Collect less
We ask only for information needed to verify, route, publish, correct, or respond to a submission.
Community Data Promise
Your information belongs in community hands. It is not for sale.
This page explains what we collect, what may become public, what stays protected, and what you can ask us to change.
Our public promise
Five commitments guide every form and review.
Keep private details private
Submitter contact information, internal notes, and protected review details do not appear in the public tracker.
No selling or targeting
We do not sell, rent, trade, or use private submission information for advertising, fundraising lists, data brokerage, or AI training.
Review before publishing
Nothing submitted through a form is published automatically. A person checks source, accuracy, privacy, safety, fairness, and usefulness first.
Give people a remedy
People may ask us to correct inaccurate information, remove private information, or review a safety concern.
An important limit: information intentionally published on this public website can be viewed or copied by others. We minimize what becomes public and never publish private contact details, but we cannot promise that public facts will never be reused elsewhere.
Privacy notice
What we collect and why
Forms may collect the public facts you submit, source links, optional contact details, and technical information needed to receive and protect the submission. We use it only to verify, route, respond, correct, maintain, or publish public-safe information.
Only people responsible for review, safety, administration, or required technical support may access private submission information. Partners and service providers must follow the same purpose, privacy, security, and deletion rules.
We keep information only as long as needed for the stated purpose, recordkeeping, safety, or legal requirements, then delete or de-identify it. We will publish a more specific retention schedule as each workflow is approved.
Community agreements
Participation must be useful, respectful, and safe.
- Share accurate, relevant information and link the strongest available source.
- Do not submit private details about another person, especially a young person.
- Do not use the system for harassment, retaliation, discrimination, surveillance, or commercial list-building.
- Name uncertainty and correct mistakes openly; forwarding something is not the same as resolving it.
- Young people may participate without giving up privacy, dignity, credit, or meaningful choice.
- Media attention is optional. Photos, video, audio, names, quotes, and stories require separate review and appropriate permission.
Potentially harmful or illegal media is quarantined from youth-facing work. Culture Crafters receive only material that has passed the adult safety, ownership, and permission screen.
These are also promises the Civic Lab makes to the community, not only rules imposed on people who submit information. Community members can propose changes through the feedback form.
Corrections + removal
You can ask us to review a record.
Use the correction form to identify inaccurate, outdated, private, unsafe, or unfair information. Include the public page or item and the strongest source you have. We will log the request, assess urgency, and tell you what happens next when you provide a way to follow up.
Request a correction or removalAccessibility
Information should be usable.
We aim for plain language, keyboard access, readable contrast, clear labels, and formats that work with assistive technology. Tell us when a page, form, or explanation creates a barrier.
Report an accessibility barrier →Safety + emergencies
This site is not an emergency service.
Forms are reviewed, but they are not monitored continuously. For immediate danger, call 911. Avoid placing sensitive personal, medical, legal, immigration, or safety details in a public-information form. Use the concern form for non-emergency routing and share only what is necessary.
Report a non-emergency concern