096 digital signature, Bitcoin blockchain timestamp via OpenTimestamps, and a Provenance Certificate with 8 integrity checks for deepfake detection. Our eIDAS qualified timestamps, available on Enterprise plans, are issued by Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List.
Most Irish disputes are decided by the RTB or the WRC rather than by a court, and both work from evidence filed in advance. Our guide to RTB dispute evidence works through how that plays out when the file is due five working days before the hearing, and the WRC unfair dismissal guide covers the fifteen-working-day rule for documents. The same signed package strengthens a defamation letter or a report under Coco’s Law. Pricing starts at $8.99/month (approx. €7.80) with a 7-day free trial that requires a credit card. Used by lawyers, STR hosts, copyright enforcement firms, and compliance teams in 23 countries.
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United States courts rejected screenshot evidence in US v. Vayner, Griffin v. State and Serrano v. Cruz-Angeles. The authentication gap they identified is the same one here.
File timestamps can be changed in seconds. Courts know this. Without a blockchain or eIDAS-qualified timestamp, you can't prove when you captured it.
Any screenshot can be edited in 10 seconds with AI. In Sept 2025, a California judge dismissed a case after discovering deepfaked video evidence. Without a SHA-256 hash, there's no way to prove yours is real.
Who captured it? When? On what device? How was it stored? Screenshots don't answer any of these questions. Under section 22 of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 and eIDAS Article 41, digital evidence has to be authenticated.
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ProofSnap evidence package
Built for how disputes start in Ireland
Most Irish disputes never reach a courtroom. They are decided by an RTB adjudicator working from evidence filed in advance, by the Workplace Relations Commission within a six-month window, or by a platform acting on a removal request from Hotline.ie. Whether you are appealing to the Tenancy Tribunal within ten working days, lodging a WRC complaint, or preserving a publication before the one-year defamation clock runs out, ProofSnap locks the record in seconds, with a signed PDF, a SHA-256 hash and an eIDAS qualified timestamp that holds up when the other side says "that screenshot is fake".
The Residential Tenancies Board decides most Irish tenancy disputes, and it decides them on evidence filed in advance. The validity of a notice of termination, deposit retention, rent arrears and overholding all turn on documents. Evidence is due at the RTB five working days before the hearing, and a party who is dissatisfied with the adjudicator's determination has ten working days to appeal to the Tenancy Tribunal. The RTB's own guide to evidence asks you to bring original documentation to the hearing "in case we need to check it is authentic", which is exactly the question a signed ProofSnap package answers before it is asked. See the detail in our guide to RTB dispute evidence.
The Defamation Act 2009 gives you one year, which a court can extend to two at the very most. The Defamation (Amendment) Act 2026 commenced on 1 March 2026: juries are gone from High Court defamation actions, and a body corporate must now show serious harm, though there is still no serious harm test for an individual. Section 22 of that Act inserts a new section 45 into the Defamation Act 2009, a Circuit Court identification order against the intermediary service provider hosting an anonymous publisher. The court grants it only where your defamation claim "is likely to succeed at trial", which you cannot show without the posting itself, so preserve it before you apply. See our guide to defamation evidence in Ireland.
The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020, known as Coco’s Law, reaches distribution, threats to share and images that only purport to be of you, so a deepfake sits inside the offence. Hotline.ie states on its own site that it approaches the online service provider on your behalf and requests removal, and that it cannot guarantee removal of all images. Either outcome hurts you: the material stays up, or it comes down and takes your proof with it. Capture it first, as explained in our guide to Coco’s Law evidence.
Ireland has no mandatory reimbursement scheme. An Oireachtas committee recommended one in May 2026, but as things stand a bank is not obliged to refund you, which makes your evidence the whole of your case rather than a supporting document. FraudSMART, the fraud awareness initiative of the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland, reported jointly with the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau in May 2026 that investment fraud reports rose by more than 20 per cent in 2025, with over €20 million lost. Capture the site, the dashboard and the chat before the account disappears, then report to An Garda Síochána.
If you are dealing with a single scam or one bad actor, a one-off SnapPack is a single up-front purchase, with no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no trial. Or send us the link and our team captures the court-ready package for you, no install required.
