Riseup is an autonomous tech collective that has provided communication tools to movement groups and individuals since 1999, particularly activists and social-movement organisations. Its services include email, a VPN, mailing lists, collaboration tools such as Pad, Share and Groups, and Tor onion services. Riseup is run by volunteer members of the collective and is delivered as a hosted service through its website. According to its own policies, Riseup does not log IP addresses, stores data encrypted and does not share user data with anyone.
The collective is based in Seattle, in the United States. According to its own FAQ, its servers are located in the US; Riseup says it has physical control of its servers and does not run in the cloud. For a European organisation, this means data falls under US jurisdiction, although the service is a non-profit with no commercial parent company. According to the privacy policy, accounts created after March 2017 use personal encryption, which Riseup says it cannot read.