Terms and conditions
This page says, in everyday language, who is behind CIVIBA, what you can do with what it publishes and what happens to your email address if you subscribe to the newsletter. Nothing here describes an intention: it describes how the site works today.
Last updated: 2026-10-30.
Who publishes this
CIVIBA is a project by Domenico Di Siena, architect and civic designer, who publishes it as a self-employed professional (tax number X7472840W, address Calle Poeta Carlos Salvador, 11, piso 4, puerta 8, 46020 Valencia, España). It has no investors and sells no data. It is sustained by event ads, under the rules published on the Support CIVIBA page.
For anything about this page, your data or a correction: hello@civiba.com. Corrections to the atlas travel better through the contribution form, which routes them directly.
What this atlas is, and what it is not
CIVIBA gathers civic innovation projects, spaces and events across six countries, with their sources and the date they were consulted. Every entry shows its verification state: verified, partial or unverified. Publishing something unverified and saying so is part of the method, not an oversight.
That means there may be errors, outdated details and projects that no longer work as described. If you find one, correct it: it is the most valuable part of a living atlas.
A project being here is not an endorsement or a recommendation. Cases with tensions (gentrification, institutionalisation, conflict) are included with those tensions told.
What you can do with the data
The atlas data is published under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 licence: you may copy, reuse and transform it, including commercially, citing the source and sharing the result under the same licence.
Outside that licence are the third-party sources cited, images with their own licence and the trademarks of each project, which belong to whoever owns them.
What you contribute
If you propose a project, a space, a practice or an event, or send a correction, you accept that what you send is published under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, with credit to the contributor.
Nothing is published automatically: every submission goes through review and verification. It may not be published, or it may be published rewritten.
Do not send personal data about private individuals. Contact fields only take public institutional channels: web form, generic organisation email, official social accounts.
Advertising and payments
Whatever someone pays to feature an event is marked “Advertisement”, with the name of who pays, and changes nothing in the entry. The full rules are on the advertising page.
If you request an ad, patronage, a journey or a commission, we keep your request on the project server (name, email, organisation and whatever you tell us) only to reply and handle it. It is deleted when no longer needed; invoice data is kept for as long as the law requires.
Card payments are processed by Stripe. CIVIBA never sees or stores your card details.
Your email address
If you subscribe to CIVIBA Weekly we store your address, the list you are on (which records the language you subscribed in), the dates of sign-up and confirmation and which welcome email you have reached. Your name is never asked for or stored.
The list lives on our own listmonk installation, on the same server as the project, not on a marketing platform. That installation also records the IP address you confirm from, which is how listmonk evidences that the confirmation happened. The welcome emails are scheduled by an automation tool (n8n) installed on that same server.
You have to confirm from your inbox: without that click we never write to you. The address is used only to send you the weekly newsletter and the four welcome emails. It is not shared, not sold and not cross-referenced with anything.
You can unsubscribe with one click in the footer of any email, and from that same page see what we hold about you, export it or delete it for good, without asking anyone. You can also write to hello@civiba.com and we will do it.
Who else touches that data
The site and the list run on our own server rented from Hostinger. Email is delivered by Resend, from its European region: they provide the sending infrastructure, and your address passes through their servers when a message reaches you.
If you pay for something, the payment is processed by Stripe, which receives the payment details and your email address to send you the receipt.
There is nobody else. No analytics platforms, no embedded social media, no tag managers.
Cookies and measurement
The site uses no third-party cookies and no trackers. The only thing it stores in your browser is what you choose (the language, the filters you share by URL), and that lives on your machine.
Nothing is measured by email either: the newsletter and the welcome emails carry no image that counts opens and no links that go through a redirector, and neither does the confirmation email you get when subscribing.
Links to other sites
The atlas links constantly to the websites of projects, organisers and sources. Those sites have their own rules and their own trackers, and we do not answer for what they do.
If this changes
When something on this page changes, the page changes and so does its date. We do not email about every edit, but nothing that affects your data changes in silence: if it were ever used for anything other than sending you the newsletter you asked for, we would ask you again.