Who operates this service
Backerbase operates this political and public-record research service. Contact maxwell.gaudin@gmail.com about privacy, account information, or this notice.
Information used by the service
- Account details, including your email or username, display name, assigned role, password hash, and access history. Google sign-in, when offered, provides identity information from Google.
- Research you save or submit, including bookmarks, watchlists, Ask questions, conversation history, generated answers, and feedback.
- Information you or your workspace provide through supported imports, forms, and shared research workflows.
- Usage and operational information, such as actions, page paths, browser information, request metadata, errors, and security events. Hosting providers may also process network information such as IP addresses.
- Public records and information obtained from government agencies and other research sources. Source coverage, dates, and identity limitations vary.
We use this information to authenticate accounts, provide and preserve research, operate shared workspaces, answer questions, respond to feedback, maintain data quality, troubleshoot failures, and protect the service.
AI processing and service providers
Ask can send your question, conversation context, research instructions, and selected records or calculations to configured AI and research providers to prepare an answer. Hosting, storage, authentication, and email providers also process information needed for their functions. A provider's retention and other handling depend on the applicable service configuration and agreement; this notice makes no promise that every provider retains no information or excludes every use for model improvement.
Do not submit confidential campaign strategy, embargoed material, private source information, passwords, access tokens, or unnecessary sensitive personal information. If provider handling is material to your decision to use Ask, contact us before submitting that information.
Opening an external filing, map, or website can send information such as your IP address to its operator. Those services have their own practices.
Private work and shared workspaces
Saved research and Ask history are associated with your account and are separated from other users through application access controls. Some workspace features are intentionally shared with authorized workspace members. Service operators and providers may access information as needed to operate, support, secure, or maintain the service, or respond to applicable legal requirements.
Feedback includes your account and page context for product review. Avoid confidential information in feedback. Application access controls are not a promise of absolute security or anonymity.
Cookies, retention, and requests
The service uses authentication and security cookies and browser storage for settings and research preferences. Blocking this storage may prevent sign-in or affect saved preferences.
Account information, saved research, Ask conversations, feedback, and operational records can persist to provide the service and support security and maintenance. Backerbase has not adopted a single fixed deletion schedule for all record types. Removing or hiding an item in the interface does not necessarily erase every operational record or backup.
Contact us to request access, correction, export, account closure, or deletion of account-related information. We review requests and may need to confirm your identity. Available actions depend on the record, workspace, applicable requirements, and technical constraints. A change to Backerbase does not alter an originating agency's public record.
Changes to this notice
Material changes to the pilot's data practices will be communicated through the service or the account contact before being presented as effective.