Legal notice

Public Rails reports on identity systems, payment rails, data exchange layers and registries. This notice records who answers for the magazine, where it is hosted and the rules that govern its reporting.

Independence

Public Rails is not an official source. No government, international organisation, foundation, standards body or company it covers has any affiliation with it or endorses it, and its pages never use their names or logos as its own. Nor is there any link between Public Rails and the earlier website on opendigitalecosystems.net, its operators or the authors of its documents.

Sourcing rules

Facts are taken from primary sources wherever possible: legislation, official statistics, central bank and ministry publications, technical specifications from the projects themselves and reports by international organisations. Changing figures carry a date; a figure that cannot be confirmed is omitted rather than estimated. Public Rails runs no identity, payment or government service, offers no consulting, sells nothing and accepts no sponsored content or paid links.

Publishing company

Registered in Paris under RCS 853 093 714, HSTART (SASU, a simplified joint-stock company; share capital €1,599,893; VAT FR77853093714) publishes Public Rails from 66 avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France. Its publication director is Axel Hars.

Hosting

Public Rails is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Rights

Articles are original to Public Rails. Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under the licences listed on the photo credits page; system and organisation names belong to their respective owners.

Contact

Corrections and questions are handled as described on the contact and corrections page.