Trust & Safety Enforcement Policy

ETHICCRED TRUST & SAFETY ENFORCEMENT POLICY

1. Purpose

This Policy describes how EthicCred enforces its Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, Community Guidelines, and other platform policies.

2. Detection

Violations may be detected through automated systems (fraud detection, duplicate detection, anomaly detection), user reports, dispute submissions, internal audits, and lawful third-party reports.

3. Review

Reports are reviewed by trained personnel. Decisions consider available evidence, context, the user's account history, the severity of the alleged violation, and applicable platform policies.

4. Enforcement Actions

Possible actions include warnings, requirements to provide additional verification, record suspension, certificate revocation, restriction of issuance privileges, account suspension, account termination, IP-level restrictions, and cooperation with lawful authorities.

5. Repeat Violations

Repeated violations or serious single violations may result in immediate account termination and permanent removal from the EthicCred network.

6. Appeals

Users may appeal enforcement decisions by submitting new evidence or context through the dispute system. EthicCred is not obligated to reopen decisions in the absence of new material.

7. Cooperation with Authorities

Where required by law or lawful order, EthicCred may cooperate with law enforcement, regulators, and other authorised parties.

8. Transparency

EthicCred may publish periodic transparency reports describing aggregate enforcement actions.