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Before this house keeps a single memory a family entrusts to it, the family holds these promises — written here so they cannot quietly change.
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A family’s memorial begins with the family. On the honored line, no life is worked into films, voices, or likenesses by our initiative — the invitation must come from those who hold the right to give it. The public record of history’s honored — our curated archive of documented lives — is kept separately, sourced and cited as history.
A living person’s story is their own to give. A departed elder’s face, name, and voice enter the sacred line only with their family’s documented consent — not assumed, not implied, and never harvested.
Where our craft recreates a voice or a likeness with the family’s blessing, the work says so where it is seen and heard. What is synthetic is disclosed as synthetic. A recreation honors; a counterfeit betrays — we make only the first.
Visibility is the family’s choice — public, family, or private — and bonds on the web of kin are made by two consenting hands and can be unmade by either. What was granted can be withdrawn: our takedown door is honored, without argument, at honoredancestors.net/takedown.
We do not surveil the grieving, profile sorrow, or sell the data of loss — not to advertisers, not to brokers, not to anyone. Memory is entrusted to be kept, and keeping is all we do with it.
Every record sealed in the Great Archive is written to the InterPlanetary File System and committed to the Filecoin permanence network under storage deals the house holds and renews, deal upon deal. By this covenant the house binds itself to no fewer than two hundred years of that renewal for every sealed record — funded by the very Seal that sealed it, and strengthened by the Permanence Fund, into which the house’s crown vessels pay their covenanted margin. Where a Deed of Keeping or any vessel of the record cites this covenant, it cites this page — written here so it cannot quietly change.
These promises bind every hand that works in this house — and outlast every one of them.
The Consent Covenant.
Before this house keeps a single memory a family entrusts to it, the family holds these promises — written here so they cannot quietly change.
The First Promise. Opt-in, always. A family’s memorial begins with the family. On the honored line, no life is worked into films, voices, or likenesses by our initiative — the invitation must come from those who hold the right to give it. The public record of history’s honored — our curated archive of documented lives — is kept separately, sourced and cited as history.
The Second Promise. Consent, documented. A living person’s story is their own to give. A departed elder’s face, name, and voice enter the sacred line only with their family’s documented consent — not assumed, not implied, and never harvested.
The Third Promise. The made is named. Where our craft recreates a voice or a likeness with the family’s blessing, the work says so where it is seen and heard. What is synthetic is disclosed as synthetic. A recreation honors; a counterfeit betrays — we make only the first.
The Fourth Promise. Control that endures. Visibility is the family’s choice — public, family, or private — and bonds on the web of kin are made by two consenting hands and can be unmade by either. What was granted can be withdrawn: our takedown door is honored, without argument, at honoredancestors.net/takedown .
The Fifth Promise. No trade in grief. We do not surveil the grieving, profile sorrow, or sell the data of loss — not to advertisers, not to brokers, not to anyone. Memory is entrusted to be kept, and keeping is all we do with it.
The Sixth Promise. The Covenant of Keeping — two hundred years. Every record sealed in the Great Archive is written to the InterPlanetary File System and committed to the Filecoin permanence network under storage deals the house holds and renews, deal upon deal. By this covenant the house binds itself to no fewer than two hundred years of that renewal for every sealed record — funded by the very Seal that sealed it, and strengthened by the Permanence Fund. Written here so it cannot quietly change.
These promises bind every hand that works in this house — and outlast every one of them.
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