Privacy
What we hold, and how to make us stop
The short version: this website sets nothing on your device and we receive no visitor logs. The app needs no account to read anything. An account exists for exactly one reason — so that a vote on a bill counts once per person — and it can be deleted from inside the app in two taps.
What exists today. The two X feeds and this website are live. The BillTracking app is still in development and has not been released. The sections below describing accounts and votes describe how the app works when it ships — they are published now because app stores require this page to exist before release, and because we would rather say what we intend to do before doing it than afterwards.
This website
billtracking.org collects nothing from you
There is no analytics on this site. No Google Analytics, no Cloudflare, no pixel, no tag manager, nothing. There is no JavaScript at all, no cookies, no local storage, no embedded video, no third-party fonts and no contact form. Nothing you do here is recorded by us, because there is nothing here capable of recording it.
One honest caveat, because the alternative would be a false claim: the site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and any web host necessarily handles your IP address at the network layer in order to send you a page. GitHub does not surface those logs to us and we have never seen them — but we will not tell you no IP address is processed anywhere, because that would not be true.
The app — reading
Reading needs no account and sends us nothing
The feed, bill timelines and notification settings all work without signing in. The app fetches the published feed as static files from the same host as this website; it does not report back what you read, what you follow, or what you search for. Your followed bills, your keywords and your display settings are stored on your device and are not transmitted to us.
The app contains no advertising, no third-party analytics and no tracking SDKs.
The app — accounts and votes
An account exists so your vote counts once
You can mark a bill with a thumbs up or down. Because a reader's position on a bill is a political opinion — a specially protected category of personal data under EU law — we are deliberately narrow about this.
- Voting requires signing in with Google or Apple; reading never does. The account's entire job is to make one vote per person per bill possible. Without it, the counts would be meaningless.
- We ask for no profile. No name, no photo, no contacts, no friends list, no date of birth. From the sign-in we receive an account identifier and an email address. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose Hide My Email, we only ever see Apple's relay address.
- A vote record is: which bill, thumbs up or down, when, and — only if you choose to set it — a country and, for the US, a state. That location is optional, you choose it yourself, and nobody verifies it. Leaving it unset is a normal and fully-supported way to use the app.
- Who voted which way is never published, shown to anyone, or attached to a profile. There are no public profiles and no vote histories. What is published is counts: how many voted each way overall, and how many from each country or state.
- You can change or withdraw your vote at any time, and deleting your account deletes every vote with it.
What we ask you to understand about published counts
Counts are exact — we never round, estimate or randomise them, because the whole point of this project is that its numbers can be checked. Every place we show also shows how many people voted there, so a small number is visibly small rather than dressed up as a percentage.
We are not going to claim that nobody could ever guess how you voted. If a bill is very one-sided, or very few people from your country have voted on it, someone who already knows you voted could make a reasonable guess. That is true of any published total anywhere and no threshold removes it. What we can tell you is that we never publish, display or share which way any individual voted, that setting a location is optional, and that you can withdraw a vote or delete the account entirely.
Where it is stored, and on what legal basis
Votes are held in a database in Frankfurt, Germany, chosen so that this data does not leave the EU. The legal basis is your explicit consent (GDPR Article 9(2)(a)), given by choosing to vote after being told what a vote records. Withdrawing that consent and deleting your account are the same action — there is no state in which you have withdrawn consent and we still hold your votes.
Our database provider is Supabase, acting as a processor on our instructions. If you sign in with Apple, we also store a token from Apple used for one purpose only: to properly disconnect BillTracking from your Apple ID when you delete your account, as Apple requires.
Deleting
Deleting your account
In the app: You → Delete account. It is immediate and permanent. Your account and every vote you cast are erased; there is no recovery window and we keep no copy.
If you have already uninstalled the app, use the account deletion page.
One thing we will not pretend about: counts that were already published — in a post, or in a file someone downloaded — are not retrospectively rewritten. They were true when published and they contain nothing that points to you. Your vote is removed from our database and from every count produced afterwards.
Email, and everything else
The rest of it
- Email. contact@billtracking.org and accuracy@billtracking.org are aliases on a single mailbox and receive mail. If you write to us, we hold your message and your address for as long as needed to deal with it. Please don't send us anything sensitive — it's an ordinary mailbox.
- Legislators. The feeds republish the official legislative record, which names Members of Congress and MEPs and records how they voted and what they sponsored. That is public record information, republished on the basis of legitimate interest in making the legislative process followable.
- We sell nothing and share nothing. No advertisers, no sponsors, no data brokers, no "partners". There is no revenue.
- Children. The app is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
- AI. Plain-English bill summaries are AI-written and carry an explicit [AI-Generated] label. Dates, vote tallies, bill numbers and procedural facts are copied from the official record and are never AI-written.
Your rights
If you are in the EU or UK you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to our processing of your personal data, and to receive it in a portable form. You also have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, at any time. For votes, the fastest route to all of this is the app itself, which lets you see and withdraw your votes and delete your account outright.
Otherwise, write to contact@billtracking.org. We will respond within one month. If we refuse a request we will tell you why, and you can complain to your national data protection authority or go to court.
Who we are
BillTracking is an independent project run by one person, not a company. The data controller can be reached at contact@billtracking.org; a postal address is available on request.
Changes
If we change how any of this works we will update this page and change the date below. We will not quietly start collecting something this page says we do not collect.
Last updated 20 July 2026.