The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) Standardized Identity Information User License Agreement (IIULA)

The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many.

When providing identity information and other personal and private information to organizations and entities, it is done contingent upon certain expectations about how that information will be used. It is generally taken completely for granted that the basic rights and guaranteed protections of law afforded to individuals and their identity information will be respected by credible organizations.

The NCIDP has found that this trust is misplaced more often than not.

The Identity Information User License Agreement (IIULA), as the NCIDP has standardized it, puts into legal terms and written legal contract those expectations. It also serves formal notice of the laws to anyone handling the identity information, depriving them of claims of ignorance of those laws and the protections that those laws guarantee.

The IIULA gives notices of the rule of law as applicable across the entire United States, dealing with Federal court case law and other nationally applicable law. State laws may vary and may offer additional protections (which are generically invoked by the IIULA wherever they exist and offer such additional protections), but State laws cannot contravene any of the nationally applicable legal standards noticed in the IIULA. Moreover, the relevant case law is largely well-settled Constitutional law establishing rights that cannot be infringed even by acts of the Federal Congress, and that are significantly protected against all but amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Currently, as a public service we are publishing the IIULA in two forms, a U.S. Standard Version and a special U.S. Survivor's Version. The Standard Version is useful to most individuals, while the special Survivor's Version is useful specifically and only to those surviving extreme violence endangered by the risk or threat of additional violence. More of the history of the IIULA can be found further down this page, below the IIULA links. All prior versions of the IIULA are considered obsolete by the NCIDP, and the currently published versions linked below should be considered governing in all cases of notice by earlier forms or versions of the IIULA, unless specified otherwise by the individual Licensor.

U.S. Standard Version IIULA

IIULA (PDF) v. 00-03c

Special U.S. Survivor's Version IIULA

Special IIULA (PDF) v. S00-03c

The original IIULA notices were a product of our founder's efforts to survive extreme violence and gruesome threats for more. Consequently, the original versions were what we would now call a special survivor's version.

In order to create a "Standard" version applicable to average members of the general public, the entire IIULA had to be rewritten. The original was laced throughout with references to violence and violence survivorship issues, all of which had to be extricated without compromising the integrity of the underlying license agreement. After rewriting to create the Standard version, it was appended with a simple, single addendum regarding violence and survivorship in order to create the new Survivor's version. The result is that both versions are identical in all parts other than the Survivor's Addendum, and both remain true to the original goals, philosophies and effects.

The current versions continue to be updated as needed to incorporate updates to the laws as they occur. Notable changes of law and update in the IIULA since its earliest inception include HIPAA and the Patriot Act.