# Vaultfire Public Ethics Guardrails

Vaultfire partners receive a transparent set of guardrails so product teams can
validate that every rollout keeps moral alignment centred on human impact.
These policies are designed for publication in partner portals and onboarding
packets.

## Mission Alignment
- **Human-first outcomes** – optimise for user agency, community health, and
  restorative justice.
- **No extraction at any tier** – monetisation features must be opt-in and
  reversible.
- **Collective overrides** – escalate contested decisions to governance
  stewards before automated changes propagate to production.

## Data Stewardship
- **Explicit consent only** – telemetry, loyalty, and behavioural data are
  captured strictly after informed consent with a visible revoke path.
- **Minimum viable retention** – telemetry retention defaults to 30 days unless
  compliance requires longer archival.
- **Secure enclaves** – signed callbacks and encrypted queues prevent partner
  data from traversing unaudited services.

## Partnership Conduct
- **Reciprocal accountability** – partners publish their own escalation and
  ethics review contacts before Vaultfire modules activate.
- **Transparent failure drills** – quarterly delivery failovers validate that
  webhook queues, signed callbacks, and governance automation execute as
  expected.
- **Inclusive scaling** – mission metrics for underrepresented communities are
  elevated in all scaling plans.

## Governance Interlocks
- **Ethics triggers as code** – governance automation reacts to telemetry,
  queue backlogs, or compliance deltas before shipping new features.
- **Framework traceability** – every decision references HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR
  controls so auditors can follow a single path of accountability.
- **Pilot-ready documentation** – onboarding guides outline the controls above
  so early partners enter "pilot mode" with clarity and trust.
