STATUTORY GOVERNANCE • IRISH LAW

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Official terms of service, GDPR Article 9 special category pediatric safeguards, cookie disclosures, and NIST FIPS 203 cryptographic architectures.

1. Master Terms & Conditions of Service

Governing Law: These terms are executed under the laws of Ireland and align with Department of Education Circular 0010/2013 for sanctioned assistive technology equipment.

1. Provision of Assistive Communication Technology

TapTile AAC Ireland ("the Company") provides specialized hardware tablets, laser-cut acrylic keyguards, and cloud-synchronized assistive speech software to non-verbal children, schools, and health care providers across Ireland.

2. Equipment Ownership & Circular 0010/2013 Transferability

Under Department of Education Circular 0010/2013, assistive technology equipment funded via NCSE Form 3 sanctions remains the property of the school authority for the educational benefit of the sanctioned pupil. When a pupil transitions between primary, post-primary, or special school settings, equipment transfers with the student upon notification to the SENO.

3. Software Licensing & Updates

TapTile software is provided under a perpetual educational license per sanctioned tablet, including offline neural voice synthesis, symbol updates, and clinical telemetry sync for the operational life of the device.

2. GDPR Article 9 Clinical Privacy Shield

Pediatric Health Data Protection: Pupil speech telemetry and clinical vocabulary usage constitute Special Category Data under EU GDPR Article 9(2)(h) (health and social care provision).

1. Zero-Knowledge Offline Telemetry

All spoken phrases and touch-coordinate telemetry recorded on TapTile tablets are processed locally on the physical device. Telemetry transmitted to our central database is pseudonymized, Merkle-tree hashed, and never shared with third-party advertising networks.

2. Data Retention & Erasure

Parents and legal guardians retain the absolute statutory right to request complete data extraction or cryptographic erasure of their child's motor planning and vocabulary telemetry at any time.

3. Cookie & Storage Transparency Policy

1. Essential Functional Cookies Only

TapTile AAC strictly utilizes zero tracking or third-party marketing cookies. Our platform utilizes purely functional session tokens (`taptalk_auth_token`, `sov_nav_state`) required to authenticate authorized therapists, school staff, and parents.

2. Local Storage Usage

Device preferences (such as speech board layout, high contrast CVI mode, and menu collapsed state) are stored entirely in your local browser storage (`localStorage`) and never transmitted across external ad trackers.

4. Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Security Specs

1. NIST FIPS 203 Level-5 PQC Defense

All administrative and clinical communication tunnels are protected using ML-KEM-1024 (Module-Lattice Key Encapsulation) and ML-DSA-87 digital signatures, ensuring complete mathematical defense against harvest-now-decrypt-later quantum attacks.

2. Zero-Trust Architecture

Adheres to NIST SP 800-207 microsegmentation standards with strict role-based access control (RBAC) isolating SuperAdmin, Admin, SLT, and Parent data partitions.