Your privacy on this site

You can read everything on this site without giving your name or creating an account. When you choose to take part, this page says what CRPD keeps, who can see it, and for how long.

📈Counting visits

What is kept: A count of visits per day and per hour, which pages and sections are opened, the kind of device (phone or computer), the language, and the kind of link that brought the visitor (for example WhatsApp or a search). Also whether the page was opened as an app installed on the phone, when it is installed, and whether the visitor has been to the site before (a note their own browser keeps).
What is not kept: No names, no internet addresses, no cookies, nothing sent to advertising or tracking companies.
Who sees it: CRPD staff, as totals.

📲For CRPD observers: the observer app

What is kept: For each observer’s access code: the first and last day the app was opened, the days it was opened and how often, whether it is installed on the phone’s home screen, and the kind of phone (Android, iPhone or computer).
What is not kept: Nothing about where you are or what you read in the app. This record does not include location. Location is shared only with your consent, as the app explains when it asks.
Who sees it: CRPD’s mission staff, to see who has the app working before polling day and who may need help.
How long: Until CRPD has published its report on the 2026 election.

🕊The peace pledge

What is kept: One more pledge in the area you tapped. Nothing else.
Who sees it: Everyone: the totals by area are public.

📣Media and contact, and page feedback

What is kept: If you ask CRPD for an interview, comment, analysis or data: your name, outlet or organisation, phone or WhatsApp number, email if you give it, your topic, deadline and language. If you rate a page: the score, your one line if you write one, the page and section, and the language. No name is kept with a rating.
Who sees it: CRPD's managers and communications team only. Your contact details are used only to reply to you.

🗣The daily check-in and the polling-day pulse

What is kept: Your constituency, your answers (calm, tense or trouble, what you have seen, the queue, whether you have voted), your note if you write one, the time, and the language of the page. No name. If you say tense or trouble and tick “Can CRPD call you about this?”, also the phone number you write.
Who sees it: The public sees only totals: how many people reported and the share saying calm. Your answers and your note are read only by CRPD’s staff, to follow up what they can. A phone number you leave is seen only by CRPD’s desk and used only to call you about that report. CRPD publishes only what it has checked, and never anyone’s note.
How long: Until CRPD has published its report on the 2026 election. After that the notes and phone numbers are deleted and only the totals are kept.

Please do not write anyone else’s name, phone number or address in a note.

🔔Phone alerts

What is kept: The alert address your browser gives for this phone, the date, and the language. It does not say who you are.
Who sees it: Only CRPD managers, and only as a number of phones. Alerts are sent through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging.
How long: Until you turn alerts off, or the address stops working, when it is removed.

🔎Reporting something, and offering to be a citizen observer

What is kept: What you write in the form, and the name and phone number or email you give, so that CRPD can come back to you.
Who sees it: CRPD staff only. Your name and contact details are never published. If CRPD checks and confirms what you reported, it may publish the finding, without your name.

⬇Downloading data from Gambia Electoral Studies

What is kept: For a single table or chart: only a count of downloads per dataset, and the purpose if you choose to tap one. No name. For a full dataset: the name, email, institution, country and purpose you write in the short form, the dataset, the date, and whether you asked to hear about updates.
Who sees it: CRPD staff only, to understand who uses its data and to report on it as totals. Your details are never published, shared or sold. If you ticked updates, CRPD may email you when that data is corrected or updated, and nothing else.
How long: As long as the dataset is published. Write to CRPD to have your details removed at any time. Your browser remembers that you filled the form, so you are not asked again on the same device.

🎓Programmes: theses, grants, the fellowship, the archive, the quiz league and observer alumni

What is kept: What you write in the form you chose, and nothing more. For a thesis: your name, email, the title, level, institution, year, supervisor if you give one, the abstract and the data used. For a thesis grant: also your phone if you give it, your research summary, what the grant would pay for and your cost estimate. For the fellowship: your name, outlet, email, phone, role, years in journalism, languages, a sample link if you give one and your story idea. For the archive: your name, phone or email, where you live, how and when you can help. For the quiz league: the school, its region and division, and the teacher’s name, phone and email if given; no students’ names. For observer alumni: your name, phone, email and observer code if you give them, where you live, the elections you observed and what you would like from the network. Each record also keeps the date and the page it came from.
Who sees it: CRPD staff only, to reply to you and run the programme you chose. Nothing is published, shared or sold, with one exception you agree to: for a registered thesis, once CRPD has checked it, the title, your name, institution, level, year, supervisor and abstract are listed on the Academy page. Your email and phone are never shown.
How long: As long as the programme runs, or until you ask CRPD to remove your details. Your browser remembers only the date you sent a form, so the page can remind you.

