{"id":37285,"date":"2022-08-09T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fidodev.wpengine.com\/?page_id=37285"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:45:09","slug":"metadata-legal-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/metadata-legal-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"MDS Legal Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To preserve the rights and limit the liabilities of all parties using the MDS, especially FIDO as the MDS<br>provider, various legal agreements apply to the parties and legal headers must be placed in the BLOB<br>and each Metadata Statement. The three legal agreements are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Agreement<\/strong><br>Metadata Submission Terms (for Authenticator Vendors): <a href=\"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/metadata-submission-terms-for-authenticator-vendors-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HTML<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MetadataSubmissionTerms_MDS3_approved20200130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a><br>Metadata Usage Terms (for Developers): <a href=\"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/metadata-usage-terms-for-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HTML<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MetadataUsageDeveloperTerms_Revised_MDS3_08020222.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a><br>Metadata Usage Terms (for Relying Parties or Service Providers): <a href=\"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/metadata-usage-terms-for-relying-parties-or-service-providers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HTML<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MetadataUsageRP-SPTerms_Revised_MDS3_approved20200130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Metadata Submission Terms (for Authenticator Vendors) will be agreed to by the Authentication<br>Vendor when registering to be a vendor that can submit Metadata Statements to the MDS. Developers<br>will be put on notice of the Metadata Usage Terms by the section of the Specifications that define the<br>legal header, by the inclusion of the legal header in every BLOB and Metadata Statement and by various webpages and their development of software and continued use of the MDS will indicate assent to the terms. Relying Parties and Service Providers and anyone else using the MDS will be put on notice of the Metadata Usage Terms (for Relying Parties or Service Providers) by the Developers, by the section of the Specifications that the legal header and by the inclusion of the legal header in every BLOB and Metadata Statement and their continued usage of the MDS will indicate assent to the terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To preserve the rights and limit the liabilities of all parties using the MDS, especially FIDO as the MDSprovider, various legal agreements apply to the parties and legal headers must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"content-type":[],"class_list":["post-37285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidoalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=37285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}