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Privacy

Everything this site knows about a reader sits in one table with a handful of columns. The rows below are all of them.

If you subscribe to the email

Your email address

To send you the email you asked for, and nothing else. It is never sold, rented, traded, or handed to another organization.

Your ZIP code, if you give one

To work out which three members of Congress represent you, so the email can be about them. It is optional, and without it you get the national edition. We re-resolve it over time so that redistricting is picked up without asking you again.

Which three members those are

Stored as their official identifiers at signup, so that new records can be matched to you quickly.

What you asked to hear about

The topics you ticked, how often you are willing to hear from us, and which of the two monthly emails you want: what your own representatives did, the national digest, or both.

When you signed up, confirmed, and were last sent something

Timestamps, so you do not get the same confirmation or the same digest twice, plus two random tokens that make your confirm and unsubscribe links work. The tokens are not guessable and mean nothing outside this site.

Signing up is double opt-in: you give us your address, and nothing is sent until you click the link in a confirmation email. If that link is never clicked, the record is never activated.

If you only read

Page counts

The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless. It records that a page was viewed, roughly from where, and on what kind of device. It sets no cookie, follows you to no other site, and builds no profile of you. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

Server logs

The web server records requests in the ordinary way, including IP addresses, so that the site can be kept up and abuse can be blocked. These are operational records and are not used to identify readers.

What never happens

Your data is never sold, rented or traded. There is no ad network, no retargeting pixel, no data broker, and no third-party tracker beyond the cookieless page counts above. We make no attempt to work out who you are, how you vote or which party you belong to, and the site holds nothing that would let us.

The email list is for the email. It is not used to contact you about anything else, and nobody can rent, borrow or buy it.

Leaving, and getting your data back

Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and your mail client’s own unsubscribe button works too. Unsubscribing takes effect immediately, not within ten days.

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for the whole record to be deleted, and we will do it. No form, no account to log into. Write to us and a person handles it. This goes for everyone, wherever you live, because it should not depend on which state or country you happen to be sitting in.

Do Not Track, and children

We do not follow you across other websites, so a Do Not Track signal changes nothing here. It comes up only because California law asks sites to say how they respond to one.

The site is not directed at children under 13 and nothing is knowingly collected from them. If you believe a child has subscribed, tell us and we will delete the record.

Getting in touch.

Privacy questions, access requests, and deletion requests go to [email protected] or through the contact form. If this policy changes, the date below changes with it and we will say what changed.

Last updated 17 August 2026.

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