CivicSignal Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 25, 2026

CivicSignal is a civic engagement app that helps you follow US federal and state legislation, Supreme Court rulings, local city council activity, and community civic events. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights as a user.

What We Do Not Collect

CivicSignal does not collect any personal information. We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, location, IP address, or any other information that could identify you as an individual.

We have no user accounts, no login system, and no user profiles.

We use no third-party analytics SDKs, advertising SDKs, or tracking technologies of any kind.

Data Stored on Your Device

All user preferences — including your selected issue categories, home state, and home city — are stored locally on your device using standard mobile storage. This data never leaves your device and is not transmitted to our servers.

Data Stored on Our Servers

A small amount of non-personal data is stored on our servers to support specific features:

• Emoji reactions: Aggregate reaction counts per bill or ruling are stored. No user identifier is associated with any reaction. We cannot determine who reacted to any item.
• Civic event RSVPs: RSVP counts per event are stored as a number only. No user identifier is associated with any RSVP.
• Push notification tokens: If you choose to track a bill, your device's push notification token is stored and linked to that bill ID only. No personal information is associated with your token. Tokens are used solely to deliver status update notifications for bills you are tracking.
• Civic events: Events posted through the app are stored with a title, description, date, location, and optional organizer contact information. Organizer contact information is write-only — it is used to pre-fill a device email compose screen and is not stored or processed by our servers beyond delivery of the event listing. Events are not linked to any user identifier.

Data Sources

CivicSignal displays public government data from the following sources:

• Congress.gov — US federal legislation (public domain)
• LegiScan — State legislation data (licensed under CC BY 4.0)
• Legistar — Local city council meeting data (publicly available)
• Oyez — US Supreme Court rulings (publicly available)
• Anthropic Claude API — Used to generate plain-language summaries of legislation and rulings. Bill and ruling text submitted for summarization is not stored beyond the API call and is subject to Anthropic's privacy policy at anthropic.com/privacy.

Children's Privacy

CivicSignal is rated 4+ and does not knowingly collect any information from children or any other users.

Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us at info@exotericco.com.

CivicSignal is developed by Exoteric LLC.