How JRS handles your information

JRS (the Justification Review Standard) is operated by Phillip Wikes. For any question about this policy or your information, contact info@jrsstandard.com. This is the single point of contact for access, correction, and deletion requests.

We collect information only where you actively provide it or where it is needed to run the site. We do not buy personal information, and we do not build advertising profiles. The specific things we collect:

Free-text fields you submit pass a sensitive-identifier screen in your browser before they are sent, which prompts you to redact personal identifiers (such as email addresses, phone numbers, or record numbers) that do not belong in a submission. Please do not enter another person's personal data into any free-text field.

Where we collect your name, organization, and email, we ask for consent explicitly rather than assuming it. There are two separate consent decisions, and they are deliberately kept apart, because being contactable and being publicly named are not the same thing and should not be priced as one.

The first decision, made with one tick box when you register. The box names the registration terms and links to them, and the panel it opens sets out all three parts in full before you tick it. They travel together because they describe a single relationship: we hold your details, we may write to you, and that record follows the project if it changes hands.

• 1Contact. We may contact you about JRS.
• 2Storage. We may store your details securely for that purpose.
• 3Transfer with the asset. Your record may transfer to a successor organization if the JRS assets are sold or transferred.

Ticking that box does not publish your name. Nothing about you appears on any public page as a result of it.

The second decision, made separately and only if you want to. Appearing on the public International Registry of Supporters is offered on its own, after you already have whatever you came for: the guide is downloaded, the training is unlocked, the diagnostic is open, the endorsement is recorded. It is one click, it is never a condition of any of those things, and if you never click it your name stays private. Where it applies, only your name and organization are published. Your email address is never published.

Both are genuine choices, and declining either costs you nothing you have already been given. The Justification Review Standard itself, the published research, and the site remain free to read and use without registering at all. If you have already made either choice and change your mind, write to us and we will undo it.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing info@jrsstandard.com. On withdrawal we remove you from the public Registry, stop contacting you, and delete or anonymize your record on request. Withdrawing does not affect anything already done while consent was in place.

Personal information is held in a hosted database with access controls designed so that it stays private by construction, not by promise:

• ·Personal records (enrollment details, review submissions, form text) are written and read only by our server-side functions. The public website cannot read them.
• ·Row-level security is enabled on these tables with no public read access. A request from the public site for this data returns nothing.
• ·Public dashboards show only aggregate counts. Names, titles, emails, and individual answers never appear in any public page or export.
• ·The connection to the site is encrypted in transit.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We share it only in these limited situations:

• ·Service providers that run the site on our behalf (our database host and our analytics provider), which process data only to provide those services.
• ·A successor organization in the event of a sale or transfer of the JRS assets, for the records of people who registered and ticked the consent box described in section 3. Records held for people who never registered, and records of anyone who has since withdrawn, are not transferred.
• ·Where the law requires it, such as a valid legal request.

Registry members are listed by name and organization, which is what joining the Registry means and what the separate optional button says. Study reviewers are treated separately and more strictly: where a reviewer's name is shown publicly, for example on a named study panel or in a publication, it is shown only with that reviewer's specific approval of the exact wording, and any reviewer may withdraw before publication. Being named reflects participation only and is not an endorsement.

We keep personal information only as long as it is needed for the purpose it was collected: enrollment and certification records for as long as the certification is meaningful or until you ask us to delete them; study submissions for the life of the research record they belong to; and form submissions until the matter they concern is resolved. Aggregate counts and de-identified data may be kept indefinitely because they do not identify you.

You can ask us to do any of the following with the personal information we hold about you:

• ·Access: get a copy of what we hold.
• ·Correct: fix anything that is wrong.
• ·Delete: have it removed, subject to any record we are legally required to keep.
• ·Withdraw consent: turn off contact or transfer consent at any time.

Email that address and we will action your request. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights under laws such as the GDPR or state privacy laws; this policy is written to respect those rights, and the same contact address serves them.

We use Google Analytics 4, which sets cookies to measure aggregate usage. You can block cookies in your browser or use a browser extension to opt out of Google Analytics, and the site will still work. We do not use cookies to identify you personally or to serve advertising.

JRS is a professional tool for organizations and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.

If we change how we handle information, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes to how we use personal information will be reflected here before they take effect.