Worldwide History Policy

Version: 1.0 Effective Date: August 1, 2026 Status: Active

This document is part of the VesEvi Version 1.0 legal documentation package, effective August 1, 2026, using docs/platform/VesEvi-Version-1-Product-Book.md (§15, §16) as the source of truth for product capability. Consistent with current platform terminology, this document uses "Worldwide History" to describe the implemented feature. It uses conservative, industry-standard language appropriate for an early-stage software company; as with any company's policies, periodic legal review is expected as VesEvi grows, and future revisions will be published as Version 1.1, Version 2.0, and so on.

1. Purpose

Worldwide History is an optional feature that lets a contributor share a redacted, reviewed record of a submitted inspection publicly, so that an asset's documented condition can be discovered by others — without an account — while protecting the privacy of the people involved. This Policy explains how it works, what becomes public, and what stays private.

2. Publication Model

Sharing to Worldwide History is never automatic. It follows a deliberate, multi-step process:

1. Eligibility — only a completed (submitted) inspection with no other active sharing attempt can be shared.
2. Consent — you are shown the current consent terms and must explicitly agree before anything is submitted for sharing.
3. Submission and automated screening — the inspection's notes and evidence are screened, and a redacted preview of what would become public is built.
4. Contributor confirmation — in the normal case, you review the exact preview of what will be shared and confirm before it becomes public. Nothing is published without this confirmation.
5. Human review (exception path) — if screening flags something (such as apparent personal information in notes, or an evidence file that fails automated processing), the record is routed to a human moderator before it can proceed. A moderator clearing a record does not publish it directly — it still returns to you for confirmation.
6. Publication — once confirmed, the record becomes publicly visible in Worldwide History.

Internally, this record and workflow may be referred to as a "publication"; this Policy and the Service's user-facing language refer to it as sharing to Worldwide History.

3. Visibility

Once published, a Worldwide History record is visible to anyone, without an account, through public search and the relevant asset's public timeline. It does not include your name, contact details, company identity, exact address, vehicle identification number, license plate, or serial number. It does not include your original inspection notes. It may include: asset type/category and general identifying details appropriate to the asset (such as year/make/model for a vehicle, or property type and city/state/country for a property); approved photos with identifying metadata removed; and the category, severity, and location within the image of approved findings. Video is not currently supported for public sharing — only still images.

Sharing an inspection to Worldwide History does not change that inspection's private visibility settings within your workspace. The two are separate, and one does not override the other.

4. Review

Before publication, evidence and notes intended for the public record are reviewed — first through automated screening, and, where flagged, by a human moderator — to reduce the likelihood that private, sensitive, or policy-violating content becomes public. This review process is a safeguard, not a guarantee: see Section 8 (Limitations).

5. Corrections

If you or another party believe a published Worldwide History record is inaccurate, use the Service's correction or reporting workflow, where available, rather than attempting to resolve the dispute outside the platform. Corrections to underlying asset or property records follow the platform's structured correction process, which requires review before being applied to already-published content.

6. Moderation

Worldwide History submissions and reports of existing published content are reviewed by individuals holding a platform moderation role. Moderators can review flagged content, approve or reject pending submissions, and act on reports about already-published records. See the Content Moderation Policy for the full moderation and escalation process.

7. Removal Requests

You may withdraw your own shared record at any time; withdrawal removes it from public visibility immediately. Any person — including someone who is not the contributor — may report a published record they believe violates this Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy, or applicable law, using the Service's reporting mechanism. Reports are reviewed by a moderator, who may remove the record. Withdrawing or removing a record stops public visibility; it does not necessarily delete the underlying data — see the Data Retention Policy for how retained data is handled after withdrawal or removal.

8. Privacy Expectations and Limitations

Worldwide History is designed to protect personal privacy while preserving asset-condition information, but it has real, disclosed limitations:

• There is no automated pixel-level redaction (such as face or license-plate blurring) of shared images. The protections in place are: notes are never included in the public record, images require successful automated processing or human review, and identifying metadata is stripped from published images.
• Automated content screening uses deterministic rules and a keyword-based classifier, not a general-purpose AI model, and cannot catch every instance of unwanted content. High-risk categories (such as apparent credentials, threats, or accusations against a person) are always routed to human review, but review is not a perfect safeguard.
• VesEvi does not guarantee that a published Worldwide History record is complete, error-free, or that it will never contain content a reasonable person would consider identifying.

Given these limitations, do not capture or include information in an inspection you would not want made public if you later choose to share it, even though review steps exist.

9. What Worldwide History Does Not Claim

VesEvi does not claim that Worldwide History provides complete or universal coverage of any asset's history, that every relevant inspection of a given asset has been or will be shared, that publication guarantees the legal or factual accuracy of the record, or that Worldwide History prevents fraud or resolves disputes on its own. Worldwide History reflects only what contributors have chosen to share, reviewed and redacted as described above.

10. Relationship to Asset Timeline

Worldwide History includes a public, per-asset timeline built from published records for that asset. This is distinct from the authenticated Asset Timeline available to authorized users within their own workspace, which may include private events (such as a baseline inspection or a condition change) that were never shared publicly. A public Worldwide History timeline reflects only what has actually been published; it is not a complete substitute for an asset's full private history, which may include more events than are ever made public.

This document must remain consistent with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Community Guidelines, Data Retention Policy, and Content Moderation Policy, all part of the same VesEvi Version 1.0 legal package.