Please note that you do not need a PayPal account in order to pay via PayPal - you can also pay with a credit or debit card via PayPal right away, without having to register for a PayPal account, and even if PayPal accounts are not available for your country.

It is our policy to acknowledge donations of $100 (US) or above on the Openwall donations web page, along with an optional link to the donor's personal, company, or project website (relevant sites are preferred, most are OK, some might be inappropriate). Smaller donations won't be acknowledged on the web page (you're donating to help us improve the software, not edit web pages, right?), but are nevertheless greatly appreciated. Recurring donations will be acknowledged on the web page once the total accrues to $100 or more.

If you're donating $100 or more or setting up a recurring donation, please specify the person, company, and/or project to acknowledge and the desired link URL (if any) or mention that you'd like to remain anonymous (if that's your choice) in your payment comments or in an e-mail to <donations at openwall.com>. It may take a few days for us to add the acknowledgement; please be patient.

Please note that, while the above is our current policy, your donations are assumed to be genuine, and thus no sale occurs when you make a donation. A policy change is possible, and acknowledgements of past donations may be moved or even removed from the website. The current intent is to move most acknowledgements for prior years donations to sub-pages after 1-2 years of exposure on the main donations page, but this might change.

In compliance with Google's webmaster guidelines, our web pages with donation acknowledgements (many of which have links) currently have the "Googlebot" meta tag set to "nofollow", although this is subject to change. For example, we might switch to using rel="nofollow" on acknowledgement links for monetary donations only, leaving other acknowledgement links to relevant sites without "nofollow". This would seem to be in compliance as well.

We do not link to scam sites, adult entertainment sites, and to sites with unsolicited popups and the like (and we never did). We will no longer add new links to gambling and pharmaceutical sites, although some existing links are grandfathered for now (to the best of our knowledge, those sites are otherwise OK - not scams, no popups, etc.) We may also refuse to link to sites that, in our sole discretion, would appear to have been promoted via any type of spamming activity (unsolicited blog comments, e-mail, etc.), and we may remove applicable existing links for this offence.