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A Fediverse instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects. If you are interested in joining our community, please apply at https://join.social.coop/registration-form.html.

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Privacy Policy

Last updated Dec 06, 2022

social.coop Privacy Policy

Information collection

  • Mandatory account information: Username (always public), e-mail address, and password.
  • Optional account information: Display name, biography, profile information fields, profile picture, and header image. Display name, biography, profile picture and header image will always be public.
  • Statuses and interactions: We retain all your posts including attachments, and other interactions (such as favourites, follows and reblogs). In addition to the content and people involved, we also store the timestamps for all of the listed data entries. If these interactions impact another server (eg. following, boosting, or messaging a user on a different server), this other server will receive all required information. Public, unlisted, and pinned posts are available publicly. Follower-only posts are available to your followers, and direct messages are available to you and all people mentioned in the message. Please note that since we cannot control other servers, this means that we cannot guarantee the privacy status of your messages as soon as they leave our server.
  • Cookies: We use cookies to keep you logged in and save your preferences for future visits.
  • Other metadata: client IP addresses are used by the mastodon software to determine rate-limiting parameters for the correct functioning of the software. IP addresses for all server requests are logged for troubleshooting purposes for a period of 14 days and then deleted from our server. The Mastodon software stores the last logged in IP for up to 1 year.

    • Information usage

    Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

  • To provide the core functionality of Mastodon. You can only interact with other people's content and post your own content when you are logged in. For example, you may follow other people to view their combined posts in your own personalized home timeline.
  • To aid moderation of the community – when a status or account is reported, our Community Working Group Ops Team will access information in the report as detailed in our reporting guide.
  • The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

    • Information protection

  • We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with HTTPS, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.
  • The social.coop website is run on dedicated physical servers leased to social.coop by Hetzner at a datacenter in Helsinki, Finland.
  • Backups of the social.coop database are taken each day. These backups are GPG encrypted before being securely transmitted to third-party storage at Digital Ocean. Backups are used for disaster recovery purposes only and are deleted after 14 days.

    • Information deletion and retention

  • You can request and download an archive of your content, including your posts, media attachments, profile picture, and header image.
  • You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.
  • If you are found in violation of the bylaws or code of conduct, your account can be deleted in accordance with the bylaws https://wiki.social.coop/rules-and-bylaws/Bylaws-for-social.coop.html

    • Information disclosure

  • Information is not disclosed unless you explicitly permit it.
  • Contacting or permitting contact from a user from a different instance implies your consent that the required data is shared with the server in question.
  • Authorization of a third-party application grants information access depending on the scope of permissions you approve. The application may access your public profile information, your following list, your followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favourites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.

    • Date of effect

    This privacy policy is in effect as of 2022-12-06 the most up to date version of this policy will always be published at https://social.coop/privacy-policy

    Attribution

    This text was adapted from the chaos.social privacy policy and is free to be adapted and remixed under the terms of the CC-BY (Attribution 4.0 International) license.

    Social.coop Code of Conduct

    v3.1 of Social.coop's Code of Conduct can be found here, or in our wiki.

    See also our shorter Server Rules.

    Social.coop Bylaws

    Vision

    We envision building, owning and controlling our own technology as a community, in order to achieve collective liberation and care for the intricate world of which we are a part.

    Mission

    Social.coop is a cooperative node of the 'fediverse' social network, pioneering an open approach to co-owning and co-operating our online platforms.

    Structure

    Social.coop is a user-owned cooperative, operated through group decision-making and open management of monetary, labor, and service contributions.

    Governance

    Decisions regarding Social.coop are made via Loomio, a group discussion and decision-making platform, at https://loomio.org/socialcoop.

    Members may operate on their own initiative based on pre-established policy (areas of activity, scope of working groups, terms of service, codes of conduct, moderation policies, etc.), but any new issue that affects other members should be brought before the appropriate working group, and any policy changes must be brought before the full group before implementation. Working groups are encouraged to make proposals among themselves to determine consensus and operate within their scope of responsibility, but only proposals passed by the full group may be considered binding for Social.coop. Any member may make a proposal to the full group, though it is encouraged to first discuss matters within the appropriate working group.

