PremLINK is a directory-based Metropolitan area network, its supporting infrastructure services, various VoIP, directory-, some partly-, and non-integrated services provided on it.

The layer 1 network established spans only about 46km² but it can easily reach most of the city's area. A city of 300,000 inhabitants, about half of the state's total. It's layer 2 footprint however goes cross borders into the Unites States, explored more in depth in the privacy policy.

Originally there were only infrastructure services and virtual desktop services offered, but the increased monopolistic and privacy-invasive behavior that most basic services providers (e.g. email), analytics as a business model and the fact that there was already a directory service in place for the user base lead incorporation of the basic services most public providers like offer. The first goal was to replace the most widely used public provider in the user base: iCloud. iCloud itself in its MobileMe days was marketed as Exchange for the rest of us because it targeted the set of the services an Exchange Server provides. It is more likely that the services sought to replace by iCloud, though also provided by Exchange, they were Google's, given Google offered these on iOS even before than Apple itself.

Ultimately, whoever was (and is) providing these services, is abusing their position at every opportunity they get, so Exchange Server services were deployed. This came with some challenges, the technical were dealt with, the cost-, logistic-, and/or environmental challenges are the reason you are able to read this: it is not cost-effective, environmentally and otherwise to run a power-hungry Exchange Server (or a few other of the big server in the network) for only a handful of people actually in the network. Making some things available publicly offsets that a little.

Being a directory service means there's no self-sign up either, as you'd need indirect access to a directory server, or domain controller, or a federation server which is sort of an intermediary between services and directory servers, usually for an third party's of either of these. Users are added manually by an admin, after that, all services become available but until them, though growing, there aren't as many anonymous services accessible as there are their authenticated counterparts.

Please at least skim the privacy policy to learn PremLINK's stand and what information you'd be sharing (or rather not sharing) by using any of the services. If you don't care and you're in a hurry to snoop around, we recommend you Skiptube (an Invidious instance) to watch YouTube without the tracking and ads, it's essential for mobile devices were ads, scripts and other stuff is force-loaded by YouTube into users' devices in disregard for a user's data plan limits, or low speed network, or just the fact that users are unlikely to be persuaded in the first place for an ad that they don't want to watch. You are welcome to visit https://go.vitanetworks.link/home too, which tracks the URL a page meant to be displayed on the intranet, it's automatically set as the homepage and new tab page on the browsers of computers on the intranet, as such, it usually has a listing of services available reasonably updated (after evaluating how much cam be linked publicly).

  Information about this specific site (id est versus the network of sites)

  Information about what you may copy from our sites (TLDR: it's [[CC BY-SA v4.0||https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0]], so everything as long as you share)

  The terms on which you'd agree using PremLINK. On big sites, this states the obligations each side has but mostly the user so the service provider can use it as an excuse to penalize or justify voiding/waiving the next point.

  An intentionally boring, deceitful, long list of horrible, invasive, and egregious things we'd like to do with your private information (or not) you willingly and unwillingly provide (or not) that start with a sentence similar to "at X we value your privacy…" (or not). Just FYI, this is the obligations that the organization providing you a service that usually were "free" services but more often those include paid offerings as well. A privacy policy is not needed for anything if whatever in question isn't handling any private/personal data needing protection—this policy is not published for the user, it is published, deceitfully so, to legally protect those publishing it. Remember this next time you feel the urge to scroll all the way down to skip it.