Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Advocacy Lab LLC, a Michigan limited liability company (“Candidate Alerts”, “we”, “us”), which operates Candidate Alerts at candidatealerts.com. Our address for notices is:

By creating an account, inviting others, subscribing to alerts, or using Candidate Alerts, you agree to these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

You must be able to form a binding contract and must not use the service if you are prohibited from doing so under applicable law. Candidate Alerts is not directed to children under 13.

You may register as an Individual or as an Organization. Organization accounts may invite Account Administrators and Individual Subscribers who receive alerts. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide and for activity on your account or organization workspace.

Starting alerts — whether you subscribe yourself or an organization adds your email — requires email confirmation (double opt-in). Until you confirm, Candidate Alerts will not send alert content to that address.

The confirmation link is sent only to the address being subscribed. It is never displayed to whoever submitted the form, so no one can use this service to find out whether a given address is subscribed to a given candidate.

You do not need an account to subscribe to alerts.

Every alert email carries a one-click unsubscribe link, and using it requires no account and no sign-in. One click stops that subscription immediately. The link keeps working in emails we already sent.

Each subscription is separate: unsubscribing from alerts about one official or candidate does not stop alerts about another. If you hold an account, you can also manage alert preferences in the portal at /account.

Unconfirmed addresses never receive alert content.

Candidate Alerts publishes identified personal information about people who hold or seek public office. It exists for one purpose:

Campaign/opposition research on a candidate for public office. Not a consumer report; not for any FCRA-regulated purpose (employment, housing, credit).

You must not use Candidate Alerts, or anything obtained from it, as a factor in any decision about a person’s employment, engagement as a contractor or volunteer, housing or tenancy, credit, insurance, or eligibility for a license or benefit. This is a condition of use, not a disclaimer. Candidate Alerts is not a consumer reporting agency, the service is not a consumer report, and we do not follow the procedures the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires of one. Using it for those purposes breaches these terms and may breach federal law — and the person it is used against bears the harm, which is why this is the one prohibition we will terminate an account over without warning.

Otherwise: use Candidate Alerts only for lawful purposes. Do not scrape, overload, or interfere with the service; do not bypass login walls, paywalls, or access controls; and do not submit content you do not have the right to share. The archive covers public posts and public records only.

Do not use Candidate Alerts to harass, stalk, threaten, or impersonate anyone, including a subject of the catalog or their family.

Candidate Alerts is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any candidate, officeholder, campaign, party, or government body, and monitoring someone is not a statement about them. An alert reports that something changed and points at the source; it is not an allegation, and it is not an opinion about anybody’s fitness for office.

Every fact we publish is labeled with where it came from, and a gap is reported as a gap rather than passed over. If you believe a record about you is wrong, write to news@candidatealerts.com identifying the record and the error. We check it against the underlying source and, where our record is wrong, we correct it and log the correction. Where our record accurately reflects a government record that is itself wrong, we will say so and note your account alongside it — we cannot amend the government’s file.

Advocacy Lab LLC and its licensors own Candidate Alerts, including software, design, and trademarks. Public records and third-party sites remain the property of their owners. You keep rights in material you submit (such as screenshot suggestions); you grant Advocacy Lab LLC a license to store and review those submissions to operate the service.

Public use of information. Candidate Alerts reserves the right to share, publish, and use information and data collected or generated through the Service — including monitoring outputs, archives, and related public-records-derived content — for advertising, marketing, SEO, and AI/search authority purposes, and to make such information available to the general public, whether or not recipients are paying subscribers.

This right covers politician and public monitoring content and product data derived from public records and public posts. It is not a license to sell or publish subscribers’ personal account credentials. Personal account data such as email, phone, and payment details remains under the Privacy Policy unless you separately consent. Public posting of monitoring content is different from emailing a person: alert emails to an inbox still require that recipient’s email confirmation (double opt-in) as described in Alert subscriptions.

No preferential treatment guarantee. Paying subscribers are not guaranteed preferential treatment, exclusive access, or superior completeness versus free or public distribution.

Best efforts for paying subscribers first. The company will use commercially reasonable best efforts to distribute updates to paying subscribers as the first recipients, but does not guarantee that paying subscribers will receive any update first, exclusively, or before public or non-paying channels.

Candidate Alerts is a public-records monitoring and archive tool. It is not legal, financial, campaign, or investment advice. Coverage, captures, and timestamps may be incomplete, delayed, or inaccurate.

No guarantee of complete coverage. Candidate Alerts does not guarantee that 100% of changes, posts, filings, disclosures, or other updates will be detected, captured, archived, or alerted. Monitoring depends on public availability, site behavior, rate limits, third-party platforms, and technical limitations. Users should not rely on the Service as the sole source for time-sensitive or complete records.

No fee is due on your account as it stands today. Candidate Alerts may introduce or change a fee for any account, workspace, seat, alert or feature at any time.

A fee takes effect on the date stated in a written notice sent to your account email, and that date may be the date of the notice. Notice under this section is not subject to any notice period stated elsewhere in these terms.

No fee is charged without a payment method you supply after that notice. If you do not want to pay, stop using the service or unsubscribe; we cannot charge an account that has given us no way to charge it.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Advocacy Lab LLC and its operators are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from use of Candidate Alerts. The service is provided “as is.”

Our total liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is so, these exclusions and limits apply only as far as that jurisdiction allows, and nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

You may stop using the service at any time — unsubscribe from alerts with the link in any alert email, and close an account, if you hold one, through the portal. We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these terms, abuse of the system, or non-payment of any fee that has fallen due.

The permitted-purpose prohibition, the limitation of liability, and the governing-law section survive termination.

We may change these terms. For a material change other than a fee, we will post the revised terms and, where we hold an address for you, give at least 14 days’ notice to your account email before the change takes effect. Continued use after that date is acceptance.

Fees are the exception. The introduction or change of a fee is governed by the Fees / Pricing section above and takes effect on the date stated in its written notice, which may be immediate. The 14-day period does not apply to it. No fee is charged without a payment method you supply after that notice, so your own affirmative step takes the place of the notice period.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Virginia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the place where you live, and either of us may bring a claim in small claims court where the rules of that court allow it.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest of these terms stay in force.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision on one occasion, we have not given it up.

Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger or sale of the business.

Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the service, and replace any earlier version.

Candidate Alerts is operated by Advocacy Lab LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. Notices, questions about these terms, corrections about yourself, abuse reports and security issues all go to news@candidatealerts.com, or by post to:

If you have an account you can also manage it from My Account.