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<td rowspan="2">Name: CCA <a class="c1" href=
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Status: POLICY <a class="c1" href=
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<h2>CAcert Community Agreement</h2>
<h3><a name="0">0.</a> Introduction</h3>
<p>This agreement is between you, being a registered member ("Member") within
CAcert's community at large ("Community") and CAcert Incorporated ("CAcert"),
being an operator of services to the Community.</p>
<h4><a name="0.1">0.1</a> Terms</h4>
<ol>
<li>"CAcert" means CAcert Inc., a non-profit Association of Members
incorporated in New South Wales, Australia. Note that Association Members
are distinct from the Members defined here.</li>
<li>"Member" means you, a registered participant within CAcert's Community,
with an account on the website and the facility to request certificates.
Members may be individuals ("natural persons") or organisations ("legal
persons").</li>
<li>"Organisation" is defined under the Organisation Assurance programme,
and generally includes corporations and other entities that become Members
and become Assured.</li>
<li>"Community" means all of the Members that are registered by this
agreement and other parties by other agreements, all being under CAcert's
Arbitration.</li>
<li>"Non-Related Person" ("NRP"), being someone who is not a Member, is not
part of the Community, and has not registered their agreement.</li>
<li>(withdrawn)</li>
<li>"Arbitration" is the Community's forum for resolving disputes, or
jurisdiction.</li>
<li>"Dispute Resolution Policy" ("DRP" =&gt; COD7) is the policy and rules
for resolving disputes.</li>
<li>"USE" means the act by your software to conduct its tasks,
incorporating the certificates according to software procedures.</li>
<li>"RELY" means your human act in taking on a risk and liability on the
basis of the claim(s) bound within a certificate.</li>
<li>"OFFER" means the your act of making available your certificate to
another person. Generally, you install and configure your software to act
as your agent and facilite this and other tasks. OFFER does not imply
suggestion of reliance.</li>
<li>"Issue" means creation of a certificate by CAcert. To create a
certificate, CAcert affixes a digital signature from the root onto a public
key and other information. This act would generally bind a statement or
claim, such as your name, to your key.</li>
<li>"Root" means CAcert's top level key, used for signing certificates for
Members. In this document, the term includes any subroots.</li>
<li>"CAcert Official Document" ("COD") is an official managed and
controlled document (e. g. a Policy) of CAcert.</li>
<li>"Certification Practice Statement" ("CPS" =&gt; COD6) is the document
that controls details about operational matters within CAcert.</li>
</ol>
<h3><a name="1">1.</a> Agreement and Licence</h3>
<h4><a name="1.1">1.1</a> Agreement</h4>
<p>You agree to the terms and conditions in this agreement. Your agreement is
given by but not limited to</p>
<ul>
<li>your signature on a form to request assurance of identity ("CAP"
form),</li>
<li>your request on the website to join the Community and create an
account,</li>
<li>your request for Organisation Assurance,</li>
<li>your request for issuing of certificates, or</li>
<li>if you USE, RELY, or OFFER any certificate issued to you.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your agreement is effective from the date of the first event above that
makes this agreement known to you. This Agreement replaces and supersedes any
prior agreements.</p>
<h4><a name="1.2">1.2</a> Licence</h4>
<p>As part of the Community, CAcert offers you these rights:</p>
<ol>
<li>You may USE any certificates issued by CAcert.</li>
<li>You may RELY on any certificate issued by CAcert, as explained and
limited by CPS (COD6).</li>
<li>You may OFFER certificates issued to you by CAcert to Members for their
RELIANCE.</li>
<li>You may OFFER certificates issued to you by CAcert to NRPs for their
USE, within the general principles of the Community.</li>
<li>This Licence is free of cost, non-exclusive, and
non-transferrable.</li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="1.3">1.3</a> Your Contributions</h4>
<p>You agree to a non-exclusive non-restrictive non-revokable transfer of
