Introduction

Dear Citizen of the World,

FixMyTown.com is the online space for activists who want to make the world a better place, a neighborhood at a time.

FixMyTown.com makes it easy for citizens to publicly post a non-emergency issue, in a way that all other citizens can see it, and thus encourage and assist the local authorities in identifying and solving small and large issues in a city.

Many cities have their own apps for reporting such problems, but those apps require registration, they are complicated, but most importantly, they do not let all other residents of your city know that a problem was reported. As such, it takes some "friction" to report an issue, and there is no pressure on the city to fix the issue sooner vs later. Essentially, there is no "name and shame" aspect to those city-specific apps.

And yes, your city has a phone number that citizens can call and report an issue. But it is so much more efficient for the local authorities to review a photo and know exactly when and who to send to deal with the issue. This makes it much more efficient for the city to deal with issues.

And when the city fixes the issue, they can append comments and photos of the corrected issue and publicly get the credit they deserve for fixing issues.

Basically, FixMyTown aims to be the master list of all the location-related pending problems around the world, so we keep some gentle pressure on all involved to do more.

We also encourage users to submit articles about solutions to problems. Those articles can be about "life skills" or "best practices".

"Life skills" is about the knowledge modern citizens need to navigate the complicated societies we now live in. We all need to know about loans, fixed vs floating interest rates, buy vs rent, attend to college or not, whether to start a business or not, taxes, investments, insurance, how to learn new material, how to "read a room", how to interact with others, etc.

"Best practices" is about smart ways that politicians and officials, in other parts of the world, used to solve problems. The United States alone has more than 90,000 (ninety thousand) governments. So most likely some other government in the world has already dealt with whatever issue troubles our local government.

In short, we can all benefit from "stealing" good ideas from others.

Legal Details

This app does not track you in any way. We do not access or store any data that identifies you or your device.

We do though store the date, time, and geographical location of your phone, only because we assign a date, a time, and a location to a reported issue.

Since we make use of third-party tools (such as mapping APIs from Google and/or other mapping API providers, or cloud storage by Amazon and/or others) most likely those companies store your IP address.

If you are worried about your IP address, you can use a VPN service to add an extra degree of difficulty.

We store a value on your local browser, so next time you visit FixMyTown.com, the map will show the last area you viewed. We do not correlate that value to any other information that we might have on you, such as an email address.

Your images and text will be posted at http://www.FixMyTown.com as a clickable pin on a world map.

Once your pin is publicly posted, others can add comments and images.

We expect that any “Content” you upload (including sounds, photos, text, video, and graphics) to FixMyTown.com is original and that you have the rights to it. When you upload your content to FixMyTown.com, you are granting us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licenseable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and even the right to create “derivative works” from the content. You’re also granting other users of FixMyTown.com the right to use, reproduce, distribute, display, and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service. The license is perpetual and irrevocable, and we can keep copies of everything you upload forever on our servers, even if you delete it.