This forum is built to need as little of your information as possible. Voting is anonymous, there are no trackers, no ads, no analytics, and this site makes zero requests to third-party services from your browser — fonts and all assets are served from this site itself.
One important exception, stated plainly: if you opt into updates, delivering them requires third-party messaging services (WhatsApp and our email provider) that store your data on their own systems, under their own privacy policies. Details below.
You can read, vote, write statements, and create topics without any account. Your browser generates a random anonymous ID, stored only on your device, so the system can show you statements you haven't voted on yet. It is not tied to your name, email, or anything else about you.
Votes are recorded against that anonymous ID. Statements and topics you write are public — don't include personal information in them.
Individual votes are never shown publicly anywhere — not on the site, not in WhatsApp groups, not in emails. Only aggregate tallies are visible.
If you sign up for updates, the messages we send you travel through services we don't control, and those services will store your data:
Accounts exist for one purpose: updates and voting continuity. We store the display name you choose, your contact detail (email or WhatsApp number), which topics you follow, and a voting identity for your account.
Because of that voting identity, an account links your votes to your contact detail on our server — that's what lets you vote from your phone, the website, or an email link without being asked the same question twice. This link is never public, never shared, and never sent to the delivery services above. If you'd rather nobody can connect your votes to you at all — including us — simply vote without an account: anonymous voting is always available.
Signing up requires confirming your email or WhatsApp number (we send you a link). Unconfirmed contact details are never messaged and are deleted automatically within an hour.
To prevent spam, topic creation is rate-limited. For this we reduce your IP address to a salted, truncated cryptographic hash the moment a request arrives — the raw address is never written to disk, and the hash cannot be reversed into an address.
We set no tracking cookies. When you confirm an account we set a single functional cookie that keeps you signed in on that browser; it contains only your account reference, is inaccessible to scripts, and is never used to track you across sites. Your browser's local storage holds your anonymous voting ID, your account details (if any), and keys for topics you created — all on your device, readable only by this site, and gone if you clear your browser data.
Reply unsubscribe on WhatsApp or use the one-click link in any email — updates stop immediately, and re-subscribing only happens here on the website, so nobody can silently switch you back on. To have your contact details and account deleted entirely, ask the moderators. Note that WhatsApp and Mailgun retain their own copies of past messages under their own policies; deleting your account here does not delete data they hold.
This forum is run by local volunteers. Questions or deletion requests: ask in the community WhatsApp group, or open a topic about it right here.