How responses are used
Answers are used only in aggregate. We never analyse, quote, report, or publish one response as an individual response. We may read an individual session internally to debug a result, check whether a question is working, or review suspected abuse; that access is never an output shown to a third party.
Phase 0 answers use closed choices and numbers, so there is nowhere in the questionnaire to type your name or company. A session still has a random id, timestamps, a short-lived hashed network address, and any campaign or referring-site information that brought you here. We do not claim that this makes identification mathematically impossible.
What changes if you give an email
Without an email, we cannot reach you. If you choose to give one, we also store that address and any optional name or organization you provide so a person can reply about your result. Your answers are still used only in aggregate. Giving an email does not put your name on your responses, and the optional follow-up checkbox starts unchecked.
We never name you or your organization in a case study, quote, or example without asking for explicit consent for that particular use.
How long things are kept
- Answers, result, and the unlinked session
- Indefinitely, as the closed-vocabulary research corpus.
- Hashed network address
- 30 days, then it is removed. The salt rotates daily, so the hash cannot link sessions across days.
- Campaign and referring-site information
- 12 months.
- Contact details without follow-up consent
- 90 days.
- Contact details with follow-up consent
- Until you withdraw that consent.
Automated retention work runs daily, so time-based removal happens within one day of the stated boundary.
Browser access lasts 24 hours
A diagnostic session can be continued, and its result reopened in the same tab, for 24 hours. The session id, access token, and any answers waiting to save live in that tab's session storage. When browser access expires, answers already saved do not disappear; they remain under the retention rules above.
What we publish
A fact about a question is published only when all four rules pass:
- the pool has at least 30 completed, included responses;
- at least 5 responses are in the reported cell;
- at least 5 responses are outside that cell; and
- the fact describes one question, with no cross-tabulation or segment-conditioned result.
A fact that fails any rule is silently withheld, not rounded or softened. The public participation count is a count of completed responses, not people, teams, or organizations; repeat completions cannot be detected.
Deletion and withdrawal requests
Email privacy@aframintelligence.com. Kwaku owns that mailbox. We complete the request and tell you what was done within 30 days, without restating the answers or contact details we held.
- With a session id: possession of the id shown on the result screen is enough. The id must exist; nothing else is checked.
- With an email but no session id: write from that address. If the request comes from another address, we ask the stored address to reply before acting.
- With neither: an unlinked session cannot be found. Its data expires or remains according to the retention rules above.
Withdrawal only leaves contact details in place but excludes the session from counts and future published aggregates. Deletion removes contact details and permanently prevents the session from being linked to contact again; it also excludes the session from counts and future published aggregates.
The session leaves the public completion count within 15 minutes of the request being executed. Aggregates already published before a request are not retracted or reissued; every aggregate computed after it excludes the session.