Status
You are early. The registry is still being built, and what you file is on the record from its first chapter.
Publishing Policy (publishingpolicy.org) is under active development.
Publishing is free and open to all workspaces. You can draft your policy, verify your domain, and publish your commitments to the public record today.
Walk through a guided process to articulate standards for everything your organization publishes.
Prove you control your URL. Verification is persistent and does not require arbitrary yearly renewals.
Publishing generates a public policy page, a distribution kit, and an immutable cryptographic record.
The site carries a Research Preview badge in its footer, and the receipt email for every publish says the same. The label marks an early product: the platform is in active development, so you might see UI changes. It makes no promise about how the product works, and nothing happens to your policy when it comes off.
A published policy is a public record of what you committed to, and exactly when, for as long as it stands. A policy only applies to the period it was active. If you update or deactivate your policy, you are not held to old terms going forward. The ledger shows what rules were in effect at any given point in time.
When you publish a policy, it is licensed CC-BY 4.0. Anyone who quoted or shared it keeps that right, even if you later replace or deactivate it. This is by design: a publishing policy is a public commitment, and public commitments should be citable.
Deactivate a policy at any time — it is marked as no longer in effect — and close your account whenever you like. If we update the Terms and you disagree, you can withdraw without accepting them. Acceptance is required to use the platform, never to leave it. What leaving does not do is take back copies others already made under the license.
When you publish or update a policy, we email you the full content with a timestamp. If the platform disappears tomorrow, your inbox has the record.
Closing your account always works, and it always deletes your personal data — your profile, your email address, your login. Today it deletes your policies and their history with it; the Privacy Policy states the current rule.
The product is free to use, with no paid tier behind it: records, verification, and the full history are not for sale, and the costs of running the record are what patronage is for. If a paid feature ever exists, it will start only with clear notice and your explicit consent, and leaving is always free: closing your account never costs anything.
Publishers will be able to see how their policy is being viewed and referenced, helping them understand the reach of their commitments.
We answer questions about how Publishing Policy works — verifying a domain, publishing, editing, or setting up the extension.
We do not review or advise on the content of your policy: what you commit to is yours to decide, and nobody else should be setting it. Email us and we'll reply when we can; there's no guaranteed response time during the Research Preview.
This page is the plain-language summary. The formal terms govern your use of the platform:
Account terms, content ownership, domain verification, the Research Preview, and liability.
What data we collect, how we use it, your rights, and what happens to your data when you close your account.
What's not allowed: impersonation, false claims, gaming the system.
Free. No credit card required.