Terms of Service, Privacy & Confidentiality

The DevolveSphere Barangay Development Plan Formulation and Management System ("BDP-FMS" or the "Platform") is a digital planning and governance support system designed to assist barangays and authorized users in the preparation, organization, analysis, monitoring, documentation, and management of Barangay Development Plans and related planning outputs.

The Platform may support sectoral datasets, situational analysis, Participatory Situational Analysis (PSA), Development Issues Analysis (DIA), organizational philosophy, Programs, Projects and Activities (PPAs), Barangay Development Investment Programming (BDIP), Annual Investment Programming (AIP), Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Capacity Development planning, and related governance documents and reports.

By creating an account, accessing the Platform, or using any BDP-FMS feature, the user acknowledges that they have read, understood, and agreed to comply with these Terms of Service and applicable policies governing use of the Platform.

A user who accesses BDP-FMS on behalf of a barangay, local government unit, organization, or other institution represents that the use is authorized within the scope of their assigned role or official function.

Users must provide accurate registration information and shall use accounts only for legitimate and authorized purposes.

• Users are responsible for safeguarding their usernames, passwords, reset links, and other account credentials.
• Accounts must not be shared with unauthorized persons.
• Users must promptly report suspected unauthorized access or compromise of an account.
• DevolveSphere may apply account verification, administrative approval, institutional validation, payment verification, or other access controls where applicable.
• Access may be restricted or suspended when necessary to protect the Platform, other users, institutional data, or system security.

Users shall use BDP-FMS ethically, lawfully, professionally, and consistently with legitimate barangay planning and governance activities.

Users shall not use the Platform to:

• gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another account, barangay workspace, database, server, or protected system resource;
• intentionally introduce malicious code, disrupt Platform operations, bypass security controls, or interfere with system integrity;
• knowingly falsify, manipulate, or misrepresent governance, planning, financial, demographic, institutional, or monitoring information;
• use information obtained through BDP-FMS for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, discriminatory, or otherwise unauthorized purposes; or
• copy, reverse engineer, circumvent, reproduce, commercially exploit, or improperly distribute protected Platform components except where expressly authorized.

Users and their respective barangays or authorized institutions remain responsible for the accuracy, completeness, legitimacy, and appropriate use of information they encode, upload, validate, approve, or otherwise submit through BDP-FMS.

This includes datasets, PSA records, development issues, PPAs, investment information, monitoring data, narratives, organizational information, resolutions, plans, attachments, and other governance records.

BDP-FMS may process information necessary for account administration, platform operation, planning workflows, technical support, security, and the provision of subscribed or authorized services.

Depending on how a barangay uses the Platform, information entered into BDP-FMS may include personal information or records relating to individuals, households, officials, personnel, stakeholders, or community members.

Users are responsible for ensuring that personal information uploaded or encoded into the Platform is collected, accessed, used, and disclosed with an appropriate lawful basis, authority, and purpose, and in accordance with applicable Philippine data protection requirements, including Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and applicable rules and regulations.

Users shall treat non-public records accessible through BDP-FMS as confidential when their nature, applicable law, official policy, or institutional circumstances reasonably require confidentiality.

Users must not disclose confidential planning information, account information, protected personal information, security information, draft records, restricted documents, or other non-public institutional data to unauthorized persons.

DevolveSphere personnel or authorized technical service providers who require access for legitimate technical administration, maintenance, support, troubleshooting, security, backup, or service delivery should access information only to the extent reasonably necessary for those purposes and subject to appropriate confidentiality and security controls.

Subject to applicable law and institutional authority, governance records and information supplied by a barangay or authorized user remain attributable to the barangay, institution, or lawful source from which those records originate.

Use of BDP-FMS does not, by itself, transfer ownership of barangay-generated governance data to DevolveSphere. DevolveSphere may process, store, transmit, back up, or otherwise handle such information only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, maintain, support, and provide the Platform and its authorized services, subject to applicable contractual and legal requirements.

DevolveSphere may implement technical, administrative, monitoring, access-control, backup, authentication, logging, and other safeguards intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of BDP-FMS and information stored within it.

No digital system can guarantee absolute security. Users therefore share responsibility for protecting information by maintaining secure credentials, controlling authorized access, using trusted devices and networks where practicable, and promptly reporting suspected security incidents.

BDP-FMS may organize user-provided information, apply predefined planning logic, generate recommendations, identify planning issues, prepare tables or narratives, and produce draft or professional planning documents based on available system data and configured workflows.

Users remain responsible for reviewing generated outputs for accuracy, completeness, relevance, consistency with local conditions, and compliance with applicable planning, budgeting, governance, and approval requirements before official use.

Unless otherwise expressly stated or governed by a separate written agreement, the BDP-FMS software, source code, system architecture, interface design, proprietary planning logic, workflows, software components, documentation, templates, branding, graphics, automation mechanisms, and related proprietary materials remain the intellectual property of DevolveSphere Management Consultancy Services or their respective lawful owners.

Access to or subscription to BDP-FMS grants only the right to use the Platform within the applicable authorized scope. It does not transfer ownership of the software or grant a right to reproduce, modify, reverse engineer, resell, sublicense, redistribute, or commercially exploit protected Platform components without written authorization.

Access to certain BDP-FMS functions may depend on an active subscription, license, authorized service arrangement, account approval, or other applicable conditions.

DevolveSphere may perform maintenance, security updates, feature improvements, infrastructure changes, or emergency technical work that may temporarily affect Platform availability. Reasonable efforts may be made to maintain reliable service, but uninterrupted or error-free operation cannot be guaranteed at all times.

DevolveSphere may restrict, suspend, or terminate Platform access when reasonably necessary because of serious or repeated violations of these Terms, unauthorized access, security threats, fraudulent activity, misuse of the Platform, expiration of applicable service rights, or other circumstances requiring protection of the system or its users.

Where appropriate and practicable, affected users or institutions may be informed of the reason for the restriction and any available corrective action.

BDP-FMS is intended to support—not replace—the professional judgment, participatory processes, statutory responsibilities, deliberations, and official decision-making of barangay officials, planning bodies, local government personnel, and other authorized institutions.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, DevolveSphere shall not be responsible for governance, financial, administrative, policy, procurement, budgeting, planning, implementation, or other decisions resulting from inaccurate or incomplete user data, unauthorized use, failure to review generated outputs, improper interpretation, or use of BDP-FMS outside its intended purpose.

BDP-FMS may evolve through new planning modules, workflow improvements, security enhancements, technical upgrades, reporting capabilities, integrations, and other features intended to improve the Platform.

These Terms may also be revised when reasonably necessary to reflect changes in Platform functionality, service arrangements, security practices, legal requirements, or governance policies. Material revisions should be communicated through appropriate Platform or institutional channels.

Users who have questions concerning these Terms, account access, Platform security, privacy, confidentiality, or the handling of information within BDP-FMS should communicate with DevolveSphere through its official support or administrative channels.

Privacy or security concerns involving a barangay should also be brought to the attention of the appropriate barangay or institutional authority when the concern relates to information collected, encoded, validated, or managed by that institution.