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Kevin K. Le (LinkedIn) — Founder, Founding Engineer, and Current Lead Engineer; Software Engineer at the Oregon Blockchain Group, University of Oregon.

Kellen Snider — Founding Engineer; Software Engineer at the Oregon Blockchain Group, University of Oregon. His vision, ideas, and dedication during TrustLedger's Ethereum development were invaluable to the codebase we build on today.

See CREDITS.md.

TrustLedger legal documents are owner-controlled drafts until they are approved for publication. This page tracks the committed legal and compliance surfaces so engineering, documentation, and website changes stay synchronized.

Public Surfaces

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Surface Purpose
SECURITY.md Responsible disclosure, supported security scope, and reporting path.
docs/SECURITY.md Developer-facing security model, CI checks, and operational notes.
/[locale]/legal Website legal center and publication index.

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The following root markdown files may require review when product behavior, payments, wallet flows, arbitration, privacy, content handling, or compliance posture changes:

Draft Review Focus
TERMS_AND_CONDITIONS.md User duties, wallet actions, escrow scope, and dispute handling.
PRIVACY_POLICY.md Data categories, retention, logs, analytics, and user rights.
COOKIE_POLICY.md Browser storage, cookies, consent, and analytics.
ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY.md Prohibited conduct, abuse, sanctions-sensitive activity, and enforcement.
CONTENT_POLICY.md Contract links, deliverables, evidence, and platform-visible content.
DMCA_POLICY.md Takedown notices, counter-notices, and repeat-infringer handling.
TRADEMARK_POLICY.md Brand use, impersonation, confusing marks, and reporting.
RISK_DISCLOSURE.md Smart contract, wallet, blockchain, market, arbitration, and uptime risks.
DISCLAIMER.md Advice disclaimers, warranty limits, and outcome disclaimers.
COMMUNITY_GUIDELINES.md Professional conduct, juror behavior, and dispute evidence quality.

Agent Review Rule

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Use .sixth/skills/legal-compliance/SKILL.md for any legal or compliance-sensitive change. Do not edit root legal draft files unless the active user request explicitly authorizes edits to those files.

Translation Workflow

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The frontend helper src/helpers/legal-docs.ts lists legal documents, supported locales, source files, and translation status. It also exposes a constrained machine-translation prompt that tells reviewers to preserve headings, numbering, defined terms, links, and Markdown structure. Machine-assisted translations should remain marked as needing review until a qualified reviewer approves them.

Reviewed translated legal bodies can be published by adding src/content/legal/<locale>/<SOURCE_FILE>.md. The route falls back to the English source file when a reviewed locale file is absent, so untranslated legal obligations are not silently presented as approved localized legal text.

Jurisdiction Note

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A single SaaS policy set can provide a global baseline, but it cannot reliably account for every territory, state, province, nation, regulator, and local consumer or privacy law without jurisdiction-specific legal review. Use local counsel for launch markets, sanctions exposure, tax treatment, employment classification, securities risk, and consumer-protection obligations.

Authors and Contributors

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  • Kevin K. Le — Founder, Founding Engineer, and Current Lead Engineer (LinkedIn)
  • Kellen Snider — Founding Engineer (LinkedIn)

See CREDITS.md for the complete acknowledgement list.

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This document is part of TrustLedger, an open-source decentralized escrow and arbitration protocol. Use of this software and documentation is subject to the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Risk Disclosure. See LEGAL.md for the full compliance and licensing overview.