Intellectual Property and Openness Policy
Ownership, licensing and openness rules for platform intellectual property, user-generated content, TrustMarks and ACDC credentials.
- Version
- v1.0
- Effective
- 2026-07-19
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-20
- Next review
- 2027-07-19
- Owner
- General Counsel
- Approver
- Board of Directors
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Applies to
- Software, brand, documentation and content produced by ImpactMiles
- User submissions on the platform
- TrustMark and ACDC artefacts issued by ImpactMiles
Jurisdictions
- Hong Kong (PDPO, IRD s.88)
- United Kingdom (UK GDPR, DPA 2018)
- European Union (GDPR)
- Singapore (PDPA)
- Australia (Privacy Act 1988)
- Japan (APPI)
- Wider APAC per country taxonomy
How this is applied in-product
- Terms of Use content licence grant
- Attribution requirements on public TrustMark badges
- Open specification for the TrustMark verification API
1. Platform IP
All software, brand assets, documentation and generated content produced by ImpactMiles are owned by ImpactMiles Limited unless otherwise stated. Open-source components are used under their respective licences.
2. User-Generated Content
Users retain ownership of the content they submit and grant ImpactMiles a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, process and display it for the purpose of operating the platform, computing IMI and issuing verifiable credentials.
3. TrustMark and ACDC Licensing
- TrustMark badges and verification API responses are made freely available for third-party verification and citation, with attribution to ImpactMiles.
- Bulk export of TrustMark data for competitive re-use is not permitted without written agreement.
- The TrustMark verification specification is published as an open document.
4. Openness Commitments
ImpactMiles publishes its governance framework, IMI methodology and public sub-processor register. Selected client libraries and reference verifiers may be released under an OSI-approved licence as the platform matures.