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Site Terms of Use

**Effective date:** 2026-05-17

**Version:** 1

**Operator:** the Operator (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

**Contact:** our contact form at /contact

**Status:** Operator-drafted, pre-counsel. Refined wording follows counsel engagement.

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1. Who runs this site

This site is operated by the Operator (the "Operator") of

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on a non-commercial basis. The

Operator can be reached at the email address above.

2. Who these terms apply to

These terms apply to every visitor of this site, including invited

beta-community members. By accessing the site you agree to be bound

by these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

3. Account creation and admission

The site operates in a beta phase. Anyone may apply to join by

submitting the site's join/application form. Applications are

reviewed by the Operator, who may admit or decline any application

at the Operator's sole discretion and without giving reasons.

Submitting an application does not create an account or guarantee

admission.

On admission, an account is created for you and you are asked to

accept these terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Privacy Policy,

and the copyright/contribution agreement before you can interact

with the site. The Operator may revoke an admission or suspend an

account at any time without notice.

Account-holders agree to:

• Provide accurate name and email address
• Keep credentials confidential
• Not share their account with any other person
• Notify the Operator promptly of any suspected unauthorised access
• Be at least 16 years of age, or to have parental or guardian

consent if under 16

4. Acceptable use

You agree to comply with the separate [Acceptable Use Policy](./aup.md)

linked from this site's footer.

5. Content you submit

When you submit content to the site (a feedback item, a suggested

change, a comment, a profile description, etc.), you grant the

Operator a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free,

sublicensable licence to use, modify, redistribute, and display that

content for the purpose of operating, improving, and federating this

site and its successor sites.

You retain copyright in your contribution. You represent that you

own the content or have the rights necessary to grant the licence

above. You agree to indemnify the Operator against any third-party

claim that your contribution infringes their rights.

If you submit a "suggestion" via the site's feedback widget, you

agree that:

• It will be visible to the Operator and to guild reviewers
• It may be incorporated into the site's content with attribution

to your account name (unless you opt out of attribution in your

profile)

It may also flow to associated review-and-deploy infrastructure

at git.nwpcode.org

6. Beta posture and changes

This site is in a beta phase. The Operator may change features,

content, structure, and these terms at any time. When these terms

change, you will be required to re-accept the updated version on

your next login. Continuing to use the site after re-accepting

constitutes agreement to the new version.

7. No warranty

The site is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The

Operator makes no guarantee of uptime, accuracy, or fitness for any

particular purpose. To the extent any consumer guarantee under the

Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the *Competition and Consumer

Act 2010* (Cth)) nonetheless applies and cannot lawfully be

excluded, nothing in these terms purports to exclude or restrict it.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator is not liable

for any indirect, incidental, or consequential loss arising from

your use of the site. The Operator's total cumulative liability to

any user is limited to AUD 100.

9. Termination

The Operator may suspend or terminate your account at any time for

any reason, including violation of these terms, the AUP, or upon

revocation of the beta invitation. On termination your right to

access the site ends; content you submitted remains subject to the

licence in §5.

You may terminate your account at any time by emailing the Operator.

Your submitted content remains under the licence in §5 after

termination.

10. Privacy

Your use of the site is also subject to the separate [Privacy

Policy](./privacy.md).

11. Copyright

Copyright in the site's content and in user contributions is dealt

with in the separate [Copyright Notice](./copyright-notice.md).

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws in force in Victoria,

Australia. Both parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of

the courts of Victoria.

13. Severability

If any clause of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining

clauses continue in force.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email our contact form at /contact.

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Privacy Policy

**Effective date:** 2026-05-17

**Version:** 1

**Operator:** the Operator (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

**Contact:** our contact form at /contact

**Status:** Operator-drafted, pre-counsel. Refined wording follows counsel engagement.

This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled on

this site. It is written to align with the *Privacy Act 1988* (Cth)

and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

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1. What information is collected

When you use the site, the Operator may collect:

• **Account information**: name, email address, account preferences.
• **Authentication identifiers**: if you sign in via OAuth2 (e.g. via

the Narrow Way Commons identity service), the OAuth `sub` claim is stored

to link sessions across associated sites.

**Content you submit**: feedback items, suggestions, comments,

reflections.

**Site usage data**: pages visited, timestamps, IP address,

browser user-agent. Used for site operation, debugging, and

rate-limiting.

**Email correspondence**: if you email the Operator, the email

content and address.