Guides for Irish matters
Each guide covers the deadlines that apply, what the decision-maker is actually weighing, and what to capture first.
Deepfakes are inside the offence, and a Hotline.ie removal takes your proof down with the image.
Six months, extendable to twelve only for reasonable cause.
One year, two at the outside, and juries went in March 2026.
Evidence due five working days before the hearing.
The order matters, because every Irish forum works from a file assembled before the hearing and every online record can be deleted before you get there.
Northern Ireland is a separate jurisdiction with its own courts and its own rules, so treat this as guidance for the Republic. For Northern Ireland, see ProofSnap in the UK. Elsewhere, see Canada, Australia or New Zealand.
The legal framing on this page rests on the following primary sources. Check them rather than taking our word for it.
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Most web-evidence tools force you to depend on them. ProofSnap evidence is self-verifiable: anyone with the ZIP can confirm authenticity using open standards (SHA-256, OpenTimestamps, eIDAS), with or without ProofSnap continuing to exist.
| ProofSnap | Page Vault / Pagefreezer | Notary / Wayback Machine | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verifiable without the vendor? | Yes, SHA-256 + OpenTimestamps work forever | No, verification requires their portal | No, depends on archive availability |
| What if the vendor disappears? | Evidence still valid | Evidence becomes hard to defend | Wayback can be wiped on request |
| Independent court-expert verification | Any IT expert, in 60 seconds | Requires vendor cooperation | Requires manual screenshot |
| Cryptographic proof in the file itself | Yes, open standards (SHA-256, OTS, eIDAS) | Proprietary format | None |
“Its merit is based on it being self-verifiable, and not necessarily dependent on the credit or level of trust afforded to the company or institution behind it.”
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Watch how ProofSnap captures legally admissible web evidence with blockchain timestamping in just 41 seconds.
Learn how ProofSnap creates court-admissible digital evidence in 41 seconds
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One click in the extension. The ZIP contains 11-15 files, independently verifiable by any party or court.
screenshot.jpeg
Full-page scrolling capture of the entire web page
evidence.pdf
Human-readable forensic summary with all metadata
page.html
Complete HTML source code of the page
domtextcontent.txt
Extracted visible text content
metadata.json
URL, timestamp, browser info, TLS certificate
forensic_log.json
ISO/IEC 27037 forensic log with tamper-evident hash chain
chain_of_custody.json
Chain of custody with device integrity and NTP time verification
manifest.json
SHA-256 hashes of every file in the package
manifest.sig
RSA-4096 digital signature of the manifest
publickey.pem
Public key for independent signature verification
manifest.json.ots
OpenTimestamps proof anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain
Immutable proof of when the evidence was captured. Cannot be forged or backdated. Independently verifiable by anyone.
provenance_certificate.pdf
Anti-deepfake certificate with 8 integrity checks proving the evidence is an unaltered original
c2pa.json
C2PA Content Credentials manifest (open content-provenance standard): signed origin metadata, interoperable with C2PA / Content Authenticity Initiative tools and aligned with EU AI Act Art. 50
As AI-generated content floods the web, courts increasingly question whether digital evidence is real. The Provenance Certificate and C2PA manifest prove your capture is authentic, not AI-generated or manipulated. Required under EU AI Act Art. 50 (Aug 2026).
capture_video.webm
Screen recording included in the evidence package, three modes:
All three modes hash the recorded video into the signed manifest, so any single-frame change breaks the signature. Available on all plans.
manifest.json.tsr
EU qualified timestamp (RFC 3161, eIDAS Art. 41), admissible in all 27 EU member states.
Record across tabs. Every visited http(s) tab gets its own forensic folder (screenshot, HTML, DOM, DNS, WHOIS, TLS, signed evidence.pdf) inside a single signed, blockchain-timestamped ZIP with a session-wide video.
Use cases: multi-platform fraud, IP theft across domains, employment claims, regulator portal audits.
See exactly what a court receives
Download Sample Evidence PackageOpen the ZIP, check the PDF, verify the hash. Or send a URL to support@getproofsnap.com and we'll capture it for you free of charge (the URL must be publicly accessible, with no login, paywall or geo-block).
