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Privacy
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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Server location is in Norway. It's a small company that specializes in email hosting and it's fully owned by their emplyees.
Here's a summary of their privacy policy:
-Norwegian ShieldAll your Runbox email is privacy protected because our servers are located in Norway, and 1. Runbox strictly adheres to the Norwegian privacy legislation.
-Runbox protects your data against disclosure with our procedure to require a Norwegian court order before any data can be disclosed.
-Any foreign nation requesting disclosure of data must send a formal request via diplomatic channels to Norwegian authorities, to which Runbox responds with a request for a court order.
-Norwegian surveillance authorities are not allowed to access transferred electronic messages without a court order.
-Under Norwegian legislation, Runbox is ordinarily not required to retain any traffic logs, and is permitted to delete your data if you ask us to.
-To protect your privacy even further, Runbox does NOT use Google Analytics or any other third-party tracking of our customers’ usage. We never use data or traffic information for any other purpose than anonymous statistics in order to improve our services and our system’s performance. Our service is absolutely ad-free, and we do not share or sell your personal details to anyone.
They strive to be as transparent as possible and everyone can read their public Privacy Transparency Report.