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Data residency, single-tenant on-premise deployment, and a lawful basis recorded before any policy carrying gait or face weight will compile at all.

Single tenant on premiseResidency by deploymentWorks-council overlaysCryptographic erasure

Compliance here is not a document that describes the system. It is a gate the system will not open without.

Same binaryDedicated deployment is the same code and schema as hosted
ZeroKey shares held by Baselivery staff
Per siteCamera rules can overlay a global policy country by country
Compile gateNo lawful basis recorded means no biometric policy compiles
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The lawful basis is a build dependency.

Most systems record consent alongside the capability. Here the record has to exist before the capability can be produced.

A workspace must record its lawful basis, whether employment obligation, explicit consent, or substantial public interest, before the policy compiler will emit any pack carrying gait or face weight. There is no administrative path that enables biometric processing without that record. The build simply fails.

Dedicated deployment is the same binary and the same schema as the hosted service, running as a single tenant inside your boundary. Encryption keys are sealed to the hardware of each edge node, and the escrow shares are held entirely by your own custodians. Baselivery staff hold none and cannot unwrap a template.

Local rules overlay the global policy. Where a works council or national regulation restricts camera use at a particular site, that site's overlay governs, and a desk camera is refused outright unless the specific basis for it has been recorded.

Deployment
Model
Single tenant, inside your boundary
Code
Identical to the hosted service
Residency
A property of where you deploy it
Key sealing
To each edge node's hardware root of trust
Key escrow
3-of-5 shares, all customer held
Vendor access
None. Break-glass is dual control and time limited
Site overlays
Per-country camera and processing rules
Model training
Customer templates never train shared models
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Subject rights, and what actually happens.

Each right maps to a mechanism rather than to a process document.

RightMechanismLimit
Access Export of template metadata and full decision history The vector itself is not returned, because disclosing it would create the risk this design prevents
Erasure Tombstone, then destruction of the wrapping key for that person's templates Stored ciphertext becomes permanently unreadable rather than relying on a delete propagating
Portability Metadata export in a structured format Templates are not portable between model versions and are not exported
Objection A recorded objection forces credential-only where the floor permits it Where the floor does not permit it, access is denied and the employer is notified. That is a legal decision, not an engineering override
Rectification Re-enrollment creates a new template set The prior set is tombstoned for a dispute window, then destroyed
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Two questions procurement always asks.

Can the vendor see our data

For biometric templates the answer is architectural rather than contractual. Keys are sealed to your hardware and the escrow shares are held by your custodians, so there is no key path that reaches us.

For operational records in a dedicated deployment, the system runs inside your boundary and we have no standing access. Support access is break-glass, time limited, dual controlled, and logged.

What happens when we leave

The register, tickets, knowledge, and decision history export as structured data. Nothing is held in a proprietary format that requires us to release it.

Biometric templates are destroyed by destroying their wrapping keys, which is verifiable and does not depend on us confirming a deletion ran.

Residency is a deployment fact, not a contractual assurance.

In a dedicated installation your data is in your jurisdiction because the software is running on infrastructure you control, and biometric templates never leave the site that enrolled them regardless of deployment model. That is verifiable by inspection rather than by reading a clause, which is the standard this kind of procurement should hold us to.

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Assurance detail.

Special category by default

Every embedding is treated as special-category data, even in one-to-one use.

Control mapping

Change, access, availability, confidentiality, and monitoring hooks map to standard control families.

No shared training

Customer galleries never contribute to a model shipped elsewhere.

Break-glass

Short-lived certificates under dual control, fully logged.

Retention

Templates until offboarding plus thirty days by default, configurable within a hard maximum.

Incident footage

Off unless a hold is authorised by a human.

Bring the door onto the same epoch as the laptop.

We will walk you through a live portal, a compiled policy pack, and a revocation that closes the turnstile and locks the screen while you watch.