Privacy
This page is meant to be read, not survived. It describes exactly what this site collects and what it deliberately does not.
What the Reality Check collects
Your answers to the fifteen questions, your first name and email address, and — if you choose to give them — the country you are currently in and your broad field.
It also records which page you arrived from and any campaign parameters in the link, reduced to the address and path only.
It does not record your IP address, and it does not fingerprint your browser or device.
Why it is collected
The answers produce your result and tell me which parts of the decision people find hardest, so the tool can improve.
Your email is used to send you your result and to store it against your submission. It is not sold, and it is not shared with anyone beyond the providers listed below.
How the result is produced
The result is calculated by fixed, versioned rules that live in this site’s source code. No language model, no generative AI, no opaque scoring. The same answers always produce the same result, in Amharic and in English alike.
What the application collects
Your name, email, current country, timeline, a description of the decision, the routes you are comparing, the commitments that make it expensive to get wrong, your background, a budget band, and what you want from the review.
Budgets are collected as ranges only. Never send a passport, residence permit, visa document, bank statement, exact bank balance, or any other identity document — none of it is needed, and none of it will be stored.
New-content emails are separate, and confirmed
The updates box is optional and never pre-ticked. Leaving it unticked changes nothing about your result or your application — the result email is sent either way.
If you do tick it, I send one email asking you to confirm. Until you click that link nothing else is sent, and the request expires by itself after seven days. Every message carries an unsubscribe link that works without an account or a password.
What this site does not do
No advertising pixels, no Meta Pixel, no Google Ads tags, no session replay, no cross-site tracking, and no analytics of any kind in this release.
Two things are stored in your own browser: your assessment draft and result, so a refresh does not lose your answers, and your language choice. Clearing your browser data removes all of them.
Who else handles the data
- Supabase
- Postgres database in the EU where submissions are stored.
- Resend
- Sends your result email and the confirmation email.
- Vercel
- Hosts and serves this website.
- Cloudflare
- DNS, and forwarding for the addresses on this page.
How long it is kept
Assessment submissions and review applications are deleted 12 months after they are received.
This is enforced by a scheduled job inside the database, not by a promise to remember. An updates request that is never confirmed is deleted after seven days.
Access and deletion
Write to privacy@brooklives.com from the address you used and ask for a copy or for deletion. You do not need to give a reason, and nothing is required to prove who you are beyond writing from the same address.
Who runs this
Brook Belihu Duressa. Brook Lives is a personal pilot project, not a company, and it takes no payment on this website.
This page describes how the site is actually configured right now.