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Legal Notice
& Policies

The terms below govern access to and use of this website and the information it provides. They are drafted to apply, severably, under the laws of any jurisdiction in which this site is accessed.

Last updated · 2026 · Vienna · Washington D.C. · Rome

01Imprint & Operator

This website is published by the KGD — Holy Church of Jesus Christ, Embassy ("the Embassy", "we", "us"), an institution maintaining three seats of equal standing at Vienna, Austria; Washington, D.C., United States; and Rome, Italy. Formal correspondence may be addressed to the Office of the Secretariat at the Embassy's registered seats.

Responsibility for content rests with the Office of the Secretariat. Where any statutory imprint, impressum or disclosure obligation applies in a given jurisdiction, this section is intended to satisfy it; specific registration particulars are available on lawful request.

02Acceptance of Terms

By accessing this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, you should not use the site. We may revise these terms at any time; continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

03Use of the Website

04No Warranty & Limitation of Liability

The website is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Embassy shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of, or inability to use, this website. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

05Intellectual Property

All text, design, graphics, marks, seals and the arrangement thereof are the property of the Embassy or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. The "Mastercard" name and marks shown in product illustrations are the property of Mastercard International Incorporated and are used for illustrative purposes only. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works without prior written permission, save as permitted by mandatory law.

06Privacy & Data Protection

We respect the privacy of every visitor and process personal data lawfully, fairly and transparently. Our practices are designed to meet the standards of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and comparable frameworks worldwide, on a "highest-standard-applies" basis.

07Cookies & Local Storage

This site is designed to function without non-essential tracking cookies. Where any storage is used, it is limited to what is strictly necessary for the site to operate or to remember a preference you have set. You can control storage through your browser settings.

08External Links

The site may link to third-party websites that we do not control. We are not responsible for their content, policies, or practices. Following external links is at your own discretion and risk.

09Accessibility

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA and to improve continuously. If you encounter a barrier, please notify the Office of the Secretariat so we can address it.

10Governing Law, Severability & Jurisdiction

These terms shall be governed by the laws applicable at the Embassy's seat of Vienna and, where relevant to United States access, those applicable at Washington, D.C., without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections of your place of residence. Where any provision is held invalid or unenforceable in a given jurisdiction, that provision shall be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force. This clause is intended to preserve the validity of these terms under the law of any jurisdiction in which the site is accessed.

11Contact

Questions concerning this notice may be directed to the Office of the Secretariat of the Embassy. A dedicated contact channel is being established and will be published here.

12KGD FIN — Regulatory Status

KGD FIN is a product concept in development. KGD is not a bank, credit institution, or licensed electronic-money institution, and does not currently accept deposits, issue cards, or provide payment services. Any future services will be provided through duly licensed and regulated partner institutions, and this page will be updated to identify them. Card visuals, numbers, IBANs and BICs shown on this site are specimens for illustration only and cannot be used for payments. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer, solicitation, or financial advice. The "Mastercard" marks belong to Mastercard International Incorporated and are used illustratively; no issuing relationship currently exists.

13Accessibility

This site is built to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA. Every page carries a skip link and a main landmark, the navigation and every control work from the keyboard alone, colour contrast is checked against AA at the sizes used, motion respects prefers-reduced-motion, and the full content of every page — including the jurisdiction tables — is readable with JavaScript disabled. If you meet a barrier anywhere on this site, write to the Office of the Secretariat at inquiries@kgd-embassy.org and describe what you were trying to do; we will fix it and reply.

14Image Credits

Hero photograph (Hochkönig) provided by KGD. St. Stephen's Cathedral at sunset — © Anna Saini, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. United States Capitol under golden light — © Serge Melki, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Rome seat shows the apse mosaic of Christ enthroned in the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana, Rome (c. 400), via Wikimedia Commons; the mosaic is in the public domain. The cathedral nave on the Kingdom Citizenship page is likewise via Wikimedia Commons. Images resized, cropped and converted for the web.

Typefaces: Helvetica Neue and Courier New, called from the reader’s own system. This site serves no webfonts and embeds no font files, so it neither copies nor redistributes either typeface; where a system does not carry them, the browser substitutes its own — Helvetica, Arial or the platform equivalent — and the page is designed to hold at those metrics.

On sovereignty and recognition

The Kingdom is sovereign, and seeks the recognition of no state. Sovereignty is what it has; recognition is only what states do about one another.

The Kingdom of God is sovereign in the fullest sense the word carries. Its authority is underived — held from nothing, answerable to nothing above it, older than every jurisdiction now in existence. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me (Matthew 28:18). No state conferred it, none sustains it, and none can diminish or revoke it. It does not become true upon acknowledgement, nor false upon denial.

It is not the sovereignty of a state, and the Kingdom does not claim to be one: no statehood declared, no territory held to the exclusion of any government, no border disputed. Recognition is how states acknowledge one another’s title to a portion of the earth — and the Kingdom claims no portion, its extent being the whole.

No state has recognised it, none is asked to, and were one to extend recognition tomorrow or announce its withdrawal, nothing here would move — not the extent, not the confession, not the Register, not one office of this house, not the standing of a single person within it.

Said of us, it is said wrongly. The Kingdom’s legates carry its commission and its authority; they do not carry a state’s privileges and have no need of them. Nobody is authorised to claim, in our name, a diplomatic status, immunity, accreditation or official standing conferred by any government — nor to claim the withdrawal of what was never sought. Those a receiving state grants, one person at a time and by its own consent; this Kingdom has asked for none. Any such claim is not ours: tell the Secretariat.