What we believe
Big Tech profits from surveillance. Everything we build is designed to fund justice instead.
We are building a home for people who believe the things below — starting with private search, and growing from there. If you believe them too, you belong here.
What you do here is yours.
Your searches, your work, your words — yours. We do not log your queries. We do not build profiles. We do not track you across the web. Privacy is not a feature we offer — it is the condition on which this platform exists. If we ever compromise on this, shut us down.
International law and social justice are non-negotiable.
We stand for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We stand for the Geneva Conventions. We stand for the right of all people to live in dignity, free from occupation, apartheid, and collective punishment. These are not political positions. They are legal obligations that the world has already agreed to.
People have inalienable rights — everywhere, always.
The right to privacy. The right to free expression. The right to organise. The right to access information. These rights do not depend on your citizenship, your location, or whether your government recognises them. They are yours by default. Any system that strips them is illegitimate.
No one should fear for their livelihood because they support peace and equality.
Around the world, people lose jobs, face prosecution, or are blacklisted for advocating justice. For speaking about Palestine. For organising workers. For defending migrant rights. A platform built for this community must protect the people who use it — not just their data, but their safety.
Systemic change does not require heroic gestures.
You do not need to protest, donate, or organise to make a difference. You need only use tools you already reach for every day — searching the web, keeping a record of your work. On Zaytoun, those everyday acts redirect value away from surveillance capitalism and toward the causes you believe in. The most mundane digital act, repurposed.
Community infrastructure belongs to the community.
No one should profit from selling your community’s tools out from under you. Zaytoun is committed to steward ownership: the platform cannot be sold for personal profit, and voting control stays with the people who build and use it. When we reach €500k revenue or 100,000 members, the transition begins. The pathway is named. The progress is public.
How it works
You use the tools. We don't track.
Search runs through metasearch; your work and writing stay yours. No logs, no profiles, no third-party tracking — across every product.
Advertiser partnerships fund causes.
Sponsored content and brand profiles — not surveillance ads. Every relationship disclosed. All revenue visible on our transparency page.
Members fund the platform.
Membership fees (from €24/year) pay for servers and development. This money never goes to causes — it keeps the lights on.
Two pools. Never mixed.
Operations funded by members. Causes funded by advertisers. Separate by design. Auditable by anyone.
What we publish, what we don't
We publish: usage counts, membership totals, revenue, disbursements, ownership progress.
We don't: queries, IPs, browsing patterns, profiles. We don't log them. We don't have them to hand over.
Transparency about money builds trust. Opacity about people protects lives. Both intentional. Both non-negotiable.
If you believe what we believe, you belong here.