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Privacy Statement (underlined passages are changes since last version of this Privacy Statement dated November 5, 2008)

Web site pages and images that you visit and access while using our proxy service may end up being saved in our Web accelerator proxy cache for up to 90 days, although usually this cache will be cleared every 30 days or less.

We also may keep some logs of your activity for up to 90 days so we can learn from the use of our services, attempt to improve upon them, and attempt to identify and respond to abuse of our service, but for your long-term safety and privacy we do not make backup copies of any of our log files or cache files. We do not keep or store any personally identifiable information about any of our users other than their IP Address and Proxy IP Address.

We do not monitor or record any traffic passing through our proxy service, except in the case of users who are in violation of our terms of use, in which case we reserve the right to do so without notice..

We do keep some aggregate information about our users in order to better understand and improve on our services, and to attempt to protect their integrity. We do not sell or otherwise provide any information to third parties other than for our own web analytics purposes.

We use various third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site (over http only, not over https). These third-party companies may use information - but not personally identifiable information - about your visits to our Web site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving such advertisements, our third-party advertisers may (likely do) place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your computer hard drive through your browser, but this in itself does not divulge any personally identifiable information about you.

As with any public proxy service, you are at an increased risk of being monitored when using our proxy service and our web site, even though it is not our web site or our proxy service that is doing such monitoring. The Tor Network which we connect you into has many safeguards to increase your privacy and security and anonymity, and our proxy service adds even more safeguards, but because of the success and popularity of the Tor Network, it is of interest to various global organizations that attempt to use counter-measures that are designed to expose your anonymity, and perhaps your privacy and security. These counter-measures are called "attacks", and there are always going to be weaknesses in the Tor Network that expose it to some sort of attack. The Tor Project (https://www.torproject.org/) is "open source", and is continually working to understand and counter any and all attacks against it, however we cannot guarantee that you will ever be completely anonymous while using our proxy service.