📋The expert survey of electoral integrity

What is kept: For each expert CRPD invites: name, email and field of expertise, and whether the invitation was sent and answered. Your answers are kept separately, under the private code in your link, with your field and how closely you followed the election. No name, email or address is stored with the answers.
Who sees it: CRPD managers only. The survey page in the Election Center shows totals, never one person’s answers next to a name. CRPD publishes totals for the whole panel only, and only when at least 15 experts have answered; every stage, statement or group shown must also reach 15. Comments are read by the research team and never published word for word.
How long: The invitation list (names and emails) is deleted when the survey closes; only counts by field are kept. The anonymous answers are kept for research. Your browser keeps your unfinished answers until you send them.

⚖Election Integrity Index and accessible polling places

After polling day CRPD publishes figures about how polling was conducted at the stations its observers watched, and facts about access at those polling places (for example a ramp or step free entry). These are facts about places and procedures, computed from observers’ checklists. They never include results, votes, observers’ names or access codes, or anything about a voter. Figures resting on fewer than five stations are not published. The access page remembers your last search in your own browser only; nothing you type is sent to CRPD.

🛟For CRPD observers: the safety check in

What is kept: On the deployment days and the drill day, each time you tap I am safe, I need help or Emergency in the observer app: your access code, your polling station, which of the three you tapped, the time, which daily check in it answers (morning, midday, after the count or home safe), and the short note you write, if any (up to 300 characters). When CRPD’s desk has reached you, the time, the staff member and a short note of what was done.
Your location: Never taken automatically. It is added to a call for help only when you tick Share my location for that one message, and it is then sent once, with that message only.
Who sees it: CRPD’s mission staff for your IEC office, the national mission posts and CRPD’s managers, so they can reach you and, if needed, your supervisor or coordinator. It is never published. A downloaded log says whether a location was shared, never where.
How long: Until CRPD has published its report on the 2026 election, like the other records of the observer app.

🤟Sign language videos in the picture voter guide

What is kept: For each step of the picture voter guide, one short video of a person signing the step in Gambian Sign Language, and the credit line that goes with it: the name of the person who signs, their organisation if they wish, the date of recording and the name of the person who checked the signs. The video shows the signer’s face and hands. CRPD records only people who have agreed in writing to appear on the public site, and keeps that consent with the recording. The public page itself stores nothing about visitors when a video is played; the video is fetched only when someone presses play.
Who sees it: Everyone: the videos and credit lines are published on the guide so that Deaf voters can follow each step. Before publication only CRPD’s communications desk can see them. Videos are not used for any other purpose without the signer’s new consent.
How long: For as long as the guide is published, or until the signer asks CRPD to remove their video or their name. A removed video is deleted from the public page and from CRPD’s storage.

💛Supporting the observation: pledges, receipts and our partners list

What is kept: When you pledge on the support page: what you are giving (money, items, food, transport or a training day) and how much, how you will send it, the pick up or drop off date and place if there is one, your name, your organisation if you give it, your WhatsApp number, your email if you give it, anything you write in the note, whether you asked to keep your name private, your confirmation that you are not a party, a candidate or their agent, and the date. When your gift arrives, CRPD adds the date, what came in, the receipt number, the payment reference, and when the receipt was sent or printed and by whom on the CRPD team. For an organisation listed as a partner: its name, logo, website and what it supports, and a private note of how and when it agreed to be listed.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers, its finance team and its fundraising team, to arrange your gift, confirm it and send your receipt. Your receipt goes only to you, on WhatsApp or by email, or on paper. Nothing is sold or shared.
What is public: Only totals: money received and pledged, the number of supporters, and gifts in kind, on the support page and on the Funding and transparency page. The names of people and organisations whose gift has arrived are thanked on the support page unless they asked to keep their name private. An organisation appears on the partners list only after it has agreed, and the amount it gave only if it agreed to that too. Ask CRPD at any time and your name or your organisation is taken off.
How long: As long as CRPD must keep its financial records. Your browser remembers a money pledge that is waiting to be paid for seven days, so you can come back to it.

