Privacy

This site is built around a simple principle: the topic is surveillance, so the site itself should not surveil you. Here's exactly what we do and don't do.

What we don't collect

• No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no Cloudflare Web Analytics, nothing.
• No cookies. The site does not set any cookies, local storage, or session storage of its own.
• No tracking pixels. No Facebook pixel, no ad networks, no third-party trackers of any kind.
• No fingerprinting. No canvas fingerprinting, no font enumeration, no other browser-fingerprinting techniques.
• No accounts. There is nothing to log in to. We don't have user accounts, comments, or any feature that requires identifying you.

What we do collect (involuntarily)

Because the site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare's edge servers see your IP address and the URLs you request. This is unavoidable for any website to function on the modern internet. Cloudflare's own privacy policy applies: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

We do not have access to Cloudflare's logs. We use the free tier of Cloudflare Pages and have not enabled any analytics or logging features on our side.

Documents you download

If you download a PDF from the Documents page, your browser may send a referrer header to the file's hosting location. By default the PDFs are hosted on the same domain as the site (no third-party hosts), so this isn't a meaningful concern, but it is worth knowing.

Email

If you email us at deflockalamo@proton.me, your email address and the content of your message are visible to whoever runs that inbox. We use Proton Mail, which provides end-to-end encryption between Proton accounts. We will not share your email address with anyone.

The Community Standing, survey, and email updates

The "Have your say" page lets visitors do three things: take a 1-question survey, add their name to a public "Community Standing" list, and subscribe to email updates. Each is described below. The data is stored in a Cloudflare D1 database that lives on Cloudflare's infrastructure. We do not sell, share, or use this data for any purpose other than what is described here.

1. The 1-question survey

Anonymous. We record your answer (yes / some concerns / no / want to learn more) and a timestamp. We do not record your IP address, your user agent string, or any other identifier. There's nothing that ties a survey response back to you.

2. The Community Standing list

Public by design. When you add your name, we publish your first name, last name, residency category (Alamogordo resident, or regional resident who is affected by the cameras), your comment (if you include one), and the date you signed up. Anyone visiting the site can see this list.

We do not publish your email address. We ask for it as an optional field so we can contact you if there's a real next step (a meeting, a public-records release, an upcoming vote). We will not share it with anyone.

We do not promise confidentiality for the public parts of your entry. If you are not comfortable having your name visible on a list associated with this issue, please do not submit the form.

The form has a self-attestation checkbox: by submitting, you confirm you are 18 or older and that the information you provided is accurate. This is self-regulated — we don't verify it. If you believe a name on the list shouldn't be there, email us and we will review.

3. Email updates

Private. We store your email address and an optional first name. This list is never displayed on the site. We use it to contact you about meetings, public-records releases, or other opportunities to weigh in. You can unsubscribe at any time by replying to any email we send, or by emailing us directly.

We do not share, sell, or rent this list to anyone.

What we don't do with any of this data

• We don't combine survey responses with standing-list entries to deanonymize them.
• We don't run any advertising, retargeting, or analytics on any of these flows.
• We don't use any third-party processors — the form endpoints are part of this site, not embedded widgets from a third-party form service.
• We don't log IP addresses, browser fingerprints, or referrer headers on the form endpoints. (Cloudflare's edge may see them transitively for routing — see the "What we do collect (involuntarily)" section above.)

Changes to this policy

If we ever add anything that would change this — analytics, comments, embedded third-party content — we will update this page first and add a visible note on the home page.