# What are organisations An organisation in Clarify is a party, network, or authority (for example a party head office, a peak body, or a regulator) that needs to see threats and bad actors across **many** workspaces at once, not one Page at a time. With each workspace's permission, an organisation gets a read-only view that collates the flagged accounts, coordinated groups, and cases those workspaces already hold.  **Organisation accounts are free.** There is no plan to choose, no trial, and no billing on the organisation side. You only pay for Clarify moderation **workspaces**; running or joining an organisation costs nothing. ## Two worlds, one login Clarify has two sides, and a single account can use either: - **A Clarify workspace** is where you moderate a Page: the Social Stream, threats, cases, and publishing. This is the paid side. - **The organisation portal** is the read-only oversight view across the workspaces that have connected to your organisation. This is the free side. You can belong to one or both. If you have both, a **Org portal** button appears in your workspace sidebar, and an **Exit to Clarify workspace** link appears in the organisation portal, so you can move between them. ## The rules that keep it safe Organisations are built as a careful, audited exception to Clarify's usual rule that nothing is ever shared between workspaces. So they are governed by a few promises: - **You opt in.** An organisation sees nothing of your workspace until you, the workspace owner, accept a connection link they send you. See [Connecting your workspace to an organisation](https://clarify.net.au/help/connecting-your-workspace-to-an-organisation). - **Read-only.** An organisation can never hide, reply, mute, or change anything in your workspace. It can only look. - **Revocable at any time.** You can cut an organisation's access from [Settings > Organisations](https://clarify.net.au/settings/organisations) with one click, and their view of your workspace ends immediately. - **Only public comment data.** Everything an organisation sees is data your workspace already holds about public comments. It is a collation feature, not a new form of data collection. ## Getting an organisation - **Create one (free).** At sign-up choose **Create an organisation**, or from an existing account go to [Settings > Organisations](https://clarify.net.au/settings/organisations) and choose **Create an organisation**. - **Join one.** Organisation membership is invite-only. An admin sends you an invite link; opening it and signing in adds you as a member. Next: [Connecting your workspace to an organisation](https://clarify.net.au/help/connecting-your-workspace-to-an-organisation) and [The organisation portal](https://clarify.net.au/help/the-organisation-portal).