If you choose a region whose observers your gift supports, CRPD also keeps that region with your pledge. The Funding and transparency page shows how many gifts and how much money each region received, as totals only; a region with fewer than 3 gifts shows “fewer than 3”, so no single gift can be recognised.

🕊The TRRC and security sector reform trackers

What is kept: Nothing about visitors. The two tracker pages only read a public list that CRPD publishes: milestones, dates, statuses and their public sources. They have no form and ask for nothing. In the Election Center, CRPD keeps the working copy of each item with the CRPD email of the staff member who added, changed or approved it, and when.
Who sees it: The published list is public. The working copy, drafts and staff emails are seen by CRPD staff only, and every change is written to the Election Center's audit trail.
About the people in the trackers: The trackers are built from official and published sources only. They make no claim about any person's guilt and name people only as public officials acting in their office. To ask for a correction, write to CRPD through the contact page.
How long: Items stay as long as the trackers are published. An item that is corrected keeps its earlier status, marked as such. Your browser remembers only which tab you last opened on these pages.

🗄Copies kept for safety

What is kept: So that nothing is lost if a system fails or a record is deleted by mistake, CRPD keeps copies of its election records. Every night an automatic copy of the database is made in a separate storage area on Google Cloud, in Europe. From time to time a CRPD manager also makes a copy that CRPD keeps itself.
Who sees it: Only the CRPD managers who look after the system. The copies are used only to put records back after a fault or a mistake, never to share data.
How long: Each nightly copy is deleted after 30 days. Copies CRPD keeps itself are replaced by newer ones. After the personal data clean up below, copies made before it are deleted: the nightly ones within 30 days, and CRPD’s own ones by CRPD.

🙋Applying to observe with CRPD

What is kept: What you write in the application form: your name, phone number, which number your WhatsApp is on, and your email if you give one; where you vote (region, constituency, ward and polling station) and the IEC office it belongs to; the role you apply for; whether you are a woman or a man, your age group, the group you join with and its name if you give it, and where you study if you are a student; your nationality; whether you have a smartphone and a power bank, the languages you speak, and, if you choose to answer, your home language, whether you read and write Arabic and whether this is your first vote; the elections you have observed before, with whom and in what role; the type and number of your ID document; one referee’s name and phone number; whether you applied with anyone else; whether you can cover your own costs and what help you would need; if you choose to tell us, whether you live with a disability, the kind, and what CRPD should arrange for you; whether you live in the ward, the town or village if not, and your home location only if you tap the button to add it (kept roughly, to about 100 metres); the commitments you ticked and the date. Your passport size photo is kept with the application. Later, if CRPD sends you a link, the home location or photo you send through it, and the short reference your referee gives (whether they know you, how and for how long, whether they would trust you to observe without taking sides, whether you belong to a party as far as they know, their note and their name).
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers and national mission staff, and the CRPD desk for the IEC office where you vote. Your photo is seen by CRPD’s mission staff. If you said you read and write Arabic, CRPD’s communications desk and Arabic team also see your application. As you agree in the form, CRPD shares your name, phone number, group and voting area with the CSO Coalition on Elections, with whom CRPD is observing this election. If you are selected, your photo and ID number go to the IEC for your accreditation, and to nobody else. Nothing is published, with one exception you choose: if you pay your own way and leave the box ticked, your first name appears on the supporters wall on the support page.
If you are selected: You fill in the IEC accreditation form in the observer app: full name, date of birth, sex, address, occupation, ID type and number, phone, and where you are deployed. CRPD staff can see it, and CRPD sends the list to the IEC. Your ID number, date of birth and address are removed from it at the clean up after the election.”, or how long it is kept.]
How long: On a date CRPD sets after it has published its report on the 2026 election, after the election, CRPD removes what the election no longer needs: applications CRPD turned down are deleted; from every other application, the ID and voter card numbers, the referee, the kind of disability and what CRPD should arrange, and the town or village where you live and your home location are removed; every applicant photo and every home location sent by link is deleted. The names, phone numbers and roles of accepted observers are kept for the record of the observation. The rest of an application is kept for CRPD’s record of the observation; you can ask CRPD to delete it at any time. Your referee’s answers are kept for the same record, and you can ask CRPD to delete them at any time. CRPD’s nightly safety copy keeps what was removed for up to 30 days, and is then deleted.
On your phone: Your browser remembers the phone number of an application sent from it, so the same application is not sent twice, and, until you send, the name and phone number you were sending. Clearing your browser’s data for this site removes them.

