Privacy Policy

Depending on how you use the service, we may collect:

• Account information: name, email, phone, organization name, and title.
• Alert preferences and politician watches (which candidates a campaign monitors).
• Suggestions and screenshot submissions you send for review (including optional source URLs and notes).
• Usage logs such as sign-in events, job runs, and delivery status (including skipped unconfirmed alerts).
• Session cookies needed to keep you signed in, if you hold an account. Subscribing to alerts needs no account and sets no login cookie.

We use this information to provide monitoring, operate campaign workspaces, send confirmed alerts, review user-submitted coverage suggestions, improve the product, and keep the service secure. We do not use unconfirmed emails to send monitoring alert content.

Politician and public-records monitoring content (archives, captures, filings, and related product data) may also be used to operate and promote the Service, including advertising, marketing, SEO, and AI/search authority, as described under Sharing.

We only send monitoring alerts after the recipient confirms via email (double opt-in). If an organization adds someone’s address, that individual must still confirm by email before alerts flow. Until confirmation, the subscription stays pending. The confirmation link goes only to the address being subscribed and is never shown to whoever submitted the form, so this service cannot be used to discover whether a given address follows a given candidate.

We share personal information with the processors that run the product, under instructions to handle it only for that purpose. They are: Netlify (hosting and delivery), Neon (database), and Resend (email delivery). We do not sell personal account data such as email, phone, or payment details.

Public monitoring content. Information and data collected or generated through monitoring — including archives, monitoring outputs, and public-records-derived content — may be shared, published, and used for advertising, marketing, SEO, and AI/search authority, and may be made available to the general public whether or not the audience pays for a subscription. That is public posting of politician/public monitoring content, not a sale of your personal account credentials.

Paying subscribers are not guaranteed preferential treatment, exclusive access, or more complete records than free or public distribution. We use commercially reasonable best efforts to send updates to paying subscribers first, but we do not guarantee that they receive any update first, exclusively, or before public or non-paying channels.

Alert emails to a person’s inbox still require that person’s email confirmation (double opt-in). Public distribution of monitoring content does not replace or waive that inbox-consent rule. See the Terms of Service.

If you use the map or district lookup and type an address, that address is sent to the United States Census Bureau geocoder to work out which district it falls in. That is a disclosure to a third party of something you typed, so it is stated here rather than buried: we do not store the address, and you can browse the catalog by name without using the lookup at all.

We keep account, watch, alert-preference, and submission records while the campaign or account remains active and for a reasonable period afterward as needed to operate the archive, resolve disputes, and meet legal duties. You may request deletion as described below.

We use access controls, session cookies, server-side rate limiting, and signed one-time tokens for confirmation and unsubscribe links to protect the service. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure.

You may opt out of alerts at any time using the one-click unsubscribe link in any alert email — no account and no sign-in required. If you hold an account you can also manage details and preferences in the portal. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by writing to news@candidatealerts.com. Organization administrators manage workspace membership; individual alert recipients still control confirmation and opt-out of their own email.

We use essential cookies to keep you signed in and to remember the campaign workspace, for people who hold accounts. Subscribing to alerts sets none of them. We do not use cookies to sell ads and we do not run third-party advertising trackers.

Candidate Alerts is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Candidate Alerts is operated from the United States and hosted there. If you use it from elsewhere, your information is transferred to and processed in the United States, where privacy law differs from the law where you live.

Candidate Alerts is operated by Advocacy Lab LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. For privacy questions, a request about your own account information, or a correction to a record about you, write to news@candidatealerts.com, or by post to:

If you are a candidate or officeholder in our catalog and believe a record about you is wrong, tell us at the same address and identify the record and the error. We check it against the underlying source, and where our record is wrong we correct it and note the correction.

Account holders can also manage their details from My Account.

We may update this policy. The revised version will be posted on this page. Continued use after posting means you accept the updated policy.