Imprint and legal notice

The operator of this site

Purpose Source Association
Association (Verein) under Art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB)
Seat: Aarau, canton of Aargau, Switzerland
Founded: October 2026

Postal address, also for legal service:
Purpose Source Association
Altstadtbüro
Zollrain 2
5000 Aarau
Switzerland

The address is a business address held for the Association by the Altstadtbüro Aarau; for the commercial register the same address is written “c/o Altstadtbüro Alimentavera, Zollrain 2, 5000 Aarau”. Legal correspondence also reaches the Association at legal@purposesource.org.

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 Paddle (Paddle.com Market Ltd; Paddle.com Inc. for buyers in the United States; Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd. for buyers in Canada), our merchant of record, which is the supplier to the purchaser for VAT purposes.
Tax status	No public-benefit tax-exemption application is made at founding. One request to the Aargau tax administration asks it to confirm that Purpose Fees passed on within 30 days to the recipients on the published Recipient List, in the published shares, are booked as pass-through (Durchlaufposten), the retained shares (the capped running costs, people included, and the reserve retention) being ordinary income — asked, never assumed; the answer publishes on the Trust Center whatever it says. If the office refuses, Purpose Fees are ordinary income and the tax publishes as its own line in the month it is assessed; no page claims pass-through before the answer. The Association does not describe itself as tax-exempt.

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; and any further members the general assembly elects. At founding the board is the two founders, as president and treasurer. The board keeps published which of its members are paid and who holds interests in registered projects, recipients, payers or processors (Art. 18). Persons are named here on publication of the register entry. The conflicts rules are published now.

Contact

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns.

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 — payments, receipts and refunds also through Paddle at paddle.net

Telephone, for purchases and billing: +41 58 788 01 22. Email is the quickest way to reach us.

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.