Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 14, 2026
DoPolitics shows you who represents you in Congress and how they vote. To do that, it needs your street address for a moment. This page says everything that happens to information about you, in plain words.
Your street address
- When you look up your officials, your address is sent to the U.S. Census Bureau's Geocoder, a free public government service, which turns it into map coordinates. We use those to find your congressional district, then discard both the address and the coordinates.
- We never store your address. It is not saved in our database, written to our logs, or kept in a cache. It never goes into a web address (URL), so it doesn't end up in your browser history or in anyone's server logs.
- The Census Bureau receives your address in order to answer the request. What it does with it is covered by its own privacy policy.
Your IP address
- To stop anyone from flooding the site with automated lookups, DoPolitics counts how many lookups each IP address has made in the last minute. The IP address is held only in the running program's memory, for about a minute after your last lookup. It is never written to our database or our logs.
- Our host, Render, keeps a standard record of each request to the site for 14 days: the page asked for, the time, your IP address and your browser type. It never includes your street address, which travels inside the request itself, not in the page address. Render's privacy policy covers those records.
What we don't do
- No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing stored in your browser.
- Your browser talks only to DoPolitics. Photos, scripts and styles all come from this site, so no other company sees your visit through us.
- We don't sell, rent or share information about you. We don't keep any to sell.
AI-written summaries
The plain-language bill summaries are written ahead of time by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, from the official summaries. Claude never receives anything about visitors. Our editorial policy says how the summaries are written and reviewed.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too, and every past version is public on GitHub.
Questions
Email contact@dopolitics.org.