Terms of Use of the Earthlings People

• by signing the Declaration after it is adopted, you become part of a people united by shared values;
• participation is voluntary - you can leave at any time, without giving reasons;
• data are processed in line with the principle of data minimization; you choose your own pseudonym and decide for yourself how far you take part;
• decisions are taken by a vote in which your vote carries the same weight as any other;
• the laws of your country are not affected, and you are not required to renounce your citizenship;
• the passport confirms belonging and does not replace any document.

Earthlings is a transnational people that is constituted by the adoption of the Earthlings Declaration. We are united by shared values, not by territory or descent.

The existence of the people, with its own infrastructure, governance, and identity, does not depend on how international law eventually classifies it: no body that recognizes peoples exists for anyone. Legal visibility - being treated as a people where a specific question arises - accumulates through practice, time, and the number of participants. For how this works and what is said against us, see Legal Basis and Objections and Answers.

• life as the highest value;
• freedom and self-determination - everyone is entitled to determine their own belonging;
• planetary solidarity;
• transparency - the infrastructure is open to verification, and decisions are taken collectively;
• no power of some over others - no one holds a position above another person; we are building a horizontal structure.

These values are embodied in the architecture, not merely declared.

Age - 18 years or over. Signing the Earthlings Declaration. Identity verification through the people's own system. There are no other conditions of belonging. The one-time contribution - the equivalent of 79 USD - covers identity verification, the issuance of the passport, and the upkeep of the infrastructure, and is not a condition of belonging. Whoever cannot make it themselves will, once entry requires payment, be able to join an open queue, and the contribution for them could then be made by another person or by the Treasury, but there is no guarantee that it will be; no exemption from the contribution is provided for, and the contribution is paid in full in any event (Charter, Article 12 bis).

What it gives: the passport, the right to vote, participation in Cells, access to the infrastructure.

What is expected of you: following the principles of the Declaration. The extent of your participation is left to your judgment: there is no obligatory activity.

1. creating an account: a pseudonym of your choosing, an email address, a country, confirmation of age;
2. confirming the email address;
3. reading the Declaration;
4. verifying your identity;
5. signing the Declaration - it is this act that creates belonging;
6. making the contribution;
7. receiving the passport.

Accuracy of data. Your country and age must be stated truthfully, and the document presented for verification must be genuine. Real first and last names are not retained: the document data are checked only at the moment of verification.

You are responsible for keeping your password and cryptographic keys safe, for actions taken through your account, and for notifying support if you suspect a compromise.

We cannot recover lost keys. We do not keep them in any form. This is the flip side of the fact that we do not have your keys; no one is entitled to burn the passport for you, but until the contract owner's rights are transferred to a multisignature, issuing and burning a passport are technically available to a single key (the document "Where We Are Now").

What never happens. Expulsion from the people does not exist. Belonging is inalienable and ends only by your own decision or on your death. The platform, its administrators, and the technical structures hold no such powers and cannot hold them.

What the Assembly may decide under the procedure of Article 22 of the Charter, with a right of defence, a secret ballot, and appeal: to issue a warning and to dispose of what is common - to withdraw funding from a project, to end the funding of a Cell, to withdraw recognition, to dissolve a Cell (the grounds are set out in Article 25 of the Charter). These measures do not concern the rights of a person: neither belonging, nor the vote, nor the right to submit proposals and raise questions, nor the right to create Cells and to join them, nor access to the platform and its services.

The right to vote may be suspended only for proven undermining of the integrity of the voting itself - collusion, buying or selling a vote, coercing others, an attempt to circumvent the rule of "one person, one passport" - for a period of up to 6 months, under the procedure of Article 22 bis of the Charter. Views, how a person voted, and disagreement with decisions are not a ground on any construction whatever.

