Standing Index
Effective date: September 1, 2026 Last updated: September 1, 2026 Version 1
Summary
- Records you file will be published when the full site launches. They aren’t public yet.
- Sign-up answers aren’t published. We publish counts only.
- We don’t publish email addresses, and we don’t ask for your name.
- We don’t sell your information or share it for advertising.
- Ask and we’ll delete it. Write from the address you gave us.
- We send at least 14 days’ notice before any material change to this policy, and before your records go public.
- You must be 18 or older.
What we collect
What you type into our forms, plus the standard technical information listed further down this section. We don’t buy data about you.
When you sign up: your email address, your industry, your job title, what you work on, products you use or care about, the city you work in, what you care about, and whether you asked to be kept posted.
When you file a record: your email address; the company, its industry, the type of dealing and when it happened; your answers and any comments. Each record is also tagged with a handle — a short label like `@user_a3f9k` that identifies your records without identifying you.
These questions are optional:
- Employee survey: role title, compensation, bonus, paid time off
- Customer survey: roughly what you paid, whether something went wrong, how long it took to resolve
- Contractor and partner surveys: what you were promised versus what you were paid
Skip any optional question and your record still counts.
Automatically, without you typing it: that a sign-up happened, which page it came from, and the link you arrived by, including any tracking tags in it — this is how we tell which ads worked. Our forms also note how the form was filled out, which is how we tell a person from a script; it’s a yes-or-no judgement and we don’t keep it. Separately, our host records standard server logs for every visitor: IP address, browser type, pages requested.
What we keep on your device. Three things, saved in your browser so the forms don’t make you repeat yourself:
- your email address, so a survey doesn’t ask for it again once you’ve given it
- the companies you listed while filing, so you can pick up where you left off
- a count of how many records you’ve filed, which is what the site uses to say something different each time
None of them is a cookie, and none of it follows you to other websites. Clearing your browser data removes all three and the site simply asks again next time.
What we publish
Records, once the full site launches. A published record shows your handle and the record itself — your answers and comments, as written. Nothing else. We don’t ask for your name, so there isn’t one to attach, and we never publish your email address. Our rules also don’t allow names, email addresses or other personal details to be written inside a record — yours or anyone else’s.
Counts from sign-ups — how many people, which industries, which cities, states or regions. We don’t publish a count small enough to identify one person, including combinations like being the only person from your industry in your city.
Nothing else from sign-ups. What you wrote there isn’t published.
Worth knowing before you file. Your role title and pay, alongside the company you’re writing about, can identify a person when combined — especially at a small company or in an unusual role. Comments can do the same. Role and pay are optional questions for that reason; the company is not, since a record about no particular company isn’t useful to anyone.
What we use it for
- Deciding which industries to cover first
- Counting your records, for founding member status
- Publishing counts
- Building the index
- Emailing you about Standing Index, if you asked to be kept posted
- Emailing you about your own data
- Working out which ads and links brought people here
If we start using it for something else, we’ll say so here first.
What we don’t do
- We don’t ask for your name, and we don’t publish your email address
- We don’t sell your personal information or share it for advertising. If that changed, you’d get 14 days’ notice first.
- We don’t rent, trade, or hand it to anyone for their own marketing
- We don’t currently take payment details. Standing Index is free today; that may change.
- We don’t use cookies at all, and we don’t currently use tracking pixels or third-party analytics. Our forms carry hidden fields that only bots fill in, and we look at how the form was completed to tell people from scripts. Neither stores anything, and neither tells us anything about you beyond that.
- We don’t ask for anything California law calls sensitive personal information — ID or Social Security numbers, financial accounts, precise location, race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, message contents, genetic or biometric data, health information, sex life or sexual orientation, or immigration status
- We don’t knowingly collect anything from anyone under 18
Who else handles it
Google. Our forms send submissions to a Google service, which stores them in private spreadsheets. We use a paid Google Workspace account, where Google’s terms say they won’t use stored content for advertising and limit their use of it to running the service for us.
Netlify. Hosts the website, including the server logs above.
Google Fonts. Typefaces are served by Google, so your browser fetches them from Google and Google receives your IP address. Google states these requests aren’t used for advertising or profiles.
An email service. If you asked to be kept posted, your address goes to the service we use to send updates. Delivery only.
Legal process. We may disclose information if required by law, subpoena, or valid legal process.
Business transfers. Standing Index is a sole proprietorship today. If it’s later incorporated, merged, sold, or transferred, this information may go with it, and whoever takes it on stays bound by this policy for anything collected beforehand.
If another service starts handling your information, we’ll add it here.
How long we keep it
Until you ask us to delete it. Records stay in the index unless you ask us to remove them. We keep sign-up details while we’re still using them for the purposes listed above.
Server logs sit with our host, on their retention schedule.
What you can ask for
Write from the address you gave us. Everything is connected to it, including your records.
- See it — we’ll send what we hold for your address, sign-up and records both
- Correct it
- Delete it — sign-up details, records, or everything
- Stop emailing me — use the unsubscribe link in any update we send, or just ask. This stops updates and news. Notices about your own data still reach you; see below.
Within 30 days.
Two kinds of email. Updates and news go only to people who asked for them, and you can stop them any time. Notices about your own data go to everyone who gave us an address: a change to this policy or our terms, the warning before records go public, and replies to your requests.
Removing a record
Ask and the record is deleted. Tell us which company it’s about.
If you’d rather the record stayed and only your connection to it went, say so and we’ll delete your email address and unlink it instead. We don’t do that unless you ask. Be aware the record keeps its handle, so it stays visibly grouped with anything else you filed under it — unlinking removes us from the picture, not the grouping.
Checking it’s you. Write from the address you filed with. If you write from a different one, we’ll send a confirmation to the address on the record first.
What deletion reaches. The record comes out of our index. If it was already published, search engines may have cached it and others may have copied it — we can’t reach those. One limitation worth naming: Google Sheets keeps a version history, and a deleted row can stay recoverable there. Clearing it means replacing the whole file, which we do periodically rather than per request.
Requests go through us by email today. We intend to give members a way to manage their own records once accounts exist.
When this changes
Before any material change — a new kind of information, a new category of recipient, a new purpose, or your records becoming public — we will:
1. Email everyone who has given us an address, at least 14 days beforehand
2. Post a notice on the site
3. Publish the new version with its date, and update "Last updated" above
A new version takes effect on one named date, the same for everyone. It doesn’t restart for people who sign up during the notice period.
A new version applies to the information we hold when it takes effect, including records filed earlier. If a change called for handling existing records differently, the notice would say so.
Swapping one service provider for another doing the same job isn’t a material change. We update the "Who else handles it" list and the date, without the 14 days.
Do Not Track
Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" signal. There’s no agreed standard for how a site should respond, and we don’t take action in response.
We don’t follow you across other sites and we don’t use third-party trackers. The one third party your browser contacts is Google, which serves our typefaces and receives your IP address in doing so; Google states those requests aren’t used for advertising or profiles. We’re not aware of any third party collecting information about your activity across other websites through this site.
Security
Access is restricted to the people who run Standing Index — today, one person. No method of storage or transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we won’t claim ours is.
Contact
info@standingindex.io
Our Terms of Service cover the rest of how Standing Index works. This policy is part of them.
| Version | Date | What changed | |---|---|---| | 1 | September 1, 2026 | First published. |