Privacy statement and Terms for using our site ( Terms of Service ).

Privacy Notice: UPDATED 2023-01-08

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for linuxexperten.com and our TOS.

It will notify you of the following:

• What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
• What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
• The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing:

• We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site.
• We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email when you register membership or if you use our contact us form.
• We will not sell or give this information to anyone, "that includes any Federal Agency or government".
• We will use your information to respond to you, if you contacted us or we have news that may be of interest to you.
• We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization.
• Unless you ask us not to, we will contact you via email in the future to tell you about new changes to this privacy policy, website updates or other.

Contact us form:

We have added some more features to it, like for example we will collect your IP-address, Timezone and place a temporary cookie on your computer, if you hit the send button. This is to prevent "Trolls" from sending non-useful messages. You accept this "if" you hit the button.

Newsletter via e-mail:

We do not send out a confirmation e-mail, when a person subscribes to our newsletter. You will know you have been added once you receive our first newsletter and if you wish, you can easily opt-out of further e-mails, by clicking the un-subscribe link at the bottom of that e-mail.

Note: We do not take responsibility for any potential misuse, like someone else adds your e-mail to our newsletter. If you didn't subscribe to our newsletter, just click the un-subscribe link and it will automatically be removed from the list.

Members only section:

We have recently added a locked member section to our site, which contains articles on hacking, tutorials for installing and using such software. Both Grey Hat and Black Hat teqhniques. This could be of interest for wannabe hackers ( pentesters ) or people interested in securing their systems against hackers/crackers.

Members only provide an email-address and choose a password, that is it. After being reviewed by us, we decide whether or not to accept you as a member.

Depending on how often you login to our site, we will release more articles for you as they are per user-based.

Note: All emailaddresses will be scanned against spammingforums and anti-spam databases.

IMPORTANT: Some free e-mail services as blocked as are most of the "Temporary" e-mail services domains as well !

Domains like, .xyz, ru and many others like "temporary e-mail domains" are totally blocked from registration for SPAM reasons, plus they are easy to hack into. If you try to use one of these, you will not be able to register on our site, for our Newsletter.

Examples of working e-mail providers are: GMail, Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Proton and others...

Social media:

We do not engage with guests on social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp). Only via our Mastodon account.

Social media widgets:

Our site doesn't include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, Google Plus, Pinterest and Twitter widgets. However we do have a link to our pirmary Mastodon account posted on our frontpage. This is new for December 2022. As we have abandoned Twitter like many others.

Your Access to and Control Over Information:
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time, by deleting your account.

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email contact form on our website:

• See what data we have about you, usually limited to email address, IP and when you accessed our site.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security:

• We take precautions to protect your information.
• When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected online and offline.
• Wherever we collect sensitive information that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way.
• You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
• We scan our website on a regular basis with anti-malware scanners.
• We have implemented anti-hacker solutions, some with a "nasty surprise", putting a haircross on the hackers chest.
• We keep adding features..