Privacy
Last updated 1 November 2026. Scars of Donbas is an independent project by Gleb Drobkov and Kris Borovik. Participation and submission are voluntary.
What we collect
Only when you publish: your answers, questionnaire and translation versions, submission time, interface language, optional broad birth/current region, and whether you arrived through the podcast welcome link. Your browser stores your language preference. Unsubmitted answers stay in the current page’s memory and disappear on reload. No account or name is required.
Storage and publication
Responses are stored privately in Appwrite and replicated to Google BigQuery for analysis. Public results contain counts and score positions without names, emails, receipt IDs, or individual location-linked records. Cohort charts require at least five submissions. This is pseudonymous participation, not a promise of absolute anonymity.
Abuse prevention
The application does not retain raw IP addresses. It stores a daily-changing keyed hash for rate limiting in its private serving database. Hosting and infrastructure providers may independently keep network and access logs. Rate limiting does not establish that every submission is from a unique person. The site also counts page visits for the project team: each visit records the page, arrival link, interface language, device type, a random browser identifier with no personal data, and the same daily-changing keyed hash; no IP address or name is stored.
Optional email
Email collection is disabled unless a working delivery integration is enabled. If offered, an address and separate consent choices are stored in a private contacts collection and BigQuery contacts table linked by receipt ID; they are never returned in public results. Requesting a summary does not subscribe you to project updates.
Retention and requests
Responses are retained for ongoing project analysis; there is no automated expiry in this release. Contact data is retained only for the consented purposes. Use the form below to request deletion or raise a privacy issue; keep your receipt ID so the project team can locate the response. Requests require manual review and do not automatically delete data.
Contact the project team
Do not include sensitive personal information. Requests are stored for the project team; sending this form does not automatically delete a survey response.