Privacy Policy

You enter your address. This is the only way we can figure out which congressional district and state legislative districts you live in.

We send it to the US Census Bureau. Their free geocoding API determines your districts. This is the same data the government uses.

We match districts to legislators. Using public data from the congress-legislators project and Open States, we find your federal and state representatives.

Without an account: your address is used for lookup only and then discarded. With an account: your address is stored securely in your profile so you can access your dashboard and matched officials. You can update or delete it anytime.

When we generate your personalized email or phone script, official bios, or bill summaries, the AI receives:

• Your name: so it can personalize the message
• Your city and state: so it can say "as your constituent from Reno, Nevada"
• The issue you care about: what you wrote in your own words
• Your official's info: name, party, position, so it can tailor the message

The AI does NOT see your full street address or any other personal information beyond what's needed to write the message.

When you use My Democracy to contact your elected officials, we store:

• Your name and email (if provided)
• Your city, state, and legislative district
• The name, party, and chamber of the legislator(s) you contacted
• The issue area you selected
• The full text of the message sent on your behalf
• The date and time
• The delivery method and status

We store this so you can view your message history when you create an account.

We never share, sell, or provide your messages or personal information to any third party, including legislators, political organizations, or advertisers.

When you create an account, we store the following to power your personalized dashboard:

• Your name and email address
• Your street address, city, state, and ZIP code
• Your matched representatives: federal, state, and local officials
• Dashboard data: cached voting records, campaign finance, lobbying activity, committee assignments, and bill tracking preferences

You can update or delete your account data at any time from your profile settings.

• To deliver your message: your name, city, state, and message are included in correspondence sent to your elected officials, as you direct.
• To show your message history: if you create an account, you can view every message you've sent.
• To track issue trends: we use anonymized, aggregated data (such as how many messages were sent about "Health" or "Education") to show what issues constituents care about. This data is never tied to your identity.
• To improve the platform: we may review anonymized message patterns to improve AI message generation.

We do NOT use your data for advertising, marketing, or profiling.

We have added user accounts, personalized dashboards, and expanded civic data features. This policy reflects those additions and will continue to be updated as the platform evolves.

We will never sell your data. Ever.

My Democracy uses AI (powered by Anthropic's Claude) to draft personalized messages. The AI uses the legislator's name, party, state, chamber, and committee assignments (from the public congress-legislators GitHub repository), plus the issue area and details you provide.

For official bios, the AI uses publicly available data (name, party, state, committees, legislative history) to generate biographical narratives. For bill summaries, the AI summarizes publicly available bill text. No personal user data is used for bios or summaries.

You always review and can edit messages before sending.

Learn more about how AI tailors your message →

Account data (profile, address, matched representatives, dashboard preferences) is retained as long as your account is active.

Message history is retained so you can view it in your dashboard.

Cached representative data (voting records, campaign finance, lobbying, committees) is refreshed periodically from public sources and is not personal data.

You may request deletion of all your personal data at any time by emailing info@mydemocracy.app. We will delete your account and all associated personal information within 30 days of your request.

Your data is stored securely using Supabase, a trusted cloud database provider with encryption at rest and in transit. Access to your data is restricted to essential platform operations only.

Questions about this policy? Concerns about your privacy?

Email us at info@mydemocracy.app