Neoforth is committed to protecting your privacy. We want you to understand what information we collect, what we don’t collect, and how we collect, use, and store information. We do not collect logs of your activity, including no logging of browsing history, traffic destination, data content, or DNS queries. We also never store connection logs, meaning no logs of your IP address, your outgoing IP address, connection timestamp, or session duration.

Our guiding principle toward data collection is to collect only the minimal data required to operate a service at scale. We designed our systems to not have sensitive data about our customers; even when compelled, we cannot provide data that we do not possess.

This privacy policy will help you understand how Neoforth LLC (“Neoforth,” “we,” “our,” “ours,” or “us”) collects, uses, and stores information.

 

General Information

Neoforth collects two types of information:

(i) Information related to your account (“personal information”)

This information is collected for the purpose of administering your Neoforth subscription and includes your name, email address, and payment information, which you submit on our order page when you subscribe for the Services.

(ii) Aggregate Apps and server connection summary statistics

Neoforth collects minimal information about usage in order to maintain excellent customer support and quality of service. The section below specifies in detail what information we collect. These statistics never include anything about what the user did with the server: no data about the contents or destinations of traffic, no DNS queries, and no IP addresses.

 

Personal Information

Neoforth collects personal information that you provide to us directly through the Site. We require that you provide personal information, such as an email address and payment information, in order to establish an Neoforth account, and so that we can email you, collect payments from you, and respond to support queries that you initiate. The specific information collected varies depending on the payment method you choose. To minimize the amount of personal information you submit to us, we recommend that you use cryptocurrency payments when subscribing to our Service.

With some forms of payment, the Site may redirect you to the website of a third-party payment gateway to complete the transaction. To understand what personal information these gateways collect and store, please refer to the respective gateway's terms and privacy policy.

Neoforth uses your email address for the following reasons:

  • To send emails related to payment transactions.
  • To provide links to our Site, including password reset emails.
  • To send you updates and announcements.
  • To communicate with you about your services or respond to your communications.
  • To send marketing information, such as Neoforth offers, surveys, invitations, and content about other matters in connection with Neoforth (“Marketing emails”). You may choose to not receive Marketing emails by following the opt-out procedure described in these emails.

Neoforth uses your personal information only for the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy, and we do not sell your personal information to third parties.

 

Aggregate Apps and Server Connection Summary Statistics

We ensure that we never log browsing history, traffic destination, data content, IP addresses, or DNS queries. Therefore:

  • We do not know which user ever accessed a particular website or service.
  • We do not know which user was connected to the server at a specific time or which server IP addresses they used.
  • We do not know the set of original IP addresses of a user’s computer.

Should anyone try to compel Neoforth to release user information based on any of the above, we cannot supply this information because the data don’t exist.

In order to maintain excellent customer support and quality of service, Neoforth collects the following information related to your usage:

Apps and Apps versions

We collect information related to which Apps and Apps version(s) you have activated. Knowing your current version of the Apps allows our Support Team to troubleshoot technical issues with you.

Successful connection

We collect information about whether you have successfully established a server connection on a particular day (but not a specific time of the day), to which server location (but not your assigned outgoing IP address), and from which country/ISP (but not your source IP address). This minimal information assists us in providing technical support, such as identifying connection problems, providing country-specific advice about how to best use our Service, and to enable Neoforth engineers to identify and fix network issues.

Aggregate sum of data transferred (in MB)

We collect information regarding the total sum of data transferred by a given user. If we notice that a single user pulls or pushes  more traffic than hundreds of others combined, thereby affecting the quality of service for other Neoforth users, we may contact that user for an explanation.

Summary

We collect minimal usage statistics to maintain our quality of service. We may know, for example, that our customer John had connected to our New York server location on Tuesday and had transferred an aggregate of 823 MB of data across a 24-hour period. John can’t be uniquely identified as responsible for any specific behavior because his usage pattern overlaps with thousands of other Neoforth customers who also connected to the same location on the same day.

We’ve engineered our systems to categorically eliminate storage of sensitive data. We may know THAT a customer has used Neoforth, but we never know HOW they have utilized our Service. We stand by our firm commitment to our customers’ privacy by not possessing any data related to a user’s online activities.

 

Anonymous Server Connection Diagnostics and Crash Reports (can be turned off by the user)

With your permission, we collect anonymized analytics data used for network diagnostics. We use these data in our network operations tools to help optimize network speeds and to let us identify problems related to specific apps, servers, or ISPs. The information we receive is fully anonymized and cannot be tied back to specific Neoforth users (i.e., we do not store which user sent which data, and we do not store IP addresses).

If you opt in to share this information with Neoforth, we will collect the following information:

  • Diagnostic information about if and how a server connection attempt failed.
  • Speed test data.
  • Crash reports, also without any personally identifiable information. These are handled in an anonymized form by these third parties, dependent on the platform you are using Neoforth on:
    • Windows: Hockeyapp, owned by Microsoft, and Sentry, owned by Functional Software, Inc. See Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/PrivacyStatement) and Sentry’s Privacy Policy (https://sentry.io/privacy/).
    • macOS: Crashlytics, owned by Google, and Sentry, owned by Functional Software, Inc. See Crashlytics’s Privacy Policy (https://www.google.com/policies/privacy) and Sentry’s Privacy Policy (https://sentry.io/privacy/).
    • Linux: Sentry, owned by Functional Software, Inc. See Sentry’s Privacy Policy (https://sentry.io/privacy/).
    • iOS: Firebase Crashlytics, owned by Google, and Apple. See Apple’s Privacy Policy (https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/) and Firebase’s Privacy and Security (https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/). You can disable Apple’s crash reporting in iOS settings.
    • Android: Google Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, owned by Google. See Google Analytics Terms of Service (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/) and Firebase’s Privacy and Security (https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/).

