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Terms and Conditions, Abuse Policy, and Privacy Policy

Terms of Use


  • You may not use the Cloak for any illegal purposes. This includes but is not limited to the transmission or receipt of illegal material.
  • You may not use this service to contact or communicate with minors in a manner prohibited by the law.
  • You may not use the Cloak to violate copyrights or to break other forms of intellectual property law.
  • You may not use the Cloak to send spam (unsolicited advertising, bulk email, mass news posts, or any other kind of undesired large scale abuse of the net).
  • You may not use the Cloak to harass or annoy.
  • If you have been blocked by the owner of a bulletin board or other service that allows the posting of messages, you may not use this service to bypass this blocking.
  • Robots/web-crawlers and other non-human browsers may not use the Cloak.
The above is not a complete list; we reserve the right to deny access for any reason.

In accordance with our abuse policy described below, we reserve the right to turn over the IP addresses of people who abuse our system either to the appropriate legal authorities, or to those against whom abuse has been perpetrated. Use of this service constitutes acceptance of the terms of our abuse policy.

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
  1. This service is provided as-is, and the Cloak disclaims all warrranties of any kind.
  2. The Cloak makes no warranty that this service will be timely or uninterrupted.
  3. All material obtained through this service is done so through your own discretion and at your own risk.
  4. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT the Cloak SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES.


By using this service, you assert that you have read the disclaimer, and that you agree to abide by the stated conditions for using this service. You also understand that this service may not provide a 100% guarantee of privacy and anonymity.


Abuse Policy


  • We have a strict anti-abuse policy. If it can be demonstrated to what we consider a high degree of certainty that abuse has taken place, we reserve the right to turn over any information we have on the abuser to the complainant.

    Here are some guidelines for what we consider to be abuse:


    • The purpose of this service is to protect your privacy. The purpose of this service is not to act as a shield from behind which you can harrass and annoy others with impunity. Improper behaviour by a small minority of users causes us considerable inconvenience and consumes significant amounts of our time. Such users should not expect us to protect their anonymity.

    • We consider abuse to be threatening, harassing, or otherwise deliberately annoying behavior, or spam, or intellectual property theft, or the planning or perpetration of illegal activity.

    • If the behaviour (eg chatboard posts) is within the letter of law, we do not consider abuse to have taken place until the chatboard owner or webmaster has told the poster that the poster's posts are not acceptable, and has asked the poster to desist from making further posts. Such a warning may consist of a post in the chatboard itself. Do not use this service to post to chatboards where your presence is not wanted!

    • If an abusive poster has been warned, and persists to post to the board against the owner's wishes, we reserve the right to reveal the poster's IP address to the chatboard owner.

    • If a chatboard owner is willing to tolerate posts that are otherwise legal, we will not regard such posts as abuse: the chatboard owner is the final arbiter of what he/she will tolerate on his/her system.

    • If a chatboard user feels that another user's otherwise legal posts are abusive towards him/her, he/she should contact the chatboard owner, and inform the owner of the terms above.

    • The "one warning" policy above does not apply to MLM, spam, or posting damaging or illegal content such as viruses.


  • If abuse is reported, but cannot be demonstrated, we will either 1) block the complainant's web site, so that no further abuse against it can be perpetrated OR 2) we will block the suspected abuser's IP address, if it can be determined.

  • To report abuse, please do the following:

    1. Create a detailed report of what abuse took place. Save all records - for example, harassing language on a bulletin board.

    2. Note the exact nature of the abuse, the web site at which it occurred, and the exact time that it occurred. Be sure to specify your timezone, preferably as an offset from GMT. The relevant server log lines are of great help.

    3. Report the abuse following the instruction on our abuse pages. Report the abuse immediately after it takes place, so we can save the relevant logs.

    4. If we decide that abuse has been demonstrated to a high degree of probability, we will turn over the abuser's IP address to you, and you can pursue the matter further with the abuser's service provider. Otherwise, we will institute blocking to prevent further abuse.


Privacy Policy
  • We do not collect any personal or individually identifiable information, or email addresses. The only information that we have about our users is a record of their surfing through our service, contained in our proxy logs. In these logs, users are identifiable only by their IP number (network address). These logs contain a record of web access made to and through our service. These proxy logs are not revealed to anyone outside of our organization, except such small portions that may be needed to confirm abuse, and are deleted on a regular basis. Our rules about revealing IPs are described in our abuse policy above.

  • We do not share the email address of people who contact us with any third party.

  • Our site uses login cookies to store temporary login information. These cookies are not used for tracking users; they are used only to keep a login session open. Once a session is over, the login cookies are no longer used. We use non-persistent cookies that automatically expire and are deleted after you exit your browser. These cookies are not correlated with individual user identities. These cookies are technically necessary for using our service, and cannot be disabled. You may also elect to store your preferred settings in one or more persistent cookies.

  • Our site may also set some cookies to control what advertisements are shown. For example, we may use cookies to ensure that we do not repeatedly show you pop-up advertisements. The only information contained in these cookies is what time a particular user saw a particular advertisement. These cookies may persist for several days.

  • Our site is secure to the best of our abilities. We do our utmost to keep our site safe from unauthorized access, and to minimize the number of people who have access to sensitive information. We cannot absolutely guarantee the security of our site, and cannot be responsible for breaches of security.

  • All use of our site is confidential. We only reveal information if legally required to do so, or if there is clear evidence of abuse our system, as defined in our abuse policy (above) and terms and conditions (above).

  • You should assume that we will comply with court orders or subpoenas demanding log files entries, as we do not know our users and therefore cannot mount a legal challenge.

  • We keep records of accesses to our site for a short time (several days). We may use these records to pursue people who engage in an abuse of our services. Otherwise, we do not share these records with any third party, and we delete them after a short time (several days).

  • We may run advertisements on our site. Our advertisers have separate privacy policies. You are exposed to our advertisers at the onset and termination of surfing using our service.


If you accept the terms of this disclaimer, you can start surfing.