Frequently Asked Questions
A. The Vault is a cross-platform contact list. When you join, you will get a unique Add Contact Link that you can post to all of your social media sites. Tell your friends and followers to follow the link and connect to you. once they do, you'll never lose them again.
A. If you've already been banned, you'll need to get in touch with someone who you know on another social media platform, or a family member, and ask them to post your Add Contact Link on their page. You won't be able to contact every friend you made over the years on your own Facebook page, but you should be able to reconnect with some of them.
A. That's not a question.
A. You grab your unique Add Contact Link and post it on your Facebook page and Twitter feed before you close your account! Always before, because, believe us, you can't do it afterwards.
A. Yes, if by "just" you mean an online, cross-platform, indestructible roll-a-dex that updates itself when your contacts change emails, phone numbers, social media sites, websites, blogs, and video platforms. And, if you get booted off of Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, you can use it to send messages to all of your contacts at once, letting them know what happened!
A. The Freedom Seed Vault is here to help all of us stay in touch with each other, and to help us exercise our right to free speech. Part of that right is the right to privacy, the freedom to keep personal information personal, and to share only what we want to share. That's why we don't require that you give us any personal data, and why you can create an account with nothing more than a made-up name and a password. We don't log, track, snoop, or pry. We don't sell your data or mine it for others. We don't use "cookies" to track your browser. We take both free speech and privacy seriously. So why would we suggest that you share an email address with us? - First, if we have your email address then we can reset your password for you if you forget it, and prevent you from being permanently locked out of your account.
- Secondly, users who have entered an email address can send messages to their contacts. These aren't email messages -- they're within the Freedom Seed Vault itself. But we only allow people who have given us a valid email address to send them, to keep trolling and spamming to a minimum.
- Thirdly, if you give us an email address then you can choose to have some or all of the notifications you receive from your contacts periodically sent to you by email. That helps you reconnect with others, and helps them reconnect with you. But you have to "opt-in" to notications by email; we'll never send you email unless you tell us we may, and we'll never share your email with others.
Those are the advantages you get from sharing your email with us. But, as always, it's completely up to you! Please enjoy the Freedom Seed Vault -- and stay connected!
A. There are three member levels:
| | BASIC | VERIFIED | PREMIUM |
| | Add contacts by clicking their Add Contact Links. | X | X | X |
| | Share their own Add Contact Links with others. | X | X | X |
| | Share contact information (Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.) with other members. | X | X | X |
| | Send messages to other contacts. | | X | X |
| | Choose to receive email notifications of contacts, messages, etc. | | X | X |
| | Display a brief profile (500 characters) describing yourself. | | | X |
| | Appear in the Premium Member search results so that other members, including those who are not already contacts, can find you. | | | X | |
A. Just go to your Account page and enter your Private Email address. Within a few minutes we'll send you a confirmation email, just to make sure we got it right. Click the link in that email and that's it -- you're a Verified Member!
A. No. Only your Contacts, people who have clicked your Add Contact Link link, or whose link you've clicked, can see you. People can't search for you, and they can't see your contact information even if they know you're on the platform and even if they know your name.
A. No. Only Freedom Seed Vault members who are your Contacts can see you. People who are not members can't see any member information.
A. Yes, but only if you check the box to make yourself searchable. Sign in and click the Settings option at the top of the screen. Then scroll down and select the options that make you searchable and enable other Premium Member features.
A. Then you should become a Premium Member. Premium Members can make themselves searchable, so that any member can search for them by name. They can also do a few other things, such as post a short (up to 500 characters) profile about themselves, make their contact information visible to members who have not yet added them as contacts, etc.
Premium Members will still not be visible to the broader internet. Only people who have joined the Freedom Seed Vault can see other members.
A. Contacts can only see what you want them to be able to see. If you don't want them to see your cell number, you simply don't list it. But if you want your contacts to be able to ferret you out on every social media site you've joined since November of 2020, list them all and they will find you.
A. Not at all. A connection is the same regardless of who "clicked" on whom.
A. Yes, you can choose to be notified when you receive a new contact or when someone sends you a message. In order to do that you have to give us your email address. We'll send you a verification email to confirm that it's really yours, then file it away where no one else can see it: we don't share your email address with anyone.
Once you've done that you become what we call a Verified Member. Verified Members can choose to be notified daily or weekly about new contacts, messages, etc. They can also send messages to the members on their contact lists.
A. It's not a competition.
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