Short version: this site collects no names, no email addresses, no locations and no free text. The case report form collects answers about cats. Nothing is tracked, nothing is profiled, and nothing is sold.
This site is published by The Feline Tritrichomonas Project, an independent project operated by Beatriz, and reachable at info@tritrichomonasproject.org. That address is the contact point for anything on this page.
Nothing that identifies you is collected by us. There is no advertising network, no pixel, no browser fingerprinting, no profile of you, and no cookie set by this site. We do count page views in aggregate — which pages are read, how often, and roughly where in the world — using the privacy-first analytics built into our host. That counting is cookieless and reports totals, never individuals. The web host also keeps ordinary server logs — IP address, timestamp, page requested — for security and operational purposes; those logs are the host's, not ours, and we do not read them. Knowing how many people read a page is how we judge whether it is worth writing, and it is the only reason any of this is measured.
A few links on the “Make life easier” page carry an Amazon affiliate tag. Nowhere else on this site links to a retailer: the educational pages — including the rescues and catteries pages — contain no affiliate links at all. Clicking one takes you to Amazon, which sets its own cookies and handles the sale under its own privacy policy. We receive the item ordered and the commission earned — no name, address or contact detail — and we never see who bought anything. Reading this site without clicking a link still sets no cookies at all.
The form asks for, and only for:
It does not ask for your name, your email address, your country, your city, your veterinarian's name, your cat's name, or any free-text comment. There is no free-text field anywhere on the form, deliberately — free text is where identifying details get typed by accident.
To publish aggregated, de-identified summaries of owner and fosterer experience, so that a body of practical knowledge which currently exists only in private conversations can be read, cited and argued with. The lawful basis is your consent, given by ticking the consent box immediately before submitting.
Responses are collected through Google Forms and stored in a linked Google Sheet. Google acts as a data processor and handles the data under its own terms and privacy policy. Google's systems will necessarily record an IP address and a submission timestamp as part of delivering the service. We do not receive, request or use that information; the export we work from contains the form answers only.
One practical note. The live form sits on a separate Google page that we link to, rather than being embedded in this site. An embedded form would let Google set third-party cookies the moment any page loaded; a link sets none until you choose to follow it. That is the whole reason the form is a link, and it is why reading this site still sets no cookies at all. While that link is being connected, the version on this site validates answers locally and transmits nothing to anyone.
No other third party receives the data. It is not sold, licensed, shared, or provided to any commercial partner, and it is not used for advertising of any kind.
Aggregates only. Counts and proportions across all submissions, on the survey results page when it is published. Individual rows are never published, because a short row — a nine-cat household with one positive, a pigeon-formula source, a retest at twenty weeks — can identify a household to anyone who knows them.
Raw exports are kept privately for as long as the survey is running plus five years, so that aggregate figures can be re-checked and corrected rather than quietly changed.
You have the right to know what is held about you, to have it corrected, to have it erased, and to withdraw consent. Because no identifying information is collected and no submissions are linked to a person, a specific response cannot be traced back to you — which means a request to access or delete an individual record cannot be fulfilled in practice. This is stated plainly on the form before you submit, rather than discovered afterwards.
If you have a concern, write to info@tritrichomonasproject.org. If a submission can be identified from what you tell us, we will delete it.
The form is for people aged 18 or over, and the consent step asks you to confirm this. Nothing on this site is directed at children.
If what is collected or who processes it ever changes, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it. Material changes are also recorded in the corrections log.
This site is operated from the United States. Submissions are treated as anonymised at the point of collection, which is why the rights above are limited by design rather than by policy. The processor (Google) may transfer data internationally under its own safeguards. If you would prefer not to use a Google-hosted form, you are welcome to email your case to the address above instead, and it will be entered by hand.
