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Privacy

Privacy

A short page, because we collect very little. No accounts, no advertising, no tracking scripts. The parts worth reading are about the reports you send us and the public records we republish.

No account, ever

You cannot register on this site and there is nothing to log into. Every page is public and reading one requires nothing from you.

No advertising, no trackers

There are no advertising networks, no analytics pixels and no social tracking scripts embedded in these pages. Nobody is paying us to follow you around.

Reports are public by design

A community report or a project report is meant to go on the public record with its photo and date. Your name is optional and reports are published without it by default. Do not put personal details in the description.

Photos carry metadata

A photo from a phone can contain GPS coordinates and a timestamp. For a report about a location that is usually the point. If it is not, strip the metadata before you send it.

Server logs exist

Like any website, the server records requests: IP address, time, page and browser. This is ordinary web server operation, used for keeping the site running and nothing else.

Outbound links leave here

We link to government sites, PHIVOLCS, PSA, DPWH and others. Once you follow one you are on their site under their policy, and several of the government sites we link to do not have working HTTPS, which we have written about.

Personal data in public records. This site republishes public government records: officials, contracts, contractors, budgets. Those name real people and companies because the records do, and they are public because the law makes them public. We do not publish SALN contents, we do not compile personal profiles, and we do not merge datasets to build a picture of an individual. Every source is listed.
Data Privacy ActThe Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 gives you rights over personal data held about you, including access and correction. If you believe something on this site contains your personal data inappropriately, tell us and we will look at it against the source record rather than just removing it or just refusing.