Last updated: 2 June 2026
The Accountability Network is operated by the Accountability Network Foundation, a nonprofit organisation based in Zurich, Switzerland (Gessnerallee 28, 8001 Zurich). This policy explains how we handle personal data in connection with this website (expocrime.org) and any message you send us. Questions about this policy, or any request relating to your data, can be sent to info@expocrime.org.
We are an independent investigative organisation. Protecting the people who come to us — sources, whistleblowers and partners — is our highest priority, and it shapes every choice in this policy. As a rule, we collect as little personal data as possible and we never voluntarily disclose the identity of a confidential source.
expocrime.org is a static website. You do not need an account to use it, and we do not place our own analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies on your device. We have reviewed the site's code and it contains no analytics, advertising or behavioural-tracking scripts, and sets no cookies of its own.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare's global network. Like any web host, Cloudflare automatically processes certain technical connection data — such as IP addresses and basic request information — in order to deliver the site and protect it against attacks. This processing is performed by Cloudflare acting as our hosting and security provider, under its own terms and privacy documentation. We do not use this connection data to identify, profile or follow individual visitors.
The site loads typography from Google Fonts. When the fonts load, your browser requests them directly from Google's servers, which may receive your IP address as part of that request. This is the only third-party content the website itself loads.
If you email info@expocrime.org, your message — together with your email address and anything you choose to include — is received through our email provider and is accessible only to a small number of authorised people. We use it solely to read, assess and respond to what you have sent, and to carry out any investigative follow-up you have asked us to consider.
We apply data minimisation and access restrictions to this correspondence, and we retain it only for as long as it is needed for the matter it relates to. You can also reach us by post, with no return details required, at the Zurich address above.
We will never voluntarily reveal the identity of a confidential source, or confirm the existence of a confidential relationship, to any third party.
No online channel is perfectly anonymous. Ordinary email in particular exposes metadata about the sender. If your safety could depend on remaining anonymous, please use the most secure channel available to you, consider contacting us from a device and account that are not linked to your work or identity, and get in touch before sending highly sensitive material so we can agree on a safer method.
Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP), and — for visitors in the EU/EEA — under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have rights in respect of personal data we hold about you. These include the right to access, rectify, erase or restrict your data, and to object to certain processing. To exercise any of these rights, contact info@expocrime.org.
Where the law allows, we may balance these rights against our duty to protect confidential sources and the journalistic and source-protection privileges that apply to our work. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority — in Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC); in the EU/EEA, your local supervisory authority.
We rely on a small number of service providers to operate: Cloudflare (website hosting and security), our email provider (handling messages to info@expocrime.org), and Google Fonts (typography). We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it except as described here or where we are legally required to do so.
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date shown at the top of this page.
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