Privacy

The short version

We collect the least we can get away with. The only thing about you that ever appears publicly is the handle you choose. Your email address is never shown to anyone, never sold, and never passed to anyone except the service that delivers your mail.

What we collect

If you only read the site

No account, no cookie, nothing stored about you beyond the ordinary web server log described below. There is no advertising and no third-party tracking on any page.

If you create an account

• Email address — to sign you in and to tell you when something you submitted is published or declined.
• Password — stored only as a scrypt hash. We cannot read it, and neither can anyone who steals the database.
• Handle — the public name you pick, shown beside anything you contribute.
• A session cookie — how the site knows you are signed in. It holds no personal information and is not used for tracking.

If you report a problem

• What you wrote, which county it was about, and when.
• Your email address only if you chose to give one, and only so that someone can answer you. Leave it blank and the report is genuinely anonymous — we have no way to work out who sent it.
• A keyed hash of your IP address, used to stop one person flooding the queue and for nothing else. It is not an address and cannot be turned back into one; it is erased after 24 hours.

Reports are read by moderators. They are never shown publicly, on the county page or anywhere else.

If you contribute

• What you submitted, the source link you gave, and when.
• Which meetings you have said you will attend.
• Whether a moderator published or declined it, and the reason given.

Server logs and sign-in attempts

The web server records the usual: IP address, page requested, time. We also record failed sign-in attempts against your email and IP address so that we can rate-limit password guessing. Those records are deleted automatically after 24 hours.

What is public

Your handle, and the contributions attached to it. That is all. Specifically:

• A meeting schedule you add shows added by @yourhandle with the date and the source link.
• A meeting you say you will attend is counted publicly. Your handle appears beside it only if you have turned that on in your account settings. It is off by default.
• Your email address, home county, and the meetings you looked at are never shown to anyone.

Attribution is stored against your account rather than against the handle you had at the time, so changing your handle changes it everywhere, including on things you contributed years earlier. If you started with your real name and would rather not have it there, changing it once is enough.

Who else sees it

• Brevo delivers our email, so they process your address in order to send it.
• Stripe handles membership payments if you become a member. Card details go to Stripe directly and never touch our server.
• Google Fonts serves two typefaces, which means your browser requests them from Google when you load a page.

That is the complete list. We do not sell data, share it with advertisers, or hand it to anyone else. If we are ever compelled to disclose something by a lawful order, we will tell you unless we are forbidden from doing so.

Getting rid of it

Write to us and we will delete your account, your email address and your attendance records.

One thing we will not delete on request is a published meeting schedule that other people now rely on. We will remove your name from it — attribution becomes anonymous — but the fact of when a public body meets is a public fact, and it does not stop being true because the person who looked it up has left. If you think a specific record is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Children

This is not a service for children. Do not create an account if you are under 13, and tell us if you believe a child has.

Changes, and how to reach us

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so on the site rather than quietly editing the date. Questions, corrections and deletion requests all go to the address in the footer.