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Corpus Consent and Scoring Notice

Effective Invalid Date · Version 0.1-draft · Draft — under legal review

Draft — under legal review. This text has not been cleared by counsel and may change before it takes effect. The complete set of terms is reviewed once before launch.

Status: DRAFT — under legal review (LR-10). Version: 0.1-draft

Draft — under legal review. This text has not been cleared by counsel. It is published so that it can be read before launch and becomes part of the Privacy Policy when a cleared version is published. It is the text behind the consent control in the app and on the web.

This notice supplements the Privacy Policy. It explains three things in more detail than the Policy does: what happens to your judgments after you cast them, how the Platform scores you as a voter, and what a publisher that sponsors your identity verification does and does not learn.

1. Your judgments and the Corpus

Every ballot you cast is a judgment about a piece of published work. Each is recorded with the item, the dimensions you rated, your ratings, the time, and your trust tier (whether you are a mailbox-verified, outlet-attested or identity-verified member). Together these records are the "Corpus". Your judgments are shown on the Platform, in aggregate, as the published result for the item; that use is part of the Service and is not optional.

2. Downstream licensing of the Corpus — your choice

OpinVera may license Corpus records to third parties: for the training and evaluation of models, for brand-safety and research uses, and as evidence of how content was judged. Your judgments are included in such a licence only if you have consented to it, in a separate control at sign-up and in Settings. The consent is granular — it covers downstream licensing and nothing else — and it is withdrawable at any time, with effect on every licence made after the withdrawal; a licence already made cannot be recalled, which is why we ask before your first ballot rather than after. A licensed record carries your judgments and your trust tier; it never carries your name, handle, email, any identifier, or anything a publisher attested about you. Declining does not affect your use of the Platform, your points or how your votes are weighted.

3. How we score you as a voter

The Platform computes, for each member, measures of how their judgments compare with settled results and with other members' — a calibration, and limits on how many votes you may cast on one item and what an additional vote costs. These measures are personal data. They are used to weight votes and to detect manipulation; they are not used to make a decision that produces a legal effect on you or similarly significantly affects you without a human. Where an automated measure leads to a restriction on your account — a vote not counted, a gate, a limit — the decision gives reasons, you may ask for a human to review it, and the appeal path in the Community Guidelines §5 applies. Where person-level measures are ever published beyond your own view, this notice will say so first and you will have the right to object.

4. Sponsored verification

A publisher may pay the identity verification fee for readers who come from its property. If you verify that way: you go through exactly the verification every member goes through; the publisher is named to you before you start; the publisher learns a count of sponsored verifications and nothing about you — not that you verified, not how you vote; and your verified status weights your votes on every item on the Platform in the same way as any verified member's. Sponsorship never obliges you to vote at all, on the sponsor's items, or in any way.

5. Readers attested by an outlet

Where you are signed in to a publisher's own service and that publisher operates the Voter Bridge, the publisher may attest to us that you are its subscriber. The attestation carries a pseudonymous identifier the publisher minted, and no name or email. It raises the trust tier of your votes. The publisher does not learn how you vote, and we do not tell it who among our members it attested.

6. Withdrawing

You can withdraw the consent in §2 in Settings or by writing to support@opinvera.com. Withdrawal is recorded, with the version of this notice you saw, as the Privacy Policy §8 describes.