We don't know who you are.

Civic Notice has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. There is no server that knows what you read, what you follow, or where you live. This page explains exactly what that means, and the two cases where something does leave your device.

What we collect

Nothing. We do not collect personal information. There is no sign-in, no profile, no email address, no device identifier and no analytics SDK in the app. The app ships with no advertising or measurement libraries of any kind.

Because there is no account, there is also nothing to delete, export or request. The answer to "what do you have on me" is: no record that you exist.

What stays on your device

These are saved in the app's own storage on your phone. They are not synced, not backed up to us, and not readable by us:

The city, county and state you named, and any district numbers derived from them.
Items you have saved to follow.
Your filter choices, appearance setting and notification preference.

Deleting the app deletes all of it.

What leaves your device, and where it goes

1. Requests to our own server

To show you agendas and votes, the app requests them from api.civicnotice.net, a read-only service we run. Those requests carry the governments you are viewing, because that is what a request for a government's agenda has to say, and nothing identifying. There is no account, no cookie and no identifier attached, and we do not build profiles from server logs.

2. The optional address lookup

On the welcome screen you can type a street address to fill in your city, county and state instead of typing them yourself. This is optional and the app works fully without it.

If you use it, your address goes directly from your device to the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, and on iPhone, if the Census cannot find it, to Apple's geocoding service. The app never sends your address to our servers and never stores it. Only the place names and district numbers that come back are kept, on your device.

What those services do with a submitted address is governed by their own policies, not ours. We state only what this app does, because that is the only part we can promise.

Looking up which district an address falls in also queries public ArcGIS map layers published by the relevant county or city. Those requests carry a coordinate, not your address or any identifier.

Notifications

Reminders about upcoming meetings are scheduled locally by your device. Civic Notice does not use push notifications, has no push server, and never requests a push token. Nothing about what you follow is transmitted anywhere in order to remind you about it.

Children

Civic Notice is a public-records reader suitable for general audiences. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Third parties

We do not sell, rent or share personal information, because we do not have any. The only external services the app contacts are the ones named above: our own API, and, only if you use the optional address lookup, the U.S. Census geocoder, Apple's geocoding service on iPhone, and public government map layers.

Changes to this policy

If this ever changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. A change that would cause the app to collect personal information would also require an app update, and we would say so in the release notes rather than only here.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to the support email, which opens with the App Store release.