Privacy Policy

At Monobox, we value your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you create an account or interact with our services.

This service does not exist to compete with or take away from commercial offerings that service the same purpose.

What information do we collect?

When you create a free account, we may collect basic information like your name, email address, and optional details like your phone number or birthday. We also collect information about how you use our services, such as the pages you visit and features you use.

We do not collect sensitive personal information unless you choose to share it voluntarily. This includes things like your race, religion, political opinions, or health information.

How do we use your information?

We use your information to:

• Provide and improve our services, including personalized experiences.
• Communicate with you about your account, updates, and important announcements.
• Analyze how people use our services to make them better.
• Protect the security of our platform and users.

Sharing your information:

We will never sell your personal information to third parties.

We may share some of your information with third parties on your behalf if required for using the service. This includes:

• Posting to federated services like Mastodon
• Sharing data you created using a (federated or local) file share application
• Interacting with other users of our platform using our platform
• Other similar activities
• Using your account to authenticate with our tools

We will not share your information with third parties:

• for marketing
• for third party platform insight or statistics
• for analysis.
• for training of AI models

Your choices:

• You can choose to limit the information you share with us.
• You can also access and update your account information at any time.
• If you with to receive exports of the data we have stored about you, please contact us (see below)
  • Data stored in end-to-end encrypted form might be technically impossible to include in a data report.
• If you wish to delete your account, please contact us (see below)
  • if you want to delete your data from one or more of our services, please contact us (see below)
• You have the right to be forgotten
  • If you instruct us to do so, we will pseudonymize your account to the extend of technical possibility and remove your account and data from our platform.
    • For data that is shared in a revision-safe form, this might require coordination with the involved third parties and users (especially on our git foundry)
    • For data that was shared by you beyond our platforms, our efforts will extend to
      • Prevent the further accessibility of your data on our platform
      • Prevent restoration or reinstating of your account or data through backups
      • Assist in your effort to expunge your data from third parties by providing our knowledge about who might you might have shared it to - while protecting our other users privacy.

Data security:

We take data security seriously and use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. All data shared with us directly is stored in Germany. Backups of the data stored with third parties are stored in Germany and are encrypted.

Contact us:

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or requests regarding the privacy of your own account, please contact Julia Brunenberg via email using mbx_tos@jjim.de.