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Payment is taken by Stripe. We never see or hold your card details. From the checkout we receive your email address, the billing name you gave, and your billing country. Your place on the Backers' Roll is published on this site as a number with either your first and last name and your country, or the word Anonymous and your country — you choose which at the welcome screen, where your billing country is only the default and you can correct it. Nothing else is ever published: no amounts, no titles, no email address. That choice is made once, and then it stands — but showing a name rests on your consent, and consent is yours to withdraw. Write to firstbackers@unitedpeoples.earth and the entry becomes Anonymous, keeping its number; withdrawal does not undo the publication that happened before it. Your email address and billing name are also held in a register only UP can see, used to administer your backing and to send you UP FRONT, which comes with the backing rather than with a separate sign-up. The basis for that mailing is our legitimate interest in keeping our own backers informed (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); the way off it is offered when you back and in every edition, and an opt-out is honoured permanently. A number is earned by carrying the backing for a year: cancel or lapse inside that year and the entry is retired — the name and country are erased, the number is kept but shown to nobody, and it is never issued again. A single gift of €60 or more is a year's backing paid at once, and takes a permanent place from the day it arrives. One-off gifts below €60 are received with thanks and create no record in our systems at all — they exist only at Stripe. Legal bases: performance of the arrangement you enter into with us (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) to administer the backing; your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) to publish your name; and our legitimate interest in keeping a permanent and accurate record of who backed this institution before it was built (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Your right to erasure is honoured on request whatever the Roll's own rules say — email info@unitedpeoples.earth.

We store the email address you give us and, if you choose to provide it, your country, along with the page you signed up from. We use this for one purpose only: to let you know about UP's launch and progress. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time by emailing us or using the unsubscribe option in any message we send.

We store the email address you give us on the News page, along with the page you joined from. We use this for one purpose only: to send you UP FRONT, the newsletter carrying what we publish. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time by emailing us or using the unsubscribe option in any edition; an unsubscribe is honoured permanently. First Backers receive the newsletter as a stated part of their backing and need not sign up here.

We store your name, organisation, and email address so we can respond to your request — we aim to reply within 48 hours. A notification containing these details is emailed to the UP team. Legal basis: taking steps at your request prior to entering into a relationship, and our legitimate interest in responding to funders who contact us (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR).

Your messages are processed in order to generate NAVi's responses. Voice conversations are processed by our voice provider (ElevenLabs), live avatar sessions by our avatar provider (HeyGen), and text conversations by the AI model behind NAVi. We log that a conversation took place (type, time) and apply per-IP rate limits to prevent abuse, which involves briefly processing your IP address. Please don't share sensitive personal information in conversations with NAVi — it's a demonstration, not a confidential channel. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating and protecting the demonstration (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

The demonstration at demo.unitedpeoples.earth is a preview of the future UP platform, not the platform itself. It requires no account and stores no profile about you. As on the main site, we apply per-IP rate limits to prevent abuse, which involves briefly processing your IP address, and we keep internal operational logs of demo usage (counts and timestamps, not identities). Anything you type into the demonstration is used only to run it in your session. As on the main site, analytics cookies are set on the demonstration only if you consent via its banner. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating and protecting the demonstration (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand, in aggregate, how the main site and the demonstration are used. Analytics cookies are only set after you consent via the banner shown on your first visit; if you decline, both sites work identically. Separately, we use Simple Analytics — a Dutch, EU-hosted service — as a visit counter that uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device and records no personal data: only anonymous totals per day and page (for example, ‘the home page was viewed 40 times on 2 August’), together with anonymous counts of a few interactions such as clicks on the demonstration button and openings of NAVi. Because it identifies no one, it runs without consent. Legal basis for the counter: our legitimate interest in knowing whether, and how, our sites are being used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). See the cookies section below.

A daily internal summary (counts of dossier requests, new supporters, NAVi usage, and the names and organisations of dossier requesters) is emailed to the UP team so we can follow up on requests. It goes only to UP.