Legal Notices

(1) Anti-Trust Guidelines for the Encrypted DNS Deployment Initiative

As with other initiatives to implement protocols across the Internet, the Encrypted DNS Deployment Initiative (“EDDI”) seeks to ensure the smooth global deployment and reliable operation at scale of DNS encryption technology in an open and transparent way across the Internet. This effort necessarily involves global coordination across a wide range of technical actors, from protocol designers to software developers, network operators, DNS operators, content delivery networks, cloud providers, application providers, and many others. In order to advance the pro-competitive and pro-consumer objectives of EDDI, it is imperative that all participants in EDDI abide by the antitrust laws. While not exhaustive, the following guidelines are intended to aid in your compliance with the antitrust laws. Participants in EDDI should consult with their own legal counsel on participation in the initiative and complying with all applicable laws.

1. Don’t discuss competitively sensitive information, such as pricing, competitive strategy, and future product roadmaps. EDDI participants should not discuss with each other pricing, competitive strategy, future product roadmaps or other similar information that could be considered competitively sensitive.

2. Don’t discuss with other participants in EDDI any joint action directed against another company, such as jointly refusing to deal with that other company.

3. Don’t discuss with other participants in EDDI your confidential dealings with business partners, suppliers or vendors.

4. Don’t discuss limiting competition or excluding competitors.

5. Don’t use exaggerated language. EDDI is a forum to share best practices, information on deployment and technical trials, lessons learned, and efforts to measure, test, and implement DNS encryption at scale across the Internet ecosystem. All communications in any form should be focused on those efforts. EDDI participants should avoid the use of exaggerated language. You should assume that communications made through EDDI are not confidential and will be shared outside of EDDI.

These guidelines are not intended to be exhaustive of the types of activities that are and are not appropriate for EDDI participants. If you have any questions about the application of these guidelines to particular facts and circumstances or questions regarding complying with the antitrust laws, please consult your own legal counsel.

(2) Privacy Notice and Policy

Privacy Notice

The Encrypted DNS Deployment Initiative (“EDDI”) understands that you care about how we collect, use, and share information when you interact with our website or mailing list, and we value the trust you place in us. This Notice explains the scope of our information collection, use, and sharing activities.

This Notice applies to the information we collect from and about you on this website. It does not apply to third party websites and mobile applications that may link to, or are linked from, our website – please review those third parties’ privacy notices to understand their privacy practices.

We may make changes to this Notice from time to time, which will be posted on this website. Any such changes will become effective when they are posted. Your continued use of our website or mailing list after we post changes will mean you accept those changes.

(a) Our Information Collection Activities

We collect information you provide to us through our website and mailing list, such as the information you enter into forms, including basic contact information such as name and email address. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. For the purposes of this Notice, we do not consider information that is intended to be shared with other persons, such as what you post on the mailing list, to be collected information.

We automatically collect basic logging information about your visit to our website. This information includes, for example, your IP address.

The website does not use third party ad tracking cookies. Cookies may be used on some web pages in order to provide Adobe Typekit font support. We do not respond to browser do-not-track signals.

(b) Our Uses of Collected Information

We use the information we collect from or about you to provide you with the information and services on our website, to improve it, and to detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal. More specifically, these uses include:

• Communicating with you regarding your feedback

• Keeping our website and systems secure

• Analyzing our web traffic to better understand our audience

• Defending against or exercising legal claims

• Investigating complaints or potential legal violations

• Assisting law enforcement

• Complying with our legal requirements

We may combine information collected via the website with information we obtain from our business records.

(c) Our Disclosures of Collected Information to Others

We may disclose the information we collect to:

• Our service providers, who act on our behalf and use it solely to support the website;

• Any member of our group of companies; and

• Another entity or its affiliates or service providers in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Notice.

We may use or disclose information about you if required to do so by law or on the good-faith belief that such sharing is necessary to conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our website; protect and defend our rights or property, the website, or our users; or act to protect the personal safety of our employees and agents, other users of the website, or members of the public.

(d) Cross-Border Data Transfers

If you use our website outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store the information we collect from or about you in the United States and other countries. Privacy laws in the U.S. may be different from the laws of your state or country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.

(e) Your California Privacy Rights

We do not disclose personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

(3) Participation and Intellectual Property

Participating in EDDI is free of charge and voluntary, including providing any information or comments through our website and mailing list. Absolutely no patent or trademark licenses are granted by providing information or comments, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. EDDI may compile the voluntarily provided information and comments into documents that may be passed to Standard Development Organizations (SDOs). As such, while participants retain ownership of any copyright in the submitted information or comments, EDDI is given sufficient rights to compile, edit and pass to SDOs the voluntarily provided information or comments without in any way obligating any participant to commit its patents to any current or future standard published by that SDO.

Effective Date 8.28.19

Last updated 9.11.19

Change Log:
- Version 1, 8.28.19 - Published
- Version 2, 9.9.19 - Final updates on go live date
- Version 3, 9.11.19 - Removed mention of specific protocols to remove any limitation on the type of encryption, transport or protocol, etc. by deleting “(namely, DNS over TLS (“DoT”) and DNS over HTTPS (“DoH”))”.