if Ruck is sold or shut down

Ruck can be sold. Ruck can close down. Neither can be done in a way that breaks the rules or mishandles your data. These provisions are being finalized in the amended Articles.

a sale

If Ruck’s shares are sold, even a controlling stake, the constitution and the Golden Share go with the company. The new owner inherits every rule and the veto intact, and can no more break them than the current owner. Ordinary share sales need no one’s permission.

What needs consent is a sale or transfer of Ruck’s business itself, the app, data, and brand, to another company, or a merger that would move it out of the locked entity. Consent is given only if the receiving company is legally bound to the same rules and the same veto, on terms that survive the deal, bind whoever runs it next, come with evidence they can honor them, and include notice to users. A buyer that will not accept that does not get the business.

a wind-up

A wind-up needs consent, given only if user data is securely deleted, or transferred with each user’s explicit consent to a successor bound by the same rules. Sensitive data, anything about health or identity, is never handed to a buyer.

insolvency

If Ruck becomes insolvent, control passes to an administrator whose duty is to creditors, and the veto has little force. This is the one case it cannot fully govern. What remains is the data-deletion obligation and data-protection law, which apply whoever is in control.

the point

The Foundation guards the rules and your data, not Ruck’s existence. Ruck can change hands or close. It cannot be turned against you on the way out.