Enhanced Legacy Controls
This is an area of our manifesto that is currently under development.
Our nonprofit mission is to keep data perpetually accessible for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. We promise to respect the privacy and copyright of every user's personal data and give them control to publicly release that data on their own terms, keep it in private hands if they wish, or have it permanently destroyed.
- Directives – How do you make sure that the people you trust have control over your data when you no longer can? Directives are how we allow our users to set specific instructions for how their data should be handled in the future, whether handed over to a loved one, locked up forever, or published to the web.
- Vault – The most secure systems don't ever allow access to any file without verifying the identity of the person accessing that file and make sure to verify identity every time that file is accessed. That's why we're building the vault, the double-secure section of our application. Items you place into the vault are locked with an encryption key that only you know and cannot ever be shared with or accessed by anyone except you.
Related Articles
Maintaining Accessibility to Your Files
While there's no better way to preserve something forever than to seal it up in a cool, dark, dry place safe from the elements and far from the prying eyes, that lack of accessibility defeats the purpose of cultural heritage preservation. A legacy is ...Three Ways to Control Access to Records in Your Archive
As the owner of an archive, you have three ways to grant access to records in your archive to other people. In order from least restrictive to most restrictive: Publish to the web – choose this option if you want anyone to easily access your records ...What is the Permanent Legacy Foundation?
The mission of the Permanent Legacy Foundation is to provide a permanent place to store digital materials so that they will be preserved for family, friends, and future generations. The Foundation develops and maintains Permanent.org, an online ...Glossary
Curator Shorthand for an Archive or Account that has been granted Curtator Access. Curator Access to an Archive An Account that has the ability to control, update, and modify the entirety of a Permanent Archive in which they are a Member. Curator ...What is Our Nonprofit Mission?
Our Mission To preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. What We Believe Our public service and the technical design choices we make when building ...