Family authority

Support a student without inheriting the student.

Four relationship types

A role is not a bundle of every permission.

Each card states the boundary before the action. The complete purpose matrix is available on the role-comparison page.

guardian6 possible purposes

Guardian relationship

A parent may use this route, but parent audience language does not itself establish guardian authority.

Parent-safe progress requires an active OS21 guardian relationship and active OS21 consent. Claiming an invitation is not enough.

payer5 possible purposes

Payer relationship

A payer may receive only the billing, receipt, refund, affordability and support purposes explicitly granted by the student.

Paying for a product never grants academic visibility, guardian authority or access to private student work.

sponsor4 possible purposes

Sponsor relationship

A sponsor may support a purchase and receive explicitly granted billing or receipt visibility.

A sponsor cannot receive refund visibility or parent-safe progress through the current APP5 contract.

support contact2 possible purposes

Support-contact relationship

A support contact may help with a support or affordability workflow when that purpose is explicitly active.

A support contact cannot see billing receipts, refund status, academic progress or private student evidence.

Relationship controls

Invite once. Grant narrowly. Revoke deliberately.

The raw invitation bearer is shared out of band. The website does not collect a phone number, email address or invitation token.

Invitation

Seven days by default

APP5 invitations are claim-once, expire after a bounded period and store only a token digest in the relationship ledger.

Maximum requested expiry: 30 days.

Multi-child boundary

One student relationship at a time

A relationship for one student does not infer visibility, billing authority or consent for another child.

Cross-child visibility inferred: no.

Revocation

Derived access must stop

Student-owned revocation removes relationship-derived purposes. A revoked relationship or checkout responsibility is not silently reopened.

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No private data is needed to understand the route.