Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 3, 2026
YourVoice.Now is a civic-technology project that publishes plain-English summaries of bills before the U.S. Congress. This policy describes what we collect from you, what we do with it, and your rights to control it.
Short version: We collect your email address only if you choose to give it to us through our signup form, and we use Mailchimp to manage that list. We also use PostHog to measure how the site is used, which involves a cookie and — for about 1 visit in 10 — a recording of that visit. We don't sell any of it or use it for advertising. You can ask us to delete it at any time.
What we collect
If you submit our signup form, we receive:
- Your email address
- The language you submitted in (English, Spanish, Chinese, or Tagalog)
- Whether you opted in to ongoing updates
- Where on the site you signed up (homepage or a specific bill page)
That is the only personal information we collect. We do not ask for your name, address, phone number, age, or any demographic details.
Your browser stores a small flag in localStorage if you have completed the signup form, so the site does not keep asking you. This flag is not personal information and is never sent to us.
When you visit any page, our hosting provider (Vercel) maintains standard server logs that include your IP address, browser type, and referring page. These logs are kept by Vercel for operational and security purposes, not for marketing.
Analytics
We use PostHog to understand how people use this site — which bills get read, what people search for, which languages are used — so we can make it more useful. PostHog is an analytics service acting on our behalf; it does not sell your data or use it for advertising.
PostHog records:
- Pages you view and the order you view them in
- Actions you take: searches (including the words you type into the search box), filters, bills opened, language switches, clicks through to Congress.gov, and signup-form submissions
- Your browser and device type, and your IP address, which PostHog converts to an approximate (roughly city-level) location
- A random identifier stored in a cookie, so repeat visits can be recognised as the same browser
We do not send PostHog your name or email address, and we do not connect analytics data to our Mailchimp list.
Session recordings. About 1 visit in 10, chosen at random, is recorded as a replay of the pages you saw and where you clicked or scrolled. Text you type into form fields is masked and is not captured. If you would rather not be recorded at all, see "Opting out" below.
Analytics requests are served from our own domain (bills.yourvoice.now/ingest) rather than from PostHog's. This means browser tracker-blockers generally will not stop them. We mention it because blocking a tracker list is how many people expect to opt out, and here it will not work.
Opting out. If your browser sends a "Do Not Track" or "Global Privacy Control" signal, we honour it and collect no analytics from you. You can also email privacy@yourvoice.now and we will delete the analytics records associated with your visits.
How we use your email
If you sign up:
- We will send you one email when the YourVoice.Now app launches.
- If you checked the optional "regular updates" box, we may send you periodic updates about bills and new features.
That is the full extent. We do not run promotional campaigns, sell your email, or share it for advertising.
Where your data lives
Your email and signup metadata are stored in our Mailchimp account, hosted by Intuit Mailchimp. Mailchimp's privacy practices are described at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
Our website is hosted on Vercel. Their privacy practices are described at https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Analytics data is stored by PostHog on servers in the United States. Their privacy practices are described at https://posthog.com/privacy.
We do not transfer your data to any other party.
How long we keep your data
We keep your email in our Mailchimp list until:
- You unsubscribe (every email we send has an unsubscribe link)
- You request deletion (see below)
- We shut down the YourVoice.Now project
When you unsubscribe, your email remains in Mailchimp's "unsubscribed" segment so we do not accidentally re-add you, but we do not actively use it.
Your rights
You can:
- See what we have — email privacy@yourvoice.now and we will send you the data on file for your address.
- Correct it — tell us what is wrong and we will update it.
- Delete it — email privacy@yourvoice.now and we will permanently remove your email from our list.
- Unsubscribe — every email we send has an unsubscribe link in the footer.
If you live in California, the European Union, or another jurisdiction with specific privacy rights, those rights still apply to us. The mechanisms above are how to exercise them.
Children
YourVoice.Now is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted their email, contact us and we will remove it.
Changes to this policy
If we update this policy, we will change the "Effective Date" above and post a note on the homepage for at least 30 days afterward. For material changes that affect how we use existing subscribers' data, we will email everyone on our list before the change takes effect.
Contact
For privacy questions or to exercise the rights above: