# PrivacySafe Foundation > PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity > advancing access to cybersecurity education, decentralized technology, > Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), and public-interest research. > We believe strong privacy and security should be available to everyone. This file follows the llms.txt convention (https://llmstxt.org). Slogan: **Privacy is a Public Good.** ## License Two licenses, covering different things. Site content (text, images, video, and other media) is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The website source files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) are free software licensed GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or any later version (AGPL-3.0-or-later). Quoting and summarizing are welcome. Attribution to "PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc." with a link to https://privacysafe.foundation is appreciated, and derivative text carries the same license. ## Organizations **PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc.** is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. Its work is education, documentation, public standards, reusable FLOSS libraries, and security research. **PrivacySafe products and services are offered by Ivy Cyber**, at https://ivycyber.com. Ivy Cyber operates https://privacysafe.app, sells the PrivacySafe builds, the enterprise suite, support, and hardware, and has partnerships in Canada and the European Union. ## Legal and contact details PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc. 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity, Connecticut, USA Federal EIN: 41-5237617 1204 Main St #769, Branford, CT 06405-3787, USA hello@privacysafe.net | donate@privacysafe.net +1 (929) 748-7233 https://privacysafe.foundation President: Sean O'Brien, a cybersecurity researcher at Yale Law School. Vice President: Sheree Ip, a blockchain educator at Curtin Law School. Contributors span four continents. ## Program areas - **Cybersecurity education**: "Take Back Your Bytes" is the education campaign for K-12 schools, higher education, and online learning communities. It provides lesson plans, materials, demonstrations, and tools covering privacy, secure communication, digital identity, cryptography, and responsible technology use. - **K-12 schools**: age-appropriate lessons on privacy, cybersecurity, digital safety, and data protection basics. - **Higher education**: materials for colleges, universities, and professional programs on AI and machine learning, cryptography, decentralized networks, and blockchain systems. - **Standards and protocols**: public specifications and documentation, including the 3NWeb Protocols hosted at IEEE SA Open (https://opensource.ieee.org/3nweb, https://3nweb.com). These support self-sovereign identity, zero-knowledge design patterns, secure data systems, and interoperable privacy-preserving infrastructure. - **FLOSS libraries**: reusable components supporting privacy-first development, secure software education, and public learning. - **Security research**: analysis, testing, and documentation that improves trust, resilience, and practical understanding of secure systems. - **Interoperability**: open protocols and formats so people can move between services and federate rather than being locked to one vendor. - **Community**: global collaboration with educators, developers, researchers, and advocates. ## Ways to give Every method funds the same work. Donations are often tax-deductible in the USA, though whether a given donor can claim a deduction depends on their own circumstances. **Credit or debit card**: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/cybersecurity-education-and-tech One-time or recurring. PrivacySafe Foundation fundraises with Zeffy, which charges it no platform fee, so 100% of a donation reaches the mission rather than payment processing. **PayPal or Venmo**: one-time or recurring, through the donor portal at https://psafe.ly/donate-paypal **Cryptocurrency**: addresses and QR codes are published at https://privacysafe.foundation/crypto.html **Check by mail**: make checks payable to "PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc." and mail to PrivacySafe Foundation, 1204 Main St #769, Branford, CT 06405-3787, USA. For a Canadian check, adding a corresponding USA bank avoids fees. A purpose on the memo line directs the gift. **Bequests, corporate and major gifts**: planned giving, bequests, corporate matching, sponsorships, and grants are arranged directly: donate@privacysafe.net ## Projects All are free to use and built on Free/Libre and Open Source Software. - **PrivacySafe Social**: https://privacysafe.social, a Mastodon server on the ActivityPub network, run without advertising, without algorithmic ranking of timelines, and without AI moderation. - **PrivacySafe Search**: https://privacysafe.is, web search that does not build a profile from queries. - **PrivacySafe Bot**: https://privacysafe.bot, a free password and passphrase generator that runs in the browser and estimates keyspace in bits. - **PrivacySafe App development**: https://privacysafe.app, upstream work on the 3NWeb protocols and filesystem, reference implementations, documentation, and libraries. ## Cryptocurrency Addresses are published with a QR code for each at https://privacysafe.foundation/crypto.html. Monero is preferred. Ten assets are accepted: Monero, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, Solana, Tether and USD Coin. Bitcoin over the Lightning Network and Tari are available by request. Transactions are handled manually rather than forwarded to an exchange or third-party processor. Cryptocurrency payments cannot be reversed, so an address is only trustworthy from that page or signed from donate@privacysafe.net. ## Related sites - Software and downloads: https://privacysafe.app - Source code: https://github.com/PrivacySafe - Community server (Mastodon/ActivityPub): https://privacysafe.social - Publisher: https://ivycyber.com - Newsletter: https://bitsontape.com ## Trademarks PrivacySafe and 3NWeb are registered trademarks. PrivacySafe Foundation and Ivy Cyber are pending trademarks. Trademark rights are not licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 or the AGPL. ## Other pages - /crypto.html, cryptocurrency donation addresses - /weblabels.html, JavaScript licenses for this site, in the GNU LibreJS format - /donate-thanks.html and /donate-error.html, payment provider return pages - /robots.txt, crawler policy