record

for the record so that the true facts are recorded or known.

1992Sun There was no need to ask if I had gone to the flat. For the record I have never been to the flat. The questions were calculated to make me look bad.

a matter of record something that is established as a fact through being officially recorded.

off the record not made as an official or attributable statement.

1990Charles AllenThe Savage Wars of Peace I went to see him very much as somebody going in just to have a chat with him off the record after the interrogation.

on (the) record

1 used in reference to the making of an official or public statement.

2 officially measured and noted.

put (or set) the record straight give the true version of events that have been reported incorrectly; correct a misapprehension.

rewrite the record books: seerewrite.