Incognito contributions will no longer share information with collective admins. We will roll out this change on Monday 15th November. If you are impacted by this change please comment on this post or contact [email protected] and we will be in touch.

In September 2019 we introduced anonymous, 'incognito' contributions on Open Collective. Incognito contributions allow users to support Collectives without doing so publicly. We continued to share the names and email addresses of incognito contributors with the administrators of the Collectives they support so that administrators could make informed decisions about whose support they wished to accept.

But we do not believe this provides adequate protection for contributors under our commitments to GDPR. As a result we are going to remove this information from the contributor exports available to administrators of Collectives. We will be updating the notice you see when contributing to a Collective and we will be updating our Privacy Policy to reflect this change in the coming weeks.

Walking 'the fine line between transparency and privacy' continues to be a challenge. This change may also impact some Collectives: those who use contributor data to manage benefits in return for support.

As a result, we are reaching out for feedback before rolling out this change on Monday 15th November. If you are impacted by this change please comment on this post or contact [email protected] and we will be in touch.