Upon activation of any Neoforth Apps, you will be asked if you would like to share these data. You can start or stop sharing these diagnostic data at any time in the App’s settings menu. On iOS, Apple’s crash reporting can be turned off in iOS settings.

 

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

Neoforth’s core mission is to keep your information private. In service of this mission, Neoforth’s headquarter and registered place of business is in the United States of America (USA), which has stricter laws concerning information disclosure than most countries.

Should we receive a valid legal order from the Supreme Court of the United States, it is important to note that Neoforth does not collect any IP addresses, browsing history, traffic data, or DNS queries that could be used to identify any specific user.

 

Storing of Information Related to Email, Feedback Forms, and Live Chat

Neoforth keeps records of any correspondence, questions, complaints, or compliments you submit to us through our Site or Services, along with our response. Depending on how you contact Neoforth, we may collect your email address and any additional information you provide to us. Having full correspondence records enables our staff to provide the best possible customer support experience.

We use three different third-party platforms for support correspondence: Zoho Mail for emails, WHMCS for support tickets, and Crisp for live chat. When you correspond with us using these platforms, your correspondence records, including your name and email address, are stored in their systems. All these platforms utilize modern security practices and HTTPS encryption.

 

Security Measures to Protect Your Information

Neoforth uses best-in-class physical, procedural, and technical security with respect to our offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of information. Access to user information is restricted to staff who require such access to perform their job functions.

While we believe these systems are robust, it is important to understand that no data security measures in the world can offer 100% protection.

Servers are housed in data centers with strong security practices. None of these data centers require us to collect or store any traffic data or personal information related to your use of Services. If any data center were to ask us to log such data, we would immediately cease operations with said data center and find alternative options.

Even if a government were to physically seize one of our servers and manage to break its disk encryption, there would be no logs or information that would tie any individual user to a particular event, website, or behavior.

 

Cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file used to store information about your visit to the Site. Cookies let Neoforth optimize and improve the user experience of the Site by helping us deliver certain functionalities, such as website login and language settings. The cookies we use may vary over time as we continuously update and improve our Site.

Disabling cookies

You are free to change your cookie preferences at any time. You can do this in the settings panel for your browser. Depending on which browser and device you use, you may be able to control which cookies you allow, which cookies you want to block in the future, and delete cookies. For more information about these settings, please refer to the “help” section of your browser. Note that Neoforth’s Site may not work as intended if you choose to disable cookies.

Neoforth’s cookies

The cookies set by Neoforth enable us to set your language preference, attribute visitors to a marketing channel, and, once you log in, securely show you information that is specific to your account. The cookies contain a user identifier, but no directly personally identifying information such as your name or email address, and do not track any activity outside of Neoforth’s domains.

Third-party cookies

Neoforth uses third-party services such as Google Analytics and Adwords. Cookies from such services are used to collect data for statistical reports. For example, we may generate reports regarding the amount of time users spend on the Site and the number of users who visit a particular page.

Neoforth uses Google AdWords remarketing to show advertisements on third-party websites (including Google) to users who have visited our Site. We may show such users advertisements on a Google search results page, or on a site in the Google Display Network.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Site. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Google’s privacy policy. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Advertising Opt-out Page. Users may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Page. Users may opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-out Page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org).

 

Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to external websites that do not fall under Neoforth’s domain. Neoforth is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such external websites.

 

Consent and Age Restrictions

By using the Site, Content, Apps, Software, or Services, you agree to have your information handled as described in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

The Services are intended for adults aged 18 and above. If you believe your child has provided information to us, please let us know immediately.

 

Users in the European Economic Area

Neoforth is committed to user privacy globally, and our existing practices reflect that through minimal collection of data and ensuring users have control over their personal information. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU) requires us to outline those practices in a specific manner for users in the European Economic Area (EEA).

In line with the GDPR, we collect and process the data outlined in this Privacy Policy on one of the following bases, depending on the circumstances:

  • For the purposes of fulfilling our contractual obligations to users, including:
    • Providing users with the Services and Apps they have requested.
    • Managing user subscriptions and processing payments.
    • Providing customer support.
  • For a legitimate interest associated with the operation of our business, including:
    • Enhancing the quality, reliability, and effectiveness of our Site, Services, and Apps.
    • Communicating with customers to provide information and seek feedback related to our Services and Apps.
  • With the consent of users, which users can withdraw at any time.

You can exercise your rights under the GDPR to access, transfer, correct, delete, or object to the processing of your personal information by contacting us at [email protected].

 

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, without prior notice to you, consistent with applicable privacy laws and principles. Your continued use of the Site or Services constitutes your acceptance of our Privacy Policy.

 

How to Contact Neoforth

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy and how we handle your information, please feel free to contact Neoforth at the following email address: [email protected].



Saturday, January 2, 2021

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