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Sick of AI in your web search providing the wrong answer? Tired of ads everywhere?

Do you even know companies like Google are using your photos, documents, email, and more to train their AI and target advertising at you? Not as an unfortunate side effect, but as the business model. The service is free because you are what's being sold.

Regain your privacy. Duensing Digital offers all the main features you need online: search, file storage and sharing, backup, document editing, bookmarks, password management, and more. No mystery data center in some random country, shared with who knows what other companies. The hardware is here, in Freeburg. You could drive to it.

The Things You Were Using Google For

If there's something you rely on that we don't run yet, ask. It's a short conversation.

One Account for All of It

Create an account here once and use it to sign in to every service. No separate passwords, no separate sign-ups.

Confirm your email address first. The services won't let you in until you do, which keeps people from signing up with someone else's address.

A few details worth knowing:

• Vaultwarden still asks for your master password after you sign in. That password encrypts your vault on your own device before it ever reaches us. We can't read your vault, and if you forget your master password we can't recover it either. Pick one you will remember, and write it down somewhere safe.
• The Minarca backup client uses an access token. Sign in to Minarca's website, make an access token in your user profile there (Access Tokens), and give the backup client your Minarca user name and that token. Your Minarca user name is your email address with the @ changed to an underscore. If you've turned on two-step sign-in, sign in to Minarca's website with an app password from your profile page instead of your password.
• Desktop and phone apps (Nextcloud, Minarca, Bitwarden) keep working after you sign out of the website. You can disconnect them from each app's own settings.

What's Free

• Search, for everyone, with or without an account.
• Linkwarden and Vaultwarden, for everyone with an account. There's no paid version.
• 5 GiB of storage, shared between Nextcloud and Minarca, however you like.

More Storage

Storage is pooled. Whatever you buy, you decide where it goes: all of it in Nextcloud, all of it in backups, or any split in between. Change your mind whenever you like. You don't have to tell us; it just follows what you use.

Extra storage comes in blocks of 100 GiB. Each block costs [TBD: storageUnitPrice]. Buy as many as you need. You can pay monthly.

Prices don't include tax. Any tax that applies is added at checkout and shown on your receipt.

Adding storage takes effect straight away. Removing storage takes effect at the end of the period you've already paid for.

You pay through PayPal or by card through Stripe. Both take you to their own site to pay and then send you back here, so we never see your card number.

See your storage and add more

How the Sharing Works

Nextcloud and Minarca each keep their own limit, and neither knows what you've put in the other. So every 5 minutes (and whenever you sign in or change your plan), we check how much each one is using and tell both how much room you have left.

Which means each of them shows your own files there plus all the space you have left. Put 1 GiB in Nextcloud and Nextcloud's total stays the same, while Minarca's drops by 1 GiB a few minutes later. The numbers won't match each other, and they aren't meant to: the free space is the same space in both.

If You Stop Paying, or Leave

• A payment fails. You have 14 days to fix it. Nothing changes during that time. The billing page explains the details.
• The grace period runs out. Your storage is frozen at what you're using. You can still get at everything, but you can't add more. Nothing is deleted. Pay what's owed and it goes back to normal. [TBD: how long a plan can stay suspended before it is cancelled.]
• You cancel. Your paid storage lasts until the end of the period you've paid for. Then you go back to the free allowance. Nothing is deleted straight away. If you're using more than 5 GiB, you can still get at everything, but you can't add more until you're back under the limit or buy more space. [TBD: what happens to data over the free allowance after 30 days -- PLAN says it is "removed", but not which data or how the user chooses.]
• You delete your account. Everything is removed from every service after 30 days. Until then you can change your mind. Download anything you want to keep first.

You Can Point at the Machine

When your files live with one of the big providers, the honest answer to "where is my data?" is a shrug. It's in a data center somewhere, in some country, subject to some jurisdiction, on hardware shared with companies you will never hear of.

Ours is here. If you want to know who has access to it, the answer is a person you can call. If something breaks, you don't file a support ticket into a void. You call 618-228-2235.

Privacy

Your files are yours. We don't go through them, sell them, rent them, or feed them to an AI, and nobody is building an advertising profile out of your vacation photos. The privacy policy explains exactly what we do keep, and why.

Getting Started

Start with the search. It's open to everyone, right now, no account required. If you like it, here is how to get the rest.

1. Create an account.
2. Confirm your email address.
3. Sign in to any of the services above with that account.
4. Install the apps you want: Nextcloud for files, Minarca for backups, Bitwarden for passwords (point it at https://passwords.test.duensing.digital), and the Linkwarden browser extension for bookmarks.

Questions first? Call 618-228-2235 or email scott@duensing.digital.