Why Your Data Stays Yours
A lot of services are vague about what they do with your files. We'd rather be plain about it.
When you put your work somewhere, you're trusting whoever runs it. Most services answer that trust with a long policy you have to read twice to understand. We'd rather say it in a few sentences you can hold onto.
Your files are yours. We don't sell them, we don't scan them, and we don't train anything on them.
We don't sell it
Your data isn't a product. We make our money from the service itself — the workspaces, the storage, the support — not from anything we can learn about you or pass along to someone else.
We don't scan it
We don't read through your files to profile you or feed a recommendation engine. The storage assigned to your account is there to hold your work, not to be mined.
We don't train on it
This is the one people ask about most now, so it's worth being direct: what you store with us, and what you say to ZOLA, is never used to train a model. ZOLA runs on our own hardware precisely so that promise is easy to keep.
It's backed up
Staying yours also means not losing it. Your storage is backed up, and recovery is part of how the system is designed — not an afterthought we hope we never need.
And you can take it with you
If you ever decide to leave, your files come with you. There's no hostage situation where your work is easy to put in and hard to get out. You brought it; you can take it home.
None of this is a feature we're selling you. It's just the baseline we think a service like this should start from.
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