Independent legal opinion · 21 April 2026
The opinion was prepared by SEDLAKOVA LEGAL s.r.o. (Brno, Czech Bar Association, Company ID 05669871) under EU law (Regulation 910/2014, eIDAS) with reference to Czech civil procedure. Cross-references to the US Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE 901, 902(13)-(14), proposed FRE 707) and the English Civil Procedure Rules (CPR 32, 35) added by the ProofSnap team for orientation of common-law readers.
FRE 901 · FRE 902(13)-(14) · CPR 32 · eIDAS Art. 41
ProofSnap outputs are usable as means of evidence in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings. Authentication satisfied under FRE 901 / 902 in the US, CPR 32 in the UK, and free evaluation of evidence in EU systems, reinforced by US case law (Vayner, Lorraine v. Markel, Mendones).
Notarial deed · Court reporter affidavit
The opinion describes ProofSnap as "a suitable and economical alternative" to notarial fact certification of website state. Court-reporter affidavits and notarial deeds (US $200-500, UK £200-800) require waiting time during which content can disappear; ProofSnap captures immediately with cryptographic integrity.
eIDAS Art. 41(2) · Regulation (EU) 910/2014
The qualified eIDAS timestamp issued by Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List, carries the statutory presumption of accuracy of date, time and data integrity, shifting the burden of disproof to the opposing party, directly across all 27 EU Member States.
“The outputs of the ProofSnap service are, from the perspective of Czech procedural law and the EU legal framework, generally usable as means of evidence in any type of proceedings.”
Conclusion of the legal opinion, SEDLAKOVA LEGAL s.r.o., 21 April 2026
The opinion is publicly accessible, no registration. The conclusions express the legal view of the author and do not constitute binding legal advice.
ProofSnap's eIDAS qualified timestamps shift the legal burden. Ireland is an EU member state, so Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 applies directly and Article 41 needs no transposition. Under Article 41 your evidence is legally presumed accurate as to its time and integrity, and the opposing party must prove otherwise.
Article 41(1): "An electronic time stamp shall not be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that it is in an electronic form or that it does not meet the requirements of the qualified electronic time stamp."
Article 41(2): "A qualified electronic time stamp shall enjoy the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound."
eIDAS qualified timestamps issued by Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List, under Regulation (EU) No 910/2014. Verify on EU Trusted List.
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Court-grade EU timestamp per capture (eIDAS Art. 41). Includes whitelabel branding on evidence PDF.
30-min recording with audio + bundled credits
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Evidence disappears. Messages get deleted. Pages go offline. Every day you wait is a day your evidence is at risk.
Ireland is the simplest jurisdiction we cover. As an EU member state it applies eIDAS directly, as EU law. There is no question of whether the Regulation was carried across into domestic law, no asymmetric recognition to explain and no separate national trusted list to check.
Article 41 applies as EU law
A qualified electronic time stamp enjoys the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound. That provision is directly applicable in every member state, so a timestamp issued by Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List, carries the same effect before an Irish adjudicator as it does anywhere else in the Union.
Electronic Commerce Act 2000, section 22
Quoted verbatim: "In any legal proceedings, nothing in the application of the rules of evidence shall apply so as to deny the admissibility in evidence of an electronic communication, an electronic form of a document, an electronic contract, or writing in electronic form on the sole ground that it is an electronic communication ... or if it is the best evidence that the person or public body adducing it could reasonably be expected to obtain, on the grounds that it is not in its original form."
Most disputes never reach a court
The Residential Tenancies Board and the Workplace Relations Commission decide the bulk of these disputes, and both work from evidence filed in advance. Neither applies the rules of evidence strictly, and both still weigh how reliable a record looks.
Deadlines are short and unforgiving
Six months for a WRC complaint, extendable to twelve only for reasonable cause. One year for defamation, two at the outside. Ten working days to appeal an RTB adjudication to the Tenancy Tribunal. None of them waits while you look for a copy of a deleted page.
What the presumption does and does not do: it goes to the accuracy of the time and the integrity of the data, not to admissibility in the round or to the truth of what the page said. An Irish court or an adjudicator still weighs the evidence. What the timestamp removes is the argument about when the capture was made and whether it changed afterwards, which in practice is the argument you would otherwise be having.
