Privacy-first polling
Real-time polling without the tracking
Gather live audience insights without third-party trackers or mandatory logins. Votes are anonymous, store no raw IP address, and your community joins in one tap - so you get honest answers without surveilling the people giving them.
No account required to start. Anonymous voting by default.
What you won't find
Most community tools bundle in surveillance technology that turns your audience into advertising data. We left it out - by design.
No third-party marketing trackers
No Google Analytics, ad pixels, or retargeting scripts. The only analytics option is privacy-friendly Plausible and Cloudflare - both cookieless, and switched off until a visitor opts in.
No mandatory logins for voters
Your audience answers from any phone or laptop with a link, code, or QR. No account, no app, no email - fewer steps means higher response rates.
No raw IP stored in votes
Double-voting is prevented with a one-way salted hash, not a stored identity. Vote records hold no IP address, no name, and no device fingerprint.
No data brokering
Your polls are isolated to your account. We never sell, aggregate, or use your community's insights to build advertising profiles.
How the anonymity works
Join without an account
Participants open a link or scan a QR and vote instantly. There is nothing to install and no profile to create.
Anti-duplicate, not anti-privacy
Each vote is checked against a salted, one-way fingerprint that combines a browser token with a hashed IP. The hash can't be reversed to an IP or a person, and the raw IP is never written to the vote.
Cookieless analytics, EU-hosted
Optional analytics are cookieless and load only after consent. The platform is hosted in the EU, and the only cookies we set are essential ones - keeping you signed in and preventing duplicate votes.
Want the specifics? Read our Privacy Policy and Security page.
Privacy & compliance FAQ
Is PollsLive GDPR compliant?
Yes. We minimise data by design: anonymous voting, no raw IP stored in vote records, EU hosting, and analytics that are cookieless and opt-in. Our Privacy Policy and Security page document exactly what is and isn't collected.
How do you prevent double-voting without tracking people?
Every vote is matched against a one-way salted hash that combines a browser token with a hashed IP address. The hash cannot be reversed to an IP or an identity, and the raw IP is never stored alongside the vote.
Do you use cookies?
Only essential ones - keeping you signed in and preventing duplicate votes. There are no third-party tracking cookies, and optional analytics are cookieless and load only after you accept them in the consent banner.
Do my participants need an account?
No. They join with a link, code, or QR from any device - no login, no app, and no email address required.
Can I embed a privacy-friendly poll on my site?
Yes. The embed is one line of HTML and pulls in no marketing trackers or ad pixels, so it stays lightweight and won't drag down your Core Web Vitals.
Insight without surveillance
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