Privacy Policy
Last updated: February 21, 2026
Texas Votes ("the app") is a free voting guide for Texas elections. Your privacy matters — here's exactly what happens with your data.
What we collect
The app collects only what you provide during the interview:
- Voter preferences — your top issues, political outlook, policy views, and candidate qualities
- Street address — used once to look up your voting districts
How we use it
- Your preferences are sent to our server to generate personalized ballot recommendations using AI (Claude by Anthropic)
- Your address is sent to the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder API to determine your congressional, state house, and state senate districts
- After generating your guide, your profile and ballot are stored locally on your device
What we don't do
- We do not store your data on our servers — the API proxy processes requests and discards them
- We do not sell, share, or rent your personal information to anyone
- We use Cloudflare Web Analytics for anonymous page-view counts only — no cookies, no personal data, no tracking across sites
- We do not use tracking pixels or advertising SDKs
- We do not collect device identifiers, IP addresses, or usage data
iCloud sync
If you have iCloud enabled, the app uses Apple's iCloud Key-Value Store to sync your voter profile and ballot across your devices. This data is stored in your personal iCloud account and is not accessible to us.
Notifications
The app can send local election reminder notifications if you enable them. These are scheduled entirely on your device — no data is sent to any push notification service.
Third-party services
- Anthropic (Claude API) — processes your voter profile to generate recommendations. Subject to Anthropic's privacy policy.
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder — receives your address to return district information. A public government API.
- Cloudflare Workers — our API proxy runs on Cloudflare. Requests are processed in memory and not logged or stored.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics — collects anonymous page-view counts. No cookies, no personal data, no cross-site tracking. Subject to Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Data deletion
Tap "Start Over" in the Profile tab to erase all local data at any time. Since we don't store anything on our servers, there's nothing else to delete.
Children's privacy
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date above and publish the new version at this URL.
Contact
Questions? Email howdy@txvotes.app