Privacy Protections

At Laying TRACKS, your data privacy is a critical component of every decision we make. We use the most up to date Best Practices for National and International privacy and security, for your protection.

We don’t track or store any personal identifying information through our processes for reviewing up-to-date analytics, ensuring we continue to bring you helpful tools and resources while maintaining your privacy and safety.

If you are using a shared device and don’t want other people to know you might be pregnant, we recommend you remove this site from your browser history and consider using “incognito” or “private” browsing when you are on any reproductive care webistes. 

In addition to electing to make our site GDPR-Compliant, (the most rigorous international data privacy standards, to date) we have taken further measures within the confines of that program to ensure the most privacy we are able to provide you. We use analytics vendors who are GDPR-Compliant and give us the ability to very-specifically determine what we can see, what we can omit and what we can anonymize to protect our users.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

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How Laying Tracks Uses Your Data

What information can we see?

Average Site Time: The amount of time an average user spends on the website.

Number of Pages Visited: The number of pages an average user will visit while on the site.

Average Page Time: The amount of time an average user spends on each page.

Total Page Counts: How many total users have visited a specific page.

Device Data: Whether you are using a mobile device vs. desktop, what browser is being used and with which operating system. We do not collect personal or location data.

*Nothing at all, if you have elected to “Opt Out”*

What information have we elected to omit to protect your privacy?

Personal Identifying Data: We do not collect any personal data, aside from what you explicitly elect to send us through forms where you are proactively reaching out to us and volunteering information. This data is used for nothing else but responding to you, upon request, and is cleared when the request is fulfilled.

User Navigation: We cannot track a single user’s experience.

IP Address Anonymization: we have elected to Randomize your IP address to to 3 bytes so that the system is not able to see or collect any identifying information. This is why you aren’t able to use geolocation on our maps in the same way you may be able to on other sites.

Originating URL: Because we understand that you may visit us from another related site, and that site URL may contain sensitive terms/phrases, we have elected not to track how users find our site.

OrderIP Anonymization: If you donate through our website, we have taken additional measures to block all identifiable personal data.

Data Trends: We have opted to clear all collected data noted above on a 30-day basis.

Cookies: We have elected to disable cookies from being collected and stored on our website. Our cookie policy can be found in the main menu or on the cookie pop-up window.

Content Tracking: While we are able to see page counts, we are not able to see data on interactions with the content within the pages.

Data Privacy Best Practices

Below you will find LayingTRACKS full data privacy policy along with suggested ways to keep yourself and your private data safe.

For understanding what extra precautions you can take to protect your data, Aid Access has shared this great resource with the LayingTRACKS team to provide our users with more information.

LayingTRACKS.org is SSL encrypted and stored on international servers for your safety.

What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

Steps You Can Take to Further Protect Your Privacy (Information from the Digital Defense Fund)

Don’t want Big Tech companies to store information about your pregnancy/abortion?

The problem: While browsing the internet and using our phones feels private, many companies actually watch what we do online and use our phones to track where we go. All of these companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, your cell phone service provider, your internet provider, any app with access to your location data — keep records of what we do. These records are not only used for advertising, but can also be bought by governments and handed over to the police if the company gets a warrant.

The solution: If you want to keep your searches and movements private, follow these steps:

  • Turn off location sharing
    • This article from the New York Times has illustrated instructions for limiting apps’ access to your location. Many apps ask for location permissions and sell that data to advertisers. Law enforcement also buys this data to surveil oppressed communities.
  • Disable your mobile ad ID
    • This article from the New York Times has illustrated instructions for turning off your mobile ad ID on Android & iPhone. Turning off your mobile ad ID will limit the ways that companies can connect your location, search data, and browsing history.
  • Use DuckDuckGo instead of Google to search
    • Did you know that Google saves all your searches and keeps them both in your Google account and in their servers? DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that does not save your search data or collect any information about you.
  • Use Firefox Focus instead of your phone’s default browser
    • Your phone’s browser stores your browsing history and lets cookies and scripts track you. Firefox Focus is a privacy-focused browser that automatically deletes your browser history and blocks third party trackers.

One reply on “Privacy Protections”

[…] Laying TRACKS has taken great measures to protect user data. The organization far surpasses global legal data management standards to keep our users as safe as possible. That said, there are always precautions that users can and should be taking to protect their data as they navigate through the complex landscape of reproductive information on the internet. To find out how to protect yourself when searching private topics, please visit our Data Privacy Best Practices section of this page. […]