🎙Voices: the oral history programme

What is recorded: When you agree to an interview about your memories of Gambian elections, CRPD records your voice (and, only if you agree, video), then makes a written transcript and, where needed, an English translation. CRPD also keeps a short catalogue entry: when and where the interview took place, the language, and the themes you spoke about. Your name, phone number or email are kept separately from the recording, only so CRPD can reach you about your story, and are never published.
Your consent: Before the recorder starts, the interviewer explains the programme in the language you choose and goes through a consent form with you, which you sign or thumbprint; you keep a copy. On the form you choose: whether your name is published or your story is credited without it (for example, "a voter from Lower River Region, born in the 1940s"); who may hear or read it (everyone on this site, only researchers who apply to CRPD, or no one until a date you choose); and whether your voice or only the checked transcript may be used. You see or hear the transcript before anything is published and can correct or remove any part. CRPD does not interview anyone under 18.
Who holds it: The Center for Research and Policy Development holds the recordings, transcripts and consent forms, in storage that only the programme team can open. While an interview is being processed, only the programme team works on it; afterwards, only what you allowed is shared. Nothing is sold, and nothing is given to any political party, candidate or government body, or used for anything except the archive, research and teaching about elections.
How long: Recordings are kept as part of a permanent archive of Gambian electoral history, unless you withdraw. Material you closed stays closed until the date you chose. Your contact details are deleted when they are no longer needed to reach you about your story.
Changing your mind: You can withdraw before publication at any time, and CRPD will delete the recording, the transcript and your contact details. After publication you can ask for your story to be taken down from this site, or to have your name removed; CRPD will do so promptly, though it cannot recall copies others may already have made. To withdraw or ask a question, WhatsApp the CRPD office line, +220 872 073 066, as on the Voices page, or use the contact form.

🔗Checking candidates’ careers

The candidates page links people who stood at more than one election, using the names, seats, parties and results that the Independent Electoral Commission and published histories already make public. Where our script could not be sure that two records are the same person, CRPD staff check them by hand. A link is shown on the public page only when a reviewer has marked it "same person" with a source (a document, a news report or their own knowledge) and a CRPD manager has published it. The page then says "Confirmed by CRPD review" and names the document or report; for personal knowledge it says only "personal knowledge of a CRPD reviewer". A match is never based on a surname alone, a home area, ethnicity or religion.

Inside the Election Center we keep each decision with the reviewer's name and CRPD email address, the date, any notes and the last twenty earlier answers, so that every published link can be traced. Only CRPD staff can read these records, and they are not shared outside CRPD. If you stood as a candidate and think a link is wrong, write to us through the contact form on the Election Center page and we will check it again and withdraw it if it cannot be sourced.

🌍Joining the Diaspora support team

What is kept: What you write in the form on diaspora-team.html: your name, email, WhatsApp number, occupation and, if you give one, a public profile link; the country and city where you live and your time zone; the roles you choose, in order; your skills and experience, the languages you speak, and the hours you can give each week and on 5 December; your answer about party membership or party office now or in the past five years, with the details you give; your referee’s name and phone number or email; the pledge boxes you ticked; how you heard about the team, and the date. While CRPD vets you, the team’s staff add your status, which of the six checks are done (pledge, party declaration reviewed, referee contacted, public social media checked, confidentiality agreement signed, training passed) and a short note.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers and the CRPD staff a manager names to run the Diaspora support team. Nothing is published, and nothing is shared with anyone outside CRPD. Other members of the team never see your application.
Checks you agree to: CRPD may contact your referee, and looks only at what you post publicly on social media. CRPD does not ask for your passwords and does not keep copies of your posts; the result of the check is a tick and, if needed, a short note.
How long: Applications CRPD turns down, and those withdrawn, are deleted on the clean up date CRPD sets after the 2026 election. For accepted members, the referee’s details and the party declaration are removed at the same clean up; your name, contact details and roles are kept for CRPD’s record of the observation. You can ask CRPD to delete your application at any time. CRPD’s nightly safety copy keeps what was removed for up to 30 days, and is then deleted.
On your phone: Your browser remembers the email of an application sent from it, so the same application is not sent twice. Clearing your browser’s data for this site removes it.