Licence to CAcert for your contributions. That is, if you post an idea or
comment on a CAcert forum, or email it to other Members, your work can be
used freely by the Community for CAcert purposes, including placing under
CAcert's licences for wider publication.</p>
<p>You retain authorship rights, and the rights to also transfer
non-exclusive rights to other parties. That is, you can still use your ideas
and contributions outside the Community.</p>
<p>Note that the following exceptions override this clause:</p>
<ol>
<li>Contributions to controlled documents are subject to Policy on Policy
("PoP" =&gt; COD1)</li>
<li>Source code is subject to an open source licence regime.</li>
<li>Personal data</li>
<li>Postings under competing licences if clearly stated when posted</li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="1.4">1.4</a> Privacy</h4>
<p>You give rights to CAcert to store, verify and process and publish your
data in accordance with policies in force. These rights include shipping the
data to foreign countries for system administration, support and processing
purposes. Such shipping will only be done among CAcert Community
administrators and Assurers.</p>
<p>Privacy is further covered in the Privacy Policy ("PP" =&gt; COD5).</p>
<h3><a name="2">2.</a> Your Risks, Liabilities and Obligations</h3>
<p>As a Member, you have risks, liabilities and obligations within this
agreement.</p>
<h4><a name="2.1">2.1</a> Risks</h4>
<ol>
<li>A certificate may prove unreliable.</li>
<li>Your account, keys or other security tools may be lost or otherwise
compromised.</li>
<li>You may find yourself subject to Arbitration (DRP =&gt; COD7).</li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="2.2">2.2</a> Liabilities</h4>
<ol>
<li>You are liable for any penalties as awarded against you by the
Arbitrator.</li>
<li>Remedies are as defined in the DRP (COD7). An Arbitrator's ruling may
include monetary amounts, awarded against you.</li>
<li>Your liability is limited to a total maximum of <b>1000 Euros</b>.</li>
<li>"Foreign Courts" may assert jurisdiction. These include your local
courts, and are outside our Arbitration. Foreign Courts will generally
refer to the Arbitration Act of their country, which will generally refer
civil cases to Arbitration. The Arbitration Act will not apply to criminal
cases.</li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="2.3">2.3</a> Obligations</h4>
<p>You are obliged</p>
<ol>
<li>to provide accurate information as part of Assurance. You give
permission for verification of the information using CAcert-approved
methods.</li>
<li>to make no false representations.</li>
<li>to submit all your disputes to Arbitration (DRP =&gt; COD7).</li>
<li>to assist the Arbitrator by truthfully providing information, or with
any other reasonable request.</li>
<li>to not share your CAcert account.</li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="2.4">2.4</a> Principles</h4>
<p>As a Member of CAcert, you are a member of the Community. You are further
obliged to work within the spirit of the Principles of the Community. These
are described in <a href=
"http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/principles.html">Principles of the
Community</a>.</p>
<h4><a name="2.5">2.5</a> Security</h4>
<p>CAcert exists to help you to secure yourself. You are primarily
responsible for your own security. Your security obligations include</p>
<ol>
<li>to secure yourself and your computing platform (e. g. PC),</li>
<li>to keep your email account in good working order,</li>
<li>to secure your CAcert account (e. g., credentials such as username,
password),</li>
<li>to secure your private keys, ensuring that they are only used as
indicated by the certificate, or by wider agreement with others,</li>
<li>to review certificates for accuracy, and</li>
<li>when in doubt, notify CAcert,</li>
<li>when in doubt, take other reasonable actions, such as revoking
certificates, changing account credentials, and/or generating new
keys.</li>
</ol>
<p>Where, above, 'secure' means to protect to a reasonable degree, in
proportion with your risks and the risks of others.</p>
<h3><a name="3">3.</a> Law and Jurisdiction</h3>
<h4><a name="3.1">3.1</a> Governing Law</h4>
<p>This agreement is governed under the law of New South Wales, Australia.
