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The Program
This sponsorship program is designed to allow companies, organizations, and individuals partner with the privacytools.io team to support our vision of a more privacy-respecting internet and the greater online community.
In exchange for financial support, we will provide companies with the exposure and recognition that they are supporting privacy education online. We will do so by displaying their logo and link on various portions of privacytools.io as described on the sponsors page in this PR.
Proposed Plans & Pricing
Context: The privacytools.io website receives well in excess of 250,000 pageviews monthly and is ranked highly for privacy-related searches.
Bronze: $250/month
Silver: $500/month
Gold: $1000/month
Website Recommendations
The sponsorship program will not impact any recommendations on the website. This will be ensured in a few ways.
Financial Information
These sponsorships, like all contributions to privacytools.io, would be facilitated by the Open Collective Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) charity. This means that all sponsorship spots would also be tax-deductible by US taxpayers.
This also means that we are legally not allowed to privately profit from any contributions given to us by our sponsors. The sole purpose of any funding we receive would go towards expenses that benefit our mission (to spread privacy education within our community and worldwide via outreach programs, and to host privacy-friendly services for our community and to serve as an example for self-hosters).
Clarity
I want to be clear that sponsorships are not advertisements. Sponsors will not receive tracking information and should not compare this program to an advertising or referral channel. This program allows organizations to support our mission while linking their brand as a supporter of the cause.
I would also like to restate that the actual listings on this website will be reviewed solely by a team of editors on a volunteer basis, who will not be paid by sponsors to adjust the recommendations. Because our expenses and contributions are tracked in public on OpenCollective, this can be verified by the community.
PR Information
Netlify link: https://deploy-preview-1451--privacytools-io.netlify.com/sponsors/
Changes: In addition to the /sponsors/ page, the donate link in the navbar has been replaced with the Sponsors page, and the donate link in the footer now links directly to OpenCollective. Crypto donations are still available at /donate/ and are also accessible via a donate link on the new /sponsors/ page.
Related: #899, #966. Closes #1452.
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I haven't became any more comfortable with this regardless of hours passing and rereading everything more closely. Is this ethical and going to the right direction?
What if Facebook started sponsoring Privacytools.io? Would that make Facebook automatically good for privacy to a casual observer?
I don't see how it would, no?
I guess the issue mainly would be that Facebook’s logo (if they were a Gold level) would appear on the home page and top of the Sponsors page which could give a mixed message to users. But to clarify, PTIO doesn’t support Sponsors but it’s possible a Sponsor’s services or products are recommended on the site, from my understanding.
In this specific (unlikely) scenario all we are saying is that "Facebook is sponsoring privacytools.io", which would be an objective fact. This is kind of my answer to questions like https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1409#issuecomment-545131416 too. From a transparency perspective this makes more sense than accepting contributions via PayPal and etc. where this information is hidden from the community as we have been in the past.
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@JonahAragon
I do agree that this is much better than funding your venture in the dark (paypal and such) - but I feel you can and should decide to take things one step further. As @nitrohorse mentioned, it would be very awkward having Facebook up on the frontpage of PTIO.
So why not define to exclude companies/sponsors who are obviously misaligned with your core values and mission? You could even switch the meaning around and only include companies/sponsors who are aligned with your values.
Both options would be a big improvement, ruling out Facebook immediately.
For the details, it would be hard to draw and define a precise line, but that is a different topic and totally up to the PTIO team. 😉