What this site knows about you, and what it does not.

What the questionnaire stores

The review records the answers you choose: how you decide, the roles you picked, the seats you composed, and what you said about your week. It also records a random identifier for that visit and where the visit came from, which is a campaign tag if you arrived through one, or the name of the site that linked you.

It does not record your name, your email address or your IP address. Nothing in it points back at a person. That is deliberate and not an oversight: the questionnaire was built to tell us which kind of person shows up, which does not require knowing who they are.

What happens when you leave an address

There are four kinds of place: the interest list, the founding places, the box at the end of the review, and the form at the foot of each room on the roadmap. Every one of them stores the address, the language you were reading in, that visit identifier, and where the visit came from.

The room forms hold a little more, because they ask for a little more: which rooms you ticked, your name if you chose to give one, and your message if you wrote one. A message is kept exactly as you wrote it, and it is used to reply to you and for nothing else.

All of it exists so we can write to you about Finakets. That is the entire purpose. It is not sold, not rented, not handed to advertisers, and not used to find you anywhere else. You can be removed whenever you like, and you never have to give a reason.

The visit note, and what can link it to you

When a visit begins, your browser is handed a random string, and beside it we keep where the visit came from: a campaign tag if you arrived through one, or the name of the site that linked you. It sits in session storage rather than in a cookie, and it is gone the moment you close the tab. It is written on the first page you land on, because by the time you reach the questionnaire that origin has already disappeared from the address bar.

On its own it counts, and nothing more. It says how many people arrived from where, and how many of those got as far as answering. It holds no name and no address, it is never sent anywhere else, and it is never matched against anything outside this site.

It becomes something about you in one case only. If you leave an address, the same string is stored on that row, and that is what lets a set of answers and a person be recognised as the same visit. That link is the reason the questionnaire is worth running at all, so we would rather explain it here than bury it. If you would prefer it did not exist, write to the address at the foot of this page: the link goes and your address stays on its own.

On what basis any of this happens

Your address, and whatever came with it, is held because you gave it to us for that purpose. That is consent, and it is one email away from being withdrawn.

The questionnaire answers are held on our legitimate interest in knowing which kind of person turns up, which is a low bar to clear when the answers carry no name, no address and no IP. The short-lived server logs our host keeps rest on the same interest, for keeping the site up and turning abuse away. The two cookies are neither of those things: they exist because you pressed something, and what they store is a preference rather than a person.

Where the data actually sits

Two suppliers handle it and nobody else does. The database is Supabase, in their London region, run by Supabase Pte. Ltd of Singapore. The site is served by Vercel Inc., a US company, which keeps short-lived server logs that include IP addresses, as every web host does.

Both act only on our instructions, and neither is given this data for its own purposes. Because both are outside the European Union, each transfer rides on the standard contractual clauses the Commission publishes for exactly this, together with the United Kingdom addendum. In both cases those terms come with the service rather than being something we could forget to sign.

How long it is kept

An email address is kept until you ask for it to go, or until the list is plainly finished with, whichever comes first. Whatever came with it, a name, a message, the rooms you ticked, goes at the same moment and by the same act: the row is deleted, not flagged and kept.

Questionnaire answers are kept while they are still useful for deciding what to build. Because they carry no name, no address and no IP, keeping them longer does not quietly accumulate a picture of you.

What you can ask for

A copy of whatever is held about you. A correction, if something is wrong. Deletion. An objection to it being used at all. A portable copy you can take elsewhere. And you can withdraw your consent at any point, which stops things from then on rather than rewriting what was already lawful.

Write to the address below and you get an answer within thirty days, in practice much sooner. If you think it has been handled badly, you can complain to the data protection authority for the country you live in.

If this page changes

The date at the top moves with it. If a change affects what happens to an address already on the list, the people on that list hear it from us directly rather than discovering it in a quiet edit.