Save the Civilization

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1. What This Project Is

Save the Civilization is a one-time public archive.

Up to 100,000 people may each record one statement describing what they believe is essential for civilization to continue.

When a statement is recorded:

it becomes public
it becomes permanent
it cannot be edited or removed
the project continues until capacity is reached

When all places are filled, the project closes forever.

This is not a social platform, campaign, or community. It is an archive.

2. Participation and Payment

Participation requires a fixed payment.

This payment:

is not a donation
does not support a cause
does not grant ownership or control
exists solely as meaningful friction

Payment is handled by Stripe. We do not store credit card details or billing information.

Each successful payment grants the right to record exactly one statement.

Submission is not guaranteed until recorded.

A submission is only guaranteed once it has been successfully recorded.

3. Irreversibility

Before submitting a statement, you are explicitly informed that:

your text is recorded exactly as entered
it cannot be changed
it cannot be deleted
it will remain publicly accessible

By submitting a statement, you agree to this irrevocability.

Requests for edits, corrections, or removal will not be granted, except where legally required.

4. Responsibility for Content

You are fully responsible for the content of your statement.

You agree that your statement:

does not violate applicable laws
does not contain personal data about yourself or others
does not include content you do not have the right to publish

Statements reflect the views of their authors, not of this project.

5. Public Nature of the Archive

All recorded statements are:

publicly visible
accessible without login
readable by anyone

Statements may be read, quoted, or referenced by third parties.

We cannot control how third parties use publicly visible information.

6. Data We Collect

We deliberately collect as little data as possible.

What we store:

the text of your statement
the time it was recorded
a technical identifier for the entry
a Stripe session reference confirming payment

What we do NOT store:

your name
your email address
user accounts or profiles
payment card details
tracking or marketing data

We do not perform profiling, personalization, or analytics tied to individuals.

Cryptographic Integrity Proofs

The platform publishes daily cryptographic integrity proofs of the archive on a public blockchain.

These proofs contain only non-reversible cryptographic hashes. No statement text, personal data, IP addresses, or user identifiers are ever stored on the blockchain.

The archive publishes daily cryptographic integrity proofs. These proofs contain only non-reversible cryptographic hashes and never include statement text or personal data.

These cryptographic proofs allow independent verification that the archive has not been altered after publication.

They do not reveal the content of statements and cannot be reversed to reconstruct original data.

These proofs confirm integrity, not the accuracy or truthfulness of the recorded content.

For integrity verification purposes, cryptographic hashes derived from recorded entries are generated and included in public integrity proofs.

These hashes cannot be used to reconstruct the original statements.

7. Payments and Third Parties

Payments are processed by Stripe.

Stripe acts as an independent payment provider under its own privacy policy.

This project receives only:

confirmation that a payment succeeded
a technical reference to link one payment to one entry

8. Search and Access

The archive may allow keyword search at later stages of the project.

Search, when available:

is exact-match only
does not rank statements by popularity
does not highlight “important” entries
does not alter the original order

Search exists to explore the archive, not to interpret it.

9. Moderation and Legal Requests

This project does not curate opinions or viewpoints.

However, we may remove or restrict access to content only if required by law, such as:

unlawful content
court orders
legally valid takedown requests

Such actions are exceptional and logged.

10. Security and Abuse Prevention

We apply technical measures to:

prevent automated abuse
prevent duplicate submissions
protect system integrity

If necessary, recording may be temporarily paused to maintain system stability.

11. No Guarantees

The project is provided “as-is”.

We do not guarantee:

availability at all times
permanent uptime
compatibility with all devices

Statements are stored with care, but the internet is not risk-free.

12. Changes to These Terms

These Terms & Privacy Notice may be updated only to reflect legal or technical necessity.

The core principles of permanence, equality, and non-manipulation will not change.

13. Contact

For legal or technical matters only:

[contact@savethecivilization.com]

This contact is not provided for content changes or participation requests.

14. Final Note

If participation were free, it would mean less.

If statements were editable, they would mean less.

If popularity mattered, truth would mean less.

This project exists to record intent — not to optimize it.