The site does **not** use third-party analytics, advertising, or

fingerprinting. It does **not** sell personal information to anyone.

2. Why information is collected

To:

• Operate accounts and authenticate sessions
• Display your contributions with attribution (subject to your

profile preferences)

Route feedback to the appropriate reviewer/guild Respond to your support requests Detect abuse Comply with legal obligations

3. Who can see your information

• **You** — at all times, via your account profile and dashboard.
• **The Operator** — for site administration.
• **Guild reviewers** — when reviewing a contribution you've

submitted, they can see the contribution and your account name.

Per the federated content flow, your submission may also appear

as an issue or merge request on `git.nwpcode.org`.

**Other site members** — see only what your profile-visibility

settings expose. Default settings are private-leaning per the

visibility preferences described in

`SPIRITUAL_THEOLOGY_SUBGUILD_v5.md` §7 and equivalents.

The Operator does not share personal information with third parties

except where required by law or where you have explicitly consented.

4. Where data is stored

• AVC (Drupal) database on a Linode VPS in the United States

(region: us-iad) under the Operator's Linode account

SS (Moodle) database on the same Linode infrastructure Backup snapshots stored privately and rotated per the Operator's

backup policy

Email correspondence in the Operator's Gmail account

Data is not transmitted to any AI provider or third-party processor

in the normal operation of the site.

5. How long data is retained

• Account data: retained while your account is active and for up to

12 months after account termination, then deleted.

Submitted contributions: retained indefinitely as part of the

site's content history; you may request your name be removed

from attribution per §6 below.

Server logs: retained for up to 90 days for debugging and

security purposes, then rotated out.

Email correspondence: retained at the Operator's discretion.

6. Your rights

Under the *Privacy Act 1988* you have the right to:

• **Access** the personal information held about you
• **Correct** information that is inaccurate or out of date
• **Request deletion** of your account data (subject to §5 retention

of submitted contributions for content-history purposes)

**Be removed from attribution** on contributions you have

previously made

**Complain** to the Operator, and if unresolved, to the Office of

the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)

**Withdraw consent** to optional processing at any time

Email our contact form at /contact to exercise any of these rights. Reasonable

requests will be honoured within 30 days.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

The site uses session cookies necessary for authentication. No

third-party tracking, advertising, or analytics cookies are set.

8. Children

The site is not intended for children under 16. If you are under 16,

please do not use the site without parental or guardian consent.

9. Changes to this policy

When this policy is updated, you will be required to re-accept the

new version on next login. The version field at the top of this

document changes when the policy is materially updated.

10. Contact + complaints

For privacy questions or to exercise any right above, email

our contact form at /contact. If you believe a privacy breach has occurred and

the Operator's response is not satisfactory, you may also lodge a

complaint with the OAIC at oaic.gov.au.

11. Governing law

This policy is governed by the laws in force in Victoria,

Australia.

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Acceptable Use Policy

**Effective date:** 2026-05-17

**Version:** 1

**Operator:** the Operator

**Contact:** our contact form at /contact

**Status:** Operator-drafted, pre-counsel. Refined wording follows counsel engagement.

This AUP applies in addition to the site's [Terms of Use](./terms.md).

A violation is grounds for content removal and/or account

suspension at the Operator's discretion.

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1. Use the site for its stated purpose

This site exists for Catholic theological education, formation, and

the orderly review of curated content. Use it for that, in good

faith. The Operator reserves the right to determine, on a case-by-case

basis, whether a use is consistent with the site's purpose.

2. Things you must not do

You agree **not** to:

1. **Break the law.** Anything illegal under Victorian, Australian,

or your local law is prohibited.

2. **Harass, threaten, defame, dox, or impersonate** any person.

3. **Distribute hateful or discriminatory content** including

content targeted at any person or group on the basis of race,

ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or

any other protected characteristic.

4. **Distribute sexually explicit material**, content that exploits

or endangers children, gratuitous violence, or content promoting

self-harm.

5. **Infringe copyright or other intellectual property** of any

third party. If you suspect a copyright infringement, raise it

per the procedure in [copyright-notice.md](./copyright-notice.md).

6. **Distribute malware, exploits, or attack the site**, its

infrastructure, or any other site. Do not attempt to bypass

access controls, rate limits, or content gates.

7. **Scrape, mirror, or bulk-download** the site's content without

the Operator's written permission. This includes the use of

automated tools to ingest content into an LLM, search index, or

training corpus.

