Privacy Policy

1. Overview

CivicTexas provides civic information about elected officials, legislation, and elections. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the information we collect and how we use it to provide our services.

2. Information Collected

We may collect the following information when you use our platform:

• Account email address (via Clerk authentication)
• Saved officials and tracked bills
• Alert and notification preferences
• Basic usage analytics to improve our services

3. How Information Is Used

The data we collect is used to:

• Personalize your dashboards and user experience
• Manage your alerts and notifications
• Improve site functionality and performance

4. Third-Party Services

We utilize trusted third-party services to power our platform. These include:

• Clerk: For secure authentication and account management
• Supabase: For database and user data storage
• Vercel: For application hosting and delivery
• Google Civic API: For matching addresses to districts
• OpenStates API & Congress.gov API: For legislative data
• civicapi.org: For additional civic data

5. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet transmission is ever fully secure or error-free.

6. User Rights

You have the right to request the deletion of your account and associated data. You can exercise this right at any time by contacting our support team.

7. Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: support@civictexas.com.