Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 23, 2022
Changes to the previous Privacy Policy can be reviewed at our git instance.

Brief overview

Our .ORG website is aimed at all those who wish to maintain their privacy in their OWN home and to save money. It is a free conversation / consultation and tutorial platform to achieve the goal.

We also provide some free privacy online services.

• https://chat.techsaviours.org - Matrix web chat
• https://searx.techsaviours.org - Search engine
• https://git.techsaviours.org - Gitea instance
• https://meet.techsaviours.org - Jitsi instance
• https://piped.techsaviours.org - Piped instance
• https://wiki.techsaviours.org - Wiki (Tutorials/Guide)
• DNSCrypt - Anonymizes communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver

(If a service is not yet listed above but is already available, please do not enter it or use it if you do not trust our service. Wait until the privacy policy is updated!)

More detailed information

Our main website address is here at:
https://techsaviours.org

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Cookies

https://techsaviours.org
https://techsaviours.org/news
https://piped.techsaviours.org

We don't use any cookies at our main, news & piped domain/service.

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https://searx.techsaviours.org

We don't use any cookies at searx.techsaviours.org but only if you're using the default options.
If you change the "preferences - https://searx.techsaviours.org/preferences" we have to save cookies on your PC. Otherwise, you have to change the option every time.
What we saving is listed at " https://searx.techsaviours.org/preferences - cookie" (after saving the new settings). So, even if you change some options we don't track you or save any data from you.

The list below is showing what kind of cookies are necessary for your new settings.

1. results_on_new_tab
2. doi_resolver
3. language
4. locale
5. disabled_plugins
6. image_proxy
7. autocomplete
8. safesearch
9. theme
10. enabled_plugins
11. disabled_engines
12. enabled_engines
13. method
14. categories
15. oscar-style

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https://git.techsaviours.org

Gitea needs the following cookies:

 

Without registration:

{session-cookie:lang}

{session-cookie:i_like_gitea}

{session-cookie:_csrf}

 

With registration:

{localStorage}

{session-cookie:lang}

{session-cookie:i_like_gitea}

{session-cookie:_csrf}

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https://wiki.techsaviours.org

The wiki needs the following cookie:

{session-cookie:DokuWiki}

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Matrix users

If you use the TECH SAVIOURS Matrix instance, the Administrator/s does have access to:

• Synapse stores your IP address that you last used to connect to our servers. We delete this after 24 hours (It doesn't get any lower than that).
• Your email address, attached to your account (email verification).
• The plain text file name of attachments you send (the data itself is encrypted, and we cannot view any of your encrypted data).
• Any plain text data that you exchange on the TECH SAVIOURS instance.
• The data we have access to is no different to that of any other Matrix instance that you might use.

https://chat.techsaviours.org (element)

Chat needs the following cookie:

{localStorage}

Analytics

We do not use any analytic tools.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site, news and services may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Provider for domain and server

Our website https://techsaviours.org and all our services are hosted by Netcup - Germany.
Netcup – Privacy Policy

Our emails are hosted at TECH SAVIOURS .ONLINE (Privacy Policy) by Hetzner - Germany.
Hetzner – Privacy Policy

Our domain is from namecheap.com.
Namecheap – Privacy Policy

Additional information

How we protect your data

Our devices, which we’re sending, writing to you with your personal details (email traffic, text, questions etc.) are encrypted. That means, if someone steal or if we loose our devices it’ll be hard for everyone to get access to our data/your data. We’re using Linux at our Desktop devices which are encrypted with LUKS. And we’re using Andorid and Linux Phones which are encrypted as well and free of Google with Open Source Software. If we’re using proprietary software they’re blocked with a firewall or hasn’t any internet aspiration.

The servers are also encrypted with LUKS.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.