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Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bureaucracy
Why imprints are nonsense
Clez.net is a private, non-commercial service crafted and maintained under the legal conditions of Austria.Imprints in recurrent media are covered by several Austrian laws (§5 ECG, §25 MedienG, KSchG, Fernabsatzgesetz, ...).
While commercial websites or "opinion building media" have to contain detailed information, it remains optional for "small websites" like clez.net. And "small website" exactly means what clez.net is:
You are a guest and you are welcome to use the provided services as long as you behave like a guest. The goal is not to please users, earn money or build any opinion.
If you think that this site is a medium, you mistake the meaning behind this service.
3rd party countries
Conforming to European data protection laws, no data will be submitted to 3rd party countries automatically.In other words: No Google Analytics or similar tracking tools.
However, some checks will pass your original IP to the tested system.
Data parsimony
Austrian data protection only allows generation of logs or traffic metadata where it is technically or economically needed. This is not the case on clez.net.As a result, no logfiles will be generated. This doesn't mean absolute anonymity, you probably pass several hops where your path leaves its traces.
There are plans to introduce Austrian data retention laws - you will be informed by a news entry on the home page if and when such a change happens.
I hope it never will ;)