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<center><h2><a href="/about">About</a> | <a href="/about/news">News</a> | <a href="/about/usage">Usage</a> | <a href="/about/faq">FAQ</a> | <a href="/about/stats">Stats</a> | Privacy</h2></center>
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<p style="text-align: left;">
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The public keyserver running on keys.openpgp.org processes, stores and
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distributes OpenPGP key data. The specific way in which data is processed
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differs by type as follows:
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<ul>
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<li><b>Email Addresses</b>
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<p>Email addresses contained in <abbr title="Packet Tag 13">User
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IDs</abbr> are personally identifiable information (PII).
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Special care is taken to make sure they are used only with
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consent:
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<ul>
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<li>
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Publishing requires <a target="_blank"
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-in_email#Confirmed_opt-in_(COI)_/_Double_opt-in_(DOI)">double
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opt-in</a> validation, to prove ownership of the
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email address in question.
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</li>
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<li>Addresses are searchable by exact email address,
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but not by associated name.</li>
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<li>Enumeration of addresses is not possible.</li>
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<li>Deletion of addresses is possible via simple proof
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of ownership in an automated fashion, similar to
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publication. To unlist an address where this isn't
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possible, write to support at keys dot openpgp dot
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org.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>This data is never handed collectively ("as a dump") to third
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parties.
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</p>
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</li>
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<li><b>Public Key Data</b>
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<p>The cryptographic content of OpenPGP keys is not considered personally
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identifiable information. This includes specifically
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<abbr title="Packet Tags 6 and 14">public key material</abbr>,
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<abbr title="Packet Tag 2, Signature types 0x10-0x13, 0x18, 0x19, 0x1F">self-signatures</abbr>, and
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<abbr title="Packet Tag 2, Signature types 0x20, 0x28, 0x30">revocation signatures</abbr>.
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<p>This data is not usually collectively available ("as
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a dump"), but may be handed upon request to third
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parties for purposes of development or research.
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</li>
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<li><b>Other User ID data</b>
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<p>An OpenPGP key may contain personal data other than email
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addresses, such as <abbr title="Packet Tag 13">User IDs</abbr>
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that do not contain email addresses, or <abbr
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title="Packet Tag 17">image attributes</abbr>. This data is stripped
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during upload and never stored, processed, or distributed in
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any way.
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</p>
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<p>OpenPGP packet types that were not specifically mentioned above are
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stripped during upload and never stored, processed or
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distributed in any way.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p style="text-align: left">Data is never relayed to third parties outside of
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what is available from the <a href="/about/api">public API interfaces</a>,
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and what is described in this policy.
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