FoundingDocuments.org does not current­ly use cookies.

Cookies are short chunks of text sent by a web­site to your web brows­ing soft­ware. As you may suspect, there are pros and cons associated with them.

Unlike a physical cookie which you pass by a num­ber of your senses and thoughts before you store it—due to the neces­sary and enjoy­able act of nature it takes to in­spect it and con­sume it—digital com­pu­ter cookies are: given to you, stored by you, and handed out to others, complete­ly unbeknownst to you.

Wikipedia has a thorough and not-bad overview of HTTP cookies. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) steers Inter­net stan­dards and docu­ments them or explains how they should be implemented.

‘HTTP State Management Mechanism’ is the docu­ment set­ting out the latest ver­sion of deal­ing with cookies.

No Stalking

FoundingDocuments.org does not use track­ing mechan­isms to follow you around the Internet. The web­sites you visit are your busi­ness and FoundingDocuments.org does not make any ef­fort to inveigle your brows­ing hist­ory or steal it using Java­Script or by other means.

I host a number of web­sites but no effort is made to cor­rel­ate visits among them. If at some point I do an analysis on the logs of the web host, it will most likely be due to try­ing to figure out how much abuse I am receiv­ing.

No Selling You Out

FoundingDocuments.org does not be­lieve in sel­ling you out.

No fake or de­cep­tive off­ers are used in order to har­vest your name, email address, per­son­al in­for­ma­tion, or per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fy­ing in­for­ma­tion so it can be sold to others.

I am not against host­ing ad­ver­tise­ments at some point, however that’s not plan­ned soon. And given my dis­like for how Java­Script is so abused, I will most likely not allow any Java­Script to be used.

Factors Currently Beyond My Control

The hardware my sites are hosted on is not under my con­trol. I know vague­ly where they are, but not really.

I don’t know the extent they are track­ing you and try­ing to profit from stalking you.

Likewise, your ISP is doing the same or worse, depend­ing on where you are and who you are.

Protection

FoundingDocuments.org does not yet offer an onion site but recom­mends Tor Browser anyway. Tor Browser is a hard­ened ver­sion of FireFox custom­ized by the Tor Project, it can be down­loaded for free (.onion); there are ver­sions for mobile de­vices too.

Additionally for mobile devices, I highly rec­om­mend using Orbot as well.

Both Tor Browser and Orbot are avail­able for mul­ti­ple oper­at­ing systems.