Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 27, 2026

Disability Wiki is built on a simple principle: looking up disability rights, benefits, or a crisis hotline should never cost you your privacy.

What we collect about you

Nothing. Disability Wiki does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information about you — on the website or in the app. There are:

• No accounts — you never sign in, and we never ask for your name, email, or phone number to read anything.
• No tracking — no analytics, no advertising, no third-party trackers, no device fingerprinting.
• No permissions — the app does not request access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, or any other device data.

The one thing we count

At the bottom of most pages there is a question: “Was this page helpful?” If you answer it, we add one to a running total for that page. That is the only thing on this site that sends us anything, and you never have to touch it.

What gets stored is two numbers per page. For example: /benefits/us/ssi/ — 41 yes, 6 no. That is the whole record.

What is deliberately not stored, ever:

• Not your IP address — not stored, not hashed, not shortened, not “just for spam filtering.”
• No cookie, no session, no ID of any kind. Nothing is set on your device that we can read back.
• No time. We don’t record when a vote came in, so votes can’t be lined up against each other or against anything else.
• No text box. You cannot type anything, because on a site like this a comment box collects things about people’s health and safety that we should not be holding.

The result is that two different people answering about one page are indistinguishable from one person answering twice. We cannot tell them apart, and we have not kept anything that would let us try. Your browser remembers that you answered, so it stops asking — that stays on your device and is never sent.

Crisis pages never ask. Anything under /crisis/ carries no question at all. Someone reading a hotline list does not owe us a review.

The app never asks. The question is not in the mobile app, on any page.

If you would rather not answer, don’t — nothing on the site changes either way, and there is no “remind me later.”

Why we count it at all

This wiki is written and checked by people, and pages go out of date or get things wrong. A page can read perfectly well and still be useless to the person in front of it, and we have no way to see that from the inside. A thumbs-down is the cheapest way for you to tell us a page needs a human to look at it again — without an account, an email, or a word about who you are.

How the app uses the network

The Disability Wiki app works fully offline. It connects to the internet only to:

• Load the latest reference content when you have a connection, and
• Download content updates — the app periodically fetches updated pages (for example, a corrected crisis hotline number) from this website.

These are ordinary, one-way downloads of public information. The app sends no information about you when it does this. Content updates are cryptographically signed, and the app installs them only if the signature is valid.

Phone numbers and links

When you tap a phone number — a crisis hotline, for instance — your device’s phone app opens with the number ready to dial. You always choose whether to place the call. When you tap a link to an outside website, it opens in your browser, and that website’s own privacy policy applies.

Children

We collect no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new “last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected].