Queering ANCs

How your data works

The honest data map.

A companion to our Privacy Policy, shaped around the flow of data instead of the legal clauses. Last verified: July 1, 2026.

For many of us, privacy is safety. So here is exactly how information moves through this platform — what we keep, what we refuse to keep, and how research only ever happens with your permission.

1 · What we collect

Only what a tool needs to do its job: your name and single-member district when you build a card or a plan; your email if you make an account (for sign-in and to reach you); your saved progress, milestones, and the words you choose to write (your "why", notes). Signature counts you log. That's the inventory.

2 · What we never collect

  • Your home address — an address you type is turned into a district and then dropped. It is never stored on our servers.
  • Your check-in feelings — the wellbeing questions in the quiz are never stored or sent.
  • Your safety-kit checklist — which items you check, and which people-search opt-outs you use, stay on your device only.
  • Your ballot name — if you save it for the petition forms, it stays on your device, never on our servers.
  • Your January letter — sealed for you, never read, never used in research.
  • Your anchor and reflections — the words you write about your life stay yours; only the count of weeks kept feeds research.
  • Donor identities — when you sync donations from GoodChange, we record donation amounts, never donors. Names and emails stay in GoodChange; only the totals reach us.
  • Open/click tracking — our emails carry no tracking pixels, ever.
  • Third-party ad tech, and we never sell your data. Full stop.

3 · How research works

Research is off unless you turn it on (the toggle in Your profile). When it's on, we may include your journey in anonymized aggregates — counts and milestones only, never your words, your address, or anything with your name on it. Any group smaller than 5 people is suppressed and never shown. An example of the kind of thing we'd learn: "of consenting candidates who reached 25 signatures, X% went on to file." That's the whole point — to learn what actually helps queer neighbors win, and publish it.

Two different things, kept separate: operational counts (how many people used a tool — no names, always on) versus research aggregates (journeys joined together — only for people who opted in).

What your consented data builds. If you turn research on, your dashboard shows you a monthly receipt — what your anonymous data helped build this month, and where it shows up (the "2–8 flexible hours a week" figure, the citywide signature pulse, the completion patterns that improve the curriculum). The loop is simple: you consent, you see the collective value it creates, and nothing personal is ever shown — no number is published until at least five people share it.

The outreach log (if you opt in). The outreach log — the conversations, texts, and calls you track — lives on your device. If you opt in, only the counts (never your notes, never names, never per-person logs) sync to the same k-anonymized aggregate, so we can report things like "N outreach conversations logged citywide this month" for impact. It is aggregate, opt-in, withdrawable (turn research off and the sync stops), and never sold.

4 · Who sees what

  • You — everything about you, any time, at Manage your data.
  • Organizers — the support requests you send them, and moderation queues for anything you make public.
  • The public — only what you explicitly set public, plus the suppressed (k≥5) aggregates above.

5 · Your controls

See, export, or delete your data; flip research consent on or off at any time; pause nudges; run quieter by keeping fields private. You are never locked in, and turning research off stops future use immediately.

6 · Why we built it this way

We're building a bench of queer and trans neighbors ready to lead — and publishing what works so the next person has it easier. Consent-first is how that dataset stays ethical and trustworthy. Questions? info@capitalstonewalldemocrats.com.