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For one-off legal disputes and single fraud reports, or for anyone who needs evidence captured without installing anything. Send us a publicly accessible URL (no login, paywall, or geo-block) and we deliver the same 15-file court-ready package to your inbox: full-page screenshot with Content Credentials (C2PA-aligned), video and audio recording of the capture, multi-tab session capture, eIDAS qualified timestamp, and Bitcoin blockchain anchor, all included. Not sure what will hold up? Tell us your situation and we’ll advise on the strongest evidence package for your case.
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Up to 5 URLs · delivered in 24 hours
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Already have the evidence as files? We authenticate chat exports, recordings, and documents as-is. One certification covers one piece of evidence, which can be several related files.
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Same forensic engine as the Chrome extension. Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List under Regulation (EU) 910/2014.
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Regular screenshots can be challenged in court because they carry no proof of when they were taken or whether they have been altered. In Ireland the answer is unusually clean. Ireland is an EU member state, so eIDAS applies directly: under Article 41(2) a qualified electronic time stamp shall enjoy the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound, and that provision applies in every member state, so a qualified time stamp from any EU qualified trust service provider triggers the same presumption here. Alongside that, section 22 of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 provides that the rules of evidence shall not deny admissibility to information in electronic form solely because it is electronic, nor, where it is the best evidence the person adducing it could reasonably be expected to obtain, on the ground that it is not in its original form. Most Irish disputes are decided by the Residential Tenancies Board or the Workplace Relations Commission rather than a court, and both work from evidence filed in advance.
ProofSnap addresses this by creating a forensic evidence package containing a SHA-256 hash proving the content has not been modified, an RSA-4096 digital signature for authenticity, an eIDAS qualified timestamp issued by Disig a.s., a Qualified Trust Service Provider on the EU Trusted List, a Bitcoin blockchain anchor, and full metadata including the URL and the capture time in UTC. The presumption goes to the time and the integrity of the data rather than to admissibility in the round or to the truth of what the page said, so a court or an adjudicator still weighs the evidence. What it removes is the argument about when the capture was made and whether it changed afterwards.
ProofSnap uses three layers of cryptographic protection:
Together, these mechanisms create a chain of integrity that proves the evidence is authentic, unaltered, and was captured at a specific point in time.
The eIDAS 2 regulation (EU 2024/1183) will be fully rolled out by the end of 2026, establishing stricter standards for electronic identification, digital signatures, and qualified electronic timestamps across all EU member states.
Under Article 41(2), a qualified electronic time stamp shall enjoy the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound. Cross-border effect rests on the internal market principle in Article 4 and on the fact that Article 41(2) applies in every member state. The presumption goes to the time and the integrity, not to the truth of what the page said, so an Irish court or adjudicator still weighs the evidence itself.
ProofSnap's cryptographic proofs align with eIDAS 2 requirements: SHA-256 hashing for data integrity, RSA-4096 digital signatures for authenticity, and blockchain timestamps via OpenTimestamps for independent time verification. This makes ProofSnap evidence packages suitable for legal proceedings in any EU jurisdiction.
Yes. Ireland is an EU member state, so Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 applies directly and needs no transposing statute. Article 41(2) provides that "a qualified electronic time stamp shall enjoy the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound". A party who wants to dispute when your capture was made, or whether it changed afterwards, has to displace that presumption with evidence.
Article 41(1) adds that an electronic time stamp cannot be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely because it is electronic or because it does not meet the requirements of a qualified time stamp. Section 22 of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 makes the same point in Irish domestic law for information in electronic form. The presumption covers the time and the integrity of the file, never the truth of the content.
Six months. For unfair dismissal the rule is section 8(2) of the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, as amended, which requires written notice to the Director General within six months of the date of dismissal, or within such longer period not exceeding twelve months as the adjudication officer considers appropriate where satisfied that giving notice in time was prevented due to reasonable cause. The general WRC limit is the same shape: section 41(6) of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 sets six months from the date of the contravention, and section 41(8) permits a further period of not more than six months for reasonable cause. Twelve months is the absolute outer limit either way.
Employer systems are usually locked on the day of dismissal, so the roster, the internal message thread, the HR portal and the manager's post are often gone before you lodge. Capture them the same day. See our WRC unfair dismissal evidence guide.
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