    The criteria for passing a proposal (within a working group, or in the full group) is as follows:

    • At least 6 days allowed for members to participate
      • A shorter period is permitted for proposals labeled URGENT in the Title, along with a justification in the Details
    • More Agree votes than Disagree votes

    Abstain votes allow members to register opinions or concerns without being counted.

    A Block vote represents a fundamental disagreement—a belief that the proposal violates Social.coop's core principles. Proposals with Block require at least 9 times more Agree votes than Disagree and Block votes in order to pass.

    Membership

    Social.coop is open to all people who consider themselves committed to fostering the cooperative movement (as defined by the International Co-operative Alliance) and who commit to adhering to the Social.coop Code of Conduct.

    The path to membership is as follows:

    • People may apply at https://social.coop/about
    • Based on policies previously agreed through proposals in the full group (see Governance), the application is approved or denied
    • Approved applicants receive a Mastodon account
    • After 42 days of probationary membership without having their account frozen:
      • They are expected to begin making monthly contributions (membership dues) between USD $1 and $10 (via https://opencollective.com/socialcoop), unless they have been approved as non-paying member by the membership working group
      • They are expected to join the Loomio group, and are invited to get involved in governance and participate in working groups

    Every quarter, all non-paying members receive an email checking in about their status that contains the per-user cost of the previous quarter’s operation. The email asks them to set up contributions if their financial situation has changed, or to renew their membership for the next three months, until the next quarterly email.

    The membership working group may freeze the account of a member in the case of:

    • Violations of the code of conduct or other policies, after at least two warnings
    • 6 months of unpaid dues (except for non-paying members)

    Any appeals of application denials or frozen accounts will be taken up by the general group on Loomio.

    Expenses

    Social.coop is run through a system of open contributions. There are no employees, but the cooperative strives for fair and sustainable remuneration for its contributors.

    The procedure for paying contributors and expenses is as follows:

    1. A member makes a proposal in the finance group (with the Title labeled EXPENSE), detailing either:
      • work to be done, the expected timeline, and the contributor's qualifications, and the cost (in USD)
      • a service to be acquired, details about the provider, its benefits over alternatives, and the cost
      • a donation to be made to an external open-source developer or collective, the work they do that benefits Social.coop members, and a proposed amount
    2. If that proposal passes, the member may proceed. They may post an invoice to OpenCollective, with a link back to the relevant Loomio thread, for up to one half of the total amount.
    3. When the work is complete (or equivalent), the member must post a follow-up proposal (with the Title labeled INVOICE, in the same thread as the EXPENSE), including details demonstrating the work done or service obtained
    4. The contributor should post the expense to the OpenCollective page with a link back to the relevant Loomio thread
    5. Once passed, the expense is approved by an OpenCollective admin, and the contributor is paid within two weeks, or as soon as the OpenCollective account has sufficient balance

    While general budgeting decisions are expected to be passed in the full group, all members are invited to monitor the finance group, and to join if they wish to participate in maintaining accountability.

    Diversity

    Social.coop is a global community that values a high degree of diversity among its users, including but not limited to gender/gender identity, nationality, religious background, ethnic and racial identity, sexual orientation, economic status, and disability status. Social.coop strives to reflect this value in its user community through the following measures:

    • Including a non-discrimination policy in its code of conduct, which all members are required to follow
    • Addressing concerns about discrimination or bias through transparent, thoughtful discussion and inviting related policy change proposals
    • Actively conducting outreach to potential users in line with the diversity that we seek
    • Fostering leadership and contributions among as diverse a set of members as possible

    Modifications

    These bylaws may be modified at any time through a proposal passing in the full group under the same rules as stated above, except requiring a 10-day period of participation, at least 3 times as many Agree votes as Disagree votes, and, if there is a Block, least 9.5 times more Agree votes than Disagree and Block votes.

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