Confidentiality Declarations

Peer mentors who perform driver or escort duties on behalf of contacts handle sensitive personal information and are subject to confidentiality obligations under Norwegian privacy law. Capturing digital declarations removes ambiguity about whether a peer mentor was informed of their obligations, providing legal protection for the organisation in the event of a complaint or audit. For Blindeforbundet, driver honoraria are conditional on a signed declaration, making this a prerequisite for processing certain expense claims. A digital audit trail of signed declarations also simplifies GDPR accountability documentation for org admins.

The Declaration Screen renders the declaration text fetched from the organisation's configuration (stored in organisation_settings or a dedicated declarations table). The peer mentor must scroll to the bottom of the text before the accept button becomes active, preventing uninformed acceptance. On acceptance, the Declaration Service posts a signed record to the REST API, which stores it with a UTC timestamp and a reference to the user, organisation, and linked activity or assignment. The admin portal surfaces declaration status per peer mentor. For organisations requiring wet signatures in future, the architecture allows extension to a signature-pad widget without breaking existing acceptance flows. WCAG considerations include sufficient colour contrast on the accept button and a keyboard-navigable scroll region.