Data Privacy Policy

Overview

Welcome to Ponder, a platform built for curating human insights. This privacy policy explains how we handle your data when you use Ponder to create, participate in, or view polls and surveys.

Key Points

  • Our platform operates on Farcaster, which is permissionless by design
  • Most data is publicly accessible
  • We offer limited anonymity options in specific cases (i.e., it‘s not yet ZK)
  • We always try to indicate public vs. private content

Data Collection and Usage

Public Data

The following information is default public and accessible:

  • Poll and survey questions
  • Aggregate results
  • Creator information
  • Participant responses (unless specified otherwise)

Privacy Options

We provide tools for partial anonymity:

  1. Creator-Selected Privacy: Survey creators can enable the anonymous feature, which means we will not show individual respondent data to the creator or the broad public.
  2. Participant Privacy: In some cases, participants can choose more private response options. Generally, you should assume your response is public unless clearly marked anonymous.
  3. Results Display: Some aggregate data may be shown without individual identification, such as location data.

Data Visibility

We always try to clearly indicate the privacy level of different content elements:

  • Public content
  • Private or partially anonymous content

Understanding Permissionless Design

Due to the nature of Farcaster‘s permissionless architecture:

  • Data may be accessible through multiple entry points, for example via on chain transactions
  • Third parties might be able to access public data
  • Complete anonymity cannot be guaranteed until we implement ZK proofs in the future

Best Practices for Users

  • Assume content is public by default
  • Be mindful of sharing sensitive information

Data Storage and Protection

  • We implement industry-standard security measures
  • Data is stored on the Farcaster protocol, our secure servers, or one of the enabled blockchains

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this policy to reflect:

  • Platform improvements
  • New privacy features
  • Changes in Farcaster protocol