What we collect, and what we never do with it.

The short version

• You can use almost all of this site without an account and without telling us anything.
• We never sell, rent, or trade your information. There are no ads on this site.
• We don’t track you across other websites.
• You can delete your account and your data at any time by emailing us.

What we collect

If you never sign up: nothing that identifies you. Saved reps and bills are stored in your own browser, not on our servers.

If you create an account: your email address, the reps and bills you save, and the date you joined. That’s it. We use passwordless sign-in, so we never see or store a password.

If you sign up for bill alerts: your email address and which bills you asked about.

If you’re a verified elected official: the responses you submit, their status, and which record they concern. Published responses are public by design.

If you write to us through a form: whatever you choose to send.

Site analytics: we use privacy-focused analytics that count visits without cookies and without building a profile of you.

What we do with it

Only what you asked for: keep you signed in, sync your saved lists, send the alerts you requested, publish official responses, and answer your messages. We do not profile you, score you, or use your activity for anything else.

Who else touches it

We keep the list short and use them only as plumbing:

• Supabase — stores accounts and saved lists.
• Resend — delivers sign-in links and alerts.
• Cloudflare — analytics and the Ask Q assistant.
• Anthropic — powers the Ask Q assistant; what you type there is sent to their API to generate a reply. Don’t put sensitive personal information into the assistant.
• Stripe — processes donations. We never see or store your card number.
• GitHub Pages — hosts the site.

Donations

We accept money from individuals only. We publish aggregate refund totals for money we return, and we never publish the names of people we refuse. Donating has no effect on any Q Score, ever. See Support the Work.

What’s public, and what isn’t

Q Scores, votes, sponsorships, and bill records come from the public record and are public here. Published official responses are public, by their own choice. Your account, your saved lists, and your alert signups are private and are never displayed to anyone else.

Your control

• Delete your account and data — email team@theQcollective.org and we’ll remove it.
• Stop alerts — every alert email has a one-click unsubscribe link.
• Clear device-only saves — clearing your browser data removes them.
• Ask what we hold — email us and we’ll tell you.

Children

This site is built for civic participation by adults. We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe we have, tell us and we’ll delete it.

Security, honestly stated

We use reputable providers, passwordless sign-in, and database rules that keep each person’s data reachable only by them. No system is perfect. We hold as little as possible precisely so there is little to lose, and if something ever goes wrong we will say so plainly rather than quietly.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll say so on the site rather than hoping you don’t notice.