We don't harvest your data - and we don't monetise it.

In this article, you can learn more about how digital tracking works and how Onlime practices to protect your information and limit the collection of your data.

We live in an age that enables surveillance on an unprecedented scale.

It's thanks to our digital devices and the internet that we all depend on - for better or worse. For decades, dodgy business models have been preying on ordinary people by collecting and trading valuable information.

Onlime doesn't harvest your data - and doesn't monetise it. That's not part of our business model. We concentrate solely on developing and operating our service that you can use to store your files.

We continuously design our service to collect as little personal data as possible. See our always-current privacy and cookie policy here.

Any device that can access the internet is basically visible to others on the internet - a bit like dots on a radar. The internet was actually designed to clearly indicate who the sender and receiver are when it was designed for internal use between scientists.

It's a problem today, when we have many internet-based devices with apps on them. One in your pocket, maybe one on your arm, in the car, in the living room - and maybe in the kids' room?

Our distinct identity enables apps and websites to collect data throughout our everyday lives and 'phone home' to the interconnected databases that map our movements.

The collection happens in several ways. You know all about cookies by now, and these are visible when we have to accept or reject them on a new web page.

Less visible are the underlying web technologies and services that many apps utilise. Some are benign and help with debugging. Others are downright evil and can collect data like;

• Location,
• which text you have copied recently,
• Which apps you have installed,
• Logging when you are online and offline,
• Which Wi-Fi networks you have visited

Such data can be linked to social media profiles and other databases, as we saw with The Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The collection of data for resale or similar purposes is widespread. Free apps and services are the ones to watch out for - especially those developed by companies outside the EU.

Many times the transfer of data happens automatically - and other times it's a simple trade where databases with personal data are traded.

Among the most well-known tools is Google Analytics. This tool is implemented by inserting a code on the website that automatically collects data and helps website owners gain insight into how the website is used.

Fortunately, the EU GDPR regulation has pushed for more sober practices when companies ask us for consent to collect and process our data.

However, the data harvest is still huge. And it's hard to be sure if companies are technically limiting data collection and disclosure.

Many popular websites ask you to consent to data sharing with up to several hundred partners (e.g. BT.dk). Partners who, via code embedded on websites, are told when you visited the site and what you clicked on.

We should generally wonder about 'Targeted advert'. Because it indicates that advertisers follow us around on websites and apps based on which websites and apps we use.

In our online marketing at Onlime.dk, we respect your choice to accept or decline various activities. For example, our use of marketing cookies is solely to give us insight into whether an advert on e.g. Google generally led to a sale.

If you have clicked on an advert about Onlime in Google, Google learns about you and your interest in Onlime Cloud.

However, we do not use this information internally and do not build a profile on you or use your information in the development of our cloud service and business in general. Thus, we never monetise personal data.

Read more about our privacy policy and privacy guarantees.