The HAT Community Foundation (HCF) is established as a company limited by guarantee (a for-profit, non-stock enterprise with no beneficial ownership), acting as an impartial and legitimate non-statutory regulator responsible for the “regulation of a digital exchange for the exchange of personal information for the public benefit”. Its role therefore is to ensure that the commercial interest of Dataswift and ecosystem applications are balanced with those of PDS owners in accordance with the original HAT research project goals for data privacy, ownership, visibility, value, and control.