Predominantly, SporeStack launches servers on VPS providers such as Digital Ocean. As such, your actions and use of the server must conform to their policies.

Generally speaking, this means no:

• Mass port scanning
• Child pornography
• Phishing
• DoS/DDoS
• Hacking
• Torrenting/distributing copyrighted materials (Even on Amsterdam servers! We're still US-based and DMCA applies.)
• Exceeding your allotted bandwidth

Any one of these actions that results in an abuse complaint to Digital Ocean will typically result in the termination of your server(s).

We reserve the right to ban tokens involved with these actions, which means there will be no refund on remaining token balance for these behaviors.

For more details, please see Digital Ocean's Acceptable Use Policy.

Regardless of what we write in our privacy policy, if you wish to remain private, the safest option is to provide fewer details. What you don't provide can't be leaked in one way or the other. We can't guarantee privacy, but we make it easier to stay private than some hosts.

Consider the following if you want to be more private:

• Paying with Monero. Not Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash.
• Stripping off the comment section from your SSH public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, most likely). It's common to have user.name@host, which might look like John.Doe@mylaptop.
• Using an entirely unique public SSH key with a given token. There's no need to use a unique SSH key for every server. Best to use a unique SSH key per token.
• Using a vague hostname when launching the server, or not setting the field at all, as we see the hostname in plain text.
• Using the SporeStack Tor Hidden Service, with Tor Browser, Tails, Whonix, etc.

While we can claim that this is generally a privacy oriented service, we may not always have the resources to fight legal requests in court, and often must comply with law enforcement. So please keep this in mind. These aren't servers in a bunker, in Greenland, guarded by mercenaries.

If you are law enforcement or you are curious about what we can offer to law enforcement, please check out our Law Enforcement FAQ.