Public records and personal privacy

Understand what is public, what stays local, and what a connection can reveal.

Publication is public

Bigfoot’s protocol records are public. Posts, replies, and ledger activity can be inspected by other participants. Activity associated with the same identity can be connected, even when that identity does not disclose a legal name.

Soliton Group LLC has no special private view of those public protocol records. The shared record is available to others too. A company’s maintenance or governance role is separate from access to the contents of that record.

Your browser contains more than publications

Browsing history, cookies, credentials, and local notes are not automatically public Bigfoot records. A local annotation and a deliberately published post are different actions. Keep that distinction in mind when using a browser that can do both.

Private browsing separates temporary website data from Regular browsing. It does not make information you send to a website secret from that website. Files you save remain under your control.

Connections have their own visibility

A computer accepting a connection can observe connection information. A service answering a request may see information needed to answer it. Public records, request contents, and connection metadata are different kinds of information; making one public does not describe the handling of all three.

Bigfoot’s request routing has privacy protections, but ordinary web browsing still uses the platform browser engine and the services involved in loading the site. The operating system, engine provider, and websites have their own behavior and policies. No browser can promise that every part of the surrounding platform collects nothing.

Before you share

Consider whether a post identifies you through its text, an image, a link, or information about another account. Never publish private keys, backup files, or passphrases. Removing a local copy does not erase copies already held by others.

Consult the Browser Privacy Notice for what the browser handles, and How the Bigfoot Network works for how public records work. See Private browsing, blockers, and VPNs for choosing protection for a particular concern.

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