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What is nym?

Nym is an innovative digital privacy project born from the need to truly protect users' online identities. Imagine it as a sophisticated communication system that works like an invisible data labyrinth, where every message is carefully "mixed" to make tracing its origin practically impossible.

The technology behind Nym, called mixnet, is like a complex system of mirrors and tunnels that deliberately confuses data paths. When a user sends a communication through Nym, the message passes through several nodes that hide it, completely masking its origin. It's like sending a letter through a series of intermediaries that make it untraceable.

What makes Nym truly unique is its decentralized and blockchain-based nature. It is not controlled by a single entity, but functions as a collaborative network where users themselves contribute to maintaining the infrastructure. The NYM token serves precisely to incentivize this participation, rewarding those who contribute to the network.

Nym's ultimate goal is to offer a level of digital privacy that goes far beyond current VPNs or anonymous networks, protecting not only the content of messages, but especially the valuable metadata that is so easily tracked today.

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Vyram Kraven 5mo ago

I see I read it sounds very promising but i'm a little skeptic of the privacy policy regarding the app. Have you read this line?

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With whom we share your personal data

With third parties:

We provide personal data only to parties who help us optimize our services, execute the agreement with you or to parties with whom we are legally obliged to share the data. This includes operators of exit nodes, which have a contractual obligation towards us to respect the confidentiality of your NymVPN traffic.

We may share your personal data with our payment processors as stated in paragraph ‎‎VII above.

Additionally, we make use of data processors with whom we have entered into data processing agreements. These data processors remain our responsibility and are therefore not third parties, even though they may appear as such to you.

How long we store your personal data

The following three retention policies apply:

First of all, by nature of the service, when you use NymVPN the communications through NymVPN will pass through operators of exit nodes. We have contractually obliged these operators to respect the confidentiality of your communications. However, the nature of the NymVPN technology is such that we do not have the level of control over such operators that they can be considered processors that we can demand to be audited or to support us when you do an access request. As such they are third parties with a confidentiality obligation.

Pursuant to the Swiss law the accounting books and records, and the accounting vouchers together with the annual report and the audit report will be retained for ten years. The retention period begins on expiry of the respective financial year.

Stripe will generally keep personal data received from us for at least five years from the end of the business relationship with us or the date of the last transaction, whichever is later.

When you enable Sentry, our telemetry tool, we retain some usage metrics for approximately 90 days to perform (historical) analyses. This data will be pseudonymized.

Once the retention period expires, the personal data will be either deleted or anonymized.

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I understsnd the payment part can get around by paying with btc but the sharing with third parties just to "prepare the network" sounds like a pretty centralized thing. Sure the traffic bounces through multiple servers but nym gives personal data to those parties under contract with the hope they respect them because they cannot control them? It's really alot of collecting I don't even think mulladvpn or

https://www.ivpn.net/

collect that much information.