Acceptance. Voters tick "I agree to the Terms" after logging in with Discord, before their first ballot; candidates explicitly accept at nomination submission. Acceptance is recorded with your Highrise Person ID, Discord ID, and a timestamp.
1. Nature of the Council
The Council is advisory only; Pocket Worlds keeps final say on business, economy, brand and legal. A seat is not ownership, equity, a security, a token right, employment, or any financial entitlement, and is not a DAO membership.
2. Volunteer / no compensation
Participation is voluntary and unpaid. There is no employment, contractor, or partnership relationship. Any perks are discretionary, revocable gifts β never payment or a right.
3. Eligibility
Holdings = combined Creatures + LAND at the published snapshot.
- Voters: held at least 1 HCC NFT continuously for the 3 months ending at the snapshot.
- Candidates: meet the bracket asset count at the candidacy snapshot and the 3-month continuous-holding bar; self-nominate in the window by answering the application's open questions.
- Eligibility is assessed against your Highrise account's current primary wallet (holdings across multiple wallets are not aggregated). Snapshots are final.
4. Voting
One vote per elected seat (4 seats, plurality). You authenticate by logging in with Discord, which we match to your Highrise account to confirm eligibility β no wallet connection or signing is required, and we never move or spend your assets. Voting is per Highrise account (one person, one vote per seat). Votes are final once cast and cannot be changed. Vote privacy: individual votes are not published β only per-seat tallies are. Each voter gets a private, verifiable receipt to confirm their vote was recorded and counted; the receipt is yours alone and does not reveal your choice to others.
5. Candidacy β submission, publication & review
By self-nominating you grant Pocket Worlds a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish, display, translate, and process your answers to the application's open questions for the election and the Voting Advice Application (VAA). The tool maps each written answer to a position, but your confirmed positions are authoritative β you review and edit them before voting opens, and your confirmed positions are published. You are responsible for the accuracy of your submission. The full VAA methodology will be published. All candidacies are subject to review of account background and any community reports; Pocket Worlds may decline or remove a candidacy at its discretion, and the reasons will be disclosed privately to the affected candidate.
6. Terms of service & seats
Elected terms run 6 months, max two consecutive for elected seats. Seats are personal and non-transferable β never sold, lent, or assigned. You may resign at any time. A seat left vacant mid-term stays empty until the next election β vacancies are not backfilled during a term.
7. Transparency / no confidentiality
The Council operates openly: members are under no confidentiality obligation and may discuss and share Council materials publicly. Accordingly, Pocket Worlds will share with the Council only materials it is comfortable being made public β nothing shared should be assumed secret or treated as a leak.
8. Code of conduct
No harassment, hate, threats, or doxxing. No vote-buying, bribery, or exchanging anything of value for votes. No impersonation, fraud, or material misrepresentation. No sybil/multi-account voting and no snapshot manipulation. Disclose conflicts of interest. Follow Highrise/HCC community guidelines and applicable law.
9. Integrity & enforcement
One eligible account, one ballot per seat. Pocket Worlds may void votes, disqualify candidates, remove members, or bar future participation for breach β at its reasonable discretion, with reasons published where practical.
10. Data & privacy
To authenticate and check eligibility we process your Discord ID, Highrise ID, Person ID, linked wallet address(es) and wallet-change history (via Discord OAuth and Highrise's internal API), plus the holdings snapshot, vote records (kept private), candidate answers (public), and voter answers (private; used to compute your own affinity, not published per-user). Candidate answers are sent to Anthropic (Claude) so the tool can map each into a position the candidate confirms. On-chain/wallet data is inherently public. See the Privacy Policy for retention and deletion-request handling.
11. Disclaimers & liability
Provided "as is." The VAA affinity score is advisory and not guaranteed accurate. Nothing here is financial, investment, tax, or legal advice, a securities offering, or a guarantee of any NFT's value. Liability is limited to the extent permitted by law; candidates indemnify Pocket Worlds for content they submit.