What you take on
when you declare.
Every organization that uses personal digital information through this system must declare what they are doing before they do it. Declaration is not optional. It is the only path to cleared use.
Undeclared use — using personal digital information obtained through this system outside the scope of a cleared declaration — is a breach of participation. It invalidates the engagement and creates liability that was not present before the breach.
| Obligation | What it means |
|---|---|
| State the purpose | Declare exactly what the personal digital information will be used for. The declared purpose is the boundary. Use beyond it is not cleared. |
| Name the full chain | Identify every person, system, and organization that will handle the information. No unnamed handling is permitted. If a handler is added after clearing, a new declaration is required. |
| Name every beneficiary | Identify every entity that gains from the use — directly or indirectly. Hidden benefit is not permitted. Each named beneficiary extends the settlement obligation. |
| Declare the settlement | State what will be paid before the engagement clears. The declared amount is binding. No amount can be added, reduced, or renegotiated after clearing. |
| Pay what is declared | Settlement obligations that attach upon clearing are real obligations. Delay burdens the organization, not the person. Failure to pay is a breach of the cleared engagement. |
If a declaration does not clear — because the purpose is not recognized, the chain is incomplete, a beneficiary is unnamed, or the settlement is undeclared — the engagement stops. No use may proceed on the basis of a failed declaration.
Failed declarations are not retained as cleared records. They do not create settlement obligations. They also do not authorize the use they described.
Using personal digital information beyond the scope of a cleared declaration — for an undeclared purpose, through an unnamed handler, for the benefit of an unnamed party — is a breach of the cleared engagement.
Breach does not erase the obligation. It adds to it. The cleared settlement remains due. The breach creates additional liability outside the system's settlement structure, governed by applicable law.
The person whose data is involved retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or set limits at any point before an engagement is complete. Organizations cannot prevent this. Refusal carries no consequence for the person. Withdrawal stops what has not yet cleared.
Organizations do not acquire rights over personal digital information through this system. They acquire a cleared, bounded, time-limited use — nothing more.
Questions about obligations: TBA