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Terms of Use (draft)
The rules of the hosted service: what it is, whose the books are, and what follows.
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Last updated 2026-11-10 · Version draft-1
What the service is
The service holds a society’s books: the record the society keeps of its money.
Each society’s books stand in their own database, at the society’s own address in the service. No other society’s address is a road into them.
The books work the way the service’s own pages describe. The service files nothing for a society; a filing stays the society’s own act.
The books are the society’s
A society’s books are its own record and its property.
The society can take them out at any time — as the sealed pack, and as the backup the app makes. A society that leaves takes its books with it.
Nothing in the service gives the operator a share in them.
What the operator holds
The operator runs the service. It holds the routing facts: a society’s name, its address in the service, its province, its standing, and the record of its agreement to these words.
The operator cannot open a society’s books. No road in the service leads from the operator’s console into them.
The operator keeps a backup copy of each society’s database for safekeeping, as the privacy page describes.
Suspension and closing
The operator may suspend a society’s address — for misuse of the service, or while a problem with the service is sorted. A suspended society’s books answer closed-for-now until the operator opens them again.
Closing a society is the recorded act the console states before it runs. The society’s backups are deleted, and its database is deleted.
The service keeps only the record that the society stood here, and the date it closed.
Safety
Reports of misuse, of a problem, of material that should not stand, and copyright complaints travel through the Feedback page, and the people who run this service read them.
The operator may suspend a society’s address — for misuse of the service, or while a problem with the service is sorted — and a suspended society’s books answer closed-for-now until the operator opens them again.
A society’s books are open to that society’s own people, under the roles the society itself hands out, and to no one else: not the operator, whose console holds no road into a book.
When these words change
These words carry a version. A changed version is a new agreement.
The service records each society’s agreement by its version. A society is bound by the version it agreed to until it agrees to the new one.