What we don't do
You may have read terms-of-service pages before. This one is different because we don't do the things most providers do.
- No KYC. No identity, address, government ID, phone number, real name, or business registration. Email and password is the only credential.
- No DMCA queue. The DMCA is a United States statute. Our infrastructure isn't in the United States and we aren't bound by it. Notices sent under it are not actioned and not forwarded.
- No abuse form. We don't run an abuse mailbox that auto-suspends services on complaint. Form-letter pressure doesn't reach anyone with the authority to act.
- No law-enforcement self-service. Police, intelligence services, and prosecutors outside our jurisdiction get a polite refusal — or no reply at all. We don't operate a portal for them. We don't voluntarily share traffic, payment data, account metadata, or IP logs.
- No KYC at payment. Crypto only. We don't see your bank, your card, or your wallet provenance.
- No content inspection. We don't scan or monitor what runs on your server. We can't — root passwords are stored encrypted at rest with a key only the operator holds.
When we will act
We act on one thing and one thing only: a binding order from a court that has jurisdiction over our operating entity, served through proper channels, signed by the issuing judge, with a clearly identified target service.
- The order must come from a competent judicial authority. Police "requests," prosecutorial letters of inquiry, foreign discovery requests, MLAT fishing expeditions, and voluntary-cooperation letters do not qualify.
- The order must be enforceable in the jurisdiction where our infrastructure sits. We don't honor extraterritorial subpoenas dressed up as something else.
- The order must name the specific service. Blanket fishing orders — "all your customers in country X" — are challenged on principle.
- We will challenge orders we believe are overbroad, unlawful, retaliatory, or used to bypass a customer's home-jurisdiction protections.
If — after we exhaust reasonable challenges — we are still legally required to act, we act narrowly: only on the specific service named, only to the extent specified.
You will know before anything happens
If we are forced to suspend, seize, or shut down a server, you will receive an email with at least a few hours' notice before we touch it. The only exception is a gag clause attached to the order itself — and even then, we will tell you the moment the gag expires.
In practice this means:
- A plain-text email to your account address describing what was received, what we're required to do, and when.
- A window to retrieve, back up, encrypt, or destroy whatever matters before action is taken.
- No covert cloning of your data while pretending nothing is happening. That isn't a service we offer.
- If a gag is attached, our warrant canary at
/canarystops being updated. Absence is the signal.
The one absolute rule
Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is the only content we will not tolerate under any circumstance.
Hosting, distributing, generating, or trafficking CSAM — including AI-generated material depicting minors — results in immediate, unilateral termination without notice, without refund, and without the safeguards described elsewhere in these terms. We will preserve and surrender evidence proactively to the relevant child-protection authorities. This is not a gray area. This is the line.
Everything else — privacy tools, anonymous mail, journalism, dissident publications, drug-policy reform sites, mirrors of taken-down content, controversial speech, file lockers, IRC bouncers, Tor relays, Bitcoin nodes, anything legal somewhere — is fine here.
Service mechanics
- Balance-based billing. Top up your account with crypto. Servers are deployed against your balance. We don't auto-renew anything — if your balance hits zero at the end of a cycle, the service suspends and you have seven days to top up before termination.
- No refunds. Crypto payments are irreversible by nature. Once funds are credited to your balance, they stay on your balance and can be applied to any service we offer.
- Service availability. We aim for 99.9% uptime. We don't promise it as a contractual SLA — that's a tool for forcing service credits, not for keeping servers up.
- Maintenance. Scheduled maintenance is announced at least 48 hours in advance. Emergency work (security patches, hardware failures) happens whenever it must.
- Suspension for non-payment. Servers suspend at end-of-cycle if balance is insufficient. Data is preserved seven days, then the volume is wiped. We don't hold data hostage to extort late payment.
Payment
- We accept Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Tether (TRC-20), USD Coin, Litecoin, Solana, TRON, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin Cash.
- Prices are quoted in US dollars. The crypto amount at checkout is the USD-equivalent at the moment of invoice issuance and is locked for the invoice window (about sixty minutes).
- We do not accept credit cards, PayPal, bank wires, or anything that ties to a real-world financial identity.
- Underpayments and overpayments are credited at the converted-USD value to your balance. No partial refunds, no top-up minimums after the first deposit.
Account & liability
- Account recovery is your job. We don't reset passwords through security-question theatre because we never collected the answers. If you lose your password, you lose the account and its balance. Use a password manager.
- Provided as-is. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided as-is, without warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We aren't liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service.
- Your content is your content. You own and are responsible for everything on your server. We don't claim any rights to it. We can't see it.
Changes to these terms
Material changes — anything that narrows the protections above — are announced 30 days before they take effect, by email to every active account and on the canary page. You can terminate and withdraw at any time before new terms take effect.
Non-material changes (clarifications, typos, formatting) take effect immediately. The "effective" date at the top of this page always reflects the last update.
Contact for legal matters
Lawful judicial orders may be sent through the address on our legal-process page, encrypted with our PGP key.
Everything else — DMCA notices, abuse complaints, voluntary-cooperation letters, takedown requests, demands for customer data — will not receive a reply. Please don't take it personally; we just don't process those.
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