Effective August 5, 2026 · Applies to the MyRepresent website (myrepresent.org) and the MyRepresent iOS app
Your ZIP code or state. When you look up your ballot, the ZIP or state you enter is sent to our own server (myrepresent.org) for one purpose: returning the matching ballot. It is not linked to your identity, not used to build a profile, and not shared for any other purpose.
Chat messages to MR Bot. Questions you type to the assistant are processed by our server to generate an answer (see xAI below). Conversations are not tied to any account or identity — none exists.
Location (optional, iOS app). If you choose "Use my current location," your device determines your state and ZIP using Apple's on-device location and geocoding services. Your coordinates are never sent to our servers — only the resulting state/ZIP is used, exactly as if you had typed it. Declining location access changes nothing; you can always type a ZIP or pick a state.
On-device storage. Your chosen state/ZIP, quiz answers, and a cached copy of your ballot are stored locally on your device (and in the app's own shared container so the home-screen widget works). Deleting the app deletes them.
Standard web logs. Like every website, our hosting provider processes IP addresses transiently to deliver pages and defend against abuse. We run no analytics on top of this.
MyRepresent is built on a small number of external services. Most are contacted by our servers, not by your device:
| Service | What it's for | Who contacts it |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosts the website and API (Cloudflare Pages). Processes IP addresses transiently as any host does. | Your device |
| Federal Election Commission (FEC) API | Official candidate filings for U.S. House races on your ballot. | Our servers |
| xAI (Grok) | Generates MR Bot's nonpartisan answers from the messages you send it, and runs the candidate-position research jobs. | Our servers |
| Wikipedia | Candidate photos and public summaries. | Our servers; your browser may load returned photo URLs |
| DuckDuckGo Images | Fallback candidate photo lookup when Wikipedia has none. | Our servers; your browser may load returned photo URLs |
| Apple frameworks (iOS app) | Location & geocoding (on device), home-screen widgets, Siri shortcuts, Spotlight search, and Apple Wallet passes when available. | Your device ↔ Apple, per Apple's privacy terms |
| State election sites | We link out to each state's Secretary of State and curated nonpartisan civic resources. Following a link takes you to that site under its own privacy policy. | Your device, only if you tap a link |
None of these integrations receive your name, contact information, or any identifier from us — we don't have those to give.
MyRepresent is an educational reference suitable for all ages. Because we collect no personal information from anyone, we collect none from children.
If our practices ever change, we will update this page and its effective date. Given the design of the product — no accounts, no data collection — we expect changes to be rare and boring.
The best way to reach us — and to help other voters find MyRepresent — is to leave a review of the app on the App Store. We read them.