Community Safety and At-Risk Members Notice

• 1.1 kurds.global serves a community whose members may live under, or have family under, governments that pressure people for their identity, beliefs, language or activism. The Site is designed so that taking part never exposes a person.
• 1.2 This notice applies together with the Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use and the Code of Conduct. Where they differ, the stronger protection for the member applies.

• 2.1 Taking part in a community network can reveal a person's ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or membership of a group. That information is treated as sensitive information under every law that protects it.
• 2.2 It is processed only with the member's explicit consent, given separately from accepting the terms, for the stated purpose of taking part in the community, or, where the law allows it, as the records of a not-for-profit body about its own members kept within that body. Consent can be withdrawn at any time, as easily as it was given, from the account settings or by writing to contact@kurds.global.
• 2.3 No sensitive information is used for advertising, profiling, scoring or any automated decision about a person, and none is sold or shared for those purposes.

• 3.1 A display name is enough to take part. A real name, photograph, home location, employer or telephone number is never required, and members are encouraged not to give them.
• 3.2 A member may hold an account under a pseudonym. The publisher does not ask a member to prove an identity unless a law requires it for a specific service, and then only for that service.

• 4.1 No list of members, supporters, signatories, donors or attendees is published or shown to other members.
• 4.2 Counts below 5 are never shown; they read as "fewer than 5", so that a small number cannot point at a person.
• 4.3 No receipt, badge or record lets a person prove to anyone else how they voted or what they chose in a ballot or consultation.
• 4.4 No page counts or shows who viewed, clicked or read something. No sponsor, partner or person is named on the Site without written consent given after a safety review.

• 5.1 No precise location is collected. Features that could identify, locate or profile a person are off by default and are turned on only by the member.
• 5.2 IP addresses are not kept with participation records. Server logs keep shortened addresses only, for security, for a limited time.
• 5.3 A member can download their own records and delete their account and contributions. Deletion reaches every system that holds them, and backups expire on a fixed cycle.

• 6.1 Every request for information about a member that comes from a government, a police force or a court is reviewed against the law that applies to the publisher before anything is disclosed, and only the minimum the law compels is ever disclosed.
• 6.2 A request from or on behalf of the authorities of a member's country of origin is refused unless Canadian law compels disclosure. The member is told of any request unless the law forbids it.
• 6.3 The number of requests received and how they were answered is published in the Transparency Report, with small counts suppressed.

• 7.1 Revealing another person's identity, location, family or contacts, threatening anyone, impersonating a member or outing a person is forbidden and is removed at once. Such conduct can lead to permanent removal and, where the law requires, a report to the competent authorities of the place where the publisher operates.
• 7.2 A threat or a safety concern can be reported in any of the languages the Site serves, through the report control beside each contribution or by writing to contact@kurds.global. Reports are read by people, in confidence.

• 8.1 Use a separate e-mail address for the community, a passkey or a strong unique password, and an up-to-date browser and device. Avoid signing in on shared or monitored devices.
• 8.2 Nothing on the Site asks for a password, a code or a payment by message. A message that does is not from the publisher and should be reported.

• 9.1 Public pages can be read from everywhere. Registration, accounts and payments are not offered to people in territories under country-wide or territorial sanctions of Canada or the United Nations. See the Sanctions, Export Controls and Restricted Parties Notice.

Prepared for review by legal counsel before adoption.