# Introduction

## What is Quae?

Quae is a community voting platform, allowing any organization to democratize themselves however they see fit. Dynamic Governance allows any organization to automate complex voting procedures all while utilizing the power of the modern web.

## What is our goal?

We are seeking to establish the first global service that allows anyone, anywhere in the world to democratize their organization. Using the power of industry standard web security, we can secure all online voting to make sure every vote is real. Not only will we ensure authentic votes, but we will create an entirely new economy rewarding proposal writers for their service to the community.

Voting Every Day will empower people to not have to wait for term limits to end in order to have an impact on the community around them. They will be able to see democratic change happen on the same day they release their proposal.


# The Global Community

The *Global Community* allows you to communicate with all Quae members through polls, proposals, initiatives, and discussions.

The purpose is to bring the entire world together through the stats and information gathered through the Quae platform.


# Communities

### Create <a href="#communities" id="communities"></a>

Create your own Quae Community by providing a *name* and *bio*.

### Invitations <a href="#sub-communities" id="sub-communities"></a>

Search for members to invite by name, email, or phone number.

### Accept / Decline <a href="#accept--decline" id="accept--decline"></a>

Through the profile inbox, you may accept or decline these invitations.

You are also given a preview of the initiative/community you’ve been invited to.


# Profile

### **Profile Settings** <a href="#profile-completion" id="profile-completion"></a>

1. Edit your name
2. Edit your bio
3. Edit your profile picture

### Emails <a href="#sub-emails" id="sub-emails"></a>

Add multiple emails that are linked to a school or workplace to gain access to domain-accessible communities.

### Verification <a href="#address" id="address"></a>

Get verified online for $5 or in-person for free at one of Quae's verification events. [Join the mailing list](https://quae.app/pages/join_verification/) to receive updates on where the Quae team will be next.

### Phone <a href="#phone" id="phone"></a>

Your mobile phone number adds a layer of security to your account.

* Using this phone number you may change your password to gain access to your account.

### Blocked Users <a href="#blocked-users" id="blocked-users"></a>

Block any user so that their posts will be hidden from your feed.

### Support Users <a href="#blocked-users" id="blocked-users"></a>

Support any user to grow their influence across the communities you share.


# Posts

### Sections <a href="#sections" id="sections"></a>

* Title
  * The prompt for your post
* Description
  * A quick summary of the rest of your post
* Image
  * An image that will be visible on the feed, allowing for better emphasis on an idea, and grabbing more readers' attention.
* Options
  * All votable scenarios presented in your poll
* Document
  * Write a detailed document with multiple blocks of information to argue for a change in your community.
  * Using block-style editing, you are able to format this proposal however you may like

### Blocks <a href="#blocks" id="blocks"></a>

1. Headings
   * Title certain sections with various sized headings
2. Text
   * Include paragraph-style text anywhere in your document.
   * Inline tools
     1. Link
        * Add a link to a specific word or field of text
     2. Bold
     3. Underlined
     4. Italic
     5. Highlight
     6. Code
        * Include a code snippet within your text
3. List: Include a bulleted list of information
   * Use ordered numbers
   * Or use unordered bullet points
4. Table: Include a table of information with multiple rows and columns
   * Use headings for each column
   * Or go without headings
5. Quote: Include a formatted quote from a speaker, author, etc.


# Comments

Using comments, you may communicate with people as well as directly reply to other comments.

* These messages should be used to discuss or build ideas underneath the respective document.


# Ethical Data Usage

Quae promises to be a part of the ethical-data-usage movements, never compromising our users' sensitive data for profit.

Quae promises to never compromise a user's data.

Our platform will offer aggregated data to any user willing to subscribe. This subscription service will allow users to see opted-into demographic data on their supporters and the votes received on their posts. This is especially useful to those looking to understand their community's issues more deeply to get a better grasp on how they can better solve share problems.


# Data Security

We encrypt end-to-end meaning that user data can only ever be accessed by that user's credentials.

Demographic data on votes is stored at that moment, meaning that as a user makes their vote, a snapshot of their information is remembered. This prevents any subscribed user from being able to use our data aggregation as a means to pinpoint a user's data types.


# Vote Security

Vote decisions can never be accessed by anyone other than the user. Credentials make this possible by providing a user a token that they can use to access their sensitive data.

In the future, we plan to securely store votes completely separate from user information as an option for users who do not wish to remember their decision, further preventing anyone from being able to access your votes.