Document № 1 · the charter
What the Bureau files, and what it refuses to file
Plain answers, unusually for an institution.
What we file when you respond
- Your answer to the survey.
- A two-letter country code — supplied by our edge network from your connection, or declared by you. Never anything more precise.
- If you volunteer them: an age bracket and a gender. Both optional, both refusable, both revocable by simply never telling us.
- A timestamp, so the charts can have an x-axis one day.
What we never file
- IP addresses. They are read for country detection and rate limiting in memory, then discarded. None are written to the database.
- Names, precise locations, device fingerprints, advertising identifiers, or tracking cookies. The Bureau is not in that business; the Bureau is barely in any business.
What lives in your browser
A random voter id (so a second vote amends rather than duplicates), your own answers, and your streak. Clearing your browser storage makes the Bureau forget you instantly — anonymous responses cannot be traced back to you afterwards by design; there is nothing to look up.
If you sign in
Your email is used to sign you in and for nothing else. Votes are keyed to an opaque account id — your email is never attached to your answers, never shown on any map, never shared, never sold. Sessions live in an HttpOnly cookie. Signing out works, which is more than can be said for most things.
Correspondence
Grievances, corrections, and compliments may be addressed to support@useless-statistics.com. The complaints department is staffed on a volunteer basis by nobody.
§ ratified by unanimous vote of the undersigned (1 of 1) §