</p>
<h4><a name="3.2">3.2</a> Arbitration as Forum of Dispute Resolution</h4>
<p>You agree, with CAcert and all of the Community, that all disputes arising
out of or in connection to our use of CAcert services shall be referred to
and finally resolved by Arbitration under the rules within the Dispute
Resolution Policy of CAcert (DRP =&gt; COD7). The rules select a single
Arbitrator chosen by CAcert from among senior Members in the Community. The
ruling of the Arbitrator is binding and final on Members and CAcert
alike.</p>
<p>In general, the jurisdiction for resolution of disputes is within CAcert's
own forum of Arbitration, as defined and controlled by its own rules (DRP
=&gt; COD7).</p>
<p>We use Arbitration for many purposes beyond the strict nature of disputes,
such as governance and oversight. A systems administrator may need
authorisation to conduct a non-routine action, and Arbitration may provide
that authorisation. Thus, you may find yourself party to Arbitration that is
simply support actions, and you may file disputes in order to initiate
support actions.</p>
<h4><a name="3.3">3.3</a> Termination</h4>
<p>The CAcert Community Agreement is terminated</p>
<ol>
<li>based on a Policy Group decision following (PoP =&gt; COD1). This
terminates the Agreement with every member.</li>
<li>with a ruling of the Arbitrator or the completion of a termination
process defined by an Arbitrator ruling (DRP =&gt; COD7).</li>
<li>by the end of existence of a member (i.e. death in the case of
individuals).</li>
</ol>
<p>A member may declare the wish to resign from CAcert at any time by
writing to <em>support AT cacert.org</em>. This triggers a process for
termination of this agreement with the member.</p>
<h4><a name="3.3">3.3a</a> Consequences of Termination</h4>
<p>The termination discontinues the right to USE, OFFER and CREATE personal
certificates in any account of the former member. Those certificates will be
revoked and all services to the former member will be terminated as soon as
possible. However, some information will continue to be held for certificate
processing purposes.</p>
<p>The provisions on Arbitration for the time of membership survive any
termination. Former members are still bound by the DRP (COD7), and the
Arbitrator may reinstate any provision of this agreement or bind them to a
ruling.</p>
<p>As far as Organisations are concerned details are also defined in the
Organisation Assurance Policy (OAP =&gt; COD11).</p>
<p>Every member learning about the death of a member or termination of
existence of a member should notify <em>support AT cacert.org</em>.</p>
<h4><a name="3.4">3.4</a> Changes of Agreement</h4>
<p>CAcert may from time to time vary the terms of this Agreement. Changes
will be done according to the documented CAcert policy for changing policies,
and is subject to scrutiny and feedback by the Community. Changes will be
notified to you by email to your primary address.</p>
<p>If you do not agree to the changes, you may terminate as above. Continued
use of the service shall be deemed to be agreement by you.</p>
<h4><a name="3.5">3.5</a> Communication</h4>
<p>You are responsible for keeping your primary email account in good working
order and able to receive emails from CAcert.</p>
<p>Notifications to CAcert are to be sent by email to the address <em>support
AT cacert.org</em>. You should attach a digital signature</p>
<h3><a name="4">4.</a> Miscellaneous</h3>
<h4><a name="4.1">4.1</a> (withdrawn)</h4>
<h4><a name="4.2">4.2</a> References and Other Binding Documents</h4>
<p>You are also bound by the Policies of the Community under the control of
Policy on Policy ("PoP" =&gt; COD1) and listed in <a href=
"https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/ControlledDocumentList.html">Controlled
Document List</a>.</p>
<p>Controlled documents are primary, and may not be replaced or waived except
by formal policy channels and Arbitration.</p>
<p>This agreement is controlled document COD9.</p>
<h4><a name="4.3">4.3</a> Informative References</h4>
<p>The governing documents are in English. Documents may be translated for
convenience. Because we cannot control the legal effect of translations, the
English documents are the ruling ones.</p>
<p>Beside this Agreement and the Policies, there are other documents, i. e.
Policy Guides, Manuals and Handbooks, supporting and explaining this
Agreement and the Policies. These documents are not binding and in doubt this
Agreement and the Policies are valid.</p>
<h4><a name="4.4">4.4</a> (withdrawn)</h4>
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