N0TH1NG T0 H1D3

Privacy policy

Nothing to hide (NTH) is a privacy infrastructure provider based in The Netherlands. As a part of the Church of Cyberology, we operate privacy-enhancing services world wide and in this privacy statement we will elaborate on what personal data we collect, how we collect personal data, for what purposes we use personal data, how we retain personal data and to whom personal data is disclosed by us. Further, this privacy statement includes information regarding your rights with respect to the processing of your personal data. If you have any questions about the processing of (your) personal data, please contact us.

Our public services are built in accordance with current privacy design strategies and best practices in mind. In short this means:

1 Website

When you visit our website (nothingtohide.nl), your IP address and browser user agent are processed by our webserver in order to serve the website’s content to your browser. In addition we retain these personal data for 30 days for the purpose of finding and preventing abuse and keeping the website available.

Personal data Controller Purpose Legal basis
IP address NTH Detect and prevent abuse/availability Legitimate interest
Browser user agent NTH Detect and prevent abuse/availability Legitimate interest

2 Email

You can send us an email. In order to receive, read, reply to and (permanently) archive these emails we process your mailserver’s IP address, contents of the email and email address(es)/account name(s) of email recipients and senders.

Nothing to hide uses two email service providers to handle its email: the Germany based secure email service Tutanota by Tutao GmbH (Tutao) and the Netherlands based secure email service Soverin by Soverin B.V. (Soverin).

Do note that upon request we can provide a secure email link for sharing sensitive information or data.

Personal data Controller Processor Purpose Legal basis
Mailserver’s IP NTH Tutao
Soverin
Handling email Legitimate interest
Email address NTH Tutao
Soverin
Handling email Legitimate interest
Name(s) NTH Tutao
Soverin
Handling email Legitimate interest
Email content NTH Tutao
Soverin
Handling email Legitimate interest

3 Tor

When you use one of our Tor relays, your traffic will be routed through our infrastructure. Nothing to hide operates many Tor exit relays, but we also have a few Tor guard/middle relays. Do note that under normal circumstances (i.e. using the Tor Browser) our guard/middle and exit relays won’t be used together.

We don’t log anything regarding the Tor relays or Tor traffic so although we process such data on a realtime basis, we are not able to educe or reproduce these data.

3.1 Guard relays

When you use one of our guard relays, your current outgoing IP address and your traffic heavily encrypted content are processed. We retain the IP address for the duration of your connection to our guard relay while the encrypted content is processed on a real-time basis to and from the middle relay (generally less than a second per packet).

Personal data Controller Purpose Legal basis
Source IP address NTH Required for Tor Legitimate interest
Encrypted content NTH Required for Tor Legitimate interest

3.2 Middle relays

When you use one of our middle relays, your traffic heavily encrypted content are processed. We retain these personal data until the packets have been delivered to the target exit relay (your requests) or your device (their response), generally less than a second.

Personal data Controller Purpose Legal basis
Encrypted content NTH Required for Tor Legitimate interest

3.3 Exit relays

When you use one of our exit relays, the destination IP address of your request and your traffic content are processed. We retain these personal data until the packets have been delivered to the target server (your request) or your device (their response), generally less than a second. Do note that the traffic content in this stage of Tor isn’t encrypted by Tor, so make sure to use another encryption mechanism such as TLS.

Personal data Controller Purpose Legal basis
Destination IP address NTH Required for Tor Legitimate interest
Encrypted content NTH Required for Tor Legitimate interest

3.4 Processing outside of the EEA

Because of the global scope and purpose of the Tor network, it is possible or even likely that your personal data transferred through one of our Tor relays will be transferred to (other data controllers and their data processors in) countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). The EEA comprises all EU countries, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.

In general transfers of personal data to countries outside of the EEA are subject to additional rules under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Due to the nature of the Tor network we can’t give any guarantees about appropriate safeguards. Please be mindful about what Tor relays are part of your circuit and your traffic destination.

4 DNS servers

When you use our DNS servers, your current outgoing IP address and the content of the DNS query itself are processed by our DNS servers. Your DNS queries will be encrypted before they are send to us for further processing. This makes sure parties with a network presence in between your client (requesting a specific DNS record) and the DNS server (answering) can’t eavesdrop on the DNS query/answer content.

You will also automatically use our DNS servers if you use one of our Tor exit relays, because those DNS queries are resolved by our own DNS servers. In this case your current outgoing IP address isn’t processed by us.

Personal data Controller Purpose Legal basis
Source IP address NTH Required for DNS Legitimate interest
DNS query content NTH Required for DNS Legitimate interest

5 Your rights

Although the GDPR only applies to data subjects who are in the European Economic Area, we will take every request and complaint seriously no matter the data subject’s physical location on planet earth.

And finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.