8. **Submit spam, advertisement, or commercial solicitations.**

9. **Misrepresent your affiliation or credentials**, including

falsely claiming to hold a credential (e.g. Avila SSF

certificate) that you do not hold.

10. **Probe, test, or break the trust gates** governing the test

sites (dir.nwpcode.org, sd.nwpcode.org). Do not export,

screenshot at scale, or redistribute material visible inside

those gates.

11. **Violate the Beta Community CC0 Agreement** that you signed

on admission, if you have admission to a test-tier site.

3. Content safety

If you encounter content on the site that violates this AUP, or that

appears to expose a safeguarding concern (e.g. risk of harm to a

minor), please report it immediately to our contact form at /contact. The

Operator will respond within 72 hours and may take down content

pending investigation.

4. Reporting and takedown

A copyright owner who believes the site is hosting infringing

material may follow the takedown procedure in

[copyright-notice.md](./copyright-notice.md).

A government or law-enforcement request for user data will be

handled per applicable law. The Operator will, where lawfully

possible, notify the affected user.

5. Enforcement

The Operator may, in their sole discretion:

• Remove content that violates this AUP
• Suspend or terminate any account
• Restrict access to specific features or pages
• Refer matters to law enforcement when warranted

The Operator does not promise to monitor every contribution. The

absence of intervention is not an endorsement.

6. Appeals

If your account is suspended or your content removed, you may

appeal in writing to our contact form at /contact within 14 days. The Operator

will respond within 30 days.

7. Changes

When this AUP is updated, you will be required to re-accept the new

version on next login.

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Copyright Notice + Takedown Procedure

**Effective date:** 2026-05-17

**Version:** 1

**Operator:** the Operator

**Contact for takedown notices:** our contact form at /contact

**Status:** Operator-drafted, pre-counsel. Refined wording follows counsel engagement.

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1. Code

The infrastructure code that powers this site, and the open-source

companion projects, are dedicated to the public domain under

**CC0 1.0 Universal** with an MIT Licence fallback. See the per-repo

`LICENSE` and `NOTICE` files at:

• `~/nwp/` — Narrow Way Project (open-source Drupal hosting / deploy)
• `~/nwptoolkit/` — Transcription + indexed-search engine
• Repositories on `git.nwpcode.org` mirroring the above

2. Site content

Content authored by the Operator or by contributors under the

**Beta Community CC0 Agreement** is dedicated to the public domain

under CC0 1.0 Universal with an MIT Licence fallback, with the

moral-rights consent and AI-assistance disclosure recorded in each

repository's `NOTICE` file.

Content drawn from third-party sources retains its upstream

copyright. The site marks third-party content with attribution and

source links. Where short attributed quotations from publicly

available material are used, that use is made under the fair-dealing

provisions of the *Copyright Act 1968* (Cth), specifically ss 40

(research or study) and 41 (criticism or review), and the equivalent

provisions of US and EU copyright law where applicable.

3. Beta Community CC0 Agreement

A separate **Beta Community CC0 Agreement** governs admission to the

password-gated test sites (`dir.nwpcode.org`, planned

`sd.nwpcode.org`) and to the Narrow Way Commons review queue at

`avc.nwpcode.org`. Members admitted under that agreement contribute

under the same dual `CC0-1.0 OR MIT` licence as the project's

infrastructure.

4. Takedown notices — for copyright owners

If you are a copyright owner (or authorised agent) and you believe

content on this site infringes your copyright, please send a written

notice to our contact form at /contact containing:

1. Your name, address, and contact information

2. A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been

infringed

3. The exact URL(s) of the material on this site

4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is

not authorised by you, your agent, or the law

5. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in

the notice is accurate and that you are authorised to act on

behalf of the copyright owner

6. Your physical or electronic signature

On receipt, the Operator will:

• Acknowledge the notice within 5 business days
• Investigate and remove or restrict the disputed material if the

notice is substantiated

Notify the affected contributor (where applicable) and offer them

the chance to file a counter-notice

5. Counter-notice — for contributors whose content was taken down

If your content was removed and you believe the takedown was in

error, you may submit a counter-notice to our contact form at /contact

containing:

1. Your name, address, and contact information

2. Identification of the removed material and its location before

removal

3. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the material was

removed in error

4. Your physical or electronic signature

The Operator will, where appropriate, restore the material and

notify the original complainant that they may pursue legal action if

they wish.

6. Repeat infringers

The Operator may terminate the account of any user found to be a

repeat infringer.

7. Australian and international law

The takedown procedure above is offered in good faith and is loosely

modelled on US DMCA §512 procedure. The site does not assert that

the procedure is a statutory safe-harbour mechanism under either US

or Australian law. The procedure is offered as a courtesy.

The Operator complies with the *Copyright Act 1968* (Cth) and

Australian fair-dealing law.

8. Operator details for service

For legal correspondence:

the Operator

c/- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

our contact form at /contact

A PO Box postal address may be substituted once registered.

9. Changes

When this notice is updated, you will be required to re-accept the

new version on next login.

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Beta Community CC0 Agreement

**Effective date:** 2026-06-21

**Version:** 1

**Operator:** the Operator

**Status:** SERVED — operator decided 2026-06-21 to serve this

operator-drafted text now (pre-counsel) on the nwc/nwd/ss live test

sites. Counsel review is still pending per

`~/central/copyright/cc0-question/00-README.docx` §6; counsel-revised

wording will be published as v2 and will force re-acceptance on every

member's next login.

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0. What this is

This is a clickwrap agreement that every person admitted to the beta

community signs **before** access to the password-gated test sites

(`dir.nwpcode.org`, planned `sd.nwpcode.org`) or to the Narrow Way Commons

review queue is granted. It combines:

• CC0 dedication of the user's contributions
• Confidentiality of test-tier material
• No-warranty acknowledgement
• Acknowledgement of the three-gate public-release pipeline
• Acknowledgement of the upstream-copyright stack

Drafted per `~/central/copyright/12E-DRAFTING-PACK.md` §2 and §4 with

the test-environment-specific clauses sketched in

`~/central/copyright/04-SITES-AND-USER-AGREEMENTS.md` §3.

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1. The agreement (draft text)

By accepting this agreement, you (the "Beta Member") agree to the

following terms with the Operator (the Operator).

1.1 CC0 dedication of your contributions

For every contribution you make to the project — whether on AV

Commons (`avc.nwpcode.org`), Saint School (`ss.nwpcode.org`), or any

test-tier site (e.g. `dir.nwpcode.org`, `sd.nwpcode.org`) — you

dedicate that contribution to the public domain under **CC0 1.0

Universal**, with an **MIT Licence** fallback should CC0 prove

ineffective in any jurisdiction. You acknowledge:

• Your contribution is **inbound = outbound**: it is offered under

the same dual licence as the rest of the project.

You certify the **origin of your contribution** (aka the Developer

Certificate of Origin, DCO v1.1) — that it is yours to give. This

applies to all your contributions and is summarised in section 5

below.

You give the **moral-rights consent under s 195AW** of the

*Copyright Act 1968* (Cth) as set out in the project's canonical

NOTICE text, available at the site footer.

1.2 Confidentiality of test-tier material

You acknowledge that material visible inside password-gated test

sites (`dir.nwpcode.org`, `sd.nwpcode.org`, and any equivalent

future test site) is **not for redistribution**. You agree:

• Not to export, screenshot at scale, scrape, or copy test-tier

material outside of legitimate research and study use

Not to share test-tier material with any person who is not

themselves a beta member of this project

To report any accidental leakage to the Operator promptly

You may, of course, take personal notes for your own research; you

may quote test-tier material when discussing it with other beta

members; you may use what you learn to inform the original content

you create through the AVC review pipeline.

1.3 No-warranty on test material

You accept test material on an **as-is** basis. Transcripts, indexes,

and search results are computer-generated and may contain errors.

You agree not to rely on the test-tier material as authoritative,

and the Operator makes no warranty of accuracy.

1.4 The three-gate public-release pipeline

You acknowledge that:

• **No test-tier material flows to the public surface directly.**
• The public surface (e.g. `saint.school`) receives only material

that has cleared the three-gate AVC review (writer / pedagogy /

theology).

The public surface contains operator-and-community **reworked**

human-authored expression, public-domain sources, open-licensed

sources, and short attributed quotations from publicly available

upstream video where useful.

Your contributions, after AVC three-gate approval, may form part

of the public surface.

1.5 The upstream copyright stack

You acknowledge:

• Test-tier sites index third-party copyrighted audio under fair

dealing for research, study, and criticism (`Copyright Act 1968`

ss 40, 41), and equivalent provisions of US and EU law.

