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Privacy
No tracking pixels, no advertising, no profiles, and no record of who read what.
You can read everything here without signing up. We do not track you and there are no ads.
We do count how many people read each page. But we cannot tell who you are. The code we use to count you changes every day. So we cannot follow you from one day to the next. That is on purpose.
If you make an account, we keep your email and the pages you saved. We never join that to the reading counts. You can delete it all at any time.
When you pick Plain English, your own browser remembers it. That never leaves your computer.
Reading the site
You can read every page here without an account and without telling us anything. There is no analytics script from anyone else, no advertising, no social embeds, no third-party fonts and no cookies.
What we count, and what makes it safe
We keep counts of how many times each page is read, so we know which parts of the site are useful. Those counts carry only coarse detail: the day, the page, a country, a broad device type and browser family.
To count people rather than page loads, a visit produces a scrambled code made from your network address and browser. The recipe for that code changes every day, so the same person on two days produces two unrelated codes and there is no way to link them. Your network address itself is never written down. There is no session and no identifier that survives the day.
This is deliberate and it is the important part. A record of which people read which parts of a contested political document is a dataset that could be demanded in a legal case, stolen in a breach, or leaked. So the site does not create it. The question “who read this proposal” is one we cannot answer, rather than one we merely promise not to answer.
The one thing kept in your browser
When you choose Plain English or As written, that choice is saved in your own browser's local storage so the site remembers it as you move between pages. It never leaves your device and is never sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes it. If your browser blocks local storage the site still works; it simply forgets the setting.
If you make an account
An account is optional and exists so you can save pages and get updates. If you make one we store your email address, the pages you have saved, and what you have asked to be told about. We do not ask for your name, and there is no profile to fill in.
What you save is never connected to the reading counts. They live in separate tables and are never joined. Saving a proposal does not put you in the statistics for that page, and the statistics cannot be worked backwards to a person.
We email you only what you asked for, plus the occasional message required to run the account, such as a sign-in link. We do not sell or share your address, and we do not use it for anything else. Every update email carries an unsubscribe link, you can turn updates off from your account at any time, and you can delete your account, which deletes your saved pages and your address with it.
Server logs
The site runs on a commercial web host which, like any web host, records requests for delivery and abuse prevention. That is the host's processing under its own terms. We do not query those logs, join them to anything else, or build profiles from them.
Leaving the site
Citations link out to the Federal Register, to publishers' copies and to court and agency records. Those sites have their own policies and we cannot speak for them.
Children
The site is written to be readable by children, and anyone may read it. An account is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep an email address belonging to one.