Foundation for Applied Privacy DNS

Applied Privacy is an encrypted DNS provider by the Foundation for Applied Privacy.

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Handling

Does the policy allow personally-targeted or behavioral marketing? No

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Does the service allow you to permanently delete your personal data? N/A

5/5

Does the service allow third-party access to private personal data? No

10/10

This may come in the form of outright data sharing or by using local third-party analytics software (such as Google Analytics, which collects a plethora of user information).

Note that whether the policy allows sharing aggregated user data does not affect this question.

If the personal data is encrypted when it passes through the third-party, it does not count as third-party access (as the data is inaccessible to that party).

If personal data has been made public by, for example, posting it to a blog, it does not count as private personal information (and is therefore not considered by this question).

Score

Yes

The policy allows sharing personal data with third parties (not just critical service providers), and does not explicitly list the third parties.

Yes, all parties specified (including non-critical service providers such as advertisers)

30%

Yes, not all parties specified (but only to critical service providers)

70%

Yes, all parties specified (only to critical service providers)

80%

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Citation

We do NOT share query data with third parties that are not directly involved with resolving the query (i.e. sending queries to authoritative nameservers for resolution).

When does the policy allow law enforcement access to personal data? N/A (no personal data to share)

5/5

Transparency

Does the policy outline the service's general security practices? N/A

3/3

Is the policy's history made available? Yes, with revisions or a changelog

5/5

Does the policy require users to be notified in case of a data breach? N/A

7/7

Will affected users be notified when the policy is meaningfully changed? N/A

5/5

Collection

Does the service collect personal data from third parties? No

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Is it clear why the service collects the personal data that it does? Yes

10/10

Does the service allow the user to control whether personal data is collected or used for non-critical purposes? N/A (no data used for non-critical purposes)

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Does the policy list the personal data it collects? Yes, exhaustively

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Score

The policy does not claim to not collect personal data, but it also doesn't provide any meaningful insight into the types of personal data it collects.

Only summarily

The policy uses overly vague language to provide a summary of the types of collected personal data.

30%

Yes, generally

All general categories of collected personal data are listed, though not all types of personal data are explicitly mentioned (for example, the list might use a phrase like 'such as' when listing types of personal data).

70%

Yes, exhaustively

All types of collected personal data are listed specifically

100%

N/A (no personal data is collected)

100%

Citation

We aggregate and store the following metrics for one year for capacity planning and error detection:

how many queries per second we get on each server (via DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS)
how fast we answer queries (in ranges: 0-66ms, 66-131ms, 131-262ms, 262-524ms, ...)
how many queries we answer directly from the cache (cache hits)
how many queries we get via IPv6
amount of queries by DNS flag (DNSSEC OK, EDNS OPT present, recursion desired, auth. answer, ...)
amount of queries by type (A, AAAA, PTR, ...)
amount of DNS answers by return code (NOERROR, FORMERR, SERVFAIL, NXDOMAIN, REFUSED, ...)
amount of concurrently open HTTP connections (DoH)
HTTP requests per second (DoH)

When you make use of our DNS-over-HTTPS service we log the following information on the webserver-level and store it for 14 days:

timestamp
HTTP response code (200, 404, ...)
country from which the query is coming according to geoIP data (AT, DE, ...)
The IP-version ("4" or "6") used to connect to us.

Last Updated

May 14, 2021

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