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Privacy Policy

This section is still being developed. Here are the basic working set of notices (last compiled 2 Sept 2002):

  • Important: Although I myself can offer some assertions about how I will treat your info here there is a lot more to your connection to this site than you or I. Therefore what I say here about privacy is very limited.

    "Don't believe privacy policy statements; none are trustworthy, for they are deceptive cloaks of insecure systems. The stronger the privacy statement the weaker the security of the information."

    John Young, Cryptome.org
    as stated at http://cryptome.org/sec-con.htm

  • The Meyda project itself does not seek to collect personally identifiable information about its visitors. It does not share information about visitors with others for marketing or other commercial purposes.

    The Web servers run by a commercial Web hosting service do log visits tot his site. (For an example of the things that Web servers in general can log, go to http://privacy.net/analyze/.)

  • If you send me any e-mail, you are disclosing some things about your e-mail address and how you connect to the Internet.

    This project doesn't disclose privately addressed emails to other parties without the sender's permission or a special circumstantial necessity. (E.g.; a matter of life or death; overt crimes such as traffic in child pornography.) Use your discretion in what you send out in any email.

    For those who can and do use PGP encryption, my PGP public key is available on this Web site. Realize the PGP does not 100% guarantee private communications. (See the PGP section of the site to learn more.)

  • But this site can say these things concerning privacy only about its end of the Internet connections.

    There are many systems in between us that may handle things differently. (For the way another site explains such risks, see the Privacy warning at http://jya.com/sitesec.htm.) Over time, this site will show some of things that can affect your privacy on the Internet.

  • In the recent years, legislation and other measures have changed significantly in the USA, UK, and other parts of the world. Depending upon the part of the world you're in and the route your Internet connection takes, the changes will impact the degree of legal and practice privacy that you have.

J.D. Abolins <jabolins@meydaonline.com>