Privacy
Balni is a student research project hub run by Josh Kirby and Alan Nur (University of Washington, MSTI).
Surveys
Survey answers are anonymous. For each response we store the answers you give, when you started and finished, which version of the survey you saw, the collector, place, and setting encoded in the link or QR code you used, a coarse device class (phone, tablet, desktop), the site that referred you, your browser language, and a one-way hash of your network address that lets us spot abuse but cannot be turned back into an address. We set no cookies on survey pages and load nothing from third parties.
If you leave an email address or phone number for a later paid survey, it is encrypted and stored separately from your answers and cannot be re-joined to them.
While you take a survey we also record timing and interaction telemetry without any identifier: when you entered and left each page, when you changed an answer (never what you answered), when the tab was hidden or idle, and how long the whole survey took. It is stored with the response and used only to improve the surveys (for example to say how long one typically takes). Nothing is sent if you leave before submitting.
Each submission gets a response code. To have a response removed, email jkirb@uw.edu with that code.
Team accounts
Admins sign in with a username and password; sessions use a single first-party cookie. Admin actions are logged for accountability.