Privacy

What Quorum stores

You can create a poll without an account. If you choose to save a poll to an account, sign-in is handled by Clerk, which holds the details used to sign in, such as an email address or a connected Google account.

Polls you create are saved in Quorum’s database: titles, descriptions, questions, settings, and the responses people submit. Participants do not need an account. A response includes the name they enter and their answers.

Cookies

After someone responds, Quorum sets a cookie so they can come back and edit that response on the same browser. Creating or opening a poll as an organizer also sets a cookie so this browser can manage that poll. Clerk uses cookies to keep signed-in organizers signed in.

These cookies are for running the product. Quorum does not use advertising cookies.

Why Quorum stores it

Optional organizer accounts are used so you can find your polls later. Poll content and responses are stored so the group can vote and see results.

Quorum also keeps a few first-party counts on each poll: whether it was created without an account, whether the organizer copied the private management link, whether they later saved it to an account, and how often that private link is opened. Those are used to see whether accountless creation is working. They are not used for ads, and they do not include the links themselves.

How long

Data stays until the organizer or project owner deletes it, or until Quorum itself is shut down. There is not yet a self-serve delete-poll control; if you need a poll removed, ask on GitHub.

Who can see a poll

Anyone with the participant link can open that poll. If the organizer turns on results, other participants may see vote totals and, when names are visible, who answered. Don’t put secrets in a poll you intend to share.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Vercel. Account sign-in is handled by Clerk. Poll data is stored in a PostgreSQL database. Those providers process data as needed to run their services. Vercel also collects cookieless page-view analytics so I can see which pages are used. Query strings are stripped from those page views so a private organizer link is not sent to Vercel. The same product events may be sent as Vercel custom events, without poll IDs or links.

What Quorum doesn’t do

Quorum does not sell your data, run ads against it, or use advertising cookies.

Questions

If you want a poll removed or have a privacy question, open an issue on GitHub.