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Privacy
About Auranos.org
Auranos.org is a provider of "Software as a Service" (SaaS). As part of our service we share the data of our associates according to their own deliberation. In order to provide the service we provide we neccessarily collect information regarding our associates accounts with the various platforms in their cluster. We absolutely do not share the private data of our associates which have been entrusted to our protection. Any law enforcement agencies seeking such information will be required to have a court order in their favour from the Sheriff of Lanark, Scotland before any of the information of our associates will be shared. Under no other circumstances will the private data of our associates be provided to any party.
Protecting your Privacy
It is the responsibility of Auranos.org to protect your privacy in regards to any information that may be acquired from you.
The information we collect falls into four categories.
The least secured category of information is the content that your create and opt to share across your cluster of platforms. Due to the nature and purpose of this data, we neccessarily share it but only with the websites that are within your own deliberated cluster of websites you wish to share that data with.
There may be some content that you upload or create on auranos.org that you do not wish to share to other platforms. In these circumstances we will not share this data until you agree that the content is to be published.
In order to access the website as an associate, able to share your content to the various websites in your cluster, you must provide some credentials for each of the platforms in your cluster. This information will be treated as strictly private and will never be shared.
To use the website, an associate needs a username and a password so as to protect their own assets on the Auranos website as their own unique belongings. This information will not be shared and to the best of our ability we will collect this information at account creation time with the view that each of our associates should be able to be anonymous while using our website avoiding the use of gmail or other services known to have data privacy issues for our members. We believe that freedom of expression is at the current time best guaranteed by those who would infringe upon free speech being unable to determine who it was that said something. While the nature of the software in regards to its cluster post mechanisms to third party websites makes this philosophy to some considerable extent redundant, we believe that employing this philosophy at the current could potentially prove useful should the internet resolve to its more freedom of expression style beginnings.
There is a fifth category of data which we have left out simply because we do not collect this data, albeit that it may appear that we are doing so. This data is your bank details or credit card information. We employ a third party to carry out financial transactions on our behalf. At the current time, the third party is likely paypal but we are considering the use of Stripe as a more convenient means of doing this.
The way we have integrated this third party facility into our website may make it appear that you are communicating directly with the website in regards to any payments you make to us but in reality you interact directly with the paywall providers software in a way that merely appears to be part of our software. In short, we are not the ones collecting this information but of course we do have access to the data that the paywall provider gives us so that we can honour our agreement to fulfill whatever it is you are paying for.
Auranos.org will not disclose any information to third parties without your deliberate affirmative request that we do so. That is to say that there is an expectation that we will share the content you ask us to share with multiple online platforms. We will not share your credentials for these platforms nor will we share any private information to the extent that to all intents and purposes, you are an anonymous user of the auranos website and the credentials for the platforms in your cluster you provide to the application will be stored in such a manner that they will not be available even to the highest ranking user of the website and in anycase will require some advanced technological engineering to decrypt by any party which gains nefarious access to the physical server.
Our Cookies
Quick Cookie Primer
If you already have a basic understanding of cookies and just want information on the cookies this web application generates, you can skip the primer by clicking on these links to go to the appropriate subsection.
Cookies set by this web application
Cookies which may be set by third parties through the application
Other threats to your online privacy and how to prevent them
About Cookies
Cookies are data which are specific for a particular website which are stored on a users browser and sent by the browser to the particular website anytime the user attempts to access the website. They are usually created and altered by the website according the way the user interacts with the website and the user then seamlessly tells the website all the information it has stored in the form of cookies every time they access the website.
Cookies are the primary means by which internet sites "remember" each user between browsing sessions. (A session is the time from when a user browses to a site to the time the user closes all windows and tabs associatied with the site.) By the use of cookies, a website can remember who a user is despite that the previous session may have ended days ago.
Cookies are used for a variety of purposes. The most common purpose they are used for is to remember the User Identity (UID) of a user for a particular website which in turn can allow the website to look up the data it has stored internal to itself about the user who has the cookie that the server created on their browser for them. This internal data can include anything from the version of browser and the dimensions of the screen upon which the website renders content, to user options like the preferred colours of the user, text-size or options that are specific to certain types of site.
Malignant Cookies
They can also be used to track user activities not only on the site that the user is visiting but on third party websites which are able to read cookies set by a website for other websites to read. Tracking cookies do not only store your options for a website but can identify across a huge swathe of websites and such sites can target content at those they track which can include advertising for commercial purposes by people who know you clicked on an advert for a train trip or a political candidate and are capable of being used for targeted propaganda at dissidents, people of influence and even people who some organisations may wish to keep in a bubble of false and misleading information for purposes which may not involve financial gain or profits as would fit into categories imagined by ordinary people where money is a scarce and all important matter to those who cant imagine a world composed of those who have never lacked money.
