Our Commitment to Transparency

Fiscal Disobedience is built on principles of transparency, privacy, and user empowerment. We believe you have the right to know exactly how your data is collected, stored, and used.

What Data We Collect

When you commit to canceling subscriptions, we collect the following information:

• User ID: A unique identifier generated for your submission
• Name/Nickname: Optional - only if you choose to provide it
• Reason: Optional - your reason for canceling, if provided
• Share Preference: Your choice of how your cancellation is shared (public, anonymous, or private)
• Location: Optional - your state (if in US) or country
• Services: The services you've committed to canceling
• Other Services: Any additional services you list if you select "Other"
• Timestamp: When you made your commitment
• Hashed user identifier: A one-way SHA-256 hash derived from your IP address and a secret salt (see below). We never store your plain IP address.

How We Use Your Data

Your data is used solely for:

• Displaying aggregate statistics (total cancellations, services canceled)
• Respecting your sharing preferences (public, anonymous, or private)
• Campaign tracking and impact measurement

Data Storage

All data is stored securely in Cloudflare D1, a serverless SQLite database. We use industry-standard security practices to protect your information.

Your Privacy Rights

You control how your data is shared through the sharing preference you select:

• Public: Your cancellation may be displayed publicly (with your name if provided)
• Anonymous: Your cancellation counts toward statistics but your identity remains private
• Private: Your cancellation is kept completely private and only used for aggregate statistics

Data Retention

We retain your data as long as necessary to provide the service and maintain campaign statistics. If you have concerns about your data, please contact us.

Dollar Impact Calculations

We display estimated dollar impact (e.g., "Total Impact") based on the services people commit to canceling. We acknowledge that each service has multiple service levels, SKUs, and bundles that affect actual pricing.

Where possible, a reasonable service level was used for the calculations, such as the lowest ad-free plan tier, or monthly pricing rather than annual. Some outliers may exist; for example, Adobe Creative Cloud uses the standard monthly price in our estimates.

Services that users enter as "Other" (free text) do not receive individual pricing. "Other" entries receive a single token valuation of $5 for impact purposes. When a service is later added to the list of named options and matches what was previously entered as Other, it is then calculated at its listed rate and is no longer counted as part of the saved "Other" data. Services that are removed from the listed options still have their historical entries counted toward impact using the rates that were in effect when they were listed.

Security Measures

We implement several security measures to protect your data:

• Rate limiting to prevent spam and abuse
• Cloudflare Turnstile for bot protection
• Duplicate submission detection
• Secure database storage with Cloudflare D1

Hashed identifiers and abuse detection

To detect platform abuse and keep commitment data reasonably accurate, we use a one-way SHA-256 hash of your IP address combined with a secret salt. The salt is unobtainable by anyone: it is stored in an encrypted form that even the Fiscal Disobedience team and Cloudflare cannot access. The salt is rotated on a schedule; when a new salt is put in use, the previous one is obliterated. The hashed identifiers we store are also obliterated regularly, so we do not retain them indefinitely.

This approach, together with Cloudflare Turnstile, lets us identify duplicate or abusive submissions and maintain confidence in the numbers you see, without ever storing your real IP or using cookies. We are able to avoid cookies (which would not be foolproof and can be cleared or blocked) because this hashed identifier gives us a privacy-preserving way to spot abuse and keep the data trustworthy.

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