HRM Drink Tampering

What this site is

A community-built map for Halifax Regional Municipality where anyone can anonymously share a location where a drink may have been tampered with. The goal is awareness — helping people make informed choices about where they go and what they watch for.

What this site is not

• Not an emergency service. We can't help in real time.
• Not affiliated with HRM, Halifax Regional Police, or any government body.
• Not evidence. A pin here is one person's report; it has not been investigated, verified, or corroborated.
• Not a place to accuse specific people. Posts that name individuals get removed.

What we store, exactly

Reports are written to a Cloudflare D1 database. Each row contains only the fields you fill in:

• lat, lng — rounded server-side to 3 decimals (≈110 m). That's precise enough to identify a venue but not a specific table or person.
• venue_name — optional, what you typed.
• description — optional, what you typed.
• incident_date, incident_time, drink_type — optional.
• created_at — the Unix timestamp when the report was received.

What we do not store with your report

• No name, email, phone, or any other contact info — the form has no field for it.
• No IP address. No User-Agent. No device identifiers.
• No cookies. No analytics. No third-party trackers.

About abuse prevention

To stop spam and flooding we keep a small rate_limits table containing a truncated SHA-256 hash of the submitter's IP and a timestamp. The raw IP is never written to disk. Rows older than ~100 minutes are periodically purged. This table is never joined to reports.

A Cloudflare Turnstile challenge may appear when submitting. Turnstile is privacy-preserving by design and does not use tracking cookies.

Moderation

Reports that name specific individuals, contain obvious harassment, or are clearly fake will be hidden or deleted. There is no appeal process. If you believe a report is malicious or defamatory and should be removed, contact the operator and include the report ID.

How to write a useful report

• Pick the venue or street — not a specific seat.
• Describe what happened to the drink and the symptoms, not who did it.
• Do not name anyone. Don't include identifying details about a suspect.
• If you have information about a specific person, report it to police instead.