📝For CRPD observers: the lessons learned survey

What is kept: After polling day CRPD asks its observers, supervisors, coordinators and desk staff about recruitment, training, the observer app, deployment, allowances and lunches, safety, support and the 2027 elections. With your answers CRPD keeps only your role group, your region and your IEC office. For desk officers and national posts, only the role group, because there are few of them in each office.
What is not kept: Your name, phone number and access code are never kept with your answers, and nor is the time you answered or anything about your phone. Your code is checked by CRPD’s server and a separate note says only that this code has answered, so that nobody answers twice. No CRPD staff page can open that note.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers and the national mission posts see the answers as totals. Results by role or region are shown only where at least 5 people answered. Written comments are read by them only, without your office or region, and are never published with anything that could point to you. CRPD publishes only totals, in its report on the 2026 election and its plan for 2027.
How long: The answers until CRPD has published its report on the 2026 election and its 2027 plan; after that only the totals are kept. The notes of who has answered are removed when the survey closes.

🤝Joining CRPD’s members and friends

What is kept: What you write on join.html: whether you join as a member or a friend, your name, your WhatsApp number and your email (at least one of the two), which of them CRPD should use, whether you live in The Gambia and in which region, or abroad and in which country, the interests you tick, whether you have observed an election with CRPD if you say, your agreement, and the date. When the team writes to you, it adds the date, who wrote and how, a status (new, welcomed, active, or asked to stop) and, if needed, a short note.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers and the CRPD staff who send the updates (the communications desk). Nothing is published, shared, sold, or given to any party, candidate or anyone else. Updates by email are sent with every address hidden from the other readers.
What it is used for: Only to send you CRPD’s updates and invitations, and to welcome you. Every message tells you how to stop them.
How long: Until you ask CRPD to stop. Reply STOP to any message, or write through the contact form, and your details are deleted within 30 days. CRPD’s nightly safety copy keeps what was removed for up to 30 days, and is then deleted. Your browser remembers that you joined, so the same sign up is not sent twice; clearing your browser’s data for this site removes it.

🏅Nominating someone for CRPD’s awards

What is kept: What you write in the nomination: the category, the name of the person or team you nominate, what they do and where, why they deserve it, a link if you give one, your name, your email or WhatsApp number, how you know their work, the three boxes you ticked, the awards year and the date. CRPD adds whether the nomination meets the rules and a short note on that check. For the members of the awards panel: their name, the email they sign in with, their role on the panel, the date they signed the conflict of interest declaration, and their scores and notes on each nomination.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers see every nomination. The independent panel named by the ED sees only the nominations CRPD has checked against the rules, with the nominator’s name and contact, so its members can declare any conflict of interest. Each panel member sees only their own scores; the chair and CRPD’s managers see all of them. The person you nominate is not told who nominated them.
What is public: Only the winners, and only after each winner agrees: their name, what they do, the category and a short citation, on awards.html. Nominations that do not win, nominators, scores and the panel’s notes are never published.
How long: Nominations that do not win, and the scores, are deleted after the awards ceremony of that year. The winners’ records are kept as CRPD’s record of the awards. You can ask CRPD to delete a nomination you made at any time.

📑Reports to the organisations that fund CRPD

What is used: When CRPD reports to an organisation that funds its work, it uses counts and totals from its own records: for example how many people applied to observe, how many were trained, how many reports were filed, how many people visited this site. No one’s name, phone number or email goes into these reports.
Photographs and stories: A report may include a few photographs from CRPD’s field album and short stories written by CRPD staff. CRPD chooses photographs where no one can be recognised, or where the people shown agreed, and names a person in a story only if they agreed. Photographs of incidents, ballot papers and results sheets are never used.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers, finance team and fundraising team prepare the report; the ED approves it before it is sent, and it goes only to that funder.

