Legal & Privacy

Impressum / Legal Notice

Operator

This website is operated by a private individual on a voluntary, non-commercial basis. Volunteer project

excludeisrael.com is an independent fan campaign and has no affiliation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Eurovision Song Contest, or any national broadcaster.

Contact

You can reach us via our contact form or by email:
[email protected]

Availability

This project is maintained voluntarily in our spare time. We do not have fixed opening hours and cannot guarantee response times. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Liability for Content

All arguments published on this site are linked to primary sources (court documents, UN reports, official EBU statements, or major news outlets). We make every reasonable effort to ensure accuracy. If you believe any information is incorrect or a source link is broken, please contact us and we will review it promptly.

This site contains links to external websites. We have no control over the content of those sites and accept no responsibility for them.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

excludeisrael.com is a privately operated, non-commercial website. References to "we" or "us" in this policy refer to the site's volunteer operator(s).

What data we collect

We collect only the minimum data necessary to operate this site:

• Server logs: Your IP address, browser type, and visited pages are temporarily stored in server logs for security and debugging purposes. These logs are not analysed for marketing and are deleted regularly.
• Voting: When you vote on an argument, your IP address is stored temporarily in memory to prevent vote manipulation (rate limiting). This data is not persisted to the database and is cleared when the server restarts.
• Contact & join forms: If you submit a message or join application, we store the information you provide (name/alias, message, social handles, etc.) in our database. This is used solely to respond to your enquiry. We do not share this data with third parties.
• Argument submissions: Submitted arguments and their associated metadata (title, description, sources, optional name) are stored in our database for review purposes. Approved arguments are published on the site.
• Session cookies: We use a single session cookie to keep admin users logged in. This cookie is not used for tracking and is not set for regular visitors.

Third-party services

• Cloudflare Turnstile: Our public forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to distinguish humans from bots. This is a privacy-friendly alternative to reCAPTCHA. Cloudflare may process your IP address and browser signals to evaluate the challenge. No personal data is shared with Cloudflare beyond what is technically required. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• MongoDB Atlas: Our database is hosted on MongoDB Atlas (cloud infrastructure). Data is stored in the European Union. See MongoDB's privacy policy.
• Railway (hosting): This site is hosted on Railway. See Railway's privacy policy.

Your rights

Under the GDPR (and equivalent legislation), you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal data we hold about you. To exercise these rights, please contact us via our contact form or by email at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.

Data retention

Contact and join submissions are stored until no longer needed for their purpose and are then deleted. Server logs are rotated automatically. We do not sell, rent, or share personal data with any third party for commercial purposes.

Cookies

This site uses one functional session cookie for admin authentication. It is not used for tracking or advertising. Regular visitors do not receive any cookies.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page from time to time. The date of the last update is shown below. Continued use of the site constitutes acceptance of the current policy.

Last updated: May 2026