What we collect
Almost nothing. This site has no accounts, sells nothing, and shows no advertising. You can read every page without telling us who you are.
Cookies
We set no cookies for readers, so there is no cookie banner. The one exception is the editing tool at /studio, which sets a login cookie for the single administrator account that publishes articles. Reading the site never touches it.
Page counts
We count page views so we know whether the site is being read. The script that does the counting sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, and builds no profile of you. It records that a page was viewed, not who viewed it. The script is served from this domain rather than from a third-party tracking network, so loading a page here sends nothing to anyone else.
We cannot see your browsing history, follow you to other sites, or work out which member profiles a particular person looked at.
Server logs
Our host, Vercel, keeps ordinary web-server logs when it serves a page, and those logs include IP addresses. Every website works this way. We do not analyze those logs, connect them to anything, or keep our own copy.
Fonts and images
The typefaces are downloaded when the site is built and served from this domain. Your browser makes no request to Google Fonts.
Images attached to articles are served by Sanity, our writing tool, from cdn.sanity.io. Opening an article with a picture in it makes one request to that host. Member portraits are served from this domain.
If you email us
We then have your email address and whatever you wrote. We use them to reply and to fix whatever you told us about. We do not keep a mailing list, and we do not pass your address to anyone.
What we never do
We do not sell data. There are no advertising trackers, social media pixels, session recordings, or fingerprinting on this site. The site takes no money from candidates, parties, political action committees, or lobbying firms, and nothing from readers.
Children’s privacy
This is a reference site about public records, written for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect information about anyone, including children.
Changes
If what we collect changes, this page changes with it and the date below moves. Everything above describes how the site works today.
Questions
Email contact@moneybehindtheballot.org. If something on this page is inaccurate, we treat it as a correction, the same as a wrong figure. See corrections.