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Imprint and legal notice
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- v1
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- 2026-09-02
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- Purpose Source Association
The operator of this site
Purpose Source Association Association (Verein) under Art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB) Seat: canton of Aargau, Switzerland Founded: September 2026
Address for legal service: c/o — the street address is published here with the
commercial-register entry. Until then, legal correspondence reaches the Association at
legal@purposesource.org, and service by post is accepted at the address the register will
show.
Register and identifiers
| Commercial register | Aargau commercial register — CHE-… — pending publication. The entry was applied for at founding; the number and the extract publish here on the day the register confirms them. |
| Registration duty | Art. 61 Abs. 2 Ziff. 3 ZGB (an association collecting or distributing funds abroad for charitable purposes) — acknowledged; the entry was applied for at founding and its publication is pending. A member register under Art. 61a ZGB is kept. |
| VAT (MWST) | Registration in progress / not yet registered. No VAT number is printed until the Federal Tax Administration issues one. Entitlements are sold through a merchant of record, which is the supplier to the purchaser for VAT purposes. |
| Tax status | Application for tax exemption filed with the Aargau tax administration; pursued, never assumed. The Association does not describe itself as tax-exempt until the ruling is in hand. |
Representation
The Association is represented by its board. A representative under Art. 69 Abs. 2 ZGB, domiciled in Switzerland, is appointed and holds the power to represent the Association and to receive legal service. The representative is named here on publication of the register entry.
The board, by role: the president; the treasurer; independent members forming the board majority. Persons are named here on publication of the register entry. The conflicts rules and the independence requirement are published now.
Contact
| Address | For |
|---|---|
hello@purposesource.org | General enquiries — adoption, the schedule, the registry |
legal@purposesource.org | Legal notices, data-subject requests, the right to object, takedown and trademark matters |
security@purposesource.org | Vulnerability reports — see the security page and security.txt |
press@purposesource.org | Media |
billing@purposesource.org | Invoices, receipts, renewals, refunds, band corrections |
All routes, with published response-time targets and the challenge-protected forms, are on the contact page.
Responsibility for content
The board of the Purpose Source Association is responsible for the content of this site. The
plain-English companions, the documentation, and the frequently asked questions are
explanations, not legal advice; where an explanation and an operative text differ, the
operative text governs. The site’s source is public at https://github.com/purposesource/website.
Hosting
Static hosting and the edge API are provided by Cloudflare, Inc.; the full list of subprocessors, with purposes, data categories, and residency, is on the Trust Center overview.
Trademarks
“Purpose Source”, “Purpose Source License”, and the Association’s name are marks of the Purpose Source Association; applications are a separate workstream and no registration is claimed here. Permission to describe software as licensed under the Purpose Source License is conditioned on distributing the canonical text unchanged. Other product and organisation names are the marks of their owners.
Dispute resolution and applicable law
Swiss law applies to this site and to the Association’s relationship with its users; the courts at the Association’s seat have jurisdiction, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections. The Association does not participate in a consumer arbitration scheme.