How your responses are protected
This survey was built with the understanding that documenting civil resistance carries risk. Here is what we do (and don’t do) with what you share.
You choose how identifiable you are
You can complete this survey fully anonymous, attach a pseudonym, or identify yourself by name. Your identity and your responses are stored in separate tables, linked only by a random identifier. We don’t display names except when permission was given, and limit who has direct query access. Only FIMN/ISAIAH staff and Liz McKenna, a research partner helping field this survey, can query the raw data.
High-risk actions are anonymous-only by default
Actions that could carry legal exposure (e.g. civil disobedience) are routed to anonymous-only intake regardless of the identity preference you selected elsewhere.
Sharing consent
At the start of the survey you choose how your responses can be used: kept private, shared with ISAIAH / Faith in MN staff for learning, shared anonymously in a collective archive, or quoted publicly with your permission. Those choices apply to your whole submission.
What we do not do
We do not store IP addresses with your response data. We do not run analytics pixels or third-party trackers. We do not share raw responses with law enforcement or anyone outside FIMN/ISAIAH. Media files (voice, photo, video) are stored in private buckets with short-lived, signed access links.
What we cannot promise
No system is perfectly secure. If you are describing an action that could expose you or someone else, we recommend staying anonymous and leaving out location specifics and names. You know your risk better than we do.