Last updated October 30, 2026
Privacy
You’re trusting us with your email, maybe your address, maybe your card. Here is exactly what we do with it.
On this page
The short version
- We collect what we need to run your account, sell the book, ship your copy and send the email you asked for.
- We never sell, rent or trade your personal data, and we never hand it to campaigns or parties.
- Stripe handles payments. We never see or store your full card number.
- No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking.
- You can see, correct or delete your data. Write to hello@scorethevote.com.
Who we are
Score the Vote is a project of Super Citizen, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. When this policy says “we” or “us,” it means Super Citizen. It covers this website, the accounts on it, and the email we send.
We wrote it to be read. If something here is unclear, ask us at hello@scorethevote.com and we’ll explain.
What we collect, and why
We only ask for what we need to do the thing you came to do.
Your account
- Email address, so you can sign in. We email you a six-digit code each time; codes expire after five minutes.
- Your name, if you give it to us.
- If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name, email address and profile photo. We don’t get your Google password or anything else in your Google account.
- A password, only if you choose to set one. We store it scrambled (hashed), never as plain text.
- Your state, if you add it, so we can tell you about campaigns where you live.
- Your email choices: how often you want updates and which campaign alerts you want.
Newsletter sign-ups
If you sign up for updates, we keep your email address and which form you used (the footer, the resources page and so on), so we know what’s working.
Book orders
- Your name, email address, what you ordered, what you paid and any discount code you used.
- For printed copies, your shipping address and phone number. The phone number is there for the carrier, in case there’s a problem with delivery.
- The access codes that come with your order, and who redeemed them. Each code adds the ebook to the account that redeems it.
- If you arrived through someone’s share link, which account referred you (see Cookies).
Gift codes
If you send a code to a friend, we store their email address and send them one email with the code. We don’t add them to any list.
Donations
Your name, email address, the amount, whether it’s one-time or monthly, and the payment records we need to send you a receipt and keep the books.
The candidate pledge
Candidates who sign the pledge give us their name, the office they’re running for, the jurisdiction, a category, an optional campaign website and a contact email. After we verify a pledge, everything except the contact email appears in the public registry.
Keeping things secure
- When you sign in, we keep the IP address and browser type with that session, for security.
- When someone enters a code that doesn’t work, we briefly log the attempt against their IP address and account, to stop people from guessing codes.
- Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (IP address, browser type, the page requested) to run and protect the site.
Payments
Book purchases and donations are processed by Stripe. Your card details go straight from your browser to Stripe. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe tells us whether the payment went through.
What we never do
- We don’t sell, rent or trade your personal data. Not to anyone, for any price.
- We don’t give your information to candidates, campaigns or political parties. Score the Vote is nonpartisan and doesn’t endorse or oppose candidates.
- We don’t run ads, and we don’t use advertising trackers.
Some email always comes through, because you asked for it by doing something: sign-in codes, order confirmations, gift codes, refund notices and donation receipts.
Everything else, like updates and campaign alerts, we send only if you signed up. To stop them, change your choices under Email in your account, reply to any update asking us to stop, or write to hello@scorethevote.com.
How long we keep it
- Account details, for as long as you have an account.
- Order and donation records, for as long as tax and accounting rules require us to keep them.
- Newsletter sign-ups, until you unsubscribe. After that we keep only your address, marked as unsubscribed, so we don’t email you again by mistake.
- Sign-in codes expire after five minutes. Referral cookies expire after 30 days.
Your choices
Wherever you live, you can ask us to:
- show you the personal data we hold about you,
- correct anything that’s wrong,
- delete your account and the data that goes with it, or
- stop sending you anything but the email you need for an order.
Write to hello@scorethevote.com from the address on your account. We’ll answer within 30 days. If we have to keep a record (a paid order, for example, for tax purposes), we’ll tell you what we kept and why. You can change your name, state and email choices yourself, any time, in your account.
Children
This site is for adults. We don’t knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you think a child has given us their information, tell us and we’ll delete it.
Security
The site runs over HTTPS, passwords are hashed, payment details never touch our servers, and access to account and order records is limited to the people who run Score the Vote. No system is perfect. If we ever learn of a breach that affects your data, we’ll tell you promptly.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you already gave us, we’ll email account holders before it takes effect.
Contact
Super Citizen, the home of Score the Vote: hello@scorethevote.com.
Questions about anything on this page? Write to hello@scorethevote.com.