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Elections Simplified Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 16, 2026 Version: 1.0

This Privacy Policy describes how impactperdollar, the operator of the Elections Simplified service ("Elections Simplified," "we," "us"), collects, uses, and shares information when you use the Elections Simplified website and services (the "Service").

1. Information we collect

Address and search input. When you enter an address, we process it to determine your voting districts. The address is sent to geocoding services (see Section 3) and may be held in a server-side cache for up to 14 days to speed up repeat lookups; this cache is not linked to your account. What we store on your account is the resulting list of districts — not your street address. We do not maintain a saved-address book.

Account information. If you create an account: your email address, first name, and a cryptographic hash of your password (we never store the password itself). We also record which version of our terms you accepted and when.

Preferences and activity. Settings you choose: candidates you follow, research-area interests, ballot ordering preferences, and email notification opt-ins. Because the Service is about elections, these choices may reflect your civic or political interests; we treat them as your private account data and never sell them or disclose them to third parties for advertising. We use them to provide the features you chose and to select relevant civic updates, information, and recommendations (occasionally including clearly labeled sponsored or promotional content) for the notification emails you control in settings; every such email includes a working unsubscribe link, and the underlying data never leaves us.

Content reports. If you report inaccurate or outdated content, we store the report message, the content item you identified, any optional source URL, any optional contact email you provide, and if you are signed in, your account identifier, so we can investigate and improve accuracy. Do not include sensitive personal information in content reports.

Technical information. IP address, browser user agent, and request logs collected automatically for security, rate limiting, and abuse prevention. A session cookie (httpOnly) keeps you signed in. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

Usage analytics. We may collect information about how the Service is used — such as pages viewed, features used, referring site, device and browser type, and approximate location derived from IP address — to understand usage and improve the Service. Analytics may use cookies or similar identifiers. Analytics data is not used to build advertising profiles, is not combined with your account's civic or political preferences (follows, research-area interests) for any third party's purposes, and is not shared with advertisers.

2. How we use information

To provide the Service (find your districts, show your ballot, send notification emails you opted into); to secure the Service (authentication, rate limiting, abuse prevention); to understand and improve how the Service is used (analytics); to communicate with you about your account (verification, password reset, email-change confirmation); and to comply with law. We do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it to build advertising profiles.

3. Service providers

We share information only with the processors needed to run the Service:

  • U.S. Census Bureau geocoder — receives the address text you enter, to locate your districts.
  • Google Places (autocomplete) — receives the address text you type when address suggestions are enabled; requests are proxied through our servers so Google does not receive your IP address from your browser.
  • Amazon Web Services (SES) — receives your email address to deliver account and notification emails.
  • Analytics provider — when analytics is enabled, receives the usage information described in Section 1 ("Usage analytics") to help us understand and improve how the Service is used. We configure analytics so that this data is not used for the provider's own advertising purposes, and we will name the provider here before or when analytics is enabled.
  • Sentry (error monitoring) — when error monitoring is enabled, receives reports about application errors (error type, stack trace, browser and device type, and the page path with its query string removed) so we can find and fix failures. We configure these reports to exclude your IP address, email address, address text, and the contents of your requests.
  • Infrastructure providers — hosting, database, and cache providers that store Service data on our behalf.

Each receives only what its function requires. We do not share personal information with data brokers, advertisers, campaigns, or political organizations.

We may also disclose information if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or is necessary to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of the Service, our users, or others, or to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, or security issues. If the Service or its operator is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, account information may be transferred as part of that transaction; this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to it. The Service is operated from the United States, and information is processed and stored in the United States.

4. Retention and deletion

Account data is kept while your account is active. If you delete your account, your account record and its associated data — email address, name, saved districts, follows, preferences, and notification history — are deleted immediately: sessions are destroyed, notification sending stops, and your email address is released for re-registration. Content reports you submitted while signed in are kept for moderation purposes with your account identifier and contact email removed. Residual records may persist in backups and security logs for a limited period before being purged. Cached address lookups expire automatically. Notification event records are pruned on a rolling schedule. Usage analytics data is kept only as long as needed for the improvement purposes described above.

5. Your choices

You can view and update your name, email address, password, districts, follows, and email preferences in account settings; every notification email includes a working unsubscribe link; and you can delete your account entirely in settings. Where analytics uses optional cookies or identifiers, you can limit it through your browser's cookie controls, and we honor opt-out mechanisms where required by applicable law. For access or deletion requests you cannot complete in the app, or questions about this policy, contact contact@electionssimplified.com. Depending on where you live, you may have additional privacy rights (such as access, correction, deletion, or portability); we honor valid requests as required by applicable law.

6. Security

Passwords are stored using a modern memory-hard hashing algorithm; sessions use httpOnly cookies; email-verification, password-reset, and email-change links are single-use and expire; and account-sensitive actions require your password and are rate limited. No system is perfectly secure — use a unique password.

7. Children

The Service is not directed to children and requires users to be at least 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact contact@electionssimplified.com and we will delete it.

8. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy; the version and date above identify the current text. For material changes we will provide notice in the Service and may require renewed acceptance.

9. Contact

Elections Simplified (operated by impactperdollar) — contact@electionssimplified.com