Transparency & Oversight
This page is provided to clearly explain what TrustEmporium is — and what it is not.
What TrustEmporium is
TrustEmporium is neutral infrastructure that allows businesses to record and query interaction events.
It functions as a ledger. Records are preserved as reported by businesses and made available only through pull-based, authorized access.
TrustEmporium does not evaluate people, assign reputations, or recommend decisions.
What TrustEmporium is not
- A blacklist or whitelist
- A scoring or rating system
- A reputation authority
- A consumer database
- A fraud-prevention engine
- A decision or enforcement platform
How data is handled
- Records are created by individual businesses
- TrustEmporium does not verify or validate reports
- Records are preserved without alteration or deletion
- TrustEmporium does not summarize or translate records into judgments
Access model
- Access is pull-based only
- No unsolicited notifications are sent to individuals
- Public queries return existence-only results
- Detailed records are available only to authenticated businesses
Decisions & automation
TrustEmporium does not make decisions.
Businesses may choose to use their own software or plugins to interpret records and automate workflows. Any such interpretation or automation is defined, executed, and owned entirely by the business.
TrustEmporium does not participate in or influence those outcomes.
Accountability
TrustEmporium provides infrastructure only.
Responsibility for the accuracy of reports and for any decisions made using those reports remains with the reporting or querying business.
Summary: TrustEmporium records history. Businesses decide meaning.