On this website, we tick the legal boxes of ensuring your privacy but then so do all the organisations showing privacy popups telling you they care so much about your privacy they are only going to share with their partners as soon as you click the annoying button preventing the flow of your browsing session. We don't share your data with anyone except the "authorities" and only then once the said "authorities" have fulfilled the legal requirements they need to follow like getting a court order and such like, indemnifying us from being sued by you because we gave away your private information to those who were not legally entitled. We will co-operate with the "authorities" but we strike a balance that the "authorities" must themselves be in compliance with the law.
We reserve a right to reveal your data without your permission in situations or imminent threat of death or torture, terrorism, state corruption and war. Outside of that, only if the law says we are required to divulge it.
Cookies Types
We separate cookies into four simple categories in describing who can see the cookies which are on your browser.
Session Cookies
These cookies are deleted at the end of every session and it would be rare for them to contain anything that could seriously violate your privacy. Perhaps the server wants to know what your screen size is during the current session so it can generate pages appropriate to the device dimensions. This could be stored in a session cookie but the next you access the website, the server will create a brand new session cookie serving the same purpose. Prior to version 3.0 of this web application, the "chatrooms section visiblity" and the "theme" being light or dark were stored on a session cookie which reset back to default values if the user left and came back again.
Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are traditionally cookies which created for websites other than the website you are currently visiting. For example, you visit the example.com website and it puts a cookie on your browser that can be read by any website and is intended that freindsofexample.com can read that cookie and make the connection that you exist elsewhere anytime you visit a whole range of websites.
Third party cookies were heavily exploited by organisations during the late HTTP 1.1 era and many browsers continue to allow users to block third party cookies with the caveat that on the modern internet, some sites may not work at all.
Samesite Cookies
A samesite cookie is a cookie which is created by a website specifically forbidding the cookie to be read by any website other than itself. These types of cookies are used by almost all websites which employ the use of cookies. The ability to be remembered by a site you signed up to logged into before is most often provided by samesite cookies.
Samesite Cookies by Third Parties
Social media and external authentication has encouraged techniques which were previously considered dangerous since they allowed third party websites to run programs on a website which was not their own. This was traditionally described as a cross site scripting XSS attack and far from a website just deliberately running a script from another site, alot of effort was made by maligned hackers to cause an external script to run on a website that was not their own such that alot of underlying technology had to be rewritten to prevent people from getting their scripts to run on someone elses website.
Samesite Cookies by Third Parties are a type of Samesite cookie which are appear to be created by the site that you are visiting and will not flag up as a third party cookie in a users browser but the cookies are ultimately being created by a script which is hosted on a third party website but is being run by the site you are visiting. This web application at the current time can run a script which is hosted by Facebook that creates cookies appearing to be created by the instance of the web application that a user is visiting. That is to say that a user visits this site, logs in using the facebook button and ends up with a samesite cookie for this site which were actually created by the script which was being hosted by facebook during the login procedure.
Cookies by Auranos.org
theme
The "theme" cookie is a samesite cookie which remebers the theme preferred by both members and anonymous users. At the current time (January 2021) there are two themes installed representing a dark mode like night time and a light mode like during the day.
uid
The "uid" cookie is a samesite cookie which is used to autamotically log in associates to the website.
hid
The "hid" cookie is a used in amalgamation with the "uid" cookie to ensure that the security of a users login cannot be tampered with by a nefarious actor attempting to access someone elses account.
Third Party Cookies
With the possible exception of benign session cookies which are deleted at the end of each session and do not contain personally identifying information, this web application does not create any cookies which can be read by sites other than the site on which the instance of the web application is running.
In saying this, in order to provide features that some websites employing an instance of the this web application may desire to use, the use of Samesite Cookies by Third Parties is unavoidable if the certain features of the instance are enabled such as facebook logins.
The website owner should consult the list of site settings section of the setup or install page to switch these features on and off.
No third party cookies are permitted on this website at present. The website is still under construction in terms of its core functionality and it is unlikely to remain the case that no third party cookies will be used in future.
In the likely event third party cookies will be used on this website, the details about them will be placed here.
Third Party Requests
Our website may be enabled to support various third parties who wish to make requests of third party sites for use on your experience of this website. It is hard to provide a comprehensive list of third party sites which this website may call due to the use of external scripts by third parties who may change which sites they make requests to without this site having much of any direct control over it rather than just switching off the features which cause the third party requests to be made.
We highly recommend the use of Searxes Third Party Request Blocker browswer extension as a means to prevent all Third Party Requests on any website to be blocked unless you specifically enable the ones that Searxes indicates websites are wanting to make.
This software was developed by Stephen Duffy for udhr.auranos.org which has a very special privacy policy which takes into account the Universal Declaration of Human Rights amongst other former high standing documents with the intent to provide users with maximum privacy and anonymity while at the same time providing features which will allow website owners who employ this software to reduce privacy to standard levels such as might be seen on most internet sites in operation today.