Privacy Policy
CrisisMapper is a non-commercial humanitarian project built for the UNDP Build the Future of Crisis Mapping challenge. We collect the minimum data needed to map damage during a crisis, with a privacy-by-design architecture that prevents personal identification.
What we collect
- Damage photos — EXIF metadata (camera serial, GPS, timestamps) is stripped server-side before storage.
- Approximate location — GPS coordinates from the device or a Plus Code. Stored at the report level only.
- Severity classification — produced by an AI vision model (Groq Llama 4 Scout, with Google Gemini as automatic fallback if Groq is unavailable) and optionally confirmed by the reporter. Only the photo bytes are sent to these providers — no identifiers travel with the request.
- Free-text descriptions — optional notes you provide.
What we do NOT collect
- Real names, addresses, or any other personally identifying information.
- Device identifiers, advertising IDs, or browser fingerprints.
- Contact lists or social-graph data.
- Location outside the active crisis report (we do not track movement).
Who sees the data
The aggregated, anonymized damage reports are published on a public map so aid organizations and the public can see where help is needed. The underlying database is operated by the project maintainer for the duration of the competition and is not shared with any commercial third party.
Data deletion
Web reports are submitted anonymously — we store no account, phone number, or any identifier that links a report back to you, so there is nothing user-specific to delete. Reports you queued offline but have not yet synced can be removed by clearing your browser's site data for the app. See the data deletion page for details.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, or security disclosures: phinart98@gmail.com.