💬The voter helpline, the “I voted” card and the polling day dashboard

On the website: The voter helpline on helpline.html and on the Voter guide tab works out its answers inside your browser. What you type is not sent to CRPD or anyone else and nothing is saved; closing the page clears it. The “I voted” card is drawn on your phone or computer and is not sent or saved anywhere. The polling day dashboard shows only counts about how polling stations were run, from CRPD’s observers; it shows no names, no station names and no results. Like every page of this site, these pages add one to CRPD’s anonymous visit counter.
On WhatsApp, when CRPD switches it on: When you write to CRPD’s WhatsApp helpline, WhatsApp (Meta) carries your message under its own terms. CRPD’s server reads your question, sends one answer back and keeps neither your phone number nor your message: not in its database and not in its records. It keeps only monthly counts (how many answers were sent and on which kind of topic) and, for one day, a scrambled reference to each message so that it does not answer the same message twice. CRPD never sends you messages you did not ask for.
Community radio partners: For the weekly radio pack, CRPD keeps the names of partner stations and, if a station gives them, a contact person and phone number. Only CRPD staff see them. They are deleted when the partnership ends, or at the latest after CRPD publishes its 2026 election report.

🎯For CRPD observers: the sample report and the 5 p.m. queue

What is kept: On polling day, observers at the polling stations in CRPD’s random sample answer up to 12 questions from their checklist three times (after opening, at midday, at closing), and every station observer may tap how long the queue was at 5 p.m. Each answer is kept with the observer’s access code, polling station, ward, constituency, region and the time. The questions are about how polling is conducted. None of them is about votes or results.
The sample: The list of sampled stations is seen only by CRPD’s managers. Each observer learns only whether their own station is in it.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers and mission staff. CRPD publishes only national figures with their margin of error (for example the share of stations that opened on time), with a CRPD statement, never a figure about one station or one observer.
How long: Until CRPD has published its report on the 2026 election, like the other records of the observer app.

♿Accessibility visits to polling stations

What is kept: Before polling day, observers asked by CRPD visit their polling station and record facts about getting in: steps, a ramp, space for a wheelchair, daylight, electric light for the count, how far the entrance is from the road and the way in, and a short note if they wish. The visit is kept with the observer’s access code, the station and the time. No names, no photographs.
Who sees it: CRPD’s managers and mission staff check each visit. After checking, CRPD publishes the facts about each visited polling station on the page Accessible polling places, without anything about the observer. Facts about places only.
How long: The published facts stay on the page until CRPD replaces them with what observers record on polling day. The visit records are kept until CRPD has published its report on the 2026 election.

🤝For CRPD observers: your buddy

What is kept: CRPD pairs each observer with one observer nearby. The app shows you your buddy’s first name and polling station, and the first name of your supervisor. Your buddy’s phone number is shown to you only if both of you ticked “Let my buddy see my phone number” in the app; you can untick it at any time and CRPD then stops showing it. Your yes or no is kept with your access code.
Who sees it: Your buddy sees your first name and station (and your number, if you both agreed). CRPD’s managers and mission staff see the pairs, so the desk can ask a buddy to check on someone who has gone quiet. If you tap “I cannot reach my buddy”, it reaches the CRPD desk like a call for help.
How long: The pairs and the yes or no are deleted on CRPD’s clean up date after the election.

🔒For CRPD observers: photographs of results sheets

What is kept: When you photograph a results sheet in the app (the station results form, or the form the IEC posts on the wall or declares at a collation center), the photograph, your access code, the station or collation unit and the time.
Who sees it: Only CRPD’s managers. CRPD never publishes these photographs: not on its website, not in statements, not on social media. They are kept only in case of a dispute about a count, for example a complaint or an election petition.
How long: They are deleted on CRPD’s clean up date after the election. A photograph that a manager has marked as needed for a dispute that is still open is kept until that dispute is over, and then deleted.

📱Things kept only on your phone

Some things stay in your own browser and are never sent to CRPD: your language, whether you use Lite mode, your reading speed for Listen, your constituency, your answers and streak for the Question of the day, your civic passport, the date of your last visit, your quiz and game scores, and your answers to the manifesto questions, and your unfinished answers to the expert survey. Clearing your browser’s data for this site removes them.

🛡Keeping out fake submissions

So that nobody can flood the pledge, the pulse or the check-in with fake entries, the site uses Google’s App Check with invisible reCAPTCHA when you send something. Google looks at signals from your browser to tell a real visit from an automated one, under Google’s privacy policy. CRPD’s server also counts, for an hour and in memory only, how many requests come from one connection, and never writes your internet address down.

🏛Who runs this site

The Center for Research and Policy Development (CRPD), an independent non-profit research and policy organisation in The Gambia. The site is hosted on Google Firebase. To ask what CRPD holds about you, or to ask for something you sent to be removed, contact CRPD through crpgm.org.