Portability Policy Generator

Are your APIs and Data Formats Documented?

Do people need to create a new identity for this site, or can they use an existing one?

Fresh Start - The person is expected to create a fresh identity that is used on this site. This site does not trust a third party to authenticate identity.

Existing Identity - The person can register an account using an identity authenticated by some third party. This product assumes that, by selecting a third party to authenticate their identity, the person accepts that third party as trustworthy.

Must people import things into this product, or can the product refer to things stored someplace else? Can this product work with objects and information whose "authoritative home" is another product, or can this product only work with things that it hosts directly?

Home - In order for this product to work with a thing, it must be hosted directly

Visitor - This product has the ability to access and work with things that are hosted by third parties, assuming that the third party allows this.

Can this site watch for updates that people make on other sites? In cases where the product tracks or manages things that the person has stored on some third party product, can this product automatically keep itself up to date?

No Imports - This site does not import data

One Time Import - This product only sees the remote thing at import time, and does not watch for changes.

Watch For Updates - This product watches the third party for changes, and updates its own view of the remote thing to match.

If person updates something here, is that change stored only here or can it notify another product? Does this product provide a way for others to ask for updates?

Silent - This product does not broadcast changes.

Chatty - Updates made here are also forwarded to a third party.

Can the person allow other sites to use the things they've created or updated here? Does this product provide a way for third parties to authenticate a person and read or write

No Access - The person must use this product to read or access whatever it manages.

Other Products Can Read - The person can provide the third party with authentication credentials, and can read data managed by this product.

Other Products Can Write - The person can provide the third party with authentication credentials, and can write data managed by this product.

Can the person download or remotely access a copy of everything they've provided to this service? As part of their standard use of most products, people import or create things. Does this product provide an open, DRM-free way for people to retrieve or access via third party all of the things they've created or provided?

No Download - This product does not offer the person the ability to download the things they've provided.

Some Download - This product allows the download of a subset of what the user has provided.

Full Download - The product provides an open, DRM-free way for people to download all of the things they've provided to the product, or remotely access it using a third party product.

Can the person download or remotely access information that others have provided to the product? In cases where the product allows download or remote access, can the person export or access all of the data to which they have access, or only data which they have directly created?

Provider Only - This person may only export or access data which they have directly provided.

Full Access - The person may export or download any data to which they have access on this product, subject to reasonable usage and abuse rules.

Will this site delete an account and all associated data upon a user's request? If the user creates a password or account for use with this product, does the product provide a way to cancel the account and erase all data associated with it?

Immortal Accounts - Accounts or passwords, once created, are assumed to live for as long as the product is available. Desktop applications and other stand-alone products that do not have host services may have no way to remotely revoke accounts or passwords.

Data Expires, how much time before it expires:
If this product acts as a hub, the data it copies from other sites will expire in a set amount of time. This product must be linked to a place where it can refresh or synchronize data in order to stay current.

Accounts Deleted Upon Request - This product has the ability to remove a person's account and all relevant data, and will do so when requested by the person or third party with appropriate legal standing.