Privacy

This site doesn't collect personal information. There are no accounts, no cookies and no advertising or tracking scripts.

Questions about privacy: privacy (at) uscongressvsvoters.org.

What we don't do

• We don't ask for your name, email or any account.
• We don't set cookies or use analytics that identify visitors.
• We don't sell, share or store information about what you look at.
• If address lookup is added, the address will be used once to find your members and never stored.

The feedback form

When you use the form on the Contact page, your message, the kind of message, the page you came from and, only if you give it, your email address are sent by email to our inbox. If you give your address, the same message is also emailed to you, so you have a copy and can reply to it. Nothing is saved on this site's server or in its database. To stop the form being flooded, the server counts how many messages come from each connection, and how many copies go to each email address, in the last hour; those counts are kept in memory only, never written down, and forgotten after an hour. Messages stay in our inbox only as long as we need them to reply or fix what you reported; ask us at the privacy address above to delete yours.

What stays in your browser

So that search results and the All votes list can show how members you recently viewed voted, the site remembers the last three members you opened, in your browser's own storage on your device. It isn't a cookie. Their member IDs are included in search requests only so the answer can show their votes; they aren't stored on our side. The forget button on the Search and All votes pages clears the list, as does clearing your browser's site data.

If you turn on Hide party labels, your browser remembers that choice the same way, on your device only. Nothing about it is sent to us.

What any web server records

Like almost every website, our web server keeps a standard log of requests (the address of the device asking, the page requested, and the time) to keep the site secure and working. These logs are deleted automatically after about two weeks and aren't used for anything else.

Things your browser fetches from elsewhere

• Typeface: pages load the Public Sans typeface from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google to download it.
• Links to official records, Congress.gov and survey organizations take you to those sites, which have their own privacy policies.