Terms of Service

Use of the platform

• Villagers provides account workspaces, member records, charters, messages, and operational tools for coordination and institutional memory.
• You may use the platform only for lawful, authorized, and good-faith activity. Do not use it to harass, defraud, exploit, spam, or interfere with other people or organizations.
• Do not submit malicious code, credential dumps, private keys, payment-card data, health records, or other high-risk regulated data unless Villagers has expressly approved that use in writing.
• The founding-period Work & Career Conversation intake is for adults 18 and older. Do not submit another person’s private information, identity documents, medical information, or confidential employer material.

Accounts and access

• You are responsible for keeping your account credentials, passkeys, and multi-factor authentication devices secure.
• Organization owners and administrators are responsible for inviting the right people, assigning appropriate roles, and removing access when it is no longer needed.
• We may suspend or restrict access when we reasonably believe an account is compromised, misused, unlawful, or harmful to the platform or its participants.

Organizational records

• Charters, member profiles, roles, ranks, positions, audit events, and related workspace records are operational records created by users or administrators.
• You are responsible for the accuracy and authority of records you create, approve, edit, or rely on.
• Villagers may preserve audit and security records to protect users, investigate incidents, enforce these terms, and maintain platform integrity.

Content and conduct

• You retain responsibility for content you submit. You grant Villagers the limited rights needed to host, process, display, secure, back up, and operate that content within the service.
• Do not post content that is unlawful, invasive of privacy, defamatory, threatening, exploitative, or intended to disrupt another person or organization.
• The platform is designed for accountable institutional work. Pseudonymous, misleading, or automated activity may be limited when it undermines trust or safety.

Security research

• Do not probe, scan, fuzz, scrape, automate, or attack the platform without written permission, except for normal use of public pages and your own account.
• If you believe you found a vulnerability, report it through the contact page with enough detail to reproduce it. Do not access data that is not yours.
• We may preserve technical logs, audit events, request identifiers, and related forensic data when investigating security issues.

Work & Career Conversations

• A Work & Career Conversation is a no-fee, capacity-managed public service. A complete request is reviewed, but no particular scheduling date, job, placement, introduction, result, or continuing service is promised.
• The conversation offers serious listening, clarification of one question, candid feedback when requested, and one practical next step. It is not legal, financial, medical, mental-health, labor, employment, or licensed career advice.
• Career support creates no candidate profile, employer-facing record, employer contact, matching service, or employer introduction. Submitting a career question does not authorize Villagers to send your information to an employer or represent you as a candidate.
• Optional research permission is separate from service. It does not authorize individual profiling, employment decisions, employer contact, or publication of your story.

No professional advice

Availability and changes

• The platform is evolving. Features may change, be limited, or be removed as security, reliability, and product needs change.
• We aim to maintain reliable service, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability or error-free operation.
• We may update these terms. Continued use after an update means you accept the updated terms.

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