Legal & Privacy
Company
populus.social is operated by Initiative Economics BV, a private limited company registered in the Netherlands.
| Legal name | Initiative Economics BV |
| KvK number | (to be published) |
| Registered address | (to be published) |
| General contact | info@initiativeeconomics.com |
Trademarks
populus.social is a trademark of Initiative Economics BV. All rights reserved.
Privacy and Data Protection
Controller
The data controller for populus.social is Initiative Economics BV (details above). For data-subject requests — including access, correction, and erasure — write to dataprotection@populus.social. We will respond within 30 days.
Legal basis
populus.social displays content from the public fediverse. Posts and profiles retrieved from remote servers are publicly accessible under the ActivityPub protocol and are processed on the legal basis of legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). This landing page does not solicit or store personal data from visitors.
Your rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area you have the right to access, correct, object to, and erase personal data held about you. Send a request to dataprotection@populus.social.
Browser Storage
This site sets no tracking cookies and uses no cross-site identifiers.
The Fediwall section uses localStorage to persist display state (scroll position, loaded post offsets) within your browser. This data remains on your device and is never transmitted to our servers. No session cookies are set by the landing page.
Open-Source Licences
This site incorporates the following open-source components:
| Component | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Fediwall | AGPL-3.0 | https://github.com/defnull/fediwall |
| Bootstrap | MIT | https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap |
| DM Sans | SIL OFL 1.1 | https://github.com/googlefonts/dm-fonts |
| Inconsolata | SIL OFL 1.1 | https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata |
Fediwall — AGPL-3.0 notice
This site incorporates Fediwall, a client-side social feed widget licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The unmodified upstream source is available at github.com/defnull/fediwall. Users who interact with this software over a network may request the corresponding source code at dataprotection@populus.social.