Privacy notice

Google confirms the account; CrimeRate stores only basic identity fields

If you choose Google sign-in, CrimeRate receives:

• Your stable Google account identifier.
• Your verified email address.
• Your display name.
• Your basic profile picture.

CrimeRate does not request Gmail, Google Drive, contacts, calendars or your Google password. Google handles authentication on its own service.

You choose the place and radius

Your account can store a postcode, postcode district, city or town, its map centre, your chosen radius and whether monthly alerts or weekly digests are enabled. This information is private to your account. Public share links omit your account ID and reduce a full postcode to its outward district. A saved postcode may still reveal an area connected to you, so do not save a place you do not want associated with your account.

You decide what to publish or send for review

A comment is displayed publicly beside the crime record with your display name. Do not include a private person's name, exact address or an unsupported allegation. A submitted report stores your crime group, reported incident date, source URL, description, street or postcode label and the approximate map point you select. An optional contributor note is visible only to you and CrimeRate editors; it is not displayed publicly. The report receives a shareable public URL while awaiting review, but remains excluded from search indexing. Other registered users can add or remove one review-priority vote. Contributor standing counts approved submissions only, never votes. Private abuse reports enter a moderation queue. Unusually concentrated voting creates a private review flag rather than an automatic accusation or publication decision. Approval never turns a community report into an official police record.

Share counts do not describe personal networks

When a share control is used, CrimeRate stores only the date, public page type, public page key, sharing channel and an aggregate count. It does not store a user ID, IP address, recipient, contact list or the identity of friends and groups. These totals help identify which public reports people find useful.

Each field has a limited purpose

Account details

Sign you in and show your dashboard.

Saved area

Run the area update you requested.

Email choice

Send or pause alerts for that saved area.

CrimeRate does not sell account information. It does not use saved areas to infer that any person committed or experienced a crime.

An area email is not a live incident alert

Monthly alerts are tied to new complete source months. Weekly digests recap the latest complete source month and do not imply that new incidents occurred that week. You can pause monthly alerts and weekly digests separately for each saved area.

The session cookie is essential

CrimeRate uses a signed, HTTP-only session cookie to keep you signed in and protect account actions. Production sessions are sent only over HTTPS. OAuth state validation and PKCE are used during Google sign-in. Google access and refresh tokens are not retained after sign-in.

You control when the account is removed

Your account, saved areas, comments and submitted reports remain until you delete the account or the content is removed through moderation. Open Your account to delete the account and its associated records. Signing out removes the browser session but does not delete the account.

Map privacy is separate from account data

The public map uses anonymised, approximate source locations. CrimeRate does not use Google account information to identify people in those records or to turn an approximate marker into an address history. Read the crime-data methodology for the geographic privacy rules and About CrimeRate for the wider publishing principles.