Privacy Notice
This notice describes the information Congress Receipts and its service providers process when you visit the site or contact it.
1. Visit analytics
The site uses two analytics services. Neither sets cookies or stores anything in your browser, and neither tracks you across other websites. The site uses their aggregate counts to see which records people read and share and whether pages load quickly.
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and measures page performance. Its script reports the page address, the referring page, browser and device type, approximate country, and page-load timing. It does not fingerprint visitors.
Umami counts page views and a small set of named actions: selecting a share, copy, download-card, cite, embed, or post-to button, and opening an original source from a source record. An action is recorded by its name on the page where it happened, never with the text you copied or shared. Its script reports the page address without search terms, the page title, the referring page, screen size, and browser language. From each request, Umami derives browser, operating system, device type, and approximate location (country, region, and city). To count repeat visits without cookies, it computes a hashed identifier from your IP address and browser details that changes each month. The analytics record does not include the IP address itself. Umami stores this data on servers in the United States and keeps it for six months. Like any web service, Umami receives technical request information, such as your IP address, and processes it under its own privacy policy.
2. Hosting and security
The site is served by Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare receives technical request information, such as your IP address, the requested address, and browser details, in order to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. Cloudflare processes this information under its own privacy policy, which also describes how long it keeps that data.
3. Information stored in your browser
If you choose a state in the homepage senator lookup, your browser remembers that choice so the lookup shows the same state on your next visit. The setting stays on your device, is never sent to the site, and is removed when you clear the selection or your browser's site data. Search, filtering, copying, downloading cards, and the native share sheet all run in your browser. What you search for, copy, or share is not sent to the site or its analytics services; selecting one of those buttons only adds a count in Umami, as described in section 1.
4. Share buttons and external links
Share buttons are plain links. No social-network script loads on the site, and nothing is sent to a social network unless you select one of its links. Selecting one is counted in Umami by the network's name, as described in section 1. Once you follow a share button or a link to a source, the destination's own privacy practices apply.
5. Email
If you email Congress Receipts, it receives your email address, your message, and anything you attach, and uses them only to review and respond to your request. Published corrections never include a submitter's name, email address, or other personal information.
6. Your choices and requests
You can block the analytics scripts with a content blocker without losing any site feature. To ask about information held about you, or to request deletion of an email you sent, write to corrections@congressreceipts.com.
7. Changes to this notice
This notice will be updated before the site begins collecting any new kind of information. A revised version will identify its effective date on this page. The Terms of Use are a separate document.