Privacy Policy

We collect the following categories of information when you use the Service:

We use the information we collect solely to provide and improve the Service:

• —To generate your personalized voting guide based on your questionnaire responses and profile context.
• —To identify the races relevant to your location and present only those candidates in your guide.
• —To store your guide so you can access it again without regenerating it.
• —To send you account-related emails, such as email confirmation and password reset messages.
• —To understand how the Service is used in aggregate, so we can improve it over time.

We do not use your data for advertising, political outreach, fundraising, voter targeting, or any purpose unrelated to generating your guide.

Local Vote Research uses artificial intelligence to generate your voting guide. This means your questionnaire answers and personal context are sent to a third-party AI provider (Anthropic, PBC) to produce your guide. Please be aware of the following:

• —Your questionnaire responses and personal context are transmitted to Anthropic's API as part of the guide generation process. Anthropic processes this data according to its own privacy policy and API usage terms.
• —Anthropic's current API terms prohibit training models on API inputs submitted through production applications. We rely on these terms to protect your data, but we encourage you to review Anthropic's privacy policy at anthropic.com for the most current information.
• —The AI uses your values and priorities to score candidates and write recommendations. This processing happens at the time your guide is generated and is not retained by Anthropic beyond the scope of the API call.
• —No special category data (such as race, religion, or health information) is requested or required. If you choose to include such information in free-text fields, it will be processed by the AI as part of your guide generation.

We want to be explicit about how your data is not used:

• —We do not sell your data to any third party.
• —We do not share your questionnaire answers, political values, or guide content with any candidate, campaign, political party, political action committee, or advocacy organization.
• —We do not use your data to build advertising profiles or target you with political advertising.
• —We do not share your data with data brokers or voter file vendors.
• —We do not display third-party advertisements on the Service.
• —We do not share your personal information with any third party except as described in Section 5 or as required by law.

We use the following third-party services to operate the platform. Each provider processes data only as necessary to perform their function and is bound by their own privacy policies:

We do not authorize any of these providers to use your data for their own marketing or to share it with other parties.

We retain your account information and generated guides for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we will delete your personal information and questionnaire responses from our systems within 30 days, except where we are required to retain it by law.

Aggregate, non-identifiable usage statistics may be retained indefinitely.

You have the right to:

• —Access the personal information we hold about you.
• —Request correction of inaccurate information.
• —Request deletion of your account and associated personal data.
• —Withdraw consent to data processing at any time by deleting your account.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at jon@pisgahstrategyadvisors.com. We will respond within 30 days.

We use industry-standard security practices to protect your data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), hashed password storage, and role-based access controls on our database. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

The Service is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted to the Service with an updated effective date. We will notify registered users of material changes by email. Continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

For questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact: