# Partner Charter

Status: draft for public review.

EverCommons welcomes commercial companies, cooperatives, universities, public bodies, nonprofits, and individuals when they add measurable value under common rules.

## Partner Categories

- **Built With**: a technology or service EverCommons uses under ordinary terms. This does not imply endorsement.
- **Inspired By**: a project whose principles or design informed EverCommons.
- **Community Contributor**: a person or organization that contributed code, design, documentation, safety, translation, or other work.
- **Capacity Sponsor**: an organization that donated or discounted a defined service, resource, or capacity milestone.
- **Certified Partner**: an organization with a signed agreement covering privacy, portability, security, measurement, exit, and public claims.
- **Founding Partner**: a certified partner that made an early material contribution under the same mission constraints.

## Required Rules

Partners must:

1. Process data only for the contracted purpose and documented instructions.
2. Not sell, profile, enrich, reuse, or train models on EverCommons user data or content without separate explicit agreement and lawful basis.
3. Use documented standard interfaces and provide export or migration assistance.
4. Accept non-exclusivity and multi-provider operation.
5. Disclose subprocessors, service regions, security controls, and material environmental data where available.
6. Notify security incidents promptly and cooperate in remediation and user or regulator obligations.
7. Provide verifiable usage, availability, and contribution data for pool calculations.
8. Not claim ownership of users, social graph, protocol, recommendation policy, or community governance.
9. Not condition service on political, advertising, or algorithmic influence outside the published contract.
10. Support termination, deletion verification, and public status correction when the relationship ends.

## Recognition and Payment

- Sponsor recognition states the verified service, value, contribution period, and status.
- Revenue-share payment, if any, is based on audited contribution units and contractual caps.
- Unused credits, failed capacity, and inflated retail valuations do not earn units.
- Partner status can be suspended for security, privacy, service, or mission breach.
- Contribution does not buy account priority, organic reach, user data, or board control.