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-Privacy.
- 
-Transparency.
+Autonomic is a workers co-operative. That means we are owned and run by our workers, not by bosses or investors. We make our 
+decisions collectively using consensus. It means we are committed to a set of basic principles of working on projects for social 
+good. We reject destructive and unsustainable practices within the tech industry.
 
-Sustainability.
+As individuals, we have become increasingly concerned with the levels of surveillance carried by nation states and corporations. 
+Everyone deserves the fundamental right to privacy and safety online as well as in the physical world. We seem to be moving ever 
+closer to a total reliance upon centralised services that mine our data for profit and are run in anything but our best interest as 
+users.
+
+There is another way. The philosophy of free and open source software allows for development guided not by profit alone, but instead 
+by the desires and inspiration of the developers and users. Rather than subjugating users, it aims to empower. Don't like the 
+specific direction a project is going in? Copy the code and start your own project and then share that with the world. Sharing is 
+always better than hoarding. Hoarding gets you nowhere good in the long run. You can't achieve happiness from piles of money alone.
+
+## Privacy
+
+We are committed to providing a platform for progressive projects and ideas that require accessible and modern infrastructure to 
+thrive and grow. 
+
+We seek to minimise data collection and retention wherever possible. If you don't need it, don't collect it.
+
+We will utilise and recommend encryption wherever possible, especially if it is end to end encryption and has been well tested in 
+real life scenarios by non-technical users.
+
+We believe that unrestricted and uncensored access to the internet is a human right and we should all resist any attempts to stifle 
+the sharing of knowledge and experiences that helps build greater cooperation between people around the world.
+
+
+## Transparency
+
+We don't give you any crap. If something is wrong, we'll let you know and we seek to communicate with our clients and the public in 
+an effective way.
+
+We use the software we recommend and deploy and are committed to using free (as in freedom) software wherever possible and seek to 
+contribute back to the projects we rely on where practical.
+
+We won't work with or for any organisations that are racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist or otherwise engage in oppressive 
+behaviour.
+
+We will share with the community anything that we make that is really cool and useful that will help build the software commons.
+
+
+## Sustainability 
+
+As a workers co-operative we aim to grow in a sustainable way. This means not taking venture capital or risky loans. We do this the 
+smart way through hard work. We are always learning and studying as we go.
+
+We are committed to learning more about about the ecological impact of technology. Whether that be the energy used by data centres 
+or the components in our computing devices.
+
+We are committed to investigating ways to making ecological choices in our daily lives just as in our business. Many of us are vegan 
+or vegetarian and we always use public transport or cycle where possible.
+
+We will engage with the wider co-operative movement and work together to grow our sector and begin to build a new world in the ashes 
+of the old.
+
+
+We hope this basic statement of principles has given you an idea of where we are coming from and perhaps where we will go. The plan 
+is to revisit these ideas as we grow and access the impact of this project. We hope you will be a part of this adventure.
+
+Autonomic Co-operative