Our Digital Ethics & Sustainability Commitment

We're building with transparency, privacy, and environmental integrity at the core.

CrowdInBlue is committed to aligning our digital infrastructure with the same values we promote in the water sector: openness, collaboration, and long-term sustainability.

That’s why our platform is shaped by principles we can stand behind — not marketing. These are our defaults, not just our promises.

From the beginning, we chose to walk a path that champions software, infrastructure, and tools aligned with our core principles: Digital Sovereignty, Privacy-by-Design, and Climate-Conscious practice.

This commitment guides everything we do — from hosting decisions to community engagement — ensuring our tools serve the mission without compromising your rights or the planet.

Our Principles & Progress

We guide our actions with ethical, transparent, and sustainable standards.

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Digital Sovereignty

We intentionally reduce dependence on Big Tech to preserve user freedom, encourage healthy competition, and avoid infrastructure lock-in. This approach supports flexibility, innovation, and a more resilient digital ecosystem.

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Privacy-by-Design

We don’t use cookies, trackers, or surveillance-based analytics — only privacy-friendly tools that serve you, not use you.

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Climate-Conscious practice

We aim to build our entire value chain around infrastructure and tools that prioritize low-impact energy use, renewable sourcing, and transparent sustainability practices.

Principle Rating Notes
🏛️ Digital Sovereignty ✅✅✅✅🔹 Our stack is hosted locally in the EU (AlwaysData + IONOS), built with Astro and VSCodium, and versioned on Codeberg. We use Tally.so for form inputs and kMeet for meetings — both GDPR-aligned and based in Europe. These choices reflect our commitment to digital sovereignty—minimizing dependence on Big Tech, prioritizing ethical tools, and ensuring our infrastructure respects user freedom.
🔐 Privacy-by-Design ✅✅✅✅✅ We don’t use third-party tracking for advertising or surveillance. We use Tally.so for forms (no cookies, no hidden scripts), and Infomaniak kMeet for private, login-free video meetings. As the platform grows, we’ll continue to disclose all external services and never sell user data.
🌿 Climate-Conscious practice ✅✅✅✅🔹 Our infrastructure partners (AlwaysData, IONOS) use renewable energy and offset emissions. Infomaniak also powers kMeet with renewable sources. While we’re not fully zero-carbon, we prioritize partners with measurable sustainability practices and continue working on improving areas like hardware lifecycle and digital efficiency.

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Our Stack

Our choices reflect our commitment. These are the tools and providers that support our mission — not just technically, but ethically.

We apply our ethical principles not just to what we build, but to how we build it — from hosting providers to site generators. This is the intentional digital value chain behind CrowdInBlue.