Where the Operator has obtained explicit permission from a

rightsholder (e.g. Spiritual Direction LLC for DIR), that

permission has its own terms and you agree to abide by them.

Upstream rightsholders retain all rights to their material; the

Operator's CC0 dedication is bounded to material the Operator and

CC0-bound beta members have authored.

1.6 Both AI-content pathways are welcome

You may submit either:

• **Pathway A**: prompt-based AI output, with little or no further

editing, OR

**Pathway B**: AI-assisted material that you have substantially

reworked and integrated as your own intellectual effort

Both are equally welcome and dedicated under the same dual licence.

Where AI output does not attract copyright under strict-jurisdiction

rules, no claim is made — the material is freely usable as public

domain. Where copyright does subsist, the dedication operates

normally.

There is **no separate AI-disclosure requirement**. What you certify —

through the Developer Certificate of Origin (section 5) — is simply

that each contribution is yours to give: created by you, based on work

you have the right to submit, or provided to you by another who so

certified. That single certification governs regardless of the tools

you used, and the doctrinal soundness of every contribution is judged

on its merits by the guild reviewers, not by how it was drafted.

1.7 Beta posture

You acknowledge that the project is in a beta phase. Features,

content, structure, and these terms may change at any time. When

this agreement is updated, you will be required to re-accept the

new version on next login.

1.8 Termination

The Operator may revoke your beta admission at any time without

notice for cause (violation of this agreement or the AUP) or with

reasonable notice without cause. On revocation:

• Your access to test-tier sites and the AVC review queue ends
• Your previously-submitted contributions remain CC0-dedicated

(CC0 is irrevocable; this agreement does not undo past

contributions)

You may terminate your participation at any time by emailing the

Operator. Your past contributions remain CC0-dedicated.

1.9 Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws in force in Victoria,

Australia.

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5. Certificate of Origin — aka Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO v1.1) — summary (incorporated by reference)

By making a contribution under this agreement, you certify that the

contribution was created by you, or is based on previous work you

have the right to submit under the open-source licence indicated,

or was provided to you by another person who so certified. You

understand the contribution will be public and a record (including

your name and email in commit metadata and Signed-off-by trailers)

will be maintained indefinitely.

Full DCO v1.1 text is reproduced in `CONTRIBUTING.md` at every NWP-

project repository.

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6. Signature

By clicking "I accept" on the admission form, you acknowledge:

• You have read and understood this agreement
• You agree to be bound by its terms
• You provide the moral-rights consent in s 195AW form referenced

at section 1.1

You acknowledge confidentiality of test-tier material at section 1.2

Your acceptance is recorded with timestamp, IP address, user-agent,

and your verified email. A copy of the agreement at the version you

accepted is preserved in the project's audit trail.

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7. Notes to counsel

This draft is for counsel's review per `~/central/copyright/cc0-question/`. Specifically:

• §1.1 dual-licence + DCO + s 195AW consent references are anchored to the canonical NOTICE drafted at `12E-DRAFTING-PACK.md`. The former AI-assistance *disclosure duty* was removed (operator decision 2026-07-22): the DCO warranty (§5) governs contribution rights tool-agnostically, and doctrinal soundness is judged on the merits by guild reviewers — a separate AI-disclosure obligation added procedural burden without independent protective value. §1.6 retains the permissive "both AI pathways welcome" stance.
• §1.2 confidentiality is broad; consider whether a narrower formulation (e.g. tying it to specifically marked content rather than the whole site) is preferable.
• §1.5 upstream-stack acknowledgement assumes Dan Burke has provided written permission for DIR per `DAN-BURKE-AND-FEEDBACK-WORKFLOW.md`; if permission is conditional, section 1.5 needs corresponding conditions.
• §1.6 two-pathway language is from `12E-DRAFTING-PACK.md` §4.
• The agreement is "lite" — no liquidated damages, no indemnity from member back to operator, no jury-trial waiver (the latter being a US convention not relevant in Victoria). Counsel may recommend adding/removing specific clauses for the Australian context.
• §1.9 specifies Victorian law. Counsel may recommend explicit non-exclusive jurisdiction in Victoria.
• This is the doc tagged Q-BETA-01 in `~/central/copyright/07-OPEN-QUESTIONS-AND-VERIFICATION-CHECKLIST.md`. Status: HIGH priority for the counsel engagement.