SD-BY-v0.9 – Customer Commons

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Using the SD-BY Public Beta Agreement by Customer Commons

The SD-BY public beta agreement sets terms for service delivery with personal data. It prohibits analytics, tracking, profiling, and third-party sharing. These considerations are for information only, are not exhaustive, and do not form part of the agreement.

Considerations for Adopters (Organizations and Individuals)

Use this public beta only where you have authority to adopt it within your operations.
Review the Human, Legal, and Machine versions and confirm your own compliance obligations before implementation.
Clearly identify data or practices that fall outside the agreement’s scope.
Read the MyTerms FAQs for adoption guidance.

Considerations for the Public

Adoption represents an organization’s public commitment to the agreement’s stated limits on data use.
The agreement governs only permissions an adopter has authority to grant; other laws, contracts, and third-party rights may still apply.
Users may ask an adopter to describe material changes to its handling of personal data.
Read the MyTerms FAQs.

Human-Readable Summary (Plain English)

This agreement puts you, the individual, in control of how your personal data is used when you buy any product or service that has a digital component (including the purchase or subscription/sign-up record). You’re offering your data with clear terms — and an organization must agree to those terms if they want to use it to deliver a base-level product or service to you.

What You’re Offering to the Organisation

You can use my data for service delivery.
- My data can be processed, but only to deliver what I’ve chosen to allow — no extra uses.
You may share service data with us voluntarily.
- Things like service-related data can be shared if you wish, and only for the agreed purpose.

What the Organisation is Not Allowed To Do

They cannot use your data for analytics purposes.
- They are not allowed to process your information for service analytics.
They cannot track you across services.
- Tracking of your personal data by the organisation or third parties they engage is not permitted.
They cannot profile you.
- They are not allowed to create behavioral profiles based on your personal data.
They cannot share your data with third parties.
- Your personal information stays between you and the organisation — it won’t be passed on.

If There’s a Conflict

If anything’s unclear, this policy follows the rule: permissions override prohibitions, which means if something is both allowed and disallowed, it is considered allowed.