Privacy
What we keep — and why
This notice is for Em Dash Rights, an independent initiative based in Sydney, Australia. It takes effect on 17 August 2026.
Who collects this information
Em Dash Rights collects personal information to run the declaration, the archive, and organisational endorsements. Write to press@emdashrights.org for privacy requests. We read that mail from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
What we collect
Signing asks for a name, a role, a country and an email address. We do not ask for date of birth, residential address, school, employer, phone number or gender.
Story submissions may include a category, a country, an account of what happened, and optional publication consent. Organisation forms ask for a representative name, contact email, and enough detail to verify the endorsement.
The site also receives technical data needed to operate it — for example an IP address used for rate-limiting and Cloudflare Turnstile abuse checks.
Why we collect it
We use this information to record a signature, to display a public name only when that box is checked, to send major updates only when you ask for them, to review stories, to verify organisations, and to protect the service from automated abuse.
What is public
Email addresses are stored separately from the public signatory list — they are never published. A name appears publicly only if that box is checked.
Story submissions are private until they are reviewed. Published cases are edited to remove identifying information.
Organisation contacts are used only to verify an endorsement.
Who else sees it
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, including Pages and a D1 database. Cloudflare may process verification tokens and store data on servers outside Australia. We do not sell personal information.
How long we keep it
Signatures and private contact records are kept while the movement’s ledger is maintained, or until we agree to a deletion request that we can honour without breaking the public record we have already published.
Access, correction and complaints
You may ask us for access to the personal information we hold about you, or ask us to correct it. Email press@emdashrights.org.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — oaic.gov.au.