What the administration may do without a decision of the Assembly. Two actions only. The first is to suspend access to an account where there are clear signs of the account being compromised or subjected to a technical attack - with immediate notice to the participant and subsequent consideration by the Assembly; before the Declaration is adopted, while there is no Assembly, the suspension is lifted as soon as the signs of compromise or attack have been removed. Such a suspension protects your account, is not a measure of liability, and does not affect a participant's rights. The second is to suspend an account if it becomes known that a person under the age of 18 has registered (Privacy Policy, section 10), informing the person of the grounds and of the period for objections and answering them (Declaration, Article 4); there is no body of appeal before the Declaration is adopted; in that case the passport is burned either by the holder themselves or under the procedure for annulment of an invalid issuance (Charter, Article 21), and before the Declaration is adopted, the temporary document of a participant in the founding is burned under the procedure set out in the document "The Founding Period" (Part 2, section 5).

• respect for others regardless of origin, views, and identity;
• constructive criticism and the exchange of ideas;
• contribution to the common cause - projects, initiatives, helping others;
• openness to dialogue;
• protection of those who are vulnerable.

• discrimination on any ground;
• threats, harassment, bullying, including covert bullying;
• deliberate spreading of false information;
• spam, intrusive advertising, fraudulent schemes;
• attempts to manipulate votes;
• acts contrary to the values of the Declaration.

1. try to settle the matter directly;
2. with the consent of the other party, turn to an independent mediator: mediation is not conducted without the consent of both parties;
3. in extreme cases - if mediation has failed or the other party has not consented to it, and the dispute affects the interests of the community or calls for a decision of principle - either party is entitled to refer the question to the Assembly.

Everything you create and publish remains yours. By publishing material you permit it to be displayed and distributed among participants as part of the platform's operation, with attribution; the permission covers translation and technically necessary conversions. This creates no other rights, and the permission ends when the material is deleted.

We recommend open licences, but the choice is always yours.

Documents, tools, and materials created by the infrastructure itself are published under open licences.

You undertake: not to publish material that infringes other people's copyright; to cite sources when quoting; to observe licence terms; and to respect other people's personal data.

If a substantiated complaint is made, the material in question is taken down, and the author is notified and is entitled to object.

A non-transferable digital identifier of belonging to the people, that exists in a distributed ledger.

What it gives: confirmation of status and of the right to vote, access to the infrastructure, participation in Cells.

What it does not give: citizenship, a right of entry into any country, a replacement for a national passport, official status with state institutions, income.

Non-transferability. The passport cannot be sold, transferred, given away, or inherited; transfer is blocked in the contract itself.

Immutability. The record cannot be altered without detection.

Privacy. The fact that a passport is held is visible in the ledger; your personal data are not.

You burn the passport with your own key. No one can prevent it, the founder included.

The Charter (Article 21) establishes two and only two cases in which a passport is burned by someone other than the holder: annulment of an invalid issuance by decision of the Assembly with a right of defence and appeal; technical reissue at the holder's own request. Against the holder's will a passport is burned only in the first case. Until the Declaration is adopted, there is no Assembly (Charter, Article 38), and against the holder's will, the temporary document of a participant in the founding is burned under the procedure set out in the document "The Founding Period" (Part 2, section 5). The death of the holder is not a ground for burning: belonging ends of itself, and the passport remains in the registry. The details are in the document The earthling SBT passport.

Earthlings Coin is a utility unit of the internal economy. It is not a share, not an investment instrument, and not a promise of profit.

What it is for: paying for services within the ecosystem, supporting projects, rewarding contribution.

Today the unit has not been issued: the economy of participation is kept in internal accounts, there is no circulation and no market price, and the unit is not traded anywhere. Belonging is confirmed by the passport, not by the unit; the unit gives no votes whatever the amount held.

In the future exchange availability is possible, but it is not promised and is not an aim. It does not turn the unit into an investment instrument and does not mean a promise of growth in value - no one gives such a promise under any course of events.

More detail is in the document Earthlings Coin.

