QPN Catalyst Network
Submission Terms

What Happens When You Submit

• Your communication (including body, attachments, metadata, and headers) is received, encrypted, and stored as a confidential business record.
• The timestamp of your submission is recorded based on your email’s transmission metadata.
• Your submission may be processed by automated systems for classification, attribution, and contribution-graph assembly.
• No auto-reply is sent unless you choose a response mode that provides one (see Response Modes below).

Your Confidentiality Obligations

By submitting, you agree to:

• Maintain the confidentiality of the fact that you have submitted communications, and the content and nature of your submissions. Do not disclose your submission activity to non-participants.
• Acknowledge that all records generated from your submissions — including Contribution Records, attribution metadata, and any associated Quantum Privacy Cell records — are trade secrets and confidential proprietary information of Quantum Privacy LLC.
• Not disclose any automated response you receive (if you selected Acknowledgment Mode or Evidentiary Mode) to non-participants.

You may share submission details with fellow QPN Catalyst participants who have agreed to these terms or who have executed a Quantum Privacy Cell Participation Agreement, for purposes of collaborating on contribution graphs. Such communications remain protected as trade secrets.

Your Rights

Right of Non-Disclosure

You receive a contractual right to decline to disclose the existence or details of your submissions to any third party. You may invoke this right as a legal basis for refusing disclosure to any employer, contracting entity, governmental body, or other party.

Trade-Secret Protection

Quantum Privacy LLC is obligated to maintain your submission records in encrypted form, limit access to authorized personnel (see our access model), and resist any compelled disclosure through all available legal mechanisms.

Retroactive Attribution

If you later activate a Quantum Privacy Cell, all prior submissions will be retroactively attributed to you with full credit. Your position in the contribution timeline is locked from the timestamp of your earliest submission.

Response Modes

You select your preferred response mode by choosing which email address to send to:

• Silent Mode (default): No response is sent. Maximum discretion.
• Acknowledgment Mode: You receive a brief confirmation email with a timestamp proving your submission was received and the exact date and time it was recorded. The confirmation does not identify Quantum Privacy LLC, the Catalyst Network, or any details about the system — it is a minimal receipt only.
• Evidentiary Mode: You receive a confirmation email with a timestamp and an attachment containing the complete content of your submission exactly as received by the intake system. This gives you a verifiable personal record of what you submitted and when — useful for your own contribution tracking and as independent evidence of timing. The confirmation does not identify Quantum Privacy LLC, the Catalyst Network, or any details about the system.

Available response mode addresses are published at qpncatalyst.io.

No Value Created Upon Submission

Submission creates no ownership interest, economic right, transferable right, compensation, or thing of value. Individual contributions must be linked into contribution graphs that include qualifying milestones — such as enterprise commitments, public announcements, partnership agreements, or production deployments — that generate real-world economic value within the Privacy Network Exchange. Public commitments to participation by individuals, enterprises, organizations, or government entities are inherently valuable, and personal evangelism is independently weighted by your credibility, expertise, reputation, and relationships. However, these outcomes take time to emerge, require compliance verification, and are not guaranteed.

The Deferred Activation model ensures that contributions can be verified for compliance with employment agreements, fiduciary obligations, and other legal or regulatory restrictions before any allocation occurs. Compliance review operates at the level of individual allocations — specific allocations that intersect with professional, governmental, or fiduciary restrictions may be redirected to public-benefit entities, while other allocations within the same contribution graph remain unaffected. Every person and organization has been granted a QPC Option that always entitles them to participate through personal advocacy, even if allocations related to professional or fiduciary roles are restricted. No value of any kind exists until you affirmatively choose to activate a Quantum Privacy Cell through a separate agreement, your contributions are linked to qualifying milestones that produce measurable value, and compliance verification is complete. You are never required to activate.

All allocation determinations are governed by the QP Rewards Allocation Model, a systematic framework guided by the Unified Trust Model Premiums — including the Strategic, Timing, Value, Cascade, and Publicity Premiums — that evaluates contributions based on verified causal linkage, relative timing, independent corroboration, and downstream impact. The Managers of Quantum Privacy LLC retain sole and absolute discretion over the design, calibration, and interpretation of the Allocation Model, but individual allocations are determined by the model’s application to the contribution graph, not by ad hoc managerial decisions.

Trade Secret Designation

All submissions and records derived from them are designated as trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. §1836) and the Delaware Trade Secrets Act (6 Del. C. §2001 et seq.). This designation applies from the moment of receipt.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

More Information

For a comprehensive explanation of how the QPN Catalyst Network works, your legal protections, compliance guidance by role, and frequently asked questions, see the QPN Catalyst Participant Guide.