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Terms of use
Plain language on purpose. A signed pilot or subscription agreement governs where it says more.
About this document
A template for review by counsel before publication. Where your organisation has signed pilot terms or a subscription order, that agreement governs and these terms fill its gaps.
The service
MINERVA keeps a recorded model of your organisation — its model inventory and what governs it — as one map, with an append-only, hash-chained record at the application layer, and tools to read, propose and decide against it.
Accounts
You are responsible for what is recorded under your identity and for keeping your password to yourself. A password an administrator chose for you must be replaced before your account does anything else.
An agent may propose. Only a person decides, and the decision is attributed to the person who made it.
Acceptable use
Use the service for your organisation's own governance work. Do not put into it what you have no right to hold; do not probe, overload or try to read another workspace; and put no customer personal data or production data into a pilot workspace.
The record and its limit
Every change is one hashed event chained to the one before it, and you can recompute the whole chain yourself, offline, with the verifier we supply.
A hash chain catches a local edit. It does not, by itself, catch an administrator with write access to the file who rewrites the chain consistently from some point onward. Append-only is a property of this software, not of the storage beneath it. Anchoring the record to a public timestamp authority closes that gap when it is configured.
No advice, no certification
MINERVA issues no certification, attestation or opinion. Management writes its own assertion; your auditor selects, tests and concludes. What is shown is evidence about this workspace only.
Nothing in the service, and nothing we say about it, is legal, regulatory, accounting, actuarial or investment advice.
Availability
We aim to keep the service reachable and to tell you ahead of a planned interruption. Unless a signed agreement says otherwise, no availability figure is promised, and the service is provided as recorded.
Termination
You may stop using the service at any time; export your record first. We may suspend an account that breaks the acceptable-use section, and we will say why. When an agreement ends, the workspace is deleted inside the window that agreement sets.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, our liability is limited as your signed agreement says. For a workspace with no signed agreement it is limited to what the law does not let us exclude.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there (to be confirmed by counsel), unless your signed agreement names another.
Changes
We may change these terms. The date at the top says when they last changed; a material change is announced to workspace owners before it takes effect.