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| artifact | version | status | publication_cid | supersedes |
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| usermin-terms-of-service | 1.0-draft | draft | null | null |
Usermin Terms of Service
1. Scope
These Terms apply only to the Usermin service operated as the Portal at:
portal.diagnostics.kane-il.us
The Portal provides a private UNIX account environment and related Participant services.
These Terms do not govern Hubzilla, Gitea, IPFS, Kane Fabric, or the Civic Infrastructure as a whole.
2. Private Service
The Portal is not a public shell provider, public cloud-storage service, or conventional public email provider.
Access is provided to Civic Infrastructure Participants for their own use within the facilities made available to their account.
3. Participant Account
Each Participant receives access to a UNIX account and related Usermin facilities.
The Participant is responsible for activity intentionally performed through that account and for protecting the credentials used to access it.
Participants may use the functions made available to their accounts, but may not intentionally:
- access another Participant's private files or mailbox without authorization;
- bypass assigned UNIX permissions;
- obtain administrative privileges without authorization;
- interfere with other accounts or system operation;
- circumvent technical restrictions deliberately imposed on the service.
4. Home Directory and Virtual Mailbox
The Participant is responsible for the contents of their own home directory and virtual mailbox.
These may contain documents, correspondence, archives, SSH keys, OpenPGP/PGP keys, certificates, signatures, scripts, configuration files, evidentiary material, and other digital assets.
Detailed rules governing ownership, privacy, licensing, administrative access, and cryptographic protection are described in the Portal Privacy Policy.
5. Storage Limits
Portal storage is limited by quota.
Current storage limits are:
- 240 MB soft limit
- 250 MB hard limit
Participants are responsible for managing their own storage within these limits.
The Portal is working storage and should not be treated as the sole archival copy of important material.
6. Email
Participants may send email to any Internet email address permitted by the mail system.
The sase* address is not intended to function as an unrestricted public inbound Internet mailbox.
When sending mail to an external recipient who may need to reply, the Participant is responsible for using an appropriate Reply-To address if a reply to the sase* address would not be accepted.
Participants may forward email from the Portal to their own external email accounts for backup, continuity, convenience, or other personal purposes.
7. Approved External Email Namespaces
External inbound mail is restricted by default.
Specific external email namespaces may be added to the permitted mail paths when their use supports Civic Infrastructure participation.
For example, an established municipal email namespace may be permitted so Participants can exchange email directly with municipal officials.
Permission for one external namespace does not open the Portal to unrestricted inbound Internet mail.
8. Digital Assets and Cryptographic Tools
The Portal is intended to support Participant-controlled digital assets and cryptographic practices.
Depending on the facilities available to the account, Participants may use tools for:
- SSH keys;
- OpenPGP/PGP keys;
- certificates;
- digital signatures;
- checksums;
- password-protected archives;
- encrypted files;
- encrypted email.
Use of these tools remains the Participant's responsibility.
The Portal Privacy Policy describes the privacy and administrative-access limits associated with such protection.
9. Kane County CA
After completing the SASE process, a Participant may choose to install the Kane County Civic Infrastructure CA certificate into a compatible browser or operating-system trust store.
Installation is optional.
Installing the certificate establishes local trust in certificates issued under that Civic Infrastructure trust hierarchy.
Participants should install the CA only from an authenticated Civic Infrastructure source and should verify the published certificate fingerprint before trusting it.
The Portal does not require installation of the Kane County CA merely to possess a Participant account unless a particular future function explicitly requires it.
10. Additional Portal Facilities
The Portal may gain additional functions over time.
The existence of a Participant account does not imply that every possible UNIX or Usermin function is enabled.
New facilities may be introduced gradually and may be subject to their own operational rules or published documentation.
11. No Automatic Publication
Material stored in the Participant's home directory or mailbox is not automatically published, placed on IPFS, entered into an evidentiary process, or made part of a public Civic Infrastructure record.
Those actions require a separate deliberate process.
12. Availability
The Portal may occasionally be unavailable because of maintenance, software changes, network conditions, security requirements, or technical failure.
Email delivery, forwarding, external delivery, and access to remote systems cannot be guaranteed.
Participants should maintain appropriate independent copies of material whose loss would be significant.
13. Participant Standing
Portal access is associated with Civic Infrastructure Participant standing.
Periodic SASE revalidation confirms current standing.
Revalidation does not ordinarily require replacement of the Participant's existing sase* account.
Account identity and current Participant standing remain separate.
14. These Terms
These Terms follow the Civic Infrastructure Publication Model.
A Published Version is replaced rather than silently rewritten.
Earlier Published Versions may remain available as part of the publication history.