What are nyms?

Freedom® uses pseudonymous digital identities, or "nyms", to help separate your true identity from your assorted Internet interests and activities. Because the Internet is a digital medium, everything you do and say can be archived and accessed by others at a later time. Your personal information is collected and archived to build a profile about your online interests and activities without your knowledge or consent. The profile can then be sold to companies and organizations who then target you with unsolicited advertising (known as "spam").

Nyms let you "start fresh", creating a new digital identity whose activities have not yet been recorded. Freedom nyms give you the power to choose who gets to see your personal information.

You can create up to three standard nyms that use Freedom's standard features. You can also purchase activation codes that are exchanged for premium nyms that benefit from Freedom's premium services.

Premium nyms have a predetermined life span and three states of being: active, inactive, and expired. Active nyms can be used for all your favorite Internet activities. When a nym's life span has reached its limit, the nym enters a grace period where it is inactive, but can be extended (you are warned by Freedom before the nym becomes inactive). If an inactive nym has not been extended, it becomes expired and can no longer be used by anyone.

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