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Binding clauses 9 cannot be removed
The parties agree that a “Box” is any information that can locate, identify, reconstruct or infer someone’s real identity — legal name, contact details, home address, employer, social accounts, photographs, voice, whereabouts, purchase history, or any fragment that could be combined with others to do the same. A Box does not have to be complete. A single fragment is a Box.
Whatever the parties already knew about each other before signing is a Box too. It is not “already out there”; it is “protected all the same”.
This treaty has exactly one purpose: that no party passes on another party’s Box to a third party.
This treaty does not govern anything the parties do between themselves. Sharing, trading, discussing or doing things together among the signatories is entirely outside its scope, and creates no confidentiality duty between them. In short: what happens between you is yours; this treaty is only about telling other people.
Without the Box-holder’s explicit consent, no party may pass on another party’s Box to any third party in any form — by speaking, retelling, forwarding, screenshotting, saving, filing, implying — including while drunk, half asleep, or on an anonymous account.
“Third party” means mutual friends, relatives, colleagues, other members of a group chat, and anyone who is not in the room.
When a third party asks about someone else’s Box, a party shall stay diplomatic: “no idea”, “we are not that close”, “ask someone else”. No pause, smile, glance or drawn-out “hmm” may be used to confirm anything in substance.
A Box is not currency. No party may trade a Box for another Box, for information, for a favour, for attention, or for one bubble tea. There is no exchange rate between Boxes.
Parties shall take reasonable technical precautions so that a Box cannot leak to a third party: not storing it in shared documents or public albums, not importing it into contacts and letting it sync to the cloud, not pasting chat logs containing it into group chats.
The following do not count as passing something on: (a) the law requires it; (b) it is necessary to protect life or safety; (c) the Box-holder has published it themselves.
A party relying on an exception shall inform the others within seventy-two hours.
This treaty takes effect when every party has signed, and lasts until the agreed term expires or it is ended as agreed. Ending the treaty does not end the duty not to tell third parties.
The obligations under this treaty are independent between parties. An understanding, an exception or a breach between any two parties does not reduce the protection the others enjoy, and does not license passing on anyone else’s Box.
No party may argue that a leak was implicitly permitted because “someone else said it too”. Consent has to be explicit.
Additional clauses 17 ticked one by one while drafting
Once proper blurring is applied (pixelation, pitch-shift, silhouette), a party may use the other’s likeness, voice or catchphrases to make memes and circulate them inside a group chat that all parties belong to. Outside that group, this clause does not apply.
A party may refer to the other as “a friend of mine” in front of third parties, but may not add any qualifier that makes them searchable — “a friend of mine who works at X” is not allowed.
Anything said while clearly over the limit does not count as a deliberate leak, but the party must apologise within twenty-four hours of sobering up and buy dinner.
A party may mention the other’s existence and general situation to immediate family, at three levels of detail only: “they are fine”, “they are at work”, “they seem nice”.
Where the nature of the relationship must be explained, a party may tell a current partner what kind of relationship it was — without details, without judgement, without comparison.
In a multi-party treaty, parties may address each other by nickname in the group chat they all share. This clause does not apply anywhere else, and group members may not carry anything said there outside the group.
A party may cite the other’s achievements and titles at work, in interviews or in introductions, provided they are told in advance and nothing is exaggerated into obvious nonsense.
Any accidental spoken mention may be retracted within twenty-four hours. Bystanders are then obliged to help forget it. If they fail, see the penalties section.
A party may let the other see their delivery addresses, usual drop-off points and courier ratings. This is a voluntary partial opening of one’s own Box, and does not waive any other clause of this treaty.
Parties may follow, like, comment on and tag each other publicly. This does not authorise disclosing addresses, employers or other core details, nor does it authorise telling anyone else.
On an agreed anniversary a party may post a photo together (faces of non-parties must be covered) with a caption of no more than thirty characters.
Ending this treaty in any manner does not end the duty of silence towards outsiders. A Box keeps longer than a friendship.
Any party may withdraw for any reason or none, but must tell the others within seventy-two hours. Withdrawing is not a falling-out, and does not release anyone from staying silent about the others’ Boxes.
When pressed and stuck, a party may use the standard repertoire: “Huh?”, “Really?”, “No idea”, “Who told you that?”. Using this clause is not lying.
A multi-party treaty may be drafted and signed inside a group chat that all parties belong to. The process, the title and the list of parties are visible to that group and do not count as a leak — but every member of that group owes the same silence, and may not repeat the treaty or the parties’ details outside it.
Inside a social circle that all parties belong to, they may refer to each other in vague terms — “a friend”, “someone I hang out with” — as long as no names, employers, addresses or other specifics are given.
When several parties are present, none of them may treat someone else’s silence as permission to disclose their Box. Consent must be explicit; silence is only silence.
Penalties 13 or write your own
Buy the other party one large bubble tea — less ice, toppings of their choosing — delivered on the spot. “Next time” does not count as payment.
Read this entire treaty aloud in the other party’s presence, at no less than normal speaking volume. Video required as evidence.
Serve as the other party’s morning alarm for seven days straight. No more than five minutes off schedule. If dismissed, call again immediately.
Post whatever the other party writes, three days in a row. No audience restrictions, no deletions, no added explanation.
Buy the other party dinner. They choose the restaurant.
Perform something on the spot, at least ninety seconds long. “I can’t do anything” is not an acceptable answer.
Write at least three hundred words in praise of the other party and post it in a group you both belong to. It must be sincere. Copy-pasting is forbidden.
Play support for the other party in a game of their choosing for one week. Come when called. Do not idle. Do not complain.
The other party may leave “I was wrong” under any post of yours, and you may not delete it.
For one year from the breach, you may not refuse three reasonable requests from the other party in a row.
Compensate with something of equivalent value, chosen by the other party.
The breaching party must accept three additional clauses of the other party’s choosing without negotiating.
Post an apology in the group chat all parties share and @ the wronged party. It may not be withdrawn, deleted, or limited to a smaller audience.
Applies to：both · two-person only · multi-party only
A last word
This treaty has no legal effect and is not trying to have one. Its entire value is this: the moment you send the link, the other person actually ticks every box and types their name, the two of you have manufactured a small, solemn joke.
If you genuinely need legal protection, talk to a lawyer, not to us.