Privacy Starter Kit
A ready privacy plan for students, teachers, freelancers, remote workers, real estate agents and senior citizens, sorted by priority.
About this tool
Privacy Starter Kit
A ready privacy plan for students, teachers, freelancers, remote workers, real estate agents and senior citizens, sorted by priority.
Privacy priorities depend on your life. Pick your role to get a starter plan built for the risks people like you actually face, sorted from quick wins to deeper fixes. This page brings together 6 separate privacy starter kit pages (Freelancer, Real estate agent, Remote worker, Senior citizen, Student, Teacher) so you can compare them without hunting for the right one.
How to use Privacy Starter Kit
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Open Privacy Starter Kit on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
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Choose your who you are at the top: Freelancer, Real estate agent, Remote worker, Senior citizen and 2 more. On a phone it is a drop-down list.
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Fill in the privacy starter kit for that who you are; each of the 6 options keeps its own rules, data and defaults.
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Read the result, then switch who you are to compare. The page link keeps your who you are (?v=freelancer), so you can bookmark or share it.
Why use Privacy Starter Kit
All 6 in one place
Freelancer, Real estate agent, Remote worker and the rest sit behind one picker, so switching who you are takes a tap instead of a new search.
Built for each option
Every who you are keeps its own rules, numbers and defaults rather than one generic template.
Shareable view
The link remembers the who you are you picked, so a bookmark or a shared link opens straight on it.
Common use cases
- Answer a client's security questionnaire honestly before signing a contract that includes data-protection terms.
- Clear out KYC folders from deals that closed more than five years ago and record what was destroyed.
- Set up a home office properly on the first day of a fully remote job, in the right order.
- Sit with a parent or grandparent and work through the phone and bank settings together in one session.
Frequently asked questions
Which who you are options does this tool cover?
6: Freelancer, Real estate agent, Remote worker, Senior citizen, Student, Teacher. Pick one at the top of the tool; the page link updates (for example ?v=freelancer) so you can bookmark or share that exact view.
How do I keep my home address off client invoices?
Use a registered business address, a coworking address or a post box on invoices, contracts and your website, and turn on WHOIS privacy at your domain registrar. Invoices get forwarded, filed and sometimes published, so an address on one is effectively permanent.
How long must a real estate agent keep client KYC documents?
Reporting entities under India's Prevention of Money-Laundering Act must preserve records of transactions and client identity for five years, so documents attached to a completed deal have a fixed keep-until date. This calculator assumes your agency is a reporting entity and applies that duty to every completed deal; documents from enquiries that never became transactions have no such duty and should be deleted once their purpose ends.
What is the first thing to secure in a home office?
Change the router's administrator password from the factory default and switch off remote administration, then confirm full-disk encryption and multi-factor authentication on the work machine. Default router credentials are published per model, and remote admin exposes that login to the whole internet.
Will a bank ever ask for an OTP over the phone?
No. Banks, delivery companies, government offices and payment apps never ask for an OTP, PIN or CVV on a call, and no genuine process requires you to read one out. If a caller asks, end the call and dial the number printed on your card or passbook.
What should a student do first to protect their accounts?
Turn on multi-factor authentication for your personal email and college account, using an authenticator app or passkey rather than SMS. Email is the password-reset path for everything else, so protecting it protects the rest; save the backup codes offline in case you lose the phone.
Why does using the school account matter more than any single security setting?
The school is the data fiduciary for student records, meaning it is legally responsible for their retention, deletion and access controls. Student data that ends up in a teacher's personal account sits outside all of that, so the account you work from decides whether the rest of your setup even matters.