Data Sovereignty & Security Policy

Our Commitment to Guarding Sacred Lineage

At Malofie Global, we recognize that the data you share - including ancestral lineages, village histories, and physical verification photos - carries an immense cultural weight (mamalu). We do not treat this registry as a commercial dataset; we hold it as a secure digital sanctuary for our global diaspora.

As an organization engineered by technology security professionals, we have constructed our data infrastructure to meet and exceed rigorous global banking-grade and legal privacy standards.

1. International Privacy Compliance & Data Rights

We respect your personal information and enforce compliance with global privacy regulations matching the geographic footprint of the Samoan community:

  • New Zealand & Australia: Operating in strict alignment with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 and the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (including the Australian Privacy Principles).

  • European Union & United Kingdom: Adhering to the strict mandates of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018. If you are submitting data from Europe, you possess the absolute right to data portability, restricted processing, and the "right to be forgotten."

  • United States: Structuring our systems to honor state-level consumer privacy frameworks, ensuring transparent data disclosure and complete control over your personal records.

2. Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Beyond Western legal compliance, we operate under the principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty. You retain absolute ownership over your story, your lineage, and your cultural representation. Your data is processed lawfully and exclusively to verify, secure, and preserve the integrity of the official registry.

3. File Isolation & Anti-Scraping Protocols

Verification images, sensitive lineage sheets, and personal media uploads are isolated within encrypted cloud environments completely detached from public-facing web layers. Our database architecture utilizes strict access controls and anti-scraping firewalls explicitly built to block third-party automated AI models and unauthorized commercial web crawlers from exploiting your records.

4. Zero Commercialization Vow

We enforce a permanent, unbreakable rule: your personal identity information, lineage logs, and media submissions will never be sold, shared, rented, monetized, or exposed to third-party advertising networks. Data access is restricted strictly to the authorized administrative Vetting Council for registration verification and archive security.