Compliance with the legislation of your country regarding digital assets; tax on your transactions; safe storage of keys; understanding the risks. These Terms are not tax or investment advice.

The DAO Assembly is the sole body that takes binding decisions. All the other structures provide technical support or give recommendations. The Charter enters into force with the adoption of the Declaration (Charter, Article 38); until then there is no DAO Assembly, no Core Nodes, no Emergency Multisig, and no Independent Council, and the only discretionary power of the founding period with regard to the texts is the decision of the author of the Declaration to include proposals in the text (the document "The Founding Period").

1. Proposal. Any participant submits a proposal. No prior approval, collection of signatures, or threshold of support is required.
2. Discussion. The proposal is discussed publicly, refined, and revised.
3. Voting. Under the thresholds and quorums set by the Charter.
4. Execution. The decision is carried out automatically through smart contracts or by the technical structures.
5. Transparency. The history of proposals, discussions, and outcomes is public.

All material matters: amending the Charter and the rules; allocation of common funds and funding of projects; the election and recall of the Core Nodes, the Emergency Multisig, and the Independent Council; restriction of powers and suspension of the right to vote; strategic directions; partnerships; platform parameters.

• to vote on every question;
• to submit proposals;
• to transfer your vote in a particular area to another participant and to revoke the transfer in one step, without giving reasons and without the delegate's consent; transfer across all questions at once is impossible, chains are prohibited, and the ceiling and the list of questions with no delegation are set out in Article 7 of the Charter;
• to view the whole history of decisions;
• to challenge decisions that breach the unamendable core of the Declaration.

In the event of critical attacks the Emergency Multisig is entitled to act immediately, and in the event of critical vulnerabilities to suspend vulnerable smart contracts immediately; its other actions go through the 24-hour timelock (Charter, Article 3). A report on every action is published within 48 hours, and the Assembly confirms the action within 7 days, failing which it is reversed. Any action may be reversed by the Assembly by a simple majority.

Abuse leads to recall by a simple majority at any time.

• keep the infrastructure working;
• protect data in accordance with the Privacy Policy;
• report problems and changes transparently;
• consider enquiries within a reasonable time;
• consider in good faith any enquiry about documented loss connected with our technical errors, and seek a fair resolution.

Compliance with the legislation of your country; the security of your own keys and credentials; the consequences of your actions; understanding the risks of digital assets.

• participants' actions towards one another;
• the loss of your cryptographic keys - they cannot be recovered;
• failures of distributed networks beyond our control;
• content and actions on external platforms.

Force majeure. In the event of natural disasters, military action, critical changes in legislation, or large-scale technical failures, the operation of services may be temporarily suspended with notice to participants.

The contribution is made once, covers the cost of the procedure - identity verification and passport issuance - and sustains the people's infrastructure; it goes into the common treasury and is allocated in published shares. It does not buy belonging - belonging arises by signing the Declaration - and gives neither a vote nor units of account.

Before you make the contribution you are entitled to withdraw from the service without giving reasons, and you pay nothing: the contribution is made only after your identity has been successfully verified.

Before making the contribution you separately and expressly confirm that you wish the service - the issuance of the passport - to be performed immediately and that you understand that after the passport is issued the service is deemed fully performed and the right of withdrawal ends. The contribution is not accepted without such confirmation.

After the passport is issued the service has been performed and no refund is made: the costs of verification and issuance have been incurred and are not reimbursed to anyone. If the contribution has been made but the passport has not been issued because of a technical failure, the contribution is refunded in full.

Donations in addition to the contribution are entirely voluntary, do not affect your status, and are not refundable.

Write to info@earth-lings.org, attaching a description, screenshots, and transaction identifiers. If the passport has not been issued because of a failure, the contribution is refunded in full (subsection "The right to withdraw and its limits"); other cases are considered individually, and we seek a fair resolution within the limits of what is technically possible.

We are not responsible for keys you have lost, break-ins to your external wallets, or errors in sending transactions.